Missionary strives to bring light to French world
TCHAADA, Benin — "Our God is stronger than the god of Americans.” George Akpabli utters the words as a prayer while seated alongside his African…
Archive: Sep 2013
National campus ministry group adopts new name
NEWARK, Del. — Facing a sort of midlife crisis, a national campus ministry organization intends to reinvent itself as “Campus for Christ.” The rebranding plays…
Homosexuality and the church
SAN ANTONIO — NBA player Jason Collins comes out as gay and makes the cover of Sports Illustrated. The Boy Scouts of America votes to…
For a Nicaraguan church, a revival
MASAYA, Nicaragua — The front door of the Sacuanjoche Church of Christ swings open, and children — 260 of them — stream out of a…
MAP: L’Afrique française (French Africa)
Inset Many of the independent nations of West Africa once were possessions of France (though several changed hands among colonial powers, including Britain and Germany).…
Around the World, September 2013
BRAZILCAMPO GRANDE — Twelve university-age students learned about church missions from Bryan Gibbs, director of Brazilian team and church development for Texas-based Great Cities Missions.“These…
Camp Shamrock
BRYANSFORD, Northern Ireland — From this forested patch of paradise, you could hear the car bombs. Even the beauty of Northern Ireland’s Tollymore, a lush,…
Escape from Mount Doom
AFRICAN CHRISTIANS plant churches, flee violence in troubled Congo.Welcome to Mordor.Ten miles north of Goma, a city on the eastern edge of the massive Democratic…
A Conversation with Calvin H. Bowers
LONGTIME LOS ANGELES minister, educator and author discusses race relations and challenges facing Churches of Christ. Calvin H. Bowers has served as a minister, college…
Major-league baseball: Church member to make debut for Marlins (Updated)
Minister Eric Dishongh, in the middle, stands between New Orleans Zephyrs pitchers Jared Rogers and Brian Flynn at a recent church service. (PHOTO BY SONTA…
