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Lighting that’s too dark or too bright, lots of people coming in at the same time to find seats (many of them shaking hands or hugging), and music and voices from the stage can all be overwhelming to kids with sensory sensitivities and disabilities such as autism.
Here are four interesting facts about Advent, which is considered the season of waiting until the miracle of the Christmas holiday They include its shrouded origins, how it is sometimes observed as a ...
Samaritan s Purse s Operation Christmas Child will deliver its 200 millionth shoebox filled with toys this season to a child in Ukraine after nearly three decades of partnering with churches to ...
A Texas pastor says when it comes to studying the End Times, many Christian fall into one of two camps either they obsess over Revelation and try to predict when the rapture might happen, or they ...
A regional body of The United Methodist Church has voted down the disaffiliation requests of three congregations in Arkansas that want to leave the mainline Protestant denomination due to its ...
MORGANTOWN, Kentucky (BP) – It was early in his pastoral ministry, Randy Burns said, that he realized, “I was blessed to recognize there was an undercurrent of generosity here,” at Monticello Baptist Church, which never has averaged more than 75 in Sunday morning worship except in 1991, when it reached…
At a special session held last weekend, The United Methodist Church s North Carolina Conference approved the disaffiliation votes of 249 congregations, representing 32 of the regional body s member ...
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (BP) – John McCallum knows the pain of struggling with grief and loss during the holiday season. But rather than sinking in sorrow, he’s using it to serve others.
The ongoing decline of organized religion in America has led to an existential crisis for tens of thousands of congregations. Over the past two decades, the median size of a congregation has dropped from 137 people to 65 people. Rather than owning a building that was empty most of the week, Embrace Church is part owner of a thriving third space — filled every day with the sounds of conversation and friendship.
Despite a recent claim by Rock Church International in Virginia Beach that their lead pastor, John Blanchard, voluntarily stepped back as lead pastor and from all his ministerial duties due to a ...
