Orphan Sunday—Why Should It Be Only One Sunday Each Year? The Christian community designates one Sunday each year as Orphan Sunday. The day is specifically designed to observe and bring awareness to individuals, families, churches, and para-church organizations to hear the distressing cry of 153 million orphans around the world. But why just one day a year we [...] »
Rodger and Saundra Wikelund, along with all residents of their ministry, Emma’s Kids, welcomed a ministry group from citylife church in Tampa this month. Twenty-eight adults and kids from citylife made the trip to Zambia. They brought medical professionals who provided quality health services to members of the community. The team conducted VBS with the [...] »
Cheryl Susan Justice, 68, passed away on January 23, 2023. She was born on November 14, 1954, to the late William Homer Ridenour and Charlotte Michael Ridenour. Cheryl has lived in Bradley County since 2012, moving here from Rhea County where her husband pastored the Dayton Church of God (2000-2011). Prior to that she lived in Collinwood, TN (1994-1996 and ... Read More »
Bridges to people and culture do not work any longer because they never touch the water of troubled cross-cultural issues. For the same reason, contextual theology does not work any more – once faced with the deep cross-cultural crises of faith and conviction, it sinks with no hope. We have long observed the collapse of the “Western Theological Corpus,” as Andrew Walls calls the structural problem... »