by Colleen Smith Ministry is hard. Ministry is even harder when you want to help someone but don’t know how. A few years ago, I had no idea how to…
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ASHLAND—”Don’t forget your hair net,” one volunteer calls out to another. With 29,000 meals being packed by the hour, it is important to make sure the small details still matter….
When Chaplain (CPT) Robert Boyles was in his second phase of the US Army Ranger School training, he met four strangers who he would later baptize. But, when the weather…
Ryan and Kayla North have been married 15 years and are adoptive and foster parents living in Dallas, Texas with their six children—four adopted and two biological. Ryan is a…
Colleen Riddle is the director of Foster Care Ministries for the Florida Baptist Homes for Children. Her and her husband, Shane, have three children. God built their family in an…
By Colleen Smith BALTIMORE, Md.—When I chose to leave behind my comfortable row home in one of the nicest parts of Baltimore and move to a place called McElderry Park…
By Josie Bingham MISSOURI—Poverty and food insecurity walk hand in hand among various regions in the United States. But surely no one in the United States today is as poor…
NEW ORLEANS—Emmy Reichart only lived in New Orleans, La., for six weeks. But that was all it would take for her heart to change. Reichart was part of GenSend Summer—one…
By Josie Bingham UNITED STATES—The opioid crisis is officially a national emergency.The United States is experiencing “a death toll equal to September 11th every three weeks” according to the President’s…
By Josie Bingham PUERTO RICO—It is estimated that by the end of 2019 hurricane-battered Puerto Rico will lose up to 470,335 residents because of Hurricane Maria. When the Category 5…