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When There’s Pain at Church

Most of you are enjoying this issue outside of the walls of a church. For more than 20 years, River Region Christians has been about touching lives with the Good News beyond the church walls. But, an important sec­ond focus for us is to help connect any of you who are unchurched with churches, where […]

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Advocating for Victims of Sex Trafficking

When Kathryn Guthrie and her team reach out to women who have been sex trafficked, the victims may be so far into a darkness that they often can’t fig­ure out their first step to end the victimization. Through the worthy2 ministry, they are offered guidance in taking that first step. Then, the second. “We do […]

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Faith @  Work:  Douglas  McElvy, Attorney at Law

You candidly shared that during a part of your life, you considered yourself dropping out by choice (with no purpose) while living in a shack and struggling with substance abuse. How did God save you? I more likely would have described myself as pursuing freedom from conformity aided by substance abuse instead of “strug­gling” with […]

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“We Are More Than Conquerors”

This month’s Pastor’s Perspective is delivered by Michael Cobb, Dalraida United Methodist Church For seven years, they were untouch­able: twenty battles won, seven kings conquered, and 25,000 miles of choice property were claimed. They had seven years of tremendous success. They were outnumbered but never overpowered. They were under-equipped but never overwhelmed. They were the […]