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FAITH MATTERS Teacher Sees Gift In Pupil
REMEMBER OTHERS THIS SEASON
Posted: November 7, 2009 5:07 a.m.I was a shy, skinny, 12-year-old boy in Mrs. Kendrick’s class. She taught the junior boys at our church. It was a rowdy group except for one and that was me. I was very timid and withdrawn. Yet Mrs. Kendrick took a special interest in me. She went out of her way to draw me in. She had a gift to see potential in the rough and to encourage purpose in a young life. I will never forget the magic she worked in my life during that year. Years later, my wife and I were pastoring our first church in Houston. We got the news that Mrs. Kendrick was quite ill and might not have long to live Something stirred in me that I had to get back to Arkansas to thank her for her special touch on my life.
Sites Offered For Operation Christmas Child
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:56 a.m.Two collection sites are available Nov. 16 through 23 in Springdale for Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project. Volunteers pack shoe box gifts for children in more than 100 countries suering from natural disaster, war, terrorism, disease, famine and poverty. From Northwest Arkansas, the shoe box gifts will be sorted and sent using whatever means necessary — sea containers, trucks, trains, airplanes, boats, camels, even dog sleds — to reach suering children around the world. “Operation Christmas Child is a unique opportunity to do something as simple as packing a shoe box that will have a lasting impact on a child a world away,” said Alescha Massey, Operation Christmas Child dropoff site coordinator, in a news release. Operation Christmas Child uses tracking technology that allows donors to “follow your box” to the destination country where it will be handdelivered to a child in need. To register shoe box gifts, individuals can use the EZ Give donation form found at www.samaritanspurs
SPRINGDALE BIBLE TRANSLATION TOUCHES LIVES
WYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES BANQUET HIGHLIGHTS NEED WORLDWIDE
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:55 a.m.Mark Thrash is an information technology specialist, not a linguist or translator. Yet he knows how to speak the language that matters — the language of the heart. “I’m a computer geek. But I speak human,” said Thrash, keynote speaker Monday during the Wycliffe Associates banquet at the Springdale Holiday Inn. Thrash spent a couple of years as a missionary in Malaysia, managing computer operations for the Summer Institute of Linguistics. The institute is a sister organization to Wycliffe Bible Translators, a nonprofit group dedicated to making Bible translations in every living language. Thrash shared his experiences with 85 banquet guests. Some were longtime supporters of the work Wycliffe does. Others were hearing about it for the first time — some with an eye toward possibly volunteering with the interdenominational organization.
Benton County Religion
Posted: October 24, 2009 8:12 a.m.Unity Church of the Ozarks, Bella Vista Worship and children’s Sunday school are at 10:30 a.m.
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Posted: August 29, 2009 3:53 a.m.Village Bible Evangelical Free Church, Bella Vista Sunday: Sunday school is at 9:30 a.m., and worship is at 10:30 a.m. Pastor Mark Voll will continue his summer series on "The Bible's Heroes, Heroines and Hucksters." The subject is Solomon.
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Posted: August 22, 2009 4:04 a.m.Highlands Christian Church (DOC), Bella Vista Sunday: Worship is at 10:30 a.m.
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Posted: August 15, 2009 4:08 a.m.Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Rogers The Community Blood Center Bloodmobile will be at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1101 W. Hudson Road, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
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Posted: August 8, 2009 4:25 a.m.Cornerstone Assembly of God, Rogers The Sunday schedule includes the Connect Cafe at 9 a.m. with donuts and coffee; Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.; and a worship service and children's church at 10:30 a.m.
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Posted: August 8, 2009 4:22 a.m.Word of Life Fellowship, Bentonville The church invites kids in kindergarten through the sixth grade to Studio Go Game Show Vacation Bible School from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week. There is no cost.
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Posted: August 1, 2009 8:45 a.m.Judson American Baptist Church, Bella Vista The Rev. Bob Box's sermon at 10:45 a.m. Sunday will be "The Power of Love Over Fear." The Rev. Henry Hensley is on vacation. During Christian Living, adults will have two choices: a Bible study by Judson Journeys, with Nina Stromath; or "God's Extraordinary People: Jude," with Howard Luznicky.