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Featured picture (above): The Bowling Bulldogs of Columbia Academy exhibit their state championship trophy.
OREGON
EUGENE — Sixty-four teenagers gathered for the Eugene Church of Christ’s annual youth rally. They represented 18 Oregon and Idaho congregations, with some coming from unchurched households.
The theme of the occasion, organized by youth ministers Jonathan and Makenzie Younger, was “One Thoughts in Prayer,” impressed by Acts 1:14.
Teenagers pose for a bunch picture at a youth rally hosted by the Eugene Church of Christ in Oregon.
“Our aim was to assist the teenagers see that they’ll pray greater than they suppose and in addition incorporate prayer into their every day lives extra than simply at meals or at night time shortly earlier than mattress,” Makenzie Younger mentioned.
Attendees participated in a number of associated actions: prayer stations, prayer journaling, group prayers and discussions of answered prayers.
Associated: A youth rally for generations
Teenagers additionally attended a “fancy dinner” with adults as their servers and watched the film “Struggle Room,” a Christian drama through which the protagonist’s prayers save her marriage and trigger her husband to rededicate his life to God.
A cool second occurred, Younger mentioned, when two teenagers stepped as much as fill in for the tune chief, who couldn’t make it.
“You might inform the Holy Spirit was transferring by them,” she added.
TEXAS
Elizabeth Garrett has shared the Gospel for 45 years as a World Bible Faculty postal and on-line research helper.
ABILENE — Forty-eight World Bible Faculty research helpers got here collectively for a latest breakfast of celebration and encouragement on the Hillcrest Church of Christ.
Elizabeth Garrett was acknowledged for sharing the Gospel as a WBS postal and on-line research helper for over 45 years. Garrett served as a WBS instructor for nearly 20 years whereas attending the Southwest Church of Christ in Amarillo. She has coordinated the WBS program on the South eleventh and Willis Church of Christ in Abilene since 1997.
Individuals got here largely from 9 congregations in Central Texas, together with San Angelo, Abilene, Tuscola, Cross Plains and Hamby. Touring the farthest distance was Paul Campbell, who has labored with the Greatest Heart ministry in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for the previous eight years.
Most WBS college students nonetheless use the normal printed variations distributed by way of postal service in both English, Spanish or Portuguese. Nevertheless, many research are accomplished on-line. A extra environment friendly and less expensive technique to provide paper classes by digital scanning, known as “Ocean Bridge,” is underneath approach in seven nations. The social media device Mathetis has elevated outreach to youthful generations.
NEWSMAKERS
BAPTIZED — TESSIEA DOERING of the Bridge Avenue Church of Christ in Weslaco, Texas. FELICIA KEARSE of the Baisley Church of Christ in New York. CAROLINE PARKER of Massachusetts at Camp Tahkodah in Floral, Ark. LANDON WAY and RYDER PLANT of the Nationwide Park Church of Christ in Sizzling Springs, Ark.
From left, Ron Edwards, Gunner Skelton, Matthew Blake and Brett Petrillo
AWARDED — RON EDWARDS, the Cline R. Paden Grey Eagle Award at Sundown Worldwide Bible Institute’s Imaginative and prescient Workshop in Lubbock, Texas. Edwards, a 1974 SIBI graduate, served as a missionary in Sharon, Penn., and on the Trinidad Faculty of Preaching in Trinidad and Tobago. He’s an elder of the Roosevelt Drive Church of Christ in Jacksonville, N.C. MARK and KELLE SAMSILL, the World Changer Award by SIBI for dedication to world evangelism and Christian service. Mark, an elder of the School Hill Church of Christ in North Richland Hills, Texas, and Kelle are concerned in worldwide missions together with Neema Village in Tanzania. RICHIE ESTEP, baseball coach of the 12 months and GUNNER SKELTON, Participant of the Yr by the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Affiliation for the 2024 season in Division 2-A. Estep, a Lipscomb College graduate, is baseball coach for Columbia Academy in Tennessee and Skelton is a junior on the college, which is related to Church buildings of Christ. The varsity’s boys’ bowling workforce not too long ago received the TSSAA Division II bowling state championship.
From left, James Edwards, Jonathan Newson and Jared Stark
NAMED — MATTHEW BLAKE because the first-ever assistant minister for the Bedford Avenue Church of Christ in Abington, Mass. BRETT PETRILLO as full-time college and dean of scholars, BRET CARTER and GRADY MILLER as adjunct instructors and Brian Ketchem as improvement staffer for Bear Valley Bible Institute in Denver. JAMES EDWARDS and JONATHAN NEWSON as elders and SHAUNELL HYATT, BRIAN SMITH SR. and JONATHAN TURNER SR. as deacons for the Northwest Church of Christ in Southaven, Miss. DENNIS OKOTH as interim director of Sam’s Place, a house for deaf orphans in Rongo, Kenya. JARED STARK as govt vp of York College in Nebraska.
