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by Lisa Watson
While in Honduras on mission, Michael and Sherry Hulsey, members of First Church of Rogers, met a little boy named Manuel who would change their lives forever.
When Sherry saw children stealing from Manuel, she made up her mind.
“I went and got him and reached for his hand and we got on that big, red bus,” she said. “From that day, he’s been mine.”
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by Lisa Watson
Kevin and Holly Carr spent fifteen months loving and caring for 22-month-old Hannah Grace Dowdie before the court system awarded her biological father custody.
In the wake of her death, they honored her memory by requesting memorials be given to the Arkansas Baptist Children’s Homes and Family Ministries (ABCHomes).
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by Jessica Vanderpool
Cindy Fleming is a foster parent, and every time she says "goodbye" to a child, it breaks her heart. Yet, despite the hardships, she would not have it any other way.
She and fellow Christians seek to live out James 1:27, which says, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.”
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Fawn Freeze, a member of Immanuel Church of Little Rock, has been named a 2010 National Top Teen by Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU).
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by Lisa Watson
Helping people is what South Texarkana Church of Texarkana is all about. Through a food pantry ministry called Manna from Heaven, volunteers have helped meet the needs of people in the economically depressed area around South Texarkana Church for the past five years.
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by Charlie Warren
Ouachita Baptist University names R.E. Clark, Northwest Arkansas Association missionary, as associational missionary of the year.
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by Charlie Warren
Despite becoming a Christian, going to church and living in a Christian home, Adam Borel found himself spending eight years of his young adulthood in prison. Now, as he looks forward to his upcoming parole, he knows he has someone there to help him along.
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by Lisa Watson
As a chaplain in the Army National Guard, Chaplain George W. “Bill” Berry has seen many a new recruit become a Christian.
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by Lisa Watson
When the children at Tender Loving Care Early Learning Center (TLC) heard about the plight of the people of Haiti, following a devastating earthquake Jan. 12, it was natural for them to help.
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by Mickey Noah, North American Mission Board
North American Mission Board (NAMB) missionary Jim Ballard – all 243 lbs. of him – lay sprawled in agonizing pain on a snow-covered dirt trail high in the mountains of the Salmon National Forest in eastern Idaho.
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