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39 years of slaughter, silence and shame

An Oklahoma preacher encourages a congregation, and the brotherhood, to work against abortion.

by Rick Popejoy, preacher with the Lindsay OK church

Horrible and despicable deeds, put into practice by ancient men, came to be practiced by God’s people in the days of Jeremiah. God’s own people began to worship the false gods of Molech and Baal. The worshiper would take their newborn babies and offer them as human sacrifices (Jer. 7:31-32; 19:5-6; 32:35; 2 Chr. 33:6).

This practice came right out of Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot’s daughters, in an act of rebellion against both Lot and God said, “let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him” (Gen. 19:32) and that is exactly what they did (Gen. 19:33-35). As a result both daughters had children. The youngest daughter’s son became the father of the sons of Ammon (Gen. 19:36-38). Molech is described as “the abomination of the children of Ammon” (1 Kgs. 11:7). Read more

Small Kansas church reverses losses

ANDOVER, Kan. (BNc) — A small congregation turns things around, with door-knocking and clothing give-aways, and five baptisms.

Not long ago the Andover church had over 100 saints, many of them children. As with many American congregations, they have been hit with the age factor. A few move away and some pass away, but what Andover has in 2011 is a core group who is hopeful of the future in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Read more

Native-American hogan for church meeting burns

A Navajo hogan where the church meets was burned Wednesday night.

by Apache Crying Bear

KINLICHEE, Ariz. (BNc) — Wednesday night, I went to bed at about 10 p.m. The dogs were barking a lot at about 10:30-11:00 p.m., so I went out to see what was going on and saw nothing — everything was fine.

At 1 a.m. I was wakened by the Fire Department and police pounding on the door. The Hogan was completely destroyed. Read more

Organization to be honored

RALEIGH, NC (BNc) – The Churches of Christ Disaster Relief Organization of Nashville, TN is to be honored on Sept. 17 at the Mid-Atlantic Evangelism Seminar in Raleigh, NC.

The national volunteer disaster relief organization, out of Nashville, Tenn., and supported by churches of Christ, individuals, corporations and other non-profit agencies nationwide, will be honored during the 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Evangelism Seminar to be held at the Brooks Avenue Church of Christ in Raleigh Sept. 16-18th. Read more

Early history of Chattanooga congregtation

by Ernest Clevenger, Jr.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (BNc) — The Restoration booklet, A History of the Cowart Street Church of Christ, Chattanooga, TN, published in 1972, and compiled by Ernest A. Clevenger, Sr., has been edited and reissued by Ernest Clevenger, Jr.

Cowart Street was the mother church in Chattanooga, established in 1886.

The 37 page booklet has been converted into a PDF e-Book. It contains informative articles by early members, a roll call of men, many well-known, who preached for the church, an article about finding preachers locally, and several narratives of families who made up the church.

Cowart Street was responsible for the establishment of more than a dozen of the congregations in the Chattanooga area. It lost its property to freeway construction in 1958.

This Restoration history e-Book can be downloaded free.

Church meets for the first time in Porirua

PORIRUA, New Zealand (BNc) – The Porirua church met on May 8 for its first worship service, with 78 people, many visiting Christians from surrounding areas.

For two Saturdays before the first meeting, with the help of a group from Freed-Hardeman, they conducted a campaign to put flyers in letter boxes and door-knock, saturating the closest neighborhoods. Approximately 18,500 homes were personally visited, covering the entire Porirua area.  Ten Bible studies were set up, with eleven additional contacts to revisit. Read more

Church planted in New Jersey

by Earl H. West, Jr.

MARLBORO, N.J., (BNc) - The second in a series of monthly “preview” worship services for a new congregation was held on June 11 at the Holmdel, N.J., Community Center. Individuals from as many as five area churches have set plans to form a new congregation, formally starting weekly services in Sept., 2011.

At the first monthly preview worship service, held May 8, 35 prospective members were in attendance. At the second worship service, held on June 11, 62 were in attendance.

Church minister Carl Williamson said “…we are forming this new congregation primarily as a means of reaching people who are not currently being reached by any existing churches of Christ.” At both preview services, individuals who had never before heard of the church of Christ were in attendance.

Williamson has been deeply involved in leading the Brunswick church in North Brunswick, N.J., for the last 8 years, supported largely by the Cloverdale church in Searcy, Ark. As the North Brunswick congregation has grown and matured, the need and resources to plant again has emerged 30 miles east.

The prospective new congregation, dubbed the Gateway church of Christ, targets an official launch date of Sept. 11, 2011 in the Gateway region of New Jersey, 20 miles south of New York City. At that time, worship services will commence weekly. Currently, weekly Bible classes are held in the homes of members and visitors. Read more

Woman protests church sign with Bible verse

SAVANNAH, Ga. (BNc) – A local television station aired a woman’s complaint over a church sign that carried a politically incorrect Bible verse.

WSAV-TV reported a complaint to the station against the church in Garden City, Ga., made by Dana Smith, who “contacted News 3 saying she passed by the sign and was surprised by what it said.”

BNc has contacted the television station to ask why they considered the complaint newsworthy. The email, sent through the station’s website, asked also if they would have aired a story if the sign had posted a verse about the necessity of baptism for salvation. Read more

No sermon, just reading the Bible

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BNc) – The Somers Avenue congregation is spending its time on Sunday evenings reading the Bible, one New Testament letter at a sitting. The following article, written to the congregation, from the upcoming May 22 issue of the church bulletin, “The Observer,” details some of their experience.

by Oran Burt, preaching minister :: Can you imagine a gathering of the early Christians in the first century who were listening to the oral reading of a letter written to the churches? It would be the first time anyone had heard it. It would be from an apostle inspired by God to write concerning things of importance to the church and to the world.

These individual Christians would not have their own personal copies of the completed Old and New Testaments to read along in the assembly. As these letters were copied and distributed, more and more of the New Testament would be available. But, at first, there was the in-person, oral presentation to accompany the written word. Read more

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