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Sixth Annual Preacher’s Conference in Russia

December 21, 2010

by Glenda Williams, BNc correspondent

GENEVA, Alabama (BNc) — The sixth annual preacher’s conference was held in Vyatskiye, Polyany, Russia, September 27-30, 2010. Charles Williams, minister of the New Union church of Christ, Manchester, TN spoke at the four-day conference. This was the third conference in which he has participated. Read more

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Spreading the good news with a bucket

March 18, 2010

by Barbara A. Oliver, managing editor

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Ukraine (BNc) – One congregation does its benevolent work by the bucketful.

The Judsonia, Ark., church, together with other congregations, is involved in benevolent aid to Sudan, Ukraine, Nigeria, India, Honduras and a number of other nations. With the shipments of aid, they include “family buckets,” five-gallon plastic buckets filled with a variety of household items.

The brainchild of Kathy Cadden in Columbus, MS., the buckets are contributed by numerous congregations in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and Missouri.

“These have really been an excellent way of getting urgently needed commodities to those in great need,” said John Kachelman, Jr., preacher with the Judsonia congregation. Read more

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Minister to address U.S. conferences overseas

April 23, 2009

by Paula Harrington, BNc correspondent

kachelmanJUDSONIA, Ark. (BNc) – Minister John Kachelman will keynote for two U.S. government humanitarian conferences in the Ukraine and Tajikistan and speak about the Lord’s church.

Kachelman, minister with the Judsonia church, will be the keynote speaker at the Small/Medium Transportation Program (SMTP) conference.  SMTP is funded by the U. S. Department of State Office of the Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia.

Kachelman will speak on the topic, “Who are the churches of Christ that care for Tajikistan?” Read more

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Missionary director Enlow improves after fall

January 21, 2009

FULTON, Miss. (BNc) – J.C. Enlow, director of 21st Century Global Missions, improves after a fall from a deer stand. Read more

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Kiev Youth Meeting

November 29, 2008

KIEV, Ukraine (BNc) About 55 young people from the Kiev area attended a youth meeting on Saturday, Oct. 2. They came mainly from the Harkivsky, Licova, Obolon, Shevchenko and Vinogradar congregations. Read more

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Little Is Much When God Is in It

May 30, 2008

Feature story by Neal Pollard (adapted)

(BNc)- A few years ago in Richmond, Va., a small group of homeschooled children whose families were members of the Lord’s church got together for a service project to raise money to buy hearing aids for deaf orphans in Zhitomir, a city in western Ukraine. Read more

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