100 Churches

We would never travel across the country without stopping in to spend several days enjoying time with Cynthia and David Dann, our cherished friends. We always enjoyed our conversations, and...

It was early evening on a beautiful, sunny Friday when we pulled into Tim and April Starr’s driveway in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. Their girls Layla and Eva jumped for joy...

There were two friends we knew we wanted to spend time with as we entered the lush farmlands of Amish country near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The first was the Driedger's, whose...

The summer before my firstborn daughter, Ashley, was to enter her senior year of homeschooling, my husband picked her up at Florida College camp and gave her permission to start...

Thomas was a middle child, born between two brothers in 1950. Raised by Christian parents, Alfred and May, in Loveland, Colorado, he also chose to give his life to Christ....

I feel good about my husband’s efforts in the congregation he served for 28 years, and sense that his “gain is good” (Proverbs 31:18). In addition to hundreds of recordings...

  We landed at the Yakima church of Christ, for much the same reason we had landed at the Bremerton congregation — to spend time with and say “Goodbye, for...

She explained that the church family there had really simply taken to heart the scriptures and lessons preached on the “one another passages” such as Jesus’s words, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another...By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” ( John 13:22, 34)

s it turns out, the sermon itself was based on the Bible questions members and visitors had put into the box the previous weeks. (There’s one way to know your sermon is relevant, when it is customized to the stated need at present!) “Good question!” the preacher would communicate in one way or another in honor of the asker, no matter how foundation the question he just read. As he moved question to question, as a visual aid, he preached standing beside a power point screen, so that he could physically touch the words within the text of scripture he wanted to emphasize--- the exact words that God uses to answer the asker’s question. Bible answers for Bible questions!? Hallelujah. That’s how we roll.

The Bremerton church of Christ is on the Kitsap Peninsula in the Puget Sound. The Naval Shipyard there brings servicemen and their families to this part of the country during...

Mark has been asked “What’s the secret to longevity with a congregation?” So I thought I’d take the time to share some things that enriched our relationship with the church here and what has made the 5th Street church of Christ still #1 in our hearts, even when we realized it was time to move on. Perhaps sharing the following perspectives can add some peace, unity and joy to the relationships between preacher’s families and the congregations they serve.

During the course of our Nomad Quest preparations it occurred to us, what if we set out to visit 100 churches. What a passion project THAT would be! We could...