All members of the Granbury Church of Christ in Texas survived Wednesday night’s killer storm unscathed, a church spokeswoman said. Church leaders were meeting this morning to determine how to respond to the community’s needs. Two hundred meals prepared by Disaster Assistance CoC, a mobile feeding ministry sponsored by the Lake Jackson Church of Christ in Texas, were on their way this morning to the Westhill Church of Christ in Cleburne, Texas, another community damaged by a tornado.
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I was in the Philippines thanks to Bread for a Hungry World, a Christian ministry that partners with Give A Goat and Shepherds Hill International — two other ministries that comprise the foundation of the work at Arapal Christian Camp. Every year Bobby Moore, Bread’s director, leads a mission team from Southwest Christian School in Fort Worth to one of the locales where Bread works. When I heard he was headed for the Philippines this year, I asked him to bring me along.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports on the death of Angi Brenton, wife of Keith Brenton, who is well-known to many in Churches of Christ for his work with New Wineskins magazine:
CULLOWHEE — Angela Laird Brenton, 60, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Western Carolina University since Aug. 1, died Wednesday after a three-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
“Our hearts are broken,” said WCU Chancellor David O. Belcher. “In her short time in Cullowhee, Angi has been a wonderful colleague and wonderful friend. Although Angi was at Western Carolina for less than …
Whether it’s an a cappella group or the church chorale, a small new study shows that singing in a choir could do a lot for your state of mind. The findings, published in the journal Psychology of Music and conducted by researchers at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Turkey, show that singing in a choir is associated with decreased levels of anxiety.