CBF head shares national vision across Missouri
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Faith impacts loan reform across the country
JEFFERSON CITY (RNS) -- Believers in Missouri aren't the only ones pushing for short-term-credit reform. People of faith across the country are trying to rein in loan practices they believe take advantage of borrowers often least able to pay.
Merging churches across racial lines demands work
The historically black St. Paul Missionary Baptist in Louisville, Ky., and the predominately white Shively Heights Baptist merged to create a blended congregation in August 2009. It's worked amazingly well, but it's hard work, participants say..
Christians urged to worship, fellowship across racial lines
Before Christians can bridge racial barriers to work together, they first must get to know each other in worship and fellowship, panelists and speakers told an interracial gathering at the predominantly African-American Zion Hill First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches.
Common values, mission draw Christians together across lines of age
Whether church members cross generational lines depends upon the “common” factors on which their specific Christian community is based. Many faith groups that begin as an age-targeted community often attract older and/or younger members because of their underlying value, mission or message.
Anglo church responds to ‘mission field across the street’
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