During the five years she served as his caregiver, Sue Strother and her husband, Joe, understood the roles each filled. “He bore the pain. I bore the strain,” Mrs. Strother said. Her husband, pastor of North Riverside Baptist Church in Newport News, Va., was
Long deployments during wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taken a toll on vets and military families. Some return with physical wounds. Others need different kinds of healing. Some churches are exploring ways to offer comfort to wounded warriors and their families.
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By Jennifer Harris Word&Way News Writer If Christians don’t learn to engage the popular culture that surrounds them, they will drown in it, experts insist. Christians tend to hear the words ‘popular culture’ and react as if spitting something yucky from their mouths,”