SHELBY
Shelby Association recently voted to bring Iglesia Bautista Jesús el Buen Pastor (Jesus the Good Shepherd Baptist Church), Pelham, and North Shelby Vietnamese Church, Birmingham, into the association as its first international congregations. Hugh Richardson is director of missions.
After nine months of detention, nine members of a church in China were released on bail June 18, while charges against nine of its leaders were upgraded to more serious offenses.
“I have two questions for you. Just two simple questions with clear answers, and those answers should take you to an inescapable conclusion. A conclusion that can, and should, change your life,” shares TAB columnist Ken Lass.
Thirty more Christians have been slain in Nigeria in continuous persecution spanning years.
“I came expecting opportunities to meet authors, editors, publishers, agents and other writers,” said Carolyn Donaldson, who was attending the Southern Christian Writers Conference. “What surprised me was finding community — a tribe.”
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