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The rapid turnover in a new church plant’s core launch team is not unusual, church-planting experts say. Of the 40 or so people who helped plant Canvas Church in North Carolina last September, almost half are gone . . . some simply disappeared without saying a word. “It’s weird, but it’s like, ‘Can you say goodbye?’” the lead planter said.
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Marina’s convoy went through 12 Russian checkpoints. At each one, soldiers checked cell phones for pictures of Ukrainian flags or other signs of patriotism, so people in the convoy deleted everything on their phones. . . .
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Both Sonya (a teacher) and Marina (an airport worker), along with their children, fled Hostomel—a suburb of Kyiv—not long after Russians began bombing their town. They both have now joined the humanitarian effort to help their fellow Ukrainians.
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— UPDATED WITH TRIBUTE VIDEO INFORMATION — Dwayne Good, 85, who performed in the gospel duet The Good Twins with his identical twin brother, Dwight, for more than 55 years, died on April 10, 2022. The brothers graduated from Lincoln Bible Institute together in 1958, and ministered through music to churches around the world as The Good Twins for more than 55 years. We interviewed The Good Twins for this 2008 feature article.
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For the past five years, Ekklesia Christian Church in Conway, S.C., has engaged hundreds of people in a post-Easter discipleship program that moves people from spiritual milk to meat, with a goal of baptizing many on Pentecost Sunday.
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Ina never believed in God. She thought faith was for weak people and the elderly. In the course of being rescued (with her daughter) from embattled Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, she came to learn the truth. . . .
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As stories of atrocities committed on innocent civilians by Russian soldiers continue to emerge from Kyiv’s suburbs—including Bucha, Gostomel, and Irpin—people around the world are outraged. Ukrainians and westerners have mobilized to care for traumatized people . . .
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Briefs from Seymour Heights Christian Church in Seymour, Tenn., Northwest Christian Network, Compass Christian Church in Chandler, Ariz., Calvary Christian Church in Swartz Creek, Mich., and more . . .
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A Milligan University cross country/track and field athlete who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident that killed a teammate Thursday evening was released from a Virginia hospital over the weekend and was heading home to Johnson City, Tenn., to continue his recovery, according to the university.