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Just six months after the launch of Alive Nashville, a tornado swept through East Nashville and destroyed the building the church had been meeting in. The tornado struck March 3, 2020. “About 24 hours after [that], we were at an impromptu meeting with several area churches,” lead pastor Brandon Jacobs said. “An hour later, my wife and I were standing in the middle of rubble coordinating volunteers and relief workers.”
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Harvest Prayer Ministries has started PrayerU, an online school of prayer for individuals, small groups, and churches.
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Gateway Christian Church in Saint Albans, W.Va., is not turning a blind eye to the drug problem in its community. The church purchased a home near its campus and converted it into a recovery house for men emerging from substance abuse addictions.
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Kentucky Christian University plans to host a celebration at Cane Ridge (near Paris, Ky.) on the 220th anniversary of the Cane Ridge Revival this August.
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The Johnson University Royals claimed the Knoxville, Tenn., school’s first-ever national championship Saturday when the men’s basketball team defeated Arlington (Texas) Baptist University 95-74. The 2021 NCCAA DII National Championship game was played in Joplin, Mo.
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First Capital Christian Church’s first feature-length film received its world premiere last week . . . at the Harrison County Jail in Corydon, Ind. “We really wanted to have the people that we wrote the movie for be the first people to see [it],” said director Tyler Sansom.
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Antioch Christian Church in Marion, Iowa, is taking steps to launch its third campus by purchasing a struggling YMCA facility on the west side of Cedar Rapids. After renovations, the facility is expected to open by Easter 2022.
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Christian Pope will take over as athletic director of Milligan University following the upcoming Aug. 1 retirement of longtime administrator Mark Fox. (Plus briefs from churches in Georgia, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas . . . and more.)
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Ozark Christian College’s NextLevel Online Bible and Ministry series now features 34 topics. The 290 individual videos —all of them free—have been viewed more than 300,000 times.