Phoenix church members build home after fireBy Anna Groff The Wallow Fire in Arizona last year, one of the largest in the state's history, forced thousands of individuals to evacuate. The human-caused fire began on May 29, 2011. A year later, individuals still suffer losses. Individuals such as Jim and Kat Brennan, not only had to leave their home in Nutrioso, Ariz., and lost it in the fire ... Read more ...Photo: From left, James Schunn, Claire Mast and Jim Brennan work on the home in Nutrioso, Ariz. Photo by Cory Axness. |
Connecting Families holds 23rd annual retreatBy Tom ChamnessThe 23rd annual gathering of Connecting Families was held April 19-21 at the Pearlstone Retreat Center in Reisterstown, Md. Connecting Families meets one weekend each year as a means to connect families and individuals who face issues of same-gender sexual attraction ... Read more ... |
College Corner: Student took long road to finishing undergraduate degree with honorsBy Melanie ZuercherFor Bethel College, North Newton, Kan., student Brad Celestin of Newton, Kan., real life may have interrupted his college education but it certainly didn't derail it. And he finished his undergraduate career with a bang ... Read more ... Brad Celestin, center, with his major professors Dwight Krehbiel, left, and Paul Lewis, who presented him with a Thresher Award. |
Tim blog: Back in Barrancabermeja  COLOMBIA - The 10-hour bus ride down to Barrancabermeja from Bogotá offers spectacular views in the afternoon sun. Sheer gray cliffs wrapped in exuberant green give way to vast views of foothills rolling down to the Magdalena river where it snakes its way across los llanos (the plains) ... Read more ... |
