BUSSEY, Iowa—At first glance, Bussey, Iowa, seemed an unlikely place for a church plant.
TRACY, Calif.—”Behemoth” is the name Pastor Tim Heinrich deemed for his mammoth cargo trailer that transports supplies for Crossroads Baptist Church. The term also fits the church’s fifth anniversary.
Adam Zamora talks about church planting and the foundation of gratitude A young Adam Zamora stood waiting outside the Saginaw Civic Center. Ozzy Osbourne had just finished his 1986 Ultimate…
Wayne Dale stands at the pulpit, announcing the hymn to the congregation: “Número quinientos once, ‘Cristo me ama.’ ” Then he looks at another hymnal and announces it again, “Number…
Roger Ridley pulls into the parking lot of McKinney’s Food Store and points in the distance to a bluff covered with suburban housing. “Chalco Hills is an entire community of…
Blane Barfknecht was drunk, again. He was only 18—who knows where he’d gotten the alcohol—and had just dropped out of high school to find work in a no-name Texas town,…