Reading Eagle, Pa., John W. Smith Column: Churches Urged to Mentor Youth
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By John W. Smith, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 3--The final two speakers fittingly took the Reading Berks Conference of Churches back to the future Monday night.
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Fortnightly church attendance could be required for children to get into popular faith schools, a Church figure suggests.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 3--One of the ways to measure the health of a community and the vitality of its residents is to look at its churches.  Churches that are new and modern and comfortable and have venues for lots of activities are good signs.
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By Allen Essex, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas  Sep. 5--HARLINGEN -- The chance to buy a ready-to-use church building in a choice location has drawn interest from more than a half dozen church leaders since a Valley Morning Star story "Death Of A Church" was published Aug. 20.
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COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend  church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a...
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WENZHOU, China -- A new breed of churches in this region of China has demonstrated a boldness and independence unmatched elsewhere in the country, despite strict government guidelines for places of worship. Nothing illustrated the boldness of Zhejiang's Christians more clearly than the hasty... Hu...
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Letters Readers drive stake through parents' group
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Tending to your soul at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Boise, Idaho, involves recycling old cell phones and printer cartridges in the church lobby, pulling noxious weeds in the backcountry and fixing worn-out hiking trails in the mountains.
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By Aaron Nelsen ? The Brownsville Herald, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 24--Frustrated with declining interest and ineffective methods of recruiting young people to their order of Catholic teaching, the Marist Brothers took a leap of faith into the Digital Age.
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By Sam Hodges, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 16--The dedication of a gleaming new church building is no big deal in suburban Dallas. Downtown, though, it's almost as rare as real wine in a Baptist communion.
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By Colette M. Jenkins, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 16--The congregation at First Presbyterian Church of Akron wants to be known as the church with a heart for the city.  "We realize that the mission field is right at our door," the Rev. Mark Ruppert said.
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Â· Move aims to focus on unsung high flyers Â· Success stories to provide role models for young
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Nearly three decades after Washington area faith leaders founded a movement for affordable housing, there is a new push -- particularly in the District -- to revive the effort and get the clergy to see housing as an urgent mission field.
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By Leigh Landini Wright, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 3-- -- Boyd Smith has two words for the National Football League -- spiritual warfare.
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By Patricia ?tsh? Hancock, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 17--GULFPORT -- "Nothing is too big for Mt. Bethel construction," said Fred Brown, a Coast volunteer from Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church in Marietta, Ga.
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BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to work, high school teacher Graham Wright recited a favorite Anglican prayer and asked God for strength in the day ahead. Then two years ago, he just stopped.
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By John J. Moser, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 22--If today's teens are the Internet generation, their band may be Cute Is What We Aim For.