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Churches Are Breaking Barriers In Pine Bluff, AR.

Prayer is truly moving in Pine Bluff, many churches are praying and walking the streets of our city calling on God to move mightily… Churches across denominational backgrounds will come together and praise the Lord with worship and prayer. Pastor Travis Creekmore of New Harvest Church of God is doing Worship in the Park on Sunday nights this month. Last Sunday night was the first service with around 100 in attendance and we had three people come to know Jesus Christ. As this movement grows, our Lord is increasing our desire and connection between denominational lines…

Hope for Racial Healing – An Interview with Pastor Harold Nash

My wife and I have been on this journey of building unity with brothers and sisters of every race since the 1980s. God has helped us to understand His teachings in the word regarding race and has allowed us to grow and apply His teachings in how we live our lives. For us, the gospel of Jesus Christ is first and foremost. If the gospel is first and foremost for us, then how we live toward others who are not the same race as we are will be influenced by the gospel of grace.

From Dream to Reality

By Jason Ancarrow, Central Arkansas Marriage Initiative Team Leader It is easy to get caught up with an idea that presents something we can both chase after and attain. Take for instance the “American Dream”. Though we see many different views on what that would actually look like today, some of the same core longings …

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God’s Strategy for Impacting Violence in Little Rock

By Mary Carol Pederson, Vital Families in Schools Team Leader “No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.” Isaiah 60:8 If you are following the news at all, the recent increase in violent crime, shootings, homicides, in …

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Building Bridges

Meadowcliff Elementary School in Little Rock is located just off south University. The school serves about 250 students. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of those students live at or below the poverty line. Almost half struggle with reading.

Prayer Summit Stories: Dr. Carla Morris

It was so refreshing to attend the Arkansas Prayer Summit again this year! After attending for the first time in 2019 and experiencing the power of prayer and the deep fellowship amongst everyone in attendance, it is a time that I look forward to each year. Throughout the day’s event, powerful scriptural prayers resonated throughout …

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Five Ways Seeking the Welfare of the City Will Help Your Church Grow (Part 2) – Extraordinary Prayer

Robert Bakke writes in The Power of Extraordinary Prayer, “there are times and moments in history that call out for extraordinary prayer—prayer that is above and beyond normal requirements. Pentecost was such a time, as was Acts 4 when Peter and John were arrested, the arrest and miraculous release of Peter in Acts 12, and the commissioning …

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Prayer for Arkansas State Leaders

I am asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to …

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Celebrating Black History Month

Many recognize the names Harriot Tubman and Sojourner Truth. But what about Thomas Dorsey? In his post, 10 African American Church Leaders Who Shaped Christianity in America, in ShareFaith Magazine, Zack Kincade writes, Born the son of a Baptist minister and a music teacher in Georgia, he knew both faith and song from an early age. The family moved …

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