by MS Christian Living | May 4, 2023 | Columns, Lifestyle, Recent Cover Stories, Special Feature
By KATIE EUBANKS Cindy Townsend picks up a plastic lemon and turns it over in her hands. At first glance, it’s just a lemon — one of many she’s used to adorn her kitchen table, where we now sit with her husband, as well as other surfaces in their...
by MS Christian Living | Mar 4, 2021 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
Katie Eubanks: What is Jackson Leadership Foundation? Samuel Bolen: We are a ministry to ministries. Our desire is to work with ministry leaders in Jackson to help (them) grow as leaders, and grow their ministries to the scale of the vision that God has...
by MS Christian Living | Jun 28, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
By KATIE EUBANKS Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest In 1998, Michael Estes finally worked up the nerve to ask out Julie Stone. They’d both grown up in Clinton, and probably met on a Clinton High School...
by MS Christian Living | Jun 1, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature
By KATIE EUBANKS Shower Power Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness Lying in the shade, a young man named DJ spreads his Bible on top of his face and reaches his arms up to the sky. He doesn’t take medication...
by mcl | Jan 1, 2020 | Columns, Feature Story, Lifestyle, Special Feature
By KATIE EUBANKS Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings In early 2019, Anne Graham Lotz — daughter of the Rev. Billy Graham — was scheduled to speak to the women at First Baptist Jackson. A brutal round...
by mcl | Aug 4, 2019 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature
By KATIE EUBANKS Sean Milner He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it Sean Milner remembers the gunshot from when Oma wounded herself in the shoulder. “(My siblings and I) ran out on the back porch and...
