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Mississippi mental health resources

For our Faith & Mental Health edition, we’re providing a list of people, organizations, and resources that can help with everything from addiction to anxiety, motherhood, and more. Please note,...
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What is your role?

By Chris Bates Outside: A few years ago, my daughter and I joined a mission group near San Cristobal, Nicaragua. We expected an adventure filled with service opportunities, but the real lessons came...
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How the Dominican Republic showed me God’s love

By Emma Kate Poole  Going to the Dominican Republic taught me a lot of things, but it mainly taught me how amazing God’s love really is. As a kid, I searched for love in a lot of places. Broken...
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60 countries and counting: Dr. White trains students for missions

By Katie Ginn Growing up in a Baptist church in Oklahoma, Kristen White knew all about missionary Lottie Moon - who served in China for 40 years and died starving, giving her food away to Chinese...
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Gore Arts Complex serves MC, Clinton community

By Katie Ginn In 1951, the late Dr. Samuel Gore began teaching art in a former cafeteria in a Mississippi College dormitory. Over the years, Gore developed MC’s art curriculum, recruited...
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Mississippi artists, musicians, museums and more to check out now

Fun fact: Mississippi boasts more Grammy winners per capita than any other state. But the Birthplace of America’s Music is also home to Ballet Magnificat!, New Stage Theatre, visual artists like...
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Belhaven scholarship winner talks faith, writing

By Owen Jarvis, as told to Katie Ginn Earlier this year, high-school senior Owen Jarvis of Pelham, Alabama, found out he was a “finalist” for Belhaven University’s Angie Thomas Writer’s Scholarship,...
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How to find rest, refuge, and respite in your home

Ideally, we all want our homes to be a place of comfort and rest, where we can unwind at the end of the day. Often, that is not the case. The kids, the laundry piles, and the home improvement...
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Using your journey to guide others

By Chris Bates  One of the most memorable nights of my youth happened alone on the side of a mountain. I was a teenager at a summer camp in North Carolina and was preparing to complete the final...
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My ‘shop in the back’

By Lauren Egger The world had only known them as bicycle store owners and tinkerers. Day in and day out, they helped local townspeople travel to and fro on two wheels. But their real work began when...

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