Chrissy Sanders

Moses’ mother was pro-life

By Chrissy Sanders As a mom to three boys, Elsa the ice queen just isn’t a big deal in our house. No, the movies in our usual rotation are mostly those involving superheroes, dragons, and...
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Madison family’s unexpected adoption inspires joy

By Bethany Atkinson “God always writes stories for our lives that are so much better than we can write for ourselves.” - Suzannah Britt For Anthony and Suzannah Britt of Madison, life in 2019 felt...
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Mississippi ministries for adoption, foster care, and pouring into kids

Interested in fostering, adopting, or supporting those who do? Here are just a few Mississippi ministries that focus on adoption, foster care, or simply helping every child achieve a better future. ...
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Reflections from the river

By Chris Bates Outside: In early fall several years ago, I spent a cool, clear, high mountain day trout fishing alone along Colorado’s Taylor River at about 8,000 feet elevation. I slowly worked my...
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How my ‘brown place’ led to The Brown Place Group Home

By Lakeisha Hardy In 2021, I had just given birth to my baby, and like many new mothers, I was adjusting to life with a growing family. But deep down, I knew God was calling me to more than being a...
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Metro Jackson churches honor women in leadership

While an estimated 80 percent of lead pastors are men, one 2012 study found that over half of part-time church staff members were women. That doesn’t include all the women serving and leading in...
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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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Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

by | May 4, 2023 | Columns, Lifestyle, Recent Cover Stories, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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...
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Jackson Leadership Foundation Supporting leaders, transforming lives

by | March 4, 2021 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

  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...
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Michael and Julie Estes Finding a ministry home at Ridgecrest

by | June 28, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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...
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Shower Power — Jackson organization empowers people experiencing homelessness

by | June 1, 2020 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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...
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Anne Graham Lotz talks cancer, loss, and seeing God’s blessings

by | January 1, 2020 | Columns, Feature Story, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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...
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Sean Milner: He grew up at a children’s home — and now he runs it

by | August 4, 2019 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature | 0 Comments

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...
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FEATURE — But God Ministries finds a home in the Delta

by | December 1, 2018 | Columns, Special Feature | 0 Comments

    JONESTOWN — Linda McGrew thought she had grown up poor — and she had. But then she visited some homes in Quitman County.   “I (was) inspecting the units that we were to rehab (at a nonprofit). You could look through the ceiling and see outdoors. You...
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SPECIAL FEATURE — Doing diversity in the local church

by | October 1, 2018 | Columns, Lifestyle, Special Feature | 0 Comments

By Katie Eubanks   Doing diversity in the local church     Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of the week, but not if these churches have anything to do with it. In the greater Jackson area, leaders at several churches — from a megachurch...
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DYNAMIC DADS—Stories of Fatherhood

by | June 4, 2018 | Columns, Inspiration, Special Feature | 0 Comments

Introduction and Questions by Marilyn Tinnin Dynamic Dads   We have looked for a few wise men here in Mississippi Christian Living’s Annual Man Issue. We have loved gathering these stories and getting these guys to put words to the heart issues of priorities,...
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MILLENNIAL MOMS—Stories of Motherhood

by | May 1, 2018 | Columns, Special Feature | 0 Comments

  Fenley Akers Davis Age 28 Married to Price Davis (5 years) Mother to daughter Paschal (Newborn)   Work Background: Administrative Assistant to Governor Phil Bryant; Account Executive WLBT News Channel 3; Co-Founder + Director of Development Club Sally;...
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AUTHOR Q&A — 1 pilgrim, many interruptions

by | May 4, 2022

By KATIE EUBANKS          Author and Jackson native Susan Cushman will release her eighth book, “Pilgrim Interrupted” — a memoir in the form of an essay collection encompassing faith, mental health and more — on June 7. She will be at Lemuria Books in Jackson for a signing on June 11....