How I went from ‘abused kid’ to child advocate

By Riley Herrin, LCSW In 2003, I had never heard of child advocacy centers. I was just an 11-year-old girl then, and while my biggest concerns should have been the next time I would get to see my...
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The Rafferty family, from left Tabitha, Josie, Kenya, and Andrew holding Rozzi Clare

Living My Call: How adopting a teenager changed my life

By Kenya Kimball Rafferty In honor of National Adoption Month, Kenya Rafferty shares her story of fostering and adopting a teenager. The Rafferty family was licensed to foster children and youth...
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Living My Call: Sprayberry spreads ‘Bad News’ and ‘Great News’

Special to MCL Equipped with a Bible in one hand and a guitar in the other, Harold Sprayberry ventures into the metro Jackson area for a singular purpose: to share the gospel with children. For the...
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LIVING MY CALL — Breathing life into faith with ‘Oxygen’

Submitted by Blue Sky Studios In the world of music, Carissa M. shines as a rising artist, infusing soulful pop and Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) into her melodies and lyrics. Her musical...
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LIVING MY CALL — Exploring faith-based travel

By KATIE EUBANKS          Pam Anderson of Madison is a Faith-Based Travel Specialist with Educational Travel Services (ETS). She recently spoke with MCL Editor Katie Eubanks about...
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LIVING MY CALL — Tim Neese: From worship leader to homebuilder

By ANNA CLAIRE O’CAINE          Tim Neese has lived in Flowood since he was 10 and is the owner and sole builder of Neese Custom Homes. He is husband to Mandy and father to his two...
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LIVING MY CALL — How Navigators act as a ‘safety net’  for cancer patients

By KATIE EUBANKS     MCL Editor Katie Eubanks recently interviewed Jackie Murray, an Oncology Nurse Navigator at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, about how she helps cancer patients...
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LIVING MY CALL — How modeling has grown my faith

By KATIE EUBANKS          BeBe (pronounced “baybay”) Rayborn is a freshman communications major at Mississippi State University — and a model with The Industry Model Management in New York...
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LIVING MY CALL — Loving on little acorns

By ANNA CLAIRE O’CAIN        Tucked away in Mississippi’s capital city is the state’s only privately owned childcare center located in a federal space: Little Acorns, established in 1990 and...
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LIVING MY CALL — Sandra Strain on her new role in Madison

By SARAH MOONEYHAM   Carrying on a husband’s legacy— Sandra Strain on her new role in Madison        After losing her husband, Warren, in October 2020, Sandra Strain decided to run in the...
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Cindy Townsend: On life, ‘lemons’ and the Lord

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

  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 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 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 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 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

    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 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

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

  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....