by mcl | Dec 2, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Al Stanford A little over three years ago, I was a home designer and custom homebuilder—a profession I had been in for almost 20 years. At that time, the economy was very slow and building was at a near standstill. And several years before in 2008, I had been...
by mcl | Nov 2, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By MARILYN TINNIN Darryl Strawberry’s Major League Baseball career is one for the record books—eight times a Major League All Star, four-time World Series Champion, and one whose natural talent earned him descriptions like “dazzling” and “electrifying.” He should have...
by mcl | Sep 1, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Marilyn Tinnin Keith Tonkel arrived at Wells United Methodist Church in 1969 in the thick of the racial conflict sweeping across the South. Located on Bailey Avenue in a community that had once been a stable blue-collar neighborhood, at least 400 members had...
by mcl | Aug 9, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By MARILYN TINNIN Dolphus and Rosie Weary grew up in the backwoods of Mississippi in rural Simpson County. Their story of leaving Mississippi for Los Angeles Bible College in the late 1960s is told in Dolphus’ first book, I Ain’t Comin’ Back. Appropriately...
by mcl | Jun 1, 2015 | Columns, Inspiration, Living My Call
By Catie Stewart Jody Schmelzer had spent over nine years investing in his local church in Madison, Mississippi, when God called him to uproot his life completely. For him and his family, that meant abandoning their comfortable home and moving 150 miles away to do...