Feb 16, 2013 | Blog
In August 1956, Judge Julian Bennett, in his first case as a judge, handed down this sentence in the Jackson County Courthouse to James Foster for the murder of Jefferson businessman Charlie Drake, one of the town’s most popular citizens: “You will be put...
Jan 18, 2013 | Blog
We had an interesting visitor to our church office not long ago. A man fresh out of jail because of a DUI arrest stopped to ask for help. His truck was impounded and he needed a ride to his home, which was in a nearby city. Later that afternoon, I drove him to his...
Jan 14, 2013 | Blog
According to UNICEF, as of 2009, there were a total of 340,000 Liberian orphans; this out of a total child population of some 1,878,000 and a country of just three and a half million people. If you do the math, that’s about one orphan out of every nine...
Jan 5, 2013 | Blog
It’s not every day that an old home with all its contents is sold at auction. Most of the time, family members have made their way through the belongings of the deceased, picking the valuables clean, like a cotton picker plucking cotton from a field, leaving...
Jan 5, 2013 | Blog
We live in an age of technology where we are accessible at any time and at almost any place. Look at the Verizon and the AT & T Coverage Maps and you will not see a lot of white spaces. Towers have connected us to each other through our mobile phones to the...
