Dec 3, 2012 | Blog
Sunday, December 2, my niece, Hillary McCoy, was baptized in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Central Baptist Church, which sits in the shadows of Bryant Denny Stadium. She had a lot of family present: her mother and father, twin brothers, her newest sister-in-law, and her...
Nov 22, 2012 | Blog
Four years ago, Mark Mullis and Chad Purvis came to me with an idea really good idea.They wanted to put together a 5K-run on Thanksgiving morning and use the run as a way to raise awareness of the good work done by the volunteers of the food bank at First Baptist...
Nov 19, 2012 | Blog
While walking around in a market in Cieneguilla, Peru, I noticed small bags of pecans hanging up for sale. There in the midst of many kinds of fruit I couldn’t identify, was a fruit I can walk out of my office and pick up in our church’s parking lot. We...
Nov 9, 2012 | Blog
Cieneguilla, Peru The ashy, lifeless Andes Mountains rise above the small village of Cieneguilla, Peru. The evidence of poverty surrounds this place like the mountains. It’s an odd place to make a home. Everything has to be brought here because nothing grows...
Oct 8, 2012 | Blog
Teenage years can be filled with fun and excitement. It’s also a very awkward time. The bodies of teenagers are constantly changing as hormones produce growth spurts that make them feel like they suddenly inhabited someone else’s body. Along with the...
