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...soon will it be before Osama bin Laden strikes again? Let's forget Iraq and focus on getting him before he gets us. Karl McNish St. Petersburg, Fla...
...kids are listening. After the First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., opened its kid-friendly facilities last summer, Sunday-school attendance jumped 50%, to 900 students, in just four months. Churches of every denomination and size are trying these new approaches and experiencing similar surges in attendance. "The more [kids] touch and they hear and they feel, the more likely the content becomes not only interesting, but they comprehend and understand," says Charlotte Echols, executive director for the child-development program at Highland Park Methodist United Church in Dallas. "That transforms into the good feeling that brings them back next...
Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., is willing to follow the signs wherever they lead. For an hour every Sunday morning, teens in torn jeans and worn sneakers carry their Good Books and skateboards to the New Breed class. A boy with tattoos asked for the courage to stay in school. A girl requested help with her alcoholic father. "This is what Jesus did. He reached people at all levels, not just those who were dressed well," says Buck Waters, the pastor, who also runs a surfing ministry. "We are calling our entire membership to a new level of faith...
...Officers arrested 45-year-old Dennis E. Sumner of San Antonio, Fla. at the Inn at Harvard for domestic assault and battery...
...example of the research he advocates, Stinson cited the statistic that in Miami, Fla., 75 percent of new cases of HIV or AIDS occur in black communities...