PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS/AP) — The remaining members of a U.S. missionary group who were kidnapped two months ago in Haiti have been freed, Haitian police and the church group said Thursday, December 16, 2021. The spokesman for Haiti’s National Police, Gary Desrosiers, confirmed to The Associated Press that the hostages had been released, but did […]

Jimmy LeEarl Hill, 88, of Ripley, Mississippi, an elder of Mount Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church (West Tennessee Presbytery) in Falkner, Mississippi, died December 20, 2021, the Reverend Richie Lockhart reported. Jimmy was born in Falkner September 11, 1933. He was educated in the public schools of Falkner and graduated from Falkner High School in 1951 […]

The Reverend Sarah Ann Jeffery, 79, of Yellville, Arkansas, a member without charge of Arkansas Presbytery, died December 12, 2021, of COVID-19. She had been hospitalized for six months. Sarah served as a chaplain for the Good Samaritan Society in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She had been a case manager and social worker for the Area […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Luke 1:46b-55 (NRSV) 46 And Mary said, “My soul magnifies the Lord,47     and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,48 for he […]