Stories from Friday, July 3, 2020

I just finished Mark Batterson’s book, All In. Batterson told the extraordinary story of how 100 years ago the Philadelphia Church in Stockholm sent two missionary couples to the Congo. David and Svea Flood and Joel and Bertha Erickson were committed to serving God and the local people...

Letter to the Editor: “Everyone should just wear a damn mask.” That’s what U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a conservative Republican from Florida, said on June 24 as COVID-19 cases surged again in his state and many others. Epidemiologists at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the prestigious University of Washington Medical School in Seattle have calculated: If 95% of all Americans would begin wearing masks immediately in every public indoor setting, an estimated 33,000 American lives could be saved by Oct. ...

After talking about sin last week, I thought I would spend this article talking about our efforts to avoid sin. Keep in mind everything I am about to share with you can be summed up in Matthew 22:37-40. (I’ll let you read up on that passage) The two greatest commandments are basically love God and love your neighbor (my simplification of Matthew 22:37-40)...

MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL Two Grandin residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 4:11 p.m. Thursday, July 2, on U.S. 60, five miles west of Poplar Bluff. According to the report, Christopher D. Bishop, 33, of Whiteville, Tennessee, was operating a 2012 Dodge pickup westbound when it struck the unit being towed by Susan M. Rice, 49...

City firefighters responded at 8:42 p.m. Thursday, July 2, to a report of a large amount of fuel leaking from a pump at 10Box, 1301 Shelby Road. According to the report, firefighters found the liquid, which was thought to be gasoline, was only water from a nearby faucet...