by Stephen Suffron | Jun 21, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution last week in St. Louis to call for Christians to no longer display the Confederate battle flag. Here is the actual text of the resolution: RESOLVED, That we call our brothers and sisters in Christ to...
by Stephen Suffron | Jun 7, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
Some time around the last Sunday of my second grade year, I went to church, excited about the start of summer, when I read a poster propped up in the foyer of our church announcing “Vacation Bible School.” I was too young to know the term...
by Stephen Suffron | Apr 12, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
This past weekend, our church held a homecoming service. We invited dozens of members and former members who had once called Stephens home but had since moved off. When we first started preparing for the weekend, I wondered how many people would travel back to our...
by Stephen Suffron | Mar 29, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
The Fifth Annual Stephens Roadrunner 5K will take place this Saturday. Our church and town will host about 100 participants and spectators in the heart of Stephens in an effort to send a mission team on our fifth trip to the village of Kobuk, which lies about 30...
by Stephen Suffron | Mar 15, 2016 | Leadership, Ministry
This week was the last Sunday of a six-week discipleship course on the Holy Spirit. After starting in week one with an eight-member class (huge!), tonight only my wife and one deacon showed up. Now, the weather has been terrible all week and we were under a tornado...
