Faith-based nonprofit in Ohio offers physical and spiritual support. By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle LORAIN, Ohio — This struggling Rust Belt city of 64,000 souls can use a little hope. A ship-building company, an automotive plant and steel mills along Lake Erie — at the mouth of the Black River — once provided thousands of jobs for the community 30 miles west of … Continue reading Ministry serves the poor in hard-hit steel town

Oklahoma parents who lost a daughter — and then a son — work to help others. By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle EDMOND, Okla. — Twelve days before Christmas, Allen and Jeanette Wiederstein celebrated the graduation of their 22-year-old grandson, Hunter, from Oklahoma Christian University. They thought about how proud his mother, April, would have been. The Wiedersteins lost their beloved daughter in 2003, exactly a month before … Continue reading Despite ‘unthinkable’ grief, Christian couple has hope for the holidays

Christians in Ohio join together to praise God in English, Spanish and Twi dialect of Ghana. By Bobby Ross Jr. | The Christian Chronicle COLUMBUS, Ohio — The hymns were familiar, even if all the words were not. At an areawide assembly hosted by the Northland Church of Christ, Ghanaian immigrants full of joy sang “Yɛn Nyame Te Ase” — “Our God, He Is Alive” — in their native dialect of … Continue reading Love in three languages