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Copyright (c) 2017 Baptist Press . Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention . The original story can be found at http://www.bpnews.net/49368/from-the-states-ga-calif-and-texas-evangelismmissions-news-what-we-really-hope-and-pray-to-do-is-impact-their-lives-for-christ by Staff, posted Tuesday, August 15, 2017 (11 days ago) Today's From the States features items from: The Christian Index (Georgia) California Southern Baptist Southern Baptist TEXAN ********** Ga. literacy missions bringing Gospel to refugees, immigrants By Joe Westbury CARROLLTON, Ga. (The Christian Index) -- For Annette Ingram, it began when she drove by a low- income apartment complex and saw a large sign that said, " Free ESL Classes ." That piqued her interest because she was already certified as an English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) instructor through the State of Florida when she served in the DeSoto County public schools . ...

Life with depression is filled with more rollercoasters than an amusement park . There are the days when life is great. You’re full of optimism. Hope runs supreme . You feel like you can take on the world. For me, that was a couple weeks ago . Life was awesome. I’d finally got a job in a city I adore like no other — Lincoln, Nebraska. As a born and raised Nebraskan, and as a diehard Cornhuskers sports fan , I was finally “coming home” after 17 years of living in Iowa. My hopes were sky high. A new job, a new career, a new life. It was an opportunity to be back close to my roots, close to family and dear friends, to have my support system closer to me than I’ve had in ages. My first night back in Lincoln, I snapped a picture — one I had missed taking roughly three months earlier. Memorial Stadium (home of the Nebraska football team ) was on the left, followed by the Nebraska state capital building , Pinnacle Bank Arena , then capped by the stately lit Haymarket Park baseball park ,...

NEW YORK, NY — In the summer of 1977, New York City was — literally and figuratively — on fire. It was the summer of disco fever, of Studio 54. It was the summer of Yankees mania. It was the summer that catapulted Ed Koch to City Hall. And in mid-July, it turned into the summer of darkness, when an epic, five-borough power outage — deemed an "act of God" by Con Ed — plunged the city into two days of total blackout. Airports shut down. News stations went off the air. Thousands were stuck in underground subway tunnels . Meanwhile, in the streets, the down-and-out — at their breaking point after years of municipal layoffs and a steady surge in violent crime — rioted and looted with abandon. Arsonists reportedly set more than 1,000 fires across the city in a single day. The Bronx, it would later be said, was burning. It was also the Summer of Sam. Want more local news? Sign up here to receive free newsletters and alerts from the New York City Patch . In spring 1977, police con...