The smaller the world becomes, the more people we know and the longer we live, the greater our awareness of death. We have witnessed executions on foreign sands. We have seen the small lifeless body of a boy on a beach. We felt the national loss of a Supreme Court Justice. Closer to home, two…
David Gilliam went on his first mission trip as a member of the youth group at Royal Oak Presbyterian Church when he was just a teenager. A group from the southwest Virginia town of Marion built a house in Mexico, and a seed for ministry was planted. Now 40 years old, Gilliam is an ordained…
By Whitney Williams North Korean officials announced Saturday that detained American citizen Kenneth Bae will be tried before the country’s Supreme Court on charges of plotting to overthrow the government. If convicted, Bae could face the death penalty. According to media accounts, including one from The Telegraph, Bae is thought to be a Christian missionary…