Amid the clamor of 3,000 responses to the first gospel sermon (Acts 2), some man, or woman, became the first person there to “go down into the water” (Acts 8:38). Being “first” is unimportant, bu...  Read More

     The photograph of a “traditional” mission team often includes preachers, teachers and healthcare professionals. In contrast, our team to El Salvador was composed of parents and their children in ...  Read More

Most of what I know about leading songs I learned from my father, Andy T. Ritchie III.He taught me how to beat a pattern, how to pitch and lead a song, and how to putthought into the words and music. ...  Read More

     In jail ministry, there is a hard-and-fast rule: focus only on spiritual needs of the people inside these walls. That rule has been broken twice in the past month.     A couple of weeks ago, I go...  Read More

     This June the College Church of Christ Youth Group and a medical mission team from Searcy had the opportunity to serve alongside Misión Para Cristo (MPC) in Jinotega, Nicaragua. It was more than ...  Read More

     Every Sunday morning, College Church member Heather Rollins, her youthful puppeteers, and puppets Jimmy, Susie, and Frizzy, team up to present entertaining but valuable spiritual lessons during C...  Read More

1. The Education of Ted Lloyd     A self-described “Kansas farm boy,” Ted Lloyd grew up in two “pretty traditional” country churches and was baptized at 16. However, he characterizes his spiritual con...  Read More

     Four-and-a-half years ago, Rick Harper asked if I would serve as interim college minister for the 2022 spring semester. Little did I know that saying yes would impact my life forever.     After b...  Read More

     After my shepherd resignation letter was read to this congregation, I had an opportunity to teach Sunday morning Auditorium class here at College Church. I chose to talk about the Seasons of Life...  Read More

“No amount of reading, writing, or memorization can give me what I truly want. What I desire is to please You—to speak in such a way that hearts are moved, souls are stirred, and minds are awakened; t...  Read More

As he takes the next step in pursuit of a dream more than forty years in the making, David Anguish, an active member and Bible class teacher at College Church, is seeking support to sustain and expand...  Read More

     Does your daily Bible reading transition to scanning when you get to the nine chapters of genealogies in I Chronicles? Did you wince when Jordan preached from Leviticus, with its litany of regula...  Read More