Stories You've Missed

How did a Bible study in a home become a community of believers that occupy 4 buildings on 15 acres of property? Hear Tommy Hamor and Wade Burgess share about the difficulties and rescue God has brought this church through. 

Cynthia Buchanan and Nancy Treesh share their experience of God's kindness through widowhood. The death of a spouse, while devastating, is not the end of one's life. The ladies describe how God opened doors to consequential living that they never planned for. Hear them explain how God is good, he is smart, and he is enough. 

Ed and Jane share about God's grace through key moments in their marriage. You will hear how singing a church solo can impress a girl and how marriage can be like two best friends that always have each other's back. They also reveal their secret to a 6-decade marriage. 

Cynthia and Barb discuss the ministry Hands to Bless, which creates handmade items to love others.  They share their experience of finding meaningful ministry, a surprising friendship, and unimagined goodness from God in this stage of life.  Listen to them describe the spiritual work God does through creating and why they can say,  "while I am quilting putting pieces of fabric together God is putting the pieces of me back together." 

Dave and Barb reflect on acts of God's grace to them through 44 years of marriage. You'll hear about their "one-week" engagement and their first year spent apart. Though their 4 decades together were rarely easy, they would change very little. They experienced a God who never gave up on them and never stopped pursuing them. Because of that love, they never gave up on each other. 

Gary and Desiree recount the grace they received from God after the death of their 17 year old daughter, Bailey.  They continue to endure one of the most difficult events in life, and are still standing. Their experience of grief, though different from each other, is fixed on the same source of help. You will hear about the many ways God assured them that He sees their pain and is in control. In particular, God used the local church to walk with the Coopers through this valley of the shadow of death. 

Butch and Amy share their experience of grace from God in the ongoing trial of ocular melanoma. Butch was diagnosed 12 years ago and by grace, survives today. Butch still has eye cancer and the future is not promised. Actually, we all share an uncertain earthly future. Their experience may give you courage to face the unknown. 

The Peschel's retell their experience of grace from God in the process of adopting Bella into their family. Listen to this incredible account of God working out dozens of details and sustaining the Peschel's even when they could not see it. They describe what it was like to walk with God while they, "held their breath for a year." 

Nicole shares the process God led her through that united her training in geology with a longing for the Gospel to be available to unreached peoples.  She recounts her experience that God's plans are always more than we can see in the moment and can be trusted. 

Jenny recounts acts of God's grace that resulting in moving her family half way across the US from Delaware to Grand Parkway Baptist. In His kindness, God gives us what we need to trust Him and follow His leading.