Catherine Davis is a woman with a message, and that message is getting harder to ignore. “Black children are an endangered species.”

  April 4th at 6:30 AM – Sunrise Service at Perryville Park (Directions: Take the road beside the Perryville Volunteer Fire House on Rt. 7 back through the woods.  Allow for extra minutes to reach the normal spot close to the point.)

Pastor John Scripture Reference: II Samuel 22

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)–The persecution of Christians continues to intensify in Pakistan, where six employees of the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision have been murdered by militants and the country’s blasphemy laws are being used to fine and imprison Christians.

  by Phil Boatwright    KANSAS CITY, Kan. (BP)–I’m often asked to suggest DVDs for teens. Here’s the predicament: Not only do I have to find quality films that might amuse those of a generation behind me (well, two generations behind me), I also have to search out movies that don’t contain something that someone will find offensive. (Try doing that.)

  William Carey encountered religious practices that involved torture in India. For one ritual, two iron hooks were plunged through the back flesh of one who followed the false god Jagannath. Then ropes were connected to the hooks and the devotee was hoisted some 40 feet in the air, where he would be spun around. The hooks ripped through a devotee’s flesh on occasion and sent him plummeting to his death. Locals engaged in the practice hoping that it would atone for their sins. Grieved by such self-destructive idolatry, Carey began to combat it by spreading the gospel of Jesus […]

  William Wilberforce is famous not only for his persistent efforts to see the slave trade abolished in England, but as the author of Real Christianity,1 in which he makes the radical distinction between nominal and real Christians.

Pastor John Scripture Reference: II Samuel 21:15-22; 23:1-7

  During the 1970s, a gaggle of supposed experts argued that divorce had few, if any, negative effects on children. One scholar wrote that divorced mothers could enjoy the “development of better relationships with [their] children” while two others said absent fathers were easily replaced.1 But today, social scientists are revising their opinions. They realize that children of divorce are more likely than their counterparts in intact families to drop out of high school, become pregnant as teenagers, and spend time in prison.2 University of Virginia marriage authority W. Bradford Wilcox noted that “[s]ocial-science data about the consequences of divorce […]

 The First Baptist Church of Perryville will offer two days of prayer for north american missions on March 12 & 13.  Prayer guides will be available for your use.  The church will be open from 5-8 PM on Friday and 8 AM-Noon on Saturday.  Come when it is convenient.  Leave when you are finished.  Most people enjoy 30 or more minutes in prayer.    A prayer captain will be available at the door to answer any of your questions.  The First Baptist Church of Perryville is located on Rt. 40, 1 and 1/2 miles east of Rt. 222.  Questions?  Call the church office at 410-642-6865.