Claire Seaton wore the same dress every day this past October. In fact, the high school senior has done so for the past three Octobers.

Over the past eight years, Story has won a Grammy Award, become a full-time working mom, and has learned to walk beside her husband in the ups and downs of mental disability.

“The PCA has not had this many families affected by a storm since the Nashville flood several years ago,” said Arklie Hooten, MNA disaster-response director. “It’s been months, and families are still digging out of the rubble.”

Since joining the denomination 10 years ago, Sim has been an outspoken leader among the Korean language presbyteries (KLPs). Although this group often falls under the radar, Sim is excited to see increasing connections between the Korean language churches and their English-speaking counterparts.

“If policy makers are concerned about poverty, crime, child well-being, rising economic inequality, and the fiscal limits of the contemporary welfare state, they should recognize that the nation’s retreat from marriage is closely connected to all of these issues.”

That night in September 1988 was Casson’s first inkling that something — or Someone — was out there orchestrating the events of his life. “The only reason I’m not on death row is that God intervened.”

Our calling as followers of Christ is not to “fix” the mentally ill, but to follow Jesus into relationship with them.

Between Christ’s birth and 1914, Christianity grew into a sizable 30 percent of the Middle East’s population. Today, Christians account for just 3 percent of the region’s population.

Drones have killed some bad people in recent years: Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi, al-Qaida’s Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan — all without putting their operators in harm’s way.

We spent a few minutes chatting with Garriott about how God is using the PCA’s Ministry to State to change lives in seats of power across the globe.