by David McCollum | May 21, 2010 | Opinion
During a recent workshop in conjunction with a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas assembly, Will Staley and Terrance Clark led a brainstorming exercise about the positive aspects of Helena, an impoverished town in the Arkansas Delta. Ideas included optimizing...
by David McCollum | May 19, 2010 | News
A new hope, inspired by an energetic new generation of leaders, is springing from Helena, Ark., a once-vibrant river town now in the middle of one of the poorest economic regions in the country. Success stories in Helena were celebrated at two recent events: the Delta...
by David McCollum | Apr 28, 2010 | News
Leena Lavanya awakens at her home in India about 4 a.m. each day after a four-hour sleep. She prays for two hours, then makes her rounds from 7 to midnight. Rounds include a leper colony, a hospice home for HIV patients, a home for the elderly, an orphanage, a prison,...
by David McCollum | Aug 25, 2009 | News
The woman thought she came to serve, but a thief made her realize she also could be served. It happened this summer during the All Church Challenge, when churches from five states sent mission teams to Helena, Ark., to help Ben and Leonora Newell’s Together for...
by David McCollum | Aug 20, 2009 | News
The achievement wasn’t of Olympic proportions. But the joy was. To explain all the whooping, hollering and hand-slapping by those youngsters from Helena, Ark., on a recent Saturday afternoon in Memphis, you must go back to earlier in the summer. A main element...
