Augusta Chronicle • 6th July 2022

How an Augusta-area athlete cheated death and got a new appreciation for life

How an Augusta-area athlete cheated death and got a new appreciation for life

When you cheat death, you feel like you owe life something extra.

Maybe that’s why Jahkiaus Jones doesn’t skip the summer basketball league game with Thomson boys basketball against a watered down Washington County opponent just hours after getting off the bus from a team football camp.

Maybe it’s why he played that meaningless summer league game with the same intensity he had when Thomson came close to knocking off

Augusta Chronicle • 10th April 2022

Gabriel Stovall: Tiger Woods' Masters finish teaches us more about life than golf

Gabriel Stovall: Tiger Woods' Masters finish teaches us more about life than golf

His opponent was more daunting than Scottie Scheffler's putting game. More impressive than Cameron Smith's clutch gene against top competition.

He beat his reconstructed leg. He bested the pain that tore through his body, no doubt more fiercely at times than Saturday's cold, west winds.

He defeated his own doubts. The shadows of his 1997 self kept teasing us as he walked around Augusta National Golf Club in his

Louisville Courier Journal • 5th December 2021

Stovall: Male QB Nic Schutte reminds us that winning is bigger than scoreboards, trophies

Stovall: Male QB Nic Schutte reminds us that winning is bigger than scoreboards, trophies

Nic Schutte took the runner up trophy given to him after Male's 31-21 defeat to St. Xavier in Saturday's Class 6A state championship game and slowly hobbled back to the Male sideline, shoulders slumped, pace deliberate. The scene was so quiet and subdued, you could easily miss it if you weren't intentionally locked in.

After holding it for a minute, Schutte put the trophy down on the Kroger Field turf, be

North American Mission Board • 10th September 2020

Malachi's Story

Kim recalls a time when Malachi and the family were headed to his oldest brother’s soccer state championship game when Malachi made a bold proclamation.

“I’m ready to die,” he said.

“It was just out of the blue while he was sitting in the back seat of the car,” Kim said. “I remember thinking I was a little embarrassed in front of my best friend’s daughter, and I said to him, ‘Buddy, what?’”

Malachi made it more emphatic. “I’m ready to see Jesus,” he said.

“His mind and his heart were always

Baptist Press • 14th April 2023

Brothers enjoy life, ministry together in Send Relief

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — Once during a college mission trip they were co-leading, brothers Greg and Rob Wilton got so worked up after playing on opposing basketball teams, someone had to break up the tussle.

Moments after that fight, the Wilton brothers, both currently serving as missionaries through the North American Mission Board (NAMB), were back to being friends and planning their next ministry moves together. That’s what happens when a sibling rivalry is bathed in a passion for sharing the

Baptist Press • 14th April 2023

Salvations, Christmas cheer highlight NYC church's toy sale

[SLIDESHOW=53144]NEW YORK, N.Y. (BP) — On an unseasonably warm Tuesday morning Dec. 10, the line of people at Tompkins Square Park on the corner of East 10th Street in New York City swelled to a little over 100. Some had been there since 1 a.m., armed with ponchos and umbrellas to battle a steady rain that fell on the city most of the night.

They were waiting for the doors of Graffiti Church to open for its annual toy sale outreach event. Inside, Graffiti’s pastor and New York City Send Relief

6th January 2023

VOICE ACTIVATION: Newton High basketball PA announcer Bria Janelle using her voice to change a community

COVINGTON, Ga. — When Bria Janelle came to Newton High School four years ago to become the school’s public address announcer for the Rams’ boys and girls basketball teams, she wasn’t doing it as a way of trying to break into the business.

Though a woman PA announcer in sports is almost unheard of — both Janelle and Newton athletic director Vincent Byams say she’s the only known woman PA announcer for high school sports in Georgia — the 33-year old former college basketball player and Greater At

The Christian Index • 14th June 2019

Father's Day: a perspective on heritage and legacy

It’s amazing how life has a way of making Scripture more relevant.

Such is the case when I think about Psalm 127. For years, whenever I’d read, preach, teach, or pray this passage, my focus was always honed in on verses 1 and 2:

“Unless the Lord builds a house, the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city, guarding it with sentries will do no good.” (New Living Translation)

The rest of this short psalm typically escaped my focus – that is until Sunday May 5, 2019. That’

6th July 2018

STOVALL: Thoughts and prayers don't work if tangible love isn't the result

I wish I could've sat down and had a drink with John McNamara.

It’s an interesting wish, considering I don’t drink and had never heard of McNamara until early last Friday morning when I discovered him to be a sports and news reporter and editor at the Annapolis Capital Gazette, and one of the five shooting victims who lost life during the single most deadly day in American journalism history.

In this profession we are all kindred spirits, even those whom we consider to be competition. Ultimate