Remembering a prayer warrior
Emily Ruth Watson attended her first annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) in 1951. In the more than 70 years that followed,
April 3, 2025
Emily Ruth Watson attended her first annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) in 1951. In the more than 70 years that followed,
Annette and I said “yes” to each other on June 6, 1958. We are approaching 66 years of being married. In today’s world that is
Matthew J. Shepherd is the Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives and the Arkansas State Representative for District 6, serving his sixth term in the House.
I think God’s given us a charge to minister and to grow and to fellowship and to worship.
In every career, words matter. In fact, the Bible reminds us in Proverbs 18:2 that “death and life are in the power of the tongue.” This has proved especially true in Marquetta Peyton’s field of work.
Growing up, Street knew that he wanted to work in the healthcare industry. “I knew in the eighth grade that my career path would be to become hospital CEO…”
Todd Knight is the head football coach for the Ouachita Baptist University Tigers.
Hayden Nix is an Arkansas Storm Team Meteorologist with KARK channel 4 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
I can remember not really being able to process everything that happened that day until I got home and hugged my wife.
I thought I was going to be a youth minister. After some time, I realized I didn’t want to be a preacher and didn’t want to be in front of a church. So, I graduated from Ouachita with a major in Communication, a minor in Christian Studies, and basically a minor in Business but I’m lacking business law, but I assume my law degree covers that class because surely my 90 hours of law covered that.
So many people along the way have made such an impact in my life and my family’s.
“There’s 20 years between us but from the first time we worked together, we had a good banter and friendship. It’s a genuine friendship. I
“When we lived in Fayetteville, we got to know some different friends who happened to be on a TV show. They threw us a baby