Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among closures associated with an incoming winter storm, many Western North Carolina churches are cancelling Sunday worship ...

YANCEY COUNTY, N.C. — The sun shines like a halo over the broken belfry. Its bell now sits silently on the ground, near the tattered hymnals and Bibles. The South Toe River, clear and tranquil now, ...

Churches are often seen as cornerstones of their communities in North Carolina and elsewhere, but Swansboro United Methodist Church in Onslow County has elevated that role to a critical lifeline for ...

THANKS FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. I’M MAYA PAYTON. WE START IN GREENVILLE COUNTY WITH A REPORTED ROOF COLLAPSING AT A CHURCH ON LAURENS ROAD. WELL, CHURCH MEMBERS SAY IT HAPPENED AROUND 730 BEFORE ...

LEXINGTON — Follow God’s plan. Three simple words. One simple directive. Yet still so hard to accept sometimes. Jill Doss-Raines is The Dispatch trending topics and personality profiles senior ...

On Sunday, March 15, at 9 a.m., Divine Presence Worship Center, Clinton, will have regular morning service. Pastor Tanisha Boykin will bring forth the morning message. Music rendered by the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Summers are often a time when congregations send out people to far off missions work. The state’s Southern Baptists envisioned something closer to home. RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — ...