New Life Resources, the publications arm of the Campus Crusade for Christ, broke ground this week for its new 22,000-sq. ft. warehouse in Peachtree City's Crosstown 74 Business Park.

Woolsey named after church's first pastor

The Woolsey Baptist Church is in a community named for its first pastor, the Rev. Dr. I. G. Woolsey.

News Briefs

'My country, 'tis of thee'
By JUSTIN KOLLMEYER
Religion Columnist

“I instantly felt the impulse to write a patriotic hymn of my own adapted to the tune, (so) picking up a scrap of waste paper which lay near me, I wrote at once, probably within half an hour, this hymn.” Samuel F. Smith, 1829

'Thank you for waiting sir'
By DR. KNOX HERNDON
Pastor

I was deeply moved by the patriotism of this young Marine and I would like to share it with you on the first Independence Day in the new millennium.

Prayer need not be public
By MARY JANE HOLT
Contributuing Writer

In 1973, when former Vietnam POW Jeremiah Denton stepped off the plane at Clark Air Force Base in the Phillippines after more than seven years of painful and humiliating incarceration, he delivered a couple of lines before the microphone that sounded rehearsed; then his voice broke, and he cried, “God bless America!”