News Articles by Meredith Flynn/Illinois Baptist

SHERMAN, Ill. (BP) -- Bruce Kugler produced the film "God's Courtroom" with the help of his church in Illinois. Now, the video presentation of the Gospel -- set in some of the state's most historic courtrooms -- is available through more than 770 Family Video stores across the country. And a recent translation project aims to make it available to Arabic-speaking people around the world. Kugler and members of Living Faith Baptist Church in Sherman, Ill., would have been hard-pressed to imagine these developments when they began production of God's Courtroom a few years ago. Kugler, an attorney by trade, first had the idea in the late 1980s when he was trying cases before a northern Illinois judge known for his fairness and precision.

WASHINGTON, Ill. (BP) -- Pictures don't accurately capture the destruction, people in Washington, Ill., say when they talk about the tornado that stunned this city of 15,000 on Nov. 17. And, they say, it's the kind of thing that happens to other people, but on that Sunday morning it happened in Washington.