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10 News Stories That Made Us Happy in 2022

CT Editors

Innovation, evangelism, and other developments worth celebrating over the past year.

Christianity Today December 20, 2022
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At CT, we’re people who love good news. Here are 10 examples of positive developments we got to cover in 2022, from laundromat ministries to a multimillion-dollar hit Bible TV show.

Here’s to effective strategies, new milestones, creative thinking, efforts to adapt and change, and other stories of hope that came in the midst of hard and heavy headlines. They’re listed in chronological order.

Southern Baptist Missionaries See Baptisms and Converts Surge With COVID-19

David Roach

Black Christian Homeschoolers Are Redefining the Movement

Liuan Huska

Passion Rekindled: Oberammergau Easter Play Returns with Great Joy

Ken Chitwood in Oberammergau, Germany

Preach the Gospel Everywhere. When Necessary, Use Laundromats.

Adam MacInnis

The 2022 graduation ceremony for the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo.

The Surge in Arab Seminary Studies

Jayson Casper

Amy Grant

Oh ‘Baby Baby’: CCM Icon Amy Grant Named a Kennedy Center Honoree

Adelle M. Banks – Religion News Service

After the Boomers, New Leaders Bring New Life to the Vineyard

Daniel Silliman

Celebrity Funeral Becomes Thailand’s Largest Christian Outreach

Seree Lorgunpai and Angela Lu Fulton

Elizabeth Groff packs a doll in a shoebox for Operation Christmas Child.

Samaritan’s Purse Gives Away 200 Millionth Christmas Shoebox

Adam MacInnis

Screenwriter Tyler Thompson snapped Polaroids on The Chosen's Texas set.

The Real Miracle on the Set of ‘The Chosen’ Is Christians Coming Together

Emily Belz in Midlothian, Texas

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