Joseph "Josh" Carmichael, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, Ala., graduated Dec. 7 from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Ky., with a Ph.D. in church history. His dissertation is titled "The Hymnody of Anne Steele in John Rippon's Selection of Hymns: A Theological Analysis in the Context of the English Particular Baptist Revival." Click here to read it.

Bassam Chedid is working on the Arabic Study Bible and after five years he is coming to the final phase and working toward the printing for worldwide distribution. Please keep him in your prayers as his wife Norma who also worked on this book, passed away in October.

Doug Domin, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Concord, NH, had 30 days this past summer to be out of the place his church had been renting for 2 years. Their former meeting place has now become Buffalo Wild Wings Sports Bar. On June 24, the congregation voted to purchase a 4,000 sq. ft. building on two acres of land. Doug says, "God pushed us out and enabled us to trust Him to provide a new temporary location to worship in, though only on Sunday morning, and the funds to purchase this facility which had been dropped in price $50,000. Since that congregational meeting God has provided the $299,000 and we closed on the property this past Monday."  They now will begin the next phase of renovations and transformation of the building.   

Andre Gazal serves as professor of historical theology at Northland Graduate School, at Northland International University in Dunbar, Wis. He has published his dissertation (Ph.D. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School: supervisor Scott Manetch). It will be released this January by Edwin Mellen Press. The title of the book is Scripture and Royal Supremacy in Tudor England: The Use of Old Testament Historical Narrative.