Cempa Community Care, in conjunction with Orchard Park Church, Kingdom Partners, the Southeast Tennessee Health Consortium and Optimal Health, is recruiting teams from Chattanooga’s faith-based community to compete in the inaugural Healthy Church Challenge. The Healthy Church Challenge is a 16-week contest wherein teams of 10 members each from Chattanooga area churches will ... (click for more)

Middle Valley Church of God, 1703 Thrasher Pike in Hixson, announces that Pastor Mitch McClure will speak on "Looking Forward and Planning For The Future" this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. This is part of a sermon series on the absolute promises of God and how they apply to all believers. "All are encouraged to attend this opportunity to experience the promises of God," officials said. ... (click for more)

After temperatures mild enough to make the forsythia bloom and the daffodils rise, Chattanooga will face mercury dips into the low 20s for several days. The low for Sunday night is set to be around 20 degrees. The sub-freezing weather is due to continue through Thursday morning when a slight warming trend begins. Here is the latest forecast: Tonight Mostly clear, ... (click for more)

Some protestors tried to drown out Rep. Robin Smith at the Women's Rally at Miller Park on a wet Saturday. The Hixson Republican mainly spoke about a Chattanoogan named Abby Crawford Milton, who in 1920 played a pivotal role in securing women the right to vote. Through protest and lobbying, Ms. Milton convinced enough Tennesseans to support women’s suffrage, thus making the Volunteer ... (click for more)

The behavior of our local radical left women was abusive and uncalled for. The next Woman’s Rally and March should be lessons in common decency and civility towards other women. Interrupting an invited female speaker with displays of yelling and holding up disparaging signs is wrong. The women before me that broke the barriers in male-dominated professions would be embarrassed ... (click for more)

During last week’s College Football Championship, the ESPN network teased us with the first 11 of the Top 150 College Football Players of all time. In this new year of 2020, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the college game and ESPN will offer more delights than a Whitman’s Sampler. But, brother, I don’t care what kind of 20-20 vision you may boast, the reality of such ... (click for more)