JOPLIN – Children have been going to vacation Bible school for 120 years. Now, it’s their grandparents’ turn. That is the thinking of one Joplin congregation.

But the center’s Bible study is wholly voluntary and prized by those who join. Whatever benefits it lends the dispossessed, it also offers a reminder that people lumped together as “the ...

A new study finds that older adults who do creative activities like ... looked at 256 people who were between 85 to 89 years old ... and attending book clubs and Bible studies—as well ...