The name alone often results in images of rustic décor, pastors delivering sermons while seated on horses, worship services in open arenas, cowboys roping cattle and baptisms in cattle troughs. Though ...

To the casual observer, it appeared to be a typical livestock auction. Standing room only, the building was packed with ranchers, farmers and horse owners. The smell of manure and sweat filled the air ...

PETERSBURG -- Merrill Dierker of Petersburg was fiddling with a handwritten list of about 12 gospel songs he was considering singing at Sunday's Cowboy Church service at Atterberry Community Baptist ...

Moments after flying headfirst onto the arena floor dirt, the man gets up and brushes off his protective vest as rodeo clowns rush in to distract the still-bucking bull. The crowd cheers as the ...

WESTCLIFFE - If Jesus had a man cave, this might be it. "Welcome to Cabella's," says the cowboy preacher as he sweeps you into his Wild West Cowboy Church, a church unlike any other in a town of many ...

Dec. 18—A "yeehaw" and an "amen" are on the same footing at Cowboy Church where Kentuckians gather to have church in a barn. Almost every Sunday for the past 14 years, "Cowboy Church" has been open to ...

Preacher John Spencer taps his cowboy boot to the beat during a Sunday service at Lone Star Cowboy Church of Collin County. The church will celebrate its five-year anniversary on Saturday. ( Staff ...

It began as an opportunity for cowboys and cowgirls busy competing in rodeos on the weekends to worship during the week. Thursday nights at Winter Livestock, Pastor Dan O’Daniel speaks to as many as ...

ORANGE, Texas - It's not unusual to see a horse or two on the grounds of the Cowboy Church of Orange County on any given Sunday, but this week the barn doors were thrown open for church's third ...

Bluejeans, boots and hats, country music and a down-home atmosphere are the order of the day for services at Cross Timbers Cowboy Church on U.S. 69 2.5 miles north of Lufkin. The church's grand ...

A nationwide event drew 30,000 people and marked a broader trend of rising baptisms, with Gen Z men leading a new wave of ...