“This is a beautiful community,” says David Gaskins. “Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing — Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname because almost nobody is happy here.”
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for March 9, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.
While fraudulent posts with items for sale do occur on Facebook Marketplace, scams like this are more often going to show up in regular Facebook feed because they are targeting friends and family members of the alleged seller.
Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for March 9, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
Conditions continue to worsen dramatically in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 25.5 million people face the danger of hunger, a Baptist leader there said.
The Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 2–9.
“God’s love has poured into our church and people see that,” said Jeff Uskoski, pastor of Caribou Bible Church in Soda Springs, Idaho. “These ministries have begun from people’s wheelhouse.”
Burdened to help parents of preschoolers, Hannah developed a parent support group with four moms and one dad, with the help of a BCM/D Church Strengthening Grant.
“Associational mission strategists tend to come from pastorates or from church or denominational staff. Thus, they may believe the key to deep, meaningful fellowship is people like them. It is not,” writes George Bullard.
The lab, according to the website, is a one-day workshop “that will help you develop a vision and plan for leading your church to send.”
