In January, around 4,000 ministry leaders and volunteers will gather in Nashville, Tennessee, Houston and Fort Worth, Texas, and Ridgecrest, North Carolina, for Lifeway’s annual Vacation Bible School Preview events.
As of July 2022, Secret Safe Place for Newborns of Tennessee says more than 100 babies have been surrendered to facilities in Tennessee since the law was enacted, the Knoxville News-Sentinel reported.
“Pat’s Saturday Sew Day” is the Grover Park Baptist Church quilt ministry in Warrensburg, Missouri, and in less than two years, it has given away 277 quilts and counting.
Six families in Greene County whose homes were heavily damaged and their lives were disrupted by Hurricane Helene were back in their homes on Thanksgiving
Joy Fenner, a Baptist missionary, Woman’s Missionary Union of Texas leader and the first woman elected as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, died Nov. 29 in Dallas. She was 89.
Tennessee Baptist Convention churches provided a record 7,540 Christmas Backpacks this year, surpassing the ministry’s goal of 7,000 backpacks.
“When I first heard ‘brain rot,’ I had to laugh. It sounds like the kind of thing my grandma would’ve accused me of catching if I spent too much time watching reruns of Gilligan’s Island,” writes Tony Martin, Baptist Record editor.
“Because this year’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is the most important offering in the history of the International Mission Board, I am asking every church to give 10% more to the IMB this year than you gave last year.” — Paul Chitwood
Mississippi News December 5, 2024 Obituaries Jimmy Andrew Russell Sr., who led eight churches over 51 years of ministry, died Oct. 27. He was 82.
A Sunday school class at Kuttawa First Baptist Church in Kentucky was quick to mobilize when it heard of a need at Sunrise Children’s Services. But when the Sunrise need was met in abundance, the work of that class was not in vain …
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