
Baseball & ministry: Teenage preacher baptizes 11 new believers at GA college
Robbie Lane, the starting shortstop on the East Georgia State College baseball team, has hit a grand slam of a different sort in an at bat as an aspiring minister.

Robbie Lane, the starting shortstop on the East Georgia State College baseball team, has hit a grand slam of a different sort in an at bat as an aspiring minister.

The Week of Prayer for International Missions is Dec. 3–10. The national goal for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is $200 million.

Christians in the small southern Georgia town of Dawson are putting the spotlight back on Jesus this Christmas season, shifting the focus away from Santa who, for generations of Americans, has been the face of the holidays.

Irish singer-songwriters Keith and Kristyn Getty returned to the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for their Christ-centered concert “Sing! An Irish Christmas.”

On average, pastors are planning four events or activities to help their churches celebrate Christmas this year, according to a Lifeway Research study.

Here are a few books recommended for you as you finalize your own list — and one bonus recommendation.

“I think the direction we are going to see global missions moving is to partner more with the global church to mobilize workers and increase momentum,” missionary says. The Week of Prayer for International Missions is Dec. 3–10.

If we take our role as Christ’s ambassadors seriously, we should make sure we aren’t so caught up in our own celebration of the holidays that we miss ministering Jesus’ love to those who are seriously hurting around us.

When the Kentucky high school state football championship games kicked off this fall, two Kentucky Baptist pastors were on the officiating crew for the first of the six games.

Amy Whitfield’s book, “Lottie Moon: The Girl Who Reached the World,” released in October, and it tells the story of how Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon left behind all she knew and dedicated her life to taking the gospel to China.
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