What does it take to get a book from an idea onto the published page? Ask shy and reserved JoEllen Claypool, who started scribbling her teenaged angst into poetry.
Nathan Harden felt called by the Lord to move out west and start a ministry of construction — construction and repairs on churches and pastors’ homes. He is still working in that field today, and he will until he feels called to change.
Mike Palmer recognized the dearth of pastors and other church leaders at least 15 years ago, not quite halfway into his now 27-year pastorate at Salmon Valley Baptist Church Salmon, Idaho.
The U.S. President’s Lifetime Achievement award was presented to long-time Southern Baptist Don Biadog Jr., a retired Navy chaplain, at the historic Officer’s Club at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
A six-person construction missions team from First Baptist Church Pleasant Grove, Utah, shares through pictures their experiences on the team’s ninth annual trip 27 miles south of Yuma, Arizona, to build a home for a needy family.
“Part of being a replant is starting everything from scratch,” Wyoming pastor says. “I didn’t realize that I might be a project manager as well as a pastor. It seems that way sometimes.”
What probably is the first Southern Baptist church to worship in a Marshallese context joined the Northwest Baptist Convention at its recent annual meeting.
When it comes to church planting, it should begin with prayer, identifying potential leaders, training and sending them out. At least, that’s the way Risen Life Church does it — and church plants like Redeeming Life Church have benefitted.
“While this tragedy has made us all heartsick, the Father has used it to knit the hearts of our two congregations together around this mission to not just build a home but to bring the gospel to those who need Christ,” —Pastor Brian McCoy