“If young adults do not get or remain connected to others within the church after they leave high school, they are much more likely to leave the church.”
The State Convention of Baptists in Indiana recently launched a new initiative designed to connect with the churches in the state to help them take the next ministry step.
When wounded military personnel recovering in the Soldier Recovery Unit at Fort Stewart, Georgia, are physically able, they venture into the great outdoors courtesy of a big-hearted veteran from South Carolina …
For approximately 30 years, churches in East Tennessee Baptist Association have been ministering to migrant workers in Cocke County — in one form or another.
A total of 85 couples said, “I do,” again, during the renewal of wedding vows with the witness of the First Baptist Church at the congregation’s Pineville and LeCompte campuses in Louisiana.
O’Shea Lowery’s life was forever changed on April 27, 1990. “When the sun came up that morning, I never imagined the sorrow that would soon overcome the hearts of 24-year-old me and my children,” she recalled.
“To reach people, it takes a lot of honesty, one-on-one conversations and consistency,” pastor Austin White told The Baptist Paper. He could have added “patience.”
How do you deal with tough passages in Scripture, especially with those difficult passages that challenge such comforting doctrines as eternal security?
Here are five essential action steps you can implement to begin protecting your church from predators and caring well for survivors of abuse.
“We have a testimony with every baptism,” the pastor said. “Those have made a big difference and where it has made the biggest difference for us is with the adults.”
