“A lot of times, we want to hand pick what ministry looks like. In the cowboy world, you’ve got to go and meet them where they’re at,” Jeff Deckard, pastor of Damascus Road Cowboy Church, Damascus, Arkansas.
I remember an 8-year boy standing next to me crying and saying repeatedly, “Why did they have to kill my daddy?”
At a gathering of pastors, the discussion turned to the leadership pipeline crisis. Specifically mentioned was the crisis of finding church staff but also the lack of church planters for new congregations or multisite campuses.
From Ray Ellington’s perspective, Ford Motor Company’s BlueOval City has changed everything about Haywood County in Tennessee.
But it hasn’t changed his faithfulness to the Lord.
Even those of us who minister in God’s church often struggle with doing personal evangelism, Chuck Lawless said.
“I love this weekend because it’s an opportunity for me to get closer to God, and there’s no better place to get closer to God than through His nature,” said Sam Holt, an RA coordinator.
“Southern Baptists have been so good to us,” said Robin Hoffman, a Florida Baptist who is among those helping her community recover from Hurricane Idalia. “They have made it bearable because we know help is on the way. We’re not alone.”
In the aftermath of Hurricane Idalia, residents of south Georgia have been turning to Christ.
“The whole concept is really removing the barrier of cost of premium Christian higher education,” said Darby Renfro, a freshman at Mississippi College.
God has been stirring in the hearts of the members of Grove Hill Church Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Subsequently, the water in the swimming pool at senior pastor Ridley Barron’s house also has been stirring.
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