During the Next Gen Summit, presented by the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, guest speaker Cheli Vance tackled the issue of “Anxiety in the Next Generation.”
“We wanted to reach people who were struggling with drugs, alcohol, and homelessness,” said church planter Fred Weymouth, “because those are the things Casey and I used to struggle with.”
When Leo Lytle pulls off the side of the road, he does not knock on doors, deliver a sermon or brandish a Bible. He simply waits.
The aging faithful within our congregations are a blessing and an essential resource that is too often overlooked. However, it is also true that within a few decades, much of this cohort will have entered eternity. If Ryan Burge’s chart is correct, there will not be enough GenXers, Millennials and Zoomers to sustain many of these denominations.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1–8 and is focused on the theme “More Than a Gift” and
“It is a real issue facing our churches”: As congregations increasingly manage finances and communications online, cybercriminals are taking notice.
More than 100 patients received medical and dental care — and 21 people gave their lives to Christ — during the first Arkansas Baptist Medical-Dental Clinic of 2026, hosted at First Baptist Church Hot Springs.
‘When the doors are opened, seek out ways to visit Iran. In the meantime, seek out Persians who are living among us.’
IMB President Paul Chitwood confirmed missionaries were unharmed and urged prayer for believers and soldiers.
I’m a mom and a wife (a pastor’s wife at that). But I’m also a women’s ministry leader, Bible teacher and writer. Luke 14:26 tells
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