Graham West, who has been preaching the past two years at churches in the Gasper River Association, said stepping into the role as senior pastor – only two years removed from being a senior in high school – has been an adjustment.
Sensing God’s call to plant a church for several years, Bubba Sharpton said it was easy to say “yes” in June 2023 to an invitation to become pastor of a second campus of First Baptist Church, Moss Bluff, Louisiana.
Nick Forsythe has both feet planted in vocational ministry; he just works two jobs.
Mark Tolbert shares his ‘memory of a lifetime,’ playing catch with Willie Mays. Mays passed away June 18 at the age of 93.
He preserved his smartphone at all costs, even if it meant potentially ending lives.
Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief chaplains and a quick-response unit deployed to Fordyce, Arkansas, today (June 21) following a shooting at a local grocery store that left 3 dead and 11 wounded.
In order for a church to effectively serve their local body of believers, they must know their church reach — the area in which most of their members are concentrated. Here are some ways to define and map your reach area.
“It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever seen,” said Todd Sullens, pastor of First Baptist Church, Ruidoso, reported the Baptist New Mexican.
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.
Three sentences were jotted on the piece of paper a church member handed Nicholas Peveto after a morning worship service in 2011: “The time is short. You need to go. Trust God.”
