As a mom, singer/songwriter Ellie Holcomb wants her children to grasp the significance of the Lord’s strength and power during every season of life — and those important life lessons are reflected in her songs.
After retiring from full-time missions and ministry in 2007, Garry Eudy envisioned helping churches plan a few missions trips a year. The first year he planned six trips. The next year it doubled to 12. This year ….
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.
Yaroslav “Slavik” Pyzh, president of Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine, recently shared a sobering, yet still hopeful, update with Fellowship of Wildwood in Wildwood, Missouri.
“We are sifting our campus trying to find where God is working.” Josh Richards spoke these words minutes before a team of college students took to the campus of over 13,000.
“It’s important to be willing to walk with people and be present when it’s uncomfortable” said Melissa Pryer, a registered dietician and member of Ten Mile Baptist Church, McLeansboro, Illinois.
Dogs were howling, crickets chirping and birds were tweeting – and nobody else’s tweets mattered. The sky grew dark at 3 o’clock in the afternoon. It was weird and wonderful, all rolled into one.
With all the issues facing Southern Baptists right now, and confronted by believers in every walk and witness of life, we need another Blackaby who will call us to listen for the voice of God …
The goal of the conference is to give Southern Baptists access to IMB resources and to each other. The event includes learning tracks that allow participants to dig deep into topics like foundations of missions, cross-cultural evangelism…
It is important for an association to take a deep dive and imagine a new vision for their missions field. The idea of a year of jubilee would mean that you engage in this way every 50 years. I urge associations to do this more often.
