For 10 years Roby Baptist has been meeting its small community’s clothing needs through its Helping Hands ministry, a retail store that charges nothing for its items. The expanding ministry just added a food pantry.
Ask Rick Gage about Go Tell Ministries, and the conversation turns quickly to evangelism and seeing people’s lives transformed through the power of God’s Word.
Matt Thackerson, the Baptist Convention of New Mexico’s Missions Mobilization Team leader, said the primary desire for these supported hunger ministries is to provide not just a “temporary hope” but also “eternal food.”
Which are the churches in your association that need to be disciplined, discipled or about which you need to seek spiritual discernment?
Baptist communicators gathered at the International Mission Board headquarters for the Baptist Communicators Association annual workshop.
Covenant Fellowship in Huntsville seeks to engage ex-offenders in ministry to the incarcerated population — for the mutual benefit of both.
“‘What does the future look like?’ … I feel like (this) is the hardest question to answer,” said Rocky Komatsu, pastor of Waiehu Community Church. “Yet, I think if we’re totally honest the answer is, ‘We have no idea.’”
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom added Azerbaijan to its list of 17 “worst of the worst” violators of freedom of religion or belief in 2023.
National and state Southern Baptist leaders are calling for believers to pray, individually or corporately, on that day.
“We are called to be faithful to what He’s called us to do in our specific church with our specific people in our specific place with a specific gift or a specific purpose,” said Christine Hoover during one of three main sessions.
