Lauren Grim shares the joys, challenges and lessons that come from parenting a special needs child. Sanctity of Life Sunday is Jan. 21.
With the recently released redemption movie, “Jesse’s Gift,” there were a lot of firsts. For writer and director Ken Merritt, it is his first full-length film.
The International Mission Board, North American Mission Board, Send Relief and Woman’s Missionary Union are uniting to better serve churches focusing on the missionary task in every community on North American soil.
“It’s about imagining the missions opportunity of neighborhoods of people as if no church had ever existed there.”
More than 40 students from First Baptist Church Zachary, Louisiana, have embraced God’s call to be missionaries in their schools, and subsequently have begun to see a spiritual harvest from their collective outreach efforts.
“We just keep it simple,” said the pastor. “It’s church the way it’s always been. We meet to worship and to study God’s word and to pray. We’re not really big on the carnival Jesus movement.
The East Texas Baptist University baseball team showed God’s love by serving communities in the Dominican Republic last month.
“Part of the reason may be that the U.S. is culturally Christian,” Barna wrote, citing past surveys. “In fact, 72 percent of people in the U.S. say they were raised Christian.”
“Being a Christian — especially a Baptist — means standing with brothers and sisters around the world and demanding freedom of religion, religious expression and religious practice — without fear of reprisal or persecution or martyrdom.”
Fourth-grader Kate Hancock raised $28,000 by selling hot cider on two weekends, surpassing her initial goal of $7,000, to fund the construction of four churches in Haiti.
