“You must be out of your mind.” No one said it. But it had to be what most reasonable people were thinking when they heard what Christian and Laura Rowland had decided to do.
“It really gets to me when I tell people we’re from Flint,” Leo Robinson says, “They’ll say, ‘Oh, you must hate it there,’ or ‘You must not be able to leave.’ People always have something negative to say.”
“You can go pretty much an hour in any direction from where I live and you’ll see absolutely nothing — no gas stations, no subdivisions, no shopping centers—nothing,” Tyler Martin says.
The Annie Armstrong offering is used for training, support and care for missionaries, like Osvaldo and Vanessa Lerma, and for evangelism resources.
“This is a beautiful community,” says David Gaskins. “Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing — Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname because almost nobody is happy here.”
The Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 2–9.
It is not a matter of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief becoming the arm of the government — it’s the government recognizing and supporting Christians who are eager to stretch out their arms to their neighbors in need.
Texas Baptists’ Executive Board adopted a new agreement with the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board regarding church-starting in Texas.
After five years serving as president of Send Relief, Bryant Wright is set to retire at the end of March.
Leaders from the Baptist General Convention of Texas and the North American Mission Board agreed in principle to a clear path forward for providing church-starting resources and support for BGCT churches desiring access to NAMB resources…
