“Pregnant? We will help!” The blue and white billboard for First Step Women’s Center towers over a major thoroughfare in Springfield, Illinois. It’s designed to
Hundreds of students gathered this fall for discipleship events led by Illinois Baptist State Association. Youth Encounter, IBSA’s annual one-day student event, featured a clear
The Chicago Golden Light Chinese Baptist Church honored the pioneering work of Southern Baptist missionary Lottie Moon with an online conference reaching more than 1,000
When you attend church at Canaan Baptist in Oakville, Missouri, you may think you are in a typical suburban church in what is known as
Messengers welcomed 13 new churches to the Illinois Baptist State Association, heard about additional plans to prevent sexual abuse and the impact of the COVID-19
The new head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Brent Leatherwood, recognized the deep difficulties in fighting abortion in Illinois. In
“Why would you live in Chicago?” It’s a question Sean and Lydia Stevenson are regularly asked. For those familiar with Chicago, and by extension, Illinois, it’s a reasonable question.
Donn and Joni Schaefer had organized missions trips to Russia 10 times since 2008. They taught English in Siberia as a way to open discussions
As fall fast approaches, so does this year’s slate of state Baptist annual meetings. With budget reports, officer elections, ministry updates, resolutions, motions on various
Tennessee Baptist Disaster Relief has been on site in Goshen Township, Ohio, assisting victims of an EF2 tornado which struck the area. While only three
