This disaster not only comes after the region’s recent recovery efforts from Hurricane Helene but also amid severe winter weather conditions including snow and ice.
The longest serving Baptist editor of the 19th century, S.H. Ford, had an amazing life. Ford’s Christian Repository had a strong influence on American Baptists.
“Complete strangers coming in and doing what they can is amazing,” Justice said. “Christ gave it all to us. I was so overwhelmed I don’t know where to start.”
Kentucky Today, news service of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, is launching a new podcast designed to give readers more insight into the stories that are published.
“It makes us closer to serve together,” Ray said. “Everything we do together brings us closer to each other and to the Lord.”
“The Devil has been attacking God’s good design for sexuality since the fall,” said Into The Light Ministries co-founder John-Michael Bout. “But today, he weaponizes technology like we have never seen before.”
Wesley Russell, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, saw first-hand the rapid rise in water that has disrupted the lives of a multitude of people in his community.
“I think Southern Baptists give [through] the Cooperative Program primarily for our mission endeavors, our church planting and our seminary training,” Nick Sandefur told Kentucky Today. “I don’t see the value in decreasing that.”
Elkhorn City Baptist hosted 53 evacuated residents of Landmark of Elkhorn City as the flood waters began to rise in Pike County.
“Job fell down and worshipped God. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Job did not sin. We take what the Lord gives us. But it sure has been a gut punch,” said Reed, the pastor of Fitzpatrick Baptist Church in Floyd County.
