WMU plans to hold more “Meet a Missionary” Zoom calls in the future to give people a chance to meet and connect with missionaries from New Mexico.
Eleven volunteers from nine different churches served alongside five Baptist Convention of New Mexico staff members to prepare church resource packets for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions.
Iglesia Bautista El Calvario, Roswell, New Mexico, recently baptized 10 people. The 10 had been attending the church for different periods of time, but each felt it was time …
Vietnamese Agape Church, Los Lunas, New Mexico, is reaching Vietnamese college students in Socorro. The church location and the students are about an hour apart, but a Vietnamese connection makes it work.
Over the last year, some New Mexico churches have found themselves without insurance. After a large claim, insurance companies have been canceling or raising the deductible or premium so high that the church can no longer afford it.
Woman’s Missonary Union Foundation grants help Christian Women’s Job Corps sites expand their reach, deepen their impact.
“It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever seen,” said Todd Sullens, pastor of First Baptist Church, Ruidoso, reported the Baptist New Mexican.
Earl Trapp has been a missionary to the Kayapo Indians for 64 years. Now, he and Jerry Walker, a deacon at First Baptist Church Aztec, New Mexico, are working on digitizing cassette tape recordings of each of Trapp’s sermons to the Kayapo.
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.”
“If we don’t reach them by age 18 or in their college years, we completely lose an entire generation,” Shane Pruitt said.
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