
Phoenix church offers refuge to prevent heat-related deaths
Bethesda Community Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, is offering refuge through a Heat Relief Respite Center to help prevent heat-related deaths.

Bethesda Community Baptist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, is offering refuge through a Heat Relief Respite Center to help prevent heat-related deaths.

Sharing Christ with international students is worth the cost, writes Jane Elliot, associate director of Baptist Campus Ministries at Drexel University.

Days before the start of a new school year, more than 1,730 college students and leaders gathered at Falls Creek Conference Center in Davis, Oklahoma,

This year, MedAdvance was held in Houston, Texas, Sept. 12-14, at Houston’s First Baptist Church. More than 250 people attended the conference and connected with IMB personnel, including 42 missionaries.

“The most important thing we do for our students on campus at Drexel University is share the gospel with them and how much they are deeply loved by God,” writes Jennifer Musser, who noted another important part deals with mental health.

“I don’t think we always realize that alleviating hunger is an essential element of our faith expression as Christians,” said said Jeremy Everett, founding executive director of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty.

As pastor of a cowboy church, Byron Ash has a strict rule: No poaching allowed. That’s not in reference to cattle or horses, but to church members.

Trafficked women need support to survive and to be restored. ReHope, a faith-based ministry formerly called Restoration House and founded out of the Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association, provides that support and encouragement.

Pastor Bobby Mullins recently posted these words on Facebook — “What if you only had one month to live? … What would you do to make the rest of your life really matter?” He and his wife, Wanda, would lose their lives a week later.

Six elders have led First Baptist Church Monticello, Utah, southwest of Moab, since February 2022. All were ordained to pastoral ministry this February and serve jointly to pastor the church where about 40 people attend Sunday mornings …
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