Pastor Felix Treviño knew the metric stating a healthy church should have one baptism for every 15 people in average worship attendance per year, but First Baptist Church Mathis simply was not seeing God move in that way. And then …
As thousands of spring breakers crowded the streets of coastal Florida, college students from Kentucky — and across the country — used their time away from campus to share the good news of Jesus.
University Baptist Church in San Antonio is prioritizing a strategy of “growing younger” to secure its future while honoring its older members.
Illinois pastor David Wright of Joppa Missionary Baptist Church reflects on his journey, initially questioning his effectiveness before a surge of baptisms renewed his faith.
Jezimar “Nuno” Norberto, the worship pastor at Porter Memorial Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky, is especially thankful to God this week for keeping his wife and two boys safe after a tornado took out the sunroom in their home.
Tommy Green has announced his retirement after serving Florida Baptists as executive director-treasurer since June 2015.
As the wreckage is cleared from the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Baptist leaders in the area say their city needs prayers to pick up the pieces.
“People aren’t being changed by a shuttle ride,” one college student said. “They are being changed by people who are consistently pouring into them and showing them what Christ died for.”
Cultural Christianity seemed like a huge roadblock in IMB missionary Sarah’s ministry. She encountered people every day in Poland who affirmed they were “Christian.” But when Sarah asked, “Why did Jesus die?”, the question stumped them.
Mulberry Springs Baptist Church, about 15 miles northeast of Longview, doesn’t see a lot of traffic on a typical day. Yet the rural congregation — founded in 1892 — is building a new worship space to seat nearly 800 people.
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