Texas church discovers tools, training to reach next generation
April 6, 2024
University Baptist Church in San Antonio is prioritizing a strategy of “growing younger” to secure its future while honoring its older members.
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Children’s ministry investment leads to baptism surge for IL church
April 6, 2024
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.
‘I’ve never been on this side of things’: KY worship pastor thankful after tornado hit home
April 5, 2024
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.
Florida Baptists’ executive director Tommy Green to retire
April 5, 2024
Tommy Green has announced his retirement after serving Florida Baptists as executive director-treasurer since June 2015.
Baltimore Baptists continue meeting needs after bridge collapse
April 5, 2024
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.
Beach Reach ‘not just another missions trip’ for college students
April 4, 2024
“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.”
Bible study helps missionary break through ‘cultural Christianity’ roadblock
April 4, 2024
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.
Historic East TX church sees exponential growth after evangelism, visitation efforts
April 4, 2024
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.
First person: Lessons on trust from a ‘nervous flyer’
April 3, 2024
Always a nervous flyer, I prayed off and on for a few weeks before I left. But on the plane, with every bump or ding of the seatbelt sign my silent prayers took on a more frenzied pace.
Cincinnati pastor affirms The Baptist Paper as valuable tool to ‘ignite a heart of missions’
April 2, 2024
“Most of the time for me, I see churches that are doing something unusual helps us to get ideas,” said Ohio pastor Fran Trascritti. “If somebody’s doing something that might work in their context, it might work in our context.”
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