Eleven months after a fire destroyed most of the facilities of the New Friendship Baptist Church, Pollock, Louisiana, the congregation is amid a rebirth.
Recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman is among the featured speakers at the Baptist General Convention of Texas’ 2024 Statewide Evangelism Conference, Jan. 21–22 in San Antonio.
Thomas A. Kinchen, president emeritus of the Baptist University of Florida (formerly Baptist College of Florida), died Jan. 11 of pancreatic cancer. He retired from the school in December 2022 after 32 years as its president.
Momentum continues in the partnership between the Baptist Churches of New England and the International Mission Board in Europe. Learn more about its success.
More than 40 students from First Baptist Church Zachary, Louisiana, have embraced God’s call to be missionaries in their schools, and subsequently have begun to see a spiritual harvest from their collective outreach efforts.
Calling out the called was the focus of the sixth annual Discern retreat which brought 49 ministry-minded high school and college students from across Mississippi to Garaywa Camp and Conference Center in Clinton January 5-6.
“We just keep it simple,” said the pastor. “It’s church the way it’s always been. We meet to worship and to study God’s word and to pray. We’re not really big on the carnival Jesus movement.
Faith-based arts and crafts retailer Hobby Lobby has donated a historic church building to the members of the NOLA Baptist Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The East Texas Baptist University baseball team showed God’s love by serving communities in the Dominican Republic last month.
God’s Warming Spot is Pathway of Hope’s answer to a prominent need in Muhlenberg County. The pregnancy resource center maintains a coat closet for locals who lack access to warm clothing during the winter months.
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