“If I reach down to my thigh, I can feel what feels like a bullet wound,” veteran missionary, Tina Boesch told women attending Priority 2026 on Friday (April 24). “And that would be a great story, wouldn’t it, if I actually had a bullet wound? I don’t.”
From Johnson City to Jackson, 47 Tennessee Baptist churches set aside the Sunday after Easter as a day for baptism. When the day came, 185 people said yes.
Camp Mystic, the all-girls Christian camp near Kerrville, Texas, where 27 girls died as a result of catastrophic flooding last summer, announced it will not open any portion of the camp for the summer 2026 season.
Baptist churches have a centuries-long history of supporting missionaries, but short-term mission trips have become popular among evangelical church members only since the 1960s.
For eight days beginning on April 10, the Crisp County Courthouse in Cordele was the site of the first-ever Crisp County Bible Reading Marathon. Volunteers gathered there to read the Bible from cover to cover.
Before becoming a director of missions, and even more so while serving in that role, Rick Standard saw a need that kept surfacing among pastors, especially those in small and mid-sized churches.
A spiritual awakening is taking place inside Franklin Parish Detention Center, with 12 incarcerated men celebrating freedom in Christ through baptism on April 12.
Over the course of three days, professors and Bible scholars from Mississippi’s three Baptist universities tackled the book of Jeremiah during the 2026 Preaching Conference.
Hillvue Heights Church doesn’t apologize for its passion for the gospel. It’s embedded in the church’s DNA.
The largest school district in Texas is getting pushback from local parents and community activists for allegedly having books in their libraries that contain sexually explicit and profane content.
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