Eighteen months before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I left the pastorate of First Baptist Church Kenner, Louisiana, to become director of missions for
“On this 20th anniversary of the great storm, I am going to answer a question I have never been asked. If I were limited to just one word to describe my Katrina experience, what would that word be?”
Members of the Carson-Newman University campus community gathered on the banks of Mossy Creek after 18 Eagles football players made decisions to be baptized in the historic waters.
Can anyone speak for Southern Baptists without making them mad?
The SBTC, working with the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, is focusing on seven European cities, including Copenhagen.
The Singing Men of Texas (SMOT) celebrated their 50th anniversary on August 15 by playing a concert at Riverbend Centre in Austin.
Good pastors are hard to find. Some churches that are without a pastor have spent two years or longer in a search for their next one.
Texans on Mission is not only bringing fresh water and good hygiene practices to people in the Andes Mountains of Peru, but also bringing the gospel, with 46 professions of faith recorded during an August mission trip.
While perhaps easier said than done, the Louisiana Children’s Trust Fund launched the #PutThePhoneDown campaign to combat excessive cellphone use among children.
The Monday on Aug. 29, 2005 is marked in history for the homes leveled to their foundations — also for the lives lost and for the unimaginable scars left behind. But for First Baptist Church Biloxi, the days following the disaster stand as an immovable testament to God’s faithfulness.
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