“This is a beautiful community,” says David Gaskins. “Our nickname is Happy Valley. Every lawn is perfect. Every home is immaculate. But that’s the wild thing — Happy Valley is a sarcastic nickname because almost nobody is happy here.”
The Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 2–9.
“God’s love has poured into our church and people see that,” said Jeff Uskoski, pastor of Caribou Bible Church in Soda Springs, Idaho. “These ministries have begun from people’s wheelhouse.”
Burdened to help parents of preschoolers, Hannah developed a parent support group with four moms and one dad, with the help of a BCM/D Church Strengthening Grant.
The lab, according to the website, is a one-day workshop “that will help you develop a vision and plan for leading your church to send.”
One piano teacher at the Senatobia festival said, “I have judged at this festival for three years and always find it a very rewarding experience. Listening to each student is a blessing in my life.”
When Rick Martinez stepped into his role as associational mission strategist for Miami Baptist Association, he carried with him a deep conviction: mobilization must be at the heart of the association’s mission.
The event was created in 2014 as a way to share the love of God with people living with disabilities. According to the foundation, the event “celebrates their worth and value. When someone hears that they are loved and that they have a purp
“Without BCM, I probably would have been so far down the hole of just worldly and fleshly desires,” Benji Mendoza said.
“It’s not reverse mission if you just stay in your own church,” noted Lierte Soares Jr. “New England Baptists are going to Europe because we have a sense of gratitude that Europeans brought the gospel to us.”
