New Orleans Baptist Association Executive Director Jack Hunter said chaplains with Baptist Community Ministries have been with first responders and are in area hospitals as “the tears and presence of Christ in this dark agony.”
For 10 years now Bethel Baptist Church that routinely runs 50–70 in attendance has welcome the men on work-release and within at least a year of fulfilling their sentence.
Over the past 22 years, Corryton Church has given away nearly $1 million dollars of gifts and goods to families in East Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky.
On Dec. 28, a line of severe storms tore through the Southeast, producing multiple long-track tornadoes in parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. More than
More than 350 Baptist Student Union students from 18 Mississippi colleges joined “Christmas in the Delta,” a ministry mobilizing students for gospel-centered service across nine Delta counties.
A Dec. 28 tornado destroyed the building of O’Zion Baptist Church near Meadville, Mississippi, 90 years after another tornado hit its facilities. Church members Rick and Dianne Strawbridge were inside but escaped without injuries.
Christian Women’s Job Corps/Christian Men’s Job Corps — also known as Christian Job Corps — “equips women and men, in a Christian context, for life and employment,” according to the WMU website.
It was a day not spent in typical fashion by Highland Baptist Church members and volunteers as they became “the hands and feet of Jesus” — providing 468 meals free to the community.
First Baptist Church Arnold, Missouri, shared the love and hope of Jesus through the “Lights of Christmas,” now in its fifth year. This presentation combined a live nativity, Scripture, lights and hot cocoa.
“We’ve been doing dead week activities for nine years and it gets bigger and bigger every year,” said Jonathan Chapman, collegiate ministries specialist at ETSU.
