In 2011, Julio Calderin planted Iglesia Bautista Vida Eterna at First Baptist Church, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Today the church has grown to about 150 people.
In addition to serving as pastor, Calderin has served as a chaplain at a prison and two corrections centers and has taught classes for Gateway Theological Seminary.
The church sponsors an orphanage with more than 30 children in Mexicali, Mexico, and has sponsored missionaries to Spain, Cuba and Turkey.
“Struggling associations need intervention from outside the association. Their director or strategist may easily burn out and need personal support,” writes George Bullard.
“Whatever the reason we are putting off a specific task, it likely comes down to a sense of being overwhelmed — that we aren’t sure where to start or we dread the actions required,” writes Jennifer Rash.
The IBSA student missions event, held annually in late July, provides middle and high school students one week of rotating service opportunities alongside Illinois Baptist church plants and Christ-centered non-profits in Chicago.
Worship, praise and prayer rang out as usual on a recent Sunday at Eastside Baptist Church in Claxton, Georgia, but with a big difference …
