Carson-Newman University student Lexi Ray had one request upon returning from her Spring Break trip in early March. “Pray for this world and everyone in it.”
A total of 198 students recently gathered from 16 college campuses across Arizona for Surge, Christian Challenge’s annual discipleship retreat, at Granite Hills Retreat and Conference Center in Prescott.
This special report provides context for an upcoming presentation by the recently named Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force. It also studies retired seminary president Chuck Kelley’s assessment of life since implementing GCR.
While there are many steps to revitalizing a church, Mark Clifton shared four that are especially important: prayer, discipleship, community engagement and preaching Jesus.
Welcome to the audio digest of this week’s issue of The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines and feature stories
For Jennifer Smith, an Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteer from Jacksonville, Illinois, the two weeks she served in Guam in September were hard, hopeful and a regular part of her missions commitment.
“We lost a lot of possessions, but we have the most important things. Each other and our faith,” said Erik Naylor, newly installed pastor of Lahaina Baptist Church.
“How amazing,” noted Craig Webb of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention, “that one church that happens to be a larger church than any of our churches in Hawaii chose to make this special gift and impact so many churches.”
