If you’re having trouble staffing a music ministry, you’re not crazy, and you’re not alone. Staffing a church’s music ministry is more difficult than most people realize. And it’s getting harder all the time.
O’Shea Lowery’s life was forever changed on April 27, 1990. “When the sun came up that morning, I never imagined the sorrow that would soon overcome the hearts of 24-year-old me and my children,” she recalled.
Peter and Tina Kim know that Asians in the growing city of São Paulo, Brazil, are in a unique position. As second, third and fourth generation immigrants, many Asians in São Paulo never quite fit into the culture of those around them.
Four years ago, Arkansas Baptist State Convention celebrated the beginning of a partnership with Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary in Memphis and the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
“To reach people, it takes a lot of honesty, one-on-one conversations and consistency,” pastor Austin White told The Baptist Paper. He could have added “patience.”
“We have a testimony with every baptism,” the pastor said. “Those have made a big difference and where it has made the biggest difference for us is with the adults.”
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