Texans on Mission organizes disaster relief training trips to Israel throughout the year, and it deployed teams a year ago after Hamas attacked Israel. It held its last 2024 training session in November.
Mississippi News January 2, 2025 Obituaries Ronnie “Jiggs” Maxie, who served churches in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, died Nov. 27 in Hattiesburg. He was 79.
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.
Effective Jan. 1, Andy Childs will assume the role of assistant executive director of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board. Additionally, Ty Salter will step into the role of chief financial officer.
Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Disaster Relief neared the end of its major 2024 deployments on a mountaintop in North Carolina with mass feeding and chaplaincy efforts in the tiny town of Spruce Pine.
“A simple outdoor nativity scene made of wood is among the reminders of a God who provides hope and shelter for a broken people,” writes TAB Media’s content editor Shawn Hendricks. “It’s a hope that no tornado or any storm can wipe away.”
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