This summer, 120 Mississippi Baptist Student Union students served in 20 countries, 14 states and two U.S. territories. This is the first in a series of articles illustrating how summer missionaries witnessed the power of the gospel.
It was a historic occasion, a night to remember. The Sons of Jubal choir from Georgia crossed the Chattahoochee River and drove deep into Alabama territory, all the way to Opelika and nearly to Auburn.
First Baptist Church Hendersonville, Tennessee, announced Sunday (Aug. 11) it will be the first church in the state to ever give more than $1 million in one year through the Cooperative Program.
“We pray this summer leads to a fruitful season of church planting in Paris, alongside the French church,” said Jason Harris, IMB’s Paris team leader. “Pray for endurance, partnership and a harvest across France.”
Strong Baptist associations exhibit praiseworthy clarity about their mission and vision. They strive for congregations to see the association as a family of congregations, says George Bullard.
Baptist Collegiate Ministry is the “most intentional ministry in what I consider the most strategic mission field in the world, and that is the college campus,” University of Arkansas at Monticello BCM Campus Minister Jeremy Woodall said.
An abiding passion to live as disciples of Jesus has attracted a church full of college students, graduate students and people with advanced degrees to Antioch Baptist Church, which is located in the academic community of Greater Boston.