Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for December 22, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
From passages at sea to airplanes, from shortwave radio to tape recordings, from smartphones to social media, the evolution of technology creates opportunities for greater gospel access among the nations.
Belleview Baptist Church lost their building Dec. 9 in a fire. “It’s probably a total loss,” Bob Curtis, director of missions for the Mineral Area Baptist Association, said. “They’re in a holding pattern, waiting on insurance.”
Jimmy Bledsoe has served as an International Mission Board missionary for 13 years, but his latest assignment has taken him to The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Don English spent more than four and a half decades as a pastor on mission, taking more than 50 volunteer mission trips to 14 countries.
God answered the prayers of Southern Baptists who asked God for someone to work alongside International Mission Board missionaries in a prison ministry in Lusaka, Zambia. He didn’t just send one Zambian believer. He sent three.
Zan Taylor, a layman and director of maintenance at West End Baptist Church in Newport, Tennessee, simply obeyed when he felt the Lord calling him to raise funds for flood victims from Hurricane Helene.
Hillcrest Ministry Resource Center of the Columbus Baptist Association in Georgia has a food bank and a clothing closet that is available to those who are in need — and they work hard to supply the necessities of life to those in need.
