“I was on my way to death, but God spoke to me, saying, ‘I am not finished with you,’” Fernando recalls. “He gave me another chance to live and to spread His Word.”
We tend to jump to, “Let’s go overseas,” instead of going across the street to talk to your neighbors. I think every church has to ask, “God, how can we serve for Your glory, at the size that we are, to the community You planted us in?”
“That’s what we go for. The food is secondary to the Scripture, to the gospel,” Nichols said.
The practice began out of necessity when the young church plant met at a community center and worked around a car show that was already booked for the fourth Sunday of every month.
“I believe everyone who is a follower of Jesus is a fisher of men,” Fontenot said. “It’s one thing to know you ought to be sharing Jesus, but it’s another thing to do it. You can do this.”
Plymouth Park Baptist Church had been in a long season of decline. From a megachurch well over a decade ago to a little over 100 on Sundays, the church was in desperate need of revitalization—fast—when I became the pastor.
July 24, 2024. That’s the day Maribel Chávez’s whole world changed.
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.
