Welcome to the audio digest of this week’s issue of The Alabama Baptist and The Baptist Paper. Each episode features news headlines and feature stories
First-person articles, comments, letters to the editor, blog excerpts, social media posts and more …
Despite a history spanning 102 years on the west side of San Antonio, St. Luke Baptist Church’s future had begun to look bleak.
But then God’s grace, diligence and one small change …
Pastor Felix Treviño knew the metric stating a healthy church should have one baptism for every 15 people in average worship attendance per year, but First Baptist Church Mathis simply was not seeing God move in that way. And then …
Roger Alford, editor of The Christian Index for the past three years, announced his departure Friday (March 22) from the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s newsjournal, effective at the end of the month.
“The goal with this second study is to dig deeper into some of the nuances of the Hispanic church in the U.S., such as worship and outreach.”
Pastor Rich Murray of Mountain View Baptist Church in Johnson City, Tennessee, is bivocational and proud of it. “If it worked for (the Apostle) Paul, why wouldn’t it work for me?” he asked.
In many parts of Illinois, there are pastors who have stayed in their churches for 15, maybe 20 years. And some longer than that, like maybe 25. But few have stayed 60 years.
