“We honed in on four principles … more focused on the essence of church planting,” said Brian Hook, who is also a church planting catalyst for the North American Mission Board’s Send Network, a conference sponsor.
“When Hurricane Helene came through, we got hit with three feet of water … we lost about 90% of everything we owned,” said Ronnie Rentz. “I couldn’t even get into the house at first because all the water had picked up our furniture.”
With College March Madness just around the corner, high school basketball is winding down and regional tournament brackets are starting to take shape. What can we as Christians learn from basketball?
A South Carolinian became pastor of a struggling Massachusetts congregation and was invited to merge it with Hope Community Church, the BCNE-affiliated fellowship he planted in 2017.
Charles Love and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, served for 28 years as Southern Baptist missionaries in Guyana. They retired to Texas, but it didn’t stick and they moved to St. Lucia for 18 months, then spent three years in China.
“They had gone through a tough situation; the pastor left … and they asked me what they should do. We asked for wisdom from above,” said Joe Souza, BCNE’s Boston area regional coordinator and immigrant ministry leader.
Ricardo Rivera, formerly the Baptist Convention of New Mexico’s State Hispanic Strategist before retiring, covers the history of Hispanic Baptist Work in New Mexico from 1849 to 2023 in a new book.
This is the first of a series of columns that will explain various strategies that could be used to experience the next wave of Kingdom progress.
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