“In the last three years, the shift has been staggering: 435,000 lost in 2020; 410,000 in 2021; and then 484,000 in 2022. In total, the [Southern Baptist Convention] has lost more than 1.3 million people in just three years.”
Kidd’s biggest mission field, his longtime pastor said, was his football program at Eastern Kentucky University, where he developed a close bond with players and staff.
For a call to be effective, there must be an answer. That was the emphasis of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma’s The Call Conference, with the theme, “Answer: Calling Out the Called.”
For the last two decades, new church planters launching in Arizona have largely come from out of state.
Send Network’s new podcast, “Terminal: The Dying Church Planter,” is more than just a story about a guy with cancer, said producer Tony Hudson.
“There are fewer Christians in Utah than any country in the western hemisphere,” according to Plant4thegospel.com. “The next closest would be Cuba at 6%.”
Through telemedicine strategies employed by the International Mission Board, missionaries around the globe are able to provide a reinvented mobile medical clinic.
Mike Young, senior pastor at Zion Baptist Church, Brownsville, knows that if Tennessee Baptists are truly going to make an impact in Blue Oval City, it is going to require cooperation from churches all over the state.
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