
Churches turn into warming shelter during severe winter conditions
Kevin Ward, director of missions for the Madison-Chester Crockett Association of Baptists, issued a call to Tennessee Baptist churches to work together with the City of Jackson to provide warming shelters for the homeless population.

Pakistani Christian forced to convert to Islam to pay debt
A brick kiln worker’s forced conversion to Islam in Pakistan’s national database has left his five children unable to have their Christian faith designated on their national identity cards, his son said, according to Morning Star News.

Hawaii churches merge to become new GracePoint Church
Two churches in Hawaii — Cornerstone Fellowship and The Gathering — merged to become one church, the Pacific Connector reported.

Easter video from missionary opens doors to discipleship
A stranger slid into Carina Beaty’s Instagram DMs. The message would open not just chat windows but doors to discipleship

Pastors share how God transformed, rescued them from ‘dark’ places
Everything “dark” a man could do, Robert Hyde had done. For Paul Will, life had become “permanently empty.” The downward

Christian accused of desecrating Quran in Pakistan, violence erupts
Several churches and homes were burned in Pakistan on Wednesday (Aug. 16) in violence sparked by allegations that a Christian man had desecrated a Quran.

Bible Studies for Life Sunday School Lesson for Feb. 22
Here’s the Bible Studies for Life Sunday School lesson commentary for Feb. 22, written by Bobby McKay, pastor of New Liberty Baptist Church in Morton, Mississippi.

Religious liberty, Israel, IVF among topics in proposed SBC resolutions
The Resolutions Committee has released a list of “preliminary” drafts of this year’s proposed resolutions that will go before messengers during the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.