
First person: Celebrating the Cooperative Program with children
Funding missions cooperatively is a hallmark of Southern Baptist churches. But here’s a question worth asking: Do the children in your church know that?

Barber challenges messengers to not miss the beauty around them
Sometimes the truth hurts, Bart Barber shared during his president’s address June 13 during the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting

Church aims to help fellow believers share faith, ‘turn outward’
With a fresh commitment to making disciples, staff at First Baptist Church Longview, Washington, began the year by launching the

Truett McConnell University launches national search for new president
Truett McConnell University has begun a national search for its next president, marking a new chapter for the institution as it continues its mission to provide Christ-centered higher education rooted in a biblical worldview.

3 ways churches can work for unity without uniformity
Just below a ground-floor window in the Ministry of Justice in Paris, France is a marble shelf engraved with a

Carlisle couple’s ministry partnership going strong
Mike Carlisle recalled feeling like a “businessman wearing a ministry hat” in his first church staff position. Perhaps it was

Texans on Mission deployed to Jamaica; other DR volunteers on alert
The emergency response team left Texas on Nov. 1 to help organize and maximize the relief ministries of Jamaican churches.

3 ways to lead your children to pray for the persecuted church
June 29 is the International Day of the Christian Martyr. According to church tradition, June 29 marks the day the