RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – A data breach occurred at the International Mission Board that may have exposed personal information of current and former employees, volunteers and applicants. The Southern Baptist entity began a "comprehensive response" immediately upon discovering the cyber security incident and promptly notified law enforcement officials, according to a statement released to Baptist Press July 16, parallel to one released to North Carolina Baptists' newsjournal, the Biblical … [Read more...]
Ministry continues in Haiti: Mission teams evacuate Haiti amid violence, now safe in Missouri
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Missouri Baptist mission teams have made it home safely from Haiti following political upheaval and riots that were ignited in the nation’s capital earlier this month. Nonetheless, Missouri Baptist ministry efforts continue because of the faithful service of long-term missionaries in the region. More than 200 Southern Baptists from around the nation, according to Baptist Press, were trapped in Haiti, July 6, when the nation’s citizens rose up violently, protesting a … [Read more...]
Counting the cost in short-term missions
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Since 2008, Scott Brawner has been active in ministry and security efforts in Haiti. He is the president and co-founder of Concilium, a Kansas City-based organization that provides training for missionary efforts across the world. Brawner is also executive director of Fusion, a missions training program for young men and women on the campus of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to this, he served as director of risk management with the International … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists urged to pray for Haiti, mission teams
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention is calling churches to pray for Haiti and for missionaries in the country amid riots and political unrest that broke out in the country over the weekend. In a July 9th email, MBC Executive Director John Yeats directed an “urgent call to prayer” to Missouri Baptists: “By now, you've likely seen the news reports out of Haiti, where the U.S. Embassy has warned American citizens in that country to "shelter in place" – or stay inside – amid … [Read more...]
Missouri trustees talk IMB transition
DALLAS – Southern Baptist’s missionary-sending arm – the International Mission Board (IMB) is in a time of transition, but two Missouri trustees see reason to be optimistic about its future. David Platt, who has been the IMB president since 2014, notified trustees this February he planned to transition out of the leadership role, but committed to serve as long as it took to find his replacement. His tenure was marked by a painful financial restructuring that saw the retirement of many … [Read more...]
Guatemala mission teams safe after Fuego’s eruption
ESCUINTLA CITY, Guatemala – Southern Baptist mission groups from the United States ministering in Guatemala are safe after a volcano erupted on June 3. One mission group from Union Hill Baptist Church in Holts Summit was working in an orphanage about 70 miles northwest of the eruption when it occurred, according to KRCG 13. Associate Pastor Jason Glenn told KRCG that the group was unaware of the disaster until they saw the ash and residue in the sky. When he learned it was from a … [Read more...]
John Yeats: Missional isolation among international missionaries
I really like the way we do Southern Baptist missions. A recent return from the mission field with our MBC partnership nation of Italy was a fresh reminder of “why” we do cooperative missions. Every believer is commissioned to live on mission. Every local church is to be engaged in missions cooperatively and directly. Biblically and practically, working together is a no brainer. On more than one occasion, our team met and interviewed U.S. missionaries who are diligently working to make … [Read more...]
Israel reborn: 70 years later, Southern Baptists call for prayer, evangelism
JEFFERSON CITY – “Eretz-Israel.” Even standing alone, this Hebrew phrase for “the land of Israel” evokes a host of stories, images and promises from Scripture. But the phrase was particularly potent when, exactly 70 years ago on May 14, David Ben-Gurion – Israel’s first prime minister – read a declaration establishing a Jewish nation within the land of Israel for the first time in thousands of years. “ERETZ-ISRAEL (the Land of Israel) was the birthplace of the Jewish people,” the … [Read more...]
‘God speaks our language’: IMB’s first translators share their story in exclusive interview
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nearly two decades ago, Stephen and Tricia Stringer became the first missionaries deployed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board for the particular task of Bible translation. The Stringers have devoted themselves to this task for 19 years, serving in West Africa, South Asia and now in England. Currently, they help to develop resources and strategies for taking Scripture to unreached people groups across the globe. Although other IMB missionaries … [Read more...]
Iglesia Alfa y Omega, Columbia, labors for ‘Christ and His kingdom’
COLUMBIA – Last month, seven men from Iglesia Alfa y Omega (Alpha & Omega Church) here preached briefly on each of the seven sayings that Jesus uttered before his death. In doing so, they helped to commemorate the death of Christ during the church’s Good Friday service, March 30. But their participation in this service also puts on display the congregation’s efforts to raise up men who can lead the church as it labors to transform lives with the gospel. With only three conservative … [Read more...]
Reformation translators open Scripture to millions
VILVOORDE, Belgium – As the year 1535 faded into autumn and the weather turned cold, an Englishman charged with heresy and jailed in the Vilvoorde Castle here scribbled a note in Latin to his keepers. Could they bring him a warmer cap, coat and leggings? And also a lamp, he added, “for it is tiresome to sit alone in the dark.” “But above all,” he wrote, “I beg and entreat your clemency earnestly to intercede with the lord commissary, that he would deign to allow me the use of my Hebrew … [Read more...]
Judson’s legacy lives on in Missouri, beyond
KANSAS CITY – Missouri Baptist churches across the state are reaching people groups once touched by the ministry of Adoniram Judson, a 19th-century pioneer missionary to Burma (modern-day Myanmar), who left an impact not only in lives transformed by the gospel but also in Bible translation. Groups of Christian immigrants from Myanmar meet weekly at Tower Grove Baptist Church, St. Louis, at Community Baptist Church, Noel, and at New Site Church, Monett, as well as at other churches around … [Read more...]
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