So far this year, at least 5,300 Southern Baptist trained Disaster Relief volunteers have responded to 40 natural disasters across the United States, from wildfires in California to storms on the eastern side of the nation.
Missouri
College ministry sends nearly 40 students to BeachReach
Thirty-nine college students from the Lighthouse Ministry at Northwest Missouri State University spent their spring break serving and sharing the gospel with spring breakers through a ministry called BeachReach.
National
SBC leaders gather for a Declaration of Cooperation to mark the Cooperative Program’s 100th anniversary
The Ellis Auditorium was brand new May 13, 1925, when Southern Baptists met on a spring afternoon and voted to begin the Cooperative Program. Today (May 13), though the auditorium is gone, Southern Baptists gathered a just few yards away from the original location to recommit to cooperative partnership.
Columns
It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it!
The truth is that cooperation on a scale the size of the MBC, or especially the SBC, requires grace, patience, flexibility, perseverance, collaboration, and trust. Is it always easy? No. Is the process always smooth? No. Will we always agree with everything? No. But is cooperation for the sake of the gospel worth the effort? Yes, cooperation is absolutely worth the effort.
Apologetics
Glory in resurrection
The glory we experience now as Christ lives in us, and the glory we experience in death as our souls and spirits ascend into heaven, are partial works of glorification. But full glorification for followers of Jesus takes place when he calls our bodies from the grave and gives us incorruptible bodies like the body he bore when he rose from the dead.
Global
Nigerian women grow soybeans to battle hunger, share faith
In rural Nigeria, Southern Baptists partnered with Nigerians to introduce a groundbreaking initiative that would improve food consumption and transform communities. Access to wholesome food is limited in the region, so the project sought to address the nutritional challenge that has been stunting the growth and development of many children.
Culture
State of the Bible shows U.S. outlier in biblical reverence in ‘secular west’
From a global vantage point unique to its study of the Bible’s impact on U.S. adults, the American Bible Society (ABS) said Americans revere Scripture, faith and church more than others in a geographical cluster described as the “secular west.”