July 17, 2024 Stories

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Annual meeting parking lot encounter brings food, clothes, payday to migrant

The man asked Daren Belardo for some cash. He received much more than that.
Faith

LGBT public policy shift appears to be in full swing across U.S.

A political shift in LGBT policy is evident across the country this week. Legislation passed in California July 15 gives public schools the ability to conceal when students change their names and pronouns. On the same day, the Republican National Convention passed a platform that was stripped of “anti-LBGT” language, policy leaders say.
National

Pastors pray for ‘God’s peace to break through’ after assassination attempt

It happened for Bob Hurd and others at a wedding reception on the evening of Saturday, July 13. Phones began chiming with alerts and texts. Donald Trump had been shot. Hurd, pastor of Whitestown Road Baptist Church, had conducted the wedding ceremony. His church is 1.5 miles from the Butler Farm Showgrounds, where Trump was minutes into a campaign speech when a bullet tore through the former president’s right ear.
National

Lifeway study: Southern Baptists supportive of the Cooperative Program

The large majority of Southern Baptist pastors believe the Cooperative Program (CP) supports the ministries and missions their churches value and allows their churches to support more missions endeavors than they could on their own. A survey of Southern Baptist congregations conducted by Lifeway Research in the fall of 2023 found 2 in 3 congregations have an overall positive view of the Cooperative Program (67%) and believe the Cooperative Program is the most effective and efficient way to support the spread of the gospel worldwide (66%).
Columnists

A better ministry by measuring results

When I came to The Baptist Home from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS), I brought with me a conviction Dr. Jason Allen, MBTS president, regularly impressed upon his leadership, which was, “Organizations achieve not what they expect, but what they inspect.” That first year, The Baptist Home leadership and board established a strategic plan with seven priority initiatives. That process continues to inform opportunities for improvement as well as opportunities for celebration.
Missouri

FBC De Soto sets up eyeglass clinic, shares gospel in Dominican Republic

The acts of kindness Jesus performed as He shared the gospel inspired Gene Smith, administrative pastor at First Baptist Church, De Soto, and his wife, Kristi, to lead international mission trips to the Dominican Republic.

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