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Compassion ministry helps church planting missionary family “go big” in Puerto Rico

No one would've guessed that "Go big or go home" was an Ortiz family truism. After all, when God called Oscar Ortiz and his wife, Wendy, to plant a church in Río Grande, they didn't first launch a marketing campaign, send out glossy, full-color mailers, or pay for billboards, radio ads, and social media blasts.
National

God’s Not Done Here: Church planter blends old with new to bring renewal to New Orleans neighborhood

They didn’t know how much longer they had left. But they knew it wasn’t long. “It was bad,” Linda Morrow says. “We had no money, no people. We were just barely getting by with a handful of senior citizens.”
National

NAMB AMS Replant Lab spurs hope, renewal for dying churches

Missouri Baptists were among 250 associational leaders from around the nation who took part in the Associational Mission Strategist (AMS) Replant Lab at the North American Mission Board, Feb. 24-26.
National

Reaching Montreal: Church plant led by former Muslim bringing gospel to unreached city

"The beginning of the story is good. But the ending is even better." That's Andrew Mark Adil's opening line when people ask how such an unlikely man ended up in such an unlikely place doing such an unlikely thing.
National

Collegiate church planting missionary sees God do “More than we could’ve have ever imagined”

Erin Chapmond and Ellie Dunlevy are two of the more than 50,000 students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the birth and growth of almost-instantaneous friendships is an everyday event. That makes West Lafayette, according to North American missionary Jordan Adams, the perfect place to plant a church.
International

450 Baptist churches among 737 houses of worship Russia has attacked in Ukraine

The priest led an Orthodox church with the Moscow Patriarchate. But when Russia invaded, soldiers stripped the priest naked, knocked out his teeth with the butt of a rifle, and paraded him through the streets, taunting “Where is your God now?”
Missouri

Crossroads association mission team builds houses, shares gospel in Acuña, Mexico

The Crossroads Baptist Association continued their partnership here to build houses and share the gospel. For this purpose, an associational mission team recently traveled to Acuña, Mexico.
International

At 4 years, ‘pure miracle’ Ukraine still standing against Putin’s war

For Christians in Ukraine, the battle is existential, a spiritual onus to spread the Gospel where they are planted as darkness tries to snuff their witness. 
Missouri

Lifepointe, Fulton, reaches next generation

Lifepointe Church of Fulton has been described as one of Missouri’s fastest growing church plants by Jason Zellmer, who heads up NAMB’s Send Missouri. 
Missouri

Pastor sees rural Dry Fork Baptist Church grow by intentional evangelism

Pastor Matt Goodsell is seeing growth at Dry Fork Baptist Church, and he credits it to intentionally sharing Christ and making disciples.

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