Missouri Baptist and Southern Baptist leaders alike have called for prayer amid rising conflicts in the Middle East. God has been moving in Iran for many years, and He is continuing to work for the salvation of men and women in the region. Last year, as tensions with Iran began to rise, I spoke with my friend Ayman Ibrahim, who serves as a professor of Islamic Studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Christianity is expanding in the region, he told me. “I know that … [Read more...]
Compassion ministry helps church planting missionary family “go big” in Puerto Rico
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
God’s Not Done Here: Church planter blends old with new to bring renewal to New Orleans neighborhood
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
NAMB AMS Replant Lab spurs hope, renewal for dying churches
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB) – Members of Bethany Baptist Church in North Little Rock, Ark., stared down the barrel of a problem facing hundreds of churches in the United States. The community around them had changed. Their church had not, and now, they were on the precipice of seeing their church fold. “They were down to just a handful of people who hadn’t met in their auditorium in probably 10 or 12 years,” said Greg Varndell, associational mission strategist (AMS) for the North Pulaski … [Read more...]
Reaching Montreal: Church plant led by former Muslim bringing gospel to unreached city
by Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
Collegiate church planting missionary sees God do “More than we could’ve have ever imagined”
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
450 Baptist churches among 737 houses of worship Russia has attacked in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (BP) – 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?” The priest is one of two leaders interviewed in a recent video by Colby Barrett, who, with the Ukraine Freedom Project, produces documentaries of Russia’s persecution of Christians. “He was a UOC-MP (Ukraine Orthodox Church … [Read more...]
Crossroads association mission team builds houses, shares gospel in Acuña, Mexico
ACUÑA, Mexico – The Crossroads Baptist Association continued their partnership here to build houses and share the gospel. A mission team from the association traveled to Acuña, Mexico, after Christmas. According to team leader Patrick Argent, Crossroads Treasurer and pastor of a church plant of Renick Community Church, the association and a non-Baptist church assisting in the project sent 15 members, and another 17 from The Bridge Collegiate Ministry led by Scott Westfall, at the … [Read more...]
At 4 years, ‘pure miracle’ Ukraine still standing against Putin’s war
IRPIN, Ukraine (BP) – 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. That’s Igor Bandura’s take as the nation enters its fifth year of sustained war against Russia. Bandura is a pastor in Irpin and vice president of international affairs for the All-Ukrainian Union of Associations of Evangelical Christian-Baptists (Ukrainian Baptist Union). “We do not have choice. If we would … [Read more...]
Lifepointe, Fulton, reaches next generation
FULTON – In May 2023 four people banded together to start a new church in a community room of a recreation center in Fulton. As they launched, they quickly gathered about 20 attenders. Fast forward a little over 2.5 years later and there are now 475 attending in three worship services each weekend. 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. Lead Pastor Travis Boyt says, “It’s … [Read more...]
Pastor sees rural Dry Fork Baptist Church grow by intentional evangelism
NEW BLOOMFIELD – Pastor Matt Goodsell is seeing church growth, and he credits it to intentionally sharing Christ and making disciples. The pastor of Dry Fork Baptist Church in New Bloomfield had been at Dry Fork before to tell of a ministry in the state Capitol in Jefferson City, but became the pastor of the church in October 2024. At that time the attendance was about two dozen people. Since then, the attendance has more than doubled to more than 60 recently and higher than that on days … [Read more...]
NAMB missionaries experience generosity: How the Annie Offering Is more than a gift
by Tony Hudson/NAMB ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB) – There's no way they could've known what was coming. When Jefferson and Carol Hernandez, Josh and Beth Glymph, Matt and Ruth Lahey, and Michael and Traci Byrd each got phone calls telling them they'd been selected to be Annie Armstrong featured missionaries, they were all appropriately humbled, honored, excited, and encouraged. But now, years later—now that they've experienced every unexpectedly amazing thing that happened because of the Week … [Read more...]
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