Missouri couple among new missionaries by Chris Doyle Southern Baptists united to celebrate 58 newly appointed International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries, during the June 10 opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. Church messengers watched as missionaries took the stage to share their calling and thank those who are supporting their Great Commission task. One Missouri Baptist couple, Brad and Carrie from Second Baptist Church, were among the … [Read more...]
IMB dinner recognizes Journeymen, encourages continued generosity
by Chris Doyle/IMB Stories of transformation and the importance of global outreach highlighted the International Mission Board dinner, June 9, at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Dallas. Close to 2,000 people attended the event that commemorated a milestone for the Journeyman program and honored many who have supported the IMB. “Tonight, we will celebrate what God is doing because of the work all of us in this room are doing together,” said Todd Lafferty, IMB … [Read more...]
More than 80 churches participate in Crossover Dallas, sharing Gospel throughout DFW
DALLAS – A sweltering Saturday in Dallas served as the capstone to a week of Gospel-centered outreach and service to the communities in the metroplex as Southern Baptists gathered for Crossover Dallas to reach the city. Volunteers from churches across the nation gathered to serve alongside more than 80 churches who were hosting events and visiting homes throughout the week to meet and encourage their neighbors. For Faithful Believers Church in DeSoto, going door to door and hosting … [Read more...]
Six decades, 6,000 Journeymen equals eternal impact
By Kristen Sosebee This year, the International Mission Board is taking a moment to celebrate a significant milestone: the Journeyman program’s 60th anniversary. On June 19, 1965, the Foreign Mission Board began sending out the first participants in a brand-new, Peace Corps-inspired initiative known as the Journeyman program. Over the course of the following six decades, the program – created for young Southern Baptists between the ages of 21 and 29 to serve two-year missionary terms … [Read more...]
Video: Project 3000 missionary reports God is at work
By Sue Sprenkle/IMB "The kind of lostness that we see when we go out to these people groups is heartbreaking because nobody even knows that they are lost." – IMB missionary explorer Gus McLean, Asia-Pacific Rim It’s been two years since the International Mission Board (IMB) re-emphasized finding and researching unengaged and unreached people groups around the world. Project 3000 was born out of Southern Baptists’ commitment to ensure every people group has access to the gospel. Watch … [Read more...]
First Person: Once a Journeyman, always a Journeyman
60 years later memories still strong by Nancy Lyons Thomas Nancy Lyons Thomas served in the first Journeyman class from 1965-1967. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Journeyman program. When I started my third year of teaching history at Poynor Junior High in Florence, South Carolina, following graduation from Furman University in 1962, I could not have imagined that I would start the 1965 school year at Newton Memorial School in Osogbo, Nigeria. Newton existed as a boarding … [Read more...]
IMB trustees appoint new missionaries, elect first woman chair
RICHMOND, Va. (IMB) – International Mission Board trustees approved 65 fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 21-22 meeting near Richmond, Virginia. The missionaries approved for appointment will be recognized during a Sending Celebration on Tuesday, June 10, at 10:08 a.m. CDT in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. The event will be livestreamed on sbcannualmeeting.net. Nate Bishop, first vice chair from Kentucky, called … [Read more...]
Twin Rivers Association, FBC Troy donate RV trailers to families affected by Hurricane Helene
EAST ALARKA, NC – People are living in tents in the mountains of western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Following floods and landslides as a result of Hurricane Helene last fall and then wildfires sweeping across the mountains this spring, a lot of people are homeless. Sometimes even the land where their homes once stood was washed away or slid downhill into the deep ravines of a mountain river. So the First Baptist Church of Troy, Mo., decided to raise funds and buy a used RV … [Read more...]
Tornado strikes St. Louis, Missouri Baptists quick to respond
ST. LOUIS – The May 16th storm that produced an EF-3 tornado here began in Clayton, the seat of St. Louis County, and ripped a path of destruction a mile wide and eight miles long through north St. Louis city before crossing the Mississippi River. Cara Spencer, the new mayor of St. Louis, described the damage in a press conference. “We have five deaths and more than thirty-six injuries from the storm," she said. "Thousands of people are without power, more than 5,000 buildings have … [Read more...]
Thousands of DR volunteers deployed so far this year, more needed
NATIONWIDE – 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. That was before this weekend’s outbreak of severe weather from Kansas to Kentucky, which is expected to continue through Wednesday across much of the nation’s interior east of the Rocky Mountains. “Our job as the body of Christ is to stand up at … [Read more...]
College ministry sends nearly 40 students to BeachReach
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. – 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. BeachReach, which has been around since the 1990s, deploys college students to spring break hot spots to reach their own generation by walking the streets and meeting physical needs such as food and van rides. In preparation, Yarnell sent his students out … [Read more...]
Relief efforts underway in Missouri and Kentucky following deadly storms
NASHVILLE (BP) – Search and rescue efforts continue across Kentucky even as recovery efforts have begun in Missouri following deadly storms that swept across the region May 16-17. More than 25 people were killed by the storms and thousands suffered injury and loss. Send Relief’s St. Louis Ministry Center director Traci Byrd asked for prayer for those affected by the storms and that local churches will have opportunity to respond to the needs in the community. “Pray that our local … [Read more...]
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