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Pray for ‘freedom in Christ, freedom of religion’ in Iran

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.
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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.
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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.”
International

FIRST-PERSON: Persecution and protection of Iranian Christians

With the present war involving Iran, the United States and surrounding countries, a closer look at the history of Christianity in Iran may help place these events in context and guide believers in how to pray for Christians living there. Throughout Iran’s history with Christianity, there has been sporadic discrimination against and persecution of believers. When outside forces threaten Iran, the relationship between Iranian Christians and the ruling government has often changed.
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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.
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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.
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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

MBC’s Phillips sees third apologetics book translated into Iran’s Farsi language

When Rob Phillips began writing books to help Christians defend their faith he never foresaw some of his titles being translated into Farsi, the modern Persian language of Iran. Following the publication last year of his first book into Farsi, a second is being finalized for publication, and a third – What Every Christian Should Know About the Return of Jesus – is being translated from English.

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