PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Since 2008, Scott Brawner has been active in ministry and security efforts in Haiti. He is the president and co-founder of Concilium, a Kansas City-based organization that provides training for missionary efforts across the world. Brawner is also executive director of Fusion, a missions training program for young men and women on the campus of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Prior to this, he served as director of risk management with the International … [Read more...]
Summer missionaries double over two years: MBC to deploy more than 100 collegians
JEFFERSON CITY – More than 100 student missionaries will be deployed by the Missouri Baptist Convention this summer to bring gospel transformation throughout Missouri and beyond. The number of student missionaries involved in the MBC program have nearly doubled over the past two years. These students will serve for 10 weeks with churches, associations and other ministries across the state. They also serve as small group leaders during Super Summer, the MBC’s camp for youth held annually at … [Read more...]
The mission gets personal: Forest Park, Joplin, advances gospel through Acts 1:8 project
JOPLIN – The mission doesn’t get powerful until it gets personal. “When a person sees the darkness in the world and then comes back they are much more motivated to do something about it,” said John Swadley, lead pastor at Forest Park Church here. “We desire to know the people out there on the field making the sacrifices to spread the gospel where they are so that we can play a small part in advancing their work.” That’s where Forest Park’s new giving strategy, the Acts 1:8 Project, comes … [Read more...]
‘God speaks our language’: IMB’s first translators share their story in exclusive interview
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nearly two decades ago, Stephen and Tricia Stringer became the first missionaries deployed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board for the particular task of Bible translation. The Stringers have devoted themselves to this task for 19 years, serving in West Africa, South Asia and now in England. Currently, they help to develop resources and strategies for taking Scripture to unreached people groups across the globe. Although other IMB missionaries … [Read more...]
Reformation translators open Scripture to millions
VILVOORDE, Belgium – As the year 1535 faded into autumn and the weather turned cold, an Englishman charged with heresy and jailed in the Vilvoorde Castle here scribbled a note in Latin to his keepers. Could they bring him a warmer cap, coat and leggings? And also a lamp, he added, “for it is tiresome to sit alone in the dark.” “But above all,” he wrote, “I beg and entreat your clemency earnestly to intercede with the lord commissary, that he would deign to allow me the use of my Hebrew … [Read more...]
Judson’s legacy lives on in Missouri, beyond
KANSAS CITY – Missouri Baptist churches across the state are reaching people groups once touched by the ministry of Adoniram Judson, a 19th-century pioneer missionary to Burma (modern-day Myanmar), who left an impact not only in lives transformed by the gospel but also in Bible translation. Groups of Christian immigrants from Myanmar meet weekly at Tower Grove Baptist Church, St. Louis, at Community Baptist Church, Noel, and at New Site Church, Monett, as well as at other churches around … [Read more...]
Gasconade Valley Association pastors develop leaders among church planters in Ukraine
L’VIV, Ukraine – Spring break mission trips typically focus on service or evangelism, but teaching can be just as vital a ministry goal. Members of Gasconade Valley Baptist Association traveled to the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary last month to teach 11 third-year church planting students. In a retreat setting, they spent a week with the church planters, teaching in small groups. David Kreuger, pastor of First Baptist, Linn, taught on sermon preparation; Jason Gentry, pastor of … [Read more...]
Ridgecrest team brings hope to Ukrainian orphans
SPRINGFIELD – Wendy Farrell’s heart for mission work among orphans of the Ukraine grew out of her love for one Ukrainian teenager. In March, Farrell led a mission team of three families and two college students from Ridgecrest Baptist Church here to the Ukraine to work among the European nation’s orphanages. Theirs was only one of many short-term mission teams commissioned by Ridgecrest to share Christ’s love across the globe, from Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba to Europe, Africa and South … [Read more...]
Church planter uses radio to highlight refugees’ plight
NOEL – Three years ago, Josh Manning was a manager at Walmart. His career was going smoothly, and planting a church wasn’t on his radar. Neither were refugees. The idea that he might have a half-hour radio show was ludicrous. And yet because of God’s calling, all those things have changed. Regular church attenders at a nearby Buffalo Creek Baptist Church, Manning and his family decided their lives were going to be different. They ended up in Noel, deep in the southwest corner of Missouri, … [Read more...]
American pastor charged with ‘terrorism’ in Turkey
IZMIR, Turkey (BP) -- American pastor Andrew Brunson has been indicted in Turkey on charges of terrorism. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) claims the charges amount to an admission "that Turkey considers sharing the Gospel an 'act of terrorism.'" "The 62-page indictment, wholly lacking merit, provides no evidence regarding criminal action by Pastor Andrew, which comes as no surprise," the ACLJ stated in a March 20 news release. "Pastor Andrew, who has lived in Turkey for 23 … [Read more...]
‘The most unreached place in North America’: Springfield family plants churches in Montreal
MONTREAL, Canada – Soon after James Copeland, the former missions pastor at Ridgecrest Baptist Church, Springfield, moved his family to Montreal, he met a self-described atheist named Michael. Over time, Copeland’s friendship with Michael grew. And nearly five months later Michael admitted that he’d been watching the worship services at Renaissance Church online – an English-language congregation near the heart of Montreal where Copeland serves as the lead pastor. Today, Michael attends … [Read more...]
Opera singer from Brazil sparks Vienna house church
VIENNA (BP) -- When Maria* began to feel God nudging her to share Christ with Persians, she didn't know exactly what a Persian was. (There's no Persian language and no Persia on the map.) But within a week Maria met a girl from Iran. When Maria asked what language she spoke, the girl said "Persian," so Maria invited the young lady to study the Bible. Maria didn't set out to start a new Persian church. She was just obeying God. But that Bible study has now grown to over 100 people -- a … [Read more...]
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