ALPHARETTA, Ga. – On Oct. 19 NAMB announced the largest Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in history. The total given in the 2016-17 budget year (Oct-Sept) came to $59.6 million. This total eclipses the previous record of $59,463,281 given in 2007 as well as the 2016 amount of $58,860,553. The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® for North American missions has been an annual offering benefitting missionaries and their work of sharing the life-transforming gospel of Jesus Christ since 1895. … [Read more...]
Where God leads, De Soto man goes
DE SOTO – The line of people spanned at least three and half blocks. The mission team in Matamoros, Mexico, was giving away shoes, filled backpacks and hot dogs, and the locals were ready to receive. “We looked at the people and guessed there were about 1,200 and then we looked at the supplies and we knew we didn’t have nearly enough,” said Russ Sander, a deacon at First Baptist Church here. “It was a true fishes and loaves miracle and I know God provided. When the day was done everybody … [Read more...]
Missouri DR intern shares Jesus in Houston, earns college credits back home
MARYVILLE – Maddy Atwell spent her entire summer preparing for a disaster that never came. A member of Laura Street Baptist Church and a collegiate intern for Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief, she spent her summer training to respond however she was needed, whether in mass care, childcare, laundry, mudout, chaplaincy chainsaw or incident command. And while nobody would complain about a disaster-free summer, it was a little bit ironic when the wettest hurricane on record hit Houston … [Read more...]
Collection of pioneering missions photographer new to SBC archives
NASHVILLE (BP) – The late award winning photographer Don Rutledge tried his hand at pastoring, but realized his true calling in uniquely displaying God’s creation and the global missions impact of the Cooperative Program. Photographs and related items spanning more than 40 years of his ministry and missions comprise a new Southern Baptist archival collection. “I love photojournalism and enjoy using it as a worldwide Christian ministry,” the renowned photographer has said. “It forces me … [Read more...]
Restoration House offers trafficking survivors grace
KANSAS CITY – Human trafficking is the number two global crime behind drug trafficking. While Restoration House may not be able to stop the trafficking from the start, it can offer survivors of a place of healing that overflows with God’s grace. “It’s not just a problem overseas,” said Rodney Hammer, director of missions for the Blue River-Kansas City Association and president of Restoration House’s board of directors. “We have a huge problem in Kansas City. These are people who are from … [Read more...]
CP, MMO gifts help feed the hungry
BLUE SPRINGS – Kim Danley may be the founding director of the hunger ministry at First Baptist Church, Blue Springs, but her experience and passion go beyond the years of service and watching God work through a bag of groceries. She has lived it as well. “I’ve seen the difference that Christ has made in my life and how someone else’s kindness helped me,” Danley said. “When I came to know the Lord, I was young, coming out of a divorce, and had two small children. I was a new Christian, and … [Read more...]
CP speeds Central Asian outreach for Movement Church
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- A young Richmond, Va.-area church saw the effectiveness of the Cooperative Program this summer while helping a Central Asian village build water wells. "The work is thrilling," said Cliff Jordan, a church planter and pastor of the eight-year-old Movement Church, where about 250 people attend Sunday morning worship. Jordan appreciates International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries who laid the foundation for his mission team to arrive in the village and make a … [Read more...]
Africa missionaries embrace children’s home ministry
THOMASVILLE, N.C. (BP) – Kim and Jay Smith spent 26 years sharing the Gospel as missionaries in West Africa. Today, they continue to share Christ's love as cottage parents with the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina where they care for as many as 12 girls at BCH's Mills Home in Thomasville. "It's still a mission field but a different mission field," Kim says. Her husband agrees. "We love these girls with the love of God just as we loved the people in West Africa." Before … [Read more...]
Soli Deo Gloria: A Healthy Obsession
RICHMOND, Va. – One of the battle cries of the Reformation was Soli Deo Gloria: Glory to God alone. The Reformers looked at the Medieval Roman Catholic understanding of the Christian faith and realized that it was fundamentally flawed at several points. The Medieval Roman church believed in three sources of spiritual authority: Scripture, tradition, and the leadership of the church of Rome. Final deciding authority fell to the Roman church. But the Reformers believed that the Bible was … [Read more...]
Small Puxico church displays heart for missions
MOLDOVA – As one of the smaller former Soviet states, Moldova is an easy nation to overlook. Not for Lewis Scott of Brush Creek Mission Baptist Church in Puxico. Scott will return for his fifth trip to tiny country wedged between Romania and Ukraine later this month as part of an IGO Missions health clinic trip. Scott partners with a local Baptist congregation in a series strategic cities and towns. Each clinic is preceded by an evangelistic crusade where people sign up for a time … [Read more...]
MBC partnership enables Emmaus KC to train pastors, reach community, send out church planter
KANSAS CITY – Emmaus Church in Kansas City launched on January 4, 2015 with 35 people. Seven of those were pastoral residents, learning how to plant a church by planting with experienced planter, Joshua Hedger. Two and a half years later, Emmaus is averaging 186 in attendance and has 110 covenant members. Through this season of growth, it became more evident that the location they had planted in was not going to be their long-term location. On July 23rd, 2017 Emmaus had their first … [Read more...]
Macedonia Baptist youth camp teaches service
ALTON – A camp of Macedonia Baptist Church in Alton, was designed this summer to help students in fifth through eighth grade focus on others and ways to serve them. The camp theme, “Get Your Serve On,” helped the students focus on loving others and the practical ways to put others first. “Kids at this age need to see the big picture,” Sue Hudson, camp director and member of Macedonia, said. “We wanted to lead them toward the importance of service and the opportunities for acts of service … [Read more...]
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