ST. LOUIS – Canaan Baptist Church here sent a four-person mission team across the world, Jan. 19-Feb. 2, to proclaim God’s Word among an unreached, unengaged people group in West Africa. According to Canaan Baptist pastor Daniel Carr, the recent mission team went to West Africa with the express purpose of sharing the gospel. “We’re not there to build buildings. We’re not there to help out with humanitarian relief. We’re there to share the gospel,” Carr said, explaining that such … [Read more...]
No regrets when God calls
Erich Bridges/Baptist Press RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – Karen Watson knew Iraq was dangerous. She had left Iraq months before, exhausted and afraid, as the chaotic country descended deeper into violence. But she went back anyway. She was not a soldier, but a Christian relief worker, armed only with love and humanitarian aid. That decision claimed the 38-year-old’s life on a dusty road 10 years ago. Still, she had no regrets about going back. She wasn’t big on regrets; she had experienced … [Read more...]
Evangelizing in their language
Nobody met me at the Mexico City airport. And from what I could tell, nobody was speaking English. I had to reach deep for every syllable I had learned in a Spanish class just to navigate across town. When I later paid the taxi driver in pesos and walked toward my destination the sense of accomplishment was incredible. God had kindly immersed me – sink or swim – in an alien culture. And for a 21-year-old at the time, that was a really big deal. What I remember most about my arrival as a … [Read more...]
WMU makes dolls for DR
EUREKA – Handmade dolls that have often been used during mission trips are now being made for Disaster Relief chaplains to give to victims. Jay Ryan, wife of Missouri Valley Director of Missions, and state chaplain trainer Patrick Ryan said the pattern for the doll came from the Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) around 2009. Jay said one lady asked her to get the pattern for the doll. Patrick asked WMU if they wanted to do this. Patrick Ryan said he originally got the idea from a First … [Read more...]
‘I have everything,’ God tells church planting Pennsylvania pastor
Karen L. Willoughby/Baptist Press PITTSBURGH, Pa. (BP) – The Cooperative Program (CP) is personal to Pittsburgh Baptist Church Pastor Kim Grueser and his congregation. “They asked if we could do the 1% Challenge,” Grueser said of the congregation. “When it hits you personally, you really understand the value of [the Cooperative Program].” The pastor quickly rattled off three ways he has seen the Cooperative Program in action. “When I was in seminary, we would not have made it … [Read more...]
WMU celebrates 125 years of worldwide ministry
Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) has a great deal to celebrate, and the party is set for April 4-5. WMU’s “Missions Celebration” will be held at Second Baptist Church, Springfield. According to Laura Wells, Missouri WMU executive director, WMU is celebrating 125 years nationally, as well as 100 years of Girls in Action (GA) and 90 years of Missouri WMU. The April celebration targets any Missouri Baptists who desire to reach their state and their world with the gospel. “We are … [Read more...]
McCrary challenges SBU community to live a missional lifestyle
By Charlotte Masch, SBU Director of Marketing and Communications BOLIVAR, Mo. — Larry McCrary issued a challenge during Southwest Baptist University chapel service March 5 to students, faculty and staff to live a missional lifestyle, making disciples wherever they “live, work and play” anywhere in the world. “Being salt and light every day is a great way to be a witness to everyone we meet,” he said. “The command is not go, but the assumption is ‘as you go.’” McCrary said a … [Read more...]
Missouri, Atlixco, Mexico churches forge partnership
WASHINGTON, Mo. – Thousands of people who need Christ live in Atlixco, a city in the Mexican state of Puebla. Faith Baptist Church in Washington and Rios de Agua Viva (Rivers of Living Water) Church in Atlixco have formed a partnership to meet that need. “We want to instill a desire in my people to show Christian love like Jesus,” Mario Ramirez, pastor of Rios de Agua Viva, told members of Faith Baptist Church during a visit to Missouri, Feb. 23. “It should be a priority regardless of … [Read more...]
Healing, DR relief continue in Philippines
Caroline Anderson*/Baptist Press CEBU, Philippines (BP) – From the rubble, a nation is still recovering from Typhoon Haiyan’s devastating effects last November. Much of the press and publicity have moved on, but Baptist Global Response (BGR) continues relief efforts. “Baptist Global Response is gearing up for long-term development as the short-term relief organizations pull out,” says International Mission Board missionary Stan Smith. He and his wife, Dottie, minister on the island … [Read more...]
DR event draws large crowd
EUREKA – Approximately 225 people attended the first 2014 Disaster Relief (DR) training event at Central Baptist Church here, Feb. 21-22. Almost half of the participants were first-time trainees. Associate State Director Dave Wells said attendance in the 180s is normal for training. Three other training events are scheduled this year. Recent disasters – from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2011 tornado in Joplin to last year’s tornado in Oklahoma and typhoon in the Philippines – … [Read more...]
HIS leaders pick church planter as coordinator
Lee Warren/contributing writer Kansas City – The Heartland Interstate Strategy (HIS) task force met at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on Feb. 25 for its final meeting involving all of its original members. HIS decided to streamline its team (pairing down to one representative from each convention) after convention executives approved Jeffrey Chavez as its new coordinator. The meeting included HIS task force members Mark Elliott (Nebraska), Kurt Simon (Missouri), Gene Stockton … [Read more...]
Deaf church planter works so Detroit’s unchurched might hear
TOBIN PERRY /Baptist Press MACOMB, Mich. (BP) – Scott Blanchard is familiar with all the public perceptions of Detroit and its surrounding area: It’s dying. No one wants to live there. The church can’t thrive in the Motor City. But the fact is, the Detroit-area native and Southern Baptist church planter just doesn’t buy those perceptions. During the past three years as he has planted Lakepointe Church in Macomb, Mich., just outside Detroit, he has seen a different story take … [Read more...]
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