By Eric House Like thousands of other Southern Baptist churches, First Baptist Church of Hokes Bluff, Ala., has a long and treasured history of missions involvement. Several of our families have served as foreign missionaries. We have given substantially to missions through our local association, the Cooperative Program and special SBC offerings. Yet despite that long history, it has been nearly 15 years since our last missionary family left the field. This has left us feeling more … [Read more...]
Naghmeh Abedini shares at Annual Meeting
Nagmeh Abedini shares how God has taken the persecution of her husband and turned it into an amazing opportunity to share the gospel in prison and with world leaders. Nagmeh Abedini from MBC on Vimeo. … [Read more...]
NAMB provides $1 million for HIS
TOBIN PERRY/North American Mission Board Sioux Falls, S.D. (BP) — Thanks to an historic shift in the funding relationship between the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and state conventions throughout the South Region, $1 million will be available over the next four years to help start churches in key cities and towns along the I-29 corridor – also known as HIS, Hearland Interstate Stratey – that runs from Kansas City to Canada. “I am grateful to our friends in the South state … [Read more...]
MMO Giving more than half way to goal
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving generously to state missions this year and already have passed the halfway mark toward the 2013 goal of $700,000. As of Oct. 17, funds received for the Rheubin L. South Missouri Missions Offering (MMO) totaled $491,745, or 70 percent of the goal. Giving so far in 2013 is outpacing last year. As of a year ago, MMO receipts totaled $456,708. “Overflow” is the theme of this year’s MMO, taken from 2 Cor. 9:12, “For the ministry of this … [Read more...]
Missouri CP giving ahead of last year
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptists are giving more to missions through the Cooperative Program so far in 2013, according to just-released figures from the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). For the first nine months of the year, CP giving from MBC churches totaled $10.7 million, compared with $10.59 million for the same period last year, an increase of 1 percent. CP giving during the same period is running 2.7 percent behind budget, however. “Missouri Baptists are staying faithful … [Read more...]
CP meets SBC budget goal; trails 2012 totals
NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) met its Cooperative Program (CP) budgeted goal of $188 million, but ended its fiscal year 1.92 percent below last year’s contributions, SBC Executive Committee President Frank S. Page has announced. “The federal government may be facing a shutdown this week,” Page said, “but Southern Baptist missions and ministries are open for business.” The SBC received $188,001,275.70 in CP gifts during the fiscal year Oct. 1, 2012-Sept. 30, … [Read more...]
International Orality Network meets in St. Charles
ST. CHARLES – The International Orality Network’s (ION) annual meeting was conducted in St. Charles Sept. 16-19. More than 270 Bible Storying veterans, as well as many who were expressing interest, attended. The conference emphasized networking, learning new skills, and worship. The main theme of the workshop was “The Seven Disciplines of Orality.” These include the biblically-faithful ways orality impacts a community’s culture, language, literacy, memory, networks, arts, and the … [Read more...]
City on a hill: Missouri Baptists to reach Atlixco, Mexico
JEFFERSON CITY – More than 2,000 years ago Scripture records a moment in time when Jesus stood on a hill overlooking Jerusalem and wept. His heart cry was recorded as, “I wish that you would come to me, but you will not”. In September, Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) Partnership Mission Strategist Rick Hedger stood on a hill above Atlixco, Mexico. With tears in his eyes, he told volunteers from Missouri, “This city is open to the gospel. They will respond, but they have never … [Read more...]
Pastor, family make return to Congo for mission work
KINSHASA, Congo – It is a dark, occult-like world, but a Missouri pastor and his family took the message of Jesus’ love to the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo during a recent mission trip. First Baptist, LaBelle, Pastor James Renot and family took a two-week trip in June to Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, a place where they served as International Mission Board (IMB) missionaries from 2005-07. Now, few missionaries are there, with even IMB pulling out. “The obstacles … [Read more...]
Praying for the persecuted church
Umar Mulinde grew up in a strict Muslim home in Uganda. His grandfather was an imam (religious leader), and Umar was trained in Islamic thought, which went unchallenged until he left home for college. One Sunday Umar visited a church for the first time and was so impressed with the gospel that he surrendered his life to Christ. Three Muslim friends saw him leave the church and attacked him. He assumed the beatings would stop. He was wrong. In time, Umar preached in a church that … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists catch NAMB’s Send Kansas City vision
Eva Wilson/Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists KANSAS CITY – As the hot August sun beat down outside, a group in the basement of the stately stone church building here enjoyed Cuban food for lunch and heard testimonies of how God is at work. The Multiethnic Church Planting Center, housed in the former Presbyterian church building at 217 Benton Blvd., was one of the stops on the first “Catch the Vision” tour held Aug. 27-28. The tour was part of Send Kansas City, an effort to … [Read more...]
Send connects churches to vast mission field
PLANO, Texas (BP) – More than 4,200 church planters, pastors and church leaders flooded the hallways of Prestonwood Baptist Church, here, for the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) second Send North America Conference July 29-30. The gathering was marked by masses of participants praying in response to speakers, hundreds of connections between churches and church planters, and individuals seizing their moments to penetrate lostness in North America. Many attendees expressed the belief … [Read more...]
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