ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – The North American Mission Board is adding Puerto Rico to its list of special areas that will receive increased attention and resources for church planting, Send Relief ministries and partnership opportunities with Southern Baptist churches that want to minister on the island. NAMB president Kevin Ezell shared the plans with NAMB trustees, Feb. 6. The emphasis comes as Puerto Rico continues to slowly recover from the staggering toll Hurricane Maria took on the island … [Read more...]
IMB’s Platt asks trustees to begin search for successor
RICHMOND, Virginia – International Mission Board President David Platt has asked the mission agency’s trustees to begin searching for his successor. Platt announced his decision to IMB field personnel and staff on Monday, Feb. 12, in person and via email to those not in Richmond. While requesting that the search for the IMB’s next president begin immediately, Platt will continue as president at IMB until a new president is elected. A presidential search committee will be comprised of IMB … [Read more...]
Franklin Association brings healing to Ghana
YENDI, Ghana – The mission team from Franklin Baptist Association doesn’t do anything halfway. They didn’t bring a handful of people on their recent trip to Ghana; they took 53. They didn’t set up a clinic to deal with minor illness and maladies; they set up a permanent intensive care unit at a local hospital. Joe Nogalski, pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in New Haven, has been going on the trips regularly since he was a student at Southern Seminary in 2001. It began with a partnership … [Read more...]
FBC Kearney mission team robbed in Haiti
JACQUET, Haiti – Thirteen missionaries from First Baptist Church, Kearney, their driver and a local pastor’s wife are safe and unharmed after they were robbed at gun point Jan. 21 during a mission trip. They were slated to return to the United States Jan. 23. The group was riding in a van to witness a Sunday morning baptism service about forty-five minutes away from the village where they had been ministering when three men on motorcycles passed them, came back and robbed them at … [Read more...]
Lifelong singleness not an issue for missionary surgeon
NASHVILLE (BP) – Decorated surgeon and missionary Rebekah Naylor, who heard God's call to medical missions at age 13, never longed for marriage and motherhood. She simply left the details of her life up to the Lord, she told Baptist Press just shy of her 74th birthday. "I think it is vital that we not put qualifications on God's call," said Naylor, who celebrated her birthday on Jan. 2. "It cannot be that I agree to respond to God's call to missions provided He gives me a husband or sends … [Read more...]
Asburys share faith, family with people of Merida, Mexico
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is run by permission of the Jefferson City News Tribune. JEFFERSON CITY (News Tribune) – A High Point couple and their family will be the first full-time missionaries for Sports Crusaders when they leave this week for Merida, Mexico. Mandy and Tyler Asbury met at a basketball game, and she continued to play through college. Now, the love of the game and a calling to share their faith have combined in this unique ministry opportunity. "The thing that struck a … [Read more...]
Hems of Grace ministry tailors love of sewing for gospel outreach to the people of Kenya
ANDERSON – When Pastor John and Elizabeth Beck moved to southwest Missouri last year to serve at First Baptist Church, Anderson, they brought their three teenage children. But they also brought a missional desire to evangelize in the East African nation of Kenya. For several years Elizabeth Beck has partnered with ladies back in her home state of South Carolina to combine a love of sewing with a desire to reach Kenyans for Christ on annual mission trips. Elizabeth’s friend, Mandy Joye, … [Read more...]
Mayview Baptist continues ministry heritage
MAYVIEW – Rhonda Barnes has been a member of Mayview Baptist Church here her whole life. In fact, her heritage at the church goes back five generations, and her children and grandchildren now attend the church, as well. Her great grandfather, grandfather and father were deacons at the church, and her brother, Greg Bertz, now serves as a deacon. Barnes’ story is representative of this small church in Missouri’s West Central Baptist Association. Many families in the church have lived in … [Read more...]
IMB’s Platt: When we pray, God works
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- No matter what the story is, whether it's a family planting a church in a doctor's office in Japan or a young man sharing truth over coffee with university students in Mexico City, International Mission Board president David Platt says two things are true: God is at work through missionaries around the world and praying for them matters. "This isn't just a rushed or mechanical exercise. God has ordained our prayer as a means to accomplish His purpose in the world," … [Read more...]
Hearts drawn to Gospel: Missionaries see God at work
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- It was as vivid a dream as it could possibly be, and she didn't know where it came from. Dilara* hadn't been asking anyone questions about Jesus or researching Christianity. But in her dream, Jesus picked the woman up from her bed and started walking her through the streets of her town. "We eventually came upon this building, and He opened the door for me," she said. Then she realized it was a church. "There were three men standing at the front of the church. … [Read more...]
Mission team makes disciples in Mexico
MEXICO CITY – From Todd Beel’s house in Mexico City, he can spot planes coming in every five minutes or so. “Each time, that’s another couple hundred people coming in from Europe, multiple cities across Europe, cities across South America, many cities in the United States and Canada,” he points out. Each time one lands, the city of more than 28 million opens its arms to a little more diversity, and each time, for Todd’s team of 12 IMB missionaries, the task gets a little bigger. But that’s … [Read more...]
32 new missionaries obey their Savior to share the gospel among the nations
RICHMOND, Va. – As a preschooler in the children’s group called Mission Friends, new Southern Baptist missionary Amy Jones learned about God's desire to gather people from every nation, tribe, people group and language by His grace and for His is glory. “It became real when my mother returned from England with stories and a tea set,” Jones recalled during a Sending Celebration Nov. 16 that marked the appointment of 32 new International Mission Board personnel. “Europeans are fascinating … [Read more...]
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