SUSAN MIRES/contributing writer SOCHI, Russia – George Hawkins began preparing for the Olympics in 2011. He wasn’t training to compete; he was getting ready to share the gospel. When the world came together in Sochi, Russia, Hawkins and other Missouri Baptists carried the Good News to the nations. “It was thoroughly enjoyable, and we were getting the Word out,” said Hawkins, who lives in St. Joseph. A team of five individuals from St. Joseph – members of Strong Tower Baptist and … [Read more...]
Gott: ‘Holy desperation’ in Ukraine
Diana Chandler/Baptist Press KIEV, Ukraine (BP) – The Ukrainian crisis has kindled an interdenominational prayer movement in the nation, said a Southern Baptist evangelist who ministers there and has accepted an invitation from Ukrainian Baptists to preach on a national day of mourning in Kiev. Ukrainian Christians believe only God can protect the nation from Russian control in the midst of upheaval that led to the ouster of President Viktor Yanukovych in February, said Michael Gott, who … [Read more...]
ERLC’s Moore, Obama discuss immigration
WASHINGTON (BP) – Southern Baptist ethicist Russell D. Moore and other religious leaders have met with President Obama to discuss the continuing effort to pass immigration reform this year. The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission president joined Obama and others in an oval office meeting April 15 as the attempt to reform the immigration system awaits action in the U.S. House of Representatives. Flaws in both the system and its enforcement have resulted in an estimated 11 million to … [Read more...]
Adopting God’s logic: Missouri Baptist family eager to welcome home three new children
KANSAS CITY – After almost a year of prayer and seeking God’s will and promises through Scripture, Amber Rust was ready to proceed with the next steps of the adoption. But her husband, Tyler, still wasn’t sure. Tyler’s reasoning and God’s calling weren’t in alignment, and he couldn’t find the peace that he desperately desired. They had identified the two children they believed the Lord wanted them to adopt. Massah, a 6-year-old girl, and Ibrahim, a 2-year-old boy, are around the same age … [Read more...]
Ukraine: MO churches partner with Ukrainian Baptist Seminary
LVIV, Ukraine – Although he was born under the shadow of the Soviet regime, 36-year-old Baptist seminary President Yaroslav “Slavik” Pyzh never imagined that he would now face what, according to some news agencies, could become “the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War.” With support from Missouri Baptist churches, Pyzh and his students at the Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary labor to spread the hope of the gospel throughout Ukraine as Russia amasses and shuffles its troops … [Read more...]
Holocaust survivor speaks at HLGU
HANNIBAL – Eva Mozes Kor doesn’t mind talking about the nine months she and her twin sister spent in Auschwitz during World War II. She openly shares about inhumane experiments by infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. She matter-of-factly tells of watching as other Jewish children were shot as the Allies drew closer to the concentration camp. But, all things considered, she’d prefer to talk about forgiveness. Kor spoke for nearly two hours at Hannibal-LaGrange University March 28 to a packed house … [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...]
Muslim herdsmen kill 100 Christians in Nigeria
BY Staff/Morning Star News KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 100 Christians and destroyed homes in Kaduna state in North-Western Nigeria March 14, Morning Star News reported. Scores of the herdsmen simultaneously attacked the Christian villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwar Gata and Chenshyi for about four hours. Yakubu Gandu Nkut, chairman of the Zankan area chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, said a pastor’s wife and her three children were among … [Read more...]
Exploitation threatens African children
Charles Braddix/Baptist Press JOHANNESBURG (BP) – A young child sits on the side of the road in Madagascar crushing rocks with a hammer almost too heavy for him to hold. Another accidentally slices his hand open with a machete while opening cocoa pods on a plantation in Ghana. A young teenage girl, trafficked for the sex industry, walks the beaches of Kenya looking for business. A young boy squats naked in a mineshaft in Burkina Faso, chipping ore and loading it into buckets all … [Read more...]
Baptist troubadours strum gospel in Sochi
Evelyn Adamson/Baptist Press SOCHI, Russia (BP) – Members of the Earl Brackin Band sing and strum their traditional bluegrass instruments, rendering a soul-stirring version of “I’ll Fly Away,” as dozens of Olympics fans gather to listen, some of whom capture the music on their smartphones. Earl Brackin, minister of worship at Church on the Hill in Dalton, Ga., said prior to leaving for Russia, “In Sochi, we’ll be like troubadours. Since bluegrass bands don’t need electricity, we can … [Read more...]
Sochi: Missouri trooper has biblical encounter
William Bagsby/Baptist Press SOCHI, Russia (BP) – In the basement of a church hung a forgotten American flag, and when John Christensen laid eyes on it, he knew it was the flag he’d been praying for to take to the Sochi Olympics. “I have a flag at home, but I just thought, ‘Lord, show me a flag. I want to have a symbol to take.’ And the very first time I walked into that church,” Christensen recalls, “I saw that flag hanging there and I told our pastor, ‘I’m taking this flag to … [Read more...]
Naghmeh Abedini Speaking at Geneva Summit 2014
Naghmeh Abedini, the wife of persecuted and imprisoned pastor Saeed Abedini, shares her family's story and speaks against Iran's oppression of religious freedom. … [Read more...]
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