KANSAS CITY – E-Tech Missions Founder Jon Moody spent four years (2008-2013) on mission with the International Mission Board (IMB) in Mali, The Ivory Coast, Ghana, and Burkina Faso. During that time he had many opportunities to reach the unreached for Christ. However, Moody said a huge challenge was having resources to give the unreached in their heart languages – the language a person grows up with, would speak in his or her home and would most like pray in. The issue came to a head … [Read more...]
Abedini prayer vigil set for Sept. 26
TEHRAN, Iran – Christian persecution and yes, genocide, is real in the world today, and Naghmeh Abedini is calling out to the body of Christ to pray. Sept. 26 will mark two long years since her husband and American pastor, Saeed Abedini, was imprisoned in Iran for his Christian faith. And most recently, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists were brought into the same prison as Saeed. Because he is both an American and a Christian convert, he immediately started receiving … [Read more...]
David Platt elected new IMB president
David Platt, pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., has been named the new president of the International Mission Board (IMB). “As of today, I have accepted a position as president of the International Mission Board, and about a month from now, I will no longer be the Senior Pastor of the Church at Brook Hills,” Platt wrote on his church’s website. “We talk all the time about laying down a blank check with our lives before God, with no strings attached, willing to go … [Read more...]
European court: Gay marriage not a human right
The highest human rights court in Europe shattered hopes that it would judicially impose same-sex marriage when it told a male to female transsexual and his wife that a civil union should be good enough for them. European human rights law does not require countries to “grant access to marriage to same-sex couples,” according to a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case that tests the remote boundaries of possibility in law and fact. The parties to the litigation and … [Read more...]
Sports equipment is vessel for mission trip to Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba – Three family members with southern Missouri Baptist church ties joined a group distributing sports equipment and Bibles to Cuba for 13 days in early July. Paul Dudley, a deacon from Hillcrest Baptist, Lebanon, and his sons Caleb, 25, and Cory, 16, connected with a Texas ministry’s “Cuba for Christ” effort. Caleb is a Sunday School teacher and trustee at Birchtree Baptist Church. Dudley’s ministry, “Eternal Pastimes,” has collected used – but still useable – and new … [Read more...]
China’s crackdown on the cross spreads
(WNS)–Three months after Chinese officials ripped down the gigantic Sanjiang Church in Wenzhou, the number of churches facing persecution – whether that means demolition, cross removal, or threatening notices – in Zhejiang province has reached into the hundreds, according to Texas-based Christian human rights group ChinaAid. Every few days, news of cross removals and confrontations between church members and police streams out of the region. ChinaAid has compiled many of the reports into … [Read more...]
MBC issues African missions alert
JEFFERSON CITY – With a deadly Ebola outbreak spreading across West Africa, the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) is advising churches to take caution before sending mission teams to the region. The latest Ebola outbreak infected at least 1,711 people, killing 932, in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone by Aug. 6, causing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a maximum level alert for responding to the outbreak. The death count for this outbreak makes up 30 … [Read more...]
Team of Baptist students share diverse skills in Cuba
CUBA (BP) – A diverse group of students marked the third opportunity for The Baptist College of Florida (BCF) in Graceville, Fla., to participate in the ongoing partnership between Baptists in the state and Cuba. “We are excited to be a part of what God is doing in Cuba,” Thomas A. Kinchen, BCF president, said. “It’s a model partnership between BCF, the Florida Baptist Convention, and the Baptist convention in Cuba. Everybody wins, and no one more than the Cuban people who are … [Read more...]
Women rebuild, touch Filipino hearts
GIBITNGIL, The Philippines – When Barbara Studt bends down and hugs each child at the small school on Gibitngil island – and not one child escapes her – she whispers in each ear, “Jesus loves you.” They grin, wiggle free and run away. Studt stands up, grins and makes her way to the teacher’s office to change from her water shoes to her work boots. She’s here to help rebuild the school destroyed in November 2013 by Typhoon Haiyan, known locally as Typhoon Yolanda. The children are … [Read more...]
Collins is frequent flyer to Holy Land
BLUE SPRINGS – Robert Collins of Blue Springs must enjoy the Holy Land, because he’s preparing to lead his 68th trip to Israel in October. “It’s being able to introduce other people, including pastors, to Israel and the Holy Land,” Collins said, explaining why he keeps returning there. “It is the difference in reading the Bible and walking the Bible.” “Common things you hear – not to be mystical – are people having a sense of being at home. These are places you read about – the Sea of … [Read more...]
Christians in Iraq ‘facing extinction’
WASHINGTON (BP) – Islamic militants have eradicated virtually every trace of Christianity from Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom, said July 23. “There are no Christians left in Mosul,” Shea told CBN News. “They have all been driven out. They have been told to convert to Islam or die, or to leave.” Mosul has been the center of Iraq’s Christian community for two millennia, but it is also a site with a … [Read more...]
Sudanese Christian escapes death
WASHINGTON (BP) – Meriam Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman whose death sentence caused an international outcry, arrived safely in Italy July 24. Ibrahim was flown on an Italian government jet to Rome with her American husband, Daniel Wani and their two young children. Ibrahim was arrested in February and a Sudanese judge set Ibrahim’s death sentence for “apostasy” (leaving Islam) May 15. However, in June, the ruling was overturned and she was released from prison only to be detained at the … [Read more...]
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