OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) –IMB President David Platt outlined his five-point strategic plan while presiding over his first trustee meeting as head of the mission agency. In a plan based on five biblical goals which have led to four practical steps and three initial recommendations, Platt offered two important reminders to reach one all-consuming goal: glorifying God. Platt's five biblically based goals for IMB are: exalting Christ, mobilizing Christians, equipping the church, facilitating … [Read more...]
Partnership Missions: Mexico, Upstate New York
OSAGE BEACH – MBC Partnership Missions lunch attendees heard reports from a pastor in Puebla, Mexico, and a church planter in upstate New York. Stirring stories of fields wide open for spiritual harvest captivated the hearts of Missouri Baptists. Sergio Rebollar Oropeza, the president of the Puebla/Tlaxcala Regional Baptist Convention of Mexico, spoke of the gratitude that the churches in his region of southern Mexico feel for the partnership that Missouri Baptists have had with them … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Former IMB missionary guilty of wire fraud
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Former Southern Baptist missionary Brady Nurse pleaded guilty Oct. 21 in a federal court to fraudulently obtaining approximately $300,000 in mission funds over a period of five years while working as a logistics and business coordinator for the International Mission Board in Portugal. Nurse and his wife Andrea were appointed IMB missionaries in March 2006. His wire fraud activity was discovered earlier this year by the mission board's internal auditing procedures. It … [Read more...]
Puebla Baptists faithful amid persecution
PUEBLA, Mexico – Mexican pastor Javier Gonzalez knows firsthand the reality of Christ’s words from Mark 6:4, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own town.” After training at a Bible institute in Mexico City, Gonzalez felt the Lord calling him to proclaim the gospel in his own hometown in the Sierra Negra (Black Mountains) region of Puebla. However, after he and his wife started sharing the gospel from house to house, they were resisted by Catholic priests in the area. This … [Read more...]
Lifepoint church establishes partnership in Puebla
PUEBLA, Mexico – Lifepoint Church of O’Fallon entered an official partnership with churches here when a mission team of eight from the church traveled to the region, Aug. 22 – 27, with financial backing from the Missouri Baptist Convention’s (MBC) Vivian McCaughan Missional Living Endowment Fund. Established in 2010 to support MBC partnership missions efforts, as well as other ministries, the McCaughan Fund now has helped to inscribe partnership missions into Lifepoint’s DNA. During their … [Read more...]
Kids Alive Int’l president challenges SBU students to serve
BOLIVAR — Al Lackey, president of Kids Alive International, visited the Southwest Baptist University campus on Sept. 22. Kids Alive is a global ministry that serves at 67 sites in 18 countries with a focus of rescuing orphaned, abandoned and at-risk children. Lackey has served as the organization’s president since 1996. Lackey spoke to SBU students in the 10 a.m. chapel service about the ministry of Kids Alive and why they do what they do. With an estimated 143 million children worldwide … [Read more...]
Prayers for Abedini, persecuted church
JEFFERSON CITY – A small crowd of about 50 on the Missouri Capitol front lawn joined Christians across the U.S. and 32 foreign countries Sept. 26 in praying for and remembering American citizen and pastor Saeed Abedini and the persecuted church. It was the two-year anniversary of Abedini’s imprisonment in Iran on charges of threatening national security by planting house churches there years earlier. While in prison, he has received inadequate medical care and faced beatings and death … [Read more...]
MBC’s Qi: ‘It’s a miracle that I’m a Christian’
ZHENGZHOU, China – A boy once lived in this city of nearly nine million people, sprawled out along the southern banks of China’s Yellow River, and dreamed of finding a medicine that would make his grandmother live forever. This boy, Roger Qi (pronounced CHEE’), loved his grandmother and often lived with her while his parents traveled for business. He promised her that one day he would discover this elixir of life and bring it to her. But he never dreamed that he would find it in … [Read more...]
Boko Haram gaining ground in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria (BP) – Boko Haram’s incessant capture of villages in northeastern Nigeria is gaining attention from United States and United Nations security officials, who say the terrorists’ victories are troubling and pose a serious threat to Nigeria’s overall security. The U.S. is “very troubled by the apparent capture of Bama and the prospects of an attack on [Borno state capital] Maiduguri,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a group of international … [Read more...]
Stand for religious liberty
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptists must boldly proclaim the Gospel as they fight for religious freedom in the United States and globally, David Platt said in an interview conducted by the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Platt, newly elected International Mission Board president, participated in an interview with Dan Darling, vice president of communications for the ERLC, focusing on religious persecution. The ERLC posted the interview, which took place during … [Read more...]
Fusion begins at MBTS
KANSAS CITY – Fusion, an International Mission Board (IMB) training project, began its training season here on the campus of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (MBTS) at the beginning of August, equipping college students to share their faith intentionally—even in some of the most difficult places in the world. Fusion was founded in 2005 by Scott Brawner, who currently serves as the IMB’s director of risk management. In 1998, he had founded another program, Faith Works Ministries, … [Read more...]
Street boys in Senegal find refuge
THIES, Senegal (BP) -- Moise Al-Jahani* clutches his green plastic bowl with dirt-crusted hands and shakes its contents side to side. Most street children, like this small boy, end many days with not much more than a few sugar cubes, a handful of beans and a handful of rice. But Jorge Reina is working to change that for Al-Jahani and other street kids. Every morning at Reina's house in Senegal, the bulky Venezuelan man wraps the dirty little boy in a bear hug, slathers spreadable … [Read more...]
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