By Tony Hudson EDITOR'S NOTE: This article highlights the ministry taking place on the North American mission field through support from the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The AAEO provides half of the annual funding for the North American Mission Board. Gifts to the Annie offering can be given through local Southern Baptist churches or online at … [Read more...]
Compassion ministry helps church planting missionary family “go big” in Puerto Rico
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
God’s Not Done Here: Church planter blends old with new to bring renewal to New Orleans neighborhood
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
NAMB AMS Replant Lab spurs hope, renewal for dying churches
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB) – Members of Bethany Baptist Church in North Little Rock, Ark., stared down the barrel of a problem facing hundreds of churches in the United States. The community around them had changed. Their church had not, and now, they were on the precipice of seeing their church fold. “They were down to just a handful of people who hadn’t met in their auditorium in probably 10 or 12 years,” said Greg Varndell, associational mission strategist (AMS) for the North Pulaski … [Read more...]
Reaching Montreal: Church plant led by former Muslim bringing gospel to unreached city
by Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
Collegiate church planting missionary sees God do “More than we could’ve have ever imagined”
By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]
Lifepointe, Fulton, reaches next generation
FULTON – In May 2023 four people banded together to start a new church in a community room of a recreation center in Fulton. As they launched, they quickly gathered about 20 attenders. Fast forward a little over 2.5 years later and there are now 475 attending in three worship services each weekend. Lifepointe Church of Fulton has been described as one of Missouri’s fastest growing church plants by Jason Zellmer, who heads up NAMB’s Send Missouri. Lead Pastor Travis Boyt says, “It’s … [Read more...]
Supreme Court declines McRaney case, ending lawsuit against NAMB
WASHINGTON (BP) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a years-long case brought by former Baptist state convention executive director Will McRaney against the North American Mission Board, upholding an appeals court’s decision to dismiss and essentially closing out the case. Two judges in a three-judge panel for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous dismissal in September. That majority decision pointed out that “church autonomy doctrine bars all of McRaney’s … [Read more...]
NAMB missionaries experience generosity: How the Annie Offering Is more than a gift
by Tony Hudson/NAMB ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB) – There's no way they could've known what was coming. When Jefferson and Carol Hernandez, Josh and Beth Glymph, Matt and Ruth Lahey, and Michael and Traci Byrd each got phone calls telling them they'd been selected to be Annie Armstrong featured missionaries, they were all appropriately humbled, honored, excited, and encouraged. But now, years later—now that they've experienced every unexpectedly amazing thing that happened because of the Week … [Read more...]
Southern Baptists respond to winter damage amid frigid temperatures
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist Disaster Relief units and Send Relief centers are responding to last weekend’s cold and lingering freezing temperatures, with more than 700 volunteers engaged in numerous efforts, including feeding, warming centers and cleanup units. The I-20 corridor along northern Louisiana experienced severe winter conditions through freezing rain and ice. As of 9 p.m. last night (Jan. 27), approximately 1,300 poles, 4,660 spans of wire and 310 transformers suffered … [Read more...]
Southern Baptist relief efforts battle cold, snow and ice
NASHVILLE (BP) – Until temperatures rise high enough and long enough to make roads more accessible, response to a winter storm stretching from Texas to the Northeast is going to have a more local focus, Southern Baptist leaders told Baptist Press, Monday (Jan. 26). “Send Relief is responding in different ways, alongside supporting Southern Baptist Disaster Relief in those states,” said Josh Benton, Send Relief’s vice president for North American ministry efforts. Five of Send Relief’s … [Read more...]
Cities Church leaders address Sunday’s worship disruption
ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – Leaders of Cities Church released a statement today (Jan. 20) addressing what they called the “shameful, unlawful conduct” of protestors that disrupted their church service Sunday, Jan. 18. The protestors “accosted members of our congregation, frightened children, and created a scene marked by intimidation and threat,” the statement said. “Invading a church service to disrupt the worship of Jesus – or any other act of worship – is protected by neither the … [Read more...]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 14
- Next Page »
