NAMB Stories

Replant Summit scheduled for Aug. 24-25

Missouri Baptists can still register for the 2020 National Replant Summit, hosted at the Fellowship Church here, Aug. 24-25.

NAMB files en banc request, First Liberty Institute joins case

Citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board has asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a hearing by the full court in order to reconsider a ruling in a lawsuit filed by a former executive of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.

Federal appeals court allows McRaney lawsuit against NAMB to proceed

A federal district judge in Mississippi had dismissed McRaney’s lawsuit in 2019 based on NAMB’s position that the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine (also known as the religious autonomy doctrine, which prevents courts from deciding matters of faith such as religious doctrine) protected them from legal action.

Online curriculum, family discipleship tools available

The North American Mission Board (NAMB) is offering on its website a family discipleship plan created by August Gate Church, a Missouri Baptist church plant in St. Louis. The plan provides practical tools for leading a family in worship, reading of God’s Word and prayer.

Tomorrow’s missionaries serving today through GenSend

GenSend is NAMB’s missions development program that enables college-age students, age 18 to 25, to serve in a NAMB Send City for six-to-eight weeks and learn how to live their lives on mission. They come alongside missionaries in church planting and compassion ministry for an in-depth missions experience.

Answering life’s questions for Mongolians in Denver

Mojic Baldandorj, a 2020 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Week of Prayer missionary, immigrated to the United States specifically to revive Maranatha Mongolian Church in Denver and reach out to the large community of Mongolian immigrants who live there.

Missionary steps into unknown — one hour from home

“We got the sense that maybe God was calling us out from this place of comfort,” Kirkland recalled, “where we lived just a couple of blocks from our church and we got paid every Friday—kind of living the American dream.”

Silicon Valley Buddhist finds Christ at NAMB church plant

"We just want to keep reaching people, keep breaking barriers and just really trying to help people understand the value of the Gospel in their lives," Atondo said. "That's what we pray for. That's what we're constantly working toward, and it's so huge for us." 

NAMB trustees meet missionaries, celebrate Annie Offering report

"Please, every time you talk to a pastor, let them know how grateful we are. The church planting missionaries who were with us last night were very grateful for how we are investing in them, and I told them that is only possible because of the Annie Armstrong offering."

NAMB lawsuit defends church’s ministry expansion

CLARKSTON, Ga. (BP) – A couple of old, uninhabitable farmhouses from the 1900s are in the spotlight of a lawsuit between the North American Mission Board and the City of Clarkston, Ga.

College students see lives change through GenSend

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – A group of students in Calgary had the opportunity to share their faith with another student and saw him come to Christ. The next week, another team of students, 3,400 miles away in Puerto Rico, led a grandmother to Christ. In New York City, an unexpected subway detour led a student to a gospel conversation with a Muslim man.

FOURTH OF JULY: Chaplains, fog of war, flow of life

More than 160,000 troops landed at Normandy on D-day. An unknown number of chaplains were there as well, providing a comforting glimpse of God's presence in the chaotic fog of war.

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