ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Southern Baptists gave a total of $49.3 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO), the North American Mission Board announced, Oct. 5. The amount was $20 million short of the $70 million goal and fell below last year’s total of $61.4 million, perhaps because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “For the last three years in a row [2017-2019], Southern Baptists broke the record for giving to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering,” said NAMB president Kevin Ezell. “This … [Read more...]
Executive directors from six state conventions allege, repudiate NAMB’s lack of partnership
VANCOUVER, Wash. (LBM) – Executive directors representing five Western state conventions and a Midwestern one have written a passionate letter, Aug. 12, 2020, addressed to Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board, and his trustees, as well as the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee and its president, Ronnie Floyd, repudiating what they describe as a lack of partnership in the new “Strategic Cooperative Agreement” that NAMB presented to “non-South Baptist state … [Read more...]
Fellowship Baptist Church, Lesterville, exceeds Annie Armstrong offering goals
LESTERVILLE – Fellowship Baptist Church of Lesterville has a history of working together and having fun doing it. Collecting this year for the Annie Armstrong offering was no exception. In fact, they had so much fun collecting that they shot past the goal of $6,000 to $10,824.41. “I’ve served as WMU director for the last five years,” Terry Bryant, member and financial secretary, said, “and I was asked to head up the collection.” “We’ve had a tradition of competition of teams for the … [Read more...]
Replant Summit scheduled for Aug. 24-25
GREENWOOD – Missouri Baptists can still register for the 2020 National Replant Summit, hosted at the Fellowship Church here, Aug. 24-25. According to Bob Bickford, associate director of replant for the North American Mission Board, the summit “will introduce different methods and models of replanting to those interested in knowing more about which options are best for their congregations.” “Replanting and Revitalization is not a one size fits all approach,” he said. “Each church is … [Read more...]
NAMB files en banc request, First Liberty Institute joins case
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – 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. Last month, a three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit remanded the case to a district court, reversing a dismissal decision from April 2019 that stated the court could … [Read more...]
Federal appeals court allows McRaney lawsuit against NAMB to proceed
NEW ORLEANS (LBM) – On July 16, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave Will McRaney, former executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, a procedural victory in his lawsuit against the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention “for intentional interference with business relationships, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.” The BCMD is an independent state organization of Baptist churches and the NAMB is a ministry … [Read more...]
Online curriculum, family discipleship tools available
ST. LOUIS – In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, free online resources are available to Missouri Baptist churches for Sunday school and small group classes, as well as for family discipleship. 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. To download the family … [Read more...]
Tomorrow’s missionaries serving today through GenSend
SAN DIEGO — Southern California sounded like a vacation spot to Ebbie Davis at first, not a location for serious mission work. Besides, the seminary degree she was working on at the time focused on international church planting, not North America. But as she looked at an opportunity to serve in San Diego through the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) GenSend program, a friend asked some questions about what her time there would entail. “I said, I’d be working with a church plant … [Read more...]
Answering life’s questions for Mongolians in Denver
DENVER — Thousands of people move to North America every year, many coming from nations and regions that have historically been difficult to reach with the gospel. 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. “America is a big mission field,” Baldandorj said. “We can see so many … [Read more...]
Missionary steps into unknown — one hour from home
CINCINNATI—Kirk Kirkland felt a stirring in his soul to start a church in the inner city. For seven years, he served as an associate pastor at the Baptist church where he grew up in Dayton, Ohio. “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.” Every year during a missions conference, he would hear testimonies from … [Read more...]
Silicon Valley Buddhist finds Christ at NAMB church plant
SAN JOSE, Calif. (BP) – On Father's Day 2017, Sophie Nguyen found herself in San Jose, close to 2,000 miles from her father back home in Granger, Ind. Nguyen and her boyfriend had moved across the United States to the Silicon Valley the year before. Since it was her first Father's Day without her dad nearby, she took up a friend on his invitation to Eden Church. Nguyen knew little about Christianity and didn't understand the songs the church was singing. But God drew her in anyway. "I had … [Read more...]
NAMB trustees meet missionaries, celebrate Annie Offering report
SAN FRANCISCO (BP) – North American Mission Board trustees gathered for their annual fall meeting Oct. 7-8 with much to celebrate as Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, announced to the group that Southern Baptists had given $62.2 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering in 2019. It marked an all-time high for the offering and the third consecutive year to break a record. "We are so very, very grateful for that," NAMB President Kevin Ezell … [Read more...]
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