DALLAS, Ga. (BP) – Johnny Nix of Pickett’s Mill Baptist Church has asked volunteers to consider staying away. Like so many other churches, Nix and the Dallas, Ga., church he leads are locked in a battle with the flu. “We’ve instructed our volunteers and workers to postpone coming by for a couple of weeks if they or someone in their family has had it,” Nix told Georgia Baptists’ Christian Index newsjournal. “That may seem a little extreme, but we’re taking every precaution necessary.” And … [Read more...]
Tremendous help and difficult decisions in Sutherland Springs months after tragedy
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas – Six-year-old Ryland Ward, the last victim hospitalized from the Sutherland Springs massacre, returned home in style Jan. 11, riding in a crimson Wilson County fire truck driven by volunteer firefighter Rusty Duncan, who had rescued the boy from the Nov. 5 carnage. Ryland returns home to a world markedly different than the one he left—a new normal without his stepmother, Joann Ward, who died shielding her children from the shooter. Ryland’s sisters Emily and … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptists surpass Annie, MMO goals
JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri Baptist giving through the Cooperative Program (CP) fell slightly short of its 2017 goals, but giving to the Missouri Missions and Annie Armstrong offerings surpassed goals during the same period, according to final statistics reported earlier this month by the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). “We are very encouraged by the generosity of Missouri Baptist churches,” said John Yeats, Executive Director of the Missouri Baptist Convention. “On the whole mission … [Read more...]
Barbie doll comes out in support of gay marriage
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (WNS) – The recent push by toymaker Mattel for a more inclusive Barbie doll has gone beyond body types. In late November, the company revealed Barbie supports LGBT relationships. The post on the official BarbieStyle Instagram account shows Barbie with the fashion blogger Aimee Song–inspired doll, both wearing “Love Wins” shirts. The shirts are part of Song’s fashion line for Gay Pride month, and proceeds benefit an LGBT advocacy organization. “Such an inspiring … [Read more...]
2017 SBC Pastors’ Confab issues financial report
PHOENIX (BP) – In what may be the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference’s first public financial report, 2017 conference president Dave Miller noted expenditures of just over $400,000 for the Phoenix gathering plus an additional $100,000 provided by the Cooperative Program to help pay for meeting space. “As pastors of average and smaller churches, the costs of the conference boggled our minds,” Miller, pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa, wrote in a Jan. 2 … [Read more...]
‘Conversion: How God Creates a People’
Lawrence, Michael. Conversion: How God Creates a People. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 137 pp. $14.99. When people find out I’m a pastor, they often want to tell me about their relationship with God. These can be wonderful conversations; there are few things more encouraging than meeting people with an evident love for Jesus. More often than not, however, I leave those conversations discouraged. Many people identify as Christians but don’t seem to have any interest in Jesus or his church. … [Read more...]
Ancient DNA said to support Bible’s Babel account
TANANA, Alaska (BP) -- Ancient human genetic material harvested in Alaska has been cited by two creation researchers as corroborating evidence of Scripture's claim humans migrated en masse from the Tower of Babel. A study published Jan. 3 in the journal Nature claims DNA extracted from the remains of an infant girl buried in central Alaska suggests an ancient migration of people from East Asia, across a frozen land bridge, North America. After scientists extracted the DNA, they dated … [Read more...]
49 abortion clinics closed in 2017
WASHINGTON (Life News) – In a year that abortion businesses attempted to expand in America, the actual number of abortion facilities decreased by 27 clinics over 2016 totals. Closures far outpaced newly opened abortion facilities in 2017. In all, 49 abortion facilities — 35 surgical and 14 medication only clinics — closed or halted abortion services. Only eight new surgical abortion facilities were opened, along with eleven new medication abortion facilities. There was also some movement … [Read more...]
Factory or horseback, bivocational pastor thrives
EDITOR'S NOTE: Several keys for effective bivocational ministry follow this story. AUGUSTA, Kan. (BP) -- Each workstation is a flurry of activity. Plastic bottles stream down the conveyer belts. Hands reach out to adjust each bottle to face the same direction before they go to plastic wrap. Across the floor, someone shouts above the rickety-racket to shut down one of the machines and reload. Don Mayberry walks through the factory's maze of machines and activity, stopping to talk to … [Read more...]
Government probe renews calls to defund abortion
WASHINGTON (WNS) – Pro-life advocates hope a new U.S. Department of Justice investigation into Planned Parenthood (PPFA) marks a turning point for the nation’s largest abortion provider. On Dec. 7, the Justice Department requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, indicating it has launched a formal investigation into Planned Parenthood. In 2016, both the Judiciary Committee and The House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives did their own investigations into … [Read more...]
California again approves abortion pill reversal class
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP) – The California Board of Registered Nursing has given a green light – for the third time – to a class teaching nurses how to reverse drug-induced abortions. The board’s decision, coming just months after it decided to cut the class, surprised leaders of Heartbeat International, the Ohio-based nonprofit organization that offers the continuing education credit. See related story. “We thought it would be more paperwork involved and more of a protracted process,” … [Read more...]
Tracking abortion around the globe
JEFFERSON CITY – Abortion, just like any sin, is not limited to any one geographic area. Just as it is in Missouri, the battle over the unborn rages in the places where Missouri Baptists have partnered in making disciples, developing leaders, and multiplying churches. The following information comes from state health departments and national government reports. Minnesota-Wisconsin Last year, during their annual meeting, Missouri Baptists approved a state-to-state missions partnership with … [Read more...]
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