Lauren Enriquez/LifeNews.com In one of his last films, which has not yet been released, Paul Walker played the husband of a woman who unexpectedly dies in childbirth. Walker is famed for his roles in “The Fast and the Furious,” and tragically died in a car crash earlier this month. In the film, his character’s daughter, born five weeks early, is hooked up to a ventilator which is her only chance of survival until she is strong enough to breathe on her own. When Hurricane Katrina … [Read more...]
National CP at 94.15% of budget goal
NASHVILLE (BP) – Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee are $30,050,253.40 or 94.15 percent of the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget goal, and are 1.75 percent below contributions received during the same time frame last year. The year-to-date total represents money received by the Executive Committee by the close of the last business day … [Read more...]
CP undergirds ministry to local community
Karen L. Willoughby/Baptist Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (BP) – The 190 people who worship on Sunday mornings at East Shore Baptist Church are spread pretty thin. They minister at a halfway house, truck stop, school and race track. They’re also involved in biblical counseling, community outreach and planting churches locally – in the Harrisburg, Pa., area – and globally – in the Caribbean and Africa. “Our call is to do what God desires,” said Brian Harrison, pastor for the past 11 … [Read more...]
Kan.-Neb. Baptists overcoming isolation
Eva Wilson/Baptist Press LINCOLN, Neb. (BP) – With nearly half the counties in Kansas and Nebraska lacking Southern Baptist churches, congregations there must purposefully connect to overcome the isolation they face, the president of the Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists (KNCSB) noted during their annual meeting. “We need each other,” John Shields said. “We need to overcome the vulnerability of our isolation by connecting on purpose.” Such isolation met Shields when … [Read more...]
Christ is worthy of your generosity, your all
Tom Elliff/International Mission Board RICHMOND, Va. (BP) –Years ago, in my wife’s home church, the pastor received an unusual call on Sunday afternoon from the chairman of the church’s finance committee. That morning, the church had begun collecting its annual Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions. As they were tallying the results in order to give a report that evening, the committee found an interesting response in one envelope. The envelope had been turned inside out, and … [Read more...]
Lottie Moon Offering at work in midst of disaster
GIBITNGIL ISLAND, the Philippines – “I have a different heart for Lottie Moon Christmas offering than than I did this time last month. In 23 years pastoring I’ve promoted Lottie Moon, I’ve showed videos about Lottie Moon, I’ve heard missionaries talk about Lottie Moon, but I did not know anything until I stepped on the field in the Philippines,” said Dwain Carter, director of Disaster Relief for the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC). What changed Carter’s mind was his recent trip to the … [Read more...]
A simple sign: ‘Help’
Caroline Anderson/Baptist Press MANLAGTANG, Philippines – They are a poor village with beautiful teeth. Beyond that, the people of Manlagtang, Philippines, are in a world of hurt. Their village, however, is off the main road and most relief supplies were making their way to larger, more accessible towns and cities. So the residents of Manlagtang put a sign out on the road that said simply: “Help.” When a BGR assessment team saw the sign, they decided to make the short walk into … [Read more...]
An incredible story of survival: Harrowing post-typhooon journey in the Philippines ends safely
Caroline Anderson/IMB MANILA, Philippines (BP) – The stench of rotting dead bodies was overwhelming. “I can’t breathe. It’s burning my eyes,” Makenzie Baker told three Filipino co-workers. With no choice but to continue, they trekked forward over the remains of buildings, animals and bodies in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan when most people were leaving the city of Tacloban. A graduate from Union University, Baker went to the Philippines to spend a semester serving through the … [Read more...]
Pastor Jeff Lunn on Lottie Moon
Pastor Jeff Lunn of the Park Baptist Church in North St. Louis, MO County highlights the life of a great nineteenth century missionary heroine, Lottie Moon. A southern aristocrat, she left her social status, homeland and family in sacrificially offering her life to share Christ’s love in China. Late in her live, during a time of famine, she gave away most of her food to her beloved Chinese, which eventually reduced her weight to 50 pounds. She basically died of starvation in a Japanese … [Read more...]
ERLC’s Russell Moore emphasizes gospel-centered political engagement
Tom Strode/Baptist Press WASHINGTON (BP) – A new, more conservative generation of evangelical Christians should engage politics, not retreat from it, because of the gospel of Jesus, Southern Baptist Ethicist Russell D. Moore says in the latest issue of First Things. Writing in the influential journal, the president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission says the apparent return to a confessional, gospel-centered faith among evangelicals – which he describes as “good news” – … [Read more...]
Bible in the bird’s nest; support our missionaries
The Nov. 15 Wall Street Journal featured an op-ed from Melanie Kirkpatrick in which she tells about North Korean families fleeing that nation’s horrific violations of human rights and, specifically, religious rights. While the young dictator, Kim Jong Un, is intoxicated by his authority to wield the power of government over the millions in his country, there are those in his nation and in ours who believe there is a greater authority. Kirkpatrick tells the story of a believing family … [Read more...]
Three hot dogs for three long weeks
By John Ambra DALLAS — All Anna Streeter saw in her refrigerator was three hot dogs and one bottle of apple juice. She was hungry and wanted to go to the grocery store, but her bank account was as empty as her icebox. Anna wasn’t used to needing to ask others for assistance. For more than 30 years, she had graciously ministered to those in need through the work of Southern Baptists churches. But now, at age 84, she had little left to live on besides a small pension and a modest Social … [Read more...]
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