New Mexico Children’s Home Offering Seminary for Houseparents | Baptist Press
PORTALES, N.M. (BP) – Some ideas are so simple, so needed and so good, it’s hard to figure out why it took so long to think of them.
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FIRST-PERSON: Calling future leaders | Baptist Press
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (BP) – Christian leaders face a significant challenge of staying focused on our core mission of making disciples. Doing this requires evangelizing the lost, stabilizing new converts, developing stronger believers, and ultimately producing new leaders for our movement. There are so many other distracting agendas – political, social,…
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Georgia Church Disowns Suspect, Says He Betrayed Faith
The church attended by the White man charged with killing eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, most of them women of Asian descent, condemned the shootings Friday and said they run contrary to the gospel and the church’s teachings.
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United Methodist Church Names New Appalachian Trail Chaplain
The United Methodist Church announced Chris Estus as its ninth Appalachian Trail chaplain this week. Mostly, the ministry on the trail involves serving the hiking community, bridging the gap between the community and the church, and inspiring others to find innovative ways to serve those around them.
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Asian American Churches Plan Acts Beyond Prayer for Healing
Asian American Christian leaders said Thursday their congregations are saddened and outraged after a White gunman killed eight people — most of them women of Asian descent — at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. And they’re calling for action beyond prayers.
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Teenage homelessness spurs church planters’ move to Las Vegas | Baptist Press
LAS VEGAS (BP) – Joseph Gibbons and his wife Kristen had been involved in youth ministry in Alabama for a while when God started tugging on their hearts about church planting.
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FIRST-PERSON: The power of extraordinary prayer | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – Extraordinary prayer is experienced when you pray beyond your normal practice of prayer. If you ordinarily pray five minutes a day or an hour a day, anything beyond your ordinary becomes extraordinary.
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‘What if we did this together?’ – Churches merge to reach Charlotte | Baptist Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) – One was a young church plant, a few years old and outgrowing their meeting space. The other was an older congregation located on Charlotte’s “main vein,” with a desire to reach the city in a fresh way. Two churches with different demographics and histories ultimately offered…
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FIRST-PERSON: Darkness is a powerful reminder | Baptist Press
CENTRAL ASIA (BP) – Last night at sunset the electricity in our neighborhood flickered off. I stalled my dinner prep in hopes that the lights would return quickly, but in the end we enjoyed a candlelit meal and reminisced about our early days on the mission field, when the electricity…
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Chicago pastor gets creative to change his community | Baptist Press
CHICAGO – Corey Brooks plans to clean up Chicago, one neighborhood at a time, and he started in one of the worst: Woodlawn.
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Vatican says Catholic Church can’t bless same-sex marriage: God ‘cannot bless sin’
The Vatican released a statement Monday announcing that churches have no power to bless same-sex marriage since God cannot bless sin, which clarifies Pope Francis stance on same-sex unions
