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David Platt, president of Southern Baptists' International Mission Board, notes that the North American Mission Board's focus "to plant and revitalize churches" -- supported by the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering -- is key to spreading the Gospel "in this nation and to all nations."
Mark Lashey had zero desire to live in Delaware. From his perspective, there was no sweet tea, no biscuits. Children there didn't say sir and ma'am. The Northeast seemed both cold in terms of relationships and climate. Then he started praying during his neighborhood jogs, and God gave him a burden for the community.
Church planter Jonathan Land, one of the featured missionaries in this year's Week of Prayer for North American Missions, has carried his Texas family legacy to South Dakota. Land is the great, great, great, great grandson of Josiah H. Bell, who helped start the first Protestant church in Texas.
Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 4.81 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection, and are 2.97 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Frank S. Page.
New survey: 81% embrace religious freedom for those who uphold traditional marriage, according to findings announced by the National Religious Broadcasters and Family Research Council.
I took a break from meditating about tomorrow’s Super Bowl to read Chapter 16 of a book by Michael Allen Rogers with a news-you-can-use title, What Happens After I Die? (Crossway, 2013). Early in th...
Vicars in rural Britain are rushing between multiple churches to take Sunday services while their congregations are dying off faster than they can be replaced, according to a new report.
Equipping leaders, preparing children for missional living and focusing on small church ministries will be Woman's Missionary Union priorities through 2018, WMU Executive Director Wanda S. Lee announced at the group's 2015 board meeting.
Emmanuel Baptist Church strengthens its commitment to win souls by praying for sister churches and by "cooperating to push back darkness" globally through its Cooperative Program support for Southern Baptist missions and ministry.
Southern Baptist pastors show a continuing increase in confidence that the Cooperative Program supports ministries and missions valued by their churches. According to a 2014 survey, their confidence moved up to 81 percent from 73 percent in a 2012 survey that asked the same questions of pastors and 71 percent in a 2008 survey that included pastors, laypersons and other church staff.
