Last-minute Lottie Moon
Are you short on time to put together a presentation to promote the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering this year? No problem! Whether you are the pastor or a missions leader, the IMB has designed several presentations below using these Web resources. Use them all, pick...
‘3 Circles,’ on a napkin or with an app, conveys the Gospel
By Tobin Perry JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (BP) -- As Derek Staples prepared for a mission trip to Honduras, he was on the lookout for a visual way to express the Gospel. The church mission team, in setting up a medical clinic at a local school, would be sharing the Gospel...
Lottie Moon: Giving Together – Propelled by God’s Word
What if thousands of churches came together this Christmas Season for the sake of spreading the gospel to all nations? An invitation from David Platt Learn more about the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and find resources at...
Speaking the Story at Christmas
By Ed Stetzer This Christmas season, don't pass up the opportunity to share the gospel with others. Without fail, every year, Christmas is the time of year I've seen the most non-Christians open up to the idea of Jesus and church than any other time of year. The...
Lottie Moon: ‘Scripture planting’ getting Gospel to unreached
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions in tandem with Cooperative Program gifts from Southern Baptist churches support approximately 4,800 international missionaries in seeking to fulfill the Great Commission. Gifts to the Lottie...
Mobilizing Churches to Plant Churches
As the North American Mission Board heads into the fourth year of the Send North America (SNA) Strategy, I have been taking inventory of all that God has done up to this point. We have seen the number of church plants increase from 769 in 2010 to averaging nearly...
CALL TO PRAYER: Anticipating Jesus’ coming
by Frank S. Page EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is part of the call to prayer issued by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to pray for revival and spiritual awakening for our churches, our nation and our world. NASHVILLE (BP)...
The Church and Mental Illness Part 1: Aspirations v. Reality
By Ed Stetzer A significant percentage of pastors aspire to address mental illness, but how many actually do? Mental health has been a hot topic of conversation lately, and rightly so, because the church honestly doesn’t know how to deal with the multi-faceted issue....
‘Hard to argue with’ CP success, pastor says
PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (BP) -- Maxine Warren takes home the coffee left over from fellowships at First Baptist Church in Pleasant Grove, Utah, not wanting to see it thrown out. She and her husband Louis, in their early 80s, were children during America's Great...
WORLDVIEW: Where global outreach begins
by Erich Bridges EDITOR'S NOTE: Missions columnist Erich Bridges, writing in conjunction with Southern Baptists' Week of Prayer for International Missions, notes that a vibrant spiritual relationship with Christ is foundational to global outreach. "One Sacred Effort...
