Leaders in Training: preteens serve inner-city San Antonio
By Jane Rodgers SAN ANTONIO (Southern Baptist Texan) -- The sullen teenager cracked a smile when an exuberant fifth grader handed him a nametag sporting a smiley face. At 14, he was too old for Kids Power Camp at San Antonio's Riverside apartments, but he was tagging...
Pastor Appreciation Month: 5 Ways to Say Thanks
by Thom S. Rainer Here are a few tips on how you can speak your pastor's love language. With apologies to Gary Chapman for playing on his well-known Five Love Languages theme, I asked 24 pastors how a church member might speak to each pastor in his own love language....
Transformational Church
by Mike Bergman On Monday Oct 6, I went to a Transformational Church conference in Ozark, MO, with a couple of fellow pastors. After a day of listening to Ed Stetzer and Micah Fries discuss what could properly be called issues of church revitalization, we headed home...
CALL TO PRAYER: One more precious soul
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)...
Hunger Is Everyone’s Problem
By Kevin Ezell For many in North America, hunger is someone else’s problem. It’s the emaciated children halfway around the world. It’s people who live on the other side of the tracks. And, occasionally, it’s the person holding a cardboard sign at a freeway exit. But...
New SBC Pastor Care Line Helps Pastors in Crisis
By Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist pastors struggling through personal or professional crisis now have a confidential place to turn, thanks to a new partnership between the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and Focus on the Family. The care line...
10 Strategies for Recruiting Church Workers
By Chuck Lawless I hear it all the time: “Dr. Lawless, we just don’t have enough laborers in our church. Those who are serving are overworked, and too many people do nothing.” Perhaps these ideas will help you if your church faces this issue. Prioritize a strategy to...
Warrens to host mental health awareness event online
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP) -- On World Mental Health Day, Oct. 10, Rick and Kay Warren of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., will host "24 Hours of Hope," a free global online event to encourage individuals living with a mental illness; to educate and support...
SBC Leaders, Missionaries Pray For Gospel Advancement
By Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist leaders and missionaries serving throughout the world came together at 10:02 on the morning of Oct. 2 through a webcast to pray for spiritual awakening and to ask God to provide laborers for the vast mission fields of...
M&Ms
By Gene Stockton One of my favorite types of candy is M&Ms. If I get bag in my hands, regardless of the size, I just keep popping them in my mouth until the bag is completely empty. Just to give you an idea how much my taste buds savor M&Ms, I’ve got an...
