FIRST PERSON: ‘My Teachers’
By Tommy Larner In August 2011, I saw the Amazon River for the first time. It was while I was traveling from Lima, Peru, to Iquitos, a city of approximately 700,000 people located in the Amazon Basin of Peru. The city is surrounded by rivers and is only...
Learn more about Engage Sochi, the 2014 Olympics Outreach
Marc Ira Hooks, one of International Mission Board (IMB)’s main strategists for the Sochi Olympics and creator of Engage Sochi, sat down with me to share the story and vision for Engage Sochi and what to expect with the upcoming Olympics. What is your official job...
March is a month of prayer for a harvest at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games
Praying for Sochi "You will call to Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you." - Jeremiah 29:12 Evangelical believers make up less than one percent of the population of the Sochi region. Engaging those without a personal relationship with Jesus Christ...
Five Questions to Ask to See If Your Church Is Dying
Please forgive me for the morbid and depressing title and content. I don’t think posts such as these encourage many of you. I guess the impetus for writing such an article is the work I am doing to finish my next book, Autopsy of a Deceased Church. I have dealt a lot...
Mohler, Hankins talk differences on Calvinism
By James A. Smith Sr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Southern Baptists need to "learn the table manners of denominational life" when discussing Calvinism, R. Albert Mohler Jr. said during a "conversation" with Mississippi pastor Eric Hankins at Southern Baptist Theological...
The 2014 SBC Compensation Survey
Compensation survey helps determine fair pay for Southern Baptist church pastors and staff Shelly Moon DALLAS — Ministers and church employees are invited to participate in the 2014 SBC Church Compensation Survey: a tool used by churches of all sizes to determine fair...
Muslim Ministry at The Salt Company
The Muslim Ministry at the Salt Company has been going for a year and a half now, and we are blessed with great student leaders and Muslim friends. I got to bring a Shia Muslim friend from Iran to a New Year's Eve party over winter break. We had a great time laughing,...
Remote village spiritual ‘battlefield’ for church
by Elaine Gaston CORDOVA, Peru (BP) -- When Eric Turner was growing up, he couldn't have dreamed God was preparing him to live two years in the Peruvian Andes. Now that he's been living there, Turner says Cordova, a farming village of about 300 in Peru, shares...
Training ‘anytime, anywhere’ via Ministry Grid ready for churches
LifeWay launches video-based service by Bob Smietana NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pastors know that well-trained lay leaders and volunteers are essential for the health of a local church. But implementing a training strategy can be difficult, said Todd Adkins, director of...
Missionaries take Gospel off the beaten path
by Elaine Gaston EDITOR'S NOTE: Members of two Iowa SBC churches, Van Meter Baptist Church in Van Meter and Crestwood Church in Des Moines have made several trips to Peru to reach out to the Aymara people of southern Peru, working along side IMB missionaries John...
