Consider Your Ways in the New Year
by Don Whitney on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) - Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. "Consider your ways!" (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to...
Cornerstone Orange City Thankful for Changes in 2013
Cornerstone Baptist Church in Orange City recently completed some updates to their church building. This summer the church tackled a project of putting vinyl siding on the building. The project began with volunteer help from members of the congregation, and the...
IMB president witnesses church-planting movement in Cuba
By Will Stuart HAVANA, Cuba—The recent storm took everyone by surprise. It turned streets in Havana, Cuba, into rivers, lifting manhole covers on water bubbling from drainage pipes unable to contain the surge racing to the sea. In Vueltas, 180 miles to the east, rural...
FIRST-PERSON: ‘Whatever it takes’ to reach nations
Kevin Ezell EDITOR'S NOTE: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and Cooperative Program fund the presence and missions outreach of nearly 5,000 Southern Baptist personnel internationally. Gifts to the Lottie Moon offering are received through...
Grace, forgiveness taught in Nepal
by Tess Rivers EDITOR'S NOTE: Jewel and Lane Deckard* are Southern Baptist representatives serving in South Asia through Southern Baptists' gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions and Cooperative Program, which fund the presence and...
125 years of WMU and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
By Wanda S. Lee BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- WMU and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering are celebrating their 125th anniversary this year! The first missions offering for international missions was the result of pleas from Lottie Moon to the women of the churches to send...
‘Doesn’t matter,’ as homeless lament, tugs at Baptist staffer
by Tobin Perry ATLANTA (BP) -- Some interactions change your day. Others can change your life. Just ask North American Mission Board staff member Deborah McCutchen. McCutchen's interaction with a homeless woman under an Atlanta overpass as part of NAMB's annual Day of...
Missouri Baptists bring relief to Philippines
CEBU, Philippines (BP) -- Southern Baptists spent all of Monday Nov. 18 packing relief kits for the inhabitants of Gibitngil Island in the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan swept over the island, leaving the community battered and without easy access to relief supplies....
CP undergirds ministry to local community
HARRISBURG, Pa. (BP) -- The 190 people who worship on Sunday mornings at East Shore Baptist Church are spread pretty thin. They minister at a halfway house, truck stop, school and race track. They're also involved in biblical counseling, community outreach and...
Cowboy Church Draws Crowd
John Shaull, D. Min. Associational Missionary/Church Planter Catalyst Metro Baptist Association After a horsemanship demonstration by a guest, Pastor Mike Stanley of Right Turn Cowboy Church in Adel, preached on the parallels. He explained the parallel between a rider...
