Thanks to Southern Baptists, IMB in ‘much healthier financial position’
By Julie McGowan RICHMOND, Va.—The International Mission Board expects to operate a balanced budget for 2017 due to its 2015-16 organizational reset processes and the generosity of Southern Baptists who have given sacrificially, IMB President David Platt told the...
Supporting Discipleship Teams
Teams need expectations, definition, communication and proper tools By Ed Stetzer One of the more common roles in a church is discipleship leader. Recently, as I was updating Planting Missional Churches for its next edition, Daniel Im and I listed discipleship...
God, America, and politics: 5 major issues facing genuine evangelical believers
By Ronnie Floyd God-talk is filling the campaign trails across America. The candidates and their public conversations about God range from comfortable to unfamiliar. Often, this results in confusion within the minds of Christian voters about whom they should support....
DR teams continue work amid Flint water crisis
by Roger Alford/Kentucky Today FLINT, Mich. (BP) -- Teams of Kentucky Baptists with expertise in providing clean drinking water to villagers in Third World countries are planning to head to Flint, Mich., next week to install water purification systems for Flint-area...
Reaching internationals at the Salt Company Ames
By Marco Del Rosario Rivera, Iowa State student with The Salt Company Ames I was sitting in the dining hall on our campus on a Friday when I checked my phone and saw that I had received an email from someone I didn’t know. Sarah Day, a leader in our church had...
You Can Do This
by Diana Davis Let’s suppose that your boss is not a believer, and you are personally assigned to tell him or her about God. This is not an imaginary story; it’s a fact. God has commissioned every believer (that’s you) to share His plan of salvation with those who...
The ONE Conference Invitation
The ONE Conference April 1-3, 2016 Des Moines, Iowa The BCI and 1229Ministries would like to extend an invitation to all women across Iowa to join us for ONE 2016. What is ONE? ONE is a gathering of women who long to see Jesus exalted in their lives. It is a weekend...
Life Changer Missions adds Evangelism project for Sioux City, June 18-25, 2016
by Gene Stockton, Pastor Heartland Community Baptist Church, Sioux City LifeChanger Missions is taking on an added dimension in 2016. We have added a missions/evangelism option to our projects. You can bring your group to work home repair projects or you can bring...
Youth curriculum debuts: 6-year free resource
by Michael Foust FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Richard Ross has spent most of his life leading youth to a deeper relationship with Christ, so he didn't hesitate when he felt God's call to develop a small group curriculum for teens and young adults. But even Ross was...
Learning to love foreigners well
Check out this article by Lori McDaniel http://flourish.me/learning-to-love-foreigners-well/
