Like many Southern Baptist congregations, Calvary Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Ky., has been involved in outreach efforts in the past. But this spring will see the congregation join others in its association touching the community in a way never attempted.
The North American Mission Board has informed members of the Great Commission Task Force (GCRTF) that data it gave them last summer regarding the geographic distribution of missionaries in North America contained a significant error. The NAMB error resulted in incorrect data being published in the “Progress Report” issued by the GCRTF February 22.
A sobering state-of-North America message was voiced to 320 church planting missionaries by the North American Mission Board's interim president during the 2010 Church Planting Missionary Forum.
Last week, I was overwhelmed when I was handed one of the most generous gifts I have ever received to put toward Southern Baptist Disaster Relief efforts in the devastated country of Haiti.
As local entertainers hit the streets of Vancouver to play for change, Southern Baptists gather on the same streets and pray for change. Volunteers from across the U.S. and Canada provide radical hospitality to Olympic spectators by serving coffee, providing maps of the city and sharing smiles to sow seeds of the gospel. View / Download
Barely noticeable on a lapel, a pin carries weight at the Olympic Games. This is why Sid “The Pin Man” Hopkins stands near an escalator at the Bridgeport SkyTrain station in downtown Vancouver—his vest, hat, coat and lanyard form a mosaic of pins from around the world.
Take the children at your church to Vancouver and Whistler with these missions lessons, which leverage the popularity of the Winter Olympics to show how missionaries and volunteers are sharing Christ to people from around the world. More >
The “Buckets of Hope” initiative for Haiti Relief has taken on a life of its own – so successful that an estimated 150,000 food buckets will be delivered to a Hialeah, Fla. warehouse in late March, and later shipped to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, to help combat hunger in the earthquake-devastated country.
After eight Olympics and nearly three decades in ministry, North American Mission Board missionary Debbie Wohler still discerns God’s work in hindsight like the rest of us.
Six weeks after the initial 7.0 earthquake brought Haiti to its knees, yet another aftershock rattled the devastated Caribbean country in the early morning hours yesterday (Feb. 22).
The search for the next North American Mission Board president will accelerate after Feb. 22, when the Great Commission Resurgence (GCR) task force is scheduled to issue its preliminary report during the SBC executive committee meeting in Nashville.
Almost 490 young people from 15 states – high school, college and seminary students – converged at “KALEO: Georgia ‘10” at Macon’s Ingleside Baptist Church Feb. 5-6 as part of their ongoing search to find God’s will for their lives.
From yards away Lyndon Rush’s red coat and tall frame are easy to spot shuffling among skis, snowboards and tourists. They’ve come to Whistler to ski, relax, shop and watch elite athletes like Rush, Canada’s number one bobsled driver. More >
God is at work at the 2010 Winter Olympics, and Southern Baptists are too. In this video, travel to Vancouver with North American Mission Board missionary Derek Spain and see the creative ways that missions volunteers are sharing Christ’s love with people who are in Canada for the Olympics. View / Download
Leaders of Southern Baptists’ response to the Haiti earthquake agreed last week on a coordinated plan for a long-term relief effort that focuses on working through an existing network of Haitian Baptist churches.
Against the backdrop of a land as rugged and wild as it is spiritually lost, the North American Mission Board commissioned 30 new missionaries and chaplains Sunday, January 24, many of whom will serve Alaska and it’s northern neighbor, Canada.
