Compiled by B&R BRENTWOOD — This Valentine’s Day, the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation hopes to spread love and warmth to Syrian refugees living in Jordan. The Foundation is asking people to donate $25, which supplies a blanket to a refugee family. They are also encouraging people to donate blankets in their communities to help meet local needs. “We want to do everything we can to meet the physical and spiritual
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector CLARKSVILLE — Baptists in Cumberland Baptist Association, headquartered in Clarksville, know they can travel to minister in India only on occasions. For ministry to be effective there, it is imperative that Christians with a heart for their lost countrymen are trained to be missionaries to plant churches in the remote villages of India. Thus, Mission Voice Network Ministries in India was formed in
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector DYER COUNTY — Instead of resting, catching up on their homework, or working some extra hours at their part-time jobs on their day off from school last week for Martin Luther King Day, about 220 teens here conducted service projects and considered God. They were participating in the 12th annual Jerusalem Project of Dyer Baptist Association. “I see a sea of
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Earlier this year when the Southern Baptist International Mission Board announced that it needed to eliminate 600-800 positions, Southern Baptists were saddened and shocked. IMB leaders have allowed the idea to propagate among Southern Baptists that there is a financial shortfall. The cutbacks did not occur because Southern Baptists didn’t give. Cooperative Program giving on the national level has increased in small increments
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BYRDSTOWN — When Eric Thoman (pronounced Toh-mahn) came to Etter Baptist Church here about four years ago, he was glad to be called as pastor of a church which was so supportive of Southern Baptist efforts. He was a North American Mission Board missionary in Ohio for seven years who was downsized because of restructuring by the Southern Baptist Convention agency.
By Julie McGowan IMB news office RICHMOND — The International Mission Board is in a position, financially, where no missionaries will be required to leave the field as the organization wraps up its two-phase reset, IMB President David Platt announced Jan. 14. The majority of the IMB’s Richmond Communications Center, however, will lose their positions, Platt also announced. The Communications Center will be eliminated, he said.
By Eric Atkins Pastor, New Friendship Baptist Church, Cleveland Several months ago our church received a certificate and letter from the International Mission Board congratulating us on reaching one of the four Lottie Moon Challenge Levels. New Friendship has received these certificates before so I wasn’t surprised to receive another one. This year, however, it is starting to feel much different. In the weeks since, news about the IMB’s Voluntary
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R A friend of mine heard the only thing that matters between birth and death dates is the “dash.” So he challenged himself with a motto on his cell phone: namely, “Max the dash!” A baby named Lottie Moon was born on Dec. 12, 1840 and died Dec. 24, 1912 at age 72. But, oh, how she maxed the dash! You may not hear the
Baptist Press GREENFIELD, Tenn. (BP) — The men at Bethel Baptist Church reach out to the unchurched men in their community each autumn by showing off their culinary skills at a wild game supper, preparing turkey, deer, raccoon, crappie, catfish, rabbit, duck and other critters. Meanwhile, the congregation’s Women on Mission excel each year at promoting missions, noted David Worley, pastor of Bethel Baptist in Greenfield, Tenn. In 2014, for
Missionaries Ted, Beverly Holmes plan to return to “our home” in Poland By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Instead of a “Pauline Damascus Road experience,” it was a quiet voice, the nudge toward, “This is the way. Walk in it,” said Ted Holmes of the couple’s decision to stay with the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board as missionaries to Poland. He referred to Isaiah
Compiled by B&R BRENTWOOD — This Valentine’s Day, the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation hopes to spread love and warmth to Syrian refugees living in Jordan.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector CLARKSVILLE — Baptists in Cumberland Baptist Association, headquartered in Clarksville, know they can travel to minister in India
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector DYER COUNTY — Instead of resting, catching up on their homework, or working some extra hours
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector Earlier this year when the Southern Baptist International Mission Board announced that it needed to eliminate 600-800 positions,
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector BYRDSTOWN — When Eric Thoman (pronounced Toh-mahn) came to Etter Baptist Church here about four years
By Julie McGowan IMB news office RICHMOND — The International Mission Board is in a position, financially, where no missionaries will be required to leave
By Eric Atkins Pastor, New Friendship Baptist Church, Cleveland Several months ago our church received a certificate and letter from the International Mission Board congratulating
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R A friend of mine heard the only thing that matters between birth and death dates is the “dash.” So
Baptist Press GREENFIELD, Tenn. (BP) — The men at Bethel Baptist Church reach out to the unchurched men in their community each autumn by showing
Missionaries Ted, Beverly Holmes plan to return to “our home” in Poland By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector NASHVILLE — Instead of
