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EASTER OFFERING FUELS MISSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA

February 26, 2020

By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] The Week of Prayer for North American Missions is fast approaching — March 1-8. Thousands of Baptist churches will be focusing on missions all across North America on these dates, praying for specific missionaries, including Rob and Annabeth Wilton in Pittsburgh, Pa. The Wiltons have Tennessee ties. See story. Then, on Easter Sunday, or even before, Southern Baptists across the nation will

ORR: RACIAL RECONCILIATION BEGINS WITH MISSIONS

February 21, 2020

By Ann Lovell IMB Editorial Design Manager SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Bartholomew Orr believes in racial reconciliation, and he believes that reconciliation comes through a shared commitment to missions. Orr has served as senior pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, since 1989. A vibrant church with a rich history, Orr and his congregation want to serve as an example of a church that leads the way in local,

SEEDS SPREAD IN STEEL TOWN

February 18, 2020

Missionary wants to make gospel part of Pittsburgh’s renewal By Brandon Elrod NAMB News Office PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh has, in decades past, been synonymous with steel. In the years following an economic hit to the blue-collar town, the city has been experiencing a renaissance as technological and medical companies are beginning to thrive. While the economic renewal has been a boon for the city, missionary Rob Wilton is praying and

IMB SENDS OUT 23 MISSIONARIES

February 6, 2020

IMB news office RIVERSIDE, Calif. — Representing Southern Baptist churches throughout the United States, 21 International Mission Board missionaries were publicly celebrated during a service at Magnolia Church in Riverside, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 29. The missionaries were voted on and approved by IMB trustees earlier in the week in California. Jeff Iorg, Gateway Seminary president, delivered the message at the service, spurring the congregants and missionary appointees toward their missional

BAPTIST WORK IN VIETNAM HITS CLOSE TO HOME FOR OKLAHOMA PASTOR

January 13, 2020

By Catherine Finch IMB writer As French McLemore rode through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the last thing he expected to see was a sign for a Baptist church. Born in Ho Chi Minh City, or Saigon as it was once known, McLemore and his family lived there until two days before the fall of Saigon in 1975. McLemore’s Vietnamese mother met his father, a full-blooded

AWAKENING IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN

January 8, 2020

By Bryan Pittman Family pastor and missions strategy leader, Lee Road Baptist Church, Taylors, South Carolina In Japan, statistics show that 99 percent of the population does not have a relationship with Christ. Those statistics represent people—living, breathing image-bearers of God whom Jesus Christ died to save. While the task of reaching them with the gospel seems daunting, God is stirring the church in Japan to reach the nation. Even

MORE THAN A GIFT

December 26, 2019

Christmas Food Project is life-changer for some By David Dawson Baptist and Reflector [email protected] BRENTWOOD — Purchase, pack and participate. Those were the three ways that the staff at Brentwood Baptist Church encouraged its members to become involved in this year’s Christmas Food Project — an initiative that focuses on combatting food insecurity in Middle Tennessee. The church responded in a big way, with roughly 1,000 people attending “packing nights”

HOPSONS: LIVING OUT LOTTIE’S VISION

December 23, 2019

Tennessee family leaves comforts of America to reach Africa for Christ By Carla Harper Contributing Writer, B&R KAMPALA, UGANDA — After going on several short-term mission trips together, Tommy and Marcia Hopson, who both grew up in East Tennessee, fell in love with missions. Even though they had a wonderful group of family and friends and a life they loved, they knew they were called to full-time foreign ministry. Today,

COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: WHEN MISSIONARIES CRY

December 20, 2019

By Art Toalston Contributing writer, B&R Maybe you’ve seen a missionary cry. Interviewing a missionary in Ecuador some years back, my heart was gripped when he spoke through tears of the persecution experienced by the indigenous people he worked among in the Andean mountains. It was midday, we were in a cold, dark room. All I could do was sit there and dig for empathy within my soul as he

GOD WORKING THROUGH SBC MISSIONARIES

December 10, 2019

By Paul Chitwood President, International Mission Board Looking back on my first full year as your IMB president, the words that come to mind are: “Thank you.” Thank you, Lord Jesus, for saving souls across the globe daily amid hardship and persecution, and for upholding Your servants as they go forth to share Your gospel. Thank you, Southern Baptist family, for placing your confidence in me to lead our missionary

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EASTER OFFERING FUELS MISSIONS IN NORTH AMERICA