Darryl Brown, front row left, assistant director of evangelism at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, is joined by Senior Associate Pastor Chip Luter, center; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary evangelism professor Preston Nix, first row right, and NOBTS students as they participate in door-to-door and street evangelism in New Orleans East during the spring 2024 semester.
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Jorge Lockward, left, minister of worship arts at the Church of the Village in New York City, leads a spontaneous group of United Methodists in singing after the vote to eliminate a ban on the ordination of gay clergy, at the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C., on May 1, 2024. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron)
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Pavel Urruchi has developed relationships with the workers on the backside of Churchill Downs. He has been the track chaplain since last November. Kentucky Today photo.
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May 1, 2024
New York police enter through a window of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University on April 30 to remove protesters. Screen grab from CNN
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May 1, 2024
Protesters at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall prepare for police to move in on April 30. Screen grab from CNN
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May 1, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
Christians displaced from their homes in Coamila and Rancho Nuevo, Mexico, enjoy a meal provided by fellow believers. CSW photo
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
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April 30, 2024
Students from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, host a medical clinic for the immigrant community in conjunction with The Branch, a ministry for internationals in southeast Nashville. The heart of the Nashville Diaspora Missions Collective is to connect churches to ministries such as this one to reach the nations in their backyards. IMB Photo
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April 30, 2024
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April 29, 2024
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April 29, 2024
Children play at the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 15, 2023. Kenya is seeking to replace orphanages with family-based care. AP Photo/Brian Inganga
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April 29, 2024
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April 29, 2024
Food For The Poor, which continues to minister and distribute food amid unprecedented gang violence in Haiti, hosted a prayer service for Haiti April 26 at Parkridge Baptist Church in Coral Springs, Fla. FFTP photo
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April 29, 2024
A representative from Sulphur, Okla., meets with Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief Elaine Crawford, a chaplain, and her husband Steve, an assessor, to gauge recovery and response after a deadly April 26 tornado outbreak. Photo from Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief
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April 29, 2024
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April 29, 2024
Raechel Myers and Amanda Bible Williams, founders of She Reads Truth™, recently received ECPA's Platinum Award for selling 1 million copies of the “She Reads Truth Bible,” published by Lifeway's Holman Bibles in 2017. Photo by Bailey Watley
Bishop Tracy Smith Malone speaks during a news conference after delegates to the 2024 United Methodist General Conference in Charlotte, N.C., voted in favor of a Worldwide Regionalization plan. The body voted for an amendment to the denomination’s constitution that will now go before annual conference voters for potential ratification. (Photo by Mike DuBose, UM News)
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April 26, 2024
Women's sports activist Riley Gaines, center, stands beside one of the young West Virginia athletes speaking out on competing against a boy in middle school track and field. Screen grab from X/@Riley_Gaines_
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April 26, 2024
Danny Torres, nacido y criado en el barrio de Bushwick de Brooklyn (Nueva York), bautiza a un nuevo creyente. Torres plantó la Iglesia Swerve en su comunidad en 2016 como parte de Send Network, el brazo de plantación de iglesias de la Junta de Misiones Norteamericanas (NAMB). Foto de la Iglesia Swerve
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Then interim IMB President Clyde Meador encouraged prayer for the new missionaries appointed at Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., Nov 10, 2010. “You make the difference as you pray,” Meador said. “You and I must pray boldly, undergirding the spread of the gospel around the world.” IMB Photo
“Lideramos con alegría”, dijo Seth Brown, director de relaciones con la convención de los bautistas de Carolina del Norte. "Estamos decididos a ser las personas más felices de la sala".
Members of West Side Baptist Church in Jacksonville paid the airfare for Olalere Bolaji Funsho to return to his home in Nigeria to visit his wife and meet his daughter. Funsho is in the United States to earn a biology degree and has been warmly welcomed by the congregation.
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April 25, 2024
Micah Singerman, IMB missionary kid, tells the story of David and Goliath to children in a Ugandan village. The 8-year-old volunteered to tell the story after watching members of his Ugandan church share chronological Bible stories each week. IMB Photo
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April 24, 2024
Pres. Joe Biden delivers remarks after the Senate's passing of an aid package for American allies. Screen capture
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April 24, 2024
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Tommy Meely, Gary Hawkins, Vincent White Cloud and Bill Johnson pray with people at a service at Towaoc Baptist Church.
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April 23, 2024
Gary Hawkins takes another look at the Scripture before preaching. Photo by Karen Willoughby
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April 23, 2024
Students gather for Graduate Sunday 2023 at Northport Baptist Church in Alabama.
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April 23, 2024
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April 23, 2024
Pastor Steve Gaines speaks during the opening session of the Awakening National Prayer Conference held April 18 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Photo by SWBTS
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Dan Darling and Brent Leatherwood discuss maintaining a Christian witness in the public arena during an online forum April 22 hosted by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
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April 23, 2024
“We lead with joy,” said Seth Brown, director of convention relations with North Carolina Baptists. “We are determined to be the happiest people in the room.”
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April 23, 2024
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April 23, 2024
Florida pastor Patrick Coats told attendees there is great need in helping churches understand the “why” of CP and to help “pastors understand they don’t serve alone.”
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April 23, 2024
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April 23, 2024
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April 22, 2024
Traditional Passover plate on a Seder table in Tel Aviv, Israel. iStock
Site Coordinator Katie Mueller ministers to women experiencing homelessness. She can empathize. Photo from Grace Seaford Church,
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April 22, 2024
Tyler Joyner, pastor of Willeo River Church, talks during the sending service with Chris Renfro.
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April 22, 2024
Lead Pastor Chris Renfro speaks at Hope Church Union Hill, which launched as Hope Church in August 2021 and has planted two churches with a goal of five by 2030. Photo from Hope Church
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April 22, 2024
Chris Renfro, lead pastor at Hope Church Union Hill, interviews Pastor Carlos Guevara of Somos Ecclesia and his wife, Jessica.
Destiny (red dress) and her mother, Yvonne (second from left) represent two of the four generations of the same family baptized by Worthington (third from right). Other church members are also pictured. Submitted photo