SBC Life Articles by Brandon Elrod

DENVER (BP) – North American Mission Board (NAMB) President Kevin Ezell announced Monday evening that in 2023 Southern Baptists gave an all-time record $70.2 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American missions. Ezell shared the news during the annual fall meeting of NAMB’s board of trustees in Denver. For six of the last seven years, Southern Baptists have set records in their giving to the Annie offering.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Since 2020, Send Relief has encouraged Christians to support those around the world who experience both desperate material and spiritual need through an annual gift catalog.

PHILADELPHIA – Volunteers with Send Relief’s Serve Tour arrived to minister in Kensington, a neighborhood in Philadelphia known as a hotbed for drug abuse and addiction. Theirs was one of the largest projects of the Sept. 15-16 event that occurred in the city.

MARRAKECH, Morocco – The death toll from the major Sept. 8 earthquake in Morocco has climbed beyond 2,900 as first responders continue attempts to rescue people from the rubble. Send Relief leaders and partners are on the ground, meeting needs and assessing a long-term response.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber shared his optimistic outlook for the future as he visited the offices of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) Wednesday (Sept. 6).

COVINGTON, Ga. (BP) – Churches around North America recognized Global Hunger Sunday on Aug. 27, and many more will take the opportunity to encourage their congregations to support Global Hunger Relief throughout the remainder of the year.

VALDOSTA, Ga. – Hurricane Idalia moved offshore of the North Carolina coast Thursday (Aug. 31) after making landfall in Florida’s Big Bend the morning of Aug. 30 as a Category 3 storm and rolling across northern Florida, South Georgia and South Carolina, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power, downing trees and generating flash floods in its wake.

LAHAINA, Maui (BP) – Lahaina faces an uncertain future following the Aug. 8 wildfire that consumed the town. As survivors continue reckoning with the series of chaotic events that generated one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, local pastors and residents are asking what it will take to persevere through the tragedy.

MAUI, Hawaii (BP) – As the Aug. 8 Maui fires raged out of control in Lahaina, local churches on the island that were outside the burn area immediately began grappling not with whether they would respond but how.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Brant Fountain came to Christ while serving on a mission trip when he was 18. At least two of the students in his ministry recently came to him asking about baptism, and when Fountain asked to hear their testimony, they shared about the impact their 2021 trip to serve the Send Relief Ministry Center in Atlanta made on them.