Once-rich Brazilian finds riches in Christ
EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2008 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions focuses on missionaries who serve in South America as well as churches partnering with them, exemplifying the global outreach supported by Southern Baptists’ gifts to the Lottie Moon offering. The 2008 theme is “Go Tell the Story of Jesus,” and the national offering goal […]
83 new IMB missionaries appointed
JONESBORO, Ga. (BP)–Monkeys, rope swings and alligators were all part of Adam Huser’s life growing up as a missionary kid in the jungles of Peru. Adam sensed many years ago that being a missionary may be his calling as well. That was affirmed the first time he and his father made the three-day trek to […]
72 new missionaries tell of God’s calling
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Journeyman Trevor Yoakum lay face down in mud on the side of a narrow highway in Nigeria. Gunfire exploded in his ears.
New missionaries recount their call
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (BP)--John and Elizabeth Kea have learned to never say never. The Keas were among 36 new missionaries appointed by the International Mission Board Jan. 30 in Gainesville, Fla.
‘Star’ pupil now shines for God
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--They call her Star. Not because she's famous, but because they hope she'll become a shining "star" for God to her family, neighbors and other women in her village. Star had not accepted Christ as her Savior when two nurses, Kelly Grimes* and Paula Denton*, arrived in her small North African village to teach women in northern Africa how to be midwives. But Star always seemed to be around for the Bible stories shared by Grimes and Denton, two-year missionary journeyman with the International Mission Board.
A year after war in Lebanon, the ‘real work’ now begins
SOUTHERN LEBANON (BP)--Ruined buildings, their walls peppered by bullets and shrapnel, still mark Lebanon's landscape a year after the 34-day conflict with Israel ended. Where homes and schools once stood, empty lots remain. On the surface, it doesn't appear much different from last summer when Baptist relief workers came to provide medical care for the injured, distribute blankets and heaters, water and food -- and Bibles -- to those who had been caught in the crossfire.
