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Missionaries settle in Mormon area to kindle hearts for church planting

POCATELLO, Idaho (BP)–Missionaries Clay and Pat Coursey are returning to America to spend part of their retirement planting churches in a city with a heavy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints influence after 25 years of planting churches among Kenya’s Giriama people. In Pocatello, Idaho, a city of 75,000, Clay Coursey said, “Our desire […]

Aspiring writers in the Northwest receive training, encouragement

VANCOUVER, Wash. (BP)–More than 40 aspiring writers learned about newspaper and magazine journalism at a two-day conference in Vancouver, Wash., hosted by the Northwest Baptist Convention. The Feb. 4-5 Regional Reporter’s Training Conference drew participants from across the convention, which encompasses Oregon, Washington and part of Idaho, and also from Utah and Canada. “I was […]

At a rate of 20 toys every week, they witness to children & families

SALEM, Ore. (BP)–At age 83, Charles Foland and wife Pat, 78, have given away more than 500 personally handcrafted toys in nearly three years as a ministry to children and families in the Salem, Ore., area. Foland spends most of his days inside his modest wood shop crafting trains, planes, trucks, cradles and much more, […]

‘I have NOTHING to offer them,’ she fretted after first day in

MALINDI, Kenya (BP)–My first day out into the bushlands of Malindi, Kenya — what a flop! My testimony doesn’t work here. It’s too confusing. And my skin. It’s not white. The villagers LOVE white skin and are absolutely intrigued by it. I don’t have that either. I have NOTHING to offer them. But the next […]

Baptist trio takes early role in Honduran hurricane relief

CRESWELL, Ore. (BP)–Originally scheduled to repair well-drilling equipment, three Northwest Baptists were among the first volunteers to assist in the Hurricane Mitch disaster in Central America. As Dewayne Tiller and his 24-year-old son, Matt, and John Petty, all of New Hope Baptist Church, Creswell, Ore., flew into Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Nov. 2, the devastation of one […]

Children’s Christmastime sacrifice kindled his willingness to volunteer

CRESWELL, Ore. (BP)–Dewayne Tiller of New Hope Baptist Church in Creswell, Ore., began his missions adventures during the Christmas season of 1984. Tiller’s children were moved by several advertisements about hunger in the African country of Mali and asked their parents to give money to hunger relief in Mali instead of buying them Christmas presents. […]