SBC Life Articles by Jenny Rogers

Amsterdam. Berlin. Brussels. Frankfurt. Paris. Madrid. Rome. Premier cities like these in Western Europe conjure up images of vacation travel. Well-heeled tourists stand in line to snap photos of the Eiffel Tower, sample haute cuisine and spend fortunes on fashion and entertainment. But for millions of immigrants and refugees who call these cities home, there […]

      RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--"I've heard the beautiful sound of angels singing," said missionary candidate Marie Zimmerman.*
      She said angels sang after her own salvation experience, after she led a girl to Christ at camp and many times when she served as a journeyman missionary in the harvest field of Ukraine.
      "Not long ago I had the chance to hike through the mountains of Southeast Asia, and I listened for the sound of angels singing," Zimmerman said. "But I heard silence."

      RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Shangri-La: a hidden utopian paradise, tucked away in harsh Asian mountains.
      Shangri-La, dreamed up by author James Hilton in his 1935 novel, "The Lost Horizon," has captured the imagination of readers and explorers for years. And Bhutan, a peaceful country bejeweled with glacier-fed streams and the highest original forest cover of any country, fits the bill.

      RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Amsterdam. Berlin. Brussels. Frankfurt. Paris. Madrid. Rome.
      Premier cities like these in Western Europe conjure up images of vacation travel. Well-heeled tourists stand in line to snap photos of the Eiffel Tower, sample haute cuisine and spend fortunes on fashion and entertainment.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Southern Baptists will unite their prayers for the Drukpa, an unreached people group in the remote South Asian country of Bhutan, from 6 p.m. Friday, June 1, through 6 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2001.

SHREVEPORT, La. (BP)--More Southern Baptist seminary professors will be able to minister in strategic ways at Baptist seminaries overseas because of a $500,000 allocation made by International Mission Board trustees.

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)–Boyd Hall doesn’t fit the stereotype of a missionary whacking through the African bush with a Bible in one hand and a machete in the other. Hall carries a basketball. An International Mission Board missionary in Capetown, South Africa, Hall is one of the 600-plus volunteers staying at Windsor District Baptist Church’s “Tent […]

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)--Kangaroos and koalas, "g'day" and "no worries."

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)--Little pins, big pins -- just give 'em the pins! Olympic pins, produced by every company and organization imaginable, are the hottest things on Sydney's streets during the Games. People buy, sell, swap -- anything to get a pin. Some are free, some bring big bucks.

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)–Fourteen nations, plus Aussies from all parts of the country, are represented at Windsor District Baptist Church’s sprawling “Tent City” Olympic village in Windsor, Australia, just an hour from Sydney’s bustling Olympic scene. The volunteers hail from the United States, Canada, England, Germany, Kenya, South Africa, Japan as well as such Asian neighbors […]