SBC Life Articles by Jenny Rogers

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)–Kickboxing champ “Bazooka” Kishi Nami, tennis great Michael Chang, Micki McKenzie, Arthur Hollands — they’re all athletes Japanese revere. And they’re all aiming for a higher prize than gold medals: their Savior, Jesus Christ. So are 11 members of Tokyo Baptist Church, who have spent the past week in Sydney, Australia, sharing the […]

WINDSOR, Australia (BP)–Three months and counting before the massive Olympics festival comes to town — and you’re invited. “Our singular greatest need is for [volunteers] to have the courage to come out during those three weeks during the Olympics,” says Bill Whelan, deacon at Windsor District Baptist Church just outside Sydney. “I believe Australia is, […]

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Political upheaval. Death of spouses and relatives. Visa problems and rejections. Cultural barriers. Homes robbed and ransacked. Danger. International missionaries regularly face challenges like these, said Jerry Rankin, president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, at a May 19 recognition service for retiring IMB missionaries. Yet even in tragedy there is cause […]

CARROLLTON, Ala. (BP)--Pickens County, Ala., comes up on you like a clump of goldenrod on the roadside, so quickly you almost miss it. The neon lights and barbecue joints lie miles behind. Just up ahead, past small towns like Gordo and Elwood, past lanky loblolly pines and sloughs populated by turtles and cypress knees, is the sign for Carrollton, population 1,151, the Pickens County seat.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Looking for a free Internet site to tell the world about a people group? Need information to help you pray for the world’s lost billions? Try PeopleTeams.org on the World Wide Web. The site, established to help Christians learn about different people groups and their need for the gospel, was launched in October […]

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–“We were it,” he says. “There was no one else.” The war was just ending when Brad McLoren’s medical team received clearance into the country. Political tension ran high; devastated refugees had scattered; and the government forbade traditional missionary work. The only missionary family working with this particular people group was expelled shortly […]

RIGA, Latvia (BP)--Former Latvian President Guntis Ulmanis' nationally televised profession of faith in Jesus Christ continues to encourage the tiny evangelical community in the formerly communist country.

ROCKVILLE, Va. (BP)--It's time for Southern Baptists to take stock of the tremendous contribution Hispanics are making in the world of missions -- and for Hispanic Baptists to "rise up" and use their cultural gifts in missions around the world, a missionary to Latin America told Hispanic Baptist leaders.

RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–The count is in — and 500 of Southern Baptists’ more than 40,000 churches across the country have officially become Global Priority Churches. The Global Priority Church network, launched by the International Mission Board in 1998, encourages churches to develop God’s heart for the nations and step up global outreach ministries. “We’ve recognized […]

LIRA, Uganda (BP)--About 1,200 Ugandans accepted Jesus Christ as Savior during a volunteer missions project organized by Shalom Outreach Inc., a short-term missions agency working in partnership with the Southern
Baptist International Mission Board.
Shalom, known for its efforts to mobilize African-American evangelicals for missions, has been sending volunteers on short-term missions projects to Africa since 1996.
During the recent project in Uganda, 23 volunteers split into small groups to span the cities of Mbale, Soroti and Lira and conduct a fivefold project of pastor's conferences, women's conferences, youth ministries,
street witnessing and evangelistic crusades. They worked in conjunction with Southern Baptist missionaries, Ugandan Baptists and some other evangelical groups.