Rankin encourages new missionaries as they begin ministries
GLEN ALLEN, Va. (BP)--God is moving in unprecedented ways around the world, and the International Mission Board appointed 12 new workers to join His work Jan. 10 at Staples Mill Road Baptist Church in Glen Allen, Va., in conjunction with an IMB trustee meeting.
Missionaries, lost world depend on funds from Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--Lives around the world are being eternally changed by Southern Baptists’ generous support of International Mission Board workers through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, IMB missionary Judy Miller says.
Wilma’s path across Caribbean sends missionaries into action
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| On the phone International Mission Board missionary Doug Millar reports from Mexico after Hurricane Wilma roars through the region: Click here to hear the full report. |
Two-year-old Sophie, the daughter of a Mexican Baptist youth minister, lives with asthma. She needs special medicine -– medicine that International Mission Board missionary Doug Millar has in hand. However, a five-foot wall of water at least a mile wide separates Millar from little Sophie in Cancún. He asks Southern Baptists to pray that God will part the flood waters so Sophie can access the most basic of human needs: air.
Homeschool Family Adventure offers fun, learning & renewal
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Summertime means playtime for most families, but for homeschooling families, it’s not always that simple. Parents and children involved in homeschooling may need a break from each other at the end of a long school year. That doesn’t mean you can’t have fun together, though.
Grateful Hondurans extend helping hand to N.C. Baptists
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP)--"Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over ... ." (Luke 6:38)
Rwandan refugees find asylum, salvation in The Netherlands
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands (BP)--When the Dutch government recently granted refugees Theogene and Esperance temporary asylum, the door opened for the couple to share how God's goodness transcends even the atrocities they suffered and witnessed in Rwanda.
Simple reading program leads 2,000-plus Cambodians to Christ
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (BP)–Some days, 74 Cambodian children cram into a simple 15-by-20-foot hut, built on stilts with a palm-leaf roof, to learn to read and write their own language. On this particular humid, cloudy day, while thunder rumbles in the distance, only 58 children and seven adults crowd in to learn about words — […]
God’s lightning-quick answer jump-starts new Ecuador church
QUININDE, Ecuador (BP)–Only a few moments after Southern Baptist missionary Jim Hogg wearily cried out for God to guide his failing church-planting efforts, God answered his prayer at a street-corner food stand. In September 1998, members of the Nueva Esperanza Church and Hogg began trying to start a church in Quinind, a city south of […]
Journeymen conquer fears to join God in every continent
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)–Missionary journeymen considered the possibilities of experiencing loneliness in an Asian metropolitan city; dining on monkey brains in India; failing to learn a new language in Europe; remaining forever single in Africa; encountering piranhas in South America; and other fears that might accompany a young adult’s commitment to serve two years in international […]
MK takes spiritual light into schoolmates’ dark world
GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY, Scotland (BP)–Thirteen-year-old Becca Baker is a missionary. Living in Scotland with her parents, International Mission Board missionaries Mark and Rozanne Baker, Becca herself is a light in her peers’ darkness. Becca probably is the only Christian student in a school of about 350 kids who live in the Spey River valley in Scotland’s northern […]
