Malawian pastor perseveres despite deaths of 5 children
LIMBE, Malawi (BP)–Pastor Samuel Chilokoteni drums his hand on the pulpit, keeping time to a hymn. There’s no microphone on the podium at this rural, dirt-floored church near Blantyre, Malawi. But you can clearly hear his voice above the others. “There is power, power, wonder-working power,” he sings enthusiastically in Chewa, the main tribal language […]
Ecuadorian tells of release from the grips of alcohol & persecution
QUITO, Ecuador (BP)–When Manuel Pumisacho accepted Christ as Savior, he was so drunk he could barely walk. Pumisacho, a Quichua Indian from Zambiza, Ecuador, had just left his favorite bar. His shirt was torn and bloody from a fistfight. As he staggered down the street toward home, Pumisacho began to sense God’s presence. “Why am […]
Descendants of African slaves find freedom from power of evil
PARMARIBO, Suriname (BP)–A downpour pelts Tim McClard as he floats down the Suriname River in a dugout canoe. The night is so dark that McClard, a Southern Baptist International Mission Board missionary from Farmington, Mo., can hardly see who’s in front of him, let alone the river ahead. But he’s not worried. He knows who’s […]
Teens wrestle with God’s call during Ecuador missions camp
QUITO, Ecuador (BP)–Missionary David Blanton gazes across Quito’s Alameida Park, a Yankees baseball cap shading his face from the intense equatorial sunlight. Nearby, Ecuadorian children chase each other around a circle of friends seated on the ground. It’s recreation time during Vacation Bible School at the neighborhood’s Central Baptist Church. Several Southern Baptist teens — […]
Power of prayer stirs, saves Taiwan’s leading criminal
TAIPEI, Taiwan (BP)–Chen Chin Hsing once said he’d raped so many women that he’d lost track of the count. Besides rape, he’s been convicted of kidnapping, gunrunning and murder. By all accounts, he’s considered Taiwan’s most notorious criminal. Today on death row in a Taiwan prison, Chen awaits a June execution for his crimes. But […]
Missionary Marie Carter dies in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (BP)–Marie Blocher Carter, a Southern Baptist International Mission Board missionary in Argentina, died March 23 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was 59.Carter, from Lee’s Summit, Mo., became ill March 13 with flu-like symptoms. She was admitted to British Hospital in Buenos Aires March 19 with a lung infection. Doctors later diagnosed her […]
Mexican Baptists mobilize for international missions
MEXICO CITY (BP)–Mexican Baptists embraced their responsibility to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during a historic international missions congress in Cuernavaca, Mexico. A total of 44 Mexican Baptists — almost a fourth of the participants — publicly committed to international missions service during the February congress, the first nationwide global missions […]
Construction volunteers in Cuba to undergird evangelism, missions
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (BP)–At least 80 Southern Baptist construction volunteers are expected to undergird the evangelistic and mission work of the Baptist Convention of Western Cuba during 1998. Their tasks — which begin with a team headed to Cuba March 1 — may not sound all that spiritual. Some will finish remodeling bathrooms and help […]
Western Cuba Baptists to begin mission board
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (BP)–While the world wonders what changes may come from Pope John Paul II’s visit to Cuba in late January, Baptists in the island nation are responding to God’s spirit and moving to reach the world for Jesus Christ. The Baptist Convention of Western Cuba voted to begin its own home and international […]
Volunteer’s bold witness makes impact in Germany
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (BP)–Darwin Spinks, 72, never meta stranger. That quality served him well as a recent SouthernBaptist volunteer in Germany. While working outdoors on aconstruction project at a Baptist church in Hildburghausen,he called out to almost all passersby to get theirattention. If someone stopped, he dropped his work to sharethe gospel. Never mind that he […]
