Mike Ebert

NEW YORK CITY (BP) – North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees approved the 2024-2025 budget and celebrated missionaries serving as church planters and in compassion ministry throughout the metro New York City area as they gathered for meetings Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 7-8.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Meeting at the offices of the North American Mission Board (NAMB) in metro Atlanta May 6-7, members of NAMB’s Board of Trustees gained a greater understanding for the diversity of the city and the challenges that come with reaching it with the Gospel.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — In late 2019 and early 2020, a series of earthquakes hit Puerto Rico on the island’s south side near the city of Ponce. Iglesia Bautista Misionera, pastored by Rubén Rodríguez, had just affiliated with Southern Baptists and was being relaunched with the help of Send Network Puerto Rico.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- A diverse group of more than 120 pastors, association leaders, state convention staff and other leaders within Southern Baptist life gathered at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) in Alpharetta Friday, Nov. 10 for a multiethnic evangelism training event led by NAMB’s evangelism team. There were 45 different language or affinity groups represented at the meeting.

DENVER (BP) – Trustees with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) celebrated a new milestone in Annie Armstrong Easter Offering giving as they gathered for meetings in Denver on Oct. 2-3 and met several church planting missionaries who benefit directly from the offering.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Erin Bounds was a 16-year-old at a Lifeway (then Baptist Sunday School Board) Centrifuge camp when she realized she was at a crossroads.

LAS VEGAS (BP) – Trustees for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) celebrated a milestone of more than 10,000 churches planted by Southern Baptists since 2010 as 745 church plants were added in 2022. They also saw first-hand the work of church planting and compassion ministry missionaries who are reaching people for Christ and meeting needs in Las Vegas, a city where life’s extremes are on display more openly than perhaps anywhere else in North America.

MIAMI (BP) – Against a backdrop of Miami’s vast diversity and vibrancy, trustees with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) met to celebrate church planters and other missionaries who are reaching a region whose residents are, in some areas, nearly 60 percent foreign born. Trustees also welcomed news that recently retired pastor Ken Whitten will head NAMB’s leadership ministry.

CHICAGO (BP) – North American Mission Board trustees meeting here Oct. 3-4 celebrated a new, all-time high total for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering, visited with church-planting missionaries and celebrated salvation stories that motivate NAMB’s ministry efforts.

CHICAGO—Southern Baptists gave a record $68.9 million to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) in 2022, breaking the giving record for a second year in a row. Giving to the offering has exceeded records in five of the last six years.