Nate Adams

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--In Acts 1:1-8, Jesus challenged His first followers with five bold new ways of thinking and behaving to change their world. They lay the foundation for a strategy many missions leaders today are calling the Acts 1:8 Challenge. Is your church considering it? Is your class or small group studying it?

Few people would debate that North America's "lostness" is deepening. Millions of people — in the United States, its territories, and Canada — still desperately need Christ. They need the gospel presented in ways they can understand. And they need churches to which they can relate. Though we in the United States have a profound […]

NEW YORK CITY (BP)--North American Mission Board President Robert E. Reccord witnessed firsthand Sept. 20-21 the devastation brought upon New York City by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers.
      "We've seen the bottom fall out, and God's people stand up," Reccord said after a brief tour of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief and chaplaincy sites. "We saw broken buildings and broken hearts, but not broken spirits."
      Reccord was accompanied on the visit by his wife, Cheryl, and a small group of other NAMB leaders.

Sitting at my grandmother's kitchen table didn't seem the same without the smell of fried chicken and hot biscuits in the air. But I knew I wouldn't enjoy that inviting fragrance and warm feeling again, at least not there. We had attended Grandmother's funeral that morning, and now sat at her kitchen table going through […]

While the Cooperative Program is now well-known and well-established among Southern Baptist churches, there was a day when cooperative giving was a bold, new idea. From 1919 to 1924, Southern Baptists participated in an unprecedented giving campaign that became the foundation for today's ongoing Cooperative Program. Prior to that time, special fund drives were common […]