News Articles in North American Mission Board

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Josh and Beth Glymph are different, but not in the way people might expect.

BOSTON (BP) – “What’s someone like you doing in a place like this?” When Faith Garland goes where she goes, that question is bound to come up eventually. And perhaps the best response she can give is this: Sometimes, it takes a prodigal to know a prodigal.

“Everyone needs Jesus.” As Southern Baptists, we believe that with everything in our being! We are committed to sharing the Gospel everywhere with everyone until the whole world hears. Today we are told that there are an estimated 281 million lost people just in North America.

LAS VEGAS – Las Vegas might be the most known, and unknown, place on earth. Most people know it’s a place where slot machines outnumber ATM’s; a place where you can play golf at midnight; and a place where, if you so desire, you can order a $3.99 ribeye at 3 a.m. But very few people know the Las Vegas that Alabama natives Joseph and Kristen Gibbons know.

STERLING, Va. (BP) – There was no brainstorming, no focus group, no research that went into it. Jefferson Hernández had not given a moment’s thought to what he and his wife Carol would call their new church in Sterling. Not until one day, when he was unexpectedly asked the name of his new church plant, and Jefferson said the first thing that popped into his head.

CHULA, Mo. (BP) – Amanda Hicks knew there were bees inside the building that once housed Chula Baptist Church. Everyone in the small Missouri town knew that. The old church had been sitting empty for nearly five years, the last of four churches that once served the small community of Chula, Missouri. While it sat empty, bees had made a home inside it, but everyone thought the bees were hiding in the walls.

ST. JOHNS, Fla. (BP) – With a recent mission trip to Australia, Fruit Cove Baptist Church in North Florida has reached its goal of extending its missions footprint to all seven continents.

NAMB’s ‘Equipping Pastors’ podcast features Tony Dungy, James Brown on first episode; GuideStone’s annual Summit for church, ministry business leaders set for April 21-23.

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) – The Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is small in terms of land area – roughly two square miles – but more than 120,000 people call it home.