Music minister walks for 24 straight hours to raise money for missions
PENSACOLA, Fla. (BP) – For Jon Tyner, minister of music at Olive Baptist Church, worship and missions go hand in hand. That’s why Tyner and three friends took on the challenge of walking for 24 straight hours to raise money for missions.
Keith and Kristyn Getty bring Sing! An Irish Christmas to Seminary Hill
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Keith and Kristyn Getty performed Christ-centered Christmas music and traditional carols of the season for almost 1,700 people through “Sing! An Irish Christmas” Dec. 7 in the MacGorman Chapel and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Serving the least of these: New church merger drawn to dying town
TARRANT, Ala. (BP) – Amos Crews, senior pastor of new merger Pillar of Hope Church, took a drive through the deteriorating Tarrant community that is the church’s newfound home.
Midwestern Seminary Celebrates Graduates in the Seventy-Second Commencement Exercise
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College celebrated hundreds of new graduates this fall, as the school held its 72nd commencement exercise Dec. 9.
FIRST-PERSON: Who, What and Why
EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) – I read about the pastor of a prairie church who one year directed the children’s program on the Sunday night before Christmas. The pastor was especially excited about the final scene of the production in which four children would give recitations using letters they held up: S-T-A-R, which stood for Shepherds, Trees, Angels and Redeemer.
SEMANA DE ORACIÓN: El impacto de Dios entre los exiliados
Dos hombres abrían sus Biblias sentados en un restaurante de comida rápida, conversando sobre un concepto clave del cristianismo: Jesús resucitando de entre los muertos.
NOBTS pide oración tras el incidente cerca del campus
NEW ORLEANS (BP)—Un tiroteo cerca del campus del Seminario Teológico Bautista New Orleans y Leavell College el jueves (8 de diciembre) alrededor de las 12:30 p. m. dejó a un estudiante con heridas no mortales.
SBTC anuncia alianza ministerial con la Convención de Iglesias Bautistas del Sur de Puerto Rico
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (BP)—Puerto Rico es una isla de 3.3 millones de habitantes asolada por la pobreza y la recurrencia casi anual de tormentas tropicales y huracanes que dejan muerte y destrucción a su paso.
WEEK OF PRAYER: God’s impact among the diaspora
Bibles lay open amid the food wrappers on the fast-food restaurant table. The two men sat quietly discussing a key concept in Christianity — Jesus rising from the dead.
