By Martha Aligaz and Melete Ghile James 1:27 (NIV) “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” This is a story of six, which later became seven, children ranging in age from [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions Creating a culture of evangelism in your church was the theme of this year’s spring semi-annual meeting. Dr. Gary Kendall shared an exciting evangelism tool for mobilizing your members to live missionally in their neighborhoods called Bless Every Home. An especially nice feature of this ministry is that there [...]
By Gregg Boll, Director of Missions In last month’s newsletter, we started the conversation about pastors, or anyone for that matter, preparing for retirement. Since not all pastors plan to retire, we said the article could be titled, “Are You Living and Planning Today in Such a Way that is Preparing You Financially for the [...]
VBS Trainings are right around the corner! View the flyer for a full list of dates and locations. Contact Christy Nance for more information at 314-795-0676 or [email protected].
I heard the comment recently that someone measured the distance Paul traveled by land and sea on his missionary journeys and came up with around 10,000 miles he covered preaching the gospel and starting churches. But the next comment is what grabbed me; in those 10,000 miles of travel, we never read a single verse [...]
Are You Prepared for Retirement, Pastor? (Part 1) Gregg Boll: Director of Missions If you think this question is none of my business, then skip to the next article. If you think retirement is an unbiblical concept and you intend to work as many years as your health will allow, you should still read this. [...]
By Gregg Boll, Associate Director of Missions Over 8100 messengers gathered in Anaheim, California in June for our annual Southern Baptist Convention. As one who attended most sessions of business, I was pleased with the level of civility which was demonstrated by the messengers towards one another, with just a rare exception. If there was [...]
Pastor Clayton With of Abiding Love Baptist Church picked up a huge stone with the word, “Ebenezer” on it and celebrated with his congregation the dedication of their new sanctuary on June 11, 2017. Lifting the Ebenezer stone above his head, Pastor Clayton reminded the congregation of the story from I Samuel, when the Philistines [...]
Calvary Baptist in Independence invites you to a very special Women’s Event featuring Gracia Burnham as our guest speaker! Gracia and her husband, Martin, were kidnapped and held hostage by Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the Philippines. After surviving over a year in the jungle with their captors, she experienced the anguish of losing her husband in a gun battle [...]
Spring Valley Baptist Church is sponsoring the following workshops on Sunday, June 25th. They are free and open to the public. Registration is required so adequate materials are available. Lunch is provided with the 1st workshop. If you wish to attend both workshops, please register for them individually. The links are below: SAFE Online [...]
