Monday, April 20, 2020

• FIRST-PERSON: We will not retreat: The real reason for supporting the Cooperative Program

  by Ronnie Floyd, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  When the coronavirus (COVID-19) began to spread across the globe, our work as Southern Baptists did not stop, Ronnie Floyd says. Now is the time for a renewed commitment to our mission. Read More

• 'Very very stressful': Bivocational pastors losing income during COVID-19

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  EL PASO, Texas (BP) -- Bivocational missionary Jesus Galarza financially supplements his ministry in El Paso and northern Mexico by coaching volleyball, but he can neither minister nor coach during the COVID-19 pandemic that has stymied livelihoods across the U.S.

  The Baptist General Convention of Texas will continue to pay Galarza as a contract employee through the end of the year and will include him in an economic relief program for bivocational ministers. To further compensate for his loss of income as a volleyball coach, Galarza will rely on savings and the economic supplement the U.S. government is sending taxpayers through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Read More

• Healed from COVID-19, 93-year-old Joyce Harrington praises God

  by Marilyn Stewart, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NEW ORLEANS -- "Hope for the best; plan for the worst" was the warning the hospice doctor gave Joyce Harrington, 93, at a New Orleans hospital when she was admitted with COVID-19 symptoms March 25.

  The doctor delivered the same dire warning over the phone to Harrington's daughters -- Rhonda Harrington Kelley, wife of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Emeritus Chuck Kelley, and Mitzi Woodson, whose husband is a medical doctor in Oklahoma. Read More

• CAMP UPDATE: Falls Creek delays, Crossings cancels June camps; July good for now

  by Staff, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Falls Creek delays camp season, unveils tentative start June 28 with new 8-session schedule; Crossings cancels June camps, proceeds with July for now. Read More

• Churches in Tokyo, Italy experience 'Gospel renewal' adapting to online discipleship

  by Grace Thornton/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Monday, April 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  TOKYO -- On normal days, Pastor Joey Zorina is keenly aware that his church, The Bridge Fellowship in Tokyo, is like a tiny candle flickering in a very dark place.

  The gravity of that truth is even stronger now that he feels a bit like he's having to keep that light to himself. Read More