Baptist Press Archive

Friday, August 23, 2019

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  • When the 'King of Skate' met people with open Bibles
    by Whitney Jones, posted Friday, August 23, 2019 (11 months ago)

    Photo by Anthony Rivers
    NAIROBI, Kenya (BP) -- Kelvin took the wheels off a suitcase and the back off a chair, then screwed them together to jerry-rig a skateboard.

    The then-12-year-old drew his mother's ire for destroying a good suitcase and one of the family chairs, but her scolding didn't thwart her son, who had no idea how fast his life would roll on from there. Read More

  • Tokyo 'vision trips' to introduce Olympics outreach
    by Tim Ellsworth, posted Friday, August 23, 2019 (11 months ago)

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    TOKYO (BP) -- Missionaries in Japan are hosting three vision trips in October for those interested in leading mission teams to Tokyo during the 2020 summer Olympics.

    Daniel and Tara Rice, the International Mission Board's Olympics ministry coordinators for Tokyo, are leading a yearlong "Connect2020" initiative to connect Japanese people to God, Japanese Christians to other believers and Japanese Christians to the world for the purposes of evangelism. Read More

  • Girls & boys gain 'world hearts' in mission education
    by Trennis Henderson, posted Friday, August 23, 2019 (11 months ago)

    Photo by Pam Henderson/WMU
    GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (BP) -- For these Girls in Action, learning about global missions from GA leader Rosalie Hunt is a definite perk; in fact, she literally wrote the book on the history of Woman's Missionary Union.

    Rosalie and her husband Bob are retired Southern Baptist missionaries now living in Guntersville, Ala., having served 30 years in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Myanmar, South Asia, Australia and the Philippines. Read More

  • 586 baptisms one Sunday at McLean Bible Church
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 23, 2019 (11 months ago)

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    VIENNA, Va. (BP) -- Baptisms were conducted throughout the day at all campuses of McLean Bible Church in northeast Virginia, from 8 a.m. to nearly 7 p.m. with an hour or so afternoon pause.

    When the 2019 Easter Sunday baptisms concluded, at least 586 newly converted believers had symbolically died to sin and risen to a new life in Christ. Read More

  • High court urged to rectify religious freedom ruling
    by Tom Strode, posted Friday, August 23, 2019 (11 months ago)

    WASHINGTON (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention's church-state entity has joined other religious organizations in urging the Supreme Court to reconsider a nearly 30-year-old decision they say subverted the free exercise of religion.

    The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and five other groups are asking in a friend-of-the-court brief for the justices to accept an appeal by an Idaho construction worker who has a work-related religious objection to correct "an unwelcome revolution" in its decision-making regarding the First Amendment protection for religious free exercise. Read More