Wednesday, November 04, 2015

• Pro-family voters score 'massive victory'

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Pro-family voters scored wins at the polls Nov. 3.

  Houston overturned a measure granting protected status to homosexuals and transgendered persons. Both Kentucky and Mississippi elected governors who are pro-life and opposed to same-sex marriage, and Ohio defeated recreational marijuana. Read More

• ANALYSIS: Pew data confirms faithful remnant

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- The latest data release from the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Study is significant but not surprising. For students of Scripture and church history, it confirms with empirical data what God's people have known to be true for millennia: the Lord's modus operandi is to preserve a faithful remnant amid the sinful world. It was true in the times of Noah, Elijah and the Apostle Paul, and telephone surveys of 35,071 American adults confirm it's still true today. Read More

• Yazidi refugees escape ISIS, still desperate for rescue

  by Rob White , posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NORTHERN IRAQ (BP) -- Whoever built this tennis court probably never imagined refugees would be reclining there under temporary shelters. The sprawling picnic area, once a shady respite for Sunday leisure seekers is now a tent city -- home to more than 4,000 Yazidi refugees from Northern Iraq.

  These mothers, uncles, cousins and children walked seven days through the desert to escape ISIS in August 2014. Their current ... Read More

• 10 refugee realities that may surprise you

  by Anderson Rosson, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  CENTRAL ASIA (BP) -- Millions of people across Central Asia have crossed borders to escape war, persecution and violence. While Southern Baptists continue to respond, many refugees cling to a hope that wanes with each passing day.

  The following includes a list of 10 realities about refugees that many may not yet realize. Also, learn ways you can pray and how Baptist Global Response is helping meet needs. Read More

• Grateful couple in Nepal aid global missions

  by IMB Staff, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  IMB file photo

  SOUTH ASIA (BP) -- The 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Nepal in April, killing more than 9,000 people, quickly thrust the Asian nation into the spotlight. Relief agencies and volunteers arrived in the country's capital city of Kathmandu and outlying villages to offer help to Nepalis whose lives were forever changed.

  Christian workers such as Carl Russell* and Marcia and Drew Neely*, however, had already been at work in this predominately ... Read More

• Marriage heroes honored by church's young couples

  by Jane Rodgers/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Adam Tarleton

  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Young marrieds and senior adults are the two largest Sunday School departments at Travis Avenue Baptist Church. When the younger couples hosted a celebration of more than 70 couples and 30 widows or widowers married at least 50 years, it was so special to Fieldon Williams that he arrived sporting two black eyes and staples in his forehead from a fall that sent him to the emergency room days earlier. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Why did I sign up for this?

  by Jessica Pigg, posted Wednesday, November 04, 2015 (8 years ago)

  Jessica Pigg conveys biblical answers to a question pastor's wives sometimes ask themselves: Why did I sign up for this? "If we were all honest with ourselves, we would say that at some point or another, we have asked the 'why' questions in ministry," she writes. Read More