Stories tagged with: cooperative program love in action

• Alaska's grandeur is church's setting

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, September 02, 2008 (16 years ago)

  

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP)--During the six weeks of "Grace Works" this summer, more than 80 Alaskans made professions of faith.

        Grace Works, a new multi-week initiative of Grandview Baptist Church, had a dual purpose ... Read More

• Vietnamese congregation has CP legacy

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, August 01, 2008 (16 years ago)

  BATON ROUGE, La. (BP)--Victoria Baptist Church entered a period of steep decline as the 1980s melded into the '90s. But the congregation's commitment to reaching people remained steadfast.

  Especially the Vietnamese who were arriving in Baton Rouge, La.

  "[Victoria] was in an area of population change," Joe Hilbun recounted, "and had been declining for 50 years -– nearly its entire existence, really, since it was started in 1947 -– but even as it declined, the members continued to reach ... Read More

• CP giving undergirds mission emphasis

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, July 01, 2008 (16 years ago)

  

  SARALAND, Ala. (BP)--For First Baptist Church of North Mobile, the Cooperative Program simply undergirds its heavy emphasis on missions and outreach.

        This is a church where more than 1,300 people attend Sunday morning worship ... Read More

• Oil boom at hand, church holds CP high

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, June 02, 2008 (16 years ago)

  HAZEN, N.D. (BP)--Spurred by a vast reservoir of oil shale and a readiness to share the Gospel, Hazen Christian Fellowship wants to be ready for an influx of workers and their families in western North Dakota.

  According to a U.S. Geological Survey news release in April, the 25,000-square-mile Bakken Foundation has an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. A Kiplinger report described the Bakken field as "twice the size of Alaska's reserves." About two-thirds of t... Read More

• Despite destruction by Katrina, church keeps missions focus

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 (16 years ago)

  LONG BEACH, Miss. (BP)--At first glance it looked as though First Baptist Church had been completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, but that was before the character of its people and the cooperative spirit of Southern Baptists kicked in.

  

        "Pre-Katrina ... we thought we were a Great Commission church," said pastor LaRue Stephens, pastor of the Gulf Coast congregation in Long Beach, Miss. "We gave a lot of money to missions, sent a

  

  lot of missions teams all over the world, and many of our people had been involved in direct support or going. We had our community food bank ministry, and housed it on our campus at no cost, plus provided volunteers for it.

        "However, one of the sweet blessings of the storm is that God allowed it to remove the walls," Stephens said. Read More

• Hawaiians part of 'blanket of God's love'

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, March 03, 2008 (16 years ago)

  HONOLULU, Hawaii (BP)--Each homeland represented among members of Honolulu's Olivet Baptist Church reflects Southern Baptists' heart for missions through the Cooperative Program. Read More

• CP expands church's Acts 1:8 outreach

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, February 01, 2008 (16 years ago)

  CROSS LANES, W.Va. (BP)--Cross Lanes Baptist Church "holds the rope" for missions through the Cooperative Program, senior pastor Seth Polk says.

  Expanding on the familiar description of Southern Baptist missions, Polk said of the Cooperative Program, "It's not the only way to do missions, but I believe it's the best way."

  Southern Baptist churches "can accomplish more together as the body of Christ than we can alone," the pastor in Cross Lanes, W.Va., said. "The Cooperative Program is ... Read More

• CP adds to Texas church's relevance

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 (16 years ago)

  CLEBURNE, Texas (BP)--There's a link between a church's relevance and the Cooperative Program, as pastor Daniel E. (Danny) Crosby sees it. Read More