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  • GO2 webinar encourages young adults to live on mission after graduation

    by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (2 months ago)

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    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Southern Baptist leaders challenged college students and young adults to use their first years out of college to serve on mission by helping missionaries in strategic locations throughout the world during a GO2 webinar Thursday (July 23).

    The event was hosted by J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, in conjunction with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the International Mission Board (IMB). Read More

  • Missionary Joseph Ragan dies at 57
    by Shannon Ford, posted Friday, July 10, 2020 (2 months ago)

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    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Joseph Melton Ragan III, an International Mission Board missionary who shared the Gospel among European Affinity peoples, died July 4, 2020. He was 57.

    Ragan's love for Jesus and the desire to make Him known prompted him to leave Texas and move to Ukraine on February 21, 1994. He spent three years ministering mostly in the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine; living off his savings, support from his home church and friends, before he was appointed with the IMB. In his blog Ragan said, "It was a journey that took almost 1 ½ years for me to get to the point of moving to Lugansk, but once I arrived, it didn't take me long to know this is where God wanted me. I absolutely love living in this part of the world." Read More

  • Southern Baptists virtually celebrate sending 61 missionaries
    by Caroline Anderson, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 months ago)

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    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – The International Mission Board (IMB) commissioned 61 missionaries in a virtual Sending Celebration on Tuesday (June 9). The missionaries represent churches in 15 states and will be serving in all nine of the IMB’s affinities.

    Sending Celebrations provide a forum for Southern Baptists to commission new missionaries and hear their call to missions. IMB trustees voted on and approved 59 of the missionaries this spring in a virtual board meeting. Two missionaries were appointed in January. Read More

  • June 7 designated Southern Baptist Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church
    by Ann Lovell, posted Tuesday, May 26, 2020 (4 months ago)

    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- On average, eight Christians died for their faith every day in 2019. That equals more than 2,920 people killed for the cause of Christ last year, according to the 2020 annual report from Open Doors' World Watch List. In addition, 9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked, and 3,711 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned.

    Open Doors reported that 260 million Christians experienced high levels of persecution in the top 50 countries on the World Watch List in 2019. The top five were North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya and Pakistan. Read More

  • 11-year-old issues 'Challenge 32' to support missions
    by Sue Sprenkle/The TEXAN, posted Wednesday, May 20, 2020 (4 months ago)

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    EAST ASIA (BP) -- It didn't seem like much -- just $32.20 -- but it was all this 11-year-old had. The small stash represented six months of household chores and errands, not to mention the self-discipline needed to save instead of spending it on treats.

    The more Abby* thought about the money, the more her heart prodded her to pull it from its secret hiding place. She counted it one last time, then took all of it to her parents, who were still sitting at the table after family devotions. Read More

  • Retired missionary Glad Martin, Thailand prison ministry pioneer, dies
    by Erich Bridges, posted Monday, May 11, 2020 (4 months ago)

    RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Retired Southern Baptist missionary Gladys ("Glad") Martin, a farmer's daughter from Louisiana bayou country who helped lead thousands of prison inmates and students to Christ during more than 30 years in Thailand, died May 8 following a stroke. She was 81.

    Alongside Jack Martin, her husband and missionary partner, she pioneered ministry to Thai prisoners, perhaps the most hated and rejected members of society in the overwhelmingly Buddhist nation. The Martins' determination to give inmates hope -- and the message of a God of second chances -- eventually won the respect and cooperation of national prison authorities and the admiration of Thailand's royal family. Read More

  • IMB, NAMB celebrate 175 years of helping Southern Baptists pursue the Great Commission
    by Tobin Perry, posted Friday, May 08, 2020 (4 months ago)

    AUGUSTA, Ga. (BP) -- When 327 delegates met at First Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., on May 8, 1845, they did more than start a new convention of Baptist churches in the South.

    They began a missionary movement that would in time start new Gospel-proclaiming churches throughout North America and the world. On Friday, Southern Baptists celebrate the 175th anniversary of the founding of what became the North American Mission Board and the International Mission Board -- and the corresponding Gospel movement they launched. Read More

  • Faithful teaching leads to spiritual growth in Kenya
    by Catherine Finch, posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020 (4 months ago)

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    NAIROBI (BP) -- Christianity is prevalent in Kenya. More than 85 percent of Kenyans identify as Christian, according to the 2019 U.S. State Department's World Factbook. However, Daniel Lowry, an IMB missionary in Nairobi, says the majority of Christians in Kenya have a distorted view of Jesus and the Bible.

    In a post-colonized era, western practices have infiltrated and woven themselves into the fabric of Kenyan traditions and culture. One popularized idea that has seeped into the Kenyan religious culture is the prosperity gospel movement, Lowry said. Read More