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

    by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (4 years 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

  • NAMB lawsuit dismissal reversed, case remanded back to lower court
    by Jonathan Howe, posted Friday, July 17, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- A lawsuit against the North American Mission Board was remanded back to a district court by a federal appeals court yesterday (July 16), reversing a dismissal decision from April 2019 which stated the court could not consider Will McRaney's claims because of the ecclesiastical abstention doctrine. Read More

  • After finding new life, Missouri church will host NAMB Replant Summit
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Tuesday, June 16, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    GREENWOOD, Mo.—Ten years ago, after several years of decline, the future for a 175-year-old Southern Baptist church in Greenwood, Mo., seemed bleak. But a sister church in the area embraced the dwindling congregation and helped them recover their place in the community. In August, the reborn and growing church will host the North American Mission Board's Replant Summit to help others learn how to do the same.

    "The First Baptist Church of Greenwood has an incredible testimony," said Mark Clifton, senior director of Replant at the North American Mission Board (NAMB). "The Gospel witness of any church is far too important to allow it to fade when adversity comes." Read More

  • NAMB Trustees: 'The mission moves forward,' Ezell tells trustees
    by Mike Ebert, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Trustees for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) heard reports of how missionaries and staff are meeting needs and responding to crises amid the global COVID-19 pandemic in an online meeting Monday (June 8).

    "We are not downshifting," NAMB president Kevin Ezell told trustees, speaking from NAMB's offices during the meeting, which was held virtually because of travel and social distancing limitations triggered by the pandemic. "As other people are running away from crisis, our missionaries are not downshifting. They are moving forward." Read More

  • Church plants that meet in school buildings face reopening challenges
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, May 21, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    ATLANTA, Ga. (BP) -- As the state of Georgia continues on a path to reopening, Christ Covenant Church is cautiously planning to resume in-person gatherings. But decisions about when and how to return are complicated by where.

    Christ Covenant has called Sutton Middle School its Sunday home for 2 1/2 years. The church, which averaged about 500 in attendance before the COVID-19 pandemic, will be ready to reopen before the school does -- which has Jason Dees, Christ Covenant's pastor, searching for options that might even include a local synagogue on a temporary basis. Read More

  • 3-member church closed during COVID-19 finds new life
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Wednesday, May 20, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    LINWOOD, Kan. (BP) -- When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Linwood Baptist Church closed down, and its three remaining members did not plan to reopen. They thought it would be best to move on.

    They called real estate agent Mary Knapp, a member of First Baptist Church in nearby Basehor, Kan., to help sell the building. But when Mary and her husband Al heard of the plans to close the church, they felt God saying it was not quite time for that. Read More

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

  • New Orleans ICU nurse in quarantine with COVID-19 shares Gospel hope
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, April 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    KENNER, La. (BP) -- Lexie Green was still a few months shy of her two-year anniversary as a nurse at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, La., just outside of New Orleans, when she found herself serving in the intensive care unit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    A few weeks into the crisis, which has struck the New Orleans area particularly hard, Green started feeling ill herself. When she discovered she was running a fever, her supervisor sent her home. She later tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Read More

  • Southern Baptist healthcare chaplains offer gospel hope in challenging times
    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, April 06, 2020 (4 years ago)

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    COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Talk to hospital chaplains for long about what they do, and they will eventually mention a regularly repeated phrase: "ministry of presence." It is the simple idea that the most important element of their work is to be present during the toughest moments.

    As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide, many hospital chaplains have needed to find new ways to provide a ministry of presence when families can no longer be with their loved ones in person. Read More