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  • Her missions call took her back home
    by Trennis Henderson, WMU National Correspondent, posted Tuesday, December 10, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    BRUNSWICK, Maine (BP) -- Sometimes accepting God's call to missions means being willing to pack up your family and head back home. At least that was the case for Katie Upton Wood.

    Katie and her husband, Brandton, along with their three daughters, Corley Hannah, Rose and Callann, relocated from Georgia to Maine a few years ago to help reach New England with the hope of Christ. The visible fruit of their missions calling is Hope Church, a growing congregation launched in 2017 in Brunswick, Maine. Read More

  • New England Baptists aim to reach Hispanics
    by Keila Diaz, posted Wednesday, November 06, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. (BP) -- New England, an area well-known for its colonial past, changing autumn foliage and forested mountains is also unfortunately known for spiritual lostness, especially among Hispanics there.

    According to the American Community Survey, an ongoing survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics make up 8 percent of New England's population. That' s equal to more than one million Hispanic individuals spread across Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The major Hispanic groups living in the area are Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Cubans and Cuban Americans, Salvadorans, Colombians and Bolivians. Read More

  • New England Baptists restructure for greater impact
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, October 31, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    MANCHESTER, N.H. (BP) -- Following three other local Baptist association mergers, the New Hampshire Baptist Association became the fourth to dissolve and join the Baptist Convention of New England during the association's annual meeting on Oct. 19.

    The merger is part of an overarching plan set in motion by the BCNE titled "Uniting New England Baptists." The plan seeks to combine assets of smaller Baptist associations with the BCNE to provide more resources for local churches to create vibrant expressions of Baptist life. Read More

  • FROM THE STATES: Addiction ministry support team started in New England; Alabama agencies to require background checks
    by BP and State Convention newspaper staffs, posted Friday, October 18, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    Today's From the States features items from: The Baptist Convention of New England (Mass.) and The Alabama Baptist (Ala.).

    BCNE starts addiction ministry support team

    By Baptist Convention of New England staff

    NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. (BP) --The Baptist Convention of New England is adding an addiction ministry consultant to its church growth team. Samuel Arroyo-Breeden, a member of First Church in Charlestown, Mass., will work with New England churches that are interested ... Read More

  • New England conv. sees church planting as the future
    by Kimber Huff, posted Friday, November 09, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    HAVERHILL, Mass. (BP) -- "Church planting is the natural consequence of intimacy with God," Tanner Turley, a church planter based in greater Boston, noted during a testimony at the Baptist Convention of New England's 36th annual meeting.

    The Nov. 2-3 sessions were held at First Baptist Church in Haverhill, Mass., which was founded before the Revolutionary War. Two hundred twenty-one messengers and 103 guests were in attendance for fellowship, worship, extended prayer, business and celebrating what God doing is by "Embracing the Future Through Church Planting." Read More

  • N.E. Baptists seek next generation, denounce racism
    by Kimber Ross, posted Monday, November 13, 2017 (6 years ago)

    Photo by Andy Haynes/Baptist Convention of New England
    AVON, Mass. (BP) -- How can New England Baptists reach the next generation? Fady Ghobrial, a millennial member of Arabic Baptist Church in Newton, Mass., believes the key is spiritually mentoring young leaders.

    Millennials are the most fatherless generation that has ever existed, Ghobrial said in the convention sermon during the annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New England, with its theme of "Embracing the Future by Reaching the Next Generation."

    "We need fathers and coaches to do life with us, mentor us, give us feedback, ... Read More

  • Super Bowl: Players address battle with pride
    by Tim Ellsworth, posted Friday, February 03, 2017 (7 years ago)

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    HOUSTON (BP) -- They work at a job where millions of people watch them. They are cheered, admired, lauded and pampered. People recognize them, hound them for autographs and care what they have to say.

    Welcome to life in the NFL -- or in any professional sport, for that matter -- where the very nature of the job can easily lend itself to pride or arrogance for those who aren't careful.

    For Christian athletes, pride can be a serious temptation and a nemesis that has to be fought. Read More

  • Patriots' Solder shares lessons from son's cancer battle
    by Tim Ellsworth, posted Wednesday, February 01, 2017 (7 years ago)

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    HOUSTON (BP) -- Nate Solder remembers the most painful car ride of his life. It took place after a radiologist had first looked at scans from Solder's 3-month-old son Hudson.

    "They directed us to the children's hospital, and they didn't give us a whole lot of direction of what that meant," said Solder, a tackle for the New England Patriots. "So we're driving Hudson to the hospital, and he's laughing and being playful in his car seat as we're driving, and my wife and I cried the entire way. Read More

  • New England church plants spark Gospel momentum
    by Kimber Ross/Baptist Convention of New England, posted Thursday, July 07, 2016 (8 years ago)

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    CASTLETON, Vt. (BP) -- Moving to New England had never crossed Branden Rogers' mind when he returned to his Mississippi hometown as a pastor after attending seminary.

    Then his brother moved to Burlington, Vt., for a short-term assignment as a nurse.

    Shocked at the difficulty his brother had in finding a Bible-believing evangelical church, Rogers' firsthand awareness of the lostness that exists outside the Bible Belt became a life-changing experience. Read More