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  • GHR reports life-changing work around the world
    by Mark Kelly, posted Monday, June 05, 2017 (7 years ago)

    Photo credit Teresa Flora
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Encouraging reports of transformed lives have come flooding in as Southern Baptist hunger ministries accounted for their stewardship of Global Hunger Relief (GHR) resources in 2016.

    -- California: A man who received a Bible later confesses he had been contemplating suicide and changed his mind because of what he read in Scripture.

    -- Lesotho: A severe drought ruined a woman's crops and left her little seed to sow for the next season. Then a truck arrived in her community, filled with seeds ... Read More

  • Global Hunger Sunday: 842 million malnourished
    by David Roach, posted Friday, October 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

    Photo credit Teresa Flora
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- With churches across America set to observe Global Hunger Sunday Oct. 9, the coalition of Southern Baptists sponsoring the emphasis has prepared a variety of educational resources.

    "Words, even spiritual sounding words, aren't enough," Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore writes in a Global Hunger Sunday article. "The Gospel compels us to practical acts of mercy. This is exactly why the church must take an active role in feeding the hungry around the world. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Teaching children about suffering
    by Jill Waggoner, posted Friday, October 07, 2016 (7 years ago)

    "Seeing and trusting God's purpose through difficulty is one of the greatest joys and freedoms of the Christian life," Jill Waggoner, a mother of two, writes. "I pray for the day that my children know and embrace this truth in their own hearts." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Competing offerings?
    by Bob Terry, posted Tuesday, October 13, 2015 (8 years ago)

    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Baptists have two financial focuses during October. Some people wonder if the two emphases compete with one another.

    October is Cooperative Program (CP) month. It is a time when churches are encouraged to celebrate the partnership between local churches, their state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Read More

  • In Ukraine: He lifts church's resolve to stay open
    by Tom Long, posted Monday, October 12, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Tom Long
    UKRAINE (BP) -- Life along the road to the war front seemed normal -- gardens surrounding every home, villagers taking their cows out to pasture, huge sunflower fields dotting the landscape nearby. It didn't look like we were less than 13 miles from a war zone.

    I met Victor* last summer. At that time, the 30-something believer was helping evacuate people from Ukrainian towns and villages ... Read More

  • In Honduras, hunger offering aids Mayan corn farmers
    by Ann Lovell, posted Friday, October 09, 2015 (8 years ago)

    BGR photo
    LAS MEDIAS DOS, Honduras (BP) -- Lucio, a 23-year-old Chorti farmer, emerges from the hedgerows with a machete in hand. He has been tending his small plot of land in preparation for the next sowing season for corn.

    In the past, soil erosion complicated his efforts and made his farm less productive. Read More

  • In West Africa, clinic rescues starving babies

    by Evelyn Adamson, posted Friday, September 25, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Photo by Evelyn Adamson
    WEST AFRICA (BP) -- Whipping desert winds fill the air with dust, which settles on the clinic's metal gate, muting its deep maroon color. A clinic worker opens the gate, and two grandparents step into the clinic with their 2-month-old grandson. Untying the wrap that holds the baby on her back, the grandmother slides him around in front and cradles him as she sits down. The baby's grandfather pulls up a chair and sits next to them.

    The emaciated baby lies motionless on his grandmother's lap. The simple move ... Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: A picture of the Savior

    by Russell D. Moore, posted Friday, September 18, 2015 (9 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- If we as Christians don't feel the weight of our Lord's command to show compassion and mercy to those who need us, perhaps it is because we have unintentionally absorbed the consumerism of our culture, says Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission President Russell Moore. Read More

  • Hunger ministry calls for action

    by Staff/ERLC, posted Thursday, June 25, 2015 (9 years ago)

    COLUMBUS, Ohio (BP) -- Nearly 1 billion people are undernourished, and "chronic hunger is a debilitating problem for many around the world," Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told messengers to the SBC annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Read More