In a meeting that extended well beyond the scheduled time, Georgia Baptist Executive Committee members discussed ways to battle an increasing level of lostness within the state while celebrating ongoing sacrificial giving to meet that goal.
"It's a new day at NAMB," North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell said in addressing more than 400 associational directors of missions and church planting missionaries from across North America. "We're not just moving the deck chairs around."
Pitman calls church planters west Pastors' conference president says western states are ready for harvest By Keith Collier Published March 24, 2011
Vance Pitman believes the next Great Awakening in America will rise from the West with church planting at the epicenter of the movement, and he hopes the 2011 SBC Pastors' Conference in Phoenix will serve as a catalyst toward that end.
Churches: Rise Up for the children By C.V. Dinsmore, Board of Trustees chairman, Georgia Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries Published March 24, 2011
Again, I am honored to serve as chairman of the Board of Trustees this year for the Georgia Baptist Children's Homes and Family Ministries (GBCH&FM).
As North American Mission Board worker Jacques Avakian describes the spiritual condition of people in Quebec, where he has been overseeing church planting since January 2009, he calls to mind the boat crew in the story of Jonah.
The Southern Baptist relief effort in Japan is moving forward in spite of uncertainties about the ongoing nuclear crisis in the northeastern part of the country.
Bob Shaw loved Gospel music and made it a goal to one day travel the country as part of a group. It appeared he succeeded when he joined the popular Homeland Harmony Quartet in 1949. Like many plans of men, though, it came undone due to a girl.
The way Jonathan Wilkins sees it, members of his church in Thomaston should have the right to carry guns into worship services to protect the congregation.
With Christian-owned Chick-fil-A still the target of criticism from homosexual groups, a new Barna survey shows that Christian-based companies have more to gain than to lose when it comes to operating according to their faith.
Since the Southern Cross project began distributing Bibles to Chinese tourists 10 years ago, close to a million Bible packets have been given away - and countless lives have been changed for eternity.
Each believer has a journey of faith. As givers to the Cooperative Program, Georgia Baptists daily touch the lives of people in our state and across the world as we invest in others. Sarah Davis*, a journey girl from our "Judea," is one of those currently living out her faith on foreign soil.
Bible Study
Balance Hope with Grief By David O'Dell, pastor First Baptist Austell Published March 24, 2011
John 11:20-27, 32-36, 43-44
Bible Studies for Life, Apr 3
What do outsiders think of when Georgia comes to mind? Some would say peaches, kudzu and collard greens. Ray Charles would sing, "I say Georgia, Georgia, a song of you comes as sweet and clear as moonlight though the pines."