Who led you to faith in Jesus Christ?  Imagine how different your life would be if that person had never taken the time to share the gospel with you. Whether it was a pastor on a Sunday morning, a student ministry volunteer on a Wednesday night, a faithful family member, or a witnessing friend, the person who led you to Jesus had a profound impact on your eternity. Now, consider this: there are 7 million people in Georgia who don’t have an answer to that question.

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — In a city where church skepticism runs deep and transience is the norm, Andrew and Hannah Morrison discovered that to plant a church that thrives, they’d have to do it differently.

When we hear the word poverty, we often think of a lack of material resources, such as food, clothing, or shelter. While these are certainly manifestations of poverty, they aren’t the only ways poverty can affect a community. At its core, poverty is the lack of something necessary to live a flourishing life.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT)—The Colson Center for Christian Worldview has released a new resource called the Identity Project designed to help pastors, parents, educators, and policymakers address the cultural confusion surrounding gender and sexuality from a biblical perspective.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — What began as a bold prayer turned into a movement of God that forever changed lives at Valdosta State University.

VERSAILLES, Ky. (KT) – "It's like I get to go on a mission trip every Friday." That's how Joe Crabtree describes the Bible study he leads at the Woodford County Detention Center.

From Jeremy Taliaferro’s view on the mission field, something had changed. After serving as a missionary for more than 20 years in some of the toughest places on the globe, he began to see a growing need for additional training that could help prepare new missionaries for the field — and provide an additional layer of identifying those who may not be ready.

BROOKLYN, New York – “When we go on mission trips, it reignites an awareness of need around us,” said Sarah Bowen of Hillcrest Community Church in Little Rock, Ark.  

ELEELE, Kauai, Hawaii – A 13-hour plane ride. Casual (and not so casual) conversation between strangers. That’s how the story started for Yao Yao. Harvest stories are to be celebrated, Pastor Larry Hale says, but so too should be the sowing and the watering.

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Slade Johnson, Associational Mission Strategist for the Golden Isles Baptist Network, has a rich and fascinating heritage. His great-grandfather was Reuben Archer Torrey (better known as R. A. Torrey), born in 1856 and died on October 26, 1928.

Chris Joslin, a member of First Baptist Church in Owensboro, Ky., has found a unique approach to street evangelism through a tool called the Prayer Stand—a pop-up tent that facilitates conversations about faith and offers prayer in public spaces.

WACO, Texas — Over the past 12 years, revitalization and a renewed vision at Highland Baptist Church in Waco have served as the catalyst to help bring revival among their community and a desire to reach “a new and next generation with the gospel.”

When baby Isaías was admitted to the local health center, doctors weren’t sure if he’d ever walk. Isaías was severely malnourished and dangerously underweight. The municipality of Palín has faced high rates of child malnutrition. One out of every five Guatemalans experiences food insecurity, and there were once more than 1,000 malnourished children in Palín, making it one of the hungriest communities in Latin America.

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — When you think of the word impact, Central Baptist Church of Lawrenceville comes to mind. For 67 years, they spread the gospel and stayed true to their roots of being missions-minded. Although Central held its final service on May 17, 2025, its steadfast seven-member transition team made sure the church's legacy would remain for years to come in a big way  — $7.5 million big.

BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (BP) – Connections are important at Connection Church. This has been the case since Stephen Carson arrived in 2014 with his wife, Kaye, to become the pastor. “Connection,” as a concept, doesn’t end with the town of a population around 5,800, either. It extends to missions and church planting.

CALVERT CITY, Ky. (KT) — As a pastor as well as a law enforcement officer, Randle Record has seen the plague of pornography and screen-time addiction impacting people of all backgrounds — from those in the church to criminals. That awareness of this serious societal issue has been a guiding force in his focus on shepherding families through “thought life issues” for three decades.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (BP) — The waters are always stirring. Since 2015, Cascade Hills Church has seen at least one person baptized daily. No, that doesn’t mean a large number of baptisms in 10 years that average to one a day. It’s daily.

When many Christians imagine unreached people groups, they envision dense jungles and dusty trails. They see villages full of sun-baked huts with thatched roofs housing exotic natives in some of the most remote, difficult-to-reach places on the planet.

PROVO, Utah — Culturally speaking, David Gaskins is as far removed from the Bible Belt as a North American missionary can be. And yet Gaskins, who planted Mosaic Church in Provo, still knows first-hand this foundational truth of Southern Baptist life: “People,” he said, “always show up for food.”

Disasters strike in unexpected moments. While we can’t avoid the hurricanes, tornadoes and other crises that come every year, we can be ready when these events occur. No matter where you live, here are five steps your church can take to prepare for disasters.

In 2001, South Carolina Baptist layman and veterinarian Roger Troutman stepped out of his comfort zone and traveled to Alaska to serve as a volunteer trail veterinarian for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, commonly referred to as The Iditarod.

SYCAMORE, Ga. — In a town of just over 700 people, the legacy of one Georgia Baptist family is spreading the gospel far beyond its borders. From the red clay fields of Turner County to mission fields across the globe, the impact of Gene and Myrl Pirkle and their descendants is a testimony to faith, hard work, and generational discipleship.

The Dallas Cup Hospitality Center in mid-April received more than 2,000 visits from youth soccer players and coaches from around the world. It also presented the opportunity for those athletes and their families to see Christians working together for a common goal as volunteers from local churches provided meals and engaged in conversations through an outreach sponsored by the Dallas Baptist Association.

“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.” Whether we’re naturally planners or procrastinators, we probably don’t anticipate every disaster or crisis event that could happen to us or our communities.