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Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) teams across the United States, like this one from Florida, have been donating N95 masks and other personal protective equipment to hospitals and healthcare facilities to support medical workers as they fight the COVID-19 crisis. Photo from Florida SBDR social media By Brandon Elrod ALPHARETTA (BP) — As COVID-19 cases […]
La. Baptists donate respirators; N.C. church serves local nurses; Fla. Convention reduces budget; Texas church offers grocery relief; Moore, other pro-lifers oppose abortion promotion during pandemic
“The last 24 hours – really, the last two weeks – have been really challenging in every way.”
The question is not just how to save the church. The question is, how do churches join Jesus on mission during this crisis?
“We highly value all our field personnel and their partners…”
Only “essential” employees allowed on NOBTS campus due to New Orleans’ stay-home order By Staff NEW ORLEANS — After a directive by New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell that residents stay at home in an attempt to quench the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) and Leavell College moved Friday (March […]
By Tom Strode NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission is providing ongoing content addressing issues related to church ministry, life in isolation and the intersection of church and state during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The ERLC – which offers new resources nearly daily at erlc.com/covid19 – is doing so “to help pastors […]
LifeWay building in downtown Nashville. LIFEWAY/BP By Aaron Earls and Joy Allmond/LifeWay NASHVILLE – As the COVID-19 pandemic causes churches across the country to suspend in-person meeting, Generosity by LifeWay is opening its digital giving platform to congregations immediately for free, while B&H Publishing is offering low-cost books with free discussion guides. “Giving is one of the […]
By Tess Schoonhoven NASHVILLE (BP) – At 92, Kenny Knox’s social circle revolves almost exclusively around activities at church. “Other than attending [church], I don’t have a lot of contact with others,” he said. But like many others, Knox’s church (West End Baptist Church in Columbia, Tenn.) has suspended its meetings to comply with government […]
“These are not ‘business as usual’ times and we will not be conducting business as usual,”
The Send Relief ministry center in Kentucky has sent out supplies to assist other ministry centers across the nation, including 6,000 meals to New York City so they could provide for people who are under quarantine or are restricted to confinement in some way. TAYLOR FIELD/BP
The church has not closed. The church has moved outside the building,” pastor Marc Hooks told his congregation First Baptist Church Branch in a Facebook message today (March 17). Hooks is hopeful members will embrace the newly-established online giving portal while the church is unable to meet in person. MARC IRA HOOKS/BP