Kadmiel Kumar, a deacon at First Baptist Church in Duluth, poses with a $25,000 check provided through the National WMU’s humanitarian fund. By Roger Alford DULUTH, Ga. – The National Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation moved rapidly to help Georgia churches get oxygen concentrators to COVID-19 victims in India, which has been ravaged by the deadly […]
The story of First Baptist Church in Duluth, Ga., is truly an amazing one as told last week by The Christian Index’s editor, Roger Alford. More than a decade ago, the church examined itself and realized it looked very little like the community it serves. The congregation was 97 percent Anglo. But the community had […]
DULUTH – The Georgia Baptist Missions and Ministry Center is poised to be sold within the next year under a contract announced Monday, but “the true headquarters” for ministry in the state will remain unchanged. “That’s because the true headquarters for Baptist work has always been and always will be our churches,” said Georgia Baptist […]
Georgia Baptist Mission Board Executive Director W. Thomas Hammond, Jr. shares updates about the mission board’s financial status, Baptist Collegiate Ministries, and the potential new operating location for administrative staff of the GBMB. COURTESY/Mark Strange MCDONOUGH – The Georgia Baptist Convention Executive Committee met Tuesday, March 16, at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, […]
Administration Committee members serve in their capacity during their term on the Executive Committee…
“…there was nothing in my ministry experience that I could compare with this explosion of diversity.”
“I believe this event will remind us all of what can happen when we pray and labor together in a solid evangelistic Gospel effort.”
“God commands us to raise up the next generation, to hand off the baton of faith to those that come after us. We are not to just rest on what we have done.”
DULUTH — The calendar said January 6 but the carols sung in Spanish said that the Christmas season had not yet ended – at least not before the night was over. More than 250 members and guests crowded the First Baptist Church fellowship hall for the first Three Kings Day Celebration that honored the bringing […]