BY MIKE EBERT NASHVILLE (BP) — Southern Baptist sacrifice and generosity has pushed cumulative giving to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® for North American Missions past the $2 billion mark. The milestone was announced by North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Kevin Ezell as he shared a report with members of the SBC Executive […]
Tom Lin, center, guides ministry to college students as president and CEO of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s network of 1,100 chapters on 770 campuses. InterVarsity photo By Diana Chandler MADISON, Wis. (BP) – Christian college students are seeking community and instructional resources for prayer and evangelism, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship found in a survey of students this […]
SPECIAL/Baptist Press By Jonathan HoweVice President for Communications, SBC Executive Committee NASHVILLE – On the night of March 11, 2020, Ronnie Floyd sat in his home in suburban Nashville and watched as the NBA put its season on hold. Several college basketball conference tournaments had pressed pause earlier in the day. President Donald Trump addressed […]
North American Mission Board trustee chairman Danny de Armas, associate pastor of First Baptist Church Orlando, addresses trustees during their Feb. 1-2 meetings in New Orleans. SPECIAL/Alexandra Toy ALPHARETTA – The board of trustees for the North American Mission Board unanimously passed a resolution on cooperation and missional strategy at their February 2021 board meeting. The […]
By Julie Waters BIRMINGHAM – National WMU will host a virtual experience for the Week of Prayer, which is March 7-14, in celebration of North American missions while encouraging support for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. With the theme The Mission Moves Forward, the goal for this year’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is $70 million […]
North American Mission Board NEW ORLEANS (LBM) – The North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has received another setback with regard to a lawsuit filed by Will McRaney, former executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, and the decision sends the case back to the U.S. District Court for the Northern […]
Roughly one-third of GenSend summer missionaries move to cities after college with the goal of living on mission alongside North American Mission Board missionaries once they arrive. Reid Morrison (left), Ebbie Davis (center), and Liz Olear (right) are examples of students who made such a decision after serving with GenSend. DANIEL DELGADO/NAMB By Brandon Elrod […]
Rob Wilton, a 2020 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Week of Prayer missionary, interacts with congregants after a Sunday service. Wilton moved from New Orleans to Pittsburgh to start Vintage Church Pittsburgh in order to be a part of a new wave of churches launching to reach those in need in the city. DANIEL DELGADO/NAMB
“This is all about the glory, ‘doxa,’ of Jesus…”
“God is working in ways that we couldn’t have planned for.”
Longtime First Woodstock pastor Johnny Hunt announced this morning he will be joining NAMB as senior vice president of evangelism and leadership.
Longtime First Woodstock Executive Pastor Jim Law announced this morning that he will assume the leadership of a new evangelism and leadership group being formed by the North American Mission Board.