Friday, July 24, 2020

• FIRST-PERSON: How to pray for missionaries displaced by COVID-19

  by Samuel Brittain, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Having walked through similar circumstances, Samuel Brittain suggests ways we can pray for missionaries whose work has been disrupted -- and who in many cases have been displaced -- by the global pandemic. Read More

• Most churches cautiously holding services again

  by Aaron Earls, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- Churches are gathering again, but services and programs remain drastically different from the beginning of the year.

  At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to previous surveys from LifeWay Research, Protestant churches across the U.S. stopped gathering in-person in a matter of weeks. Read More

• Campers test positive for COVID-19 after attending evangelical youth camp in Texas

  by Kathryn Post, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP/RNS) -- Hundreds of campers may have been exposed to COVID-19 after attending a Christian camp hosted by Fellowship Church, an evangelical megachurch in Grapevine. The church's Allaso Ranch retreat center, located near Dallas-Fort Worth, has been welcoming campers of various ages this summer since June 13.

  The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that at least three campers who attended camps at Allaso Ranch in the previous two weeks have tested positive for coronavirus, with one child hospitalized. Read More

• GO2 webinar encourages young adults to live on mission after graduation

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Southern Baptist leaders challenged college students and young adults to use their first years out of college to serve on mission by helping missionaries in strategic locations throughout the world during a GO2 webinar Thursday (July 23).

  The event was hosted by J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, in conjunction with the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and the International Mission Board (IMB). Read More

• Union University's action to rescind grad student's admission draws criticism, support

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Union University has recently found itself in the spotlight of the ongoing faceoff between religious liberty and sexual liberty.

  The school -- affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and located in Jackson, Tenn. -- rescinded a graduate student's admission after learning he had violated Union's Community Values Statements he had signed by being in a same-sex relationship. Alex Duron, the applicant, shared the news in a Facebook post Tuesday (July 21), prompting a social media backlash against Union but also expressions of support from Baptist leaders. Read More

• Southern Baptist media telling the Good News as production platforms change

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 24, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Longtime editor and lay preacher William Perkins likens it to standing on a railroad track, sticking your hand out and telling a barreling locomotive to stop.

  "The locomotive's not going to stop for you," he said.

  For Perkins, editor of "The Baptist Record" news journal of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB), the state paper's decision to drop its print edition for a solely online presence was pretty much a win-win situation. Read More