Tuesday, June 09, 2020

• Michigan ministry center adapts amid pandemic

  by Trennis Henderson, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  WMU photo

  SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (BP) -- Launching an innovative ministry center in metro Detroit has been quite a rollercoaster ride for Sue Hodnett and her volunteer ministry team.

  The center opened in January in a small, tidy storefront in Shelby Township, Mich., offering Bible studies, one-on-one counseling and mentoring sessions, a "Mission Friends with Mom" pilot project and a food bank partnership. Read More

• Falwell apologizes for tweet that included racist photo

  by Sarah Rankin and Elana Schor, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  AP Photo/Steve Helber

  LYNCHBURG, Va. (AP) -- Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. apologized Monday (June 8) for a tweet that included a racist photo that appeared on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page decades ago.

  "After listening to African American LU leaders and alumni over the past week and hearing their concerns, I understand that by tweeting an image to remind all of the governor's racist past I actually refreshed the trauma that image had caused and offended some by using the image to make a political point," he tweeted Monday. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Two percent of my life

  by Laura Erlanson, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  The work done at the annual meeting is important. Sometimes eternally so, Laura Erlanson says. But the fellowship is important too. Read More

• 'Gospel Above All' drives diversity, unity, missions, abuse prevention

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from J.D. Greear's Facebook page

  DURHAM, N.C. (BP) -- Promoting diversity, unity, missions and sex abuse prevention are goals the Southern Baptist Convention must continue to pursue in order to put the "Gospel Above All," SBC President J.D. Greear said in his 2020 presidential address Tuesday (June 9).

  Speaking from his office at The Summit Church in Durham, N.C., in a virtual format after the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Greear promoted those goals as central to removing stumbling blocks that would make it difficult for unbelievers to come to Christ. Read More

• Panel discussion covers racism, politics and evangelism

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from Baptist 21 YouTube

  NASHVILLE (BP) – Given the current upheaval race relations in the United States, Vance Pitman, senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, said the Southern Baptist Convention must seize the tumultuous moment to change.

  "We have to move past as a denomination being ‘not racist,’ to being anti-racist," said Pitman during a panel discussion Tuesday (June 9) hosted by Baptist 21. "That’s got to become who we are." Read More

• Obrera encuentra identidad en el Señor durante su término de dos años

  Por Catherine Finch, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Foto de IMB

  NORTE DE BRASIL (BP) -- Cuando tenía 16 años, Haylee Belcher se sintió llamada a servir en el extranjero. Cuando leía a través de la Biblia, especialmente pasajes como el de la Gran Comisión (Mateo 28:18-20), Haylee decía que no podía evitar preguntarse: "¿Adónde me está enviando Dios?" Read More

• EDITORIAL: Sin pelos en la lengua

  Luís R. Lopez , posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  No sabemos con exactitud el origen o el evento específico que sirvió como marco de referencia para el nacimiento de esta expresión coloquial. Read More

• El impacto económico de la pandemia de COVID-19 desacelera las ofrendas para el Programa Cooperativo

  Por el personal, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Las ofrendas del mayo del 2020 para la Asignación Presupuestaria del Programa Cooperativo nacional están más de $1.5 millones por debajo de lo presupuestado mientras la pandemia del COVID-19 continúa impactando a las iglesias financieramente. Los $14,802,344.02 ofrendados a través del Programa Cooperativo están 16.08 por ciento por debajo de la ofrenda del mismo mes el año pasado. Read More