Wednesday, June 10, 2020

• SBC DIGEST: Mohler releases new book; LifeWay to host free virtual event on pastors' mental health

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Mohler releases new book on secularism, culture, and the Church; LifeWay to offer free virtual event focusing on pastoral emotional health. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: The risky business of Gospel advancement

  by Todd Lafferty, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Todd Lafferty explores the reasons and motivations for missionaries to continue living and sharing in hard or even dangerous places. Read More

• FROM THE STATES: Virginia church holds community prayer service; Louisiana Baptists remain faithful amid pandemic

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  First Baptist Roanoke hosts community prayer service in response to racial tensions; Louisiana Baptists remain faithful during social, economic storm. Read More

• Southern Baptists virtually celebrate sending 61 missionaries

  by Caroline Anderson, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – The International Mission Board (IMB) commissioned 61 missionaries in a virtual Sending Celebration on Tuesday (June 9). The missionaries represent churches in 15 states and will be serving in all nine of the IMB’s affinities.

  Sending Celebrations provide a forum for Southern Baptists to commission new missionaries and hear their call to missions. IMB trustees voted on and approved 59 of the missionaries this spring in a virtual board meeting. Two missionaries were appointed in January. Read More

• NAMB Trustees: 'The mission moves forward,' Ezell tells trustees

  by Mike Ebert, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  NAMB photo

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – Trustees for the North American Mission Board (NAMB) heard reports of how missionaries and staff are meeting needs and responding to crises amid the global COVID-19 pandemic in an online meeting Monday (June 8).

  "We are not downshifting," NAMB president Kevin Ezell told trustees, speaking from NAMB's offices during the meeting, which was held virtually because of travel and social distancing limitations triggered by the pandemic. "As other people are running away from crisis, our missionaries are not downshifting. They are moving forward." Read More

• Pastors comfort mourners, exhort churches at George Floyd funeral

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, June 10, 2020 (3 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from KPRC-TV Houston

  HOUSTON (BP) -- Speaking comfort to mourners at the June 9 funeral of George Floyd, Houston pastor Ralph Douglas West posed the question: "Where was God in all of this?"

  Where was God when Floyd repeatedly begged for breath in the last 8 minutes and 46 seconds of his life? Where was God when Floyd was declared dead after his neck was pinned under police officer Derek Chauvin's knee? Read More