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  • Trauma-healing ministry reaches refugees in Uganda
    by Grace Thornton/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Thursday, July 09, 2020 (one year ago)

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    ARUA DISTRICT, Uganda (BP) -- The South Sudanese people who live in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in Uganda know Deborah* is an outsider. They can see it on her skin. She's Liberian, with lighter skin than theirs -- a fact that wasn't erased by the years she lived in South Sudan married to a South Sudanese man.

    But the scars on her heart are the same as theirs -- they can see that too. Read More

  • IMB missionaries use trauma care resources to help refugees, start churches
    by Tobin Perry/Southern Baptist TEXAN, posted Tuesday, July 07, 2020 (one year ago)

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    BOGOTÁ, Colombia (BP) -- It's tough to overstate the trauma the Venezuelan people have experienced over the last decade. The price of oil, the country's chief export, cratered. Hyperinflation at one point hit 10 million percent. The country's power grid failed, leading to massive power shortages. An unpopular dictator defied an election. More than 4.6 million people fled the country from 2016 to 2019. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Pastoral ministry and mental health
    by Cody Glen Barnhart , posted Friday, May 15, 2020 (2 years ago)

    The expectation that a pastor is responsible for his own mental health is detrimental to pastors' well-being, Cody Barnhart says. He offers ideas for how churches can help pastors stay healthy. Read More

  • Pastors face mental health challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, April 16, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NORMAN, Okla. (BP) -- In recent weeks, as he has juggled altered responsibilities -- and added some new ones, too -- Tristan Martin has experienced an overwhelming sensation of busyness.

    Amid the social distancing required during the COVID-19 pandemic, Martin, pastor of Alameda Baptist Church in Norman, Okla., is shepherding a congregation of mostly senior adults. He's also helping to homeschool his young daughters while his wife, a behavior analyst working with autistic children, continues to work outside the home. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: How to manage social distancing fatigue
    by Willie McLaurin, posted Thursday, April 16, 2020 (2 years ago)

    In most crises, we are accustomed to being inconvenienced for a few days or a few weeks, Willie McLaurin says. The real test of social distancing is now upon us. How do we maintain our sanity after Easter? Read More

  • Suicide: Churches awaken to persistent crisis
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, September 11, 2018 (3 years ago)

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    HUSTONVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Pastor Andrew McGinnis still remembers his "solemn drive" home on June 25, 1995.

    Then 4 years old, McGinnis had been attending a family reunion in Tennessee with his mother and two older brothers while his father Dan, pastor of Double Springs Baptist Church in Waynesburg, Ky., carried out his normal weekend duties at the church. But Dan McGinnis never arrived at church that Sunday morning. Members found him dead in the parsonage -- a victim of suicide. Evidence suggested ministerial stress and undiagnosed mental illness may have been contributing factors.

    Confused and angry, McGinnis told himself as a child, "I won't be a pastor because I don't want to end up like my dad." But 23 years later, McGinnis has answered God's call to ministry and is in his third year as pastor of Hustonville (Ky.) Baptist Church. Read More