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  • Children respond to Gospel through Minecraft Easter egg hunt
    by Tobin Perry/Southern Baptist TEXAN., posted Tuesday, April 14, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    ARLINGTON, Texas (BP) -- Despite a couple of minor technical difficulties, Tate Springs Baptist Church pastor Jared Wellman calls the church's nationwide Minecraft Easter Egg Hunt an evangelistic success. Wellman says the Gospel was shared with around 1,000 people during the event. By Monday (April 13), 13 people had responded by saying they wanted to know more about accepting Christ. Read More

  • Tornadoes during COVID-19: 'Help your neighbor and stay out of the way'
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, April 13, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    COLLINS, Miss. (BP) -- Already heavy-laden with the turmoil of a global COVID-19 pandemic, residents in several Southern states suffered the added burden of a string of tornadoes Easter Sunday that killed at least 27 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and left more than a million in the dark.

    "Most everybody's still in shock," said Tommy Broom, director of missions for the Covington-Jefferson Davis Baptist Association in Collins, Miss., which comprises about 30 churches spread across several communities damaged by strong tornadoes. "It's kind of unreal." Read More

  • Drive-by event produces large Annie Armstrong Easter Offering

    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, April 13, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    FRANKFORT, Ky., (BP) -- A "drive-thru" giving process, designed in part to provide an opportunity for the members of Buck Run Baptist Church to connect with their pastors on Easter Sunday, led to the largest amount the church has ever collected for the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.

    Hershael York, senior pastor of Buck Run, said one of the biggest motivating factors for individuals to participate in the event they coined "Drive-By Annie" was likely the chance to go to the church for the first time in many weeks. Like many others during the COVID-19 pandemic, the church has held services only online in recent weeks while abiding by guidelines on social distancing. Read More

  • Chaplains' reach grows in Afghanistan during pandemic
    by Tobin Perry, posted Monday, April 13, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    KABUL, Afghanistan -- Like many other ministry leaders around the world, Dan Thompson has needed to make a number of adjustments to minister to the people he shepherds. When he counsels people, he sits six feet away. Worship services are limited to no more than 10 people in them at a time.

    Thompson's parishioners are facing two wars right now -- one against the COVID-19 pandemic and another against terrorism. And though the COVID-19 pandemic has forced changes in the way chaplains minister, Thompson has seen the Gospel's reach grow -- including a growing number of people listening to the New Testament on their very own "Bible stick." Read More

  • SBC leaders pray for revival, end of pandemic
    by Staff, posted Friday, April 10, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- With churches preparing for another week of online services -- this Sunday, an unprecedented Easter -- Ronnie Floyd gathered Southern Baptists from across the world on Good Friday to pray together online for the end of the COVID-19 global pandemic, and that God would use this time to call the Church to revival. Read More

  • Summer camps face great loss in wake of COVID-19 pandemic
    by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Thursday, April 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Thousands of students each summer attend camps held at Baptist conference centers across the U.S.

    But in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, event leaders are facing difficult decisions. Because the landscape of the pandemic is constantly changing, many camp leaders are still undecided about this summer's events. Read More

  • New Orleans ICU nurse in quarantine with COVID-19 shares Gospel hope
    by Brandon Elrod, posted Thursday, April 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    KENNER, La. (BP) -- Lexie Green was still a few months shy of her two-year anniversary as a nurse at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner, La., just outside of New Orleans, when she found herself serving in the intensive care unit in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    A few weeks into the crisis, which has struck the New Orleans area particularly hard, Green started feeling ill herself. When she discovered she was running a fever, her supervisor sent her home. She later tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Read More

  • Baptist leaders welcome ruling in support of Texas order
    by Tom Strode, posted Thursday, April 09, 2020 (2 years ago)

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    NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Southern Baptist leaders have commended a federal appeals court decision in support of a Texas order that includes abortion as a nonessential medical procedure suspended during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

    In an April 7 ruling, a divided panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned a federal judge's opinion that removed all abortions from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order postponing nonessential procedures through April 21. In rejecting the arguments of abortion-rights advocates, the 2-1 majority said the order "regulates abortions evenhandedly" with all other medical procedures. Read More