Tessa Redmond

When I started building our baby registry, I was immediately overwhelmed by the price tags on basic items every parent and infant needs. Car seat, crib and mattress, stroller, diapers and wipes, bottles, burp clothes — everything easily tallying into the $1,000+ range for budget brands.

PADUCAH, Ky. (BP) – Nick Forsythe has both feet planted in vocational ministry; he just works two jobs. A bivocational pastor shepherding the same congregation since he was 18 years old, Forsythe also serves as Paducah center director for Hope Unlimited Family Care Center in Paducah.

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The reality of both internal and external struggles for church leaders served as the impetus for a committee-generated resolution affirming and seeking to improve the spiritual, physical, mental and emotional well-being of pastors and other ministry leaders.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (KT) – Fairview Baptist Church in Mayfield was one of three Kentucky Baptist Convention churches decimated by an F-3 tornado that tore through the western Kentucky town on Friday evening. Due to COVID concerns, the congregation had only started regathering in their building two months ago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) - La Sociedad 10:18, una organización estudiantil en Boyce College, se asocia con Orphan Care Alliance, un ministerio con sede en Kentucky que equipa a los cristianos para cuidar de niños y familias vulnerables proporcionando entrenamiento de vida a los niños en el sistema de adopción temporal. Y debido a que los miembros de la Sociedad 10:18 son voluntarios, su ministerio es invaluable.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) – The 10:18 Society, a student organization at Boyce College, partners with Orphan Care Alliance, a Kentucky-based ministry that equips Christians to care for vulnerable children and families, to provide life coaching for children in the foster care system. And because 10:18 Society members are volunteers, their ministry is invaluable.

SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Cedar Grove Baptist Church is discipling women with unplanned pregnancies and single moms. The church partners with Embrace Grace, Inc., a non-profit that equips churches to love and support women and families through gospel-centered small groups with the intent of integrating them into local bodies of believers.