Port Arthur church plant is embracing those on the fringes of the community
Kindness and acceptance were not things David usually experienced in his interactions with other people. Despite being described as covered in tattoos and looking “scary,” that’s what was shown to him when he attended Port Arthur City Church on the first day it launched as a church plant last year.
More than 1,300 spiritual decisions made at Louisiana youth crusade
DENHAM SPRINGS, La. – The Denham Springs High School football stadium became a house of God during the Livingston Parish GO TELL AMERICA Crusade March 16-19.
Topeka church baptizes 12 members of college baseball team, product of intentional discipleship
TOPEKA, Kans. (BP) — They lined up on March 2, ready to enter the baptistry at First Southern Baptist Church. College athletes, all of them. Emerging from the water symbolized a new start for them and signaled a long-term commitment by others to bring such a decision.
Kentucky Baptists celebrating baptism resurgence with highest total since 2016
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Baptists are celebrating a surge in baptisms with 12,654 reported during the past reporting year (ending March 15). It’s a significant increase over the previous year and the highest year in almost a decade.
Partnership fuels Gospel multiplication in Southern California
REDLANDS, Calif. (BP) — As Nancy prepared to be baptized at Portrait Church in Redlands, she couldn’t get rid of a nagging fear. A young single mom in her 30s battling cancer, one side of her body had recently lost all feeling.
Wyoming town sees first-hand example of the Gospel’s transformative power
BAR NUNN, Wyo. – Trent Fetherston had a reputation – the kind of reputation a man will get in an everybody-knows-everybody kind of town like Bar Nunn, Wyoming, when he spends what seems like thousands of consecutive happy hours with a drink in his hand and a chip on his shoulder.
Result of impromptu disaster relief trip ‘had 11 grown men crying’
EUBANKS, Ky. – Last Saturday (Feb. 22), a combined men’s study group from Pilot Baptist and Liberty Baptist decided they needed to go to eastern Kentucky and serve in an area hit by devastating flooding earlier this month.
Kickstands up: Pastor challenges church with bike ride for Annie Armstrong
DOUGLAS, Ga. (BP) – Kevin Bounds is familiar with the concept that every little bit counts.
FIRST-PERSON: The unexpected fruit of a hallway conversation
I was speaking at a Texas evangelism event years ago when a young man approached me in the hall to ask if we could have a conversation. We found a quiet place, sat down, and he began telling me his story. He was a church planter, several years into a new church plant that blossomed from its earliest days and was going very well.
New England student event commissions missionaries, builds next gen witness
About 530 students and chaperones gathered at the Sturbridge Host Hotel in Sturbridge, Mass. from Jan. 24-26 for a weekend of worshipping, hanging out and learning about missions. Among the 38 congregations represented were those of Arabic, Filipino, Hispanic, Brazilian, Chinese and Ethiopian descent.
