North American Mission Board

LANGLEY, British Columbia – “You must be out of your mind.” No one said it. But it had to be what most reasonable people were thinking when they heard what Christian and Laura Rowland had decided to do.  

FLINT, Mich. – Leo and Miosha Robinson know what people think. And it hurts.

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.

BAR NUNN, Wyo. – Baggs, Bairoil, Glendo, Granger, Medicine Bow, Meeteetse – race past them at the posted interstate speed limit of 80 miles per hour, and one after another, every tiny town in Wyoming can easily look like the same blink-and-you’ll-miss-it blur out the passenger-side window.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – In Los Angeles, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) volunteers recently began helping homeowners sort through the remaining ashes of their houses in an attempt to salvage any belongings that may have survived the wildfires that swept through the area in January.

LAREDO – They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice.

PROVO, Utah – In Provo, appearances can be deceiving.

SNEADS FERRY, N.C. – Brittany Brown will never forget the evening of November 19, 2005. But her memories of that night, the night she gave birth to her second child, are anything but typical.

SNEADS FERRY, N.C. (BP) – The bathroom smells like shrimp, the office is packed with preschoolers, and up on stage, all the Neverland props from the previous night’s very-off-Broadway performance of “Peter Pan” have been shoved to one side.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – More than 300 gathered at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) for a conference for Associational Missions Strategists (AMS) on replanting and renewing struggling churches, and NAMB’s Replant team announced a new resource designed to equip a local AMS in replanting.