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Prestonwood partners with planters for Boston Marathon ministry Most years, when Prestonwood Baptist Church’s young singles take mission trips to Boston, they arrive a week before the Boston Marathon and leave the day after.

Chaplain Col. Matthew M. Goff opened the Fort Hood memorial service April 9 honoring soldiers slain and wounded in last week’s shooting spree by asking God “to walk with us to the valley of our grief.” Goff is a chaplain endorsed by the Southern Baptist Convention and resourced by the North American Mission Board.
 

More than 260 church planters, pastors and spouses came together in Nashville, Tenn., to learn about and engage with Send North America through the Discover North America Experience, held March 31-April 1.

The April 9 memorial service honoring shooting victims at Fort Hood, Texas, will “be an important step in the healing process for a deeply grieving community,” said Doug Carver, executive director for chaplaincy at the North American Mission Board. The shooting spree left four dead, including the gunman, with 16 people injured.

When most of your members learned to drive during the Obama administration, a large portion of tithes come from part-time earners and your church turns over most of its membership every four to five years, you have a unique set of ministry challenges. And it’s easy to think you’re struggling through these issues by yourself. That’s what it’s like to lead a collegiate church plant.

Putting together high-quality worship experiences for college students can be expensive. Josh Martin knows that firsthand. The 31-year-old worship arts pastor at Resonate Church in Pullman, Wash., helped plant the church in 2007 with lead pastor Keith Wieser and a team of others.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – When Ronnie Wyatt moved with his wife and three of his daughters from North Carolina to central New York state, they settled into one of the roughest neighborhoods in North Syracuse. Having left a secure pastorate in the South, Wyatt soon learned that only about 4 percent of Syracuse’s residents are Christians.

Thanks to a new partnership between the Austin Baptist Association (ABA) and Send North America: San Diego, two church plants in the Southern California city will be receiving new funding.

Northwest Baptist Convention Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers have joined the efforts to minister to the survivors of the massive landslide in northwest Washington. Officials increased the death tool to 24 on Monday, but reduced the number of missing to 30 as more accurate information on survivors was obtained.

When Steven Helfrich first sensed God leading him into church planting while still a student, he figured it would be in some far-off land where customs would be different and language would be a barrier. Since his wife came from Poland, the idea of church planting in Europe made a lot of sense.