News

More than a sandwich

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

It’s a cold, rainy Saturday in New York City, and Vaughn McLamb ladles steaming cups of chicken soup for the crowd gathered at Thompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.

Disaster relief response far from over in American Samoa

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) work continues on American Samoa, seven weeks after an earthquake – measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale – struck the South Pacific island, triggering a deadly tsunami that killed 31 people, including six Southern Baptists.

Churches form connections as missionary encouragers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

One catalyst for transforming ordinary churchgoers into mobilized on-mission Christians is a personal connection with a missionary. Friendship Baptist Church in Warner Robins, Ga., made just such a connection last year when they “adopted” Jamie Daughtry through the North American Mission Board’s Missionary Encourager initiative.

Army deploys more chaplains to minister at Ft. Hood

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Nothing prepared Army Chaplain (Capt.) Jason Palmer for his initial tour of the yellow-taped crime scene at Ft. Hood’s Soldier Readiness Center, where he saw blood-trails still on the floor, bloody handprints on the walls and the telephone pole outside where the alleged shooter collapsed to the ground after being shot four times in the abdomen.

One + one = revival

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Members of Grand Rivers Baptist Church in Grand Rivers, Kentucky, may have started something even grander.

Missionary Dave Storey proves you can go home again

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Ask Dave Storey, “What do you do?” and you might think for a moment that you’re talking with the Apostle Paul. His response is quick and simple: “I preach the Gospel.” To Storey, a North American missionary in Doaktown, New Brunswick, nothing is as exciting as seeing lives changed when people are led to Christ.

Drop-In Mission Education and Thanksgiving Ideas

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:18:03 PST

Drop-In Mission Education and Thanksgiving ideas
A transition in many churches from stand-alone mission education programs doesn’t have to mean an end to emphasizing missions. Read about NAMB’s Drop-In Mission Education (DIME) resources and evangelism ideas for Thanksgiving in last week's edition of Your Church on Mission in North America. More >

Patriotic Coupon Clipping

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

First Baptist Church of Pierce City, Mo., is clipping coupons for Christ.

On Mission Xtra begins second season on FamilyNet

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

On Mission Xtra, NAMB’s 30-minute magazine-style television program, recently began it’s second season spotlighting missionaries and other on mission Christians. The show was featured in last week’s third issue of the Your Church on Mission in North America email newsletter. More >

Charles Roesel named ‘presidential ambassador’ for NAMB

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Charles L. Roesel -- who says “I exist for evangelism as fire exists for burning” – has been appointed “presidential ambassador” by the North American Mission Board’s interim president, Richard Harris. Roesel’s appointment is effective immediately.

Georgia DR team closing down after deadly September floods

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

A month after monsoon-like rains resulted in “500-year” flooding in west metro Atlanta, mud-out, feeding and other recovery operations are finally standing down, according to Stuart Lang, disaster relief director for the Georgia Baptist Convention.

SBC DR on the ground in American Samoa

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Terry Henderson, operations consultant for disaster relief for the North American Mission Board, has joined a team of local Baptists and volunteers from Hawaii to assess the damage from the recent earthquake and tsunami that devastated American Samoa.

Missionary plants church at Texas Medical Center in Houston

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Medical student John Robert Kamguru Githinji grew up in Kenya where poverty and conflict created the question for his parents of where to send him to give him a better life. They decided on a one-way ticket from Nairobi to Dallas.

2010 Week of Prayer missionaries introduced at NAMB chapel

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

The 2010 “Week of Prayer” missionaries – who will serve as the faces and voices for next year’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering ® – were introduced to some 250 North American Mission Board staff members during the mission agency’s monthly chapel services on Oct. 15.

Georgia Exec: SBC needs NAMB, CP

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Georgia Baptist Convention executive director J. Robert White called the North American Mission Board “absolutely essential" to Southern Baptists as a stand-alone entity and critical to reaching the continent for Christ, according to this Baptist Press report. More >

World Changers gets new 2010 schedule

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

The North American Mission Board's World Changers will mark 20 years of ministry in 2010.

NAMB commissions 119 missionaries, chaplains at Denver’s Applewood Church

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Joe Beckler and wife Cheri are stepping onto a diverse and challenging mission field. It’s a mission field where people are skeptical, even suspicious of Christianity.

From Texas, Oklahoma and Kentucky: Manila DR teams 'git busy and git 'er done'

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

Thirty Southern Baptist disaster relief specialists have completed a week's labor in the Philippines capital, helping local partners and community residents dig out from a flood that inundated vast sections of the city.

2010 PowerPlant edition to minister in 19 cities

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

The North American Mission Board’s PowerPlant initiative – designed to expose students to church planting and evangelism -- has announced it will conduct projects next summer in 19 cities nationwide, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Denver and Cincinnati.

GPS: Across North America bears fruit of baptisms, church unity in Stone Mountain association

Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST

When pastors of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association met in February to talk evangelism strategy, Maxine Harris had no idea there was cancer forming inside her.