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Sunday School classes to spotlight ‘3-D’ view of transformation

Published on August 21, 2006

Sunday school is alive and well. It just needs a wakeup call, LifeWay Christian Resources president Thom Rainer said.... Continue Reading »

Pastor lists ’10 commandments’ for use of music in worship

Published on August 21, 2006

With correct theology as a key theme at this summer's LifeWay Worship Music Conference, Denver pastor Jim Shaddix challenged participants with his 'top 10 commandments? for setting a theology of music in worship.... Continue Reading »

Naval officer, crewmates help rescue Americans from Beirut

Published on August 4, 2006

Naval supply officer Ted Kush didn't realize that his latest deployment aboard the USS Nashville would include a mission of mercy involving the evacuation of hundreds of American citizens fleeing war-torn Lebanon.... Continue Reading »

Inaugural Centri-Cruise trip takes ministry to the Bahamas

Published on August 4, 2006

It's 100 degrees in the tropical heat as the American students stand in a courtyard scattered with tireless tricycles and deflated soccer balls. Unsure of how the local orphans will accept them, the students do the only thing they... Continue Reading »

IMB trustees elect another VP, hear about tsunami projects

Published on August 4, 2006

Trustees of the International Mission Board unanimously elected a vice president for mobilization, learned projects aiding victims of the 2004 South Asia tsunami will be completed within 12 months, and heard appeals from leaders for Southern Baptists to ramp... Continue Reading »

Georgia mission team leaves hope, hearts in Lebanon

Published on August 4, 2006

For most of the congregation, it was a typical Sunday morning service at Eagle's Landing First Baptist Church. But for nine members, just back from a short-term mission trip to Beirut, Lebanon, it was anything but typical.... Continue Reading »

Firepower won’t solve Mideast strife, say Baptist observers

Published on July 21, 2006

Israel and the terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas traded punches this month in a conflict that threatens to deepen into the first regional war in the Middle East since 1973. Israeli warplanes conducted strikes on Hezbollah targets near Beirut... Continue Reading »

Eskimo children enjoy ‘Arctic Edge’ adventure

Published on July 21, 2006

You can't drive to Kiana; there's no road. The only ways in and out of this small Alaskan community in the Arctic Circle are by small charter plane, boat, four-wheeler or snowmobile. But for this one time, in the... Continue Reading »

Association of Baptist colleges changes name

Published on July 12, 2006

Members of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools (ASBCS), meeting in Charleston, voted June 5 to change the name of the 51-member organization to the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU). Also, Anderson University president... Continue Reading »

Rainer, Geiger offer simple concept of discipleship in book

Published on July 7, 2006

Look at Apple's iPod or Google's website. Consider Southwest Airlines or Papa John's Pizza. What do these successful companies have in common?... Continue Reading »

New IMB study kit seeks to get Southern Baptists ‘on mission’

Published on July 7, 2006

Jerry Rankin has a God-sized vision for Southern Baptists: 10,000 churches working hand-in-hand with missionaries to reach a lost world. And now there's a new tool he hopes will help make it happen.... Continue Reading »

World Changers 2006 under way with 22,000 volunteers in 87 cities

Published on July 7, 2006

The immediate goals of the North American Mission Board's World Changers are to rehabilitate sub-standard homes and improve neighborhoods in 87 cities this summer.... Continue Reading »