Eleven percent of the people who participated in a LifeWay Research survey said they or an immediate family member are the primary full-time caregiver to an elderly parent or a special needs child, a statistic also shown in two other national studies.
Financial freedom gets New Testament boost
To help families reduce their financial debt, LifeWay Christian Resources and the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee hope to see a New Testament become a valuable resource. If so, churches will benefit.
Outrigger Island not far for North Carolina church
A mission team from Millers Creek (N.C.) Baptist Church decided to go to Hawaii to help with Vacation Bible School and to work at Hawaii Baptists? Pu?u Kahea Conference Center. They heard things like, ?Oh, a mission trip to Hawaii ? yeah, right.? But, as they would do on any mission trip, the group provided much needed and much appreciated ministry. They just did it in a really pretty place.
VBS partnership is creative solution
What does a church do when it can't host its own Vacation Bible School? It gets creative!
Hawaiian kids claim Outrigger Island as their own
The first-grader just had one question when Vacation Bible School was over. ?You mean we don't come back tomorrow?? No, VBS only lasts a week. But what the children learned lasts forever: God's truth is unshakable.
LifeWay Research finds Americans wary of political endorsements from pastors and churches
As a hotly contested presidential election approaches, Americans strongly believe churches should tread lightly when it comes to political activity.
2008 Baptist Hymnal makes official debut in Nashville
The new 2008 Baptist Hymnal made its official debut during a morning worship Aug. 8 at LifeWay Christian Resources? home office in Nashville, Tenn., and again that evening at the city's renowned Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
America’s beliefs: Shifting sand
Various theologians and pastors have been warning us for years that if you de-emphasize biblical truth in the church, and more specifically in the pulpit, you will do so to the ultimate harm and destruction of the church.
LifeWay study adds doubt about Pew poll’s claim of ‘universalism’ among evangelicals
In a partial release of a study planned for publishing in full this fall, LifeWay Research's findings about evangelicals? beliefs regarding the exclusivity of Christ differed from the recently published results from a Pew poll.
More than 88,000 kids accept Christ during VBS
The numbers are in for 2007 Vacation Bible School, and once again they show that VBS is the most effective evangelistic strategy for most churches.