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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | David Johnson |Chris Doyle |Anna Skudarnova |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Cooperating for the Gospel, Cooperative ProgramFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: David Johnson is executive director of the Arizona Mission Network of Southern Baptists. Members of the 1936 U.S. Olympic Rowing team depicted in the movie “The Boys in the Boat” were able to accomplish far more than anyone expected because they discovered what can happen when you work together in perfect unity.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Chris Doyle |Anna Skudarnova |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: For more than 35 years, Tim Kunkel has served as an International Mission Board missionary in South America, serving with global missionary partners and other IMB missionaries. He travels often to other South American countries, including Uruguay and Argentina, from his home base in Chile. As he travels, he carries Gospel tracts with him to share with people he meets.
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2 months ago | 
baptistpress.com | Anna Skudarnova |Diana Chandler |Chuck Kelley |Scott Barkley
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — This fall, Send Network One Day events are coming to cities across North America in an effort to catalyze a movement around the Great Commission. Last year, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm, celebrated that Southern Baptists have planted more than 11,000 churches since 2010, but the growing lostness in North America presents an urgent need for more.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Anna Skudarnova |Anna Gardner |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
PETAH TIKVA, Israel (BP) — Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel one year ago, Send Relief has been working with Christians and churches in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. The generosity of Southern Baptists has provided hot meals and basic food boxes, medical supplies, trauma counseling and even bomb shelters, impacting more than 22,000 survivors of the war.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Anna Skudarnova |Anna Gardner |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster Relief, National NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: GREENWOOD, S.C. – In the early hours of Friday, Sept. 27, Hurricane Helene swept through South Carolina, causing significant damage across the state. One family involved in the Family Care program at Connie Maxwell Children’s Ministries in Greenwood experienced a life-threatening situation when a tree fell on their home during the storm.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
brnow.org | Anna Skudarnova
TORONTO — Kesevan Balasingham knows firsthand that he doesn’t have to look far from his Toronto home to find a mission field. It’s because he was once part of the mission field. Originally from Sri Lanka, Balasingham has lived in three countries, learned four languages, became involved in gang violence and was sentenced to nine years in prison all before he was 20 years old.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Kristen Sosebee |Anna Skudarnova |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
PARIS (BP) – Right now, more than 10,000 athletes are gathering for the start of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. They are accompanied by coaches, spectators, vendors, journalists, media professionals and volunteers. It is estimated that 15 million visitors will pass through the French capital this summer, people from nearly every nation on earth, in one place, at one time. The International Mission Board’s Paris team is making the most of this God-given moment to bring the Gospel to the nations.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Anna Skudarnova |Aamer Madhani |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
TORONTO – Kesevan Balasingham knows firsthand that he doesn’t have to look far from his Toronto home to find a mission field. It’s because he was once part of the mission field. Originally from Sri Lanka, Balasingham has lived in three countries, learned four languages, became involved in gang violence and was sentenced to nine years in prison all before he was 20 years old.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
baptistpress.com | Jane Rodgers |Anna Skudarnova |Scott Barkley |Tom Strode
WASHINGTON (BP) — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson heard from select evangelical leaders in a press call in advance of the chamber’s weekend passage of a $95 million foreign aid package. The U.S. must support Israel, Ukraine and other allies in a battle that threatens democracy and religious freedom beyond Europe and the Middle East at the united hands of China, Iran and Russia, leaders said in the press call Johnson convened April 19.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
christianindex.org | Anna Skudarnova
By ANNA SKUDARNOVA, North American Mission Board ALPHARETTA, Ga. — More than 200 church planters represented 189 sending churches at Send Network’s most recent orientation for newly endorsed church planters last week. Five different languages were spoken among the planters, who hailed from 24 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.
