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‘ServeNC’ week sees nearly 1,200 churches unite to support NC communities

Aug 13, 2024 | brnow.org | Samuel Heard |N.C. Baptist

When shoppers began checking out their groceries at a local Walmart in Morehead City, N.C., earlier this month, many were surprised to find out that their items would be covered. Members of Local Point Church from nearby Newport, N.C., had arrived at the store on Saturday, Aug. 3, with $5,000 to pay for people’s groceries. “If we’re going to love people well, if we’re going to love people big, we believe part of that is being generous,” said JT Riley, pastor of Local Point.
NC Baptists celebrate ‘huge blessing’ as ultrasound unit placed in Boone

Jul 30, 2024 | brnow.org | Lizzy Haseltine |N.C. Baptist

N.C. Baptist leaders gathered on Friday, July 19, at The Hope Center in downtown Boone to celebrate the dedication of a new ultrasound machine. Among the attendees, Wesley Smith, director of missions for the Three Forks Baptist Association, pointed out how the pregnancy resource center’s machine was an answer to prayer.
NC Baptists send relief after Idalia sweeps through Southeast

Sep 1, 2023 | brnow.org | Samuel Heard |N.C. Baptist

North Carolina Baptists on Mission has deployed disaster relief volunteers to respond to damages after Tropical Storm Idalia made its way through several southeastern states on Wednesday and Thursday. After sending an initial Swift Water Rescue Team to Florida on Wednesday morning, Baptists on Mission sent a disaster recovery team and a logistics volunteer to Perry, Fla., to partner with Florida Baptists’ Disaster Relief and Recovery Ministries.
Raleigh couple’s Bible study brings international students to Christ

Jul 10, 2023 | brnow.org | Lizzy Haseltine |N.C. Baptist

RALEIGH, N.C. – Back in 2011, Teresa Jones’ response to an email changed her family’s life. For the next decade, it would affect numerous others. She signed up to host two international Chinese students in her home in Raleigh for dinner. On a Saturday evening in September, she and her husband, Archie, got to know these two young women – Lixiao and Hua* – and the conversation moved toward spiritual matters.
Churches send 34 members to support revitalizing church

Mar 23, 2023 | brnow.org | Lizzy Haseltine |N.C. Baptist

When Middlesex Baptist Church dwindled down to about 30 members post-COVID, they weren’t sure how to survive. Without a pastor, and with low membership, the church had lost its ability to run its programs. “We felt like God was telling us we need something more than a pastor,” said Tracy Deans, a member of Middlesex Baptist Church who was on the pastor search committee. The church went to N.C. Baptists for help.
NC Baptist pastors encourage churches to ‘Fill the Tank’ on April 16

Mar 14, 2023 | brnow.org | Samuel Heard |N.C. Baptist

When David Herman, pastor of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Creedmoor, N.C., signed his church up for the “Fill the Tank” emphasis in 2021, he was taking a step of faith. “I remember signing up for it weeks before … and, you know, Satan immediately tells you that there’s not going to be anyone that day,” Herman said.
After ‘Coats for the City,’ NC Baptist church finds sending vision

Feb 23, 2023 | brnow.org | Samuel Heard |N.C. Baptist

Members of Lake Junaluska First Baptist Church (FBC) are catching a vision for becoming a sending church. This hasn’t always been the case. As Pastor Nick Smith explained, the church only recently began to explore the possibilities of sending members to be on mission. “This church, in its history, has never sent out an actual team on a foreign mission trip and, as far as I know, in its history has only done one other mission trip,” Smith said.