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Missions

Yoder’s Walk4Freedom ends with a surprise

June 28, 2017 By Lisa Misner

Lindsey Yoder and Natalie Grant

Nashville, Tenn. | Fourteen-year-old Lindsey Yoder walked 15 miles a day along the dusty back roads of southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee in a quest to raise awareness about human trafficking. She departed from Arthur Southern Baptist Church, where she and her family are members, on May 28 and arrived at Nashville’s Bicentennial Park […]

A Cause Worth Living For: Meet Southern Baptist Missionary “Chief Mama”

June 20, 2017 By Illinois Baptist Staff

“Not long after I was saved at age 9, the Holy Spirit told me I was to be a single woman missionary teacher in Africa,” Ima Rohm said.  Read…

Local association explores Dominican mission opportunities

April 6, 2017 By Illinois Baptist Staff

“Eight years ago [Halsey] met Pastor Ortiz and found him to be a man who was not just a good pastor but a man with a great missionary heart who desired to start churches,” Cloyd said. Read…

The Cooperative Program: We neglect it to our own peril

March 27, 2017 By Baptist Press

The Cooperative Program

The Cooperative Program ought not be a sacred cow, but it is close to one for me. Begun by Southern Baptists nearly a century ago, it has proven to be a most effective and enduring way to support our collective ministry and mission work. I often visit with leaders of other evangelical denominations who are […]

2017 Children’s Ministry Day: Made for good works

March 26, 2017 By Illinois Baptist Staff

More than 1,100 children and grown-up volunteers braved chilly temperatures and the threat of snow Saturday, March 11, to serve through a variety of hands-on missions projects on Children’s Ministry Day. Read…

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The search committee seeking the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has “identified God’s candidate for such a time as this” and will announce the nominee “very soon,” search committee vice chairman Adron Robinson reported Feb. 19. The search committee also responded to criticism that has surfaced this month regarding its consideration of non-Anglo […]

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Church life in shrinking Illinois

Eric Reed

Hard times hit the publishing industry in the early 2000’s. The president of Christianity Today International, for whom I worked at the time, called the confluence of 9/11, falling ad sales, and the rise of the internet “whitewater.” Apparently he enjoyed rafting, but he knew the river crashing against the rocks as placid waters turned […]

ACP tallies show need for new ministry strategies

IBSA churches report uptick in evangelism

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