Hundreds of young volunteers scattered across Illinois March 9 for a day of hands-on mission projects. IBSA’s annual Children’s Mission Day sent kids around the state to serve by baking cookies for first responders, visiting with residents at assisted living facilities, helping at local food banks, and dozens more projects. At Chatham Baptist Church, nearly […]
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Slideshow: Kids serve across Illinois on annual Children’s Missions Day
Soggy weather didn’t deter hundreds of missions volunteers from serving through hands-on projects March 9. IBSA’s annual Children’s Missions Day mobilized kids at 11 sites around the state, where they baked cookies, made blankets, and prepared cards and goodie baskets for people in their communities. In some places, the young missionaries visited nursing homes or […]
Volunteers serve after Aurora shooting
Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR) volunteers ministered to families and first responders in the wake of a Feb. 15 shooting at a suburban manufacturing plant. Gary Martin, 45, killed five people at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora and wounded five officers before he was killed in a shootout with police. Three days later, the plant […]
Sending hope: Annual offering aids missionaries reaching the nations here at home
Philip Nache could have given in to despair. Boko Haram, the jihadist militant group located in Nigeria, had threatened his life, martyred a convert to Christianity, and continued to intimidate Christians. But despite the danger, Nache expected to return and work among the people he’d served for nearly 20 years. He had come to the […]
Church life in shrinking Illinois
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 […]
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