The Sept. 11 meeting of the IBSA Board of Directors wasn’t an average board meeting. The usual business took place—budgets were discussed, and new officers were voted in. But something else happened: Sandy Barnard, executive administrative assistant, was honored for serving IBSA and its churches for 33 years. Barnard, who will retire in January 2019, […]
Equipping women for leadership
Carmen Halsey has a passion for educating and empowering godly women. As IBSA’s director of women’s ministry, she organizes leadership training cohorts, large equipping events, and mission trips in Illinois and abroad. Her desire is to help women find their God-given gifts, and to bring those gifts to build up the local church and carry […]
Professor schools church on developing a biblical worldview
Dan DeWitt describes the term worldview as “a lens through which we see everything.” He wants Christians to stop and think about their own worldviews and that of others around them. Like the lenses in a pair of glasses, he said, “We rarely stop and think about everything we see until we get a smudge.” […]
Chicago violence, new Hybels accusations, Christian genocide
75 people shot, 12 fatally, in Chicago over the weekend At least 75 people were shot in one of the most violent weekends of the year in Chicago, spurred by a 7-hour period early Sunday morning when 41 people were shot. Their ages spanned from 11 to 62 years old, and most were attacked on […]
Church roll purge incites media ‘circus,’ Imprisoned U.S. pastor in Turkey moves to house arrest
IMB’s Platt initiates sexual abuse investigations Two “thorough, outside, independent” investigations have been initiated by International Mission Board President David Platt into the IMB’s handling of any past sexual abuse allegations and into its policies of zero tolerance for such abuse. Platt also stated a public apology to Anne Marie Miller, who has alleged sexual […]
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