Having attended Southern Baptist churches all my life, the Christmas season always brings to my mind the name of Lottie Moon and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Lottie, of course, gave her life as a missionary to China and as a passionate advocate for international missions. Last year when our family gave to international missions […]
Books of Reports
When messengers from our IBSA churches gather for the 2024 Annual Meeting at Ashburn Baptist Church in Orland Park November 12-13, they will receive something we call a Book of Reports. In addition to a program for the meeting itself, it will provide numerous documents that overview the cooperative work and ministries of our network […]
Stumbling blocks & steppingstones
Our youngest son, Ethan, and his wife, Alyssa, just adopted a beautiful little baby girl. My wife and I happened to be visiting them when they received the long-awaited call saying that if they could book a flight that day, they could be holding their newborn baby daughter that evening. A few hours later we […]
Holding the rope right here
The story is told of William Carey, pioneer English missionary of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who before traveling to India told Andrew Fuller, “I will go down into the pit, if you will hold the ropes.” Because Fuller and others supported and advocated for him back home, Carey was able to accomplish […]
Right here
When we hear the phrase “mission field,” we often think internationally, and we imagine people who don’t look like us, or who don’t speak our language, or who don’t live with many of the blessings that we enjoy. We remember with respect and gratitude those called missionaries who leave home and who go to live […]
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