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 […]
Nate Adams
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 […]
Budgeting to reach the world
Last December, not long after the Hamas attack on Israel, I wrote in this column about World War I, and how compassion for the physically devastated and spiritually lost people of Europe led Baptist churches to work together like never before to send missionaries and relief to the world. The 1925 Southern Baptist Convention then […]
Back to Indy
Though I grew up in a pastor’s home, I didn’t attend a national Southern Baptist Convention until I was 34. I’ve learned that’s not unusual. For most pastors, it’s not easy to carve out the time and resources needed to travel to the various cities where the SBC meets each year, especially with their families. […]
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