IBSA News

Illinois Baptist State Newspaper

Nate Adams

My CP Story

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While in college, I served a nearby Baptist church as its youth minister. One night during a church business meeting, someone asked what this line was in the church budget called “Cooperative Program,” and whether it could be cut back to free up money for some other things. A respected deacon and businessman in the […]

Our turn

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A little more than a hundred years ago, Baptist soldiers and volunteers were returning to America from World War I-ravaged Europe, lamenting the physical, emotional, and spiritual devastation they were leaving behind. Back home they found many of those same needs in a traumatized America. For years prior to that, Southern Baptist churches had already […]

Barber to visit

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Last June 13, the day Dr. Bart Barber was elected President of the Southern Baptist Convention for a second annual term, I invited him to come to Illinois. Throughout his first term I had respected his candor and transparency in speaking to the many complex issues and challenges facing the national SBC today, and I […]

Impossible alone

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“Impossible things are only impossible alone.” Though I was shaving and only halfway paying attention to the radio advertisements that were droning on in the background, that line caught my attention. I stopped and listened carefully to learn the company’s name, then I searched online and discovered an Australian company that was promoting its collaborative […]

CP: Boldly going

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At the end of World War I, Southern Baptist veterans returned from Europe and described the devastating physical and spiritual needs they had left there. Southern Baptists responded at their 1919 convention by launching “The Baptist Seventy-five Million Campaign,” challenging members of every church to sign pledge cards and give sacrificially over a five-year period […]