Just as the semitruck full of food pulled into the parking lot at Second Baptist Church in Granite City, the skies opened up, said Pastor Chris Sedabres. But even as the rain poured down, people came to the church to receive free groceries and supplies. And many of them stayed to help, Sedabres said. “We […]
Missions
Annual offering takes the gospel to unreached groups
Editor’s note: The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering and Week of Prayer for International Missions is Nov. 29-Dec. 7. Anim* remembers the day when an old fortune teller told her mother that Anim had the gift of sight. “My mother and my grandmother were both fortune tellers,” she said, “so my mom wasn’t surprised when the […]
How sharing Christ overseas changed a church
This January, I got to watch God move again in a way that brings so much joy to this pastor’s heart. I was on the dusty, noisy street on the edge of a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, with two Kenyans who served as our translators and two church members from Immanuel in Benton, Brad and […]
Pray and prepare: IBSA launches affinity networks to aid churches in missions planning
Pastor David Seaton’s church planned to send a volunteer team to Southeast Asia in 2020. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, shutting down most international travel and putting long-planned mission trips on hold. “We want the people of God to take the story of God to people who don’t know it yet,” said Seaton, a pastor […]
Churches make room for students displaced by pandemic
Across Illinois | Pastor Jason Plumer walks around the tables in his church’s fellowship hall, stopping every few seconds to talk to small groups of students eating an after-school snack of cereal or carrot sticks. His church’s after-school program, Tending the Vine, runs four afternoons a week for kids who need a place go after […]
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