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Mission

Churches make room for students displaced by pandemic

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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 […]

The next missionaries

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“What is the future of missions?” The question, posed by International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood during a recent online workshop, is challenging for a number of reasons. U.S. church attendance is down, as is the number of Americans who identify as Christians. And young believers are increasingly skeptical of traditional mission practices. Among engaged […]

Churches adapt fall missions plans

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Sterling | Emmanuel Baptist Church has played a major role in IBSA’s Children’s Missions Day for the past several years, hosting projects in their community and encouraging kids to get involved. When the spring event was canceled due to COVID-19, children’s ministry leader Ashley Covell got creative. The missionaries could “earn” their Children’s Missions Day […]

Illinois teams fuel storm response

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DeRidder, La. | Sharon and Glen Carty got to Louisiana on Labor Day. When they left two weeks later, they were hauling a generator that helped served nearly 80,000 meals to residents affected by Hurricane Laura. The generator, shared by several states and housed in Illinois, powered a mobile kitchen unit in DeRidder, La. It […]