Corona Virus

Churches and leaders feel impact of COVID-19

March 10, 2020 By Meredith Flynn

Mission agency recommends volunteers postpone travel due to coronavirus risk The Southern Baptist International Mission Board (IMB) is recommending that mission volunteers from U.S. churches postpone international mission-trip travel through April 30 at least. “We’ve already had to cancel several overseas meetings due to sudden travel bans and challenges associated with government-imposed quarantines,” said IMB […]

Surviving, reviving, thriving

Nate Adams

This past summer, our weekly chapel times at IBSA were devoted to a series titled “Summer in the Psalms.” This book of songs and poetry, of course, gives expression to a wide range of emotions, from the lows of our woes to the heights of our worship. In doing so, it reassures us that God […]

The church still matters

Doug Munton

I’ve never seen the idea of the church so marginalized in all my lifetime. The secular world mocks the church and the Christian world devalues the church. The local church is seen, even by believers, as unnecessary and antiquated and optional. You can kind of understand the issues perhaps. After all, churches are filled with […]