“It’ll begin to break your heart as you travel around the city,” Rob Wilton said. “You see a lot of empty church buildings that basically have become more like museums than they have mission centers.”
“Hurricane Maria was the worst disaster in Puerto Rican history, but what really gets to me is not what Maria did to our property but what it’s done to our people,” Jonathan Santiago said.
GenSend is NAMB’s missions development program that enables college-age students, age 18 to 25, to serve in a NAMB Send City for six-to-eight weeks and learn how to live their lives on mission.
“We can see so many ethnic groups living together in one town, in one place, in one city. We have to open our eyes, our strategy and our hearts to reach out to the ethnic groups living among us,” says Mojic Baldandorj.
Five years ago, there were only two Hispanic Canadian Baptist churches in the entire province of Ontario in Canada. One of those churches was located on the west side of Toronto. But what about the east side?
The distance between hearing the gospel and responding to the gospel in Seattle is much greater than some may experience in the Bible Belt South. Yet, Roots Community Church averages between 95 and 110 people every Sunday, and they have seen God at work in their neighborhood.
WMU recently held its January board meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. There, PA/SJ WMU President Theresa Krieg learned about this year's goals for the SBC's two missions offerings.
To commemorate its 175th anniversary, IMB will share stories and videos that recognize the movement of God among the nations and honor those have who followed His call to pray, give and go.