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BRN Executive Director Barry Whitworth celebrates church planting

March 18, 2021
Barry Whitworth
BRN
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Though March 21, 2021, is Church-Planting Emphasis Sunday on the Southern Baptist Convention calendar, the Baptist Resource Network likes to celebrate church planting every day, says BRN Executive Director Barry Whitworth.

BRN Disaster Relief Director Kenton Hunt urges churches to be ready to support COVID-19 vaccination efforts

March 18, 2021
Guest Writer
BRN
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Churches are urged to discover their community's pressing needs and to step up and volunteer to meet those needs by calling their county Emergency Management Coordinator or Health Department and asking, “Do you need volunteers to staff vaccination sites?”

New president of state evangelism directors wants to get the church ‘out of the building’

March 18, 2021
Guest Writer
SBC
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The T-shirts say it all. “Ask me why I’m not in church” encourages people on the streets to ask just that of members of Great Commission Church of Philadelphia, thereby initiating Gospel conversations.

Calvary Christian Church: Knowing neighbors, meeting needs

March 18, 2021
LaVeta Jones
BRN
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Philadelphia’s poverty rate, coupled with the pandemic, provides an opportunity for Calvary to KNOW their neighbors; SHOW what it means to follow Christ through words and actions; and to teach them to GROW in all that Jesus commanded.

Joshua Valdez Speaking To A Group Of Students

CP: Changing lives one verse at a time in Farmington

March 16, 2021
Guest Writer
SBC
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Your support of both CP and THE ANNIE ARMSTRONG EASTER OFFERING provides the opportunity to build intentional relationships and share the hope of Jesus with others.

Think the ‘Equality Act’ will spare churches and religious schools? Think again.

The "Equality Act" legislation, which has been passed in the House and will be evaluated in the Senate, elevates sexual orientation and gender identity to protected class status in existing federal nondiscrimination laws.

Child's Handwriting - I Would Want To Be A Missionary

50 STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION: A missionally-minded legacy

March 11, 2021
Macala Mays
BRN
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Four generations of women who were involved in missions education have culminated in the commissioning of one as a new missionary to Africa!

Pennsylvania churches urged to file decennial report to protect names, identity and to stay in good standing with the state

March 11, 2021
Shannon Baker
BRN
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The legislative intent for requiring these filings is to identify business names and marks that are no longer in use, so that they may be reissued and placed back into the stream of commerce.

Male Teacher Leading ESL Class In Gymnasium

Lifeway’s ESL classes offer pathway to Christ

March 10, 2021
LaVeta Jones
BRN
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Pastor Mishin has made supporting immigrants a priority because “it is a practical way to show the love of Christ to people in our community who are culturally marginalized and need help the most.”