Monday, May 13, 2019

• Chitwood on border thanks Baptists for Venezuela aid

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (11 days ago)

  

  Screen capture from IMB video

  VENEZUELA (BP) -- International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood ends today (May 13) a weeklong trip that included the Venezuelan border where he encouraged Baptists and area convention leaders ministering to refugees amid the nation's collapsed economy and political strife.

  "We're thankful that Southern Baptists are here ministering to the needs of people who really are in a desperate situation," Chitwood said in a video during his visit to Colombia. Chitwood witnessed scores of Venezuelans crossing into Colombia for food and medical care not available in Venezuela, where inflation is more than 1 million percent. Read More

• 'Unplanned' author Abby Johnson: 'Look at what God has done'

  by Mark Maynard/Kentucky Today , posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (12 days ago)

  

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  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) -- Much has happened during the past decade in the life of Abby Johnson, the woman whose life story is the subject of the pro-life movie "Unplanned."

  It has been 10 years since she left Planned Parenthood. She celebrated Mother's Day with her husband and seven children, and she is pregnant with No. 8. Thousands on Times Square and thousands more via a livestream watched a 4D ultrasound of her eighth baby still in the womb during last weekend's "Alive in New York" pro-life event that was put on through Focus on the Family. Read More

• Pence, Vines to Liberty grads: Stand firm in faith

  by Timothy Cockes, posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (11 days ago)

  

  Photo by Andrew Snyder/Liberty University

  LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP) -- Vice President Mike Pence and preacher Jerry Vines urged the largest graduating class in Liberty University's history of more than 20,000 graduates to faithfully live out what they have learned at Liberty in a world that desperately needs strong Christians.

  "I say, not so much as your vice president," Pence told graduates during their commencement ceremony May 11, "but as your brother in Christ, if what you've seen and heard and learned in this place has also taken hold in your heart, go from here and live it out. America needs men and women of integrity and faith now more than ever." Read More

• Summer camp: a 'milestone' for spiritual growth

  by Aaron Wilson, posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (11 days ago)

  

  LifeWay photo

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- When Meghan Dukes first visited a LifeWay summer camp as an elementary-aged child, she returned home telling her mom she wanted to work there one day.

  Several years later, Dukes made good on her intentions, becoming a LifeWay camp staffer. This July, she'll come full circle -- chaperoning 18 kids from Redeemer Church in Hendersonville, Tenn., to a CentriKid camp in Linden, Tenn. Read More

• Currence to be renominated as SBC registration sec.

  by BP Staff, posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (11 days ago)

  

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Don Currence, a Missouri administrative pastor, will be nominated for a third term as Southern Baptist Convention registration secretary, his pastor Phillip Burden announced today (May 13).

  "Nobody in the SBC knows the registration process better than Don Currence," said Burden, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ozark, Mo., where Currence has served on staff 26 years. "Don understands the task before him and will continue to serve our convention with competence and humility." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: God was calling

  by Paul Kim, posted Monday, May 13, 2019 (12 days ago)

  Paul Kim recounts the many junctures of God's providence that enabled him to attend seminary in preparation for the ministry. Read More