NAMB Staff

PONCE, Puerto Rico (BP) – In its first-ever women’s evangelism event in Puerto Rico, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) partnered with the Puerto Rico Baptist Convention to welcome more than 300 women to a one-day women’s evangelism conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, in Ponce. A pre-conference gathering was held Friday night in San Juan, drawing 50 women. The events were designed to equip women to leverage their lives for the Gospel and create a culture of evangelism in their lives and ministry contexts.

GOODMAN, Mo. – John Bartholomew never wanted to spend the night in the room where his brother died from withdrawals.

FLINT, Michigan – As celebrations go, North American missionary Leo Robinson Jr. thinks “Pomp and Circumstance” is highly overrated.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (BP) -- It’s pink and purple, it has a Bible verse on it and it’s understandably a little rough around the edges. It is, after all, one of the only items Send Network church planter Ronnie Rentz managed to rescue from his girls’ bedroom.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Kevin Ezell will host a series of information sessions for Texas Southern Baptist pastors whose churches are affiliated of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). The sessions, which will take place in early 2025, are intended to answer questions and bring greater clarity to how NAMB can serve these churches.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- A diverse group of more than 170 planters representing at least 14 different languages and 153 Sending Churches attended Send Network’s Orientation, a biannual event for newly endorsed church planters, held November 11-13 at NAMB’s headquarters in Alpharetta, Ga.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) – It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – A group of more than 60 pastors, wives and other ministry leaders met for a three-day Arabic Church Planting Conference at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) July 10-12 to worship, network and encourage one another in the work of planting churches among Arabic-speaking peoples.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Preceding this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) church planting arm, hosted a kickoff event on Sunday evening, June 9, designed to set the focus for the busy days ahead.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Ongoing wars, earthquakes and other natural disasters captured international attention in 2023, and Send Relief, the compassion ministry arm of Southern Baptists cooperatively shared by the International Mission Board and North American Mission Board, dedicated itself to the task of meeting needs for the sake of seeing lives changed through the power of the gospel.