Posts under ‘missions’

I was planning on spending some time this morning writing a post about last night’s missionary appointment service, but that plan has changed. When I turned on my computer this morning, I found an email from Sharon Bain. Sharon is my 5-year-old daughter’s Sunday school teacher, and she also serves the Frisco Baptist Association [...]

Tonight I will be taking a group of my church members to a commissioning service for new IMB missionaries. This service is being held at the First Baptist Church in Sunnyvale, Texas, a suburb on the east side of the DFW metroplex.
I’ve been closely following events in our convention, and specifically related to the IMB, [...]

One of my favorite parts of the BGCO annual meeting is that one of our entities that gives a report to the convention always does something out of the ordinary to spice it up a bit. This year, it was Sam Porter and the Partnership and Volunteer Missions team. With apologies to Mike Gundy, enjoy [...]

Since That Which Unites Us Is the Gospel of Christ, I thought I would provide some quotes to help clear up exactly what it is in which “we” are “united.”
The following is from an interview conducted in 2006 by Wil S. Hylton for GQ magazine. The article is entitled The Gospel According to Jimmy. Click [...]

In the last twenty-four hours, my blog has had unprecedented overseas traffic. I think it is fair to assume that the overwhelming majority of that traffic is generated by overseas personnel of the International Mission Board who are searching for information related to the Albuquerque meeting.
I have been given an entirely new appreciation for those [...]

I can tell by the traffic I have received today that there are great expectations within Blogtown related to what I have to report. As my wife would tell you, get used to disappointment…
I am left speechless by the appointment service I attended this evening at Hoffmantown Church. The testimony of those who are eager [...]

I had a wonderful visit this afternoon with a former trustee of the International Mission Board. This trustee was intimately involved in the process that led to Dr. Jerry Rankin becoming IMB President, and had some interesting things to say about the current situation in which we find ourselves as a convention.
While I’m not at [...]