From the category archives:
Several news reports over the last weekend in May are calling attention to pressure being applied to numerous Humanitarian Aid Organizations (NGOs) in Afghanistan. More significant than the impact on these NGOs is the threat to presumed Afghan Christians.
Over the last two days Afghan parliament has engaged in heated debate about accusations of NGO support [...]
{ 0 comments }
BGR to GO
Notice below the summary reports from a free email update that comes periodically to subscribers. BGR to GO is a free, weekly newsletter that provides information about aid projects around the world. Having access to this executive summary of projects around the world [...]
{ 1 comment }
My 4-Day Canadian Dream Came True:
A Short Story
By Cindy Morris
Each day counts, especially when you are living with a chronic, terminal illness. My dream to go spend a few days with our very dear friends (“Gary” and “Dot”) on their new mission assignment came true. The four days fell perfectly in the [...]
{ 2 comments }
Finally someone is talking turkey. In his recent post, the president of the leading Southern Baptist agency, The International Mission Board, articulates the Cooperative Program problem. Jerry Rankin is retiring soon and is blogging unfettered by any restraints which would inhibit him from speaking out clearly. I pray that the openness and integrity of this [...]
{ 1 comment }
Hands On missionary dies in motorcycle accident
4/12/2010
By IMB Staff
RICHMOND, Va. (BP)—A 21-year-old student missionary with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board (IMB) was killed April 12 in a motorcycle accident in Mozambique, located in southeastern Africa.
Jeremiah Johnson, a member of Royal Palms Baptist Church in Phoenix, Ariz., and driver of the motorcycle, [...]
{ 0 comments }
Ok – this is the last post on this subject. As some of us looked at issues the next leaders of the SBC should consider, here are the final thoughts I will share. I’m ready to move on to other topics.
Having spent the last couple of years examining non-traditional SBC churches in our midst, my [...]
{ 0 comments }
This post is a continuation of an exercise in which students articulated some decisions that future leaders of the SBC might want to consider -not that seminary students know anything. In this post, let’s look realistically at the most sacred and successful mission giving plan of the last century. A question is, why is [...]
{ 2 comments }
Today I interviewed Josie Gabdon, an IMB medical strategist in Asia. She shared with me about an important Global Medical Alliance meeting scheduled for July 8-11 at Warren Baptist Church in Augusta, GA. It is important to note that April 1 is the deadline for the discounted rate.
This is a medical gathering of international allied [...]
{ 0 comments }
I’m involved in a seminary PhD course in which students have been bouncing around ideas regarding the kind of bold leadership that our next three agency heads need to take. It’s easy to make a disclaimer on ideas that come out of a class of a bunch of seminary students, so if these are too [...]
{ 2 comments }
Rufus Anderson is known as the Grand Strategist of American Missions.
From 1832 to 1875 he served as the foreign secretary or leader of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Anderson was a student of mission policy and strategy. He was (you guessed it) the equivalent of a denominational missions leader – an administrator. [...]
{ 1 comment }
LL Project: Happy Dance from Last Letter on Vimeo.
