Ken Thompson

The big outreach event was almost here. Plans had been made and prayer supporters engaged. South Asian believer Abel was leading the efforts for a widespread gospel outreach to a largely unreached district. But COVID-19 disrupted the plans. Transportation to the region shut down and the event had to be cancelled.  But Abel didn’t feel

PENSACOLA, Fla. (BP) – For Jon Tyner, minister of music at Olive Baptist Church, worship and missions go hand in hand. That’s why Tyner and three friends took on the challenge of walking for 24 straight hours to raise money for missions.  On a Thursday in late October, the four began walking at 7 a.m.,

LAKE WALES–Three churches on one campus, reaching three distinct people groups, is a glimpse of God’s work at its finest, believes Scott Markley, lead pastor of First Baptist Church of Lake Wales.  As the hosting church, First Baptist has opened the doors of its auxiliary building to two non-English speaking missions. One of them, Elim

As church leaders, we are dealt with the task of measuring a near impossible thing, spiritual growth. While we understand that God is the only one that knows the heart, we still need to be able to use data to inform us of what important steps of faith people might be taking and then to

Jared Mitcham believes that most people have the wrong impression of missionaries. Rather than seeing missionaries as regular people following God’s call God on their lives, he says many have a different impression.  “A lot of people view missionaries as ‘super Christians’… I want to dispel that myth and help others understand that we are