Arkansas
When police officers in Cabot, Arkansas, are called into action, Tina Frost is called into her ministry as volunteer chaplain with the Cabot Police Department. She often rides with officers where she discovers opportunities to minister not only to victims but also to officers, Arkansas Baptist News reported. “I am there to be a ministry of presence and help where I am needed,” she said. She also started a nonprofit to provide additional ministries.
Florida
A church in a skating rink? “Why not?” asked Pastor Mike Kirby of TruLife Church, Ocala, Florida. “Lost people are going there during the week. So let’s go to it instead of putting up a building and trying to call people to the building,” he said. Kirby and church leaders oversee the skating rink on Friday and Saturday nights and hold church services there on Sundays, the Florida Baptist Witness reported.
Georgia
Some Georgia Baptist hikers have found a productive new missions field in the backcountry. On the trail, the hikers intentionally look for opportunities to pray with, minister to and share the gospel with other hikers, The Christian Index reported. “We’re in God’s creation when we’re out on the trails,” said hiker David Tolbert, a deacon at Beech Haven Baptist Church, Athens, Georgia. “What better place to talk about God, to praise God?”
Kentucky
Since 2014, more than 300 members of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Owensboro, Kentucky, have served a Native American community in South Dakota that is recognized as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere where poverty, crime and abuse run rampant. The Kentucky church works with Creator’s Fellowship, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, which has helped launch two church plants in the state and also conducts many outreach activities for children, Kentucky Today reported.
Tennessee
A seldom-used missionary house owned by Loudon County Baptist Association in Tennessee has been transformed into The Immanuel House, a safe house for children awaiting foster care placement because they have been removed by the Department of Children’s Services from their homes due to neglect or abuse. The safe house works in partnership with DCS, and about 60 local church members became certified through DCS to volunteer at the house, the Baptist and Reflector reported.
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