Relief teams feed 5,000 during Fargo flooding

April 23, 2009

FARGO, N.D. — Southern Baptist disaster relief feeding teams from the Iowa and Minnesota-Wisconsin state conventions prepared some 5,000 hot meals in Fargo, N.D., in

16-year-old’s vision to make change brings clean water to Darfur village

April 16, 2009

Joshua Guthrie was a troubled teen. Like many others of his generation, the high school sophomore was troubled by the needless suffering of so many

West Virginia church sets example for world hunger relief efforts

April 16, 2009

During the 30 hours that 150 believers fasted at Immanuel Baptist Church, Princeton, W.Va., 31,250 people died of starvation around the world. That’s why the

Eastdale Church takes in homeless

April 9, 2009

When Eastdale Baptist Church, Montgomery, in Montgomery Baptist Association became interested in a new missions outreach, it wanted to keep things local. Family Promise, a

Open Door provides help to hurting in Baltimore

April 9, 2009

It’s an economic reality. The poor are becoming poorer. Amid the economic downturn, people with little education are losing entry-level service jobs to high school

Churches should help provide for ‘truly needy’ families during economic crisis

April 2, 2009

Home foreclosures, auto repossessions, workforce cutbacks, bank collapses, 401(k) losses. As a comedian used to say — “Is that all that’s troubling you, cousin?” But

Baptists urged to help terminally ill in Africa through in-home care kits

April 2, 2009

Terminally ill people in sub-Saharan Africa with afflictions like AIDS will be receiving practical help from Southern Baptists through a new nationwide initiative of Baptist