Jacksonville evangelist’s ham radio hobby extends his rea
July 24, 2003
When Emmett Roper finishes preaching, goes home and collapses in his favorite chair, his ministry doesn’t end. In fact, that’s where much of it begins.
Alabamians travel for summer missions
July 24, 2003
Fairview Heights Northside Baptist Church, Anniston, recently had several youth and adults participate in a week of missions work in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore
Vestavia children build toy houses to help Mexicans build real ones
July 24, 2003
It may take a village to raise a child but it only took 20 fifth- and sixth-graders to build Bible town. What started as a
IMB trustees honor Rankin during recent meeting
July 24, 2003
During a July 10–11 meeting in Richmond, Va., trustees of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board recognized President Jerry Rankin for 10 years of service.
Tennessee River hosts missions jamboree for children
July 24, 2003
More than 150 youngsters in the Tennessee River Baptist Association were able to see missions up close during the Children’s Missions Jamboree. The association
Special Collections
July 19, 2003
Tiny shoes worn by Chinese women back in the days when their feet were bound, missionary journals from the last century and an art gallery
Missions volunteers lay foundations of stone, love
July 17, 2003
By Peggy Itschner As missions ream volunteers from Splendora, Texas, helped lay a foundation for a school in north central Mali in West Africa, the
FamilyFEST draws young volunteers to Texas
July 17, 2003
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — More than 160 volunteers from 11 states gathered in San Antonio June 8–12 to participate in FamilyFEST, a Woman’s Missionary Union-sponsored missions
