Baptist News Briefs

October 12, 2000

Campers give $513,169 for missions Nashville, Tenn. – Nearly 54,000 teens attending Centrifuge and Ministry-Fuge camps this summer pitched in $513,169.63 for international missions projects

Missions volunteers share basics of medicine, gospel

October 5, 2000

Ask anyone who has ever participated in a medical missions trip and they will all tell you the same thing — it changes their life.

Alabama churches committed to medical missions

October 5, 2000

An ongoing desire to develop full-time ministries in the medical missions field has many Alabama churches doing more than recruiting volunteers for a missions trip.

Samford students study, plant seeds in North Africa

October 5, 2000

As the call to noon prayer lifted and resonated from the white-washed walls of the simple mud-walled mosque sitting virtually alone in the desert, Kathy

Volunteers come from 14 nations to witness at games in Australia

September 28, 2000

Fourteen nations, plus Aussies from all parts of the country are represented at Windsor District Baptist Church’s sprawling “Tent City” Olympic village in Windsor, Australia,

Heflin Baptist works to become ‘missions church’

September 28, 2000

Several months ago, members of Heflin Baptist Church in Cleburne Association decided they wanted to do more than support missionaries — they wanted to be

Fiji unrest hampers Baptist efforts

September 14, 2000

The last communication the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) had with the small Baptist contingency in Fiji was shortly after the first stirrings of political unrest