RICHMOND, Va. — Blackshear Place Baptist Church of Flowery Branch, Ga., is the 1,000th congregation to join the International Mission Board’s Global Priority Network — a growing community of churches that give priority to taking the gospel to the ends of the earth.
GPNet was started four years ago to build a network of Southern Baptist churches that wish to take Acts 1:8 seriously by prioritizing and personalizing missions, said GPNet director Bill Morgan. Churches of all sizes commit to eight action plans that lead them into deeper involvement and commitment to reaching all the peoples of the earth.
Through special conferences, e-mails, phone calls and regular bulletins, GPNet churches learn what God’s doing in the world and find ways to strengthen their international missions involvement.
Through partnerships with missionaries in Central and Eastern Europe, Blackshear Place members have seen God change lives as they have come face to face with people longing to hear the good news of God’s love for the first time.
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