Arkansas
Providing transportation, cooking international foods and moving furniture and appliances are just a few ways Jon Blaylock, a member at Park Hill Baptist Church, North Little Rock, Arkansas, is serving God. Blaylock volunteers with International Friendship Outreach, a ministry to welcome international students to America. He has learned providing for the students’ basic needs leads to gospel conversations that help satisfy spiritual needs, Arkansas Baptist News reported.
Florida
Since 2019, Arthur Gonçalves has ministered to individuals in an impoverished community in Central Florida. “It is messy coming alongside people — but that is our ministry,” said Gonçalves, who soon saw the need not only for mercy ministry but also for preaching and gospel ministry. Gonçalves is now planning to launch Restoration Church in January 2022 in the heart of the impoverished downtown area, the Florida Baptist Witness reported.
Kentucky
Pastor Mike Beavers is galloping on horseback in rural Kentucky to help take the gospel to every home. Beavers, pastor of Broken Chains Cowboy Church, Williamstown, Kentucky, loaded the saddle bags with gospel material and jumped on his horse Cinnamon to deliver about 15 gospel packets before his first horseback missions ride was interrupted by rain. Still, he and Cinnamon will be back on the gospel trail soon, Kentucky Today reported.
Tennessee
For three years, a Kids on Mission program at New Middleton Baptist Church, Gordonsville, Tennessee, has inspired children to be personally involved in missions, the Baptist and Reflector reported. This year, the children collected more than $1,000 to purchase farm animals to help fund practical solutions to poverty while sharing the hope of Jesus.
Virginia
The COVID-19 pandemic opened many unexpected ministry opportunities for Hillcrest Baptist Church in Ridgeway, Virginia. Those opportunities have included making face masks for medical professionals, starting a feeding ministry, helping high-risk church members with grocery or pharmacy purchases, developing partnerships with local schools, purchasing Christmas wish lists for 23 foster children and providing Thanksgiving meals for families in need, the Proclaimer reported. “When circumstances are forcing us apart, these ministries are bringing us together,” Pastor Randy Aldridge said.
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