Antioch Bible Baptist Church of Gladstone, MO recently opened a new 27,000 square foot, two-story children’s building. The new space will house the nursery, preschool and K-5thgrade in various classrooms as well as a cutting-edge […]
I grew up in Albion, Michigan, a town of 10,000. It had tree-lined red brick streets, church bells that chimed every hour, and more black squirrels than people. My dad worked downtown and knew everyone. I became […]
“Nowhere more than in America are Christians caught in the twentieth-century syndrome of size. Size will show success. If I am consecrated, there will necessarily be large quantities of people, dollars, etc. This is not […]
With the increased emphasis on church planting in large cities over the last decade, we cannot minimize the fact that the Holy Spirit calls people to small towns too. While Jesus did ministry in the […]
I worked with and for Dr. Robert L. Sumner (1922-2016) for a year and a half in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in the mid-1980s. Though I was designated “assistant to the editor,” my duties included advertising manager, […]
This is the prayer journal of Ruby Prentiss. Ruby’s name is a fiction, but she is a real composite of women I have known and loved. She is a woman in ministry facing all-too-real challenges, not […]
“Some want to work within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.” C.T. Studd, 1862-1931British missionary, China Inland Mission “As a minister in […]
When I was invited to McFarland, California to speak to the high school cross country team planting a church was not on my mind, but it was on God’s mind. The relationships that I built […]
On Sunday, April 22, Victory Baptist Church in Nixa, MO celebrated its 25thanniversary with 150 in attendance, three new families joining and special guest Joe Decker, pastor of South Campbell Avenue Baptist Church in Springfield, […]
I am kind of unclear as to why anyone would think ministry in a small town is challenging. I mean, maybe, if you find it difficult to run children’s ministry with seven volunteers. Difficulties may […]
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