Chilean youth lend a hand
Chilean church’s missionaries-in-training share God’s love with earthquake survivors in tangible ways.

'Burdened for all nations'
‘It’s our job to go to the world. It’s not our job to tell the world to come to us,’ Bellevue pastor tells 61 new missionary appointees.

Rankin report
The Great Commission Resurgence Task Force’s preliminary report dealt with areas where Southern Baptists “are languishing in the task of the Great Commission,” Jerry Rankin told IMB trustees.

IMB trustees gather in Memphis
IMB trustee chairman Paul Chitwood challenged his fellow trustees to be passionate advocates for the Great Commission cause of taking the Gospel to the ends of the earth.

Prayer request for presidential selection
IMB trustees ask for March 13 to be a day of prayer and fasting as the selection of a new president continues.

Plans taking shape
Despite logistical difficulties resulting from earthquake damage, Southern Baptists are on the ground and responding to needs in Chile.

Assessing the damage
Southern Baptist funds to help Chilean Baptist churches meet immediate needs for food, water, blankets and shelter.

Prayer for Chile urgently needed
Southern Baptists are asked to pray following an 8.8 earthquake in Chile.

8.8 earthquake rocks Chile
Southern Baptist disaster relief specialists are assessing needs and preparing for a possible response following a massive earthquake in Chile.

Lent in our hearts
Do not love the world your way. Love the world His way …

Paying it forward
College graduates spend two years overseas, then spend year in States encouraging others to do the same.

'No bottled answers'
Haitians left alone by the quake turn to Kentucky, Mississippi Baptist volunteers to help them cope with the loss of their families and homes.

The year of living dangerously
How many beatings did you take for Jesus in 2009?

Haiti giving tops $4 million
More than $4 million has been given to Southern Baptist Haiti relief efforts, including more than $1 million through the IMB.

Doing God's work in good and bad times
His hillside community in shambles, a Haitian Baptist must leave his home. But he’s determined to start again, sharing his faith wherever he goes.

A new spirit
Raised to become a voodoo priest, young Haitian man now follows God’s Holy Spirit instead.

Safe haven after the earthquake
Haitian Baptist pastor opens his home and church to quake victims who need shelter, medical attention.

Peace in the middle of chaos
IMB writer shares first-person account of his experiences in Haiti just days after the devastating earthquake.

'Defamation of religion'
The United Nations continues to aid those who would silence believers.

Added ache of separation
The pain that injured quake victims in Haiti are experiencing isn’t only physical. An ache of loneliness from being separated from loved ones is setting in.

Envelope of hope
Pen, paper and words of encouragement from an IMB missionary give some of Haiti’s earthquake victims a glimmer of hope.

Good Samaritans
Missionaries play vital role as interpreters at a clinic near the Haiti border. Doctors rely on them to relay information and comfort injured Haitians in their heart language.

Trustees briefed on Haiti crisis
Haiti efforts top discussions during IMB trustee meeting.

Relief along the border
IMB missionaries and Dominican Baptists provide supplies, medical aid and spiritual counseling to injured Haitians.

Holding on
Haitian Baptist congregation with missing members struggles to move forward after death of pastor, other leaders.

Despite cancer, she ministers in multihousing communities
Despite a cancer battle, North American Mission Board missionary Vivian McCaughan continues to minister in multihousing complexes throughout Missouri.

Harris: Church planters' task 'unchanged'
The planting of new churches is not keeping up with the growth of North America's population, Baptist leader says.

Rankin questions Chapman's commitment to Great Commission
In an undated blog, Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board, said Morris H. Chapman, president of the Executive Committee, does not believe the Great Commission is the purpose of the SBC.

Study: Cohabiting normative but harmful
Cohabitation is increasingly normative, a new study has found, but it also is harmful to future marriages.

Millennials traditional on some faith beliefs
Young adults today are considered less religious than previous generations, but a recent report shows Americans age 18 to 29 still remain traditional on a few religious beliefs.

FIRST-PERSON: My true identity
Columnist Richard Holloman tells about his battle with homosexuality and how he found freedom through Christ.