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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | January 2025 | Volume 69, Number 1


Growing Southern Baptist churches more likely in Northeast, among newer churches
BRENTWOOD, TN (BP) – If you’re looking for a Southern Baptist church, you’re most likely to find one in the South. If you want to find a...
Aaron Earls
Oct 2, 20236 min read


Lifeway campers give more than $580,000 to IMB, NAMB for Gospel impact
This summer, as thousands of kids, students and chaperones at Lifeway camps developed a greater understanding of missions and a heart for...
Marissa Postell Sullivan
Oct 2, 20234 min read


What Southern Baptist state conventions are doing to prevent abuse
Over the past several years, Southern Baptists state conventions and associations have been taking significant steps to prevent abuse...
ERLC Staff
Oct 2, 20236 min read


Arkansas church nearly doubles after connecting with missionaries
International Mission Board missionary Sheila Crowder entered the worn apartment building. She’d cleared her schedule to meet with a...
Myriah Snyder
Oct 2, 20233 min read


Georgia family visits all 32 NAMB Send cities, sees a need for new churches everywhere
MONTREAL – Numbers don’t do justice in describing the last two years for Kevin and Casey Kilgore and their family, but it’s a start. In...
Tobin Perry
Oct 2, 20234 min read


BSCM State Mission Offering; punching back against decline
PLYMOUTH – The Frances Brown State Mission Offering and Week of Prayer will be September 10-17. The goal for this year’s offering is...
Baptist Beacon
Aug 30, 20231 min read


Ragged Women’s Conference
MONROE – The Ragged Women’s Conference is being held at Monroe Missionary Baptist Church on September 22-23. Our desire in planning this...
Cara Schramm
Aug 30, 20232 min read


State Mission Offering: a revitalization story
ANN ARBOR – It was two weeks before the world closed down for the Covid pandemic, and Rhiza Church launched its very first church service...
Baptist Beacon
Aug 30, 20232 min read


Thriving in the return to normal
MONROE – September is here, which means it’s time for Michigan students to head back to school. No doubt they have been taking advantage...
Scott Slater
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Arabic language church planting
PLYMOUTH – Pastor Amer Safadi, originally from Jordan, and Pastor Amgad Beshai, originally from Egypt are two of the key leaders driving...
Tony Lynn
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Reset, refocus, revitalize
PLYMOUTH – These are words of hope and new beginnings. They grab our attention in the opening seconds of our 2023 state mission offering...
Mike Durbin
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Train up a child
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – The most famous parenting verse in the book of Proverbs says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he...
Garth Leno
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Closing a chapter at Bambi Lake
ROSCOMMON – I was first introduced to Bambi Lake Retreat and Conference Center in the fall of 2016 having no idea where this introduction...
Mick Schatz
Aug 30, 20233 min read


A celebration of the life of Fern Dannelley Goree
MIDLAND, TX – Fern Heath Dannelley Goree used Jesus’ example and listened to each individual at their core. All who knew her were...
Ellen Bierlein
Aug 30, 20234 min read


Overcoming the first month of “back to school”
GARDEN CITY – The clamor exuding from a passing school bus, last minute efforts to squeeze out the final drops of summer, and ah the...
Jessica Kogelmann
Aug 30, 20234 min read


Investing spiritually in back to school
PLYMOUTH – This year we have a college sophomore, a high school sophomore and a high school junior heading back to class. Gone are the...
April Martin
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Bivocational pastor and staff lead growing church in Hodgenville
HODGENVILLE, KY (KT) – DeWayne Gibson’s everyday life is like a blur. Not only is he in his 18th year of teaching in LaRue County but...
Mark Maynard
Aug 30, 20234 min read


IMB missionary credits GenSend with teaching him to ‘step out of the boat’
RICHMOND, VA (BP) – Kai Ininstoma,* a missionary in training with the International Mission Board, said his path toward full-time...
Timothy Cockes
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Sunrise Children’s Services’ 25-year legal battle ends in victory
LOUISVILLE, KY (BP) – A 25-year-old legal dispute has finally been settled in favor of Sunrise Children’s Services. The U.S. Court of...
Lawrence Smith
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Russian persecution of evangelicals exceeding that of Soviet era, Mission Eurasia president says
MOSCOW (BP) – The raid by secret police of Russian evangelical leader Yuri Sipko’s home will not silence the former Baptist Union...
Scott Barkley
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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