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


Unseen opportunities
ST. JOSEPH, MI – The Shore Church in St.Joseph has seen God show up in special ways throughout the statewide lockdown. The church like so...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Fear in the time of quarantine
LANSING, MI – Pastor Coye Bouyer’s biggest takeaway during the Covid-19 crisis is how many people are afraid and functioning in fear. He...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Living through “The 'Rona”
WARREN, MI – Where does the church turn, when the state has put a “Stay Home” order in place? What do we do when our meeting place is now...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Looking forward, not backward
DURAND, MI – Michigan Baptist churches have experienced the Covid-19 shutdown in many similar ways and in many different ways. John Nyhof...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


First-Person: How to manage social distancing fatigue
NASHVILLE, TN (BP) – The coronavirus has propelled our world overnight into patterns that are not normal. Many of us had never heard the...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20204 min read


Thinking about death–and life–and ministry in the middle
SPRINGFIELD, IL – I find myself thinking about Jack Anders* right now. Jack was relatively a young man when he accepted the pastorate of...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20204 min read


LifeWay presents ‘unprecedented opportunity’ for churches and families to do VBS
NASHVILLE, TN – The coronavirus pandemic has forced events to cancel, education to be modified and businesses to temporarily close or...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Deaf ministry and the new normal
By Phyllis Harbaugh STERLING HEIGHTS, MI – As I reflect on the past 18 months of ministry to the Deaf, I am humbled by the way God has...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20202 min read


Send Relief global COVID-19 response reaches 45 nations
ALPHARETTA, GA (BP) – As COVID-19 started becoming a global pandemic, Send Relief staff began making preparations around the world to...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20203 min read


LifeWay trustees authorize exploration of the sale of Ridgecrest
NASHVILLE, TN – LifeWay Christian Resources’ board of trustees authorized a recommendation for the organization’s executive team to...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20203 min read


Moving to the deep end
PLYMOUTH, MI – As a six-year-old boy there are few things as important as being able to swim in the county pool during the blistering hot...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20204 min read


Dare to reset your priorities
PLYMOUTH, MI – I lived in Flint as a child during the 1960’s. It was the era of big cars, smoky factories, black and white TV’s and...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20204 min read


COVID-19 has a face
PLYMOUTH, MI – For most of us, Covid-19 now has a face - the face of someone we know and love. What started as an invisible virus in a...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20204 min read


Shelter in place
ROSCOMMON, MI – Growing up in Florida I spent a lot of time around the water, either at the beach, fishing in the rivers, or just...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 30, 20203 min read


Michigan WMU 62nd annual meeting
In our 62 years as the Woman’s Missionary Union of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan, we have met yearly to elect our officers for...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 7, 20202 min read


Send Relief names Francis Horton as vice president over international operations
RICHMOND, VA – Send Relief announced Francis K. Horton III as its new vice president overseeing operations outside North America on...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 2, 20203 min read


How do you lead in a crisis?
ROSEVILLE, MI – Part of my responsibility as a pastor is to look down the road, and anticipate opportunities and threats that my flock...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 1, 20204 min read


Ministry in the time of COVID-19
SOUTH LYON, MI – The pastors reading this article know very well that the comforts of familiarity are no longer an option in the age of...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 1, 20202 min read


Southern Baptists donate 200,000+ masks, protective equipment items to medical workers
ALPHARETTA, GA (BP) – As COVID-19 cases continue to increase in the United States, many medical facilities have faced shortages of masks...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 1, 20203 min read


First Person: Send Relief Puerto Rico trip
PLYMOUTH, MI – With the surreal twist of life right now with the COVID-19 pandemic, I find myself sifting through my normal activities...
Baptist Beacon
Apr 1, 20203 min read
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