2017 A Look Back FENTON, MI – Michigan Disaster Relief (DR) responded to two major events in 2017 - one in Michigan and the other in...

JACKSON, MI – I like being a servant of the Lord. Being a Chaplain, serving through the Michigan Disaster Relief (DR), just adds to the...

How Short-Term Mission Trips Can Make Our Churches Healthier SOUTHGATE, MI – As Baptist State Convention of Michigan (BSCM) churches...

'The Power of One' FENTON, MI – I am blessed to work with a team of women dedicated to serving Jesus and the women of Michigan. I am...

FENTON, MI – When disaster strikes, “gold shirts” move. Some wear blue caps and others wear white caps as a distinction. Sometimes they...

FENTON, MI – I don't know about you folks but I am a connoisseur of certain types of food. There are very few kinds of foods that I don't...

FENTON, MI – I served 13 years overseas as an international missionary. During that time, I learned to rely more on prayer. As...

FENTON, MI – Two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world separate the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. We are the only state...

ROSCOMMON, MI – Have you ever felt so out of balance, that no matter how hard you rearrange your life, it is still tilted one way or the...

LOUISVILLE, KY (SBTS) – Ministers of the gospel are instruments of God’s plan to renew the world, delivering humanity from its curse,...

FENTON, MI – Well folks, this is the season when we celebrate the birth of our Lord with all sorts of traditions, parties, food and...

SEARCY, AR (BP) – Bill Roussel has a heart for widows and widowers. For years Bill visited with two widows on Sunday mornings at First...

COMERÍO, PUERTO RICO (BP) – Even in the aftermath of Puerto Rico's devastation from Hurricane Maria, church planting missionary Jorge...

EDITOR'S NOTE: David Platt is president of the International Mission Board. This year's Week of Prayer for International Missions in the...

This article first appeared in The Alabama Baptist Newspaper on Nov. 16, 2018 BIRMINGHAM, AL – Church shootings are becoming more...

IRONWOOD, MI – A parishioner in Catalyst Baptist Church gave me a poem from Ruth Prentice called God’s Gift.” The poem is: This is a...

DEWITT, MI – “Pastor…This might have been the only time some of these kids heard the Gospel!” That statement rings loudly in my head...

WASHINGTON, DC – In his third letter, the apostle John instructs his friend Gaius about the importance of supporting itinerate missionary...

WASHINGTON, DC (BP) – Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders from the U.S. and Israel joined Museum of the Bible board chairman Steve...

NASHVILLE, TN – I am often asked what I find to be most lacking in training for churches serving cross-culturally. Sadly my answer is...