Cross-Cultural Church Planting Training
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Discipleship, Ecclesiology, Evangelism, Geoff Baggett, International Mission Board, Missional, Missions, SBC Issues | 1 Comment »I'm forced to write this post several days in advance because (as you are reading this) I am currently outside the United States. I am leading my church's third team of the year to the Pachitea Province in Peru. ...
What I Would Like to Say to Those Coming on Mission Trips
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in International Mission Board, Missional, Missions | 8 Comments »Guy Muse is a Southern Baptist missionary in Ecuador. He has contributed the occasional post for sbc IMPACT! Guy recently posted this article on his personal blog, and he offers it for the edification of our readers. It's a post ...
A Cascade of Hunger
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in Missional, Roger Ferrell | 10 Comments »SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Koreans are dying because of food shortages in rural areas, and a massive famine is just a matter of time, a South Korean aid group said Friday. The food situation was as bad as ...
Southern Baptist VBS … Time to “Break the Mold?”
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Discipleship, Geoff Baggett, Missional, Missions, Student Ministry | 5 Comments »I'll never forget that day. It was late-June in 2003. Our one-year-old church was hosting its second-ever Vacation Bible School. A team of youth and adults from a sister church in Tennessee came to help us. Being the ...
LET THE AX FALL…Upon All the Dead Churches?
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Church Planting, Hariette Petersen (SelahV), Missional, SBC Issues, Uncategorized | 39 Comments »I'm a bit confused today. I've been mulling this over for quite some time and have decided to just toss out my thoughts like wood chips off the chopping block. Wherever the chips fall, we'll gather. For nearly two years I ...
Is the Sky Blue … or Is It Falling?
Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Church Membership, Current Events, Discipleship, Evangelism, Guest Authors, Missional, SBC Issues, SBC News | 16 Comments »Our guest writer today is Keith Price. Keith was born and raised on a small farm in southeastern, Michigan. He graduated from an all-boys Catholic high school in 1980 and received a B.S. in Engineering from Michigan State in ...
Church Life from Church Death?
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Church Planting, Geoff Baggett, Missional, SBC Issues | 13 Comments »I “blog met” Rob Mitchell last year when he visited my old blog. Rob is, by day, a computer guru with a large company in my old home town of Memphis, Tennessee. In the evenings he is a student in ...
Missions IMPACT! - Sojourners
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Missional, Missions, Missions IMPACT!, NAMB | No Comments »We're pretty excited around the Baggett house these days. My daughter, Laura Beth, a high school junior, has been placed as a Summer Missionary through the North American Mission Board's Sojourners program. We are so excited that ...
Kinetic Church Planting
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Posted in Church Planting, Missional, Roger Ferrell | 4 Comments »And on that day a great persecution arose against the church in Jerusalem; and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles... therefore, those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. ...
The Memphis Manatee - A Metaphor of Our Churches?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Church, Church Life, Culture, Geoff Baggett, Missional, SBC Issues | 23 Comments »A couple of years ago I received the weekly newsletter from Cordova Baptist Church in Memphis (I once served as Youth Pastor there), and was shocked to learn that a manatee had been spotted in the Mississippi River. It was ...
