MY316 strategy implemented during youth weeks at Falls Creek
Playing an interactive game with 2,000 high school students takes planning. Making that game a way to influence students’ perception of reaching the lost can make an eternal impact.
Each morning during the tabernacle teaching time at Falls Creek, students were challenged to use the MY316 evangelism [...]
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Evangelism: It’s not just a game
Templins come home to brand new house
ENID—The front porch is now a master bath and closet. The living room is now the master bedroom. The old master bedroom is now a guest bedroom/office. The kitchen/dining area has been opened up with a large pass-through and updated with new cabinets and appliances. And that’s just the original house. Added to it [...]
Oklahoma teams ready to build permanent homes for Haitians
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)—Sixty-six-year-old Libien Lorniska, pastor of the Baptist Spirit Church of Carrefour, prays every day that his congregation’s building, demolished in the 7.0 earthquake that struck here Jan. 12, will be re-built “before the Lord takes me home to Heaven.”
He is confident now that his prayers will be answered, thanks to the generosity of [...]
A Culture of Convenience?
I think that I am still processing from my recent trip to the Peruvian Amazon. The Bryan Baptist Association has adopted the Iquito people who live along the Chambira river, which is a tributary of the Amazon. I took a group of OBU students as part of a GO Trip specifically to build relationships and [...]
Imitating Paul the Missionary: Acts 20:24
About ten years ago I adopted Acts 20:24 as my life motto. Paul, in his farewell message to the Ephesian elders, remarks: “However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me– the task of testifying to the gospel [...]
Missional Ministry Conference seeks to convey truth in a world of opinion
Oklahoma’s Missional Ministry Conference is focusing on communicating truth in a culture that typically denies the concept of absolute truth in favor of a truth that it can change and adapt to fit their changing circumstances.
Conference coordinator Bob Mayfield, Sunday School/Adult Discipleship specialist with the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, believes the theme is emerging [...]
State Evangelism Conference to launch witnessing emphasis
“Take It Personally, My316” will be the theme for the State Evangelism Conference, Jan. 25-26 at Moore, First, 301 N.E. 27th St.
Leaders are praying there will not be a repeat of last year’s conference, which was dismissed after one session because of an ice storm.
This year’s meeting will feature six speakers from across the nation, [...]
New East Asia partnership heads list of top 10 stories of 2009
The approval of a three-year partnership with East Asia by messengers to the 103rd Annual Meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma in November was voted the top story of 2009 by the editorial staff of the Messenger.
The evangelical outreach effort to the Orient nosed out the milestone of Oklahoma City, Quail Springs becoming [...]
Lottie Moon leaves legacy of faithfulness
Since 1888, the SBC has collected an offering for international missions in the name of Charlotte Digges (Lottie) Moon. Raised in Charlottesville, Va., this young woman was converted through the preaching ministry of John Albert Broadus, then senior pastor of the First Church of Charlottesville. Through the years, the heart of this young woman was [...]
The Missionary Call: Responding to the Mission of God
While emotional appeals run high during the seasonal emphasis of Southern Baptists focused on missionary service, M. David Sills, the long-time missionary turned professor, answers in his book the uncomfortable and often controversial questions surrounding what it means to be “called” to the life of a missionary.
Just in time for the 2009 Lottie Moon Christmas [...]
