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 [...]
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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 [...]
A Modern Lottie Moon
While America entered the decade of the 1960s with an ever burgeoning mindset of free love and resistance to institutional authority, a countervailing subculture was growing by leaps and bounds. During this time in American history, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) boasted extraordinary growth among young people noted for their participation in the various mission [...]
The Religious State of Oklahoma
It seems fitting that The Simpsons’ quintessentially evangelical character, Ned Flanders, spent his college days in Tulsa.
Home to Oral Roberts University, RHEMA Bible Training Center and a legion of evangelical churches, Tulsa appears decidedly evangelical. And a similar church culture exists in Oklahoma City. Add to the metros a host of churches sprinkled throughout the [...]
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