Let’s tell a new story: Juneteenth and the Fourth of July

BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — With more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, it's an issue that's not going away. Hishia and Rickey Conner have cared for more than 70 children in the past five years at…

MIDLAND, Texas (ABP) — The Ewing family does everything together. They wash dishes, go grocery shopping and spend hours playing electronic games in the living room. "We've got to do everything together. If we don't, we won't have time together,"…

BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Here are some small ways to help a foster-care family that can have a big impact. Offer to babysit—Babysitting foster children requires some time spent in training and certification, but it is a huge help to…

BEAUMONT, Texas (ABP) — Buckner International foster-care professionals David Chandler and Samela Macon dispell some common myths about foster care. Myth: All foster children are emotionally disturbed and damaged beyond repair. There's nothing I can do to help them. Fact:…

ATLANTA (ABP) – Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Seattle, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., have all been nailed down for satellite downloads of a Nov. 17-19 New Baptist Covenant II anchored in Atlanta. Los Angeles and Philadelphia remain as…

THOMASVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — In the first decades following the Civil War when poverty shadowed widows and children of fallen soldiers in a dramatically disrupted South, Baptists and other Christian denominations started orphanages to care for them. Today, the South…

THOMASVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — Hundreds of thousands of families are needed to provide foster care for nearly a half-million children and teenagers who for their own safety cannot continue to live at home. Some of those families are found in…

MARS HILL, N.C. (ABP) — No one goes hungry in Madison County, North Carolina, for lack of effort by Mars Hill Baptist Church. Mars Hill Baptist, adjacent to Mars Hill College in the mountains of western North Carolina north of…