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Rural ministry, the land of the forgotten

By Dwight Duhon Next Sunday morning the sun will rise; the smell of coffee, toast and bacon will fill the kitchens of many. And some 56 million Americans will get ready to attend one of 300,000 churches dotting the landscape…

Clergy arrested in Capitol budget protest

Mars Hill church pours itself into North Carolina county

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…

Fostering isn’t for everyone, but everyone can play a part

With more than 400,000 children in foster care in the United States, it's an issue that's not going away. Foster care is a temporary living arrangement for children who have been taken from their families as a result of abuse,…

Single father sees adoption, foster care as part of God’s master plan

MIDLAND, Texas — 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," Robert…

DC to be one of 7 satellite locations for New Baptist Covenant II

ATLANTA (ABP) — Washington, D.C., is one of seven cities chosen as sites for satellite viewing of the Nov. 17-19 New Baptist Covenant II, which will be anchored in Atlanta. Other sites include Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Seattle…

Advocates seek thousands of foster parents in churches across nation

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 Baptist churches, and those…

Early into children’s services, Baptists trying to keep pace with changes

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 is dotted with campuses…

Not called to foster? There are other ways you can help foster families

Offer to babysit — Babysitting foster children requires some time spent in training and certification, but it is a huge help to parents who might need a night or weekend off. Help around the house — Some foster parents note…

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: "We see miracles happen all the time with foster children, and that's because of the relationship they develop in the…

Family offers ministry of presence in Colombia

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (ABP) — One night after nine months in Colombia, Susanne Walker-Wilson poked her sleeping husband, Greg, to tell him a strange man was in their house, speaking aloud in Spanish. Greg and Susanne Walker-Wilson with sons Caleb and…

Zimbabwe Baptist seminary principal fired

GWERU, Zimbabwe (ABP) – The principal of the Baptist Theological Seminary of Zimbabwe has been fired for refusing to accept changes made to the school’s governing documents including adherence to a Southern Baptist Convention faith statement that forbids women from…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors