Seeing the Big Picture: Crossing boundaries in ministry poses opportunities, challenges
Can churches retain theological integrity and still find common ground with people who hold differing beliefs?
Couponing helps family, leads to ministry opportunities
Would you like to save money and be ready to minister when a need arises?
Teresa Robinson of Climax Springs believes couponing fills the bill -- actually cuts it, often by more than half and allows avid coupon users the ability
Dakota Baptists — not NAMB — adopt changes in leadership, ministry
Dakota Baptists -- not the North American Mission Board -- made the ultimate decision to adopt changes in leadership structure and ministry approach. The interim executive director quells rumors that NAMB changes led to staff defections.
Churches are filling stockings to support chaplain ministry in Virginia
In response to needs of inmates in the 1940s some Virginia churches began filling stockings with toiletries and hygienic items and the Chaplain Service Prison Ministry of Virginia secured permission from wardens to give them to inmates at Christmas. For some it was the
Singles ministry tough, but vital
"Singles" are not monolithic but fall across every age range and life spectrum. They are never married—like Belcher—divorced, separated and widowed. And they come in all ages, from very young adults just out of high school to senior adults who have lost a spouse after
Beyond immediate ministry, Christians called to address social inequities
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Central Seminary prepares students for urban ministry
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New frontier of ministry training
Ministerial training isn't what it used to be. And much of it can't afford to be the way it was. Not if the intent is to train men and women to be effective ministers in a world that is as diverse and complicated
Traditional divinity program aids ministry in nontraditional contexts
Students who serve in nontraditional ministry settings—whether a postmodern congregation, a cowboy church or something in-between—benefit from the foundation provided in a traditional seminary curriculum, some educators and ministry practitioners insist.
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.