Border violence keeps mission teams home
Steadily declining mission trips to Mexico due to drug violence has left many Mexicans feeling abandoned just when their anxiety levels are peaking, missions experts in Texas say.
Steadily declining mission trips to Mexico due to drug violence has left many Mexicans feeling abandoned just when their anxiety levels are peaking, missions experts in Texas say.
ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has awarded a $50,000 grant to Mercer University to provide affordable prosthetics for Haiti, where thousands of people lost limbs in the January 2010 earthquake.
Using bags of groceries and crayons, 10 members of First Baptist Church, Lee's Summit, shared Christ's love in impoverished San Marcos, Guatemala.
Southeast Missouri took a significant hit on Jan. 27 with ice and snow storms knocking out power and forcing people into warming centers and the homes of friends and fellow church members.