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Interpretive Challenges in Acts
Dear GABC, This past Sunday, we began our journey through the book of Acts. As I mentioned in the sermon, Acts presents some interesting interpretive challenges, and I want to prepare us to hit them. Also, if you are aware of these interpretive challenges and know how to approach them, your reading of Acts will be much more beneficial. Perhaps you have heard someone say,…
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Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Prayer Guide
Kevin Ezell, NAMB President Steadfast on Mission Being a missionary is never easy. Whenever Christians answer the call to go to the mission field, they expect to encounter challenges, but no one could have planned for a global pandemic that would bring the world grinding to a halt. Even so, I’m grateful to say that Southern Baptist missionaries have continued to see the…
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Jacob & Francine Zailian, Sanger, California Reaching the “Lost Cause” Jacob knows the homeless, drug addicts and gang members of Sanger. He used to live among them before he went to jail and met Jesus there. Now he and his wife, Francine, are reaching those who “would scare people who go to most churches,” Jacob said. Through Set Free Church, they take the gospel to…
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Prayer Guide
Bobby & LaKeisha Williams, Slidell, Louisiana Picking Up the Pieces Bobby and LaKeisha Williams have a simple goal—to meet the deep need of New Orleans with the even deeper love of Christ. In the city, some buildings are still boarded up from Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The area around the Williamses’ church plant is predominantly African American and low-income. “A…
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Joshua Valdez, Farmington, New Mexico A Light in Darkness Joshua Valdez says his city is a place of emotional and spiritual darkness. It’s a melting pot of culture and religion. Its residents are mostly Hispanic and Navajo, and the Navajo are very much “a forgotten people,” said Joshua, who also has both heritages. The people have one common struggle—they often battle…
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PRAYER GUIDE Anders & Jessica Snyder, Nampa, Idaho A New Start for a Dying Church Moving from Denver to a small town they had never heard of in Idaho was not in Anders’ and Jessica’s plans. But it fit where they felt the Holy Spirit was guiding them–to help a dying church come back to life and reach its community. In 2018, they launched the replant of Calvary…
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Prayer Guide
PRAYER GUIDE Victor & Ludmila Moura, Somerville, Massachusetts Finding Identity in Christ Victor and Ludmila Moura were comfortable in Brazil. He was a pastor of a growing church, and she was a government lawyer doing well in her career. Over time, though, they felt God leading them in an unexpected direction—to plant a church for Brazilians in Boston, home to one of…