by Sharon Mager | Aug 26, 2024 | Disaster Relief, Featured
By Sharon Mager JARRETTSVILLE, Md. — For the Evans family—Verla, her son Mark, his wife, Harmony, and their daughter Phoebe—Disaster Relief is a family affair. They tirelessly do chainsaw work, clear debris, clean and sanitize basements, and whatever else is needed....
by Sharon Mager | Aug 15, 2024 | Children's Ministries, senior adults, VBS
By Sharon Mager Chesapeake Beach, Md. — Tillie Swanson, mother of Glenn Swanson, pastor of Bayside Baptist Church, Chesapeake Beach, has spent over 50 years as a Vacation Bible School (VBS) student or teacher. She was a VBS trainer for multiple Baptist conventions,...
by Sharon Mager | Aug 15, 2024 | Children's Ministries, VBS
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) – Despite its obscure origins in a rented room in America’s largest city, Vacation Bible School (VBS) has become a widely familiar term in our culture, identifiable with both kids and parents as a fun way to learn about God’s Word. Vacation Bible...
by Sharon Mager | Aug 8, 2024 | Disaster Relief, Evangelism
BARRE, VT — A Disaster Relief team from Blue Ridge Baptist Association and Montgomery Baptist Association recently returned from deployment to Vermont, where they provided flood recovery work in the town of Barre, following Hurricane Beryl. The team worked on ten...
by Sharon Mager | Aug 8, 2024 | Evangelism, Featured, Outreach
Five years ago, the 50 classrooms in the Clinton Baptist Church building, situated on 12 acres (including a baseball field!) in Prince George’s County, echoed with the somber tones of a church in decline and, like many other American churches, headed for death. The...
