by Sharon Mager | Jun 20, 2024 | Associations, BCM/D Ready, compassion ministry, Featured
By Sharon Mager “Grieving the Loss of the Church You Love,” authored by Grace Seaford Church Pastor Larry Davis, is a unique book that prayerfully uses the stages of grief to help a terminally sick church to graciously “die” and be resurrected. Davis draws...
by Sharon Mager | May 2, 2024 | BCM/D Ready, Internationals
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ of the Maryland and Delaware Baptist Convention, My name is Roman Kapran, and I am president of the Ukrainian Baptist Convention in the U.S. Personally, and on behalf of Ukrainian Christians, I want to thank all American churches...
by Sharon Mager | Apr 4, 2024 | BCM/D Ready, Featured
BALTIMORE, Md.— On March 28, just two days after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, Redemption City Church organized a community prayer at 8 a.m. at Patterson Park Observatory. Though clouds were gathering in the early morning, the rain held off as people met at...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 27, 2024 | BCM/D Ready
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 after being hit by a cargo ship stunned families in and around Baltimore. Divers are working to recover those still missing. People are traumatized, and many said they cried as they saw footage of the bridge as...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 23, 2023 | Associations, BCM/D Ready, Children's Ministries, Church Planting, Church Service, disability ministry, Disaster Relief, Featured, General Mission Board
COLUMBIA, MD. — A sense of peace and expectation permeated the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware (BCM/D) General Mission Board (GMB) meeting on March 21. The meeting, held in Columbia, was a significant “first” as Tom Stolle addressed the GMB members for the...
by Sharon Mager | Feb 9, 2023 | BCM/D Ready, Disaster Relief, World
KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey (BP) — A pair of earthquakes and a series of aftershocks have devastated portions of Turkey and Syria. According to Send Relief, more than 20,000 people are known to have been killed by the quakes as of 6:30 pm on February 9, and the number...