by Sharon Mager | Jul 14, 2023 | disability ministry, Featured, Stollen Moments
What would the world say that my son Jimmy can give to me and Shelley? Many people would say little to nothing. Due to being affected by a developmental disability, many would see my son as someone who is totally dependent on us. Yet we would die for Jimmy without a...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 30, 2023 | disability ministry, Featured
DAGSBORO, Delaware (BP) – For Tom Stolle, the executive director and chief financial officer for the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware (BCM/D), advocating for the protection of the vulnerable is deeply personal. Stolle’s 21-year-old son Jimmy was born with...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 23, 2023 | Associations, BCM/D Ready, Children's Ministries, Church Planting, 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 Kennedi Wood | Nov 5, 2020 | Children's Ministries, disability ministry, Featured, Maryland-Delaware Baptists, Pastor/Planter, Special Needs, Student Leader, WMU, Women, Youth
By Jim McCaffrey In February 2017, my family and I began a new chapter in the long story that is my career. Until recently, my career path both in secular and ministry work never lasted more than two years at a place. It became the normal expectation that I would...