by Sharon Mager | Jan 6, 2025 | Compassion Ministry, Evangelism, poverty
By Sharon Mager BOWIE, Md. — On the morning of June 29, 2002, Cresthill Church, Bowie, Member Michael Callahan was on a subway train when he felt a call from God. That call, which impacted him enough to know the exact date, has resulted in an organization that...
by Sharon Mager | Dec 5, 2024 | Church Planting, Church Strengthening, Evangelism, Featured, General Mission Board
By Sharon Mager CROWNSVILLE, Md. The BCM/D General Mission Board (GMB) met on Dec. 3 at South Shore Church. Byron Day, GMB president, set the tone for the meeting, using the analogy of a race, as Paul did in the book of Acts. He spoke of the athletes who train for the...
by Sharon Mager | Nov 20, 2024 | Evangelism, Family Ministry, Featured, Grants, Outreach
By Sharon Mager Based on Report by Marty Jellison FROSTBURG, Md. — Leaders at Mountain City Church (MCC) are enthusiastically engaging their community and seeing members grow in their desire to reach out to their neighbors. They recently had 100 at a Trunk or Treat,...
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...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 8, 2024 | African American, Evangelism
By Shelley Mahoney LANHAM, Md. — Over one hundred people gathered on February 24, 2024, to celebrate the life and ministry of the first American foreign missionary, George Liele, at the second annual George Liele Missionary Conference at Sharon Bible Fellowship Church...
