by Sharon Mager | Aug 25, 2025 | Evangelism, Family Ministry, Featured, missional impact, Missions, News Highlights, Obituaries, Revitalization, Youth
This month, read about anniversaries — churches celebrating decades of God’s faithfulness through struggles and victories. Churches are also celebrating baptisms, awards, and more. And, of course, there are transitions as pastors leave, are called to...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 13, 2025 | Family Ministry, Sanctity of Life
“I Identified With Hannah” By Sharon Mager Editor’s Note: For many women, the dream of motherhood feels as natural as breathing. But for Peggy Burghauser, that dream remained just out of reach. Peggy and her husband, John, are members of White Marsh Baptist Church...
by Sharon Mager | Feb 24, 2025 | Children's Ministries, Discipleship, Family Ministry, Featured, Partnerships, Youth
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Hannah Groom, the wife of Colesville Baptist Church Senior Pastor Britt Groom, is the library media specialist at Forcey Christian School. Burdened to help parents of preschoolers, Hannah developed a parent support group with four moms and one...
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 | Jul 11, 2024 | Family Ministry, Featured
by Jennifer Rankin My husband, Chris, and I both grew up Southern Baptist and remain committed and engaged in an SBC church to this day. We are both staunchly pro-life and believe without a doubt that life begins from the exact moment of conception. We also have two...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 1, 2024 | Family Ministry, Featured, Maryland-Delaware Baptists
Going Home: When Ministry Returns Us to Our Roots (Part 2) Wally Weeks, pastor of Pleasant View Baptist in Oakland, Maryland, does not remember his first visit to his home church. That would be because his first visit was while his mother was pregnant with him. Little...
