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 | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured, Outreach
By Sharon Mager DOVER, De. — Jim McBride Jr., director of Delaware Raceway Ministry, finished leading a successful but intense weekend at the end of April ministering at the annual NASCAR 400 race at Dover Downs. Then, less than a month later, he helped with a new...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 27, 2024 | African American, Featured, technology
By Morgan Lewis Columbia, MD —The African American Fellowship of the BCM/D (Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware) had it’s annual awareness conference earlier this week, focusing on “Technology and the Church.” With a full day of presentations, worship,...
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 | Jun 20, 2024 | Associations, Children's Ministries, disability ministry, Featured, Grants, Special Needs
By Sharon Mager BERLIN, Md. — For years, Berlin First Baptist Church (BFBC) Children’s Director Shannon Diehl prayerfully pondered the idea of the church having a Vacation Bible School (VBS) for children affected by disabilities. After all, she had a background of...
by Sharon Mager | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured, sexual abuse prevention
INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) has launched the curriculum it hopes churches will use to train volunteers in preventing sexual abuse and responding to those who have experienced it. ARITF members Jon Nelson, lead pastor of Soma...
