by Sharon Mager | Feb 12, 2025 | Disability ministry, Featured
By Amber Stewart We pulled up to our family’s church, and my mom and daddy helped me out of the van. This was a very special evening. Satan tried his best to keep me home, but I made it. I officially entered the 2025 “Night to Shine” at Pleasant View Baptist Church. ...
by Sharon Mager | Feb 3, 2025 | Associations, Missions
By Sharon Mager ABERDEEN, Md. — The Susquehanna Baptist Association (SBA) has called John Gauger as their executive director. Gauger succeeds Dan Sheffield, who retired Dec. 31 after serving the association for over 40 years as the director of missions (DOM). Gauger...
by Sharon Mager | Feb 3, 2025 | Church Planting, Featured, Hispanic, Missions
By Sharon Mager Sykesville, MD — In the Fall of 2024, Friendship Baptist Church (Mid-Maryland Association) started a Hispanic church called FBC en Español, led by Church Planters Martin and Ester Nieto of Cancun, Mexico. The new church is already gaining momentum and...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 29, 2025 | Collegiate Ministry, Featured, Missions
By Grace Thornton Jess Senasack said campus ministry is a little different in the area where she lives than it is in Alabama. In Maryland and Delaware, only 14 of the 60 colleges and universities have some kind of Baptist ministry going on. In Alabama, which has the...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 28, 2025 | Missions, WMU, Women's Ministry
By Sharon Mager NEWARK, De. — Ogletown Baptist Church’s Women on Mission group recently delivered 2,842 diapers and 6,780 wipes to A Door of Hope Pregnancy Crisis Center. That’s a big difference from their last delivery of 300 diapers and wipes. “This year, God just...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 28, 2025 | Leadership Development
CLINTON, Md. — Clinton Baptist Church had a special service on January 15. They licensed Minister Marvin McGill Jr.; ordained Caleb Timmons and Xavier Driggins; and installed four new trustees: Loren Castell, Sherres Fod, Nathaniel Jones and Debora Boydo-Oke,...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 23, 2025 | Women's Ministry
By Tom Stolle The BCM/D Revive Conference for women is fast approaching. On March 7-8 in Annapolis, Maryland, where 700 women will gather to be equipped, encouraged, supported, sharpened, and loved by other women seeking the same thing: to draw closer to Jesus! As a...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Wage Range Transparency Requirements: What Employers Need to Know Effective October 1, 2024, employers in the State of Maryland must comply with recent changes to the Equal Pay for Equal Work Law and the Wage Payment and Collection Law. How can employers comply with...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 16, 2025 | Evangelism
By: Mark Dooley HERITAGE HARBOR, Md. — For sports fans, this is a great time of year. Whether it’s the college football playoffs or the Super Bowl, the excitement is palpable. And if you’re not a football fan, just wait; your sport of choice will have their...
by Sharon Mager | Jan 13, 2025 | CLPA, Prayer Ministry
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — On January 8, Greg Kame, the director of missions for the Arundel Baptist Association, and Adron Dozat, Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware prayer missionary, gathered in the halls of the Capitol building in Annapolis, with Jeffrey Trimbath, the...
