by Sharon Mager | Jul 19, 2024 | Featured
By Tom Stolle Today, I allow my thoughts to carry me back to my youth. As I reflect on these memories, I realize that life was much less complicated for me than it is now, but there were challenges. At that time, some of the challenges felt daunting. There were exams...
by Sharon Mager | Jul 19, 2024 | Collegiate Ministry, Featured, Internationals, Senior Adult Ministry, Youth
By Sharon Mager The air crackles with excitement at Ocean City Baptist Church (OCBC) as members and volunteers prepare to welcome 300-plus international students who show up for hot, homemade meals every Monday night during the summer. This is the second Monday in...
by Sharon Mager | Jul 15, 2024 | Prayer Ministry
Download this week’s THE PRAYER BANNER, designed by BCM/D Prayer Ministry Missionary Adron Dozat. The banner is a weekly handout you can give the church to inspire and coach their prayer. It is perfect for a prayer season or an ongoing prayer culture. THE PRAYER...
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 | Featured
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
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 14, 2024 | Prayer Ministry, Skycroft Conference Center, WMU, Youth
BCM/D Prayer Coordinator Adron Dozat has designed a five-day prayer guide to prompt and encourage prayer for children and youth participating in camp this summer at Skycroft Conference Center and at Camp Wo-Me-To. Click on the button below to download this free...
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...
