by Sharon Mager | Aug 25, 2023 | Evangelism, Special Needs
My name is Sherri Swanson, and I’m the director of the 12nine Adult Abilities Ministry at Bayside Baptist Church in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, where my husband, Glenn serves as the senior pastor. Glenn and I are blessed with two sons and our beautiful daughter Anna,...
by Sharon Mager | Jul 14, 2023 | disability ministry, Featured, Stollen Moments
What would the world say that my son Jimmy can give to me and Shelley? Many people would say little to nothing. Due to being affected by a developmental disability, many would see my son as someone who is totally dependent on us. Yet we would die for Jimmy without a...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 30, 2023 | disability ministry, Featured
DAGSBORO, Delaware (BP) – For Tom Stolle, the executive director and chief financial officer for the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware (BCM/D), advocating for the protection of the vulnerable is deeply personal. Stolle’s 21-year-old son Jimmy was born with...
by Sharon Mager | Mar 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
COLUMBIA, Md. (BP) — The Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware’s (BCM/D) General Mission Board (GMB) unanimously elected Tom Stolle as executive director, effective March 3. “I believe Tom is the man for such a time as this,” said GMB President Byron Day, “the man...
by Kennedi Wood | Nov 5, 2020 | Children's Ministries, disability ministry, Featured, Maryland-Delaware Baptists, Pastor/Planter, Special Needs, Student Leader, WMU, Women, Youth
By Jim McCaffrey In February 2017, my family and I began a new chapter in the long story that is my career. Until recently, my career path both in secular and ministry work never lasted more than two years at a place. It became the normal expectation that I would...
