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TRUSTEES: NAMB INTRODUCES ‘SEND PUERTO RICO’

February 13, 2018

By Mike Ebert
Baptist Press

Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), addressed members of NAMB’s Board of Trustees at their Feb. 6 meeting in Alpharetta, Ga. — Photo (by Hayley Catt) from Baptist Press.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The North American Mission Board is adding Puerto Rico to its list of special areas that will receive increased attention and resources for church planting, Send Relief ministries and partnership opportunities with Southern Baptist churches that want to minister on the island. NAMB president Kevin Ezell shared the plans with NAMB trustees Tuesday (Feb. 6). [Read more…]

PUERTO RICO RELIEF NEEDS ONGOING VOLUNTEERS, FUNDING

November 16, 2017

Baptist Press

Partnership discussions prompt a handshake between Sam Porter (left) and Luiz Rodriguez linking Southern Baptist and Puerto Rican Baptist churches in ongoing disaster relief. Porter is national director of disaster relief for the North American Mission Board; Rodriguez is pastor of Raham Baptist Church and president of the Convention of Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
-Photo courtesy of Sam Porter/NAMB

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (BP) — Southern Baptists continue to serve Puerto Rico’s residents after Hurricane Maria’s devastation in September, creating a nationwide response from the ground up.

“Though the plight of Puerto Rico has started to fade from the headlines,” Porter said, “there are still plenty of needs and places to serve.”

NAMB’s Send Relief outreach has attained warehouse space in Puerto Rico for the collection of food, water and other resources. Items are then distributed to various churches ministering to those in need in their region. [Read more…]

AAEO GIFTS SET RECORD

November 9, 2017

Baptist and Reflector

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Kevin Ezell announced Oct. 19 to the North American Mission Board staff that the 2017 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering totaled an all-time high: $59,648,377. The offering for North American missions beat the previous 2007 high by $185,096.

“We are grateful for every dime we get from Southern Baptists,” said Ezell, NAMB president. “We are thankful for churches, pastors, and denominational leaders who encourage their people to give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering.” [Read more…]

MONTREAL — A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE?

October 12, 2017

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Larry Robertson, pastor of Hilldale Baptist Church in Clarksville and a former Tennessee Baptist Convention president, has been a good friend since he served on the staff of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board (then Executive Board) as director of evangelism more than 15 years ago.

He is an excellent pastor and is well respected across the state and the Southern Baptist Convention and he is a frequent columnist for the paper. See his must read column below.

He currently serves as a trustee of the North American Mission Board. Our paths crossed last week in, of all places, Montreal, Canada. Larry was in Montreal for a meeting of NAMB trustees while David Dawson, TBMB communications specialist, and I were there for a NAMB briefing for Baptist state paper editors and staff. The briefing included reports from NAMB leaders and concluded with a tour and celebration of Baptist work in Canada. [Read more…]

PLANTERS SEE GOD AT WORK IN MONTREAL

October 12, 2017

By David Dawson
Baptist and Reflector

North American Mission Board trustees visit a church in Montreal that at one time housed one of their church plants.

MONTREAL — Although the ground is hard and the labor is challenging, substantial progress is being made in the harvest fields in Montreal, Canada.

The enormous city, with a population of almost six million in the metro area, is the most unchurched area in North America. But there is a gradual groundswell taking place, with a number of new churches gaining momentum across the city.

“Montreal was once known as the place where church plants go to die,” said NAMB President Kevin Ezell. “Thankfully, that is beginning to change.”

Propelled by a collection of young and vibrant pastors who are carrying the banner, the gospel is now being shared in a city where most of the citizens have a deep-seated negativity toward the church as a whole. [Read more…]

HUNGRY PEOPLE LIVE HERE

October 3, 2017

By Joe Sorah
Compassion Ministries Specialist, TBMB

As I reflect upon my childhood, I can remember being very concerned with the problem of hunger in our world. I grew up in a pastor’s home. We used to receive appeals for funds to feed hungry children. The letters would come with pictures of children on little cards from far off countries. Those pictures really bothered me. I couldn’t stand the thought of children going hungry.

My mother would collect her change through the year, deposit the money in a rice bowl, and take it to church on World Hunger Sunday. It was a big deal to my family and me. My family could not bear the thought of hungry people while we had food on our table. [Read more…]

TBMB DIRECTORS ADOPT RECOMMENDATIONS

September 27, 2017

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

Mike Kemper, center, interim pastor of Smyrna Baptist Church, Humboldt, was elected chair-elect of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. With him are current chair Mike Sams, right, pastor of First Baptist Church, Martin, and Cal Hampton, senior associate pastor of preaching and evangelism at First Baptist Church, Clarksville, who will serve as chair in 2018 following The Summit in Hendersonville.

FRANKLIN — The board of directors of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board have approved expanding the definition of a cooperating Baptist church to include those churches that give through the Tennessee Baptist Convention portion of the Cooperative Program budget without restriction or designation.

The action was one of several recommendations adopted by the TBMB directors during their meeting Sept. 12 in Franklin. [Read more…]

TRUMP MEETS WITH SBC’S EZELL, OTHER RELIEF LEADERS

September 5, 2017

Baptist Press

Kevin Ezell (second from left) president of the North American Mission Board represented Southern Baptist Disaster Relief in a meeting Friday (Sept. 1), with President Trump and first lady Melania Trump in the oval office at the White House to discuss disaster relief efforts in Texas.
-Screen capture from Fox News

WASHINGTON (BP) — President Donald Trump met with leaders of the three largest disaster relief organizations in the United States at the White House today (Sept. 1) to discuss relief efforts in south Texas in the wake of historic flooding and other damage left by Hurricane Harvey.

Included at the meeting were Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR), represented by North American Mission Board (NAMB) President Kevin Ezell; American Red Cross, represented by the group’s president, Gail McGovern; and the Salvation Army, represented by Col. David Hudson, the group’s USA national chief secretary. [Read more…]

FORMER SBC ENTITY STAFF HOLDS REUNION

August 25, 2017

Special to B&R

Former Brotherhood Commission president James D. “Jim” Williams motions to the audience during his remarks to staff, trustees and friends July 29.
-Photo by Bill Bangham

MEMPHIS — More than 60 former staff members, trustees, and volunteers of the Brotherhood Commission gathered July 29 for a reunion. 2017 marks 20 years since the demise of the Southern Baptist Convention agency.

Some of the attendees came from as far as Oklahoma, Texas, and Virginia for the event, which was a celebration of the ministry of the organization, which made Memphis its home for 59 of its 94-years of existence. In 1997, it was folded into other entities of the SBC, and disbanded. Most of its functions and ministries went to the newly formed North American Mission Board (NAMB). [Read more…]

TENNESSEE BAPTISTS NEEDED IN DENVER

August 25, 2017

Editor’s Note: You can listen to Dave Howeth discuss the Tennessee/Send Denver partnership during Episode 11 of Radio B&R, the official news podcast of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. That podcast can be found here.

By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, Baptist and Reflector

DENVER – Dave Howeth is no stranger to Tennessee Baptists who remember him as a director of missions/church planter strategist in Montana during the years of the Tennessee/Montana partnership.

Once again Howeth is working with Tennessee Baptist volunteers, but now it is in Denver where he serves as the Denver Send City missionary for the North American Mission Board. [Read more…]

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