By Kristen Thomason In the remote farming village of Vogan in Togo, Africa Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s field personnel Karen Alford, a family nurse practitioner, runs a small wound-care clinic providing…
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By David Hughes, senior pastor at First Baptist Church Carrollton This year, during the days of March 1-12, I went with a mission team that traveled into Ukraine. Since February…
By Kristen Thomason When Jon and Tanya Parks and their two daughters moved from Kenbridge, Virginia, to Košice, Slovakia, they were taking a 5,000-mile step of faith. “We thought we were being…
By Marv Knox Shane McNary used to make a morbid prediction that proved prophetic—and pragmatic—for his ministry partners in Central Europe. “When I had a conversation with somebody to start…
By Jennifer Colosimo In Tullahoma, Tennessee, it can cost a pretty penny to clean clothes. As a community one-quarter of whom live below the poverty line, it’s often a chore…
By Jennifer Colosimo The story of First Baptist Church of Abilene starts more than 100 years ago. Founded in 1881, its long history of sending people out into the world…
By Grayson Hester To care for mothers is to care for humanity. Michelle Norman and Elisabet Roca do their work in this sacred “Magnificat” tradition of Mary, mother of God….
Equipping with Every Good Thing: Matt and Michelle Norman bear witness to Jesus in secular Catalonia
By Marv Knox A 2017 meeting in a Spanish city hall typifies Michelle and Matt Norman’s ministry in northeastern Spain. By that time, they had been Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field…