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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | December 2024 | Volume 68, Number 12
Baptist Beacon
Aug 30, 20232 min read
State Mission Offering: a revitalization story
ANN ARBOR – It was two weeks before the world closed down for the Covid pandemic, and Rhiza Church launched its very first church service...
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Scott Slater
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Thriving in the return to normal
MONROE – September is here, which means it’s time for Michigan students to head back to school. No doubt they have been taking advantage...
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Tony Lynn
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Arabic language church planting
PLYMOUTH – Pastor Amer Safadi, originally from Jordan, and Pastor Amgad Beshai, originally from Egypt are two of the key leaders driving...
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Mike Durbin
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Reset, refocus, revitalize
PLYMOUTH – These are words of hope and new beginnings. They grab our attention in the opening seconds of our 2023 state mission offering...
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Garth Leno
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Train up a child
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – The most famous parenting verse in the book of Proverbs says, “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he...
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Mick Schatz
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Closing a chapter at Bambi Lake
ROSCOMMON – I was first introduced to Bambi Lake Retreat and Conference Center in the fall of 2016 having no idea where this introduction...
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Ellen Bierlein
Aug 30, 20234 min read
A celebration of the life of Fern Dannelley Goree
MIDLAND, TX – Fern Heath Dannelley Goree used Jesus’ example and listened to each individual at their core. All who knew her were...
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Jessica Kogelmann
Aug 30, 20234 min read
Overcoming the first month of “back to school”
GARDEN CITY – The clamor exuding from a passing school bus, last minute efforts to squeeze out the final drops of summer, and ah the...
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April Martin
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Investing spiritually in back to school
PLYMOUTH – This year we have a college sophomore, a high school sophomore and a high school junior heading back to class. Gone are the...
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Mark Maynard
Aug 30, 20234 min read
Bivocational pastor and staff lead growing church in Hodgenville
HODGENVILLE, KY (KT) – DeWayne Gibson’s everyday life is like a blur. Not only is he in his 18th year of teaching in LaRue County but...
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Timothy Cockes
Aug 30, 20233 min read
IMB missionary credits GenSend with teaching him to ‘step out of the boat’
RICHMOND, VA (BP) – Kai Ininstoma,* a missionary in training with the International Mission Board, said his path toward full-time...
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Lawrence Smith
Aug 30, 20233 min read
Sunrise Children’s Services’ 25-year legal battle ends in victory
LOUISVILLE, KY (BP) – A 25-year-old legal dispute has finally been settled in favor of Sunrise Children’s Services. The U.S. Court of...
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Scott Barkley
Aug 30, 20232 min read
Russian persecution of evangelicals exceeding that of Soviet era, Mission Eurasia president says
MOSCOW (BP) – The raid by secret police of Russian evangelical leader Yuri Sipko’s home will not silence the former Baptist Union...
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Brennan and Isabel Andrews
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Giving tangible help to a dying world: Brennan and Isabel Andrews
Isabel Andrews was approached by Moises, one of her Togolese national partners and a church planter. He knew she was a physician’s...
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Mickey Gross
Aug 4, 20233 min read
Women’s Harvest Retreat October 13-15
GARDEN CITY – I just got back from a popular music festival called “Alive” in Ohio I have attended almost every year since 2008. For most...
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Michael Goforth
Aug 4, 20233 min read
God is at work in Frankfurt
PORT AUSTIN – 0.1%... That is the estimated percentage of evangelical believers in Frankfurt, Germany. Let that sink in for a moment. A...
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Matt Foley
Aug 4, 20233 min read
Dear God: Why?
MONROE – The question so many followers of Christ ask themselves, yet a question that we like to think does not exist: God, why? If there...
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Baptist Beacon
Aug 4, 20231 min read
Shecks in the UK
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND – Kevin and Keri Sheckler have been reaching Africans and others with the IMB for 10 years. They started by serving...
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Tim Patterson
Aug 4, 20233 min read
I don't want to ever grow up
PLYMOUTH – I have often thought about Jesus’ words; "Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little...
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Tony Lynn
Aug 4, 20233 min read
Arabic church impacts many
PLYMOUTH – One Arabic church sets the stage to create three new Michigan churches. Pastor Amgad Beshai of Evangel Baptist Church of Troy,...
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