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Newsjournal of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan | January 2025 | Volume 69, Number 1
Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
Healthy pastors, healthy churches
NASHVILLE, TN – Pastors not only want to succeed at church and home, we are required to. Is there any profession on this planet besides...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20181 min read
Note from a thankful pastor
BATTLE CREEK, MI – Aryn and I were blessed to be able to participate in the Pastors and Wives date night at FBC DeWitt. With three...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20182 min read
I love preaching!
FORT WORTH, TX – There isn’t a preacher among us who doesn’t desire to become a better preacher. At least, there shouldn’t be! A pastor...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20184 min read
Igniting generations
FENTON, MI – How are you providing missions education to the next generation? Great question. Missions is a lifestyle! Learning begins at...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20182 min read
RENOVATE: Coming in 2018
ORLANDO, FL – Do you have a passion to see your church revitalized? Then the Michigan Renovate Church Revitalization Conference is for...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
The great outdoors
ROSCOMMON, MI "I will make you fishers of men." ~ Jesus Like many people who move to Roscommon County I love to hunt and fish. This...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
The legacy of Bambi Lake
ROSCOMMON, MI – It is not by chance as Bambi Lake nears its 60 year anniversary that people are being drawn back to the roots of their...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20182 min read
Michigan on mission to St. Croix
LANSING, MI – Michigan Baptist churches have been sending mission teams to minister at home and aboard for decades. Unfortunately, many...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20182 min read
Send Relief
2017 A Look Back FENTON, MI – Michigan Disaster Relief (DR) responded to two major events in 2017 - one in Michigan and the other in...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20181 min read
A volunteer "in her own words"
JACKSON, MI – I like being a servant of the Lord. Being a Chaplain, serving through the Michigan Disaster Relief (DR), just adds to the...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20184 min read
Sending church
How Short-Term Mission Trips Can Make Our Churches Healthier SOUTHGATE, MI – As Baptist State Convention of Michigan (BSCM) churches...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20185 min read
The Power of One reaching women
'The Power of One' FENTON, MI – I am blessed to work with a team of women dedicated to serving Jesus and the women of Michigan. I am...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20184 min read
When disaster strikes
FENTON, MI – When disaster strikes, “gold shirts” move. Some wear blue caps and others wear white caps as a distinction. Sometimes they...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
Good gravy
FENTON, MI – I don't know about you folks but I am a connoisseur of certain types of food. There are very few kinds of foods that I don't...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20185 min read
One constant prayer
FENTON, MI – I served 13 years overseas as an international missionary. During that time, I learned to rely more on prayer. As...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
Strengthening Mi-Moment and the Mackinac Bridge
FENTON, MI – Two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world separate the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. We are the only state...
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Baptist Beacon
Jan 26, 20183 min read
Plugged into God's love
ROSCOMMON, MI – Have you ever felt so out of balance, that no matter how hard you rearrange your life, it is still tilted one way or the...
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Baptist Beacon
Dec 13, 20175 min read
Four students with ties to Michigan graduate from Southern Seminary
LOUISVILLE, KY (SBTS) – Ministers of the gospel are instruments of God’s plan to renew the world, delivering humanity from its curse,...
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Baptist Beacon
Dec 5, 20173 min read
The Christmas hamster
FENTON, MI – Well folks, this is the season when we celebrate the birth of our Lord with all sorts of traditions, parties, food and...
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Baptist Beacon
Dec 5, 20173 min read
Widows & widowers not forgotten in Christmas revelry
SEARCY, AR (BP) – Bill Roussel has a heart for widows and widowers. For years Bill visited with two widows on Sunday mornings at First...
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