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Mississippi Baptist response continues after double blow from hurricanes

IDA RESPONSE — Volunteers with the Mississippi Baptist Disaster Relief ministry prepare a fallen tree for disposal on the campus of New Orleans Seminary, after Hurricane Ida made landfall in the New Orleans area on Aug. 29. (Photo credit: New Orleans Seminary)

Mississippi Baptist response continues after double blow from hurricanes

September 21, 2021

By William H. Perkins Jr.Editor Volunteers with the Mississippi Baptist Disaster Relief (MBDR) ministry are counted among the 12,056 volunteer days and 105,524 volunteer hours…

FIRST PERSON: International student searches for warmth in America, finds it at BSU

MINISTRY THROUGH FURNITURE — Eduardo Hernandez Escobar surveys the Furniture Giveaway for international students sponsored by the Baptist Student Union (BSU) at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in Hattiesburg. The El Salvador native is a senior at the university and active in the BSU at USM. (Photo credit: USM BSU)

FIRST PERSON: International student searches for warmth in America, finds it at BSU

September 20, 2021

185th Mississippi Baptist Convention

185th Mississippi Baptist Convention

September 14, 2021

Kitchen One demobilized after suspected COVID-19 infection

EARLY START – Volunteers from Mississippi Baptist churches fire up the tilt skillets and ovens before daylight on Sept. 4 at the Mississippi Baptist Disaster Relief’s Kitchen One feeding unit in Jefferson, La., to begin preparing meals for victims of Hurricane Ida. The Category 4 storm left much of Louisiana and some sections of Mississippi without electrical power and other utilities. (Photo credit: MBDR)

Kitchen One demobilized after suspected COVID-19 infection

September 9, 2021

Mississippi Baptist feeding unit, volunteers headed to New Orleans in response to Hurricane Ida destruction

IDA’S FURY — One hundred percent of homes on Louisiana’s Grand Isle were damaged and 40% destroyed by Hurricane Ida on Aug. 29, reported parish president Cynthia Lee Sheng. (Photo credit: Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Disaster Preparedness)

Mississippi Baptist feeding unit, volunteers headed to New Orleans in response to Hurricane Ida destruction

September 1, 2021

Messengers celebrate 100 years
of Cooperative Program giving
DALLAS (BP) — During the June 10 afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving. Referencing Joshua 4, he shared the story of God instructing His people to gather 12 commemorative stones from the Jordan River and to create a memorial to the miracle of God, who stopped the river so the Israelites could cross on dry ground. The memorial had two purposes, Iorg said. First, it was a reminder in verses 6-9 to celebrate a historic event when the river stopped flowing, and they walked on dry ground. Second, in verses 6-7, it was an object lesson for future generations. In a similar way, throughout this convention, Southern Baptists are erecting memorial stones of 100 years of cooperation demonstrated through the Cooperative Program, Iorg said. “We point to missionaries sent, churches started, students educated, institutions built and most of all, people saved because Southern Baptists have contributed more than $20 billion through the Cooperative Program in the past 100 years.”