NOBA, you are reaching the nations right here in our city! On Friday, November 20th over 170 international students, BCM students, and church volunteers assembled at the Alumni Center on the campus of The University of New Orleans for a feast designed to feed both the stomach and the soul.
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Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the road, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.” Jeremiah 6:16 (ESV) It was pitch dark as I walked to Vigils at Buckfast Abbey Church on this cold,
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Pilgrims are ordinary people from ordinary walks of life. Geoffrey Chaucer tells of the Miller, the Cook, the Knight, the Monk, the Priest, and the Wife of Bath meeting at the George Inn at the outset of their pilgrimage to Canterbury. Our band of pilgrims met last night at the
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Razor wire now stretches along a 110-mile Hungarian border. The razor wire protects the Christian culture of Hungary from the Muslims, according to Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Jesus is the Christ from whom the word “Christian” is derived. I doubt that Jesus himself would applaud Orban’s use of the word
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For the past four years, NOCBC has led a team to conduct two weeks of VBS in the eastern province of Hualien, Taiwan. The team serves at the Faith, Hope, and Love Youth Academy for the first week of VBS. This academy is home to 40 boys, ages 8-18, who
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Last week, Pope Francis addressed the highest seat of our nation’s legislative government. He has been called “the people’s Pope” by many of his observers.
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“We must work the work of him who sent me while it is day, for night cometh when no man can work.” (John 9:4) God used the church at Antioch to commission and send out Paul and Barnabas to proclaim the gospel to unreached and unengaged people groups.
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Baptist Community Health Services is open and operational in the newly built Sanchez Center in the Lower 9th Ward. I got to visit the Sanchez Center on BCHS’s first day to see how things were going. Mrs. Carolyn Fountain was diligently working the front desk, welcoming patients. “It’s been
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Church revitalizations often get overlooked, but it is a cause of great celebration when a congregation reverses the life cycle. Memorial Baptist Church in Metairie is an example of a church that has returned to vitality from death’s door.
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The population of Metairie, LA is approximately 138,000 people. Imagine this vision: 138 churches with a thousand members each in Metairie alone. May it be so Lord! Metairie is just one of the cities within one of the parishes within our 6-parish Association. We have a tremendous opportunity to begin and grow new churches,
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