New Orleans Baptist Ministries is the community ministry arm of the New Orleans Baptist Association, responsible for carrying out the cooperative compassion ministry goals of the churches of NOBA through financial and strategy development, execution, and management. Over the past decade NOBM has launched Baptist Community Health Services, a full-service
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[Originally published in Baptist Press; posted here with permission.] En la iglesia bautista El Buen Pastor, en Metairie, Louisiana, se juntaron pastores, líderes, misioneros y servidores laicos hispanos de los bautistas del sur, unidos para recibir entrenamiento sobre el Crossover el próximo junio en New Orleans. El Crossover es un
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[This article was originally posted in the Baptist Message. Reposted with permission.] By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer NEW ORLEANS (LBM) – Louisiana Baptists have a golden opportunity to reap a harvest of souls during a pair of evangelistic efforts preceding the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, which is
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[Steve Noblett is the Executive Director of the Christian Community Health Fellowship in Memphis, TN. This article is posted with permission from the CCHF website.] In 2005, New Orleans took a direct hit from a category 3 hurricane. For over 100 miles both sides of I-55 were jammed with folks
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Yesterday afternoon as I was collecting my thoughts for this devotional, CNN reported that 70% of COVID-19 fatalities in Louisiana are African Americans, even though African Americans comprise only 32% of the State’s population. Governor Edwards observed that most of the fatalities have involved persons with multiple co-morbidities. In other
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[Dr. Rex Butler is the John T. Westbrook Chair of Church History at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary] During Spring 2020, the Coronavirus pandemic dominates our lives, our families, and our ministries. When you turn on the TV, the news is all Coronavirus, all the time! Medical advisors and
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Dear NOBA Pastor, In his LPB roundtable discussion last night, Governor John Bel Edwards commended you, the pastors and faith leaders of Louisiana, for your compliance with his executive orders aimed at “flattening the curve” and stemming the surge of Coronavirus cases in our state. Your response was immediate and
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Painting Credit: “Jesus Feeds 5000” by Eric Feather, used with expressed consent. All rights reserved. How many times, as Southern Baptists, have we heard compassion ministries pitted against evangelism—as though the two are separate, as though the two are contradictory? One of my favorite things about Jesus is the
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Baptist Community Health Services CEO, Shawn Powers, announced today that BCHS has been awarded Federally Qualified Health Center Look Alike status. This award certifies that BCHS meets all 19 federal qualifications required by the Health Resources and Services Administration. BCHS is a multi-site, non-profit community health center, with clinics in
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Allison Barnhill works with Reclaimed Project, a ministry committed to exalt Christ by fulfilling the Biblical mandate to serve the poor and orphaned. She and her husband Bret were missionaries in Botswana before going to Lesotho and they will soon relocate to Zimbabwe. They start orphan care ministries through local
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