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Hope 1:8
We have created a program called Hope 1:8 Weekends in which we take the focus of Acts 1:8 to our churches. What is the mission of God for your church? Hope 1:8 Weekends can help us look inside our churches (the people, resources, gifts, skills, and passions) at what God has already placed there. It can help us answer the question, “What do we have that people around us need?” Full Story »
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TAGAROH, Malaysia – Rainfall is plentiful and the soil is rich in northeast Sabah, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo. But the rice farmers there still have difficulty providing adequately for their families. Full Story »
Last year Texas Baptists and churches in the Rio Grande Valley launched Valley Reach 2010, an effort to share the hope and love of Jesus Christ across the Rio Grande Valley prior to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting.
I visited the Rio Grande Valley recently to discover that the outreach and ministry to the least of these continues across the Rio Grande Valley. One church in particular, The Church of Acts located in Elsa in the Rio Grande Valley, continues to reach beyond its Jerusalem to meet spirituals and physical needs of the Indian Hills – East Colonia. Full Story »
MCALLEN – God is calling Texas Baptists to see through the challenges before them to claim and spread the hope that God provides, Victor Rodriguez said during the Baptist General Convention of Texas Annual Meeting sermon. Full Story »
MCALLEN — At least three things set apart as distinctive the theology of hope Christians in the 21st century can offer the world — a crucified Christ, a cross-bearing church and a radical love-ethic, said Ellis Orozco, pastor of First Baptist Church in Richardson. Full Story »
MCALLEN – For the coming years, the Baptist General Convention of Texas will be focusing its ministries on the final words of Jesus Christ found in Acts 1:8 – “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem; and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Full Story »
McALLEN – Texas Baptists Executive Director Randel Everett put a face on the convention’s new Hope 1:8 initiative in his address during the opening session of the annual meeting in McAllen, encouraging churches to change their thinking in order to reach a changing state. Instead of painting word pictures, Everett introduced Keron Jackson, who shared a powerful testimony about coming to salvation then sang “Not Too Far From Here” for the convention audience. Full Story »