Sunday Highlight: June 1, 2025 Let’s focus our missions prayer time today on Japan. Specifically, let’s pray for Josh and Hannah Long, two of our Southern Baptist missionaries who serve in Yokohama. This is a huge city of 3.7 million people located south of Tokyo, the capital. There are some churches in the city, but
Sunday Highlight: May 25, 2025 In our prayer time today, we’re going to focus on Taiwan where two of our missionaries are serving. We’ll call them Peter and Ruby. They are working with Vietnamese refugees who have settled in Taiwan. Many of these refugees have lived through unspeakable horrors as they looked for safety. The
Sunday Highlight: May 18, 2025 Let’s get started with our missions prayer time. We know that Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a big city with more than six million people in the metro area and lots of big city problems. But Philadelphia’s biggest problem is lostness. Hundreds of new churches are needed to reach lost people here!
Sunday Highlight: May 11, 2025 For our missions prayer time today, we’re going to pray for two ministries that our church supports through our Cooperative Program giving. Let’s start with two of our international missionaries we’ll call Tim and Pamela Carrollton. They were living in New Orleans. Tim was a pastor on the staff of
Sunday Highlight: May 4, 2025 It’s a great joy at times to think about young people who are preparing for future Kingdom service. We want to pray for one of those today. David McElrath is preparing for a lifetime of Christian service as he studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. Our
Sunday Highlight: April 27, 2025 Today let’s spend some time praying for two of our missionaries in Central Asia. We’ll call them Gary and Ann Warrior. That’s not their real names, but they have served there over 20 years. It’s dangerous to talk about Jesus here. Gary does so every day, but he is careful.
Sunday Highlight: April 20, 2025 Today we’re going to pray our way to Boston and learn about Faith Garland, one of our missionaries there. Our church supports Faith through our Cooperative Program. Now, Faith works with the Send Relief Ministry Center in Boston. That’s a ministry of our North American Mission Board which helps our
Sunday Highlight: April 13, 2025 Today in our prayer time, let’s focus on the upper Midwest. St. Paul and Minneapolis, called the Twin Cities, make up one community with some four million people. Minnesota is so far north it borders Canada. We’re going to focus on two of those missionaries today: Jonathan and Melissa Parnell.
Sunday Highlight: April 6, 2025 For two years, Ronaldo and Isabel Muñoz have been sharing the gospel to reach the Mixteco people in Richmond, Virginia. The Mixteco people don’t speak Spanish, but their own language, Mixteco, a dialect spoken in Mexico. Through the church plant, Ronaldo and Isabel are reaching this people group, whose
Sunday Highlight: March 30, 2025 For our missions prayer time, let’s focus on Washington state. Two of our North American missionaries, Daniel and Mary Estrada, have planted a new church there. Before moving to the Pacific Northwest, Daniel and Mary lived in Miami, Florida, where Daniel led a successful church. Then a church in Oregon