In Finding and Keeping Volunteers, Be Direct
By Scott Barkley, posted September 5, 2023 in Churches and Ministry HATTIESBURG, Miss. (BP) – Building a volunteer team isn’t just about what you do, but what you don’t. It is about extending a personal invitation, said Drew Chapman, Next Steps and Outreach pastor at Temple Baptist Church. It is about training. It is about assessing the best place for service and communicating expectations. … Read More
The Cooperative Program: A Brilliant Solution
Imagine 30,000 fellow Southern Baptists coming to your church every year asking for money to help them fulfill God’s calling in their lives. That would be more people than we have in all our Montana Southern Baptist churches combined! It would be about 600 different people each Sunday, which is more people than attend the average Southern Baptist church on … Read More
The Exhibit Hall, New Orleans
At the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in New Orleans this spring, our MTSBC team met hundreds of people. We shared our God stories and asked people to pray for Montana. Our hope is that from this engagement, the Lord will call church planters, pastors, and ministry partners into the harvest fields of Montana. We had Montana swag to give as mementos, and … Read More
Freshwater Church Ministers to Montana Churches
“What do you get a tired pastor in Montana for the summer?” pastor of Valley Baptist Church, Huntley, Stan Bricker exclaimed. “A Freshwater Baptist Church mission team from Jefferson City, Missouri!” After traveling 17 hours across three states and missing two tornadoes, this team arrived in the Billings area on June 24, 2023. The large team, consisting of men, women, … Read More
Montana Christian College Taps Wooddell as Vice President of Advancement
Montana Christian College adds to its leadership team by employing Joe Wooddell as Vice President of Advancement and Professor of Philosophy. He leaves an 18-year tenure at Criswell College in Dallas. “Dr. Wooddell fills a strategic function for Montana Christian College,” said Marvin Jones, president of MCC. “To the best of my knowledge, he is the first financial developer in … Read More
Taylor elected Wyoming executive director
By Baptist Press, posted June 22, 2023 in SBC News CASPER, Wyo. – The Wyoming Southern Baptist Mission Network (WSBMN) elected Rondie Taylor as the convention’s state missionary and executive director on June 5 by a unanimous vote of the of the executive board. “He has served Wyoming well over the last several years and I am excited to have him in the … Read More
Recruiting students to serve in the church
By Aaron Summers, posted August 2, 2023 in Lifeway As a new school year approaches, many church leaders seek church members who can serve in the church. In a Lifeway Research study of Protestant churchgoers, 66% said they did not volunteer for a charity (ministry, church, or non-ministry) in the last year. Could the gap between desire and action stem from our failure to trust younger … Read More
Are Your Children Save From Predators?
The statistics are discouraging. According to Ministry Safe 1 out of 4 girls and 1 out of 6 boys will experience sexual abuse before the age of 18. The average convicted offender may have between 50-150 victims. Less than 10% of sexual abusers will ever encounter the criminal justice system. Indeed, sexual abusers are very difficult to spot. There is … Read More
Building a Healthy Ministry Culture
As a young adult, I loved Jesus and truly believed that those who loved and served Jesus would function with joy, enthusiasm, unity, and a Kingdom mindset. I was so naïve. On the outside, all appeared well in my local church. There was the illusion that we all had the same heartbeat for Gospel ministry, but when it came to … Read More