Feature Article

Challenges in Urban Ministry

In 2007, after serving as a youth pastor in Mansfield, Ohio for seven years, my family and I moved to Quincy, Massachusetts, to start Life Community Church.  Needless to say, there was a stark contrast […]

March/April

“… zealous of good works”

Why was I picketing an off-track betting parlor on a gritty westside street? A new law allowed these establishments which had popped up in the sketchier Chicago neighborhoods like mushrooms after rain.  This one was next […]

Feature Article

Global Partners: Firsthand

My wife typically drives about 100 miles a week. So thirteen years after we bought her vehicle, we finally had to purchase a new set of tires. Like a fool, I complained. Then I was […]

Feature Article

The Role of the Mission Office

The role of BBFI Mission Office is clearly defined in our mission statement: “The BBFI Mission Office exists to serve churches and their missionaries as they endeavor to fulfill the Great Commission.” The BBFI Mission Office […]

Feature Article

How the Mission Office Serves the Local Church

MISSION CONFERENCE DESIGN PACKS By Mike Esquibel || Media Manager The purpose of our Mission Conference Design Packs is to provide pastors, staff, and leaders the resources to promote missions within the local church. With editable graphics […]

Baptist History

William Carey

In February 2007, I visited the village of Moulton in the English Midlands, about an hour north of London. There is no great cathedral there, nor was it the site of a famous battle. It […]

Urban Current

Being Biblical

Recently I was in a small Illinois town at dinner time.  Noticing a Mexican restaurant, I thought I’d take a chance even though it was in the middle of nowhere.  After a great meal, I […]