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BRANFORD, Fla. (BP) -- When Pastor Brett Patterson set a $2,000 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) goal for Hatch Bend Baptist Church earlier this year, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. That was double the church’s goal from recent years.

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Some churches shatter Annie Offering goals

This is what happens when you give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering. Your gifts helped provide the resources North American Mission Board missionary Joseph Gibbons needed to plant Favor City Church in Las Vegas. Now, in a place many people call “Sin City,” Joseph and his new, growing congregation are making Jesus known and seeing people respond to the gospel. NAMB photo by Ben Rollins

BRANFORD, Fla. (BP) -- When Pastor Brett Patterson set a $2,000 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) goal for Hatch Bend Baptist Church earlier this year, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. That was double the church’s goal from recent years.

Church leaders in Kenya give qualified support for plan to close orphanages

Children play at the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 15, 2023. Kenya is seeking to replace orphanages with family-based care. AP Photo/Brian Inganga

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – Amid a growing push among child welfare organizations to reunite families rather than keep children in institutional homes, Kenyan authorities are set to adopt a new national program that will phase out traditional orphanages over the next decade.

‘Kumbaya’: ‘Come over to Haiti and help us, Oh Lord,’ as crisis enters third month

Food For The Poor, which continues to minister and distribute food amid unprecedented gang violence in Haiti, hosted a prayer service for Haiti April 26 at Parkridge Baptist Church in Coral Springs, Fla. FFTP photo

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (BP) – “Kumbaya,” the Negro spiritual pleading with the Lord to come and bless the oppressed, filled the sanctuary of Parkridge Baptist Church at a prayer service for Haiti, its capital paralyzed by gang violence.

Disaster Relief in assessment stage after deadly Midwest tornadoes

A representative from Sulphur, Okla., meets with Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers Elaine and Steve Crawford to assess recovery and response after a deadly April 26 tornado outbreak. Photo from Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief

SULPHUR, Okla. (BP) — Southern Baptist Disaster Relief personnel are focusing on communicating with authorities to assess recovery and cleanup efforts after tornadoes on Friday (April 26) that left at least five dead.



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