Baptists Committed to World Evangelism

I was waiting in line at the bank today, and a song came over the PA that made me groan. It was a particularly annoying country song that I was WAY more familiar with than I wanted to be. Before going to Portugal for Bible College, we spent a year in NC, and I worked a job where I spent hour after hour in a pickup truck with a guy who loved country music, and my pleas for silence, for conversation, for Swiss yodeling music, ANYTHING other than hours of country music, fell on deaf ears. This particular song set forth the “meaning of life” according to the singer’s perspective, and it is a pretty good reflection of the southern (and probably most of America) mindset. Basically, it boils down to: 1

CAREY, William (1761–1834), Baptist missionary William Carey was born on 17 August 1761 in the small Northamptonshire village of Paulerspury, the eldest of the five children of Edmund Carey and Elizabeth Wells. At the age of about fourteen, he was apprenticed to a shoemaker. Through the influence of a fellow apprentice, John Warr, he began to attend a dissenting prayer meeting and, from 1779, the Congregationalist chapel in the next village of Hackleton. On 10 June 1781 he married Dorothy Plackett of that village

William Carey was born in 1761, in the Northampton village of Paulerspury, son of a village schoolmaster. Carey was reared in nominal affiliation with the Church of England. As a boy William had an eager, enquiring mind and was nicknamed “Columbus” for his boyhood hero Christopher Columbus.

Luther Rice is one of my heroes! I thank God for him and his testimony! Read the following and thank God for his great life. The following is the memorial inscription on the marble slab erected by the Baptist Convention of the State of South Carolina, written by men who knew him well and loved him dearly for his self-denying labors in the cause of Christian missions and ministerial education: Beneath this marble Are deposited the remains of Elder LUTHER RICE, Born March 25th, A.D.1783. Died Sept’r 25th, A.D.1836.

One very positive thing about our modern culture is that nearly everyone is taught to read. But I find it truly disturbing that so many of God’s people are not illiterate but they are aliterate. They have the ability to read, but lack the desire or habit of reading.

One very positive thing about our modern culture is that nearly everyone is taught to read. But I find it truly disturbing that so many of God’s people are not illiterate but they are aliterate. They have the ability to read, but lack the desire or habit of reading. We perpetuate the myth that some people are just naturally “bookish” and enjoy reading, and if you don’t enjoy it then you’re not meant to do it. I was recently with two pastors in Vidalia GA that both encouraged and challenged me

Last week, while we were in England, we had the opportunity to birthplace of William Carey in Paulerspury , Northamptonshire, England. According to Wikipedia, “William Carey (17 August 1761 – 9 June 1834) was an English Baptist missionary and a Reformed Baptist minister, known as the ‘ father of modern missions .’ Carey was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. As a missionary in the Danish colony, Serampore, India, he translated the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and numerous other languages and dialects.” I really enjoyed reading his biography several years ago, and many people greatly admired his ministry.  You can learn more about his ministry here

Today is Luther Rice’s birthday. Brett Charap wrote an excellent article about his life. Enjoy: Luther Rice was born March 25, 1783 in Northborough Massachusetts. Rice was raised as a Congregationalist, but from an early age Rice saw the church filled with unregenerate church members whose lives did not reflect the person of Jesus Christ.

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I was sent this video from our staff missionary to China. It is such an exciting recount of the great missionaries who have given their lives to see the people of China come to Christ. I will never forget the night that Mark surrendered to give his life for the people of China. He is [...]