August 2024 - Cornerstone Baptist Church

27Aug, 2024

September is Missions Month – Week 1 -International Mission Board

The greatest problem in the world is lostness. The only solution to this problem is the gospel. Together, Southern Baptists send IMB missionaries to be steadfastly present among people and places where Jesus is not named or known.

Southern Baptists send IMB missionaries to be steadfastly present among those who have never heard the gospel — people in cities, people in hard-to-reach places, and people who are dispersed and displaced around the world. At the IMB, we believe that missionary presence cultivates gospel access, gospel belief, and church planting and multiplication. Gospel access that knows no geographic or social boundary. Gospel belief that results in lives transformed. Church planting and multiplication that leads to local ownership of God’s mission. God has made our purpose clear. Together, we seek to take the gospel to every nation, all tribes and peoples and languages. We give ourselves to this mission every day.

God’s Work Through Us in 2023

We are witnessing God’s movement among the nations. Let’s rejoice in highlights from this past year.

3,515 missionaries supported with comprehensive care
1,036 unique people groups engaged
879,798 people heard the gospel
141,206 new believers
116,992 baptisms
269,571 discipled
12,618 trained in church planting

We collect and publish statistics annually. This data reflects information from the Annual Statistical Report, 2023 Data-Year (IMB) published in May 2024.

Danny, volunteer from the US, shares gospel message with a Christian Olympic pin with an Italian man in the streets of Paris. Danny is one of the hundreds of volunteers from the US reaching the lost during the Paris Olympics 2024.

Averie Schaub, from Northern Kentucky University Baptist Campus Ministries, shares gospel using a Christian Olympic pin on the streets of Paris. Averie is one of the hundreds of volunteers from the US reaching the lost during the Paris Olympics 2024.

A volunteer from Alabama prays before heading out for Olympic pin distribution and witnessing in the streets of Paris. Hundreds of volunteers from the US are reaching the lost during the Paris Olympics 2024.

“Our hearts ache for the Japanese people, my people,” Hiromi Price said. She and her husband, Rick, are headed back to Japan, this time as missionaries, “so that Heaven will be more crowded with Japanese,” they said. IMB Photo

Saleem and Sue Ellen Bhayani are being appointed as missionaries to France. The Bhayanis are sent by Sugar Land Baptist Church in Sugar Land, Texas. IMB Photo

Tyler and Rachel English, along with their daughters, Asher (5), Graycen (3), and Wrenley (1), will serve as missionaries in Guatemala. Tyler grew up on the mission field, and Rachel’s uncles (D.Ray and Daren Davis) serve with the IMB. IMB Photo

Mike Domke, an IMB missionary, encourages and prays for a woman with four children. She recently came to faith but still struggles. Domke, met the woman at the Water of Life Church in Lutsk, Ukraine. The church, with the help of Send Relief, provides food packets to the community. IMB Photo

Mike Domke, an IMB missionary, speaks during a church service at Water of Life Church in Lutsk, which is located in western Ukraine. Domke and Cade and Ginny Wheeler, who serve with Send Relief, visited the church, and spent time with the church’s pastor, Sasha, and his wife, Julia. The couple, with a team of young leaders, lead this growing church. The Sunday worship service is filled to standing-room-only with 130 people. With the help of Send Relief, the church provides food packets to the community. IMB Photo

Daniel and Kaci Nease are returning to Poland. The missionary couple is being sent to plant churches by a church plant in Colorado, The Mission. IMB Photo

Burkinabé pastor Bonogo Fulgence baptizes two truck drivers in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The men became Christians through the IMB’s West Africa trucker ministry a few weeks before. They were baptized the day before they were scheduled to drive their trucks to another country.

A Deaf woman is baptized in Batangas province in the Philippines. Ministry among the Deaf in Southeast Asia continues to grow.

Michael Meurrier (left), a physical therapist from First Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi, checks an elderly Zapotec woman’s blood pressure at a clinic in the mountain town of Benito Juarez in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. IMB Photo

Sarah Toles, a former IMB Hands On student worker and nurse from Brook Hills Church in Birmingham, Alabama, attends a Zapotec woman during a medical clinic in the town of Diaz Ordaz in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. IMB Photo

Michael Meurrier (left), a physical therapist from First Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi, checks an elderly Zapotec man’s blood pressure at a clinic in the mountain town of Benito Juarez in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. IMB Photo

Cheryl Cannon, (second from left) a nurse from First Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi, checks an elderly Zapotec man’s blood pressure at a clinic in the mountain town of Benito Juarez in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. IMB Photo

Cheryl Cannon, a nurse from First Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi, examines the ears of a Zapotec woman in the mountain town of Benito Juarez in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. IMB Photo

National pastors perform a baptism at a small rural church in South Asia.

A medical volunteer prays with a patient and his family at the Mercy Medical Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. IMB Photo

A Ugandan Lango pastor baptizes a new believer in Nyene Swamp that is in Oyam District of Uganda.

Volunteer doctor, Cindy Shumpert sees a patient at a medical clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in May 2010. IMB Photo

Haitian doctor, Francise Milien, with one of the 15,000 patients she and her sister have seen since the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake hit Haiti. The Milien sisters have worked with over 22 teams of Baptist volunteers that have come to Haiti to provide disaster relief after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. IMB Photo

Haitians wait to be seen at a free medical clinic in the mountain village of Monnonville just outside of Port-au-Prince. IMB Photo

Dr. David Stockton of Knoxville, Tennessee, examines a patient at a clinic in the mountain village of Monnonville, Haiti, in 2010. IMB Photo

Sherry Peace, a volunteer nurse on a mission trip to Peru, explains a prescription for a baby to a Peruvian woman in the city of Chincha. IMB Photo

Nurse Donna Storey checks a patient’s blood pressure during a free medical clinic at a church in Chincha, Peru. Storey was a volunteer on a mission trip with a group of Christian medical workers from Rome, Georgia. IMB Photo

A medical volunteer from Rome, Georgia, leads a hygiene workshop during a mobile medical clinic in the city of Chincha, Peru. IMB Photo

CSI Clinic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, serves both Khmei and Vietnamese of the city and surrounding villages. The clinic has a dental room, a surgery room, a pharmacy, an examination room, as well as beds for those that need to remain in the clinic for further services. Naret, in purple, has been trained as a nurse’s aid at the clinic, allowing her to work there for the time being, and also have a certification for later positions she may hold. IMB Photo

Baba Dogo Church in Nairobi, Kenya celebrated eight baptisms in one day. The new believers, like this woman, are welcomed into the church and discipled. A big celebration honors their new life in Christ. IMB Photo

Dr. Buck Rusher prays over a patient, alongside other doctors and nurses prior to the surgery. He performs and gives consolation to patients and doctors in the rural hospital in Khoved, Mongolia. IMB Photo

A scenic view of Bogotá, the capital city of Columbia. Thirteen of the 100 most populous cities in the world are located in the Americas. IMB Photo

15Aug, 2024

Next Step: Spiritual Growth Seminar Begins September 8th 11 AM

Are You a Mature Christian? How do you know? Is there a Biblical way to know if you are maturing in the faith? Does God give us a way to measure growth?

Absolutely! In Seven Steps To Maturity, Randy Bell shares powerful insights from two of Christ’s closest friends, John and Peter. You will be taken back to the clear instructions God gives on how to grow up and please Him. This class will teach you how important it is to mature in the faith God’s way, and how to measure your progress. And also Peter warns you must follow this narrow way. “But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins. So, dear brothers and sisters, work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called and chosen. Do these things, and you will never fall away. Then God will give you a grand entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:9-11 (NLT)

In all levels of normal public education, a very systematic and calculated program is established. Each level achieved, lays the foundation for the next level. First, basic concepts are laid as a foundation, then more complex principles are added, followed by specific applications. Simply said, a kindergartner is given basic information. Then the elementary grades lay down strong foundations for the students. Next, the middle and high school build and develop larger principles, since the basics are already understood. Finally, the college level training applies very specific applications to turn the abstract ideas, information, and concepts into real world activities and jobs.

No one in their right mind would try to teach college level math to a first grader, nor brain surgery to a fifth grader. Without a clear developed path of learning, a child would never be able to eventually become a trusted brain surgeon. The dangers of having brain surgery would be astronomical with a chaotic and random learning process. Everyone understands the necessity of carefully planned education.

But, the church is so fragmented and confused there is little thought involved in teaching the Word with the purpose of developing maturity. Few if any use a graded or measurable way of maturing believers. Because of this, there is little understanding of the Bible in the rank and file. In fact, mass confusion is leading the church into self destruction.

Research proves the vast majority of kids today that have grown up in the church quit as soon as possible. Divorce is more prevalent in the church than the culture without God. In general, the average Christian cannot coherently explain the main concepts of the Bible, let alone apply them to their lives for the promised life of blessing that God’s Word offers.

Because of this great need today, we offer a simple to understand, but Biblical, plan for spiritual maturity. Even though we mostly teach adults in the church, it is hard to see that many are only spiritual infants or children.

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8Aug, 2024