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Recommended Resources March Missions 2022 #4
Book: In the land of Blue Burqas Author: Kate McCord Riveting and fast paced, In the Land of Blue Burqas depicts sharing the love and truth of Christ with women living in Afghanistan, which has been called “the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman.” Available as paperback or ebook. To see a book review go to Baptist Women Ireland website’s blog or follow the below link In the Land of Blue Burqas :: Baptist Women…
Recommended Resources March Missions 2022 #3
Missionary Biographies: Filling up the afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospels to the Nations in the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson and John Paton. Author: John Piper. Jesus’s words in John 12 are sobering: unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it will bear little fruit. The history of Christianity’s expansion proves that God’s strategy for reaching unreached peoples with the gospel includes the sufferings of his frontline heralds: the missionaries who…
Recommended Resources March Missions 2022 #2
Book: Let the nations be glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions. Author: John Piper John Piper offers a biblical defence of God’s supremacy in all things, providing readers with a sound theological foundation for missions. Available as paperback or ebook via desiringgod.org Online Articles on Mission: Available via Baptist Missions Ireland Website Blog: Baptist Missions (irishbaptistmissions.org) God’s Mission and The Local Church: GROW (Part 1) Baptist Missions | Blog (irishbaptistmissions.org) God’s Mission and The Local Church: DEEP and WIDE…
Recommended Resources March Missions 2022 #1
Book: Missions: How the Local Church Goes Global (Part of the 9marks Series: Building Healthy Churches). Author: Andy Johnson With Practical, biblical wisdom, this book casts a vision for the local church as the engine of world missions – for the joy of all people and the glory of God. Available as a paperback book/audiobook or ebook online. Only 128 pages SPECIAL OFFER: You can pick up a discounted copy from Sunday 13th March at church. Speak to Cara Ramsey…
March Missions
Dear friends, We hope and pray that you are well. MARCH MISSIONS MONTH The missionary committee have arranged another March Missions month with a special focus on Baptist Missions Peru. We want to invite you to participate again this year and we’ve arranged a number of special events and resources that should suit all ages! Sunday Services & Midweek Meeting Sunday 27th February – John Brew will spark our interest in Peru, an area that many of our church have…
Christians in Ukraine
Baptists make up one of the largest evangelical groups in Ukraine. They have existed in the country for several hundred years and are much bigger in numbers than Irish Baptists. The 2020 figures for the Evangelical Baptist Union of Ukraine show that they had 2272 churches affiliated with 113, 000 members. They also run a number of Bible colleges, some of which are the size of a university. In 2014 Russia illegally took control of 2 parts of Ukraine, Crimea…