Global Hunger Sunday
2026-08-23
Global Hunger Sunday is a yearly reminder of Southern Baptists’ commitment to supporting the Global Hunger Relief (GHR) fund. This initiative reaches across borders, addressing hunger relief on a global scale. Through your prayers and generous contributions, Send Relief—a collaboration of the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board—becomes more than just a provider of food. One meal at a time, we become a family of believers addressing not just physical but spiritual hunger (John 6:35).
Gifts on Global Hunger Sunday provide food, aid, and the hope of Christ to communities in need. Use the resources below to prepare your church for Global Hunger Sunday!
Download resources for your church here.

Regional RECLAIM Gatherings
2026-08-25 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Grace Baptist Church, 607 East Washington St., New Bethlehem, PA, 16242, United States
This event is invitation only.
About this Event:
Is it time to refocus?
Do you need to refresh or recharge your passion for prayer and ministry, and fellowship with like-minded pastors in your area?
The RECLAIM regional gatherings are designed to connect and reconnect the pastors in each region for a time of equipping, edifying, and prayer, as a strategic cadre united in purpose. This is a great opportunity to RECLAIM your passion for your ministry committed to prayer and the ministry of the Word.
Join us to discover clearer focus, experience deeper fulfillment, authentic fellowship, and pursue lasting fruitfulness. RECLAIM is a four-hour gathering of pastors in your region intended to galvanize your ministry. Each RECLAIM gathering will be led by its Regional Director. It will include invigorating training, mutual ministry, lunch, and Scripture-fed, Spirit-led, Worship-based prayer.
This FREE event will show you how to access vital resources available to you as you lead.
Who’s Invited:
This event is for pastors and elders of select regions. There will be future meetings for other regions.
Date/Time/Locations:
Three locations, each event is one day, four hours.
Tuesday, 08/25/2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Grace Baptist Church, 605 East Washington Street, New Bethlehem, PA 16242
Wednesday, 08/26/2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Carlisle Baptist Church, 701 Walnut Bottom Road, Carlisle, PA 17013
Thursday, 08/27/2026, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Winfield Baptist Church, 330 PA-304, Winfield, PA 17889
Lunch:
Lunch is provided by Strategic Renewal/6:4 Fellowship
Questions?
Contact David Ludwig, BRN director of discipleship and leadership development, at davidl@brnunited.org.
Register:
Register here.

Regional RECLAIM Gatherings
2026-08-26 10:00 - 14:00 | Carlisle Baptist Church, 701 Walnut Bottom Rd, Carlisle, 17013-3655

Regional RECLAIM Gatherings
2026-08-27 10:00 - 14:00 | Winfield Baptist Church, 330 PA-304, Winfield, PA, 17889, United States

BRN Corporate Prayer Time
2026-09-03 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-10-01 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom Online Meeting

Labor Day
2026-09-07
The BRN office will be closed in observance of Labor Day. The BRN joins churches in thanking God for the gift of work, praying for strength and rest for all workers, and remembering those who are seeking or unable to find work.

Woven Women Suburban Philly Region Zoom Gathering
2026-09-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Online Meeting
This event is invitation only.
About this Event:
Gather with other women’s ministry leaders in the Suburban Philadelphia Region for a time of getting to know one another, networking, and growing in your leadership skills.
Who’s Invited:
Women’s ministry leaders from Baptist Resource Network churches in the Suburban Philadelphia region.
Date/Time:
Saturday, September 12 from 10 a.m. to noon
Location:
This will be an online Zoom gathering.
Questions?
Contact Mary Landis, BRN Women’s consultant, at maryl@brnunited.org.
Register:
If you’d like to attend, please email maryl@brnunited.org.

LovePASJ Impact Funds Week of Prayer and Missions Offering (alternate week)
2026-09-13 - 2026-09-20 | Online event
The LovePASJ Impact Funds Prayer and Offering for Missions gives Baptist Resource Network churches a way to support local ministry. Let’s pray BOLD prayers for a BOLD mission!
At the Baptist Resource Network, we seek to help you accelerate Kingdom movement by helping you take your next step in ministry, whatever that step may be, and ultimately, helping you achieve your next level in ministry. Doing that often requires boldness, so we are praying for God’s Holy Spirit to embolden us like never before! We believe God has given us everything we need to be bold prayer warriors, witnesses, generous givers, and Christians who love our neighbors well. Let’s boldly confront the pervasive lostness in our region — 14 million people in Pennsylvania and South Jersey — and beyond! Let’s consider how we can observe a bold missional month of prayer, service, and evangelism, seeking first God’s kingdom and His righteousness!
Where the Offering Goes
100% of this offering stays right here in Pennsylvania and South Jersey and supports ministry to our mission field, most notably in these areas:

Church Advancement
Church Starting and Missions Sending
Compassion Ministry/Disaster Relief
Next Gen Mobilization
Pastoral Wellness

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BRN Directors' Meeting
2026-09-16 09:30 - 11:30, 2026-12-16 09:30 - 11:30 | Zoom, United States

Accelerant Session
2026-09-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-11-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Zoom, United States
Collaborative planning with BRN directors

Children's Mission Day
2026-09-19
WMU launched Children’s Missions Day in 2008 to move children in grades 1–6 out of their churches and into their communities to do missions. The goal is for children’s groups to create projects that meet needs in their own communities.
Children’s Missions Day (CMD) has been going strong ever since, with people in communities across the United States hearing about and experiencing the love of Jesus because children’s groups are going beyond simply learning about missions to actively participating in missions.
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Campus Missionary Learning Community
2026-09-25 09:30 - 2026-09-26 15:00 | TBA, United States
The BRN Next team will be hosting a Campus Missionary Learning Community (CMLC) Sept. 25-26, 2026. The location will be announced at a later date. More details to come!

Caring Well Sunday
2026-09-27
To make our churches safe from abuse, we must be proactive. Developing policies and procedures ahead of time, training and educating staff and volunteers, as well as partnering with abuse experts will set your church up well to be a safe place for your community. Here are five essential action steps you can implement to care well for survivors of abuse.
1. Train:
Statistics tell us 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys (though many believe this is much higher) are sexually abused before they turn 18. Only a small percentage of these victims ever reveal their abuse. Church leaders must help our churches understand that the mission to prevent sexual abuse and our response to it is a clear and compelling gospel issue.
2. Screen:
In order to make your church safe from abuse, it is critical to implement a thorough screening process for anyone who will have access to children, youth, and vulnerable adults. A careful process ensures that individuals are suitable and compatible with your church’s policies and procedures.
3. Protect:
One of the ways you can protect children, youth, and vulnerable adults is by having solid policies and procedures in place at your church. These protect those you are serving while also protecting those that serve them. Once developed, being intentional about following policies and procedures is imperative for the protection of everyone involved.
4. Report:
Every state has laws identifying those required to report child abuse. Even if you believe you are not legally required to report child abuse in your state, you are still encouraged to report suspected or known abuse. As followers of Jesus, we are charged with protecting the vulnerable, and reporting known or suspected abuse is part of that mandate.
5. Care:
Abuse violates the dignity of our God-given image and disrupts our voice, sense of identity, and sense of trust and safety in relationships. Our response in supporting survivors of sexual abuse has the opportunity to accurately reflect the mission and character of Jesus Christ.
To make your church safe from abuse, church leaders must become informed about the impact of abuse and how to find the necessary supportive resources to come alongside survivors, for the sake of the gospel.
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Cooperative Program Sunday
2026-10-04
The Cooperative Program is Southern Baptists’ unified plan of giving through which cooperating Southern Baptist churches give a percentage of their undesignated receipts in support of their respective state convention and the Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.
View / Download BRN Cooperative Program materials here.
More resources are located at sbc.net/cp.

Executive Board Meeting
2026-10-05 17:00 - 21:00 | TBA, United States
The Baptist Resource Network is a nonprofit organization governed by an executive board. The board is comprised of 17 persons, both pastors and lay persons, who serve in BRN affiliated churches. The BRN has four regions in our servicing territory and there are 4 representatives on the board from each region and one additional representative from the largest region. The board meets corporately at least three times per year to discuss matters pertaining to the BRN and the fulfillment of the BRN’s purpose. This meeting is held at the site of the BRN’s annual business session and gathering.

2026 Accelerate Conference
2026-10-06 | Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey Hotel, 4650 Lindle Rd, Harrisburg, PA, 17111, United States
All the information for the 2026 Accelerate Conference will soon be available at acceleratepasj.com.

Woven Women Urban Philly Region Zoom Gathering
2026-10-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Online Meeting
This event is invitation only.
About this Event:
Gather with other women’s ministry leaders in the Urban Philadelphia Region for a time of getting to know one another, networking, and growing in your leadership skills.
Who’s Invited:
Women’s ministry leaders from Baptist Resource Network churches in the Urban Philadelphia region.
Date/Time:
Saturday, October 24 from 10 a.m. to noon
Location:
This will be an online Zoom gathering.
Questions?
Contact Mary Landis, BRN Women’s consultant, at maryl@brnunited.org.
Register:
If you’d like to attend, please email maryl@brnunited.org.

Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church
2026-11-01
The Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church is an opportunity for individuals and churches across the Southern Baptist Convention to unite in prayer for our brothers and sisters around the world who are persecuted for their faith. When we pray for persecuted believers, God uses their witness to inspire gospel transformation among the lost.
Will you join us in praying?
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BRN Corporate Prayer Time
2026-11-04 09:30 - 10:30 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States

Team BRN Meeting
2026-11-04 10:00 - 15:00 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States

Orphans and Widows Sunday
2026-11-08
Orphan and Widow Sunday reminds us to align our hearts with the call to practice true religion (James 1:27), caring for orphans and widows. Here are three ways a believer can be mindful of them throughout the year.
Be Near to the Brokenhearted
Scripture tells us clearly that God is close to the brokenhearted (Ps. 34:18). So, those of us who choose to imitate Christ know that being Christlike means that we should be close to the brokenhearted as well, and this includes caring for orphans and widows in our communities. The local church has the profound opportunity to be near to the brokenhearted over a long period of time. Whereas it is hard for one individual to carry the weight of being near all the time, there is strength and stability when a group of people dedicate themselves to those who are suffering, whether to widows in our communities or children placed in foster care.
Make Service a Way of Life
When we look at Scripture, it is undeniable that serving those in need is a critical part of the believer’s life. And so, we don’t merely give lip service to orphans and widows this Sunday, we find ways to serve them throughout the year and practice the biblical call to a lifestyle of service.
Cover Them in Prayer
In addition, prayer should always undergird our care for the widow and orphan. Prayer is never an empty sentiment in the believer’s life. Instead, it’s a powerful tool to advance God’s Kingdom in our world, and so we pray big and audacious prayers over the orphaned and widowed. We pray boldly, “Thy Kingdom come,” with all its restoration and redemption, “on this earth as it is in heaven.”
A Prayer for Orphan and Widow Sunday
God, we thank You that You are a Father to the fatherless and near to the brokenhearted. Open our eyes to see the needs of orphans and widows around us, and teach us to love them not only with words, but through faithful action and prayer. Strengthen your Church to draw near with compassion and to reflect the hope of Christ in our communities and around the world, so that orphans and widows may experience your steadfast love through the care of Your people. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
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Woven Women Ethnic Churches Zoom Gathering
2026-11-12 18:30 - 20:30 | Zoom Online Meeting
This event is invitation only.
About this Event:
Gather with other women’s ministry leaders from ethnic churches in the Pennsylvania/South Jersey region for a time of getting to know one another, networking, and growing in your leadership skills.
Who’s Invited:
Women’s ministry leaders from Baptist Resource Network ethnic churches.
Date/Time:
Thursday, November 12 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Location:
This will be an online Zoom gathering.
Questions?
Contact Mary Landis, BRN Women’s consultant, at maryl@brnunited.org.
Register:
If you’d like to attend, please email maryl@brnunited.org.

First Steps Gathering
2026-11-17 09:00 - 15:00 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
The Baptist Resource Network is excited to host a welcoming First Steps Gathering for church leaders (pastors and staff) who are new to their churches and for newly affiliated churches. This event will help you discover your first steps as partners with the Baptist Resource Network. Please join us on November 17 at the BRN Hub in Harrisburg for this special gathering!
Register here.

Thanksgiving
2026-11-26 - 2026-11-27
The BRN office will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving. We join our churches in expressing gratitude for our lives, blessings, families, and God’s provision and praying for those around us who have need.

Week of Prayer for International Missions and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
2026-11-29 - 2026-12-06
Week of Prayer for International Missions
Southern Baptists observe a Week of Prayer for International Missions each year before the annual Lottie Moon offering emphasis. Will you join your heart with others to pray for missionaries around the world who are faithfully sharing the gospel?
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®
Every year, Southern Baptist churches collect an offering to send and support missionaries to be steadfastly present among those who have never heard the gospel. 100% of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® enables gospel transformation among the unreached.
In 1873, Lottie Moon was appointed as a missionary to China. She spent nearly 40 years sharing the gospel with love, courage, and unwavering faith.
Her letters home inspired churches to pray and give, leading to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Today, this offering supports missionaries and helps take the life-transforming message of Jesus to the nations.
Let’s honor her legacy by praying and giving so others can hear the hope of the gospel.
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Photo courtesy of IMB.

Christmas and New Year Holidays
2026-12-24 - 2027-01-01
The BRN office will be closed in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays. We join our churches in celebrating Jesus’ birth, giving thanks for God’s blessings, seeking peace, joy, and hope, and asking for guidance and spiritual growth in the year ahead. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday
2027-02-07
George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday is an annual Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) event, planned this year on Sunday, February 1, celebrating African American and Black missionary pioneers, such as:

George Liele, who many acknowledge as the first overseas missionary from the United States in 1782.
Lott Carey organized African American missions in the 1800s.
S.M. Lockridge was a faithful preacher of the gospel in the 20th century.
Sid Smith was one of the first African American Southern Baptist denominational leaders in the modern era.
Fred Luter was elected as the first African American president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

George Liele is widely acknowledged as the first overseas missionary from the United States. He was a formerly enslaved man from Georgia who used his freedom to take the good news to the nations. In 1782, George and his wife, Hannah, and their four children left Savannah and landed in Kingston, Jamaica. The missionary couple worked hard and faced many trials. By 1814, there were around 8,000 Baptists in Jamaica. This number included enslaved, freedmen and some whites. As a result of Liele’s ministry, there were over 20,000 believers in 1832. We want to be sure the legacy of George Liele is remembered and shared. That’s why the IMB developed downloadable resources that you can share with your church, small groups and friends. You’ll find videos, a Black Church Missions brochure, information about George Liele’s life and ministry and a missionary prayer guide. We hope these resources will be helpful as you plan, promote and recognize this special emphasis Sunday at your church.
You can find these resources and learn more about George Liele by visiting imb.org/george-liele. Perhaps you will want to share this incredible video with your church about the first church George Liele planted in Jamaica.

Mark your calendar and plan to recognize Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, as George Liele Church Planting, Evangelism and Missions Sunday.
If you have questions, please contact Quintell Hill, Black/Multi-Ethnic Network Strategist, International Mission Board, at info@imb.org.
