Accelerant Session
2026-11-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-09-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2026-08-05 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom, United States
Collaborative planning with BRN directors

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.

Orphans and Widows Sunday
2026-11-08 | PA
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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Team BRN Meeting
2026-11-04 10:00 - 15:00 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States

BRN Corporate Prayer Time
2026-11-04 09:30 - 10:30 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States

Day of Prayer for Persecuted Church
2026-11-01 | PA
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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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.

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.

Cooperative Program Sunday
2026-10-04 | PA
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.

BRN Corporate Prayer Time
2026-10-01 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-09-03 09:00 - 10:00, 2026-08-06 09:00 - 10:00 | Zoom Online Meeting

Caring Well Sunday
2026-09-27 | PA
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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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!

Children's Mission Day
2026-09-19 | PA
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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BRN Directors' Meeting
2026-09-16 09:30 - 11:30, 2026-08-05 09:30 - 11:30 | Zoom, United States

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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Labor Day
2026-09-07 | PA
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.

Global Hunger Sunday
2026-08-23 | PA
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!
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LovePASJ Impact Funds Week of Prayer and Missions Offering
2026-08-16 - 2026-08-23 | Online event

SBC Serve Sunday
2026-08-09 | PA
SBC Serve Sunday is a specific day for Southern Baptist churches and members to focus on community service, often tied to Send Relief initiatives, encouraging tangible acts of compassion like disaster relief (SBDR), feeding programs, or local outreach to share the Gospel through meeting needs, with dates varying but typically around August. It’s a call to action to live out faith by serving others, highlighting ministries that help in crises and local needs, and providing resources for churches to get involved.
Through Send Relief, churches can find the tools they need to jumpstart an impactful, long-lasting ministry. Learn more about how your church can reach its community through compassion ministry at SendRelief.org.

Team BRN Meeting
2026-08-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom, United States
A time set aside to discuss the final planning for the Accelerate Conference

Send Relief Sunday
2026-08-02 | PA
Send Relief is encouraging Southern Baptists everywhere to join together to meet needs and change lives through serving others across the world on Send Relief Sunday.
Here are a few quick and easy ideas:
For churches:
Create care packages for grocery, delivery and other essential workers. Show kindness by giving employees small bags with healthy snacks, gift cards and other items. Include a note of thanks from your church. Your church could also consider packing bags in advance and working with the manager of a nearby grocery store to arrange delivery to all of the store’s employees.
Collect school supplies. Although many school districts are still uncertain about how or whether to return to the classroom this fall, one certainty is that students will need school supplies. Reach out to local principals and ask which supplies are most needed, and then start a collection. After packing the supplies in bags, work with your local schools to determine the best method of delivery.
Be a prayer warrior. Make lists of people and needs specific to your church’s community, and spend time praying, not just for the people or their needs, but also for God to reveal ways to provide ongoing encouragement and ministry to them.
For families:
Social distancing may prevent us from offering hugs and other expressions of personal touch or care, but it doesn’t have to hamper our creativity when it comes to serving.
Grab a donations box and fill it up. Help your children sort through clothes, toys, books and other items that are in good condition. Identify things that could be given to those less fortunate.
Support foster and adoptive families. An encouraging card in the mail or a meal delivered to their home can make an impact in the life of foster and adoptive families. For those in your community, let them know that you are thinking about and praying for them.
For your children:
Children learn best and feel empowered when they engage in projects on their own. Help them get hands-on, then stand back as they learn to give back with these ministry ideas.
Create thank you cards for medical personnel. Write a note of encouragement or have kids draw pictures for the medical staff at your local hospitals.
Get crafty. Let your child create items — pasta necklaces, painted stones, cookies, etc. — that they can share with neighbors, along with a note of encouragement.
Ultimately, it is God’s lovingkindness that draws men and women to Him (Jeremiah 31:3). Believers should seek to do this daily — but set Send Relief Sunday aside, especially, to be extensions of God’s lovingkindness to the world.
Visit Sendrelief.org to find more ways your church can meet needs and change lives.
Adapted from an article written by Gabriel Stovall of the North American Mission Board.

Woven Women South Jersey Region Zoom Gathering
2026-07-25 10:00 - 12:00 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
This event is invitation only.
About this Event:
Gather with other women’s ministry leaders in the 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 churches in the South Jersey region.
Date/Time:
Saturday, July 25 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.

Harrisburg Mission House Open House
2026-07-18 14:00 - 16:00 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
This summer, the Baptist Resource Network will host an Open House to dedicate the newly renovated Harrisburg Mission House. Guests will also tour the BRN’s Guest House and Hub office. Light refreshments will be served.
Our Special Guests:
This house will be dedicated in honor of the meaningful service and renovation work of Dewey and Kathie Aiken of Baptists on Mission as well as their fellow N.C. Baptist churches.
Date/Time:
Saturday, July 18, 2-4 p.m. The dedication ceremony will begin at 3 p.m.
Location:
BRN Hub, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA
Let us know you are coming by registering here.

BRN Directors' Planning Meeting
2026-07-14 - 2026-07-15 | BRN HUB, 4620 Fritchey Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17109, United States
A time set aside for the Baptist Resource Network directors to plan and pray for ministry priorities.

Jesus Week Movement: Citywide Prayer
2026-07-11 11:00 - 17:00 | Philadelphia, Various locations around the city, Philadelphia, United States
About the Event:
St. John Memorial Baptist Church in Philadelphia has partnered with “Jesus Week Movement,” specifically the organization’s Youth with a Mission and Taking Jesus to the Street Ministry, to pray for Philadelphia. The church is seeking and asking BRN churches, ministries, and prayer warriors throughout Philadelphia to come alongside them in this citywide prayer initiative. This effort is designed to unite churches and believers across the city to pray, witness, evangelize, make disciples, and spread the gospel, while at the same time pray for healing, peace, revival, and transformation (Mark 16:15; Matthews 28:19-20.)

St. John Memorial Baptist Church is in great need of volunteers, prayer teams, and ministry partners to help staff strategic prayer stations throughout Philadelphia for this event. Your participation is vital to the success of this outreach.

Strategic prayer routes have been established for the event. Prayer stations will be established along the following key corridors:

(Broad Street) from Cheltenham Avenue to JFK Boulevard
(Market Street) from 63rd St. to 15th Street
(Broad Street) from Snyder Avenue to S. Penn Square
Prayer Rally Northbound side of City Hall

These routes have been carefully selected to cover major sections of the city with prayer, outreach, and community engagement. Training will be provided for all prayer station volunteers to ensure that everyone is equipped and prepared to minister effectively.
This citywide prayer movement will culminate with a powerful gathering at Philadelphia City Hall.

Who’s Invited:
BRN churches, ministries, and prayer warriors throughout Philadelphia and any BRN church outside of Philadelphia that would like to partner.
Date/Time:
July 11, 2026, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Various prayer stations across the city of Philadelphia (see strategic prayer routes list above). The event will culminate at Philadelphia City Hall (1400 John F Kennedy Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19107).
Cost:
Free!
Interested?

For more information, please contact:

Pastor Nathaniel Holder, St. John Memorial Baptist Church
Phone: (215) 680-3740
Email: nhold@aol.com
