This Week in the BRN Family 01.09.24
BRN churches ring in the new year with first gatherings of 2025, DR volunteers bless a BRN church, and we welcome a new member to our team - it's an exciting second week of 2025 in the BRN Family!
Welcome to the BRN Family: Gerald Waters, BRN Church Advancement Consultant, Philadelphia Region
We welcome Gerald Waters, senior pastor of Proclamation Community Church in Philadelphia, as the BRN’s newest team member! Equipped with deep roots in the City of Brotherly Love and a heart for the pastors and churches there, Gerald joined the BRN team as the Church Advancement Consultant for the Philadelphia region on Jan. 1.
CP Stories: Marty and Chandler, Sub-Saharan Africa
Missionaries Marty and Chandler are working with the Theological Education Team in Tanzania to expand the access of education to Baptists pastors so they can plant doctrinally sound churches and take the gospel to the unreached.
Woven Women’s Good Reads: ‘Living Out of the Overflow’ by Richard Blackaby
Beth Whitworth, BRN's Ministry Wives Consultant, reviews “Living Out of the Overflow" by Richard Blackaby. The book for her, she says, "was a journey back to intimacy" with Christ.
Woven Women: ‘Bended Knee’
As Christian women, we are invited to follow in the likeness of our Lord and Master, leading by dying to ourselves, decreasing so that Christ burns brightly in and through us, as we drop low in utter surrender, palms opened to whatever the Lord has planned, seeking to serve others from bended knee.
This Week in the BRN Family 01.02.25 (Happy New Year!)
BRN churches bless their neighbors during the Christmas season; BRN evangelism grants aid churches in reaching their communities; and we celebrate new life through baptism - it's a thrilling start to the new year in the BRN Family!
The poetry of partnership: PA and NC conventions labor together for the Kingdom
Kathie Aiken, Baptists on Mission on-site coordinator for PA/NC partnership, shares insights of the growing partnership between the BRN and NC Baptists and how both conventions served each other in 2024.
Whitworth shares a recap of 2024 and a prayer for 2025
Barry Whitworth, Baptist Resource Network executive director, recaps 2024 ministry and gives a prayerful look ahead to 2025.
January 2025 Top Five
The Baptist Resource Network's Elizabeth Benge shares the top five resources and opportunities for January 2025.
BCM at Drexel University completes fourth quarter with 50 gospel conversations
The Baptist Campus Ministry at Drexel University in Philadelphia engaged with students through conversation clubs, game nights, and Friday night dinners during the fall quarter.