SharDavia Walker

PORTUGAL (BP) – In 2017, IMB workers Mark and Hannah Bustrum attended a retreat with missionaries from the region and invited national partners to participate. For more than a decade they had worked to strengthen relationships with Portuguese believers, but inviting them to this retreat was about more than building or maintaining those relationships. “We know that national partners have keen and unique insights into their culture,” Mark says.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – The North American Mission Board (NAMB) and church leadership coach Will Mancini have formed a new ministry partnership to help pastors. “We are so excited to have Will serve as a ministry partner with the NAMB family and mission,” NAMB President Kevin Ezell said Tuesday (Sept. 15). “He brings years of ministry consulting, experience and wisdom.

NASHVILLE (BP) – SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Ronnie Floyd hosted a Facebook Live event today (Sept. 15) to share more about the 2021 Annual Meeting and encourage as many churches as possible to send messengers to Nashville. Watch the full broadcast below. Also appearing were SBC President J.D. Greear, North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell and International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood as well as Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Executive Director Randy C.