Missions

by Kevin T. Bauder

Over the past 60 or 70 years, the work of missions has been left largely to the sending agencies. I am very grateful for those agencies, and I deeply appreciate their labors. The business of missions, however, belongs to local churches. The agencies have ended up performing many tasks by default simply because local churches and pastors have been negligent.

by Todd Wood

^{Note: This article is the first of a three-part exchange between Jeff Straub and Kevin Bauder.}

by Jeff Straub

I have to admit, I like ice cream—chocolate, moose tracks, peaches and cream—you name it, and I like it. Baskin-Robbins, Cold Stone Creamery, Ben & Jerry’s. You get the picture.

I really like chocolate. The more chocolate, the better. One store in Canada had a Chocolate Decadent. It was good!

Josh Larsen and Jason Gardner, two pastor’s kids from Colorado, recently spent a day in downtown Denver trying to be “witnessing maniacs.”

Josh Larsen (left) is the youth pastor at Red Rocks Baptist Church (Lakewood, CO). He and his wife, Katie, moved there from Minneapolis in 2005. They have two children. Jason Gardner (right) lives in Denver and attends Red Rocks as well. He and his wife, Autumn, are expecting their first child. They have plans to be involved in Bible translation work overseas.

^{Note: This article was originally posted November 18, 2005.}
A hundred years ago, a couple of men in their twenties and a teenage girl, reared on land now called Idaho, became the chief instruments for one of America’s greatest adventures, discovering a Northwest Passage for the President of the United States.

A Review of the Northwest Baptist Missions Conference

If you have never been to a Northwest Baptist Missions (NBM) Annual Fellowship Meeting, you’ve missed out on one of the most unique, close-knit bands of preachers and their families anywhere in the country. No humbugs. No spiritual charlatanism. It is fellowship with a big capital F. Or should I say “family,” only in all bold letters?

^{Note: Dr. Sam Horn is host of The Word for Life radio program.}

by Dr. Sam Horn