Thousands of university students were on the move to Boston over the Labor Day weekend and they needed a lot of help. Nearly three hundred Baptists from seven states came to their rescue at the invitation of King’s Hill Church. 

A single approach is not enough for Stamford Baptist Church. The multiethnic and multicultural congregation supports ministry in New England in two distinct ways.

“But the word of God increased and multiplied” (Acts 12:24, ESV) in the first-century Middle East and it is doing so in twenty-first century New England.

That’s the inspiring message that New England Baptists can expect to be preached in various ways from the podium and discussed in small-group workshops when they attend the Baptist Churches of New England annual meeting—the theme of which will be “Multiplication Matters.”

Sarah Crowther spent part of her summer vacation from college exploring Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal, which has been described as “a vibrant European city [where] tradition fuels creativity.” She visited the UNESCO World Heritage destination, not as a tourist, but as short-term missionary. From August 2-12 she sought and found a measure of “spiritual renewal.”

Exactly a year after rain-soaked rivers escaped their banks, filling many basements with mud and many hearts with despair, torrential rain returned July 10 to Barre and other Vermont communities, destroying or causing major damage to more than one hundred homes, according to a preliminary report.

An abiding passion to live as disciples of Jesus has attracted a church full of college students, graduate students, and people with advanced degrees to Antioch Baptist Church, which is located in the world-class academic community of Greater Boston.

Seven church leaders from Brazil traveled to New England in July to explore the benefits and challenges of multicultural ministry in a post-Christian world and return home with fresh ideas on how to effectively serve their neighbors from Haiti, Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, and other Latin American countries.

The urban ministry that W. Ruben Exantus and the thirty Haitian pastors he serves has been anything but predictable in the last few years. The challenges they confront every day have been complicated by the influx of migrants arriving in Boston by the thousands.

The “only region where Southern Baptist churches are growing numerically is in New England,” reported Lifeway Research in September 2023. The Baptist Churches of New England Annual Church Profile data for 2001-23 confirm that bold statement. 

When Shaunna M. Varin was invited to join the Baptist Foundation of New England Board of Trustees, she agreed to serve because “I like the unity of purpose among the board members, who are seeking God’s will and discernment on how to be good stewards of the monies that have been entrusted to the foundation.”

A missiological initiative that started inauspiciously with a dream, will likely have a profound impact on the Baptist Churches of New England (BCNE) for years to come, according to Hal Haller, the Associate Executive Director, who was awakened in the middle of the night by a divinely inspired idea to multiply existing training options to cultivate a new generation of pastors and leaders.

A former hippie, Robby Pitt was so inspired by God after reading a counterculture oral history, Going Up the Country: When the Hippies, Dreamers, Freaks, and Radicals Moved to Vermont (2018), that he moved last summer to the Green Mountain State—for a second time—to be a church-planting pastor.