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How Great Is That Darkness
Six hours ago I was squeezed into a small, white-washed stairway of stone. I think the headroom was less than five feet. My shoulders touched both side walls. And I was descending, round and round, inside a castle turret. The Bunratty Castle was last used in the late 1600’s by the O’Brien family in Ireland.
New England Hispanic Churches Launch Mission Partnership in Spain
Momentum continues in the partnership between the Baptist Churches of New England and the International Mission Board in Europe. This began with a request from IMB Vice President John Brady, who believes that New England churches are best suited to help in Europe because New England and European Baptist churches have similar postmodern ministry contexts.
Boston Church Planter now IMB Euro Missionary: An interview with Dan Byrd
Boston-region church planters, Dan and Tara Byrd, now serve as IMB Church Planting Catalysts in Manchester, England. They are well known and loved by many New England pastors. Sam Taylor, BCNE Global Engagement Mobilizer, asked them to report on their work in the UK.
We celebrated and signed a partnership... now what?
In the middle of an Annual Meeting focused on the beauty of partnership, the BCNE formally entered into a plan to cooperate with the IMB’s Western European Affinity. It’s our hope to connect churches in New England to Kingdom workers on a mission field that looks and feels an awful lot like home.
IMB Europe partnership: Take the first step
I am thankful for the opportunity to share how God called me to missions, specifically to Poland. I will focus on the general calling and how we ended up in Europe. My walk with the Lord began shortly after my eighteenth birthday. At the time I knew I wanted to be a veterinarian, this was a dream of mine since I was six years old. As I started college that dream did not change in my mind, but God was already leading me down a different road. I had a job in an animal hospital, gaining vital experience for the future and everything seemed to be on track.
IMB Europe partnership: Open doors and open hearts in Madrid
The Lord never ceases to amaze us. This past year in Madrid, Spain, started out as a series of “closed doors” for us. The spiritual climate in Madrid has always been a challenge. Only one in two hundred Spaniards is born-again, and it sometimes feels as though people are numb to the Gospel. This year was different, though. Although we intentionally labored in the missionary task through evangelism, discipleship, leadership training and healthy church formation, we were met with quarantines, lockdowns and restrictions due to the pandemic.