Baptist Briefs
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Effort brings 15,000 decisions. In the third annual mission trip to Kenya sponsored by LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, 15,082 people made professions of faith and 46 churches were started. A total of 86 LifeWay employees, spouses, teenagers, retirees and 26 others from 10 churches made up the mission team which traveled in three waves in October. Scott Jordan, pastor of First Baptist Church of Gunter, went on the trip and personally led 125 people to faith in Christ. The highlight of the trip, he said, was "to see the joy and boldness of the Kenyan Christians."
___ FamilyNet reaches millions. More than 3.7 million people each week hear radio programs produced by the North American Mission Board's FamilyNet broadcast ministry, according to recent nationwide reports by the Arbitron Co. The programs include "The Baptist Hour," "Country Crossroads," "MasterControl," "Powerline" and "On Track." The radio programs are distributed to 2,300 stations, 75 percent of which are secular. They are carried in 49 of the nation's top 50 markets.
___ Global Priority claims 500. Five hundred Southern Baptist churches have become "Global Priority" churches, joining an initiative of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board. The network encourages churches to increase global outreach ministries by making missions a major thrust with staff leadership, praying for missionaries and the non-Christian population, promoting missions education and missions giving and participating in short-term missions projects.
___ African-Americans lead Ugandan crusade. About 1,200 Ugandans accepted Jesus Christ as Savior during a volunteer missions project organized by Shalom Outreach Inc., a short-term missions agency working in partnership with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. Shalom, known for its efforts to mobilize African-American evangelicals for missions, has been sending volunteers on short-term missions projects to Africa since 1996.
___ LifeWay offers Internet service. LifeWay Christian Resources will begin offering filtered access to the Internet via "LifeWayonline" Dec. 1. The Southern Baptist Convention agency is partnering with Rated-G Online, an established Internet service provider. The service will filter out more than 20 categories of potentially offensive material. The monthly service fee will be $19.95. For information or to subscribe, call (888) 454-5965 or go to www.lifewayonline.com.
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