March 10, 1999

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHAPLAIN John Samb waits in the chapel of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he leads a ministry to health care providers and their patients. (Photos by Ethan Hyman, James Dotson, Dave Olecko and Carla Varisco)

Week of Prayer
___The North American Mission Board's 5,000 missionaries in the United States and Canada are appointed to a variety of missions tasks. The largest number are starting Southern Baptist churches, about 1,500 new missions each year. Mission pastors serve English-speaking and language churches in rural and urban settings. Southern Baptists in North America worship in 110 languages every week in more than 7,000 ethnic Southern Baptist Convention congregations.
___March 7-14 has been designated as the Week of Prayer for North American Missions. The national goal of the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering to benefit missions in North America is $45 million. The challenge goal is $50 million.
___IN THE PHOTOS, (above, left) Jim Queen, executive director for Chicago Metropolitan Baptist Association, talks with Brian Bakke, director of church and community at Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago. Queen began the church in 1976.
___Jim McBride (above, right), director of missions for Delaware Baptist Association, helps repair the home of a prison inmates' family.
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___North American missionary Mel Cruikshank mans a booth at the University of Calgary, Alberta, where he is Baptist campus minister.
___Victor Martinez (bottom, right) laughs during a visit in the home of Carlos Pacheco, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Yauco, Puerto Rico. Martinez is a catalytic missionary in south central Puerto Rico. Rolland Slade (bottom, left), church and community ministries director for San Diego Baptist Association, hands out a food parcel at the Meadowbrook Apartments complex.

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