Spring 2011

Planting churches family by family | By Mickey Noah
The enemy is present and the threat is real in Laredo, Texas, where Chuy and Maria Avila make Christ known to Hispanics amid the bustle of the drug trade and darkness of the Santa Muerte religion. “Laredo is a dangerous place to minister,” says Chuy. “I need prayers and support from my Christian brothers and sisters.”
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Harvest in the heartland | By Mickey Noah
For the last 12 years, Doug Lee has served as director of missions for the vast Oregan Trail Baptist Association, based in North Platte, Nebraska. “The people living out here in western Nebraska have a strong work ethic,” says Doug. “A lot of that comes from the early days when the settlers came. There was nothing here – no towns, no schools, no railroads. They built things from scratch, so people here are very independent and self-sufficient.”
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Love in another language| By Mickey Noah
Yearly, thousands of immigrants come to the Atlanta metro area – fleeing poverty, famine, disease, civil war and persecution. If Paulette DeHart has her way, they’ll learn English and meet Jesus Christ. “What’s so neat is that so many people come to the United States to improve their financial lot in life, but as one student said, they find the greatest treasure of all, the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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Pennies for Annie| By Mickey Noah
In 1995, Tom and Marla Polak left a Kansas City ministry for Indianapolis, where Polak began serving as director of the Metro Baptist Center in the inner-city, and as pastor of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship. They found an unexpected blessing in a 62-year-old homeless man named Robert Maul.
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Lighting the Darkness in Quebec| By Ann-Margret Hovsepian
One of Jacques and Martine Avakian's goals is to start a church planting center in Montreal that would train and send out church planters, so Jacques is developing a network of people who can provide help and resources. Jacques estimates 1,000 communities in Quebec have no evangelical presence. By the year 2020, the Avakians would like to see 200 Canadian National Baptist Convention churches in Quebec and 20,000 baptisms.
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Passage to Hope| By Mickey Noah
It’s the sad plight of the refugees from Burma (Myanmar)—the “Karen” people—that especially tugs at Howard and Tina Burkhart. “When you hear their stories, it’s hard to fathom when they say, ‘we woke up to hear bombs and bullets and we fled with nothi
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Shepherding New Mexico| By Mickey Noah
With New Mexico’s vast deserts, mountains, mesas and small communities -- the state conjures up visions of the Old West. To the north are the Native Americans – the Navajo Nation and the Laguna, Acoma and Zuni Pueblos. To the south are the Anglos, including the cowboy culture. This is Jim and Karen Turbo’s mission field.
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'Miss Vickie' a role model at MSU | By Laura Sikes
Reaching students is what Vickie Stewart is passionate about. Simply known as “Miss Vickie,” she energetically moves around campus of Morgan State University in Baltimore on mission “to connect,” as she puts it, with students whenever she can.
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