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FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
BY MARK KELLY

For chaplains Ken Williams and Ken Kerr, living with urgency and seizing divine moments means staying alert and being available to the people the Lord brings across their paths every day.

COSECHA DE IGLESIAS
BY ADAM MILLER

God is gathering a "harvest of churches" through the church planting efforts of the Convention of Southern Baptists in Puerto Rico.

GOD'S ARTISANS
BY CAROLYN CURTIS

Missionary Rafael Hernandez is leading his association to reclaim spiritual ground in New England.

FEATURES

2008 WEEK OF PRAYER
BY JAMI BECHER

Meet eight of more than 5,200 missionaries who have sensed God's call on their lives and are living with urgency every day so that all peoples of North America will come to know Jesus Christ. During the Week of Prayer for North American Missions, March 2-9, pray for these missionaries and consider how you can impact their work through your prayers, giving, and going in this urgent task to which God has called us.

ACTS 1:8 CHALLENGE: IT'S A GOD THING
BY TIM YARBROUGH

Call it a gathering storm. Like a tornado that slowly builds in strength before its final fury, churches across the Southern Baptist Convention are rethinking what it means to be on mission in the diverse cultural landscape of the 21st century.

WHEN DISASTER STRIKES
BY MEREDITH DAY

October 21, 2007, will always be remembered as a day of urgency in San Diego. Breaking news of quickly spreading wildfires. The smell of smoke and clouds of ash hanging over the county. More than half a million people displaced from their homes, 1,600 homes destroyed with thousands more damaged, and $700 million in property and acreage lost. At a time when everything seemed unsure, Southern Baptist pastors like Gunnar Hanson in Valley Center, California, called their churches to stand firm in God's promise of provision.

DEPARTMENTS

VITALS

THE PULSE

ROAD TRIP

COLUMNS

FROM THE PRESIDENT: SEIZING YOUR DIVINE MOMENTS
BY GEOFF HAMMOND

STAFF NOTES: NO REGRETS
BY CAROL PIPES