By Brandon Elrod KANSAS CITY (BP) – Toward the beginning of every year, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) leaders from across North America gather to assess the previous year, discuss…
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by Zac Minton Sadness. Hurt. Brokenness. Tensions. Abortion. Suicide. My heart is heavy. I know people have many different ideas, and I’m not oblivious to think that everyone believes like…
They try to take the lives of the vulnerable. They seek to control, to buy and to sell human beings. They are human traffickers, and they are some of the…
Kay Bennett is the director of Baptist Friendship House in New Orleans, a ministry working with homeless women and children who are easy prey for human traffickers. We sat down…
LARAMIE, WYOMING— *Cassie was trafficked from age 14 to 27. She wound up in a hospital in the United Kingdom, paralyzed for three days before she caught her literal train…
By Brandon Elrod (ALPHARETTA, Ga.)—When the calendar turns to a New Year, it is easy for the trials and headlines of the previous year to quickly fade from memory. Hundreds…
ATLANTA—“Let’s face it. No one is sex trafficking anyone at Mary Kay Conventions,” said a passionate Lisa Thompson. And she would know. As vice president of policy and research for…
By Emily Howsden JENKS—A little more than a year ago, an elementary school in the Jenks school district contacted First Oklahoma Bank in the community, asking for help finding clothes…
By Lonnie Wilkey PIKEVILLE—A rural Tennessee Baptist church is doing its best to show the love of Christ in one of the most impoverished areas of the state. According to…
By Brandon Elrod (ALPHARETTA, Ga.)—In recent months, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) has been diligently responding to both national and local crises across North America: two major hurricanes in the…