By Tony Hudson EDITOR'S NOTE: This article highlights the ministry taking place on the North American mission field through support from the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The AAEO provides half of the annual funding for the North American Mission Board. Gifts to the Annie offering can be given through local Southern Baptist churches or online at … [Read more...]

By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 1-March 8 and is focused on the theme: More Than a Gift and the theme verse of Ephesians 3:20-21. The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (AAEO) for North American Missions. All gifts given to the offering support missionaries and resources on the mission field. The … [Read more...]

by Tony Hudson/NAMB ALPHARETTA, Ga. (NAMB) – There's no way they could've known what was coming. When Jefferson and Carol Hernandez, Josh and Beth Glymph, Matt and Ruth Lahey, and Michael and Traci Byrd each got phone calls telling them they'd been selected to be Annie Armstrong featured missionaries, they were all appropriately humbled, honored, excited, and encouraged. But now, years later—now that they've experienced every unexpectedly amazing thing that happened because of the Week … [Read more...]

By Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 2 – March 9 and is focused on the theme: Step into the Story (“For they have gone out for the sake of the name. … Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.” 3 John 1:7-8, ESV). The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering … [Read more...]

by Tony Hudson/NAMB LAREDO – They didn’t want to do it, but they had no choice. Ecuadorians Eduardo Vera and his wife Juliana walked more than 1,900 miles with their family, pushing Juliana’s elderly father almost the whole way on a rusty, discarded tricycle they found on the first day of their journey. “Back home, the cartel had threatened to kill our children if we didn’t give them money,” Juliana says. “We had to get away, so we just left and started walking north. And that … [Read more...]

by Tony Hudson/NAMB EDITOR'S NOTE: This year’s Week of Prayer for North American Missions is March 2-March 9 and is focused on the theme: Step into the Story (“For they have gone out for the sake of the name. … Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.” 3 John 1:7-8, ESV). The emphasis spotlights the spiritual needs and ministry taking place on the North American mission field leading up to the annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering … [Read more...]