Category: NAMB

Why We in California Celebrate Send Relief

Sarah M. Graham July 29, 2025 No Comments

1 John 3:18 — “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.” For many Southern Baptists, the line between Send Relief and…

Digging Again the Wells: Returning to Foundational Truths

Sarah M. Graham July 22, 2025 No Comments

Read Part 1, “When the Wells Run Dry The way forward for dying churches isn’t in innovation but restoration. Isaac didn’t dig new wells. He reopened the ones his father…

Understanding 52 Sundays: The Easiest Way to Energize Your Church for Missions

Sarah M. Graham July 1, 2025 No Comments

“How, then, can they call on him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about him? And how can they hear without a preacher? ~Romans…

You Can’t Outgive God!

Sarah M. Graham November 26, 2024 No Comments

In Valley Baptist Church’s short history, we have been blessed to be directly involved in 20+ church plants/re-plants. However, most of those happened almost “accidentally” as a natural result of…

Portraits of a Church on Mission

Sarah M. Graham November 5, 2024 No Comments

We launched Portrait Church in the Inland Empire in September of 2023 and set out with a vision to give people far from God or not yet on mission for…

SBC Disaster Relief: Bringing Help, Hope, & Healing Since 1966

Sarah M. Graham August 6, 2024 No Comments

A DECADE OF FIRSTS FOR SBC DISASTER RELIEF First Allotted Funds – Southern Baptist Disaster Relief traces its beginnings to the actions of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1966, at…

What is “Send California?”

Sarah M. Graham August 6, 2024 No Comments

What is Send California? Possibly because Send California is so new, this question comes up a lot around our great state. Send Network California (or “Send California”) is a unique…

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Lottie, Annie, and the Birth of the WMU

Sarah M. Graham July 9, 2024 No Comments

“Oh, that Southern Baptists would wake up to their responsibilities!” ~Lottie Moon A single female missionary to China, Lottie often declared this in her letters and articles. As she tirelessly…

5 Essentials for Church Planting Couples

Kurt Abel August 29, 2023 No Comments

Over the course of one year, my husband and I welcomed our first baby, adopted two children from Ukraine, and moved from Kentucky to South Carolina to plant a church.…

four ways church planting reflects the body of christ

4 Ways Church Planting Reflects the Ongoing Work of the Body of Christ

Kurt Abel August 22, 2023 No Comments

Church planting is as old as the church. The early Christians planted numerous churches according to the strategic plan given by Jesus in the Great Commission. They planted in Jerusalem…