The Purple Book is proving to be a strategic weapon in the battle for a million souls in Baja California, Mexico, a ministry said. Organizers say their campaign to disciple 1 million people in the Mexican state of Baja California within 20 years using the Purple Book is going better than expected.
This August, as the U.S. economy continues to falter and the national unemployment rate is at a four-year high, millions of children from low-income families may return to school without basic supplies such as paper, pencils, binders, and backpacks.
Christian groups who flouted a Chinese ban on foreign missionaries are calling their underground evangelizing during the Olympic Games a success. The groups prepared for years for what the Southern Baptists once called "a spiritual harvest unlike any other."
One of the world's oldest Protestant mission organizations has postponed staff cutbacks for at least another 12 months after receiving its largest legacy ever. BMS board members called the sum "a wonderful answer to prayer."