In what he hopes will be a “game-changer in terms of the Cooperative Program and our whole relationship with missions,” Hayes Wicker has led First Baptist Church in Naples, to launch the “Great Commission Connection.” The initiative aims to personalize missions by linking church members with missionaries and others who serve the denomination, while also boosting funding for Southern Baptists’ cooperative missions. The project already has resulted in connecting 507 families in the Naples congregation with about 1,500 Southern Baptist missionaries, the Florida Baptist Convention and faculty members of Southern Baptist seminaries. The church anticipates additional families signing up. “The […]
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- James A. Smith Sr.
- 3 Feb 2010
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