EDITOR’S NOTE: The Baptist Message provides churches an opportunity to share with other Louisiana Baptists an upcoming revival, homecoming, new pastor, new staff member, a community outreach, or a concert in Louisiana Notables. To place your event in the paper, send your information (who, what, where, when, time) to philip@bap­tistmessage.com or call 318.449.4345. Please submit your information four weeks prior to the event to insure placement in the Message. ON THE MOVE Caleb Adams is serving as full-time interim student minister at Trinity Baptist Church in Lake Charles. HOMECOMING/ANNIVERSARY Westside Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bogalusa: 75th Anniversary, February 25, 10:30 a.m. Dinner on the grounds follow­ing the worship service. Guest Speaker: Perry Hancock, former pastor and Presi­dent and CEO of Louisiana Baptist Chil­dren’s Home & Family Ministries in Mon­roe. Music: Westside Worship team. Pastor: Marcus Rosa. REVIVAL Alabama Baptist Church, Arcadia: Re­vival, January 28-31; Thursday-Saturday noon and night service, 6:30 p.m. with meal beginning at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, 10:40 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Worship: Mackey and Gail Willis. Pastor: Roland Hebert. Fort Necessity Baptist Church, Columbia: Revival, … [Read more...]

By Brian Blackwell, Baptist Message staff writer RUSTON, La. (LBM) – Louisi­ana Baptists were encouraged to embrace an evangelistic mindset in at home and abroad during ECON 2024, held in the facilities of Tem­ple Baptist Church, Ruston, Jan. 22-23. ECON featured Louisiana Bap­tist pastors, seminary professors, a representative from the Interna­tional Mission Board, a comedian and other evangelism associates from across North America. The event also included times of worship led by the Temple Bap­tist praise and worship team and Charles Billingsley, an award-win­ning Christian contemporary artist, as well as breakout sessions. GEORGE LEE George Lee IV, minister of com­munity engagement at Temple Bap­tist, reminded Louisiana Baptists to develop a heart of service and win others to Jesus. “How badly do we want to win as a body of believers?” said Lee, drawing from 1 Corinthians 9:19-23. “A win is seeing somebody who has a one-way ticket to hell being redeemed and reconciled to the Father by the power of the Gospel.” He reminded Louisiana Baptists that they cannot win those they do not serve, they cannot serve every­one the same way and they cannot serve God without serving people. “Every day you wake up you … [Read more...]