Illinois Baptist
See strength in others, let them lead Edward Jones
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Refugee Crisis
Through biblical lenses
How do we balance compassion and security?
MISSIONS
Author, author Girl pens second book for Haiti school project
The World | Evangelicals are “all over the place” in their reaction to the Syrian refugee crisis, in one assessment, a situation complicated many times over by the terrorist attacks that left 129 dead in Paris in November and now the killings of 14 by an Islamic couple in San Bernardino, California. First characterized as a workplace shooting, that attack that was soon revealed as motivated by religious extremism. The call to aid refugees came as early as September as 1.5 million Syrians fled Islamic terrorist forces in their homeland, spilling into Turkey, sailing to Greece, and beginning an unprecedented migration across Europe. But the response from
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IBSA
Welcome Returning missionary joins staff P. 4
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News journal of the Illinois Baptist State Association
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Nonprofit Organization U.S. POSTAGE PAID Peoria, Illinois Permit No. 325
Vol. 109 No. 17
The
New
Seekers
Today’s magi are young and worldly wise, but naive about Christ.
IN FOCUS: Mark Coppenger offers insight from his decade as a church planter in Chicagoland P. 7-9
CARING
Small church meets big needs Hunger is year-round P. 5
FRESH IDEAS
Take group leaders out to ‘launch’ Diana Davis P. 13