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The Power of ‘Yes’: A Personal Account of Foster Care Ministry
by Emily Furr, Mission Georgia Mobilizer I have always struggled with James 1:27. “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” Caring for widows & orphans. Widows. Maybe take them a meal,…
Read MoreDiapers from Jesus
by Emma Pirela, Mission Georgia Refugee Ministry Mobilizer I could never tell you what it is like to step out of a Kenyan refugee camp for the first time. I could never explain what it’s like to be a young mom, 6 months pregnant, boarding a plane to restart my life in a far-off city…
Read MoreYour Church Can Help Solve Georgia’s Foster Care Crisis
by Jill Richards, West Central Foster Care Advocate “If one family in one third of all churches in America would adopt, there would be no more orphans looking for home.” This was a statement my husband relayed to me while he was at a conference in the spring of 2010. My husband and I discussed…
Read MoreFrom a Child’s Dream to a Family’s Mission: My Journey Through Adoption and Foster Care
by Jodie Marsh, Mission Georgia Mobilizer Adoption has been in my heart since the age of five. I remember watching a television show about adoption and telling my mother as a matter of fact that one day I would adopt. Then I marched my sassy little self out of the room as if the matter…
Read MoreAnti-Human-Trafficking Ninja for Jesus
by Rhiannon Dobson Though I wear many hats and have many titles, the best way to describe me is like a favorite song of mine – “I’m just a nobody, trying to tell everybody, about Somebody who saved my soul.” But long before that song was around or I lived in South Georgia, those words…
Read MoreLife transformation is the ultimate goal of Mission Georgia
Life transformation is the core desire of Mission Georgia. Helping Georgia Baptist churches bring it to neighbors in need is our priority. We all have neighbors who are unreached, and even worse, unengaged with the gospel. Considering this reality, the question becomes, “Who is far from the gospel but close to me?” The stories of…
Read MoreProviding gospel-centered care in every Georgia community
Mission Georgia is an initiative of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board to bring gospel-centered care through local churches to the most vulnerable in Georgia. Compelled to love our neighbors as Christ commands, Mission Georgia strengthens efforts to send Georgia Baptist churches into our own communities with His transforming message. For many years Mission Georgia has…
Read MoreMission Georgia: Join the fight to prevent human trafficking
The new year gives Mission Georgia new opportunities to bring the gospel more deeply into our own Georgia communities. While special promotion is given to our State Mission Offering and Prayer emphasis during September, it is only a preamble to the work that will take place in the year ahead. Because churches have given sacrificially…
Read MoreMission Georgia gains traction as September emphasis approaches
Bringing the gospel to those who are farthest from it in word and deed is the priority of Mission Georgia. As our state emerges from the pandemic, one thing is clear – churches are eager to engage the needs of neighbors with the hope of the gospel. The theme for this year is “Numbers are…
Read MoreMission Georgia Offering
PARTNER WITH US. Your generosity is the fuel to equipping more churches and more people to tackle the change that needs to happen. Through your partnership, Mission Georgia is able to do more…more education, more training, more modeling, more mobilization. Access all of the tools you need to share the message of making Georgia your…
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