Stories

He said “No,” but she said, “Yes” to volunteers from Open Baptist Church, Gaborone, Botswana (in south-central Africa), who were delivering food boxes to families as one of their Inasmuch Day projects.  He is a traditional witch-doctor.  She is his wife and normally would not have gone against his authority, BUT she had already seen […]

Something extraordinary happened in Lowndes County, Alabama, one of the poorest counties in the state, where many traditional prejudices are alive and well. A dozen churches of various denominations and races conducted their first Inasmuch United. One person called this reconciling event “ground-breaking.” The idea that churches would work together was unheard of in the […]

The following article was recently published online in the Religious Herald: Newsjournal of the Baptist General Association of Virginia: Blitz empowers churches in Virginia’s Southside to serve communities By Barbara Francis, Staff Writer Wednesday, November 23, 2011 DANVILLE, Va. — In the parable of the Good Samaritan Jesus says a person keeps the commandment to […]

A group of us recently discussed the fact that most Americans have essentially self-centered and unrealistic expectations of life. We want to achieve something. We want to avoid pain. We want to feel beautiful. We want great relationships, fun vacations, retirement savings. We want. We want. We want. And because we want what we often […]

Thirty-five (35) churches joined together to serve the Danville, Virginia, area on October 8, 2011 in their first-ever Inasmuch United. On that day, nine hundred (900) people showed compassion to those in need through 140 projects! Cliff Hudgins, Director of Missions for the Pittsylvania Baptist Association, shared the following with us: People who return from […]

Twelve Sumter, South Carolina, churches received training on November 6, 2011, to conduct an Inasmuch United in the spring of 2012. The following article was posted  Friday, November 4, 2011 on The Item.com, the online version of Sumter’s daily newspaper. Class gets churches familiar with Operation Inasmuch BY COREY DAVIS   cdavis@theitem.com Joel Singletary’s mission […]

The following article appeared on FayObserver.com (Fayetteville, NC) on October 28, 2011 Church where Operation Inasmuch began celebrates a compassion revolution David Crocker, national director of Operation Inasmuch and former pastor of Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, shows off a painting that will be donated to the Fayetteville [Area Operation Inasmuch] office. By Chick Jacobs Staff writer […]

I recently read a remarkable book, one that spent more than 2 years on the New York Times’ bestseller list: Same Kind of Different as Me.  It’s an amazing story of an unlikely friendship between homeless Denver Moore and wealthy Ron Hall. In two previous blogs, I discussed what I learned from the book about “how […]