The Annual Church Profile (ACP) is an important tool for your church, association, and state and national conventions. The data collected is used in many ways to assist your congregations and to measure the effectiveness of ABSC and SBC ministries.

From Hope to Ft. Smith, San Diego to Gulf Shores, Tijuana to Winnipeg, the College & Young Leader BCM Campus Ministers took more than 250 collegians on mission experiences during spring break. When many others rest or go to the beach to party, BCM students sacrificed a time of relaxation to follow God’s calling to be on mission.

The lives of Arkansas Baptists are full of stories. Stories of hope given and souls saved, stories of churches planted and pastors supported, stories of missionaries sent and disasters relieved. Last week, we won some awards for telling your stories, and we want to thank you.

Working alongside International Mission Board missionaries, C.J. and his Nehemiah Teams partners were in the Philippines last summer to share the Gospel with people who did not know what church was or who Jesus was. By funding IMB missionaries through the Cooperative Program, Arkansas Baptists are also involving Arkansas students in cross-cultural missions to unreached people groups.

As a pastor, what I thought I could do in a single bound I soon came to realize that I was a man of flesh, not steel. I learned how God's command of keeping the Sabbath was given to be a blessing.

In the experience of a pastor's wife, gestures of appreciation like goodies and gifts are meaningful, but what blesses your pastor and his wife the most might surprise you! Read more from Janet, who has served in churches alongside her husband for 20 years, about what has encouraged them in their ministry.

With 27 years in ministry and now serving pastors at LifeWay, Mark Dance has been on both sides of the pulpit. Here are 7 things he thinks pastors would like their churches to know.

Sabbaticals are awkward for pastors and for churches, even for those in academic communities. But I am convinced more pastors would experience a longer and healthier ministry if they consistently practiced a weekly Sabbath and periodically took a sabbatical.

Truth is: your pastor is in danger. As you read this, there is a pastor near you who feels like he is failing in some, if not every, area of his work and his family. There are several influential ways you can help protect him.

Ministers, is your personal and marital life healthy? Your church's health depends on it. Mark Dance from LifeWay Pastors recommends a few resources and retreats that will minister to you and your spouse.