Baptist Church in Sri Lanka Celebrates 200 Years

We often start things without knowing how they are going to end. But God knows. In 1812, a Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) missionary arrived in Sri Lanka (known as Ceylon then) and planted a church the next year. Little did they know then that, 200 years on, it...

Mission Group Meeting Needs of Nepal’s People

Major celebrations took place in Kathmandu as United Mission to Nepal (UMN), a BMS World Mission partner, marked its 60th anniversary. Nepalese government representatives and other guests joined more than 150 staff at their headquarters in the capital on March 5...

Baptist Worker Helps Ugandan Farmers Hit by Floods

Gareth Shrubsole, a BMS World Mission worker in western Uganda, was taken aback by the devastation he saw in the Kasese district when heavy rains brought flooding on May 1.  “I’ve never been anywhere where there has been flooding before. It took a while to...