Prayer fuels church's heart for missions
By Karen L. Willoughby
PAMPA, Texas (BP)--What happens when two fires merge? A church on the grassy plains of the Texas panhandle is finding out.When First Baptist Church in Pampa burned to the ground in 1973, the congregation rallied to rebuild -– and found a new energy for reaching out to people in their community and, through the Cooperative Program, around the world.
Johnny Funderburg, First Baptist's pastor since August 2004, was a pastor in Whitesboro, Texas, when his home burned to the ground in 1997."When you lose everything, it just humbles you," Funderburg said. "I think God used that opportunity of my being tender, needy, to draw me to Him. A passion for God came out of that ... and what naturally flowed from that was to begin to pray and just trust Him."===>Click headline to access complete article. . .
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