On May 2nd a pastor serving one of India’s minority tribal groups was abducted murdered by masked men. Police believe Maoist guerrillas were behind the murder.
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ
Missions
Ministries
Our motto at QBC is ‘Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ’. This not only includes Rhode Island but to the remotest parts of the earth as commanded in Acts 1:8:
you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
John Piper said “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” QBC is committed to reaching for Christ not just those here in our “Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria” but to the least-reached in the remotest parts of the world.
In January Chinese authorities used explosive charges to demolish the Golden Lampstand Church in Linfen, Shanxi, destroying the place of worship for 50,000 believers.
Imam Fedu, a Muslim scholar and teacher in Bangladesh placed his faith in Christ after receiving a Christian tract and hearing the gospel from a Christian worker. He immediately resigned from his Muslim work and made plans to be baptized.
On November 10th 2017, police in Andijan, in eastern Uzbekistan, raided the apartment of Irina Stepanova, a member of a local Baptist church. Although they claimed to be searching for illegal guns, police instead confiscated three Bibles, a Baptist song book, Christian magazines and booklets, 22 CDs and DVDs, and six personal notebooks with poems. Irina was subsequently charged with the illegal…
Christian mother in Uganda kicked out of her house and denied custody of her daughter.
Four Christian men arrested over the past two months were released from jail recently. Praise God for the release of these four men.