Baptist Press: A national Hispanic task force created by the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has submitted a report recommending a wide range of new resources, conferences and training to help Southern Baptists share the Gospel with one of the fastest-growing people groups in the United States and Canada.
The realities document the growth of Hispanics nationally and in Canada and analyzes various aspects of both first and second Hispanic generations, including their use of Spanish and English, receptiveness to the Gospel, conservative social values and their diversity. The full realities report is available for review and download from NAMB's website, www.namb.net.
The task force report provides recommendations for each of four areas of ministry to Hispanicsâ€â€five recommendations for evangelizing Hispanics, nine for starting new Hispanic SBC churches, five for penetrating the Hispanic culture and five related to identifying and training Hispanic church leaders.
The church planting subgroup recommended a goal of starting 250 new Hispanic SBC congregations each year through 2010.
