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2025 Committee on Nominations Report Released

The SBC Committee on Nominations has released its 2025 report in advance of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting to be held June 10-11. Per SBC bylaws, the report is to be released through Baptist Press no later than 45... Continue Reading »

Two South Carolinians Named to SBC Registration Committee

SBC President Clint Pressley announced Friday, March 21, that Jonathan Coleman will chair the Registration Committee for the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas in June. Coleman, pastor of Harvey Baptist Church in Stephenville, Texas, was a member of... Continue Reading »

Georgia Church Uses Tiny Houses to Build Neighborhood of Hope

Across the street from Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Bowman stand five tiny houses filled with stories of heartache and tragedy. Pleasant Grove hopes to use the buildings to turn them into stories of hope and recovery. Eleven years... Continue Reading »

Jim Shaddix, ‘Champion of Prayer and Expository Preaching,’ Dies at 64

Jim Shaddix, longtime seminary professor, pastor and ministry leader, died after a yearlong battle with brain cancer Feb. 1. He was 64. Shaddix had been a preaching professor at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary for 12 years. Prior to that,... Continue Reading »

Horton Previews SBC Pastors’ Conference in Interview Series

D.J. Horton, senior pastor of Church at The Mill, Moore, S.C., and president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference, launched a new interview series Monday, Jan. 20, with those involved in this year’s conference. Horton was joined by SBC... Continue Reading »

Arkansas ladies’ chainsaw team cuts new path 

By Mary Alford Six ladies from the Russellville, Ark., area recently donned yellow shirts, chaps and other safety equipment, picked up chainsaws and went to work in Valdosta, Ga. “There’s nothing like it in the country,” Arkansas Baptist Disaster... Continue Reading »

Nov. 10 a special day to focus on widows, orphans

Southern Baptists have set aside Sunday, Nov. 10, to focus on caring for widows and orphans. Based on James 1:27, “Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress... Continue Reading »

Lostness impacted by largest Annie Armstrong, Lottie Moon offerings in SBC history

By IMB and NAMB staff Generosity among Southern Baptists remains strong as evidenced by the most recent Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering totals. When the books closed on the SBC’s 2023-24 fiscal year Sept. 30,... Continue Reading »

Send Relief videos available for churches

Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry, has made four videos available for churches to use to inform congregations about relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Helene as well as ways to support those efforts. Videos feature Send Relief... Continue Reading »

Shorter University football team sees 48 decisions before start of season

Close to 50 football players on the team at Shorter University made decisions for Christ this year before the season started, and 17 followed through with believer’s baptism. Zach Morrison, in his seventh year as head coach, described what... Continue Reading »

SBC EC takes up dozens of referrals, including abuse prevention, financial challenges

Dozens of agenda items awaited discussion and action by SBC Executive Committee members at their fall meeting this week. The committee made short work of its many referrals and recommendations, including consequential ones like finding a new home for... Continue Reading »

Send Relief’s Backpack Sunday to boost local church outreach effort

Meeting material needs often opens doors for believers and churches to share the gospel, and Send Relief has identified a simple, straightforward way of doing so that serves as a great conversation starter—backpacks filled with needed resources. That’s why... Continue Reading »