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Author: Steve Gaines EDITOR’S NOTE: Steve Gaines is president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church. As we approach July 4th, many pastors preach about Christians in America repenting of sin and turning back... Continue Reading »
Flanked by more than two dozen Florida pastors, Tommy Green of the Florida Baptist Convention presented a gift of $3,136,500 to the Southern Baptist Convention during the Executive Committee report June 13 in Phoenix. The CP gift, from the... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee heard a report today (June 12) that “escrowing, withholding [and] reducing” gifts through the Cooperative Program is “not as widespread” as thought in February when the EC’s CP Committee created a special committee... Continue Reading »
Writers: Barbara Denman and Art Toalston Florida Baptist disaster relief volunteers are on standby for the potential impact of Hurricane Matthew along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Baptist DR leaders in Georgia and South Carolina, meanwhile, also are monitoring the hurricane’s... Continue Reading »
A charred Bronze Star and Purple Heart were somewhere in the ashes after a wildfire destroyed Bill Cronkrite’s house and outbuildings — medals awarded to his son who was killed in Iraq in 2004. When a California Southern Baptist... Continue Reading »
At times they raised their hands. At times they gathered together in groups of two to three. And at times thousands of messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention knelt at their chairs on Tuesday night (June 14) as they... Continue Reading »
Following a runoff vote that didn’t produce a majority winner on Tuesday (June 14), North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear announced Wednesday he would withdraw from the race for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC’s annual meeting... Continue Reading »
A June 14 panel discussion at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, titled “A National Conversation on Racial Unity in America,” featured Marshall Blalock, pastor of Charleston First Baptist Church, along with president Jerry Young of the National Baptist... Continue Reading »
A diverse group of 18 women is studying the perspectives and strategies women in Southern Baptist churches bring to the God-given task of fulfilling the Great Commission. They comprise the Women’s Ministry Advisory Council appointed by Frank S. Page,... Continue Reading »
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nov. 29-Dec. 6 is this year’s Week of Prayer for International Missions in the Southern Baptist Convention for workers such as the couple in this story in South Asia. The Week of Prayer, with the theme “Because... Continue Reading »
EDITOR’S NOTE: See additional story following this article with additional comments from a cycling team who rode to the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in support of the Cooperative Program. At an annual meeting bookended by missions activities,... Continue Reading »
Horace Lee was 12 when he “gave my heart to the Lord” at a Baptist church in Alabama; 17 when he entered the Marine Corps in 1940; and 21 when he was wounded in Iwo Jima as the U.S.... Continue Reading »
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