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New ‘descriptor’ and historic election ahead for SBC meeting

Published on May 24, 2012

The recommendation of ?Great Commission Baptists? as a descriptive name and the prospective election of the first-ever African-American president are on the horizon for the Southern Baptist Convention's June 19-20 meeting in New Orleans.... Continue Reading »

Lexington Association’s Johnny Rumbough to preside over national gathering of DOMs

Published on May 12, 2012

The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions will emphasize passion in ministry at its June 17-18 meeting in New Orleans. With the theme ?Igniting Passion,? drawn from the May 20-27 Week of Prayer for Associational Missions, the... Continue Reading »

SBC meeting theme to spotlight ‘Neighborhood and Nations’

Published on April 26, 2012

?Jesus: To the Neighborhood and the Nations? is the theme for the Southern Baptist Convention's June 19-20 annual meeting in New Orleans, SBC president Bryant Wright has announced. Drawn from Luke 24:47-48, the theme is worded to convey the... Continue Reading »

Girl Scouts’ admitting of boy draws backlash

Published on December 13, 2011

Girl Scouts USA"s recent revelation that its local chapters sometimes induct boys who try to live as girls, considered transgendered, is already having repercussions in Louisiana, where three troops at a Christian school have disbanded in disappointment.... Continue Reading »

Relief work leaves mark on Northeast

Published on October 7, 2011

A displaced couple in their 90s and a widow forced to live in her car for a week have been among those assisted after Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee by the North Jersey Network of the Baptist Convention... Continue Reading »

3 million students pray for their schools

Published on September 30, 2011

Ninth-grader Theressa Sanon offered an impassioned prayer for classmates and administrators at Helen Cox High School in New Orleans Sept. 28, saddened that only two students joined her for the 21st annual See You at the Pole global day... Continue Reading »

NY/NJ/Pa. relief: Resolve high, vols limited

Published on September 23, 2011

The Baptist Convention of New York is mobilizing more than 100 Virginia college students to clean out flooded homes in recovery efforts that will likely continue through October, Mike Flannery, BCNY disaster relief director, reported.... Continue Reading »

Flood recovery remains Pa., N.Y. challenge

Published on September 13, 2011

Fellow members of First Baptist Church in Williamsport, of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/South Jersey, had placed gravel to give Carr access through foot-deep mud to his home. Church members cleaned and gutted the house"s flood-damaged first floor and... Continue Reading »

Luter election reflects SBC’s growing diversity, New Orleans pastors say

Published on August 23, 2011

African American pastors in the New Orleans Baptist Association say the election of Fred Luter as the Southern Baptist Convention"s first vice president is important evidence that the SBC has departed from the racial exclusion of its past.... Continue Reading »

Small church in South Carolina reaches world in a big way

Published on November 6, 2009

Stan Sullivan learned early in his pastorate at Sparrow Swamp Baptist Church that money follows missions.... Continue Reading »

Luter conveys CP challenge to states

Published on November 30, 1999

Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter Jr. is featured in a new series of videotaped appeals to churches to increase their giving to the Cooperative Program by 1 percentage point of their budgets.... Continue Reading »