Nearly two dozen black pastors met with Southern Baptists of Texas Convention executive director Jim Richards and convention staff for a prayer and listening session on racial reconciliation amid national tensions stemming from black men being killed by police in Baton Rouge, La., and St. Paul, Minn., as well as gunmen killing police officers in […]
Church growth is a “supernatural event, and therefore church revitalization is more of a spiritual issue than a mechanical one,” said Ken Hemphill, director for North Greenville University’s Center for Church Planting and Revitalization, during a meeting of leaders from 14 Baptist state conventions. Hemphill was a guest speaker at the March 21-22 meeting in […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please see additional story featuring inmate’s testimony below this article. Robed in caps and gowns over their white prison uniforms, 33 inmates in Texas’ maximum security Darrington Prison Unit made history May 9 as they received bachelor’s degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, becoming the inaugural graduating class of the state’s first seminary […]
Editor’s note: Baltimore, where Ronjour Locke leads an urban church in the Brooklyn community, will be the site of the June 10-11 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. Ronjour Locke would meet his girlfriend Annie at McDonald’s for a breakfast date every Monday morning during college. He would grab a napkin as they talked to scribble […]
Billed as North America’s most diversity-dense city, Vancouver, British Columbia, boasts 200 language groups among its population of 2.3 million. Naturally, this Canadian region, which includes nearby Vancouver Island, has become a strategic city for the North American Mission Board’s Send North America church planting initiative. In the shadow of this towering urban melting pot, […]
In response to a study released by the Pew Research Hispanic Center, three Southern Baptist Hispanic leaders see a growing need for churches to consider the diversity among Hispanic populations as they reach out to those in their communities. The study examines the diverse countries of origin found among the nearly 52 million Hispanics living […]