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Southern Baptist Circle of Partnership Helps Hurricane-hit Region of South Carolina

News of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in the Carolinas began to spread when a group text message among seven Christian pilots that fly out of the Gadsden, Ala., airport kick-started a plan to send help to storm survivors. “Let’s see... Continue Reading »

Messengers refer sexual abuse reform priorities to Executive Committee

On Tuesday afternoon, June 11, messengers to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis overwhelmingly approved two recommendations brought forward by the SBC Abuse Reform and Implementation Task Force (ARITF). The recommendations hand the priorities identified by ARITF over... Continue Reading »

Sex abuse task force releases report, recommendations

On June 4, Southern Baptists’ Abuse Reform and Implementation Task Force (ARITF) released its final report and recommendations ahead of the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. The report highlights the release of a new curriculum designed to help... Continue Reading »

Memorial Day: Veteran reflects on sacrifices of fellow soldiers

Chief Warrant Officer Anthony “Tony” Prescott can’t forget the evening of Aug. 7, 2015. At 10:15 p.m., when a Taliban suicide bomber breached the gate of Camp Integrity, a small coalition base near Kabul, Afghanistan, Prescott was among the... Continue Reading »

Southern Baptists in Israel urge prayer for safety, quick, ‘miraculous’ peace in the Middle East

On Friday night, longtime Kentucky Baptist pastor and former Kentucky Baptist Convention staff member Alan Dodson walked on the beach in Ashkelon, Israel, as he met with U.S. ministry leaders planning future trips to the Holy Land. Just a... Continue Reading »

CP Sunday: Cooperative Program giving fuels gospel advancement worldwide

To look at the prospects of the Ingessana people of Sudan on purely human terms, it doesn’t appear as if they have much of a chance to come to faith in Jesus Christ. They have no Scripture, no JESUS... Continue Reading »

Georgia family visits all 32 NAMB Send cities, sees need for new churches everywhere

Numbers don’t do justice in describing the last two years for Kevin and Casey Kilgore and their family, but it’s a start. In just a little more than 24 months, the Kilgores have surpassed 70,000 miles traveled in their... Continue Reading »

2023 SBC: Resolutions address women, AI ethics, pastors, gender transitions

Messengers to the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in New Orleans approved nine resolutions, including ones on the legacy and responsibility of women fulfilling the Great Commission, the ethics of artificial intelligence, the office of pastor, and gender... Continue Reading »

State Baptist conventions take historic actions to prevent sexual abuse, care for survivors

As Southern Baptists continue to reckon with sexual abuse and take measures to prevent it and to care for survivors, many state Baptist conventions took historic actions at their annual meetings this fall. The actions in most cases were... Continue Reading »

30 years later, Andrew recalled as Disaster Relief turning point

Mickey Caison and his team of South Carolina Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers were exhausted when they pulled into First Baptist Church of Homestead, Fla., on the evening of Aug. 25, 1992, just one day after Hurricane Andrew barreled into... Continue Reading »

IMB, NAMB celebrate 175 years of helping Baptists pursue the Great Commission

When 327 delegates met at First Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., on May 8, 1845, they did more than start a new convention of Baptist churches in the South. They began a missionary movement that would, in time, start... Continue Reading »

How much can 62 cents a year do? It could fund an historic number of new IMB missionaries

If every Southern Baptist increased giving to international missions by the price of a single cup of coffee over the next five years, the International Mission Board would see historic growth in the number of missionaries it could fund.... Continue Reading »