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GROWTH AMID TUMULT: GuideStone Funds, at 10-yr. point, rivals competitors

GuideStone Funds, launched just 15 days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has prospered through a turbulent decade that included two recessions and a national financial crisis.... Continue Reading »

FROM THE STATES: Hawaii, La., S.C., Penn./N.J & Iowa evangelism/missions news

Today"s From the States features items from:
Hawaii Pacific Baptist
Louisiana Baptist Message
Lexington Baptist Church (South Carolina)
Penn-Jersey Baptist
Storm Lake Pilot Tribune (Iowa)

Mission team finds sharing gospel
in Korea as simple as learning ABC
By Staff

HONOLULU, Hawaii (Hawaii Pacific Baptist).... Continue Reading »

Calif. ’12 marijuana push may be dead

>A major supporter of legalizing marijuana in California says a pro-pot ballot initiative likely won"t make it on the ballot in 2012 because there is not enough money behind it.... Continue Reading »

Poll: pastors want IRS out of pulpit

Protestant pastors overwhelmingly agree government should not attempt to regulate pastors" sermons through re-evaluation of a church"s tax exemptions, according to a new survey by LifeWay Research.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: Rick Perry is no George W. Bush

Those who either love or despise former President Bush need to understand that Perry should be neither accepted nor rejected based on their opinion of Bush.... Continue Reading »

FIRST-PERSON: Remembering Sept. 12, the day after

But I also remember well Sept. 12, 2001, the day after the fateful event.... Continue Reading »

Background checks are on the rise, LifeWay reports

Since launching background checks"in 2008, more than 1,656 different churches or organizations have conducted 25,470 background checks.... Continue Reading »

EMBRACE: ‘UUPG’ training gears up; IMB to hold 3 more conferences

Launched at June"s year"s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix, the Embrace initiative represents a radical addition to Southern Baptists" traditional missionary-sending model and an ambitious goal for the denomination"s 46,000 churches: a lifetime commitment to "do whatever... Continue Reading »

Flood recovery remains Pa., N.Y. challenge

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 »

Vt. Baptists persevere in aiding victims

>At a flood-damaged Vermont home, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief assessors offered the residents a win-win solution: They would evaluate the home and have a cleanup crew come work for free.... Continue Reading »

N.C. House passes marriage amendment

The bill (S.B. 514) now goes to the Senate, and if passed there, would go before voters in 2012, potentially making North Carolina the 30th state nationwide -- and the last one in the Southeast -- to define marriage... Continue Reading »

Re-flooding in Northeast stymies Baptist DR

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief coordinators are being forced to re-calibrate response plans for the Northeast because of a second round of flooding caused by heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lee, which has forced the evacuation of as many as... Continue Reading »

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