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The North American Mission Board has appointed Abi Elrod as a US/C2 missionary, a position of service in the United States or Canada for two years. Elrod, currently employed with the South Carolina Baptist Convention as an assistant in... Continue Reading »

First Baptist Church in Springdale, Ark., is suspending its national and international television broadcast to increase contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program by 25 percent. Ronnie Floyd, First Baptist's senior pastor and chairman of the Great Commission... Continue Reading »

A group of 13 adults and youth from West Side Baptist Church, West Columbia, went to Iquitos, Peru, June 3-12. The group traveled by boat six hours down the Amazon River to the village of Huanta, which served as... Continue Reading »

Sixty percent of Mission:Dignity recipients are widows. One of four recipients is a pastor's widow age 85 or older. Through its Mission:Dignity ministry, GuideStone Financial Resources assists retired Southern Baptist ministers and their wives who have significant financial needs.... Continue Reading »

More than 500 people gathered May 6 for a National Day of Prayer event at the Myrtle Beach Speedway. The prayer event was sponsored by Waccamaw Baptist Association in cooperation with the Myrtle Beach chapter of Raceway Ministries.... Continue Reading »

At a garbage dump on the northern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, gaunt and weary Haitians formed two lines to wait in the searing sun June 20 for Buckets of Hope to be unloaded from a truck near Eglise Baptiste Canaan.... Continue Reading »

Connie Maxwell Children's Home celebrated its 34th biennial alumni reunion recently on the main campus in Greenwood, where 600 alumni and family members shared stories that brought laughter and tears.... Continue Reading »

A resolution on the 'scandal of Southern Baptist divorce? was an attempt 'to speak first to ourselves,? the chairman of the Resolutions Committee said after its approval by messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in... Continue Reading »

In November 2009, the WMU members of Brownsville Baptist Church, Pee Dee Association, were planning their annual meal for the shut-ins and talked about volunteering at a soup kitchen during the holidays. Church member Kitty Carabo spoke up and... Continue Reading »

Perhaps the saddest manifestation of the antisocial disease that now permeates our culture is not rudeness or violence, but the indifference that leads so many neighbors to ignore each other's existence. Is this the ?life, liberty and the pursuit... Continue Reading »

At 102 years old, Ruth Carlisle still knew the power of prayer. When one of the hospice workers tending to Carlisle told her about a grandchild who had been diagnosed in the womb with a serious birth defect, Carlisle... Continue Reading »

Every movement we make in response to God has a ripple effect. Its gentle waves spread out and extend far beyond its source. Most of the time, we don't know the reach of the ripples, or the impact they... Continue Reading »