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International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood encouraged all Southern Baptists to recognize their role in missions during the IMB report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. Chitwood delivered the report to messengers near the conclusion of... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptists united to celebrate 58 newly appointed International Mission Board missionaries during the June 10 opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. Church messengers watched as missionaries took the stage to share their calling... Continue Reading »
Mike Blackwood is the new director of Church Engagement for Connie Maxwell Children’s Ministries. “I cannot think of anyone more fitting than Mike Blackwood for this important role,” said Danny Nicholson, president of Connie Maxwell Children’s Ministries. “His heart... Continue Reading »
Resolutions to be considered at the 2025 South Carolina Baptist Convention annual meeting are due by midnight on Oct. 10, 2025. Submissions must include your name, address, email address, and cell phone number. Please include the name and address... Continue Reading »
In 1925, Southern Baptists faced a “percolating maelstrom of denominational uncertainty,” Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg said in his EC report to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting June 10. And in a time when solutions were needed,... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist messengers to the 2025 Annual Meeting rejected an amendment last Wednesday, June 11, that would have required the Southern Baptist Convention to publish detailed financial information like IRS Form 990 disclosures. The vote defeated efforts to force... Continue Reading »
A collective resolution on restoring moral clarity regarding gender, marriage and the family arguably covered the most ground on Southern Baptist concerns, but messengers also approved measures aimed at pornography, chemical abortion pills, international religious freedom, and the growing... Continue Reading »
Messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention submitted 28 motions in Dallas, narrowly defeated a proposed constitutional amendment and voted not to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission during the two-day session of the Convention held June 10-11.... Continue Reading »
South Carolina pastor Josh Powell spotlighted three qualities of “an approved worker of God” during the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference in Dallas. “A minister of the gospel must not be interested in creating a reputation for himself,” the pastor... Continue Reading »
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas celebrated two important milestones: the 100th anniversaries of the Baptist Faith and Message statement and the Cooperative Program. Nearly 10,600 messengers registered for the June 11-12 annual meeting, topping... Continue Reading »
Comparing the Cooperative Program to the Mighty Mississippi, Tony Wolfe told Southern Baptist messengers, “What we’ve been entrusted is not some rippled stream. It is a fast-flowing river, and it is full of torrential currents that support the entire... Continue Reading »
During the June 10 afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving. Referencing Joshua 4, he shared the story of God instructing... Continue Reading »
Pastors were encouraged to keep their focus on God’s work and God’s approval during the second session of the SBC Pastors’ Conference June 9 in Dallas. The session featured sermons by David Kim, Jamie Dew and Josh Powell at... Continue Reading »
Clint Pressley was overwhelmingly reelected president of the Southern Baptist Convention. His second term will commence at the close of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. David Morrill, a member of Applewood Baptist Church in Colorado, contested Pressley’s... Continue Reading »
SBC Pastors’ Conference President D.J. Horton will occupy a spot on a special committee alongside former Send Relief President Bryant Wright and Ted Traylor, longtime pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., to study the future of the... Continue Reading »
“Let the nations be glad,” urged WMU Missions Celebration speakers as they celebrated the anniversaries of the IMB Journeyman Program, the North American Mission Board’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and the WMU Foundation. This year’s WMU celebration at the... Continue Reading »
A sweltering Saturday in Dallas served as the capstone to a week of gospel-centered outreach and service to the communities in the metroplex as Southern Baptists gathered for Crossover Dallas to reach the city. Volunteers from churches across the... Continue Reading »
“The hour of magnetic concern” had arrived at the SBC Annual Meeting, as the Tennessee Baptist and Reflector put it. The Convention’s confession of faith was the topic at hand. Messengers were debating whether to tailor it specifically to... Continue Reading »
Welcome to our hometown of Dallas. GuideStone, the only one of the historic boards of the Southern Baptist Convention based west of the Mississippi River, has grown up alongside the city. In 1918, when Southern Baptists selected Dallas as... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is relaunching its abuse prevention and response website with expanded resources to equip churches to create safe spaces for children and adults to worship God unhindered by abuse. An updated Essentials 2.0 curriculum,... Continue Reading »
It was a challenging time for the SBC’s Cooperative Program (CP). The U.S. economy slowed. Baptist leaders committed embarrassing and costly sins. As some alleged creeping liberalism in the Convention, doctrinal squabbles threatened cooperation. The SBC president put it... Continue Reading »
Resolutions to be presented to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting include calls to ban sports betting and pornography and strong statements on the natural family and religious liberty. The SBC Committee on Resolutions released its proposed resolutions... Continue Reading »
Do Southern Baptists believe women can be pastors? Recent inaction by the SBC’s Credentials Committee has left this an open question. But this month in Dallas, Southern Baptists will have another opportunity to answer definitively. Pastor Juan Sanchez announced... Continue Reading »
Pastors face unique challenges in their role and often feel overwhelmed, but few decide to step away from the pulpit and pursue another career. Only around 1 in 100 pastors leave the ministry each year, according to a Lifeway... Continue Reading »
Editor’s note: This piece is a bonus piece in a five-part series leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas. “His going cast the... Continue Reading »
Q&A with Tony Wolfe, co-editor of “A Unity of Purpose” In 2023, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee assembled a small team to help prepare for the centennial anniversary of the Cooperative Program in 2025. Tony Wolfe, executive director-treasurer... Continue Reading »
After years of limiting gambling to the elusive dream of instant wealth by finding that lucky lottery ticket, the South Carolina Legislature is considering three bills that would transform our state into a gambler’s paradise. The Equine Advancement Act... Continue Reading »
The South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBaptist) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Donald King, who faithfully served as director of Leadership Development since 2018. Donald passed away peacefully on May 20, 2025, following a courageous battle with... Continue Reading »
By Nancy Lyons Thomas When I started my third year of teaching history at Poynor Junior High in Florence, S.C., following graduation from Furman University in 1962, I could not have imagined that I would start the 1965 school... Continue Reading »
So far this year, at least 5,300 Southern Baptist trained Disaster Relief volunteers have responded to 40 natural disasters across the United States, from wildfires in California to storms on the eastern side of the nation. That was before... Continue Reading »
June walked into the jungle and arrived in a village that had never heard of Jesus. June was discipled in a SCBaptist church that cooperated with over 1,600 churches this past year by giving through the Cooperative Program. She... Continue Reading »
Four thousand and one Southern Baptists from across the states entered the newly constructed Ellis Auditorium Wednesday, May 13, 1925, as the morning sun crested the eastern hills which stood guard over the Crossroads of the South. On the... Continue Reading »
Search and rescue efforts continue across Kentucky even as recovery efforts have begun in Missouri following deadly storms that swept across the region May 16-17. More than 25 people were killed by the storms, and thousands suffered injury and... Continue Reading »
“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1, NKJV) Our testimonies are all different. I enjoy sharing with others how the local church is an essential part of my testimony. My home church ministered to my... Continue Reading »
Louisiana pastor Jay Adkins says he plans to nominate current SBC Recording Secretary Nathan Finn for another term when Southern Baptists gather in Dallas, June 10-11. “Dr. Finn is imminently qualified to serve in this area. He is a... Continue Reading »
So, what do you think about the new Pope? That might be a common question these days, especially since the new Pope is an American. Last Thursday, May 8, 2025, thousands of people gathered to celebrate the appointment of... Continue Reading »
SBC President Clint Pressley has announced that Jonathan Coleman will chair the Registration Committee for the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas in June. Coleman, pastor of Harvey Baptist Church in Stephenville, Texas, was a member of the committee... Continue Reading »
Exactly 100 years to the day and within a few hundred yards of the exact location where the event occurred, Tony Wolfe, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, led a Centennial Celebration on May 13, commemorating adoption... Continue Reading »
(Editor’s note: This piece is the second in a five-part series leading up to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Baptist Faith and Message at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas.) Baptists seldom go through the... Continue Reading »
It’s been two years since the International Mission Board re-emphasized finding and researching unengaged and unreached people groups around the world. Project 3000 was born out of Southern Baptists’ commitment to ensure every people group has access to the... Continue Reading »
Charleston Southern University celebrated commencement with a service for master’s and doctoral students on May 8, and a few events for those receiving bachelor’s degrees on May 9. All participants walked the stage of Lightsey Chapel — the very... Continue Reading »
Tony Wolfe hopes the 100th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program will remind members of the world’s largest Protestant movement how interdependent they are. Wolfe is leading a celebration to mark the anniversary May 13. “The event... Continue Reading »
Nominations to be considered at the 2025 SCBaptist Convention Annual Meeting are due no later than midnight on May 31. The nomination process utilizes the DocuSign platform. Once submitted, the forms are automatically routed to the appropriate Convention staff.... Continue Reading »
Charleston Southern University held an official ribbon cutting ceremony May 5 at Summerville Airport in celebration of its purchase of Chucktown Flight Training, LLC. The Charleston Southern aeronautics program began in 2021 with 19 students and one faculty member... Continue Reading »
Gather your friends and celebrate God’s work around the world through His people at the WMU Missions Celebration just prior to the SBC Annual Meeting. “We want this to be more than an event,” said Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director... Continue Reading »
In 2024, the Southern Baptist Convention baptized more new members than in any of the previous seven years but still saw an 18th consecutive year of overall membership decline. The 12,722,266 members of Southern Baptist congregations mark a 2... Continue Reading »
In the wake of recent closure announcements from Limestone University and St. Andrews University, Charleston Southern University is stepping forward with a plan that offers impacted students a clear, streamlined path forward in their academic journey with minimal disruption.... Continue Reading »
Limestone University, a historic Christian college located in Gaffney, S.C., and founded in 1845, recently announced that they will be closing the university both in-campus and online after the end of the current semester. Their current enrollment is roughly... Continue Reading »
The SBC Committee on Nominations has released its 2025 report in advance of the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting to be held June 10-11. Per SBC bylaws, the report is to be released through Baptist Press no later than 45... Continue Reading »
Energy infused the worship center of West Edgecomb Baptist Church in Rocky Mount as the digital timer on the screen at front counted down the minutes. The congregation had reason to celebrate on Sunday, April 27. Five were baptized.... Continue Reading »
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