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(Editors’ note: The following is Part 2 of a four-part series devoted to the role of Baptists, particularly South Carolinians, in the development of religious liberty in America. Additional pieces will run in recognition to the nation’s 250th anniversary.)... Continue Reading »
(Editors’ note: The following is Part 1 of a 4-part series devoted to the role of Baptists in the development of religious liberty in America. Additional pieces will run in recognition of the nation’s 250th anniversary. Baptists in the... Continue Reading »
Baptists have a confessional responsibility. In line with this confessional responsibility is an agreement about cooperation in the calling of training ministers of the gospel and planting of churches at home and abroad. The specific issue about confessional identity... Continue Reading »
Figures on and feedback from messengers at the recent Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Orlando are now available through two online tools. A record number of exhibitors and churches representing every state made up the second-largest messenger registration... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley urged messengers to live with doctrinal clarity, gospel conviction, humility, patience and unity, saying Southern Baptists must “walk worthy” of the calling they have received if they are to remain faithful to the... Continue Reading »
More than 60,000 people were mobilized through Send Relief last year, helping meet needs for more than 2.5 million people and creating more than 816,000 gospel conversations through local churches around the world. During the Send Relief presentation at... Continue Reading »
An amendment specifying the role of pastor and the act of preaching as limited to men, brought by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler, received the first of two required two-thirds votes by messengers on June 10 to... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg championed increased giving to international missions in his June 9 report to the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting, also commending the findings of a Special Needs Ministry Task Force. He encouraged messengers... Continue Reading »
Travis Kerns, Three Rivers Baptist Association mission strategist and member of Greer First Baptist Church, was elected as SBC recording secretary during the Orlando SBC Annual Meeting’s Tuesday afternoon session. He won a three-way race with Mississippi pastor Jonathan... Continue Reading »
Ahead of their annual meeting, Southern Baptists intentionally engaged the host city of Orlando to serve the community and proclaim the gospel. Tuesday morning, June 9, North American Mission Board Vice President of Evangelism Tim Dowdy shared that more... Continue Reading »
Florida pastor Willy Rice defeated Josh Powell, lead pastor of Taylors First Baptist Church in Taylors, S.C., in the presidential election during the Wednesday afternoon session of the 2026 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Orlando, Fla. Rice, senior... Continue Reading »
Editor’s Note: Wayne Bray, pastor of First Baptist Simpsonville/Upstate Church in South Carolina, was elected president of the 2027 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Indianapolis. Pastors should be thinking about how God might use their churches and the Southern Baptist... Continue Reading »
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