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Cooperative Program giving for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 was roughly the same dollar amount as CP giving in the previous fiscal year. The 2025-2026 total receipts of $185,619,397.15 were slightly (.25 percent) less than last year’s total... Continue Reading »
Each summer, kids and students at Lifeway summer camps learn about missions work in difficult places. In response, this summer’s campers once again gave generously to Southern Baptist missions. Ryan Blackwell, president and CEO of Lifeway Christian Resources, presented... Continue Reading »
Southern Baptist pastors should “absolutely” be a part of the political process in order to press on issues that speak to theological and moral clarity, SBC President Willy Rice told Fox News in a weekend interview. “Pastors need to... Continue Reading »
Those wanting to make reservations to attend the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting scheduled for June 13–16 in Indianapolis can do so now. Reservations can be made through SBCAnnualMeeting.net. There are 22 hotels under contract with 3,715 rooms available... Continue Reading »
Senior pastors at Southern Baptist churches have had to make do with less pay and even less purchasing power recently. Compared to two years ago, the average Southern Baptist pastor’s pay package and total compensation have decreased while inflation... Continue Reading »
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has hired Zack Pruitt, senior counsel and director of U.S. government relations with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), to serve as vice president of public policy and general counsel for the entity. Pruitt, who... Continue Reading »
Editors’ note: A collection of photos taken by BP photographers Jim Veneman and Morris Abernathy in the days after 9/11 follows this story. Career photographer and longtime Baptist Press photo editor Jim Veneman was on the communications team at... Continue Reading »
GuideStone Financial Resources is encouraging individuals to be alert to a rapidly growing fraud scheme known as the “Phantom Hacker” scam, which the FBI says has resulted in billions of dollars in losses nationwide, particularly among older Americans. According... Continue Reading »
The Southern Baptist Convention and its Executive Committee have been named as defendants in a proposed federal class-action lawsuit against a South Carolina church and academy where authorities say a convicted sex offender was allowed to volunteer near children.... Continue Reading »
Capping a 16-year process, the International Mission Board will begin receiving 51 percent of national Cooperative Program receipts annually in the 2026–2027 fiscal year, messengers to the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando voted. Messengers rejected a proposed amendment... Continue Reading »
“If you took all the people on our planet with disabilities and added them together, you would have the third largest country in the world, just behind India and China,” asserted Tom Stolle, executive director of the Baptist Convention... Continue Reading »
SBC messengers are weary of task forces and study groups. They proved it June 9–10 with their votes on motions at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. Messengers also gave the first of two required two-thirds approvals of... Continue Reading »
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