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June 14, 2023
By David DawsonCommunications specialist, TBMBNEW ORLEANS — In a show of support for the on-going efforts to make Southern Baptist churches “the safest place on earth” for children and other minors, SBC messengers voted overwhelmingly in favor of extending the work of the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) for another year. The vote came […]
June 14, 2023
By Grace ThorntonThe Baptist PaperIn addition to reelecting Bart Barber as Southern Baptist Convention president for another year, messengers to the annual meeting June 13–14 in New Orleans elected a slate of other leaders. Jay Adkins, lead pastor of First Baptist Church Westwego, Louisiana, was elected first vice president. Adkins received 2,393 votes, or 63.27 […]
June 14, 2023
By Meredith FlynnThe Baptist PaperNEW ORLEANS — For 178 years, Southern Baptists have cooperated in fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, Willie McLaurin told messengers Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans. The interim president and CEO for the Southern Baptist Executive Committee (EC) called Southern Baptists to renewed cooperation and a deeper dependence on […]
June 13, 2023
By David DawsonCommunications specialist, TBMBNEW ORLEANS — Bart Barber was reelected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, winning by a wide margin against Mike Stone at the SBC’s annual meeting. Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, received 68 percent of the votes in his bid for a second term. […]
June 13, 2023
By Myriah Snyder IMB writerNEW ORLEANS — Rachel grew up with a deep understanding of what the missionary life looked like. She didn’t learn it at church though. She learned it as she played with her cousins and sat around a family holiday table and heard her aunts and uncles share their adventures of watching […]
June 13, 2023
By David RoachBaptist PressNEW ORLEANS — Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rummage, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, will lead planning of next year’s SBC Pastors’ […]
June 13, 2023
By Eric ReedIllinois Baptist State AssociationNEW ORLEANS — SBC Executive committee chair David Sons seemed relieved to announce he would not seek reelection to the post, but the ensuing vote to choose a successor could be interpreted as descriptive of a divide in denomination politics. The new chair is Philip Robertson, pastor of Philadelphia Baptist […]
June 13, 2023
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and ReflectorHundreds of Southern Baptist women from across the nation explored the theme, “Imago Dei: Created in His Image — Female” during the annual Pastors Wives/Women’s Conference held June 12 in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference. One of the primary topics covered by speakers dealt with the confusion […]
June 13, 2023
By Grace Thornton The Baptist PaperFor his sermon on mercy, Bartholomew Orr turned to a text that might seem surprising — the story of Jesus cleansing the temple in Matthew 21. Orr, senior pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, had been tasked with unpacking Matthew 5:7 — “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall […]
June 12, 2023
By Brian BlackwellLouisiana Baptist MessageNEW ORLEANS — Seventeen people went all in for Jesus on June 10, participating in believer’s baptism during a block party at Celebration Church’s Lower St. Bernard campus in Violet, Louisiana. One by one, each person came in and out of a water-filled portable trough and was greeted with applause during the […]
June 12, 2023
By Jennifer Rash DavisThe Baptist PaperNEW ORLEANS — Messengers to the SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans have a few hours left to carefully think through the various items coming before them during the business sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. The much-anticipated opportunity to vote on a proposal to revise the SBC constitution to ban women […]
June 12, 2023
By Meredith Flynn The Baptist PaperNEW ORLEANS — Roc Collins, strategic objectives director for the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, said the source of joy for Christians should never be in question. “Joy is the overflowing expression of the Lord Jesus living in us,” said Collins while addressing attendees at the 2023 SBC Pastors’ Conference. […]
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