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June 12, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorINDIANAPOLIS — Messengers at the SBC annual meeting are still waiting to see who the next president will be. With six candidates originally in the race, voting on Tuesday night did not result in a winner, instead leading to a run-off between the top three vote-getters — Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory […]
June 12, 2024
By The Baptist PaperINDIANAPOLIS — The past five years of turmoil surrounding the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee led to growing chatter about whether the entity had outlived its purpose, but the voices seem quieter with the recent installation of Jeff Iorg as the EC’s new leader. In his first official report to Southern Baptist […]
June 12, 2024
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist & ReflectorINDIANAPOLIS — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting voted June 11 to disaffiliate with First Baptist Church Alexandria, Virginia, by a ballot vote of 6,759 (91.78 percent) to 563 (7.65 percent). Forty-two ballots were disallowed. The church’s messengers were initially seated when they registered, but during the […]
June 12, 2024
By The Baptist PaperINDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptist messengers approved the six recommendations presented by the Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force on June 11 in Indianapolis following the release of its report on May 12. The Task Force followed up with releasing its proposed recommendations three weeks later June 3. Last year, Southern Baptist Convention […]
June 12, 2024
By Carrie Brown McWhorterThe Baptist PaperINDIANAPOLIS — The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is not just “rooted” in the Southern Baptist Convention, “it is responsive to this convention,” Brent Leatherwood, president of the ERLC, told messengers in his report during the June 12 afternoon session of the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. Leatherwood said the […]
June 11, 2024
By David DawsonCommunications specialist, TBMBINDIANAPOLIS — During a 20-minute press conference on Tuesday night, Josh Wester sounded almost like a football coach after a significant victory. Moments earlier, Wester, who serves as chair of Southern Baptist Convention’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force, had seen the SBC messengers overwhelmingly approve recommendations presented by the task force. […]
June 11, 2024
By Baptist and ReflectorINDIANAPOLIS — The 2024 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention convened June 11 with 10,199 registered messengers. Several Tennessee Baptists were elected to positions of leadership during the first session. Lindsay Nicholet of Grace Baptist Church, Franklin, and William Seale of First Baptist Church, Morristown, were elected to serve on the […]
June 11, 2024
By Erin RoachBaptist PressINDIANAPOLIS — D.J. Horton, pastor of the Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, S.C., was elected president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference on June 10 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Horton, founder of Living Worthy Ministries, won in a runoff election with Georgia pastor Brad Whitt. Chris Bolt, a […]
June 11, 2024
By Jennifer Davis RashThe Baptist PaperINDIANAPOLIS — The six announced nominees for president of the Southern Baptist Convention spent almost 90 minutes answering questions about recent SBC concerns. The Q-and-A session, which lasted late into the night on June 10, drew a crowd of roughly 2,000 Baptists. The presidential forum was hosted by The Baptist […]
June 10, 2024
By David DawsonCommunications specialist, TBMBINDIANAPOLIS — The 2024 SBC Pastors Conference ended just like it started: With a pastor from the Tennessee Baptist Convention in the pulpit. Steve Gaines, senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova and a former SBC president, preached the conference’s final sermon on Monday night. Roughly 24 hours earlier, the […]
June 10, 2024
By Brandon Elrod INDIANAPOLIS — About 51 percent of Hoosiers, inhabitants of Indiana, say they seldom or never attend church or religious services, according to a recent report by Axios Indianapolis. One local pastor is praying that Crossover will help to turn those numbers around. “We are hoping that Crossover is a spark that will […]
June 10, 2024
By Jennifer Davis RashThe Baptist PaperSouthern Baptists interested in accessing more detailed financial records from national-level, Cooperative Program-funded entities, commissions and other groups did not win over the trustees of the SBC Executive Committee. Meeting on June 10 in Indianapolis, EC members declined to recommend action stated in two motions referred from the 2023 SBC […]
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