ST. LOUIS (BP) – Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference president John Meador didn’t choose the “Live This!” theme of this year’s sessions in St. Louis. He said it was burned on his heart several years ago as God convinced him through study of 2 Timothy 4:5-6 that he had not been leading his church in evangelism and that he -- along with fellow pastors -- needed to heed Scripture’s call to “do the work of an evangelist.” Naturally, when he was elected Pastors’ Conference president, that … [Read more...]
Cooperative Program 6.45% ahead of budget
NASHVILLE (BP) – Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 6.45 percent above the year-to-date budgeted projection, and 4.15 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Frank S. Page. The total includes receipts from state conventions and fellowships, … [Read more...]
LifeWay to screen 2 movies at SBC
ST. LOUIS (BP) – LifeWay Christian Resources will provide a free breakfast for pastors and screen two new movies at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in St. Louis this summer. The focus of the LifeWay Pastors’ Breakfast will be “Leading Change in the Church,” featuring LifeWay President and CEO Thom S. Rainer, followed by a panel discussion of critical issues in effectively navigating change. The panel will include Ron Edmondson, Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, Ky.; Sam … [Read more...]
Yeats to be nominated as SBC recording secretary
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Jason Duesing, provost and professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will nominate John L. Yeats for a 20th term as recording secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention at the June 14-15 annual meeting in St. Louis. As executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention since 2011, Yeats has demonstrated leadership and dedicated support for Southern Baptists and their churches, said Duesing, associate professor of historical theology at Midwestern. “After … [Read more...]
St. Louis SBC preschool child care full
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Preschool child care registration for the 2016 SBC Annual Meeting in St. Louis reached capacity ahead of today’s May 6 deadline and has surpassed 2015 registration by more than 30 percent, according to Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee staff. Preschool registration closed May 4 with 142 registrants, SBC Executive Committee meeting planner Lynn Richmond told Baptist Press. Last year’s registration closed May 20 with 109 preschoolers, characterized as newborns … [Read more...]
Women’s roles in SBC focus of council
ATLANTA (BP) – A diverse group of 18 women is studying the perspectives and strategies women in Southern Baptist churches bring to the God-given task of fulfilling the Great Commission. Among these women is Rhonda Rhea, Pathway columnist and wife of Richie Rhea, pastor of First Baptist Church in Troy, Mo. They comprise the Women’s Ministry Advisory Council appointed by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. The council joins a list of advisory … [Read more...]
Videos seized from pro-life leader’s apartment
ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (BP) – Center for Medical Progress director David Daleiden revealed on April 5 that agents from the California attorney general’s office searched his Orange County apartment, seizing “all video footage” related to CMP’s investigation into Planned Parenthood’s involvement in the fetal tissue trade. Reporting the raid on CMP’s Facebook page, Daleiden characterized the search and seizure of the videos as an “attack on citizen journalism.” He blamed the decision for the … [Read more...]
Transgender student wins restroom case appeal
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – A federal appellate court has “for the first time ever” held that a public high school may not provide separate restrooms and locker rooms for students on the basis of biological sex alone, according to dissenting judge’s opinion. The fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., threw out a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit by a transgender student claiming the Gloucester County, Va., school board discriminated against her by not allowing her to use the … [Read more...]
Burl Cain, former Angola warden, exonerated
BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) – Burl Cain, a longtime warden who infused faith into what had been called the nation’s most violent maximum security prison, has been cleared of alleged ethics breaches following investigations by two Louisiana state agencies. “Thank you so much for the prayers,” said Cain, former warden at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, speaking to the state’s Baptists in an exclusive interview with the Baptist Message newsjournal. A Southern Baptist, Cain was Angola’s … [Read more...]
Bellevue security subdues ‘heavily armed’ man
MEMPHIS (BP) – A “heavily armed” man was subdued and arrested at the Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church Easter Sunday, the congregation’s director of security services told Baptist Press. Texas-based church security expert Jimmy Meeks told BP the incident serves as an example of “heads-up” response to a potential threat. The man – 31-year-old Marcus Donald – who was taken into custody remains under mental evaluation, according to media reports. Bellevue pastor Steve Gaines said in a … [Read more...]
Layman plans for 50,000 churches in Ethiopia
ROGERS, Ark. (BP) – Arkansas corporate executive Haileyesus Abate cries, he says, for the people of his native Ethiopia, a majority Christian nation where numerous primitive tribes still worship nature as deities and have never heard the Gospel. Typical is the nomadic, animistic Mursi Tribe in southwestern Ethiopia, whose men don’t wear clothing. Instead, they use clay and natural pigments to paint intricate, colorful patterns on their bodies to attract a bride, who likely will have had a … [Read more...]
LifeWay moves swiftly toward new headquarters
NASHVILLE (BP) – LifeWay Christian Resources appeared to leave little doubt of its aggressive timetable Wednesday (April 6) for construction of its new building, breaking ground for new headquarters just hours after closing the purchase of the property. Within two years, LifeWay expects to move 1,100 employees into a new office building on 2.5 acres in Capitol View, a mixed-use urban development in Nashville’s central business district. On Wednesday, the future site of the nine-story, … [Read more...]
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