NASHVILLE (BP) – Updated housing options for the SBC Annual Meeting were available beginning April 26 at 8 a.m. Central Time. Those with hotel reservations at or near the Gaylord Opryland Hotel will have the opportunity to shift to any of 19 downtown hotel options. The SBC Executive Committee announced April 15 that the annual meeting, scheduled for June 15-16, would move from the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center to the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. The decision … [Read more...]
MBTS Spurgeon Library receives donation, releases latest ‘Lost Sermons’ volumes
KANSAS CITY – The Spurgeon Library at Midwestern Seminary recently added to its growing collection of resources courtesy of a generous donation from Leroy Cole, a former longtime pastor in the Flint, Michigan area. The donation adds hundreds of new volumes and historical artifacts to the Spurgeon Library, including original editions of Spurgeon’s own publications and secondary sources written about the 19th century Baptist preacher. Library curator Geoffrey Chang and the seminary were … [Read more...]
MBC’s John Yeats to be renominated as SBC Recording Secretary
NASHVILLE (BP) – Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats has served 23 terms as Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) recording secretary. He'll be renominated as recording secretary during the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Jonathan Hayashi, lead pastor of the Northern Hills Baptist Church in Kansas City, Mo., announced the upcoming nomination Friday (April 23). “I have had the great privilege of witnessing Dr. John Yeats’ leadership and shepherding … [Read more...]
2021 SBC Annual Meeting to remain in Nashville, shift venues
NASHVILLE (BP) – The 2021 SBC Annual Meeting will move to the Music City Center in downtown Nashville June 15-16, the SBC Executive Committee announced, April 15. According to Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, the shift was made in order to allow adequate space to “provide abundant space conducive to holding a meeting that is efficient, effective and safe for every attendee” while adhering to local COVID-19 protocols. He said the decision was made in … [Read more...]
SBC resolutions submission portal opens
NASHVILLE (BP) – The submission portal for 2021 SBC resolutions opened April 15 at 12:01 am. In accordance with SBC Bylaw 20, proposed resolutions may be submitted as early as April 15 but no later than 15 days prior to the SBC Annual Meeting, giving the Resolutions Committee a two-week period in which to consider submissions. Committee members also may propose resolutions for consideration during its deliberations. Resolutions may not be submitted during the annual meeting. Proposed … [Read more...]
Midwestern Seminary trustees celebrate record enrollment, financial health
KANSAS CITY (MBTS) – For the first time since October 2019, President Jason Allen and members of Midwestern Seminary’s administration hosted the institution’s trustees on April 12. The meeting provided a context for key seminary updates and essential institutional business. Throughout the day, trustees received an array of seminary updates and conducted business at the committee level before the Board convened for its plenary session in the late afternoon. Spring enrollment and … [Read more...]
‘Celebrate CP Day’ set for April 25
JEFFERSON CITY – What happens when you give to your local Missouri Baptist church? What do your tithes and offerings actually do? Your church voluntarily invests a portion of those gifts in the Cooperative Program, which in turn supports collegiate ministries on 26 campuses, helps senior citizens, starts new churches, advances Christian education, provides disaster relief, rescues young people from human trafficking, keeps nearly 9,000 full-time missionaries in the field and much … [Read more...]
Missouri DR responds to Kentucky floods
STANTON, Ky. – A team of ten Missouri Disaster Relief (DR) volunteers traveled to Stanton, Ky., the week of March 7-13 to assist with flood relief. The Missouri team was an Incident Management Team (IMT) sent to help coordinate the efforts of several Kentucky Baptist DR teams who were responding with flood recovery efforts. Eddie Barnhill of Charleston was the leader of this team. He said the Kentucky River and some of it’s tributaries overflowed their banks in several places during a … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptist leaders train Montana pastors, wives at spring retreat
HELENA, Mont. – MPact is an annual event in the springtime where Montana Southern Baptist pastors and wives gather for inspiration and training. This year Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) leaders from the convention offices as well as from Crossway Baptist Church in Springfield went up to Montana to help lead the event. Missouri Baptists have recently established a new 7-year missions partnership with Montana Baptists and convention leaders were invited to provide music and leadership … [Read more...]
Executive Committee disfellowships four churches, receives ERLC task force report
NASHVILLE (BP) – At the first in-person SBC Executive Committee meeting in more than a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SBC President J.D. Greear and SBC EC President/CEO Ronnie Floyd called for Southern Baptists to re-engage with a call to take the Gospel to the nations. EC members also voted to disfellowship four churches cited in the Credentials Committee report, accepted amendments to the mission and ministry statement of Lifeway Christian Resources and received a report from the … [Read more...]
Floyd urges Great Commission vision
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd urged Southern Baptists to return to unified Great Commission cooperation as he lamented “a sound of war in the camp” of Southern Baptists and issued an updated Vision 2025 tonight (Feb. 22) at the EC meeting in Nashville. Before laying out the details of Vision 2025, Floyd urged EC members to put aside pride, anger and personal independence and to “lead the way in helping create a Bible-based, … [Read more...]
Five years after ‘reset,’ IMB sees bigger missionary pipeline on the way
RICHMOND, Va. (BP) – The five years after what was termed a historic financial and operational “reset” for the International Mission Board have brought two of the highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offerings ever, but also room for growth in accordance with the goals of Vision 2025. In August 2015 then-IMB President David Platt and senior leadership announced a plan to address revenue shortfalls within the organization. The decision to do so, Platt said in a town hall presentation, followed a … [Read more...]
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