BIRMINGHAM (BP) – David and Zoey Lee know they can go as Southern Baptist missionaries today because Christian believers in the past sacrificed to get the Gospel to their homeland – a truth they shared June 11 during a Sending Celebration to honor the appointment of 26 new Southern Baptist international missionaries. “Many missionaries came to Korea and laid down their lives for our people,” said David Lee. “We would not be able to stand here without their obedience to God’s … [Read more...]
Yeats re-elected recording secretary alongside diverse slate of SBC officers
BIRMINGHAM – John Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was again re-elected to serve as the Southern Baptist Convention’s recording secretary during the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala. He was nominated by Jon Nelson, pastor of Soma Community Church, Jefferson City. “I’ve witnessed first-hand his consistent leadership across our state. He loves to invite younger men to walk alongside him in the realm of his denominational life, but also in being … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Mandrell announced as candidate for LifeWay president and CEO
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The presidential search committee of LifeWay Christian Resources’ trustees has unanimously recommended Dr. Ben Mandrell become the entity’s next president and CEO. LifeWay’s board of trustees will vote on the recommendation during a special-called session Friday, June 28, in Atlanta. If elected, Mandrell will become the 10th president of the 128-year-old organization. Mandrell, 42, serves as lead pastor of Storyline Fellowship in Arvada, Colo. He and his family moved … [Read more...]
20,000 homes: Crossover’s goal for SBC outreach
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – As Southern Baptists from across the country make plans for the SBC annual meeting in June, they’re also preparing to engage more than 20,000 homes with the Gospel through Crossover activities. The North American Mission Board and Alabama State Board of Missions will mobilize 400 teams of volunteers to knock on 20,000 doors in the metro Birmingham area on Saturday, June 8, the weekend before the SBC annual meeting. “This year we have a really simplified approach … [Read more...]
Greear to be re-nominated for SBC president
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Pennsylvania pastor K. Marshall Williams announced April 12. “In these troublesome and turbulent times, we need a pastor-preacher-prophet that will stand in the gap and lead with confident, consistent, convictional, Christo-centric, courageous courtesy,” Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, wrote in a statement announcing his … [Read more...]
218 degrees mark Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s largest commencement ceremony
KANSAS CITY (BP) – Graduates, families and friends gathered in the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's Daniel Lee Chapel for the 65th commencement exercises May 3, launching theologically-trained Gospel ministers into service. In comprising the seminary's largest graduating class, 218 degrees were conferred – 33 undergraduate, 153 graduate and 31 doctoral degrees and 1 post-graduate certificate. Additionally, two students were among the first to complete Midwestern's Korean-language … [Read more...]
Yeats to be re-nominated as SBC recording secretary
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Missouri Baptist Convention executive director John L. Yeats will be nominated for a 23rd term as the Southern Baptist Convention's recording secretary, Missouri church planter Jon Nelson announced today (May 3). Nelson, MBC first vice president and pastor of Soma Community Church in Jefferson City, Mo., near historically black Lincoln University, said in a news release, "As a Missouri church planter, officer of the state convention and member of the Missouri … [Read more...]
Midwestern Journal of Theology’s spring edition released
KANSAS CITY – Midwestern Seminary released its Spring 2019 issue of the Midwestern Journal of Theology on May 1, featuring works by several of the school’s faculty and doctoral students as well as academics from across the Southern Baptist Convention. The spring edition addresses topics such as the gospel of John, the #MeToo Movement, a commonality between C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot, and two articles on the role of the Holy Spirit. President Jason Allen said of the Journal’s … [Read more...]
TRUSTEES: MBTS adopts Nashville Statement
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Assembling for its spring meeting on April 8-9, members of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's trustees adopted the Nashville Statement as an additional confessional statement and conducted other seminary business including budget approval, faculty moves and reelecting board officers. During his report, MBTS President Jason Allen announced to the board a need for the school to adopt the Nashville Statement, which was published in 2017 by the Council on … [Read more...]
‘A day of reckoning in the SBC’: Patterson discusses Conservative Resurgence in exclusive interview
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. NEW ORLEANS – Four years after Southern Baptists debated about Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s infamous liberal professor, Ralph Elliott, and four years after they accepted a new revision of the Baptist Faith … [Read more...]
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: 50 floors above Johannesburg
April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. Paul Chitwood is president of the SBC's International Mission Board. For information about the Cooperative Program, go to sbc.net/cp. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP) – Standing on the observation deck of the tallest building in Africa and looking out across the sprawling city below, I was powerfully reminded of the eternal importance of the cooperative mission work of Southern Baptists. Johannesburg, the city … [Read more...]
Floyd to champion Great Commission to ‘exhaustion’
DALLAS (BP) – The Great Commission, the Cooperative Program, supporting pastors and listening to Southern Baptists will be among the early emphases of Ronnie Floyd's presidency at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, he said during a press conference and a Facebook Live session April 2. "Our missional vision as Southern Baptists is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations," Floyd said following … [Read more...]
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