PHOENIX (BP) – Presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention’s six seminaries noted growth in ministry, enrollment and financial support in their reports to messengers June 14 at the SBC annual meeting in Phoenix, including Jason Allen of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City. Allen’s report to the messengers at the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting reflected on God’s goodness to the institution over his now nearly five-year tenure in Kansas City. “In Kansas … [Read more...]
Resolutions: Heart of Southern Baptists in brief
I first attended the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in 1982, early in the days of the Conservative Resurgence. The next few years saw some of our best-attended and most contentious meetings. In those days, news media from everywhere descended on our meeting sites, trying to figure out who we are and what we’re doing. They mostly failed; we are notoriously hard to understand. Then and now, the aspect of convention business most comprehensible to non-Baptist observers is the … [Read more...]
‘God has shown us favor,’ Rainer reports to SBC
PHOENIX (BP) – The newly released Christian Standard Bible gives Southern Baptists an unparalleled opportunity to uphold the fidelity of God’s Word, reported Thom S. Rainer, president and CEO of LifeWay Christian Resources, to messengers at the 2017 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. “We, the Southern Baptist Convention, will be the stewards of this translation,” Rainer said during his report on June 14. “God has shown us favor.” Faithful stewardship of God’s Word has been … [Read more...]
Yeats elected to 21st term at SBC post
PHOENIX (BP) – John Yeats, the executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was reelected without opposition as the Southern Baptist Convention’s recording secretary, a position he has held for the past two decades. With no other nominees, first vice president Doug Munton cast the ballot of the convention. Yeats, was nominated by Riverview Baptist Church, Osage Beach, Spencer Plumlee. Tennessee pastor Steve Gaines was reelected by acclamation to a second term as president of the … [Read more...]
Mo. Baptists named as tellers, credentials committee members
PHOENIX – Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has announced appointees to the 2017 Credentials Committee and has named tellers for the SBC 2017 annual meeting here, June 13-14. Brandon Park, lead pastor of First Baptist Church, Raytown, was named as chair of tellers. Additionally, Brian Jump, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Clever, was named as a teller. One Missourian – Charles Smith, a vice president at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City – … [Read more...]
Jim Wells still mulling SBC role
PHOENIX – Though he has endured a string of setbacks in his cancer treatment, Jim Wells has yet to decide if he will run for a 16th term as registration secretary for the Southern Baptist Convention at its June meeting in Phoenix. “I’m leaving that open,” Wells told The Pathway. “I’m getting ready for the meeting, but if something happens with my treatment that won’t let me go, that’ll be fine too.” Wells served from 2012-15 as strategic partners team leader at the Missouri Baptist … [Read more...]
MBTS luncheon set for June 14
PHOENIX (BP) – Alumni and friends of Southern Baptists' six seminaries will gather Wednesday, June 14, in Phoenix to hear updates from the campuses and renew friendships with classmates and seminary faculty and staff. The luncheons take place in conjunction with the SBC annual meeting here. Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and College will welcome alumni and friends to its annual luncheon in Room North 120B/C of the Phoenix Convention Center immediately following the SBC annual … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists nominated to EC, entity trustee boards
NASHVILLE (BP) – Missouri Baptists are among those nominated by the 2017 SBC Committee on Nominations on the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, and as trustees for the International Mission Board, North American Mission Board, LifeWay Christian Resources, GuideStone Financial Resources, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Nominees will serve if elected by the messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist … [Read more...]
Two Mo. Baptists named to Committee on Committees
PHOENIX (BP) – Appointments to the Southern Baptist Convention's Committee on Committees have been announced by SBC President Steve Gaines, pastor of Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova, Tenn. Gaines appointed two committee members from Missouri: Mike Whitehead, Abundant Life Baptist Church, Lee's Summit; and Ted Middleton, First Baptist Church, Lewistown. The Committee on Committees will assemble in Phoenix just prior to the SBC's June 13-14 annual meeting to nominate … [Read more...]
Volunteers needed for Crossover
PHOENIX (BP) – The goal of this year’s Crossover is to “Engage Phoenix with the Gospel” through a partnership with Harvest America. North American Mission Board and Arizona Southern Baptist Convention leaders are praying for more than 5,000 salvation decisions through this summer’s Crossover activities prior to the 2017 SBC annual meeting in Phoenix. But for that to happen, they need the help of Southern Baptists to come and serve as volunteers, according to Eddy Pearson, evangelism … [Read more...]
LifeWay to offer free breakfast, workshops at SBC meeting
PHOENIX (BP) – Southern Baptists will learn more about the newly revised Christian Standard Bible (CSB) translation at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Phoenix June 13-14. LifeWay Christian Resources will host a free breakfast focusing on "Discipleship through the Word." LifeWay President and CEO Thom S. Rainer, Michael Kelley, director of discipleship, and Daniel Im, director of church multiplication, will address the essential role of Bible engagement in the process … [Read more...]
Run in Phoenix to support Hunger Relief
PHOENIX (BP) – Messengers and other participants in the Southern Baptist Convention's June meeting will be able to run to help feed the hungry. A coalition of Southern Baptist organizations is sponsoring the Global Hunger Relief Run June 14, the second day of this year's convention meeting in Phoenix. All registration fees for the event – which includes a 5K race and a one-mile, family oriented fun run – will be used to feed the hungry in the United States and throughout the … [Read more...]