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...]
Brad Graves to be Pastors’ Conference nominee
PHOENIX (BP) – Brad Graves, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ada, Okla., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference, according to an announcement by Missouri pastor Malachi O'Brien. O'Brien, SBC second vice president and pastor of prayer and church revitalization at First Baptist Church in Raytown, Mo., stated in an April 13 announcement to Baptist Press Graves "is a leader that God is using mightily." "Just recently, First Baptist Church … [Read more...]
IMB to continue limitless challenge
PHOENIX (BP) – During the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Phoenix, International Mission Board personnel will share how Southern Baptists can be a part of making disciples of all nations as God's ordinary people empowered by His limitless power to fulfill Christ's Great Commission. The SBC annual meeting June 13-14 also will feature a "Sending Celebration" as the IMB celebrates missionaries, along with their church families. Together they are answering God's call to … [Read more...]
After 20 years in SBC post, Yeats to be renominated
PHOENIX (BP) – John L. Yeats, first elected as the Southern Baptist Convention’s recording secretary in 1997, will be re-nominated for the post during the SBC’s June 13-14 annual meeting in Phoenix. Yeats, executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention, was serving as editor of the Indiana Baptist convention newsjournal when first elected as SBC recording secretary 20 years ago during the 1997 annual meeting in Dallas. Spencer Plumlee, pastor of Riverview Baptist Church in … [Read more...]
MBTS’ Duesing appointed to Resolutions Committee
PHOENIX (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines has named the members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 13-14 SBC annual meeting in Phoenix. One Missourian was named to the committee: Jason Duesing, provost and associate professor of historical theology, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City; member, Antioch Bible Baptist Church, Gladstone. Barrett Duke of Montana was named chairman of the SBC Committee on Resolutions by SBC President Steve … [Read more...]
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