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Colorado fire opens hearts to the Gospel

The Aspen Acres fire increased in size by 2,000 acres on Sunday, July 5, bringing the total to more than 89,000 blackened acres affecting three Southern Baptist churches near the San Isabel National Forest southwest of Pueblo, in Beulah, Rye and Colorado City. Evacuations affected about 11,000 area residents – 3,800 homes – before Sunday’s additional evacuations were announced for Coal Creek, Williamsburg and Rockvale.
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Joni Eareckson Tada offers support of Southern Baptist disability ministry efforts

Joni and Friends disability ministry founder and CEO Joni Eareckson Tada has offered her ministry’s support in implementing the disability ministry recommendations messengers adopted at the 2026 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting. 
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New demographics tool unveiled to ethnic leaders in Orlando

Victor Chayasirisobhon, director of missions for the Orange County (Calif.) Southern Baptist Association, expressed amazement at the wealth of information he was seeing at a meeting for ethnic leaders at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. The meeting was designed to roll out a new web-based tool for leaders of ethnic church networks wanting to take a deep dive into area demographics.
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Birch Tree First Baptist Church’s Hannah Harper wins American Idol

Even as Harper traveled thousands of miles to Los Angeles to compete on American Idol, the support of her church and community remained strong. FBC Birch Tree hosted several watch parties on Monday nights, gathering to pray beforehand for all of the contestants.
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Truth and Unity Amendment receives initial two-thirds approval

An amendment specifying the role of pastor and the act of preaching as limited to men, brought by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler, received the first of two required two-thirds votes by messengers on June 10 to become part of the SBC Constitution. Among 8,074 votes cast, reported registration secretary Don Currence, 6,028 (76.66 percent) were in favor of the amendment. There were 2,026 (25.9 percent) votes against. Twenty votes were disallowed. 
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Diverse group of churches, ministries come together for evangelism through Crossover Orlando

Twenty-eight years ago, members from First Baptist Church in Kissimmee began to pray that the church might someday own the field that adjoined their church property. As part of the events surrounding Crossover from June 1 to June 6, the church hosted its first outreach efforts on the land they recently acquired. FBC Kissimmee is one of more than 50 churches in and around the Orlando area that hosted Crossover outreach events.

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