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Midwestern Seminary’s Spanish studies department strengthens churches in Puerto Rico

Arnaldo Achucarro, director and assistant dean of Spanish studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, travelled to Puerto Rico from late February to early March. His goal was to strengthen church partnerships through the For the Church Conference Puerto Rico, teaching in residential cohort classes, sharing at the Annual Meeting of the Baptist Convention of Puerto Rico, and preaching at Iglesia Bautista Sin Paredes.
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Pedro Aquino gets his medal

Pedro F. Aquino, Jr., is to receive a Congressional Gold Medal this Saturday, March 21, 14 years after his death in 2012 at age 89. His story is one that shows the value for veterans and their families in preserving copies of military records and for Christian leaders and their families saving theirs.
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Illinois church severely damaged by tornado

Journey Church in Kankakee suffered severe damage from a tornado that tore through the community on Tuesday evening (March 10). The church, located on the south side of town, lost two thirds of its roof, with the remaining portion receiving significant damage.
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Compassion ministry helps church planting missionary family “go big” in Puerto Rico

No one would've guessed that "Go big or go home" was an Ortiz family truism. After all, when God called Oscar Ortiz and his wife, Wendy, to plant a church in Río Grande, they didn't first launch a marketing campaign, send out glossy, full-color mailers, or pay for billboards, radio ads, and social media blasts.
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God’s Not Done Here: Church planter blends old with new to bring renewal to New Orleans neighborhood

They didn’t know how much longer they had left. But they knew it wasn’t long. “It was bad,” Linda Morrow says. “We had no money, no people. We were just barely getting by with a handful of senior citizens.”
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Collegiate church planting missionary sees God do “More than we could’ve have ever imagined”

Erin Chapmond and Ellie Dunlevy are two of the more than 50,000 students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the birth and growth of almost-instantaneous friendships is an everyday event. That makes West Lafayette, according to North American missionary Jordan Adams, the perfect place to plant a church.
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NAMB missionaries experience generosity: How the Annie Offering Is more than a gift

There's no way they could've known what was coming. When Michael and Traci Byrd of St. Louis, Mo., got a phone call telling them they'd been selected to be Annie Armstrong featured missionaries in 2022, they were appropriately humbled, honored, excited, and encouraged. But now, years later, they know better than anyone how the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering really is more than a gift.
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Texas pastor George Schroeder to be nominated for SBC Recording Secretary

Florida pastor Dean Inserra has announced his intention to nominate Texas pastor George Schroeder as SBC Recording Secretary at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. Schroeder serves as lead pastor at First Baptist Church in Fairfield, Texas.
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WRAP-UP: EC members prioritize CP, disability ministry

In a meeting that was at once routine and consequential, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee adopted a realigned CP allocation budget, affirmed the need for ministry to those with disabilities, discontinued fellowship with two churches and dealt with messenger motions referred to it from the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting.
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New SBC disability ministry emphasis would mobilize entities, conventions, churches, WMU

A new ministry emphasis to the disabled would mobilize entities, state conventions and the Woman’s Missionary Union in evangelizing those with special needs everywhere Southern Baptists share the Gospel.
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Proposed CP allocation budget moves IMB to 51 percent

SBC Executive Committee members voted today (Feb. 17) to approve a 2026-27 Cooperative Program allocation budget that places 51 percent of those gifts with the International Mission Board, a recommendation first approved in 2010 with the implementation of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.
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For CP, ‘the sky is not falling,’ pastor survey finds

Southern Baptist pastors enthusiastically support the Cooperative Program (CP), according to a survey released Feb. 16 at the SBC Executive Committee’s meeting in Nashville. But they also see opportunity for better CP vision casting to rising generations.

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