MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) – It might be easy to look at Hallay Cagle’s life and ministry and think the doors just swung wide open. Not so. “The community was very closed off,” Cagle said of a Mixteco population living in a secluded apartment complex in Montgomery, Ala. She’d gone there as a high schooler trying to build relationships with what she thought was a Spanish-speaking people group from Mexico. “We went there to do a backyard Bible club, and we had brought a Spanish translator with … [Read more...]
Making the Bronx ‘a better city’
THE BRONX, New York City (BP) – You’ve seen the pictures: burned-out buildings, junk cars littering vacant lots, drug dealers loitering on street corners. You’ve seen the news: In a single sweep recently, police arrested dozens of gang members accused of multiple murders, including the slaying of a 92-year-old woman. But the police can’t fix the Bronx. Social workers can’t heal the New York City borough, located north of Manhattan. Politicians? Israel Kelly has a better idea: the ABC … [Read more...]
CP 5.28% above year-to-date projection
NASHVILLE (BP) – Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 5.28 percent above the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection, and are 2.99 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Frank S. Page. The year-to-date total represents money received by the … [Read more...]
Much ventured, gained by Ariz. church planter
KINGMAN, Ariz. (BP) – The idea of starting over is ominous: driving off, developing new friends and breaking the barriers of the unknown, all with risk. Meet Tommy Thomas, North American Mission Board church planting catalyst in northern Arizona. He has turned starting over into an art form. Thomas repeatedly risks everything: reputation, safety, finances and the future. In remote rural life, there’s another risk – a stint in irrelevance if he fails. In a nation where urban ministry … [Read more...]
CP 5.22% above projection
NASHVILLE (BP) – Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist Convention national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 5.22 percent above the year-to-date SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget projection, and are 2.88 percent above contributions received during the same time frame last year, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Frank S. Page. The year-to-date total represents money received by the … [Read more...]
IMB, NAMB report to messengers
ST. LOUIS – International Mission Board President David Platt and North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell reported to messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, June 15. International Mission Board For more than 170 years, God has blessed the International Mission Board for the spread of the Gospel among the nations – and by God’s grace, 170 years later, the IMB is “standing strong,” IMB’s Platt reported to messengers. “I am confident that not every one of … [Read more...]
Entity heads address questions
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Questions were posed to four Southern Baptist Convention entity presidents during time allotted for messengers’ questions during the leaders’ respective reports at the June 14-15 SBC annual meeting in St. Louis. Following are accounts of the four entity presidents’ responses. Not all entity presidents were asked questions. North American Mission Board Allen Calkins, pastor of First Baptist Church in Gray Summit, Mo., asked Kevin Ezell, president of the North American … [Read more...]
SBC honors Pearl Harbor survivor
ST. LOUIS (BP) – World War II veteran Bill McAnany, until recent years a Missouri resident and one of 2,000 living survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was introduced to the Southern Baptist Convention as messengers honored America and recognized military veterans June 14 at the SBC’s annual meeting in St. Louis. Calling it an “awesome privilege,” SBC President Ronnie Floyd observed that a memory of WWII disappears from American culture every three minutes as those who fought … [Read more...]
Young families excited about SBC’s future
ST. LOUIS – When Pastor Nathan Rose and his wife, Rachel, left the Annual Meeting in St. Louis to go back to their home in Liberty, they returned refreshed, inspired and filled with excitement about the future of the Southern Baptist Convention. “I was raised Southern Baptist, and I see such value in cooperating with like-minded Christians,” he said. “We have such a great resource in each other, and I think it’s important to get connected so we can be as effective as possible.” Rose … [Read more...]
Missions effectiveness examined by SBC leaders
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Entity leaders discussed ways to be more effective in global missions during one of 18 Cooperative Program panel discussions held June 13-15 in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in St. Louis. The videotaped discussion took place at one side of the America Center’s exhibit hall with Jon Akin, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church near Nashville moderating. Responding to his questions were Frank S. Page, president of the SBC’s Executive … [Read more...]
Resolutions address culture, ministry
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Messengers to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention, in addition to repudiating the display of the Confederate battle flag, approved 11 other resolutions on a variety of culture and ministry concerns. For Stephen Rummage, chairman of the Resolutions Committee, a resolution calling Southern Baptists to evangelize was central to the 10-member panel’s deliberations in presenting the 12 measures to the messengers. The resolution on evangelism “might just seem like a standard … [Read more...]
Missourians share why they attended the SBC annual meeting
ST. LOUIS – Several messengers to the SBC Annual Meeting shared they value the cooperation and joint missional efforts highlighted at the annual convention of Southern Baptists held every June. Kyle Bridgeman, associate pastor of First Baptist Church Maysville, said: “I attend the SBC and state convention because I believe it is an opportunity to be a part of deciding how Baptists can reach our world for Christ. The primary reason for pastors to attend is to be strengthened by fellowship … [Read more...]
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