Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has traveled to Israel and his first stop was to visit with the family of one of the three Israeli teenagers abducted nearly two weeks ago by Hamas terrorists. The teens, one an American citizen, were kidnapped as they walked home from their religious high school on Israel’s West Bank. Huckabee, a former president of the Arkansas Baptist Convention and now a Fox News Channel personality, is pondering a run for president in 2016 and is known for his strong … [Read more...]
Hawkins gives Guidestone report to SBC
BALTIMORE, Md. – Citing good news across all ministry areas within GuideStone Financial Resources, President O.S. Hawkins delivered the 96th annual report to messengers meeting June 10-11. Turning first to investments, Hawkins announced that GuideStone was recognized by various reporting agencies that monitor mutual fund companies. In 2014, the annual Lipper Fund Awards once again recognized GuideStone for outstanding fund performance, this time recognizing the GuideStone … [Read more...]
Celebration, challenge mark WMU report
Julie Walters/Baptist Press BALTIMORE, Md. (BP) – Celebrating historic milestones and the highest offering ever for international missions was the focus of national Woman’s Missionary Union’s (WMU) report to the Southern Baptist Convention. Wanda Lee, WMU’s executive director/treasurer, and Debby Akerman, national president, said WMU wrapped up a yearlong celebration of their 125th anniversary at this year’s missions celebration, June 8-9, complete with historic tours in the area. Days … [Read more...]
IMB’s Elliff unveils ‘One Sacred Effort’ theme
Don Graham/IMB senior writer BALTIMORE, Md. – In his report to the convention, International Mission Board (IMB) Tom Elliff unveiled IMB’s theme for 2014, “One Sacred Effort,” encouraging every Southern Baptist to “find your place in God’s story.” For more information on IMB’s theme and how to get involved go to one.imbresources.org. Elliff’s report detailed the activities of Southern Baptist missionaries in 2013. But rather than highlight the total numbers of new believers and baptisms … [Read more...]
9 resolutions garner adoption
BALTIMORE (BP) -- Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention adopted a resolution on transgender identity for the first time while returning to such issues as civil rights, gambling and world hunger for further statements.All nine resolutions offered Tuesday (June 10) at the SBC's 2014 meeting gained approval by unanimous or overwhelming votes. The messengers' actions in about 30 minutes meant a second report scheduled for Wednesday morning (June 11) was not needed.The resolution on … [Read more...]
IMB, NAMB, WMU commission 100 missionaries
Shannon Baker/Baptist Press BALTIMORE, Md. (BP) – The International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board commissioned approximately 100 during a rare joint commissioning service sponsored by the Woman’s Missionary Union, June 8, at the Baltimore Convention Center. In an emotional service marked by prayer and praise, many were commissioned to serve as church planters, evangelism catalysts, collegiate ministers, refugee workers, chaplains and ministers to people groups in … [Read more...]
Moore: Transgender stance wise
Tom Strode/Baptist Press BALTIMORE, Md. (BP) – Questions from churches about the transgender issue and the tide of culture pointed to the need for Southern Baptists to address the topic during their annual meeting, the convention’s lead ethicist said. Messengers to the 2014 Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution on transgender identity June 10, marking the first time the SBC has addressed the issue in a stand-alone measure. After what appeared to be a unanimous vote on the … [Read more...]
Bumpers lights fire at SBC
BALTIMORE, Md. – Southern Baptists must cry out to God in prayer as they seek revival in their churches and spiritual awakening across the nation, Pastor Eddie Bumpers of Crossway Baptist Church in Springfield said during a theme interpretation at the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) annual meeting in Baltimore, June 10. Bumpers delivered the first of three interpretations based on the annual meeting’s theme, “Restoration and Revival through Prayer.” He said that most Southern Baptists … [Read more...]
KC-area church turning neglected kids into disciples
TOBIN PERRY/North American Mission Board LENEXA, Kan. – Westside Family Church feeds 3,000 kids daily in four countries. Families from the church have adopted more than 100 children in the United States and internationally. The Southern Baptist church helps fill backpacks with food for hungry children and teenagers. It is a regional support and training center for foster care and adoption in the Kansas City area. Yet, according to the Lenexa, Kan., church’s executive pastor Dan Chaverin, … [Read more...]
‘10 Commandments Judge’ defends Constitution
JOPLIN – “The Ten Commandments Judge,” Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Roy Moore, spoke in defense of allowing God in the public square several times across southwest Missouri, including June 1 at Harmony Heights Baptist Church here. Moore is best known for his refusal to remove a monument of The Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court grounds, saying it was the foundation of American law and rejecting critics’ claims it violated the first amendment of the U.S. … [Read more...]
SBC to launch hunger campaign
Mark Kelly/Baptist Press NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist World Hunger Fund (WHF) national partners will launch a new initiative during the June 10-11 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting that will continue the SBC’s unique “dollar in, dollar out” approach in the battle against hunger across North America and overseas. Global Hunger Relief (GHR)will maintain continuity with the purposes and focus of the World Hunger Fund while presenting the cause of hunger relief to a new … [Read more...]
Moore commends ‘gospel-centered’ talk radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), commended Bott Radio as “theologically robust” and “gospel-centered” in messages sent this May to the radio network’s president, Richard Bott. Moore personally responded to a letter that Bott sent to him, May 5. The letter, which went out also to members of the media and to Southern Baptist and evangelical leaders, requested that Moore clarify or apologize … [Read more...]
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