ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Registration for the 2021 Send Conference is open. Jointly hosted by the International Mission Board (IMB) and the North American Mission Board (NAMB), the event will take place on June 13-14 in Nashville ahead of the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting. Separate registration is required for the Annual Meeting. Last year, Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference officers asked NAMB and IMB to plan and produce this year’s event. The decision … [Read more...]
Greear announces 2021 Committee on Committees
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has announced the 68 members of the Committee on Committees that will meet prior to the SBC Annual Meeting in Nashville June 15-16. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, N.C., has named Meredith Cook, a member of Neartown Church in Houston, as chair of this year’s Committee on Committees. Steven Wade, lead pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Youngsville, N.C., will serve as vice chair. Committee members, listed by … [Read more...]
Russell Moore announces departure from ERLC helm
NASHVILLE (BP) – Russell Moore is leaving the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, ending an occasionally controversial eight-year tenure, to take a role with Christianity Today. Moore, who has served as president of the ERLC since June 2013, announced Tuesday (May 18) he will begin a role this summer as a public theologian for what the magazine described as “a new Public Theology Project.” In a message posted to his personal blog, Moore said the project “is devoted to … [Read more...]
NAMB trustees celebrate Boston church planters, OK collegiate ministry assignment
BOSTON – During their spring meeting May 3-4, North American Mission Board (NAMB) trustees celebrated area church planters and unanimously passed a resolution asking the Southern Baptist Convention to assign to NAMB the ministry assignment for reaching and mobilizing college and university students in North America. Prior to the full board meeting, NAMB trustees spent May 3 at several locations visiting church planters and hearing stories of how God is working through Southern Baptists to … [Read more...]
SBC vice presidential nominations announced
NASHVILLE (BP) – One nominee has been announced for Southern Baptist Convention first vice president, and two nominees have been announced for second vice president. Voting for SBC officers will take place at the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting, to be held here, June 15-16. Lee Brand Jr., vice president and dean of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, will be nominated as first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the SBC’s annual meeting June 15-16 in Nashville. Pastor James … [Read more...]
Altered for pandemic, Crossover evangelism event will precede SBC annual meeting in Nashville
NASHVILLE (BP) – For more than 30 years, Southern Baptists have focused on working together to serve and reach those in the host city of the SBC annual meeting through an evangelism emphasis called Crossover. This year’s approach in Nashville will differ from previous years, but Southern Baptists are cooperating to help churches in Middle Tennessee minister to their communities. “Crossover will continue its legacy of pushing back spiritual darkness in the SBC host city, which is, this … [Read more...]
Missourians set for Southern Baptist annual meeting in downtown Nashville
NASHVILLE – Missourians will take on key roles in the business of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) during the SBC Annual Meeting, June 15-16. The 2021 convention takes place at the Music City Center in downtown Nashville. Missourians to serve as officers, on boards, committees Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats serves this year as recording secretary at the annual meeting, and Don Currence, administrative pastor, First Baptist Church, Ozark, serves this … [Read more...]
Currence to be nominated for registration secretary
NASHVILLE (BP) – Don Currence, administrative pastor at First Baptist Church in Ozark, Mo., will be nominated for a one-year term as Southern Baptist Convention registration secretary during the SBC’s June 15-16 annual meeting in Nashville, Kathy Litton has announced. Litton, director of planter spouse development for the North American Mission Board, stepped down as registration secretary in January when it was announced that her husband Ed would be nominated for SBC president. Kathy … [Read more...]
2021 SBC: Executive Committee, boards, commission, seminaries, committee nominees announced
NASHVILLE (BP) – Nominees to serve on boards of SBC entities have been selected by the SBC Committee on Nominations. Because of the cancellation of the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting, the Committee on Nominations report includes nominations for terms that expired in both 2020 and 2021. Nominees will serve if elected by messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting, June 15-16 in Nashville. Any changes will be noted in the final report in the June 15 Daily Bulletin at the annual meeting. The … [Read more...]
American Indian embraces culture to lead people to Jesus
MONTANA (BP) – People don’t grow into mature Christians until they serve others. So says American Indian pastor and ministry leader Bruce Plummer, of Sioux, Assiniboine, and Cree heritage. In his multifaceted ministry, Plummer invites mission teams to come to Montana to serve with Montana Indian Ministries: picking up trash and handing out water and coffee in four weeks of powwow ministry, five weeks of Indian camp ministry for children and youth, and construction/maintenance/mercy … [Read more...]
SBC presidential candidate to visit Jefferson City church
JEFFERSON CITY – Mike Stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear, Ga., and one of four 2021 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) presidential candidates, will speak at an “inspirational and informational” meeting at Concord Baptist Church here, May 10. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Stone is also the immediate past chairman of the SBC Executive Committee. Monte Shinkle, pastor of Concord Baptist Church, said he has come to know and respect Stone while serving alongside him on the SBC … [Read more...]
Bruce Plummer Finds God in the Midst of Despair
Bruce Plummer, born on the Fort Belknap reservation, was twenty-one, stumbling drunk, and suicidal in a drenching rainstorm in Portland, Oregon, when with Native American awareness he crawled under a pine tree to avoid some of the wet. That tree was on church property, he realized the next day, as he watched vehicles coming and later going from the parking lot. “For the first time in my life, I heard God. That surprised me,” Plummer said. “He said, ‘Bruce, I want you to go down there and … [Read more...]
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