BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Keeping the focus on the “Gospel Above All” theme is Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear’s main goal going into SBC’s annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., June 11-12. But following a year of transition among five SBC entities searching for new leadership and the convention responding to reports of sexual abuse, Greear noted there will be other issues demanding attention. He acknowledged that confronting sexual abuse is among them. “I look forward to … [Read more...]
Missouri Baptists named to SBC tellers, committee on committees
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has named tellers for the SBC 2019 annual meeting June 11-12 in Birmingham. “The Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting takes the efforts and selfless contributions of hundreds of volunteers,” Greear said. “Each committee member plays a specific role in the success of the convention. The tellers committee is no different. Their efforts to ensure our elections and votes are accurate and trustworthy are worthy of … [Read more...]
20,000 homes: Crossover’s goal for SBC outreach
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – As Southern Baptists from across the country make plans for the SBC annual meeting in June, they’re also preparing to engage more than 20,000 homes with the Gospel through Crossover activities. The North American Mission Board and Alabama State Board of Missions will mobilize 400 teams of volunteers to knock on 20,000 doors in the metro Birmingham area on Saturday, June 8, the weekend before the SBC annual meeting. “This year we have a really simplified approach … [Read more...]
Greear to be re-nominated for SBC president
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear will be nominated for a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Pennsylvania pastor K. Marshall Williams announced April 12. “In these troublesome and turbulent times, we need a pastor-preacher-prophet that will stand in the gap and lead with confident, consistent, convictional, Christo-centric, courageous courtesy,” Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, wrote in a statement announcing his … [Read more...]
218 degrees mark Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s largest commencement ceremony
KANSAS CITY (BP) – Graduates, families and friends gathered in the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's Daniel Lee Chapel for the 65th commencement exercises May 3, launching theologically-trained Gospel ministers into service. In comprising the seminary's largest graduating class, 218 degrees were conferred – 33 undergraduate, 153 graduate and 31 doctoral degrees and 1 post-graduate certificate. Additionally, two students were among the first to complete Midwestern's Korean-language … [Read more...]
Yeats, Currence to be renominated as Southern Baptist Convention officers
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Two Missouri Baptists will be renominated as Southern Baptist Convention officers during the convention’s annual meeting here, June 11-12. Yeats to be renominated as SBC recording secretary Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC) executive director John L. Yeats will be nominated for a 23rd term as the Southern Baptist Convention's recording secretary, Missouri church planter Jon Nelson announced May 3. Nelson, MBC first vice president and pastor of Soma Community … [Read more...]
One day, one dollar at a time: Ala. family blessed by GuideStone’s Mission:Dignity
ECLECTIC, Ala. – Rick and Betty Hall, who live in a modest mobile home in central Alabama, have a multitude of stories about the small churches they served throughout the eastern part of the state over the course of three decades. In the Halls’ last church, five people attended on the first Sunday. No one had lived in the parsonage for 36 years, and there were only 34 people within a mile of the church. Attendance grew to almost 40 during the eight years the Halls were there. The members … [Read more...]
Yeats to be re-nominated as SBC recording secretary
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) – Missouri Baptist Convention executive director John L. Yeats will be nominated for a 23rd term as the Southern Baptist Convention's recording secretary, Missouri church planter Jon Nelson announced today (May 3). Nelson, MBC first vice president and pastor of Soma Community Church in Jefferson City, Mo., near historically black Lincoln University, said in a news release, "As a Missouri church planter, officer of the state convention and member of the Missouri … [Read more...]
Midwestern Journal of Theology’s spring edition released
KANSAS CITY – Midwestern Seminary released its Spring 2019 issue of the Midwestern Journal of Theology on May 1, featuring works by several of the school’s faculty and doctoral students as well as academics from across the Southern Baptist Convention. The spring edition addresses topics such as the gospel of John, the #MeToo Movement, a commonality between C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot, and two articles on the role of the Holy Spirit. President Jason Allen said of the Journal’s … [Read more...]
Removal of stained-glass windows from SWBTS chapel draws mixed reactions from donors
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) – Forty years after the birth of the Southern Baptist Conservative Resurgence, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is relocating from the J.W. MacGorman Chapel more than 40 stained glass windows commemorating the era. Two Missouri Baptist leaders were depicted in the windows, including: Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Director John Yeats, who also serves as the Southern Baptist Convention Recording Secretary; and the late Jim Wells, a former Missouri … [Read more...]
‘Together,’ ‘strategy,’ ‘genius’ among CP descriptors
EDITOR'S NOTE: April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. For information about the Cooperative Program, go to sbc.net/cp. MILES CITY, Mont. (BP) – A Montana pastor likens the effect of the Cooperative Program to a fence line. "It's like multiplying our labor, like building a fence two miles long together, rather than a quarter-mile if you had to do it alone," Jeff Cahill told Baptist Press. He's a rancher and pastor of Valley Community Church in the … [Read more...]
Military, veterans asked to come to National Day of Prayer event
JEFFERSON CITY – There can be no doubt Army Chaplain (Col.) David Bowlus and retired Naval fighter pilot State Rep. Mike Haffner (R-Pleasant Hill) love America, so much so they have put their lives on the line to defend it. Bowlus and Haffner, along with Gov. Mike Parson, will be the featured speakers at this year’s National Day of Prayer observance, noon, May 2, in The Rotunda of the State Capitol. This year’s theme, “Love One Another,” is taken from John 13:34. The event is free and open … [Read more...]
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