T. LANDRY PARISH, La. (BP) – A 21-year-old white man is charged with arson in fires that destroyed three black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish. Investigators reportedly haven't determined whether the fires were racially motivated. Holden Matthews, the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy, was arrested late yesterday afternoon (April 10) and charged with three counts of arson. No motive has been determined, but investigators are considering Matthews' membership in a band that … [Read more...]
TRUSTEES: MBTS adopts Nashville Statement
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) – Assembling for its spring meeting on April 8-9, members of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's trustees adopted the Nashville Statement as an additional confessional statement and conducted other seminary business including budget approval, faculty moves and reelecting board officers. During his report, MBTS President Jason Allen announced to the board a need for the school to adopt the Nashville Statement, which was published in 2017 by the Council on … [Read more...]
Missouri’s Easter Offering goal set at $2 million
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Convention has set a goal of $2 million for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American missions. The national offering goal is $70 million. The theme for this year’s offering is “Sending Hope.” Prayers and gifts from Missouri Baptist churches to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering provide support for more than 5,000 missionaries through the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Every dollar given goes to train and … [Read more...]
MSSU students bring relief, hope to hurricane hit Panama City
PANAMA CITY, Fla. – For most college students, spring break provides a welcome rest. But for 16 Missouri Southern State University students with the school’s Baptist Student Union, spring break brought an opportunity to provide relief and hope to those ravaged last year by Hurricane Michael. The team, which also consisted of three adult chaperones, drove from Joplin to Panama City, Fla., where the city and surrounding area remain largely in ruins. MSSU students joined forces with students … [Read more...]
‘A day of reckoning in the SBC’: Patterson discusses Conservative Resurgence in exclusive interview
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the seventh article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. NEW ORLEANS – Four years after Southern Baptists debated about Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary’s infamous liberal professor, Ralph Elliott, and four years after they accepted a new revision of the Baptist Faith … [Read more...]
‘An avowed inerrantist’ – 100-year-old Davis remembers helping to draft 1963 BF&M adopted in KCMO
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth article in a year-long series, commemorating the history of the Conservative Resurgence of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in honor of its 40th anniversary. To read previous articles, visit www.mbcpathway.com/ConservativeResurgence. KETTERING, Ohio (BP) – At age 100, with some memories fading, Walter Davis still remembers the 1962 phone call he received from then-Southern Baptist Convention President Herschel Hobbs to ask if Davis would serve on a … [Read more...]
Reaching Africa in Minneapolis: Nigerian missionaries serve with NAMB to plant churches in Midwest
MINNEAPOLIS – Philip Nache could have given in to despair. Boko Haram, the jihadist militant group located in Nigeria, had threatened his life, martyred a convert to Christianity and continued to intimidate Christians. But despite the danger, Nache expected to return and serve the people he’d spent nearly 20 years ministering to, pastoring and planting churches among. He had come to the United States to attend Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a moment of divine timing that coincided … [Read more...]
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: 50 floors above Johannesburg
April 7 is Cooperative Program Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention. Paul Chitwood is president of the SBC's International Mission Board. For information about the Cooperative Program, go to sbc.net/cp. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (BP) – Standing on the observation deck of the tallest building in Africa and looking out across the sprawling city below, I was powerfully reminded of the eternal importance of the cooperative mission work of Southern Baptists. Johannesburg, the city … [Read more...]
Floyd to champion Great Commission to ‘exhaustion’
DALLAS (BP) – The Great Commission, the Cooperative Program, supporting pastors and listening to Southern Baptists will be among the early emphases of Ronnie Floyd's presidency at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, he said during a press conference and a Facebook Live session April 2. "Our missional vision as Southern Baptists is to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person in the world and to make disciples of all the nations," Floyd said following … [Read more...]
Ronnie Floyd elected SBC EC president/CEO
DALLAS (BP) – Ronnie Floyd is the new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, elected today (April 2) by ballot vote in a called meeting in Dallas. Floyd received 68 of 69 votes cast, the EC said, electing Floyd in an executive session of nearly four hours. A former SBC president, Floyd will resign April 7 from the longtime pastorate of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas and begin his EC leadership immediately, he said in acceptance … [Read more...]
Ronnie Floyd named as EC president nominee
NASHVILLE (BP) – Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd will be recommended for the presidency of the SBC Executive Committee, the EC's presidential search committee announced March 31. The full EC will consider Floyd's nomination Tuesday, April 2, at a special called meeting in Dallas to begin at 11 a.m. Central at the Grand Hyatt at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. A press conference and then a Facebook Live session at … [Read more...]
‘Jesus Loves Me’: Children calm in Ky. storm
PADUCAH, Ky. (BP) – In the eye of a storm that ripped the roof off the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, preschool director Michelle Rushing found calm for herself and the 40 children who were there sheltering in place. As a tornado was sweeping through a five-mile stretch in west Kentucky around 9:30 a.m. on March 14, Rushing guided the children into the innermost room, following the church’s storm plan, she told WPSD in Paducah. Then she said they sang songs like “Jesus Loves Me” and “He’s Got … [Read more...]
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