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From addiction to redemption: Virginia missionary’s recovery ministry leads to new church

The house is in a Virginia pine forest at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road. The thirty people living here are 46 miles away from civilization. They might as well be 46 million miles away. This is where Fred and his wife, Casey, started a residential recovery and discipleship program called The Fix.
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Survey aims to develop overview of Southern Baptist worship

Southern Baptists love the elements of a congregational gathering. A survey onboarding soon will look to get a clearer picture of how churches conduct and experience worship services.
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‘Trust in God, and work’: MBTS trustees celebrate God’s provision, enduring commitment to the church

Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College hosted its Spring Trustee Meeting on March 30–31, celebrating God’s continued faithfulness while advancing key initiatives to strengthen its mission of serving the Church by biblically educating God-called men and women to be and make disciples of Jesus Christ.
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Evan Lenow named candidate for ERLC presidency

The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s presidential search team has announced Mississippi College academic administrator and longtime ERLC research fellow Evan Lenow as its candidate to lead the entity.
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2026 SBC Annual Meeting schedule released

A preliminary schedule for the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting June 9-10 in Orlando was released Today (March 10) by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Committee on Order of Business.
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SBC annual meeting app available now; GuideStone to have strong presence at meeting

The official app for the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting is now available in the Apple App Store and Google Play. The app is a must-download for meeting goers as they navigate the meeting, luncheons, the exhibit hall and more.
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SBC annual meeting events list posted; Resolutions Committee chair interviewed

A list of sessions, fellowships, breakouts, ancillary events and more at this year’s SBC Annual Meeting is now available at sbcannualmeeting.net.
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Baker to chair 2026 SBC Committee on Resolutions, portal opens March 15

North Greenville University Provost and Dean of Faculty Hunter Baker will serve as chair of the Southern Baptist Convention's Committee on Resolutions for the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting this summer.
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Compassion ministry helps church planting missionary family “go big” in Puerto Rico

No one would've guessed that "Go big or go home" was an Ortiz family truism. After all, when God called Oscar Ortiz and his wife, Wendy, to plant a church in Río Grande, they didn't first launch a marketing campaign, send out glossy, full-color mailers, or pay for billboards, radio ads, and social media blasts.
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God’s Not Done Here: Church planter blends old with new to bring renewal to New Orleans neighborhood

They didn’t know how much longer they had left. But they knew it wasn’t long. “It was bad,” Linda Morrow says. “We had no money, no people. We were just barely getting by with a handful of senior citizens.”
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NAMB AMS Replant Lab spurs hope, renewal for dying churches

Missouri Baptists were among 250 associational leaders from around the nation who took part in the Associational Mission Strategist (AMS) Replant Lab at the North American Mission Board, Feb. 24-26.
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Reaching Montreal: Church plant led by former Muslim bringing gospel to unreached city

"The beginning of the story is good. But the ending is even better." That's Andrew Mark Adil's opening line when people ask how such an unlikely man ended up in such an unlikely place doing such an unlikely thing.

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