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Collegiate church planting missionary sees God do “More than we could’ve have ever imagined”

Erin Chapmond and Ellie Dunlevy are two of the more than 50,000 students at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the birth and growth of almost-instantaneous friendships is an everyday event. That makes West Lafayette, according to North American missionary Jordan Adams, the perfect place to plant a church.
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Supreme Court declines McRaney case, ending lawsuit against NAMB

The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to hear a years-long case brought by former Baptist state convention executive director Will McRaney against the North American Mission Board, upholding an appeals court’s decision to dismiss and essentially closing out the case.
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Miss. pastor Jonathan Greer to be nominated for SBC Recording Secretary

A Mississippi pastor has become the third known candidate to be nominated for SBC Recording Secretary. Jonathan Greer will be nominated for the office by Alabama pastor Tyler Armstrong at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando.
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NAMB missionaries experience generosity: How the Annie Offering Is more than a gift

There's no way they could've known what was coming. When Michael and Traci Byrd of St. Louis, Mo., got a phone call telling them they'd been selected to be Annie Armstrong featured missionaries in 2022, they were appropriately humbled, honored, excited, and encouraged. But now, years later, they know better than anyone how the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering really is more than a gift.
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South Carolina AMS Travis Kerns to be nominated for SBC recording secretary

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Denny Burk has announced plans to nominate Travis Kerns, a South Carolina associational mission strategist, for SBC Recording Secretary at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting.
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Texas pastor George Schroeder to be nominated for SBC Recording Secretary

Florida pastor Dean Inserra has announced his intention to nominate Texas pastor George Schroeder as SBC Recording Secretary at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. Schroeder serves as lead pastor at First Baptist Church in Fairfield, Texas.
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WRAP-UP: EC members prioritize CP, disability ministry

In a meeting that was at once routine and consequential, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee adopted a realigned CP allocation budget, affirmed the need for ministry to those with disabilities, discontinued fellowship with two churches and dealt with messenger motions referred to it from the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting.
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New SBC disability ministry emphasis would mobilize entities, conventions, churches, WMU

A new ministry emphasis to the disabled would mobilize entities, state conventions and the Woman’s Missionary Union in evangelizing those with special needs everywhere Southern Baptists share the Gospel.
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Proposed CP allocation budget moves IMB to 51 percent

SBC Executive Committee members voted today (Feb. 17) to approve a 2026-27 Cooperative Program allocation budget that places 51 percent of those gifts with the International Mission Board, a recommendation first approved in 2010 with the implementation of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.
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For CP, ‘the sky is not falling,’ pastor survey finds

Southern Baptist pastors enthusiastically support the Cooperative Program (CP), according to a survey released Feb. 16 at the SBC Executive Committee’s meeting in Nashville. But they also see opportunity for better CP vision casting to rising generations.
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Pressley: Southern Baptist relationships aren’t always easy, but worth it

Life as a Southern Baptist includes working among others for a goal, SBC President Clint Pressley told Executive Committee trustees and guests. And even when getting there can seem more like a meandering line than a straight one, it still brings reasons to celebrate.
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SBC Executive Committee to meet ministry assignments despite budget cuts, Iorg says

The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee will work to fulfill its ministry assignments despite budget challenges in the coming year, EC President and CEO Jeff Iorg told the body Feb. 16 during its meeting in Nashville.

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