ST. LOUIS (BP) – LifeWay Christian Resources will provide a free breakfast for pastors and screen two new movies at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in St. Louis this summer. The focus of the LifeWay Pastors’ Breakfast will be “Leading Change in the Church,” featuring LifeWay President and CEO Thom S. Rainer, followed by a panel discussion of critical issues in effectively navigating change. The panel will include Ron Edmondson, Immanuel Baptist Church, Lexington, Ky.; Sam … [Read more...]
Excitement stirring for WMU in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – The excitement for the upcoming WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting is building. The WMU is celebrating what God is doing around the world through missions at the meeting slated for June 12-13 in St. Louis at the Ferrara Theatre at America’s Center, 701 Convention Plaza, which is just prior to the SBC Convention. “We’re so excited,” Laura Wells, Missouri WMU Executive Director, said. “It doesn’t get closer than this.” “By All Means” is the theme for the Celebration … [Read more...]
Yeats to be nominated as SBC recording secretary
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Jason Duesing, provost and professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will nominate John L. Yeats for a 20th term as recording secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention at the June 14-15 annual meeting in St. Louis. As executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention since 2011, Yeats has demonstrated leadership and dedicated support for Southern Baptists and their churches, said Duesing, associate professor of historical theology at Midwestern. “After … [Read more...]
St. Louis SBC preschool child care full
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Preschool child care registration for the 2016 SBC Annual Meeting in St. Louis reached capacity ahead of today’s May 6 deadline and has surpassed 2015 registration by more than 30 percent, according to Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee staff. Preschool registration closed May 4 with 142 registrants, SBC Executive Committee meeting planner Lynn Richmond told Baptist Press. Last year’s registration closed May 20 with 109 preschoolers, characterized as newborns … [Read more...]
CROSSOVER: St. Louis Baptists ready for volunteers
ST. LOUIS (BP) – The iconic Gateway Arch represents the pathway to the west for most travelers and locals. For Tom Breeden, St. Louis Metro Baptist Association’s (SLMBA) executive director, it’s also the gateway to a mission field in need of hope. That’s why he welcomes the estimated 3,500 Southern Baptist volunteers who will converge on the metropolitan area June 11 for Crossover St. Louis. The scores of travelers who constantly cruise the I-70 corridor through Missouri’s largest city … [Read more...]
SBC’s Floyd calls Baptists to prayer
ST. LOUIS – Never has prayer been more needed than now, Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Ronnie Floyd said in his recent announcement about a prayer gathering scheduled during the Tuesday evening session of the SBC Annual Meeting, June 14. In an April 18th announcement on his blog (www.ronniefloyd.com), Floyd said that the entire Tuesday evening session will be devoted to prayer. Floyd listed the components of this year’s “National Prayer Gathering”: • “Spiritual leadership: … [Read more...]
SBC St. Louis online registration opens
ST. LOUIS (BP) – Registration for the SBC’s “Awaken America: Reach the World” annual meeting, June 14-15 in St. Louis, has opened. Online registration for messengers and local hotels can be accessed at www.SBCAnnualMeeting.net. Through online messenger registration at the www.SBCAnnualMeeting.net tab, each messenger will receive an eight-digit registration code to present at the annual meeting’s Express Registration lane in St. Louis, preferably as a printout for the church’s credential. … [Read more...]
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