MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) – Former International Mission Board missionary Wade Akins has announced he intends to nominate fellow former IMB missionary Robin Hadaway for SBC president at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. Hadaway becomes the third announced candidate for the office. Florida pastors Willy Rice and Tom Ascol have already been announced as candidates. Hadaway began his ministry career pastoring churches in California and Arizona before serving with the IMB … [Read more...]
Florida pastor Willy Rice to be nominated for SBC president
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) – Willy Rice, pastor of Calvary Church in Clearwater, Fla., will be nominated by Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist, for the president of the Southern Baptist Convention this summer at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif. The announcement came a day after current SBC President Ed Litton of Saraland, Ala., announced he will not seek a second term. Rice, who has pastored Calvary since 2004, was a member of the church during high school, was … [Read more...]
DR volunteers, interns care for children at annual meeting
NASHVILLE – Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers interacted with some of the most lively attendees of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting here in mid-June: namely, Southern Baptist messengers’ 3-year-old children. The Missouri DR childcare team joined other DR teams from across the nation to offer pre-K childcare for messengers and guests. “It has been a fun, but crazy week. We’ve got a lot of kids, and it’s busy,” Angie Hurd, childcare coordinator for Missouri DR, … [Read more...]
SBC evangelists honor McNiel for 50-plus years in ministry
NASHVILLE – The Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists (COSBE) honored Missouri Baptist evangelist Jim McNiel during one of their meals at the Southern Baptist Convention’s 2021 annual meeting here. They gave McNiel a plaque, recognizing his 50-plus years in evangelistic ministry. “I started in 1967, right out of college,” McNiel said, expressing gratitude for the plaque and for God’s faithfulness through the years. “I am so grateful.” For decades, McNiel’s evangelistic sermons have … [Read more...]
Motion spurs task force to oversee SBC Executive Committee review
NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting overwhelmingly approved a motion calling for a task force to oversee a third-party investigation into allegations of mishandling abuse claims at the SBC Executive Committee. The motion, offered by Grant Gaines, pastor of Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., was among 32 motions made by messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting, June 15, in Nashville, the most in a decade. Gaines’ motion said the task force, which will … [Read more...]
Vision 2025 amended, adopted by messengers
NASHVILLE (BP) – After two amendments, messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting adopted Vision 2025, a strategic initiative aimed at reaching every person in the world with the Gospel, by vote of acclamation, June 15. Citing eternal lostness and the reality of hell, SBC Executive Committee President and CEO Ronnie Floyd called Southern Baptists to back the initiative “with your lives and ministries and churches,” saying, “This is not just a good thing we should do. It is the most urgent … [Read more...]
Missourians take on leading roles at SBC annual meeting in Nashville
NASHVILLE – Joining thousands of Southern Baptists from across the nation, 634 Missouri Southern Baptists gathered in Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) annual meeting here, June 15-16. With 15,726 messengers and 3,856 guests, the meeting was the largest SBC gathering in more than two decades. Several Missourians were elected or appointed to leadership within the SBC during the meeting. On June 14, prior to the SBC annual meeting, members of the SBC Executive Committee … [Read more...]
Mohler: Religious liberty rooted in Christian faith
NASHVILLE (BP) – A theology of conversion, such as Christianity, necessitates religious liberty because regeneration of the heart cannot be achieved by coercion, Albert Mohler said, June 15, during “Baptists Thinking Biblically: A Conversation on Religious Liberty.” The late-night event, hosted by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at the Music City Center in Nashville, featured Mohler, Southern’s president, and Andrew Walker, associate professor of Christian ethics and apologetics and … [Read more...]
EC to elect new vice chair after messenger’s failed attempt to retain Tucker
NASHVILLE (BP) – South Carolina pastor Tom Tucker’s reelection, June 14, as vice chairman of the SBC Executive Committee became moot, June 16, when messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting rejected a motion to nominate him to a second term on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee elected Tucker to a second term as vice chair during its meeting Monday with the knowledge that while eligible to serve, his term was expiring and he was not among nominees to the Executive Committee … [Read more...]
MBTS students proclaim gospel at Crossover
NASHVILLE – Thirty-one people professed faith in Christ Jesus when students from the nation’s six seminaries proclaimed the gospel in Nashville during the Crossover evangelistic initiative prior to the SBC annual meeting here. Tom Johnston, senior professor of evangelism at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, directed the annual Crossover Seminary Evangelism Class. Thirteen students from Midwestern Seminary were involved this year. Many online students were involved in the program, … [Read more...]
SBC business plan change rejected, SBC constitution amended
NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers resoundingly defeated a change to the SBC Business and Financial Plan proposed by the convention’s Executive Committee. Critics said the proposal would have granted the EC too much authority and left the six SBC seminaries in trouble with accreditors. The defeat was part of messengers’ mixed reception to a series of recommendations presented by the EC June 15 at the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting at Nashville’s Music City Center. An amendment to the SBC Constitution … [Read more...]
SBC messengers affirm resolutions addressing racial reconciliation, Hyde Amendment, Equality Act
NASHVILLE (BP) – Messengers to the 2021 SBC Annual Meeting approved a broad resolution on the Bible’s sufficiency regarding race and racial reconciliation, June 15, but chose not to explicitly address the contentious issue of critical race theory. Among nine resolutions passed, messengers also endorsed overwhelmingly statements on government policies that included: • A denunciation of any attempt to rescind the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funding of abortion. • Opposition to … [Read more...]
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