Dean Inserra, pastor of City Church Tallahassee in Florida, preached the convention sermon June 12 at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting.
In the International Mission Board report to Southern Baptist messengers and guests at the SBC Annual Meeting on June 12, IMB President Paul Chitwood wasted no time getting to the heart of Southern Baptist missions.
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a slate of recommendations June 11 related to how the convention deals with churches that no longer “closely identify with” the SBC in “faith and practice.”
“We have ample ministry opportunity and are praying for the energy to keep up,” said FBC Alexandria Pastor Robert Stephens. “God’s grace is apparent in this full season of ministry. It will help our congregation process and move forward.”
Emerging from a field of six candidates, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley has been elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention during its annual meeting in Indianapolis (June 11–12).
Eighty-three missionaries, plus two previously appointed who participated with spouses, were recognized at the IMB’s Sending Celebration to end the June 11 morning session of the meeting.
Day one of the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis is wrapped up, and it was a full day of motions, resolutions, reports and points of order.
Southern Baptist messengers approved the six recommendations presented by the Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force Tuesday (June 11) in Indianapolis, following the release of its report on May 12.
Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting voted June 11 to disaffiliate with First Baptist Church Alexandria, Virginia, by a ballot vote of 6,759 (91.78 percent) to 563 (7.65 percent).
Josh Wester, chair of SBC’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force, expresses gratitude for messengers’ approval of recommendations. “I am hopeful … Southern Baptists will continue to write a new and better story when it comes to abuse.”
