Despite emotional appeals to overturn their dismissal from the Southern Baptist Convention, messengers voted to sustain the removal of three churches ruled not in “friendly
SBC Executive Committee Chair David Sons seemed relieved to announce he would not seek reelection to the post, but the ensuing vote to choose a
“One question that was asked repeatedly was ‘Why?’” pastor Scott Nichols reported. Law enforcement officers from DuPage County who attended a community barbeque in their
It was a sea of yellow shirts at the funeral for Wayne Laechelt as Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers recently gathered at Crosspointe Church in
An Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteer working at Streator Baptist Camp Tuesday (May 9) was killed when a tree he was cutting down fell on
Living Faith Baptist Church had planned to host its annual Easter Palooza outreach event on April 1 in Sherman, illinois. Thousands of plastic Easter eggs
Another wave of deadly tornadoes over the weekend kept Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams in the South and the Midwest on the move after 11
“Pregnant? We will help!” The blue and white billboard for First Step Women’s Center towers over a major thoroughfare in Springfield, Illinois. It’s designed to
Hundreds of students gathered this fall for discipleship events led by Illinois Baptist State Association. Youth Encounter, IBSA’s annual one-day student event, featured a clear
The Chicago Golden Light Chinese Baptist Church honored the pioneering work of Southern Baptist missionary Lottie Moon with an online conference reaching more than 1,000
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