Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief chaplains and a quick-response unit deployed to Fordyce, Arkansas, today (June 21) following a shooting at a local grocery store that left 3 dead and 11 wounded.
“It’s the biggest thing we’ve ever seen,” said Todd Sullens, pastor of First Baptist Church, Ruidoso, reported the Baptist New Mexican.
As wildfires rage in south-central New Mexico near the village of Ruidoso, Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers remain on standby as the crisis unfolds.
Herman Paul Pressler III — a former Texas judge, one of the leaders of the Conservative Resurgence in the SBC and who has been at the center of controversy regarding sexual abuse allegations in recent years — has died at 94.
Among the biggest of today’s news, messengers have voted not to adopt the Law Amendment, which would have added to the SBC Constitution: “Affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
Eight resolutions were adopted by messengers attending the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Media representatives from across the nation gathered to ask questions and hear from Clint Pressley following the conclusion of the SBC Annual Meeting on June 12.
In addition to electing North Carolina pastor as Southern Baptist Convention president, messengers to the annual meeting June 11–12 in Indianapolis elected a slate of other leaders.
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).
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.
