Known for his passion and work with ethnic outreach efforts in the Southern Baptist Convention, Minh Ha Nguyen, 57, died in a drowning accident in North Carolina on Monday (July 15).
A judge ruled on Monday (July 15) that the old First Baptist Church Sutherland Springs building in Texas — where 26 people were shot and killed in 2017 by a gunman — can be torn down.
Southern Baptist leaders were quick to respond in the aftermath of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (July 13).
Hurricane Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 storm along the Texas coast on Monday morning (July 8). It’s the first storm of the Atlantic hurricane season to make landfall in the U.S.
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.
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