Oklahoma Baptist University presented the J.M. Carroll Award to Alan Quigley during the Advance Conference March 4 at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Oklahoma City.
Highlighting the theme, “Advancing the Gospel,” more than 400 California Baptists and guests gathered recently in El Cajon, California, to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the founding of San Diego Southern Baptist Association.
“True Girl” is a one-night conference that “is designed to give moms and their daughters a few moments to be vulnerable together, to talk about struggles, to spend a lot of time talking about their identity in Christ…,” says Rachel Cobb.
GuideStone trustees unanimously elected Stephen B. Allen as the enterprise’s new chief legal officer during their regular meetings in Dallas on March 4–5.
“Our goal was to help our pastors realize that church ‘health’ is what we are looking at. We want all of our churches to be healthy — and that can mean different things for each individual church.”
Dan Summerlin, who pastored four churches of different sizes in five decades, shared insights of what he learned from each decade during the Shepherding Conference in Lexington, Kentucky.
Change is inevitable in all areas of life and includes changes for individuals, businesses and even denominational organizations and churches, says seminary president Jeff Iorg.
Planning team leader Ryan Scantling says participants can expect the interactive event to “help college ministry leaders capture God’s vision for their life and ministry, while forming layers of encouragement and accountability for it.”
“When the invitation began,” one pastor noted, “and I began to see people raising their hands, then responding, it was an answered prayer. I think the most surprising thing was the number of students in the choir who responded!”
Two Hispanic Leadership Workshops in New Mexico recently provided training for 105 pastors and church leaders.
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