“The point (behind the recently announced new Abuse Response Commission) is to serve the churches of our convention while not creating liability for the SBC.” —Marshall Blalock, previous chair of SBC’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force
Pastors are not “supermen,” and they still struggle with anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges that often lead to ministerial burnout and occasionally suicide.
Nation’s oldest church planter? Age no deterrent for 89-year-old Donald Voyles in starting one of Georgia’s newest congregations.
“Given the current legal and financial challenges facing the SBC and [EC], the formation of a new independent organization is the only viable path that allows progress toward abuse reform to continue unencumbered.” —Josh Wester, ARITF chair
Proposed $190 million CP allocation budget for the upcoming 2024–25 fiscal year is down $5 million from the current 2023–24 budget year. EC trustees also approve Credentials Committee’s recommendation to disaffiliate 4 churches.
In upper East Tennessee, pastor Don Winters of Sugar Grove Baptist Church in Butler is lovingly referred to by some family and friends as the
The search team for the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has announced that an “excellent” candidate “is emerging.”
It’s sobering. The Barna Group reported that our 8- to 12-year-olds are “on track to abandon Biblical Christianity in record numbers.”
A small, rural church in lower South Carolina seeks to make a huge impact on mission mobilization.
As a pastor, I would want to be particularly involved in the children’s and student ministries. Here’s why …
