Southern Baptist Convention messengers approved all 12 recommendations presented by the Executive Committee during the Southern Baptists Convention annual meeting.
Emphasizing his role as president to be one of representing churches, not an entity or committee, newly-elected Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice addressed several topics at a press conference Wednesday afternoon (June 10) immediately following the final gavel at the SBC Annual Meeting.
“We are genuinely grateful to God to receive this good and encouraging report that all sanctions have been removed, which is an answer to the prayers of many.”
Southern Baptists, in a resolution, warned against a cultural rebranding of assisted suicide as a form of medical care and reaffirmed their commitment to the sanctity of life from conception until natural death at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando June 10.
“If you took all the people on our planet with disabilities and added them together, you would have the third largest country in the world, just behind India and China,” asserted Tom Stolle, executive director of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.
There are many ways to prepare for Vacation Bible School (VBS). Prayer is an obvious one. Prayer walking offers every church member an opportunity to lay an intentional, strategic spiritual foundation for ministering to children.
Growth in evangelism and church planting were the focus of North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell’s report to messengers to the 2026 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Orlando on June 10.
Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of WMU, SBC, began WMU’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 10 by introducing Carolyn Fountain.
The Southern Baptist Convention has a new slate of officers. Among them is a new president — and it didn’t take a runoff vote.
Bethel Church will no longer platform Todd Bentley, Mike Bickle , Shawn Bolz or Bob Hartley, according to an update posted on the church’s website May 28.
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