The California Southern Baptist Convention Executive Board met Sept. 10–11 to conduct business, celebrate milestones and take decisive steps toward the future — which included
In his report to messengers at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas, Gateway Seminary President Adam Groza said the seminary is “healthy, … growing and … focused.”
David Kim sat in silence in his hospital bed for three hours, then began crying out to God asking, “Why?” Then he asked God to take his life if he was going to be a burden to his family.
“That’s what we go for. The food is secondary to the Scripture, to the gospel,” Nichols said.
Jeff Iorg: My vision is that Southern Baptists would come together and spend 95% of their time talking about how to get the gospel to people in the world who’ve never even heard the name of Jesus.
“Now, we have added personal property recovery to our workload, helping families uncover precious keepsakes from the ashes — treasures that bring healing and remind them that hope is closer than they thought,” noted Kendrick Neal.
Fermín A. Whittaker, the longest-tenured executive director of California Southern Baptist Convention, died Friday, Feb. 7.
“We are thankful for our SBC family of churches and leaders who have responded to the needs that have arisen from the Los Angeles fires,” said CSBC executive director Pete Ramirez.
As wildfires in California continue to threaten lives and homes, personal property recovery efforts are expected to begin in the coming weeks after fires are contained, Disaster Relief leaders report.
“As you pray for the victims of the fires in Los Angeles, I would suggest that rather than a generic ‘pray for LA,’ you get specific,” writes Phil Cooke. “The Bible encourages us to be specific in our prayers.”
