Henry Durand has been named editor of The Christian Index, assuming the role this month following more than three years of service with the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.
In December, Spirit and Truth Church in Atlanta, Georgia, made a donation that cleared $1.5 million of medical debt for over 1,000 people in the Atlanta area.
It’s a changing of the guard as three northeast Georgia associational missionary strategists with 60 years of combined experience are retiring. They are baby boomers passing the baton to a new generation of leadership.
For 30 years, First Baptist Church Epworth, Georgia, has taken shoeboxes to South Dakota, and now to Oklahoma. On Dec. 5, 37 church members traveled to the Muscogee-Seminole-Wichita Indian Baptist Association in Henryetta, Oklahoma, to deliver 1,904 shoeboxes so children could have a better Christmas.
In 25 years as pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in McIntyre, Bill Harpe has not witnessed anything like what is happening right now at the 29-year-old church.
Former Truett McConnell University vice president Brad Reynolds was indicted Monday (Dec. 8) by a White County, Georgia, grand jury on three felony counts of making false statements to law enforcement, according to court records and officials.
After 19 years and 4 months, Fred McCoy is concluding his ministry as pastor of Houston Lake Baptist Church.
“My goal in life, my calling, is to know Christ and to make Him known. Everything that I do is situated under that purpose,” said Miss Georgia 2025 Audrey Kittila, a member of First Baptist Church Alpharetta.
Georgia Baptist Collegiate Ministries marked a century of campus outreach Monday night, celebrating 100 years of ministry on the opening night of the Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting at First Baptist Church Atlanta.
There was a time when Steven Blanton said, “If I died in Vietnam, I know I would go straight to hell.”
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