BCNY exec director Terry Robertson announces retirement plans
June 5, 2024
Terry Robertson, executive director/treasurer of the Baptist Convention of New York, announced his retirement June 4 after 20 years of service.
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Pastor left rejoicing after ‘God moment’ overcomes language barrier
June 4, 2024
George Yates, interim pastor at Glasgow Baptist Church, experienced a “God moment” in mid-April when Ling Zheng, a Mandarin-speaking man known as Leo, expressed his desire to be baptized.
‘It was nuts’: Tornado interrupts prayer service, rips off church wall
June 3, 2024
“I have never done a job like this before — quite unique in just one wall being sucked off and the structure still standing,” said Mike Pickel of Crestview Baptist Church in Georgetown, Texas.
Longtime NC pastor, ministry leader Marcus Redding dies
June 3, 2024
Marcus Redding, a longtime pastor and ministry leader in North Carolina, died May 30 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. During the past seven years, Redding has served as the NAMB’s director of supporting churches. He was 58.
Oklahoma DR constructs apartment for elderly man
June 3, 2024
Oklahoma Baptist Disaster Relief constructs apartment for elderly man, who lost his home in a wildfire.
SEBTS receives $1.25 million grant to ‘equip, encourage pastors’
June 1, 2024
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary announced it has received a grant of $1.25 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. in support for the Great Commission Preaching Initiative of Southeastern’s Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership.
Retired missionary still reaching Kayapo Indians at 95 with WhatsApp
June 1, 2024
Earl Trapp has been a missionary to the Kayapo Indians for 64 years. Now, he and Jerry Walker, a deacon at First Baptist Church Aztec, New Mexico, are working on digitizing cassette tape recordings of each of Trapp’s sermons to the Kayapo.
‘Think like a missionary’: Ohio church planter leverages business for ministry opportunities
May 31, 2024
Growing up, Austin Mathis didn’t know many pastors who held jobs outside their pastoral roles. So, naturally, when he felt God’s call to plant a church in 2014, Austin didn’t picture himself pastoring while also starting a business and …
Dallas deacons helping ‘rebuild Ukraine’ one container at a time
May 30, 2024
With war leaving many Ukrainians displaced along with the general homeless population, housing was a great need that was hard to come by. However, through the work of several Texas men, shipping containers are being converted into housing.
SWBTS releases new details on handling of sexual assault report
May 29, 2024
Southwestern Seminary has released more details on the handling of a case involving sexual assault that has landed a former seminary staffer in federal court, charged with with obstruction of justice.
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