Judson W. “Bill” Hurt, senior pastor of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Columbus, was elected without opposition to a first term as president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention …
In recent decades the focus in the church has shifted away from intentional efforts to invite believers to consider vocational ministry as a calling. As a result, there’s a leadership famine in our local churches.
The Mississippi Baptist Conference of the Deaf, organized by MBCB’s Multicultural Ministries, gathered recently at Garaywa Camp & Conference Center in worship and fellowship.
Jurors in Waco’s U.S. District Court found Baylor University was negligent in handling reports of sexual violence involving a former Bears football player and found the university violated Title IX policies.
“This isn’t a photo from a concert or a party,” the governor wrote about the evangelistic event. “This is from a revival event that happened a few nights ago right here in Mississippi. God is working here, and He has truly blessed us!”
Less than five hours before he was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Oct. 26, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for Death Row inmate William Keith Speers …
“We continue to lift up our brothers and sister in the Lewiston area in prayer … We are in contact with trained chaplains and will deploy them if requested,” said Terry W. Dorsett, executive director of Baptist Churches of New England.
“To have someone with Mike’s intellectual acumen, love for America, principled convictions and Christian worldview as speaker of the House gives me great hope,” said Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Director Steve Horn.
As it continues to grow, the church — which currently meets in the building of the Arkansas Baptist Children & Family Ministries — is on the search for its own space.
JoEllen Claypool had no idea a simple request from her mom to write holiday poems for a cookie party would spark a writing ministry that would change her life.
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