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One injured, gunman dead after Michigan church shooting

June 22, 2025

The quick thinking of a deacon and a security guard stopped a church shooting just after it started in a Detroit suburb this morning (June 22).

Miss Georgia contest winner says following Christ ‘best decision I could have ever made’

June 21, 2025

Audrey Kittila was crowned the 80th winner of the Miss Georgia Scholarship Competition on June 14, fulfilling a lifelong dream. Her victory gives her an expanded public platform to share her Christian faith and serve others in Jesus’ name.

‘High-five Fridays’ among efforts to build relationships with inner-city school

June 20, 2025

For the past six years, Belle Aire Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, has built a powerful connection with Hobgood Elementary, an inner-city school facing numerous low-income challenges.

‘Not hurting without hope’: Fire destroys Tennessee church

June 19, 2025

“By the time I got there, it was fully engaged all the way across the foyer, the sanctuary, and the kitchen area,” said Phill Hall, interim Director of Missions for the Dyer Baptist Association and former interim pastor of Zion Hill. scene after receiving word of the fire.

Mississippi News June 19, 2025

June 19, 2025

Events Saturday Night Alive youth worship, 7–8 p.m., Winston Association (junior high and high school students): June 28 — Poplar Flat Church July 12 —

Supreme Court upholds TN law banning transgender hormone therapies for minors

June 18, 2025

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 18 in favor of a Tennessee law banning medical treatments and procedures, including puberty blockers, for transgender adolescents seeking gender transition.

Christ for the Nations, where suspect in Minnesota shooting attended, denounces actions

June 18, 2025

The search for a motive has put a spotlight on Christ for the Nations Institute, an influential Dallas-based Bible college for nondenominational charismatic Christians, where Boelter graduated in 1990.

Riders celebrate 10 years with record amount for Baptist Children’s Homes of NC

June 18, 2025

Today, what has become known as “Ride to Clyde” has grown from a $19,000 charity ride in 2016 to an initiative that raised a record $261,367 in 2025, the ride’s 10th anniversary.