During the past decade, Southern Baptists have planted 8,200 churches throughout North America, comprising nearly 17% of all churches in the denomination, said Kevin Ezell as he presented NAMB’s annual report June 15.
Referencing NAMB’s “Who’s Your One?” emphasis, Ezell said the power behind the numbers is always “the power of one — one ministry opportunity, one church, one person.”
A church’s communication calendar should never be more important than the people receiving it. Sept. 11, 2026, marks 25 years since the attacks that changed our nation — and the world.
A Christian camp, known as Shift the Atmosphere, was reportedly kicked out of the annual “anything goes,” counter-cultural event held this week in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert after being accused of aggressive evangelism tactics.
On this day 69 years ago, the late Rev. Billy Graham concluded a Crusade that lasted nearly 16 weeks— beginning May 15, 1957, and ending Sept. 1 — and further solidified the preacher’s status as the leading evangelist of his era.
Brandon Porter, Executive Committee vice president for convention communications, was welcomed as the next associational mission strategist (AMS) for the South Central Baptist Association in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on Aug. 30.
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