Beginning this year, First Baptist Church Shelbyville, Tennessee, is launching an effort to start five ethnic churches in Bedford County over the next 15 years.
Orbit Church witnessed the support of Arizona Southern Baptists after the young church plant’s storage trailer in Buckeye was broken into, and nearly $40,000 in audiovisual equipment was stolen.
In a unanimous vote on Monday (April 15), Gateway Seminary trustees elected Adam Groza as the seminary’s eighth president during their spring 2024 meeting. His term begins May 13.
“Southwestern Seminary is in a very different place than in September 2022,” said David Dockery, noting many factors. “All this has happened because of God’s providential kindness to us.”
It is important for an association to take a deep dive and imagine a new vision for their missions field. The idea of a year of jubilee would mean that you engage in this way every 50 years. I urge associations to do this more often.
Illinois pastor David Wright of Joppa Missionary Baptist Church reflects on his journey, initially questioning his effectiveness before a surge of baptisms renewed his faith.