UPDATE: On Tuesday (Sept. 23), the SBC Executive Committee approved a referral from the June annual meeting involving the appointment of an EC task force
Standing in the middle of about 850 men and at least 16 blue kiddie pools full of enough shrimp, potatoes, corn and sausage to capsize
Trustees have asked Lifeway’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Joe Walker to serve as interim president and CEO until a new president is named, in accordance with Lifeway’s bylaws.
Messengers voted 3,421 to 2,191—60.74 percent to 38.90 percent—in favor of a motion to “clarify” only churches with male pastors are considered in “friendly cooperation” with the SBC.
Southern Baptist messengers to the 2025 Annual Meeting rejected an amendment Wednesday that would have required the Southern Baptist Convention to publish detailed financial information like IRS Form 990 disclosures.
Pulling his message from Ecclesiastes 11: 1–6, Tony Wolfe — executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention — urged messengers to not retreat from their global mission.
“Throughout this convention, we are erecting memorial stones of 100 years of cooperation demonstrated through the Cooperative Program,” said Jeff Iorg, president of the SBC Executive Committee.
Due to a major renovation at the Salt Palace Convention Center, the Southern Baptist Convention must relocate its 2027 Annual Meeting from Salt Lake City, the SBC Executive Committee announced Thursday (May30).
