Southern Baptist Convention messengers approved all 12 recommendations presented by the Executive Committee during the Southern Baptists Convention annual meeting.
The more than 11,000 messengers and their guests endured a full day of entity reports, the first set of officer elections and an opportunity to make their requests known today (June 9) during the SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando.
In his first report to SBC messengers as president and CEO of Lifeway, Ryan Blackwell said the organization is more committed than ever to providing resources for the local church that are grounded in Scripture.
Holding down a full-time job while also pastoring a church is not for the faint of heart. Lee Wright, who is a bivocational pastor leading three churches, says God makes it possible.
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