Barber highlights changes, plans for SBC annual meeting
“We’ve changed our process, and I’m happy to say for the first time ever this year you will know what the proposed resolutions are for the SBC Annual meeting well before we gather in Indianapolis,” said SBC president Bart Barber.
TN Baptist association gifts church building to help maintain gospel presence
A Baptist association’s gift to a young church in the Lonsdale community of Knoxville, Tennessee, will ensure a gospel presence is alive and well in the area.
Q&A with Bruce Frank, candidate for SBC president
The Baptist Paper reached out to each of the six individuals who have announced intentions to be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, June 11–12.
‘Critical decisions’: SBC and the lack of funds for legal bills
While the SBC collects hundreds of millions in donations each year, very little is spent on overhead or oversight. Now, a series of lawsuits by pastors accused of abuse has left the denomination unable to pay its legal bills.
‘It breaks your heart’: Texans continue search for loved ones amid flood damage
“It breaks my heart,” said Ashton Bolton, who grew up in Kerr County, Texas. “I’ve lived here my entire life. This is my home and I don’t know what to call this place anymore. It hurts. We just got to rebuild.”
First person: Impacting the Middle East with global missionary partners
Through the International Mission Board, missionaries are allowed to travel the world and proclaim the gospel to all nations, even when they’re seemingly placed in an unlikely region.
Financial planning, guidance boosts church’s planting efforts
When it comes to church planting, it should begin with prayer, identifying potential leaders, training and sending them out. At least, that’s the way Risen Life Church does it — and church plants like Redeeming Life Church have benefitted.
Louisiana Reach Haiti leaders grateful for God’s provision amid challenges
One year after Louisiana Reach Haiti moved its operations from gang-ravaged Port-au-Prince to the safer city of Cap Haitien, Haiti, ministry leaders celebrated while bracing for rising operational costs.