
Groza highlights missions opportunities, multilingual programs in Gateway report
In his report to messengers at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas, Gateway Seminary President Adam Groza said the seminary is “healthy, … growing and … focused.”

Study: Church closures and ‘the most significant engine for evangelistic growth’
The changing religious landscape in the United States includes a decline in the total number of Protestant churches.

GA town sees hundreds of decisions leading up to evangelistic crusade
“The key to the success … was the people of God have been praying for months for this crusade,” said Rick Gage, the Georgia-based evangelist who leads Go Tell Ministries.

Baptists in Eastern Europe serving God in the midst of war
“We have to understand that nothing that happens in our world is out of [God’s] control,” said Nelutu “John” Iubas, who is president of Romanian-American Mission in Romania. “We have a God who’s above everything.”

‘How Great Thou Art’ gets new verse for 75th anniversary
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the hymn’s popular English translation, Grammy-winning Christian singer-songwriter Matt Redman has teamed up with 15 other artists and released a new version,

First Person: Learning from the law of unintended consequences
“Watching and covering aspects of the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting the past few years reminds me of the law of unintended consequences,” Jennifer Rash notes.

Resumés for Alabama’s executive director being accepted
Seven weeks — that’s the plan for the pool of candidates to be finalized for the transition and search team to consider as the next executive director of the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions.

Brighter future? Iranian evangelicals staying put, tentative but hopeful.
Hormoz Shariat preaches to a congregation of millions of Iranian Christians around the world, those who have scattered because of repression at home and those who, having stayed, have long been the target of arrest by Iranian authorities, frequently accused of being tools of Western powers.