INDIANAPOLIS — SBC messengers at the 2024 annual meeting approved the reports of three groups that were formed at last year’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Here’s a closer look at what transpired:
INDIANAPOLIS — Dean Inserra said “football nerds” like him watch with great interest every February as football players showcase what they can do at the NFL Combine, which takes place in Indianapolis just down the street from where Southern Baptists held this year’s annual meeting. “One of the events during the Combine that fans pay attention to is the 40-yard dash,” said Inserra, pastor of City Church Tallahassee in Florida,
INDIANAPOLIS — In his routine, succinct style of responding to inquiries, Clint Pressley completed his first press conference as Southern Baptist Convention president in roughly 10 minutes. Media representatives from across the nation gathered to ask questions and hear from Pressley following the conclusion of the SBC Annual Meeting on June 12.
INDIANAPOLIS — Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from the stage to more than 13,000 messengers and guests sent by local churches to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. “Beside you and behind you are row upon row, thousands of Southern Baptists, here to celebrate with you as you prepare to go
INDIANAPOLIS — Kate, a young member of a Girls in Action group, approached her parents in the fall of 2023 with the idea of doing a project for Haiti. They thought it might be something small, but she told them she wanted to raise $7,000 to build a church in Haiti. “In two weekends selling hot apple cider, Kate raised $28,000 to build four churches in Haiti,” said Sandy-Wisdom Martin,
INDIANAPOLIS — Lifeway president Ben Mandrell told messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting on June 12 that he was “more excited than ever for the future of Lifeway.” “Our finances look great,” he said of the SBC entity, which provides resources to the local church. After experiencing a $55 million revenue drop during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lifeway has experienced God’s favor “as we’ve had three consecutive years of
INDIANAPOLIS — Kristen Ferguson, chair of the 2024 Committee on Resolutions, was hoping to see Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopt all 10 of the resolutions the committee had prepared. It didn’t work out exactly that way — but the committee nonetheless finished with a perfect record: eight resolutions presented, eight resolutions adopted. During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Ferguson said that even though time restraints caused two of the resolutions to
INDIANAPOLIS — In a highly anticipated vote on the final day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, messengers narrowly defeated the proposed Law Amendment which specified that only men can serve “as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.” During last year’s annual meeting in New Orleans, messengers adopted a motion by Mike Law, pastor of Arlington Baptist Church in Virginia, that the SBC Constitution
INDIANAPOLIS — Eight resolutions were adopted by messengers attending the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. The Committee on Resolutions proposed 10 resolutions (some submitted by messengers at large and some by the committee), but messengers only adopted 8 of those — time restraints caused two of the resolutions to be left unpresented.
INDIANAPOLIS — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a slate of recommendations June 11 related to how the convention deals with churches that no longer “closely identify with” the SBC in “faith and practice.” The recommendations came from the Cooperation Group, which was formed with the assignment of studying the issue over the past year. “This SBC was chartered for the purpose of directing the energies of Baptists for
INDIANAPOLIS — SBC messengers at the 2024 annual meeting approved the reports of three groups that were formed at last year’s annual meeting in New
INDIANAPOLIS — Dean Inserra said “football nerds” like him watch with great interest every February as football players showcase what they can do at the
INDIANAPOLIS — In his routine, succinct style of responding to inquiries, Clint Pressley completed his first press conference as Southern Baptist Convention president in roughly
INDIANAPOLIS — Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from
INDIANAPOLIS — Kate, a young member of a Girls in Action group, approached her parents in the fall of 2023 with the idea of doing
INDIANAPOLIS — Lifeway president Ben Mandrell told messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting on June 12 that he was “more excited than ever
INDIANAPOLIS — Kristen Ferguson, chair of the 2024 Committee on Resolutions, was hoping to see Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopt all 10 of the resolutions the
INDIANAPOLIS — In a highly anticipated vote on the final day of this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, messengers narrowly defeated the proposed Law
INDIANAPOLIS — Eight resolutions were adopted by messengers attending the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis. The Committee on Resolutions proposed 10 resolutions
INDIANAPOLIS — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a slate of recommendations June 11 related to how the convention deals with churches that no
