2023 SBC MEETING: MESSENGERS ADOPT SIX RESOLUTIONS
NEW ORLEANS — Messengers to the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans adopted six resolutions during the Tuesday afternoon business session on June 13. “Resolutions are an important part of what we do each and every year as a convention of churches,” said Resolutions Committee chair David Sons in introducing Part 1 of the […]
2023 SBC MEETING: MESSENGERS DISFELLOWSHIP THREE CHURCHES
NEW ORLEANS — There are three fewer churches in the Southern Baptist Convention following an overwhelming vote June 13 by messengers at the annual meeting in New Orleans. Two congregations were disfellowshipped for having women pastors — Fern Creek Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., and Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif. — while another church […]
2023 SBC MEETING: MESSENGERS VOTE TO EXTEND ARITF’S WORK
NEW ORLEANS — In a show of support for the on-going efforts to make Southern Baptist churches “the safest place on earth” for children and other minors, SBC messengers voted overwhelmingly in favor of extending the work of the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF) for another year. The vote came on Wednesday — the […]
OFFICERS ELECTED, REELECTED DURING SBC ANNUAL MEETING
In addition to reelecting Bart Barber as Southern Baptist Convention president for another year, messengers to the annual meeting June 13–14 in New Orleans elected a slate of other leaders. Jay Adkins, lead pastor of First Baptist Church Westwego, Louisiana, was elected first vice president. Adkins received 2,393 votes, or 63.27 percent of the vote, […]
2023 SBC MEETING: LET’S ‘MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER,’ MCLAURIN SAYS IN EC REPORT
NEW ORLEANS — For 178 years, Southern Baptists have cooperated in fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, Willie McLaurin told messengers Tuesday afternoon in New Orleans. The interim president and CEO for the Southern Baptist Executive Committee (EC) called Southern Baptists to renewed cooperation and a deeper dependence on Jesus in their work […]
2023 SBC MEETING: BARBER WINS REELECTION AS SBC PRESIDENT
NEW ORLEANS — Bart Barber was reelected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, winning by a wide margin against Mike Stone at the SBC’s annual meeting. Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, received 68 percent of the votes in his bid for a second term. His reelection holds true […]
2023 SBC MEETING: MISSIONS LEGACY HIGHLIGHTED AT SENDING CELEBRATION
NEW ORLEANS — Rachel grew up with a deep understanding of what the missionary life looked like. She didn’t learn it at church though. She learned it as she played with her cousins and sat around a family holiday table and heard her aunts and uncles share their adventures of watching God work across the […]
2023 SBC MEETING: RUMMAGE TO LEAD 2024 PASTORS’ CONFERENCE
NEW ORLEANS — Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Rummage, pastor of Quail Springs Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, will lead planning of next year’s SBC Pastors’ Conference June 9-10 […]
2023 SBC MEETING: NEW EC CHAIR ELECTED, SONS DECLINES NEW TERM
NEW ORLEANS — SBC Executive committee chair David Sons seemed relieved to announce he would not seek reelection to the post, but the ensuing vote to choose a successor could be interpreted as descriptive of a divide in denomination politics. The new chair is Philip Robertson, pastor of Philadelphia Baptist Church in Deville and Alexandria, […]
2023 SBC MEETING: BAPTIST WOMEN FOCUS ON ‘TRUTH’ IN FACE OF IDENTITY, GENDER BATTLES
Hundreds of Southern Baptist women from across the nation explored the theme, “Imago Dei: Created in His Image — Female” during the annual Pastors Wives/Women’s Conference held June 12 in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference. One of the primary topics covered by speakers dealt with the confusion of gender identity that is now […]