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 final day of the SBC’s annual meeting in New Orleans — after the task force
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, defeating Dusty Deevers, pastor of Grace Community Church of Elgin, Oklahoma (784 votes, or 20.73
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 together. “Generations come and generations go, but our mission has not changed. In fact, it
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 to a long-established pattern in SBC leadership, as presidents have typically served two terms during
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 globe. Her grandparents, though not missionaries themselves, had instilled in her parents, aunts and uncles
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 in Indianapolis.
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, La. He was elected on the third balloting, after his opponent Russ Barksdale of Arlington,
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 pervasive in today’s culture. “The effect of gender confusion and what it means to be
For his sermon on mercy, Bartholomew Orr turned to a text that might seem surprising — the story of Jesus cleansing the temple in Matthew 21. Orr, senior pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Mississippi, had been tasked with unpacking Matthew 5:7 — “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy” — at the Southern Baptist Pastors Conference on June 12. As he talked about how Jesus turned over the
NEW ORLEANS — Seventeen people went all in for Jesus on June 10, participating in believer’s baptism during a block party at Celebration Church’s Lower St. Bernard campus in Violet, Louisiana. One by one, each person came in and out of a water-filled portable trough and was greeted with applause during the church’s first-ever Jesus Fest block party. According to pastor Trevor Truitt, 13 who were baptized made a decision during
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
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
NEW ORLEANS — For 178 years, Southern Baptists have cooperated in fulfilling the Great Commission and the Great Commandment, Willie McLaurin told messengers Tuesday afternoon
NEW ORLEANS — Bart Barber was reelected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, winning by a wide margin against Mike Stone at
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
NEW ORLEANS — Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12
NEW ORLEANS — SBC Executive committee chair David Sons seemed relieved to announce he would not seek reelection to the post, but the ensuing vote
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
For his sermon on mercy, Bartholomew Orr turned to a text that might seem surprising — the story of Jesus cleansing the temple in Matthew 21.
NEW ORLEANS — Seventeen people went all in for Jesus on June 10, participating in believer’s baptism during a block party at Celebration Church’s Lower St.
