SBC RECAP: MESSENGERS ADOPT SATF REPORT, ELECT BARBER
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] ANAHEIM, Cailf. — Southern Baptists overwhelmingly approved the report of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force during the SBC’s annual meeting June 14-15 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The California meeting drew 8,133 messengers, including 544 from Tennessee. Tennessee ranked third in number of messengers, […]
TASK FORCE CHAIR: MESSENGERS TOOK ‘GOOD FIRST STEP’
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector [email protected] ANAHEIM, Calif. — Southern Baptist Convention messengers took a “good first step” in dealing with sexual abuse issues within the denomination, said Bruce Frank, pastor of Biltmore Baptist Church, Arden, North Carolina, chair of the Sexual Abuse Task Force. During the June 14 session of the SBC […]
GOOD NEWS FROM MISSION FIELD EMPHASIZED, WHILE LOSTNESS REMAINS CENTRAL TO IMB REPORT
By Leslie Peacock Caldwell IMB news office ANAHEIM, Calif. — International Mission Board president Paul Chitwood began IMB’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting with recent good news from the mission field. He recounted a message he received the previous night from a pastor whose daughter serves overseas. Chitwood shared that three Muslim […]
‘LEAN INTO HISTORICAL DOCTRINAL COMMITMENTS’: BART BARBER ELECTED 2022 SBC PRESIDENT
The Baptist Paper ANAHEIM, Calif. — Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church Farmersville, Texas, and active denominational leader, was elected 64th president of the Southern Baptist Convention on June 14 during the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California. Barber received 3,401 votes on a second runoff ballot, garnering 60.87 percent of the 5,587 […]
LITTON PLEADS FOR SBC: ‘PASS US NOT, OH BLESSED SAVIOR’
By Diane Chandler Baptist Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton calls it a “gut punch” – Jesus’ reference to his disciples as an “unbelieving and perverse generation.” Jesus had two questions for disciples in the Matthew 17 passage, which Litton posed in his June 14 address as if Jesus were speaking […]
FIRST SET OF MOTIONS FROM MESSENGERS INCLUDE TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS
By Jennifer Davis Rash The Baptist Paper Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Anaheim came to do business and even lined up at microphones before the opening session began at 8 a.m. The first opportunity to present motions came at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time and 23 were presented before time ran out. […]
WELLMAN LEADS SLATE OF NEW SBC EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS
By Timothy Cockes Baptist Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Seven new SBC Executive Committee officers were elected during the group’s June 13 meeting, including new EC Chairman Jared Wellman, lead pastor of Tate Springs Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. Other newly elected officers include Vice Chairman David Sons, Secretary Pam Reed and four EC subcommittee (also […]
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RESCINDS PREVIOUS BUDGET MOTIONS IN LIGHT OF SEND RELIEF GIFT
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press ANAHEIM — With $4 million now pledged from Send Relief toward funding sexual abuse reforms over the next year, Executive Committee members voted June 13 to rescind their recently approved recommendations for that same objective. EC Chair Rolland Slade, overseeing his final trustee meeting, extended thanks for the gift to […]
DICKARD ELECTED 2023 SBC PASTORS’ CONFERENCE PRESIDENT
By Robin Cornetet Baptist Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Daniel Dickard, senior pastor of Friendly Avenue Baptist Church in Greensboro, N.C., was elected president of the 2023 SBC Pastors’ Conference on June 13. Dickard won the election by a ballot vote, defeating African Christian University’s dean of theology Voddie Baucham by a vote of 690 (50.85 […]
SBC PRAYER GATHERING ADDRESSES REVIVAL, REPENTANCE
By Robin Cornetet Kentucky Today ANAHEIM, Calif. — With the weight of so many important decisions facing Southern Baptists in the coming days, hundreds gathered to pray at the Anaheim Convention Center June 12. Arkansas pastor Bill Elliff and Robby Gallaty, pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, led audience members on what the […]