WMU’S ANNUAL MEETING LOOKS DIFFERENT THIS YEAR WITH ‘ROLLING MISSIONS ADVENTURE’
By Grace Thornton The Alabama Baptist ANAHEIM, Calif. — Connie Dixon covered some miles this past year as she served as national Woman’s Missionary Union president. She visited 20 states, had 29 speaking opportunities, attended 94 Zoom calls, recorded five videos and two podcasts, wrote 27 articles and walked through 61 airports. “I have loved […]
SOUTHERN BAPTISTS COME TOGETHER TO SERVE, SHARE GOSPEL THROUGH CROSSOVER ANAHEIM
By Brandon Elrod Baptist Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Following a week of Southern Baptist seminary students engaging neighborhoods around Anaheim, 34 churches engaged their communities through various outreach events Saturday, June 11, through Crossover, which partnered with Send Relief to host a Serve Tour experience that took place ahead of the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention […]
MISSIONARY PRESENCE CENTRAL TO NEW IMB BRAND
By Baptist Press RICHMOND, Va. — The greatest problem in the world is lostness. The only solution to the world’s greatest problem is the Gospel. The biblical example for taking the Gospel to the lost is through physical presence. And for Southern Baptists, physical missionary presence to the nations is how we cooperate to fulfill both the […]
FORMER TBMB STAFFER REFLECTS ON INTERIM EC POST
Compiled from Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Willie McLaurin expresses a difference between working “in the business” and working “on the business.” “So many leaders, they’re working in the business. They’re putting out fires. They’re crossing the Ts and dotting the Is. That’s working in the business,” McLaurin said. “But I’ve learned how to work on […]
SEND RELIEF OFFERS $4 MILLION TO FUND EC SEXUAL ABUSE RESPONSE, SURVIVOR CARE FUND
By Diana Chandler Baptist Press ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Send Relief announced its intent June 8 to give $3 million to fund the proposed Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF) recommendations for sexual abuse reform, and an additional $1 million to establish a survivor care fund to provide trauma care for survivors and trauma training for pastors. The $1 million would […]
BAPTISMS AND GIVING REBOUND IN SBC IN 2021
By Carol Pipes Lifeway news office NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist congregations saw a rebound in the number of baptisms and an increase of $304 million in overall giving in 2021, both hopeful signs congregations are recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Southern Baptist congregations baptized 154,701 in 2021, a 26 percent increase from 123,160 reported in […]
‘REPENTANCE AND CHANGE’ NEEDED
Pastors, SBC leaders call for action in response to sex abuse report By Diane Chandler Baptist Press RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Southern Baptist Convention president J.D. Greear says he’s encouraged by the SBC’s bottom-up structure putting power in the hands of lay members. “I want to be in a convention where the people have the […]
FUNDING, POLITY REVISIONS MADE TO SEXUAL ABUSE TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS
By Jennifer Davis Rash The Baptist Paper Funding and polity revisions have been made to the two recommendations coming from the SBC Sexual Abuse Task Force, according to a video announcement June 8. These recommendations will be proposed to messengers during the June 14–15 annual meeting in Anaheim. “(We have a) new funding mechanism through […]
UNCHARTED WATER
Recent baptism believed to be first among people group Editor’s note: Some names have been changed for security reasons. By Leslie Peacock Caldwell IMB news office COLOMBIA — In early April 2022, IMB missionary Travis Burkhalter waded into the rushing waters of a jungle river in Colombia to baptize Sarah, the first known follower of […]
EC TRUSTEES VOTE TO APPROVE INITIAL, FUTURE FUNDING OF SEXUAL ABUSE RESPONSE
By Scott Barkley Baptist Press NASHVILLE — The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee (EC) voted June 2 to revise previously recommended budgets in order to fund recommendations made by the Sexual Abuse Task Force (SATF). A special-called Zoom meeting, attended by 57 of 67 current members, addressed reallocating funds given in excess of the 2021-22 […]