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 Great Commission and the Great Multitude pictured in Revelation 7:9. The International Mission Board’s purpose

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 be allocated from Send Relief funds designated for its ongoing mission to protect children and

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 power. Because like we see, usually it is the leaders who go corrupt more quickly

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 Send Relief that will fund the reforms entirely the first year without use of Cooperative

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 national Cooperative Program Allocation Budget approved at last year’s annual meeting in Nashville as well

The Baptist Paper Southern Baptist leaders and others mentioned in the sexual abuse report released May 22 continue to come forward to refute allegations made by Guidepost Solutions, which led the independent investigation into claims the SBC Executive Committee mishandled reports of sexual abuse. In addition to these responses, the Association of State Baptist Publications has requested access to the full archive of evidence for the report to review. Earlier