By Julie Walters Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — WMU Executive Director Sandy Wisdom-Martin welcomed the Southern Baptist Convention June 12 to Birmingham, Ala., where the national missions organization is headquartered. “This has been our home for the past 98 years, but for the entire history of our organization, we’ve stayed focused on our assigned task,” Wisdom-Martin said. “Our mandate is making disciples of Jesus who live on mission. This is

By Julie McGowan Public relations director, International Mission Board BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Massive cyclones in sub-Saharan Africa. Political and humanitarian crises in the Americas. Gangs among the Deaf. Police arrests in Southeast Asia. Slander in Central Asia. Even amid such difficulties, International Mission Board personnel are seeing God create opportunities for people to hear a clear Gospel witness, IMB President Paul Chitwood reported June 11 during the Southern Baptist Convention’s

By Tom Strode Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Messengers to the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention advocated for the vulnerable against abortion, sexual abuse and religious persecution in approving 13 resolutions Wednesday (June 12). The resolutions also addressed a variety of other noteworthy issues in the convention and the world, including local church autonomy, same-sex attraction, justice, women in the military draft and gene editing.

By Myriah Snyder Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Eighteen of the 23 motions by messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., were referred to SBC committees or entities; five were ruled out of order. The Committee on Order of Business made the recommendations to messengers during the SBC’s June 11-12 meeting.

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “Bold resolutions and sweeping statements are not sufficient” to tackle the crisis of sex abuse, Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear said today (June 12) at the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting in Birmingham, Ala. “Victims have told us, words without follow-up actions are worse than no words at all,” Greear said in what is his latest update on the Sexual Abuse Advisory

By Brian Koonce Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala. — The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting drew 8,183 messengers to Birmingham, Ala., June 11-12, outgoing SBC registration secretary Don Currence said in releasing the unofficial total. Official attendance numbers will be released later in June, Currence, of First Baptist Church in Ozark, Mo., said.

By Brian Hobbs & Chris Doyle Baptist Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage proclaimed the power and promises Christians have in Jesus Christ “because of the cross” in the annual sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention today (June 12). Every person “is on one side of the cross or the other — the lost side or the saved side,” Rummage emphasized.

By Julie McGowan Public relations director, International Mission Board BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — David and Zoey Lee know they can go as Southern Baptist missionaries today because Christian believers in the past sacrificed to get the Gospel to their homeland — a truth they shared June 11 during a Sending Celebration to honor the appointment of 26 new Southern Baptist international missionaries. “Many missionaries came to Korea and laid down their