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IMB’S CHITWOOD TAPS LAFFERTY

Baptist Press RICHMOND — International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood announced Jan. 30 that Todd Lafferty will be presented to the entity’s board of trustees as his recommendation for the IMB’s next executive vice president. IMB trustees, who meet Feb. 6-7 in Richmond, are responsible for electing the person who serves in that role. Lafferty currently serves as pastor of mobilization for Shades Mountain Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. He

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TOGETHERNESS, UNITY MARK IMB PRESIDENTIAL INSTALLATION

By Ann Lovell IMB communications office RICHMOND, Va. — Unity, fellowship and promises of mutual support characterized the installation of International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood, a native of Jellico, Tenn., and the Sending Celebration of 19 newly appointed international missionaries at Grove Avenue Baptist Church, in Richmond, Wednesday, Feb. 6. Chitwood is the 13th president of the 173-year-old International Mission Board, the largest denominational missionary-sending body among American evangelicals. 

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WAX NAMED TO SBC COMMITTEE

Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala. “These committee members hail from state conventions, national entities, seminaries, local churches and local associations,” said Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C., area.

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GUIDESTONE RELEASES MINISTERS’ TAX GUIDE

By Holly Taylor Baptist Press DALLAS — GuideStone Financial Resources has released its 2019 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2018 Returns, available now for GuideStone participants. The tax guide includes tax highlights for 2018 — including changes based on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 — along with step-by-step filing instructions for ministers’ personal taxes and comprehensive examples and sample forms.

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JIM HENRY’S WIFE & MOTHER ENTER HEAVEN IN 5-DAY SPAN

By Art Toalston Baptist Press ORLANDO, Fla. — In five days, Jim Henry has witnessed the homegoing of his wife Jeanette and mother Kathryn. Jeanette, 79, died Feb. 4 in the early morning hours in Orlando, Fla.; Kathryn, 100, died Thursday, Jan. 31, in Nashville. Jim Henry was president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1994-1996; pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando from 1977 until his retirement in 2006,

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YOUNG ADULTS KEEP CHRISTIAN LABEL, BUT FEWER ‘DEVOUT’

By Aaron Earls Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Most young adults who attended church as a teenager say they believe in God today, but fewer consider themselves devout Christians, according to a study released today (Jan. 31). And as a whole, they have conflicting recollections about the churches they attended in high school. LifeWay Research surveyed more than 2,000 American adults between the ages of 23 and 30 who attended a

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N.Y. ABORTION BILL: ‘ALARMING IN EVERY SENSE’

By Tom Strode Baptist Press ALBANY, N.Y. — New York may have re-established itself as America’s leading abortion state by enacting a law that critics say goes beyond even the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Reproductive Health Act (RHA) into law Jan. 22 shortly after the state legislature completed passage of the controversial proposal. Enactment of the legislation came on the 46th

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GA. BAPTISTS DROP 20 STAFFERS AFTER CP SHORTFALL

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press DULUTH, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board (GBMB) has laid off 20 staff members after a near-$1.2 million budget shortfall in 2018 Cooperative Program giving, the Christian Index reported. The GBMB will restructure the workforce for greater efficiency, GBMB Executive Director W. Thomas Hammond, Jr., told the convention’s newsjournal Jan. 24. “We’re committed to making the Georgia Baptist Mission Board the best resource our

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CHITWOOD TO BE INSTALLED AS IMB PRESIDENT FEB. 6

By Julie McGowan IMB RICHMOND, Va. — The International Mission Board will install Dr. Paul Chitwood formally as its 13th president on Feb. 6, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond. The public is invited to attend the installation service, which will include a Sending Celebration honoring the appointment of 19 new Southern Baptist international missionaries. The IMB’s board of trustees unanimously elected Chitwood, 48, as

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PROHIBITION & BAPTISTS 100 YEARS LATER

EDITOR’S NOTE (Baptist Press): Jan. 16 marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which outlawed “the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.” By David Roach Baptist Press NASHVILLE — When the 18th Amendment was ratified 100 years ago and prohibition became law of the land, the Southern Baptist Convention called it “the greatest victory for moral reform in America since the

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WAX NAMED TO SBC COMMITTEE

Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting

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