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IMB APPOINTS MISSIONARIES

October 14, 2019

Baptist Press

Sam Greer

RICHMOND — International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 24 new fulltime, fully funded personnel to take the gospel to unreached people and places during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond.

The meeting also included an update on an external report regarding IMB’s prevention and response to abuse and harassment; the approval of a balanced budget for 2019-20; and orientation for 23 new trustees, including Sam Greer, pastor of Red Bank Baptist Church, Chattanooga.

The 24 new missionaries were appointed during a special Sending Celebration, which recognized both the new personnel and the churches sending them to take the gospel to the nations. [Read more…]

MAN BAPTIZED AT CHURCH HE VANDALIZED 6 MONTHS EARLIER

October 10, 2019

By Tobin Perry
Baptist Press

Don Chandler (right), who has been the senior pastor of Central Baptist Church in Conway, Ark., for 40 years, stands with Brenton Winn the night the 23-year-old was baptized at the church. In February, Winn was arrested for causing $100,000 in damage at the church.
-Photo courtesy of Central Baptist Church

CONWAY, Ark. (BP) — Feb. 28, 2019 was one of the worst days of 23-year-old Brenton Winn’s life. But it paved the way for one of the best.

Angry at God after he relapsed from an addiction to methamphetamines despite spending time at a faith-based recovery program, Winn knew nothing about Central Baptist Church of Conway, Ark., when he broke in that February evening. High on drugs, Winn went on a rampage and destroyed $100,000 of church property, including laptops, cameras, and other electronics. He remembers little of that night, except that he felt desperate.

Six months later Winn stood in a baptismal pool at Central Baptist as Mike Lefler, the church’s associate pastor of ministries, celebrated the young man’s decision to follow Christ through baptism. [Read more…]

LMCO RECEIVES 3RD HIGHEST TOTAL EVER

October 10, 2019

Baptist Press

RICHMOND — Southern Baptist church members gave $156.6 million to support international missionaries in 2018-2019, the third-highest Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for international missions ever received. Tennessee Baptists gave $10,389,109 to the 2018-19 offering, according to the TBMB accounting office.

“Because you and your church gave through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, you are a part of reaching the unreached in every nation,” said IMB president Paul Chitwood. [Read more…]

EVANGELISTIC ENERGY

October 9, 2019

Steve Gaines, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and immediate past president of the SBC, concluded the Sept. 30 training time during the Who’s Your One Tour? stop at Christ Place Church in Flowery Branch, Ga. Gaines shared a message about how Bellevue has used a multi-faceted approach to share the gospel in their community.
— NAMB photo

NAMB tour helps believers learn to share gospel

By Brandon Elrod
Baptist Press

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Mark Hoover, pastor of First Baptist Church in Hayti, Mo., is looking for a new “one.”

After witnessing long distance to his brother, Dusty, who lives in their home state of Mississippi, Hoover saw him come to Christ. Inspired by what God had done in his life, Dusty drove several hours to Hayti where Hoover baptized him on Baptism Sunday (Sept. 8).

All across the United States, the evangelism team at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) has heard similar stories during the Who’s Your One? tour of how the movement has led to life change.

Those stories can serve as a hopeful sign for Southern Baptist churches that are working to reverse a decades-long decline. [Read more…]

COOPERATIVE PROGRAM: A MISSIONARY’S GRATITUDE

October 2, 2019

By Paul Chitwood
International Mission Board President

EDITOR’S NOTE FROM BAPTIST PRESS: Paul Chitwood is president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. October is Cooperative Program Emphasis month in the Southern Baptist Convention. Learn more about CP here.

RICHMOND, Va. — As I near the first anniversary of being elected president of the International Mission Board, I am incredibly encouraged about so many aspects of the Great Commission work of Southern Baptists.

At the top of the list are our missionaries. Over these months, my wife Michelle and I have met with more than half of our 3,700 Southern Baptist missionaries and their 2,880 children. [Read more…]

2020 SBC ONLINE HOTEL REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

October 2, 2019

By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Online hotel registration opens Tuesday (Oct. 1) for the Southern Baptist Convention 2020 Annual Meeting June 9-10 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

Reservations open 8 a.m. Central Time at sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc20, under the housing & travel tab.

SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd called the meeting the “premier event” in Southern Baptist life. [Read more…]

2020 ELECTIONS: MOST EVANGELICALS WANT TO PLAY NICE

September 30, 2019

By Aaron Earls
Baptist Press

NASHVILLE — Most American evangelicals believe Jesus’ Golden Rule — “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” — applies to politics. Some, however, see the political realm leading up to the 2020 elections as no place for niceness, according to a new study.

A LifeWay Research study sponsored by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (ERLC) conducted in November of 2018 explored the perspectives of American evangelicals on civility, politics, media consumption and how likely they are to engage with views different from their own. [Read more…]

TRUSTEES: IMB APPOINTS MISSIONARIES, HEARS ABUSE PREVENTION UPDATE

September 30, 2019

By IMB and Baptist Press

New IMB trustee Cory Gonyo, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Bettendorf, Iowa, prays during the board of trustees’ plenary session Sept. 26. Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, called trustees to pray fervently for the spread of the gospel among the nations. — Photo by Chris Carter/IMB

RICHMOND, Va. — International Mission Board trustees approved the appointment of 24 new fulltime, fully funded personnel to take the Gospel to unreached people and places during their Sept. 25-26 meeting near Richmond, Va.

The meeting also included an update on an external report regarding IMB’s prevention and response to abuse and harassment; the approval of a balanced budget for 2019-20; and orientation for 23 new trustees. Seth Polk, trustee chairman and senior pastor of Cross Lanes Baptist Church in Cross Lanes, W.Va., presided over the meeting. [Read more…]

BAPTISM SUNDAY SEES ‘TREMENDOUS MOMENTUM’

September 24, 2019

By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear baptizes a new believer at The Summit Church on Baptism Day Sept. 8.
-Twitter photo

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. — Kris and Jill Hopkins so appreciated the gospel call at Christ Community Church in Huntersville, N.C., on Sept. 8 that they hugged pastor Ronnie Parrott and cried after their baptisms moments later.

“They were in tears and grateful that we cared enough about them to give them that opportunity to know Christ, to know the true gospel and then to identify with Him through baptism,” Parrott told Baptist Press.

The Hopkinses were among hundreds or more new believers who made professions of faith at Southern Baptist churches on Baptism Day and were baptized the same day, 15 of them at Christ Community Church. [Read more…]

NOBTS EXCAVATION COULD BRING 2 KINGS 17 INTO FOCUS

September 19, 2019

By Gary D. Myers
Baptist Press

Volunteers and staff members search for Iron Age pottery and artifacts at Tel Hadid in a new archaeological partnership between New Orleans Seminary and Tel Aviv University. — Photo by Noam Kodesh/From BP

TEL HADID, Israel — Nestled between accounts of Israel’s defeat at the hands of the Assyrian army and the rise of Hezekiah’s kingship in Judea, the importance of 2 Kings 17:24-40 can be easy to overlook.

The verses speak of the people groups the Assyrians sent to the region of Samaria in Israel after the fall of the Northern Kingdom and the deportation of the Israelite elites.

The passage in 2 Kings states that the Assyrians relocated people from “Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim” to Samaria. Many scholars believe these newcomers later intermarried with the remnant of Israelites and ultimately formed the religious sect known as the Samaritans. [Read more…]

NAMB tour helps believers learn to share gospel

EDITOR’S NOTE FROM BAPTIST PRESS: Paul Chitwood is president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. October is Cooperative Program Emphasis month in the Southern Baptist Convention. Learn more about CP here.

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