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10-YEAR-OLD ADVANCES SBC MINISTRY DAY

February 21, 2019

By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press

In a rare invitation to address the SBC Executive Committee during its Feb. 18-19 meeting in Nashville, 10-year-old Zak McCullar spoke in support of his 2018 motion to add Children’s Ministry Day to the SBC calendar of events. — Photo by Morris Abernathy

NASHVILLE — Zak McCullar was 9 years old when he knocked on a stranger’s door in Black Mountain, N.C., eager to tell her about Jesus.

“I said we’re from Walker County in Alabama and we’re with Oteen Baptist Church and we want to invite you to church, and if there’s any questions ask me.” [Read more…]

PROMPT, BIBLICAL RESPONSE MUST BE FIRST STEP FOR CHURCHES

February 21, 2019

Anger, guilt are among issues facing sexual abuse victims

By David Roach
Baptist Press

NASHVILLE — Attempted suicide, drug overdoses, hatred of God and ruined teenage years are among the effects of sexual abuse described in a Feb. 11 Houston Chronicle report on sexual abuse among Southern Baptists.

Two Southern Baptist mental health experts say the effects of sexual abuse against children and teenagers are actually worse than the Chronicle described. They also say churches and pastors can mitigate those effects with prompt, biblical and wise responses. [Read more…]

GREENWAY NOMINATED TO LEAD SOUTHWESTERN SEMINARY

February 19, 2019

By SWBTS Staff

Adam Greenway

FORT WORTH, Texas — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumnus Adam W. Greenway, dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been unanimously selected by Southwestern Seminary’s presidential search committee as their nominee to fill the presidential vacancy.

Greenway, 41, has served in many denominational leadership roles, including vice chairman of the Evangelism Task Force (2018), president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention (2011-2012), trustee and board chairman for LifeWay Christian Resources (2005-2015), and current chairman of the SBC Committee on Order of Business. [Read more…]

GREEAR ADDRESSES UNREPORTED VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ABUSE

February 11, 2019

By J.D. Greear & Brad Hambrick
Baptist Press

J.D. Greear

DURHAM, N.C. — Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has set forth counsel to victims of sexual abuse who have not yet sought help.

An article coauthored with biblical counselor Brad Hambrick has been posted at Greear’s website, jdgreear.com, and is printed in full below. [Read more…]

PAPER’S SEXUAL ABUSE REPORT LEAVES SBC’S GREEAR ‘BROKEN’

February 11, 2019

By Art Toalston
Baptist Press

EDITOR’S NOTE FROM BP: This story was updated Feb. 11 at 7:30 a.m. Central time.

HOUSTON — A Houston newspaper, in reporting on instances of sexual abuse by pastors and others at Southern Baptist churches, has left SBC President J.D. Greear “broken over what was revealed today.”

“The abuses described in this @HoustonChron article are pure evil,” Greear stated in a series of tweets after the Houston Chronicle reported today (Feb. 10) on instances of abuse by ministers, youth pastors, Sunday School teachers, deacons and church volunteers. [Read more…]

IMB’S CHITWOOD TAPS LAFFERTY

February 8, 2019

Baptist Press

Todd and Susan Lafferty visit the Taj Mahal in the Indian city of Agra in 2012. The Laffertys served as International Mission Board personnel in a nearby country, sharing the gospel among South Asia’s 1.5 billion people who have no personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

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 and his wife Susan previously served with the IMB for nearly 29 years. [Read more…]

TOGETHERNESS, UNITY MARK IMB PRESIDENTIAL INSTALLATION

February 7, 2019

By Ann Lovell
IMB communications office

Paul and Michelle Chitwood enjoy a moment with newly appointed IMB missionaries at the IMB installation and sending celebration Feb. 6 at Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond. Chitwood was installed as the 13th president of the IMB during the Sending Celebration of 19 new missionaries. — IMB Photo by Roy Burroughs

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. [Read more…]

WAX NAMED TO SBC COMMITTEE

February 6, 2019

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. [Read more…]

GUIDESTONE RELEASES MINISTERS’ TAX GUIDE

February 5, 2019

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. [Read more…]

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

February 5, 2019

By Art Toalston
Baptist Press

Jeanette Henry shares in a celebration of her husband Jim’s 28 years as pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando, Fla., prior to his retirement there in 2006. — BP file photo

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, or what he called his “redeployment”; and pastor of Downtown Baptist Church in Orlando from 2015 until recently. Henry is a Nashville native and former pastor of Two Rivers Baptist Church, Nashville. [Read more…]

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