By Gary D. Myers
Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Charles S. “Chuck” Kelley Jr., announced his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year during Founders’ Day chapel Oct. 2. [Read more…]
By Gary D. Myers
Baptist Press
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Charles S. “Chuck” Kelley Jr., announced his plan to retire at the end of the current academic year during Founders’ Day chapel Oct. 2. [Read more…]
By Diana Chandler
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE — “Employees are fine” a day after a bullet destroyed a fifth-floor window at LifeWay Christian Resources’ downtown Nashville complex, company spokesperson Carol Pipes told Baptist Press. [Read more…]
Baptist Press staff
NASHVILLE — An initiative by Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear to address sexual abuse in the church will be funded by the first $250,000 in Cooperative Program overage for 2017-2018, by a vote of the SBC Executive Committee. [Read more…]
By Bob Smietana
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE — In recent months, churches have been rocked by high-profile accusations of sexual misconduct among clergy. [Read more…]
By Julie McGowan
IMB office
Editorial note: Statements from Platt and Dunbar follow this release.
RICHMOND, Virginia — After receiving the resignation of Dr. David Platt, IMB president, to be effective at the Sept. 27, 2018, trustee meeting, the Executive Committee of the board of trustees of the International Mission Board voted in a special meeting Sept. 13 to approve Dr. Clyde Meador as interim president starting Sept. 27, subject to full board approval. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
HUSTONVILLE, Ky. — Pastor Andrew McGinnis still remembers his “solemn drive” home on June 25, 1995. [Read more…]
By Carol Pipes
LifeWay Christian Resources
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Compensation for full-time Southern Baptist pastors and church staff has lagged behind the growth in the cost-of-living over the past two years. And health insurance coverage remains low, according to the 2018 SBC Church Compensation Study. [Read more…]
By Caleb Yarbrough
Baptist Press
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — The rumble of the on-board generator lent a muffled, but noticeable, undertone as Trennis and Pam Henderson gave a tour of their new home.
Outfitted with all the modern comforts and conveniences expected in a 21st century home — if not in somewhat smaller proportions —- the Hendersons’ new home is a 24-foot-long Winnebago RV.
Since Aug. 1, the couple has been taking their RV across the country, working together to share the stories of Woman’s Missionary Union’s (WMU) various ministries with a new generation of Southern Baptists. [Read more…]
Baptist Press
ATLANTA — Agreements to “assume the best in one another” and that a “gospel-above-all culture needs to prevail” in the Southern Baptist Convention were among the outcomes when SBC President J.D. Greear met Aug. 20 with 15 executive directors of Baptist state conventions, including Randy C. Davis of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board.
“The most basic principle in airline travel is that if you want someone there for the landing, they have to be there for the takeoff,” Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., told Baptist Press in written comments. [Read more…]
By Mike Ebert
Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Johnny Hunt, longtime pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock, Ga., and past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will join the North American Mission Board as senior vice president of evangelism and leadership. Hunt and NAMB announced the news Sunday (Aug. 26). [Read more…]
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