by Nicole Kalil
Florida Baptist Convention
PARKLAND, Fla. — Florida Baptists are reeling along with all of Florida and the nation after a gunman opened fire at a Parkland high school yesterday (Feb. 14), leaving 17 dead and 14 injured. [Read more…]
by Nicole Kalil
Florida Baptist Convention
PARKLAND, Fla. — Florida Baptists are reeling along with all of Florida and the nation after a gunman opened fire at a Parkland high school yesterday (Feb. 14), leaving 17 dead and 14 injured. [Read more…]
By Lonnie Wilkey
Editor, B&R
GALVESTON, Texas — The next president of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board needs to be someone who is in love and in tune with Jesus and “has a love for the world,” said Steve Gaines, president of the Southern Baptist Convention. [Read more…]
By Mike Ebert
Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The North American Mission Board is adding Puerto Rico to its list of special areas that will receive increased attention and resources for church planting, Send Relief ministries and partnership opportunities with Southern Baptist churches that want to minister on the island. NAMB president Kevin Ezell shared the plans with NAMB trustees Tuesday (Feb. 6). [Read more…]
By Julie McGowan
IMB public relations
RICHMOND — International Mission Board President David Platt has asked the mission agency’s trustees to begin searching for his successor. Platt announced his decision to IMB field personnel and staff on Monday, Feb. 12, in person and via email to those not in Richmond. [Read more…]
By Bob Smietana
LifeWay
NASHVILLE — Church collection plates were a little bit fuller last fall, according to Nashville-based LifeWay Research. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
NASHVILLE — When evangelist Phil Waldrep agreed to preach a revival at a nursing home, he didn’t expect a huge response. After all, he reasoned, aren’t most older people already Christians?
But of the 40-60 nursing home residents who attended the services, 21 made a profession of faith in Christ as their Lord and Savior, and about 10 were later baptized at a local church. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
DALLAS — Ken Hemphill, an administrator at North Greenville University and a former Southern Baptist Convention seminary president, will be nominated for SBC president, a coalition of Southern Baptists announced today (Feb. 1) via a Baptist state paper. [Read more…]
by Tim Ellsworth
Baptist Press
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) — The hometown Vikings may have fallen just short of playing in this year’s Super Bowl, but that hasn’t diminished the enthusiasm of Twin Cities churches and Christians in their evangelism efforts surrounding the event. [Read more…]
By David Roach
Baptist Press
DALLAS — Two years after withdrawing from a closely contested election for Southern Baptist Convention president, North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear once again will be nominated for SBC president, Florida pastor Ken Whitten announced today (Jan. 29). [Read more…]
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON — Muslims will likely surpass Jews as the second largest religious group behind Christians in the U.S. by 2040, elevated by a high birth rate and immigration, the Pew Research Center said in its latest analysis.
The 3.45 million Muslims here will more than double to 8.1 million by 2050, surpassing the number of Jews along the way, Pew estimated Jan. 3. But the research center did not give a Muslim nor Jewish numerical population estimate for 2040. [Read more…]
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