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CONFERENCE AIMED AT ‘REACHING THE NATIONS’

June 21, 2016

By Diana Chandler Baptist Press BRENTWOOD — Spreading the gospel among the more than 42 million foreign-born refugees, immigrants, and international students in the U.S. is the focus of the Reaching the Nations in North America conference, an upcoming national event spearheaded by North Carolina Baptists in conjunction with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, the International […]

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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS FOR ALL: MOORE

June 20, 2016

By Baptist Press WASHINGTON — Baptists and other Christians should defend religious freedom for non-Christians, including Muslims, because it is morally right, as well as helpful to their own cause, says Southern Baptist religious liberty leader Russell Moore. Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), advocated for religious freedom for people of […]

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‘WE NEED YOU, LORD’: BAPTISTS PLEAD FOR NATIONAL REVIVAL

June 17, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — At times they raised their hands. At times they gathered together in groups of two to three. And at times thousands of messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention knelt at their chairs on Tuesday night (June 14) as they pleaded with God to bring national revival and spiritual awakening […]

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10 OF 22 MOTIONS REFERRED TO SBC ENTITIES

June 16, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention proposed 22 motions, the most since 2010. Ten motions were referred to convention entities for further study and for a report at the 2017 SBC meeting in Phoenix. The Committee on Order of Business automatically referred three motions to SBC entities and/or the […]

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SBC RESOLUTIONS ADDRESS CULTURE, MINISTRY CONCERNS

June 16, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Messengers to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention, in addition to repudiating the display of the Confederate battle flag, approved 11 other resolutions on a variety of culture and ministry concerns. Messengers voted on the proposals over both days of the annual meeting, adopting resolutions that expressed compassion for those […]

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NO CLEAR WINNER DETERMINED IN SBC PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

June 15, 2016

Editor’s Note: J.D. Greear graciously withdrew his nomination for president of the Southern Baptist Convention and asked those who supported him to support Steve Gaines. Gaines was then elected by acclamation. Complete story to follow later.   Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Although an announcement of a new Southern Baptist Convention president was expected […]

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SBC REPUDIATES DISPLAY OF CONFEDERATE FLAG

June 15, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Messengers to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention renounced display of the Confederate battle flag in a historic, overwhelming vote Tuesday (June 14). The convention adopted late in its afternoon session a resolution that urged “brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as […]

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LEE HONORED FOR 20 YEARS LEADING NATIONAL WMU

June 14, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Approximately 150 Southern Baptist leaders, family members and friends from across the country gathered in St. Louis on June 11 to honor Wanda Lee and her leadership of national WMU over the past 20 years — 16 as executive director and four as president. Frank S. Page said he […]

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ORLANDO MASSACRE SPURS PRAYER, COMPASSION

June 13, 2016

Baptist Press ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) — Calls for prayer and compassion rang out from Southern Baptists nationwide hours after the mass murder of 49 and the injury of 53 early Sunday (June 12) at an Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Armed with a handgun and an AR-15 semiautomatic […]

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CROSSOVER ST. LOUIS: HUNDREDS COME TO FAITH IN CHRIST

June 13, 2016

Baptist Press ST. LOUIS (BP) — Southern Baptist volunteers reported more than 350 professions of faith in Jesus Christ during Crossover events throughout metro St. Louis this year. One man who made a decision for Christ had been considering suicide just a few days earlier, said Eloy Rodriquez. Rodriquez, a longtime Crossover volunteer, serves as […]

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LOTTIE MOON OFFERING REACHES $165.8 MILLION

June 9, 2016

By Julie McGowan Baptist Press RICHMOND — Southern Baptists provided resounding support through the 2015 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Finalized in early June, the 2015 Lottie Moon offering totaled $165.8 million — the highest total in the 127-year history of the offering. The offering surpassed the previous all-time record of $154 million […]

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FLOYD, OTHER EVANGELICALS TO MEET WITH TRUMP

June 6, 2016

By Baptist Press NASHVILLE — Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd is among perhaps 500 evangelicals and other conservatives planning to meet with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump about his faith and values at a June 21 meeting in New York.

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