Texas Church Plans Third Annual Trip to Help Ukraine Refugee Children | Baptist Press
For the third consecutive year, volunteers from First Baptist Church in Garland will travel to eastern Europe to bring Christmas joy to Ukrainian refugee children.
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Remote participation in annual meeting an ongoing topic of discussion | Baptist Press
NASHVILLE (BP) – The debate over how to increase participation at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting isn’t a new one. But even advances in technology don’t solve some of the inherent problems in remote participation, SBC Executive Committee members agreed last week.
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Settlement Talks with Johnny Hunt Fail. SBC and Former President Likely Headed to Trial.
A defamation lawsuit filed by Hunt has cost the nation's largest Protestant denomination $3 million so far. A trial date is set for Nov. 12 in Nashville.
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After a Crackdown on Sexuality, Two Dozen CRC Churches Head for the Exits
At its 2024 synod in June, the Christian Reformed Church instructed LGBTQ-affirming congregations to repent and comply with the denomination’s beliefs on sexuality. Some are now choosing to leave.
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Dissolved Mississippi Church Donates Building to Multiplying Hispanic Ministry | Baptist Press
WAYNESBORO, Miss. (BP) – In 2021, six remaining members of a dissolved church congregated. Over the past few years, the three couples of Oak Grove Church had watched the numbers dwindle as elderly members passed away and families moved on. With a well-maintained and fully furnished church building, the few…
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‘God is in the middle of something here,’ Says 70-Year-Old First-Time Pastor | Baptist Press
GRAND SALINE, Texas (BP) – The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart.
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Southern Baptists Rally around Nigerian Church Planters after Medical Crisis | Baptist Press
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (BP) – It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator.
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Chuck Swindoll to retire as pastor, focus on broadcasts
Charles “Chuck” Swindoll, who turns 90 years old next month, wrote on Sunday that he will step down next month as a pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco, Texas. He graduated from Dallas...
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‘God is for sex’: Pastor Tackles Harms of Sexual Revolution, Reflects on Christ’s Words at Lausanne 4
God is for sex That was the clear message from the Rev Canon Vaughan Roberts, rector of St Ebbe s Church in Oxford, England, who advised Christians globally on how to respond to the myriad harms
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Former SBC president to travel as itinerant preacher
Former Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines told Bellevue Baptist Church on Sunday that he planned to step down from his role as senior pastor at the church in Memphis, Tenn. Gaines, age...
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Pastor Keion Henderson Expresses Loyalty to TD Jakes amid Diddy Controversy
Keion Henderson, founder and CEO of The Lighthouse Church Ministries in Houston, Texas, has professed his unyielding loyalty to popular televangelist T D Jakes after the arrest of music mogul Sean
