Kentucky Church Shows Heart with $100K Gift for ‘church down the road’ | Baptist Press
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Cooperation has long been a defining mark of Southern Baptist churches. Together, churches can accomplish far more than they can alone.
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Fire engulfs historic sanctuary at FBC Dallas | Baptist Press
DALLAS (BP)—The historic sanctuary at First Baptist Church Dallas burned Friday evening, July 19. The cause of the blaze is not yet known. The Victorian-style, red brick sanctuary building was erected 1890 and is a recognized Texas Historic Landmark.
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Kentucky pastor completes revision of Spurgeon’s ‘Eccentric Preachers’ | Baptist Press
GREENVILLE, Ky. (BP) – Like many Kentucky Baptist pastors and others from a variety of denominations, Ron Metheny has long admired the writings of Charles H. Spurgeon and consider them to be educational, inspiring and encouraging.
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Mississippi church maxes out its messengers for the first time | Baptist Press
TUPELO, Miss. (BP) – Nearly 11,000 messengers made the trip to the Indiana Convention Center last month for the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting and Pastors’ Conference. The event included almost 200 ancillary events and gatherings, and the total crowd included not just messengers but also more than 3,000 guests, not…
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Stephen Rummage to lead Florida Baptists | Baptist Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Stephen N. Rummage has been elected to lead the Florida Baptist State Convention as executive director-treasurer.
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United Methodists Elect a Third Openly Gay, Married Bishop
Kristin Stoneking will replace Bishop Karen Oliveto, the denomination’s first openly gay married bishop, who, at age 66, is retiring.
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Annual meeting parking lot encounter brings food, clothes, payday to migrant | Baptist Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (BP) – The man asked Daren Belardo for some cash. He received much more than that.
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Officials in China intensify ‘Sinicization’ of religion
Religious leaders in China were instructed to put President Xi Jinping and his doctrines at the center of their teaching and preaching at a recent high-level seminar of top faith representatives and bureaucrats.
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Perfect storm leads major insurers to drop churches | Baptist Press
(RNS) – An ongoing wave of disasters – Gulf Coast hurricanes, wildfires in California, severe thunderstorms and flooding in the Midwest – along with skyrocketing construction costs post-COVID have left the insurance industry reeling.
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Study: Southern Baptists supportive of the Cooperative Program | Baptist Press
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. – A large majority of Southern Baptist pastors believe the Cooperative Program supports the ministries and missions their church values and allows their church to support more missions endeavors than it could on its own.
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Arabic church-planting conference aims to accelerate efforts to reach Arabic-speaking populations | Baptist Press
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) – A group of more than 60 pastors, wives and other ministry leaders met for a three-day Arabic Church Planting Conference at the North American Mission Board (NAMB) July 10-12 to worship, network and encourage one another in the work of planting churches among Arabic-speaking peoples.
