More than 3,000 people attended a 75th anniversary event hosted by the German missions organization DMG on May 10, as the group transformed its headquarters in southwest Germany into a daylong showcase of international worship, mission work and community activities.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Three churches deemed not to be in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention by the SBC Executive Committee in February had the opportunity to appeal that decision June 13 during a business session of the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans.
Messengers in the Southern Baptist Convention will have the opportunity to vote on a measure that would prevent a woman from serving as a pastor of any kind within the denomination, the SBC Executive ...
Ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans this week, Saddleback Church founder Rick Warren stressed that he agrees with all of the denomination s beliefs except for its ...
Rick Warren has been mounting a public campaign as he urges Southern Baptists to not kick out churches for ordaining women ministers. While his advocacy sparked recent profiles, that coverage leaves out an earlier time when Warren publicly broke with the SBC over its attempt to draw narrower lines for fellowship.
For a growing number of evangelical pastors, embracing right-wing rhetoric is seen as a way to put more people in the pews — and it may be working.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Abiding in Christ brings abundant hope, said WMU leaders at the 2023 Woman’s Missionary Union Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting. Held June 11-12 at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary campus, this year’s theme was “Hope in Christ,” based on Romans 12:12.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – More than 100 Asian pastors and their families were encouraged to lean into counseling as part of the discipleship process at an SBC Asian Collective NextGen luncheon held on June 12 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- South Louisiana pastor Shane Terrebonne will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention this week at the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – For the first time since the organization’s formation in 1960, the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders voted to approve a budget that allows for full-time staff during their annual meeting on June 11-12 in New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Oklahoma pastor Stephen Rummage, an author and preaching professor, was elected president of the 2024 SBC Pastors’ Conference by acclamation June 12 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
