For nearly eight decades, Urbana has stood as one of the most influential missions gatherings in North American evangelicalism, inspiring generations of young Christians to consider their role in taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. But as Christianity’s center of gravity continues shifting toward the Global South, the triennial event grappled with the question: what does mission look like in a world where leadership is no longer primarily Western?
United Methodists in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have begun the process to leave the mainline Protestant denomination as a wave of congregations in the United States have recently voted to ...
A predominantly Hispanic congregation in Nevada will celebrate Easter Sunday with an egg hunt that will feature around 10,000 Easter eggs, with several thousand being dropped from a helicopter
The governing body of the Catholic bishops in the United States has labeled gender transition surgeries as contrary to the created order ordained by God and proclaimed that Catholic hospitals must ...
After enduring the COVID-19 pandemic, a larger share of churches in the United States is more financially prepared for hard times than in 2016, according to a new study from Lifeway Research
Challenging. Exciting. Humbling. I’ve met numerous Southern Baptist missionaries during my years of service at NAMB, and these three words surface in many of their stories.
Doyle Chauncey, the first full-time executive director-treasurer of the Southern Baptist Convention of Virginia (SBCV), died on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at the age of 81. He was one of the founders of the state convention and served in a number of ministry roles across Virginia.
A North Carolina Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed last year by 36 United Methodist churches demanding to sever their ties to the denomination.
A group of 38 congregations that have decided to leave The United Methodist Church over theological issues have sued the denomination over objections to the process of disaffiliation
Jeremy Foster, the founder of Hope City Church in Houston, Texas, who resigned as the church s senior pastor just over a year ago after confessing to adultery, announced Sunday that he is now at ...