ONTARIO, Ca. (BP) — What began in 2024 as a national women’s evangelism conference hosted by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) in Alpharetta, Ga., has now expanded across the country to serve women on the West Coast. More than 300 women gathered on Gateway Seminary’s campus in Ontario April…
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretched from that first spring into summer, researcher Eileen Campbell-Reed said, she realized its impact on ministry wasn’t going to be short-lived.
In this issue of A Public Witness, we take you to church to hear from Democratic gubernatorial nominees Charlie Crist in Florida, J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, and Stacey Abrams in Georgia. And then we consider the problems emerging from this campaign tactic.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) – Citing a desire to “be a more present and participative father and grandfather” and the conviction that his vision for the role of the executive director is complete, J.D. “Sonny” Tucker announced his retirement to the Arkansas Baptist State Convention (ABSC) Executive Board and state…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP) – A federal district court ruled Aug. 30 in favor of a wedding photographer, who had sued the City of Louisville, claiming its Fairness Ordinance violated her free speech rights.
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — Fifty years after preaching his first sermon, Ron Edwards jokes that he knows the secret to ministry. Change churches every three years. Actually, Edwards — who is retiring from full-time preaching — spent the past 37 years serving the Roosevelt Drive Church of Christ in this military community about 120 miles southeast […]
Hillsong Church founder Brian Houston insisted in what appeared to be his first pulpit appearance since his resignation in March that God doesn t write people off as men do and that he still has so ...
Global church planting network Acts 29 said it has "asked" the president and chairman of their board, Matt Chandler, "to step aside from Acts 29 speaking engagements" following a decision by The Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas, to suspend him over his inappropriate communication with a woman who is not his wife on Instagram.
Leading a virtual group has unique challenges. The 2020 pandemic proved that groups can survive and, in many ways, thrive in an online environment. Reports from around the country demonstrated that a high percentage of groups reached new people through online meeting tools. To prepare and lead engaging virtual studies,…
OWENSBORO, Ky. (BP) – When pastor Kamlen Haokip joined his wife and daughter for worship on Sunday, Aug. 20, it was the first time the family had been together for a service in more than four years.
Global church planting network Acts 29 said it has asked the president and chairman of their board, Matt Chandler, to step aside from Acts 29 speaking engagements following a decision by The Village ...
