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Director of missions for Mississippi's Rankin Baptist Association dies of COVID-19 By BP Staff BRANDON, Miss. (BP) -- Rankin Baptist Association in Mississippi announced via Facebook Tuesday (Aug. 11) the death of director of missions Allen Stephens due to COVID-19. The post said, "It is with a broken heart I…
The coronavirus has left virtually no country unaffected. Unrelenting and indiscriminate, the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the welfare of millions and has wreaked havoc on economic infrastructures worldwide. Countless families have lost work and income, making it next to impossible to acquire adequate food and daily supplies. Even in the…
DECATUR, Ga. (BP) -- Free testing for SARSCoV2 at Greenforest Community Baptist Church has been extended through August, Senior Pastor Emory D. Berry Jr., announced Aug. 6.
Pastor Adam Carter of Leawood Baptist Church is pleading social media users to help us find my sweet wife, even as police in Kansas and nearby states are searching for 36-year-old Marilane Carter, a ...
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP) -- Liberty University announced Friday afternoon (Aug. 7) that Jerry Falwell Jr. will take “an indefinite leave of absence” from his leadership role at the school.
The individual life of a Christian is not about the individual alone, but God's church. He us not only for our own benefit, but also to bless and support others, especially fellow Christians.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- In response to a decline in sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic, national Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) announced today it is offering a voluntary retirement plan to staff.
NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptists have a sleek new web home and a new look to go with it. A project months in the making was launched Tuesday (Aug. 4) as new websites for both the SBC and Baptist Press came online. A complete set of new logos and color…
How can a persecuted believer trust again after being betrayed by those closest to him? How can a person rightly understand suffering when his culture is awash in prosperity gospel teaching? How can a pastor carry the weight of leading when he doesn't know how to study Scripture?
John Blackmon reflects on the life and funeral service of longtime Georgia pastor Marvin Cochran. Blackmon says he could have had "no better encourager or confidant" than Cochran.
