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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Giving through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program reached the second-highest mark in history during the 2000-2001 fiscal year, falling short of the previous year's total by .75 percent, according to a news release from the treasurer of the SBC, Morris H. Chapman.
FORTALEZA, Brazil (BP)--Taxicab passengers in Fortaleza, Brazil will get a gospel witness thanks to boys in at least 13 Southern Baptist churches who helped Brazilian missionaries Rob and Phyllis Hefner launch an outreach project.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--He opened by proclaiming the exclusivity of the gospel and closed by stressing the eternality of the soul. During four days of preaching in Louisville, Ky., June 21-24, 82-year-old evangelist Billy Graham made it clear that while his health has changed in…
HOUSTON (BP)--One poignant story of how God can use any situation for good involved an 80-year-old woman who came to know the Lord because of a rescue from her Houston trailer park home in the midst of Tropical Storm Allison. Because Woodforest Baptist Church was willing to be the hands…
PHOENIX, Ariz. (BP)--The Arizona Southern Baptist Convention will be restructured, and funding will be increased for Cooperative Program receipts that are forwarded to the Southern Baptist Convention and for the Arizona Regional Campus of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
SEVEN SPRINGS, N.C. (BP)--W.A. Weeks was familiar with Southern Baptists, particularly Seven Springs Baptist Church where his wife was a member and he attended sporadically. But it wasn't until he experienced Christianity through Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers from Seven Springs and other churches that he realized his own need…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program remained .73 percent ahead of last year's year-to-date total, although gifts for April fell 2.42 percent below the total for April 2000, according to a news release from the treasurer of the SBC, Morris H. Chapman.
LAKE FOREST, Calif. (BP)--It's never been about numbers at Saddleback, but this Easter was another record-breaker at one of the largest Southern Baptist churches in the country.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP)--While the 96th location in the LifeWay Christian Stores national chain was being built in Birmingham, Ala., a construction worker was led to Christ, thanks in part to the prayers and actions of several LifeWay employees.
BLUE, W.Va. (BP)-Even though West Virginia Southern Baptists celebrated their 30th anniversary last year, "the people got caught up in something far more important than us," said David Jicka of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists staff.
