The Southern Baptist Convention will not lose any agencies in a new era envisioned by the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force, but tweaking of the denomination will result in substantial changes nonetheless.
The walls that segregate Muslim men from women inside many American mosques took a long time to go up, and it could be a long time before they come down.
J. Robert White, executive director of the Georgia Baptist Convention, has long been recognized as an unashamedly strong supporter of the Cooperative Program.
With recent signs of economic recovery, many employers plan to resume matching retirement contributions in 2010. A recent survey by a human resources consulting firm found that 80 percent of for-profit employers intend to restore their matches to employer-sponsored retirement plans.
A reported 40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since a major earthquake hit the impoverished nation in January, according to pastors and directors of missions within the Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste d'Haiti (CMBH).
This year Georgia Baptist Convention Evangelism Ministries scheduled four regional evangelism conferences. Steve Parr, vice president for Sunday School and Evangelism, initiated the multi-site conferences as an every-other-year experiment in 2008 and the first two have proven to be very effective.
The chairman of the North American Mission Board trustees has expressed excitement and encouragement about the progress report issued by the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.
When the first videos and reports and mega-celebrity pleas for money to Haiti came out following that country's Jan. 12 earthquake, Georgia Baptists wanted to respond like they normally do.
A decision to include two West Bank shrines in a list of Jewish heritage sites slated for preservation has been praised by religious and right-wing Jews and scorned by Palestinians and their supporters.
Members of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force told reporters after their presentation that their proposed dissolving of cooperative agreements between the North American Mission Board and state conventions will make the respective sides stronger and more equipped to reach the nation with the Gospel.
Nearly 500 high school, college, and seminary students from 15 states converged at "KALEO: Georgia '10" as part of their quest to find God's will for their lives.
Southern Baptists have released $50,000 for immediate relief needs in Chile, where the death toll has climbed past 700 in an earthquake disaster described by the country's president as "without parallel in Chile's history."
The International Mission Board's presidential search committee continues to narrow down its field of candidates to select the organization's 11th president.
Two weeks after their eight team members were released and allowed to return to the United States, two female Baptist volunteers remained in a Haiti jail March 5, optimistic they'll be freed soon but still awaiting the final word from the judge overseeing the case.
Registration for messengers and local hotels is open for the June 15-16 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
A Christian man has won a lawsuit in Japan's highest court against a local mayor who had allowed the free use of local government land for a Shinto shrine.
Authorities in India's majority-Christian Meghalaya state have confiscated all copies of a text book that contains a picture of Jesus holding a can of beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
The pastor of a black church that was torched just hours after President Obama's election says the bank that initially made a $1.7 million building loan has declined to issue another one.
Albert Einstein, a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientist and intellectuals of all time, addressed the very essence of life and cooperation.
Bible Study
When Worship Dishonors God By Bill Barber, senior pastor, First Baptist Thomaston Published March 11, 2010
I Corinthians 11:17-34
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