Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt would like to see 10,000 Baptists come as volunteers for Crossover Orlando 2010 on Saturday, June 12.
President Obama visited with evangelist Billy Graham April 25, becoming the 12th consecutive chief executive to meet Graham and the first sitting president to do so at the minister's North Carolina home.
Keep it in front GBC releases list of top 100 fastest-growing Sunday Schools By Scott Barkley, Production Editor Published May 6, 2010
Brian Stowe says Sunday School growth is attributable to everyone from the pulpit to the pew.
About 5:15 a.m., the cell phone alarms chime, chirp, and ding as dawn breaks in the Haitian sky. Southern Baptist Disaster Relief "yellow shirts" are donned as the day begins for the volunteer demolition team.
Alumni and friends of the Southern Baptist Convention's six seminaries will receive updates about the schools and renew acquaintances with faculty members and classmates during luncheons on Wednesday, June 16, in conjunction with the SBC's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Evangelist Bailey Smith, a former Southern Baptist Convention president and former pastor, will nominate evangelist Ron Herrod for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the June 15-16 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
Under the banner of "Greater Things," the 2010 SBC Pastors' Conference will explore the prospect of a bright future for Southern Baptist pastors, their churches, and the denomination, conference president Kevin Ezell says.
Significant highlights of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force final report, posted on May 3 as The Index was going to press, include the following.
Future Southern Baptists will mark their 2010 annual meeting as the beginning of a Great Commission Resurgence in the same way they refer to 1979 as the start of the conservative resurgence that changed the face of the convention.
The final episode of "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" aired April 23, but the Southern Baptist church that sparked the ABC mini-series enjoyed a sneak preview at its midweek service April 21.
The last graduating student to walk across the stage at Shorter College on May 8 will have a unique place in history: that of being the final graduate of the 137-year-old institution.
One woman was killed and more than 25 injured when a busload of Hispanic Baptist pastors and church members crashed April 24 on Interstate 40 between Russellville and Clarksville, Ark.
The Missouri Baptist Convention has dismissed its legal effort to recover the Word & Way, one of five corporations which broke from MBC control in 2001.
This year's worship service sponsored by the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists will be on Wednesday afternoon during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions will convene for their 50th meeting June 12-14 in Orlando, Fla. Speakers will include Frank Page, Ed Stetzer, O.S. Hawkins, and Jerry Rankin.
"Greater Things" will be the theme of the annual Pastors' Wives Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention's Pastors' Conference, with keynote speaker Bobbye Rankin.
Cooperation has been a hallmark value for Southern Baptists from the beginning in 1845 when 293 accredited messengers primarily from Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia met in Augusta to organize what would become the Southern Baptist Convention.
Imagine, if you will, that M.E. Dodd and Louie D. Newton, both members of the Future Commission on the Cooperative Program, were seated in the midst of Southern Baptist Convention discussion today.
Bible Study
To Love and to Cherish By Jeff Meyers, senior pastor, First Baptist Conyers Published May 6, 2010
For more than 20 years I have been researching and studying churches, primarily those in North America.
The Open Door By J. Robert White, Executive Director GBC Published May 6, 2010
The headline on the front page of the USA TODAY, April 27, 2010, read, "Young adults less devoted to faith: Survey shows steady drift from church life."
In the April 22 edition of your paper you use 1 Timothy 2:11-14 as the argument for not allowing women to serve as pastors and then you quote Dr. Louie Newton saying we can't pick and choose what we believe about the Bible.
Is it just me or have we Southern Baptists embraced creedalism to the point that we no longer value the time-honored concept of the autonomy of the local church?
As a Baptist pastor concerned about the state of the local church in our society, I was disheartened when I read Gerald Harris editorial regarding "Breaking Family Ties."
As a trustee of Truett-McConnell College and as a student pastor at Second Baptist Church of Warner Robins, I rejoice with Brewton-Parker College in the progress that has been made there in recent days.