Send Conference Rate Change Coming January 3
CONFERENCE PRICE INCREASES $40 on JANUARY 3, 2015! REGISTER NOW! The 2015 Send North America Conference registration is off to an incredible start! We are extremely excited about our time together on August 3-4, 2015at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. We wanted to...
NAMB staff gives back to community during day of service
By NAMB Staff ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Whatever it takes is one of the North American Mission Board’s operating values. Staff are reminded that the board exists to serve Southern Baptists and Southern Baptist churches. Giving back to the community in service was a tangible...
Floyd calls Baptists to racially reconcile
by Diana Chandler SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Southern Baptist pastor Terry Turner has a newspaper clipping from the early 1900s telling of a family member taken from jail by a mob of southern whites and lynched, never tried or convicted of a crime. Turner's memory of...
Two students with ties to Iowa graduate from Southern Seminary
Mohler offers ‘Christmas mandate’ to fall 2014 graduates at Southern Seminary By S. Craig Sanders Two students with ties to Iowa graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Dec. 12. Among the graduates were Gregory B. Long of Des Moines, and Zach Vester...
CALL TO PRAYER: Our grand vision
by Ronnie Floyd EDITOR'S NOTE: Ronnie Floyd, senior pastor of the multi-site Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, is president of the Southern Baptist Convention. This column is part of the call to prayer issued by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist...
Informed, biblically-based giving advised
by Diana Chandler NASHVILLE (BP) -- With many in the U.S. expected to give more money to charities this Christmas season, financial experts are advising a biblically based, focused and well-educated approach to charitable giving. Christians should be careful to give...
Road to Freedom Biker Church Keeps on Rolling
Labor Day weekend found several of our congregation on the road to Tahlequah. Oklahoma, A weekend of visiting friends. family. and enjoying the Cherokee National Holiday while worshiping and praising God our Savior. We also watched the parade. attended the museum. ate...
2015 ERLC Leadership Summit
The 2015 ERLC Leadership Summit will address “The Gospel and Racial Reconciliation” to equip Christians to apply the gospel on these issues with convictional kindness in their communities, their families, and their churches. Speakers include Daniel L. Akin, H.B....
Love sent to Africa in buckets
by Lily Jameson NAIROBI, Kenya (BP) -- Rosemary opened up the five-gallon plastic bucket and pulled out gifts, including a set of new bed sheets. She clutched them to her chest. Her eyes filled with tears. Rosemary wouldn't even let her visitors help her put the...
The relevant call of Lottie Moon
by Randy Davis BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (BP) -- A diminutive woman named Lottie Moon sat down at a table in China on Sept. 15, 1887, and penned a letter that would transform the Southern Baptist Convention forever. Lottie called for prayer and financial resources to ensure...
