Advance 2015 – The Midwest Leadership Conference
January 20 - 22, 2015 Crowne Plaza Hotel Springfield, IL The Midwest has its own culture and worldview, and for Baptists in the region, its own spiritual challenges. This year our triennial gathering, the North Central States Rally, becomes the Midwest Leadership...
CP Ends Fiscal Year Below Budget Goal
By Baptist Press Staff NASHVILLE (BP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention ended its fiscal year 0.76 percent below last year's contributions and missed its Cooperative Program allocation budgeted projection of $191.5 million by 2.58 percent, according to SBC Executive...
Our Church-Centric Mindset
By Kevin Ezell I love visiting with pastors and local churches. But often when I do a pastor will tell me, “Let me know if there is anything we can do for NAMB.” I appreciate the spirit behind that offer, but it is exactly opposite of how I view NAMB. The way I see...
Preserve CP’s reach
by Frank S. Page NASHVILLE (BP) -- The longer we live, the more we realize that actions or decisions have consequences -- sometimes unintended consequences that absolutely cannot be foretold or foreseen. But more often they are foreseeable. Scripture instructs the...
Leaders in Training: preteens serve inner-city San Antonio
By Jane Rodgers SAN ANTONIO (Southern Baptist Texan) -- The sullen teenager cracked a smile when an exuberant fifth grader handed him a nametag sporting a smiley face. At 14, he was too old for Kids Power Camp at San Antonio's Riverside apartments, but he was tagging...
Pastor Appreciation Month: 5 Ways to Say Thanks
by Thom S. Rainer Here are a few tips on how you can speak your pastor's love language. With apologies to Gary Chapman for playing on his well-known Five Love Languages theme, I asked 24 pastors how a church member might speak to each pastor in his own love language....
Transformational Church
by Mike Bergman On Monday Oct 6, I went to a Transformational Church conference in Ozark, MO, with a couple of fellow pastors. After a day of listening to Ed Stetzer and Micah Fries discuss what could properly be called issues of church revitalization, we headed home...
CALL TO PRAYER: One more precious soul
by Frank S. Page EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is part of the call to prayer issued by Frank S. Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to pray for revival and spiritual awakening for our churches, our nation and our world. NASHVILLE (BP)...
Hunger Is Everyone’s Problem
By Kevin Ezell For many in North America, hunger is someone else’s problem. It’s the emaciated children halfway around the world. It’s people who live on the other side of the tracks. And, occasionally, it’s the person holding a cardboard sign at a freeway exit. But...
New SBC Pastor Care Line Helps Pastors in Crisis
By Tobin Perry ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Southern Baptist pastors struggling through personal or professional crisis now have a confidential place to turn, thanks to a new partnership between the North American Mission Board (NAMB) and Focus on the Family. The care line...
