Stories
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WRAP-UP: SBC green-lights Great Commission Task Force
- With the goal of finding ways Southern Baptists "can work more faithfully and effectively" together in fulfilling the Great Commission, messengers to the convention's annual meeting June 23-24 gave the green light to a task force to examine the denomination for one year and report back to the 2010 meeting in Orlando Fla.
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Attendance higher, younger at SBC meeting
- Interest in the Great Commission Resurgence caused an attendance resurgence at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky., according to registration secretary Jim Wells. This year's unofficial messenger count was 8,790, more than 1,500 over last year's tally in Indianapolis.
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Seen around SBC 2009
- Georgia students serve as pages at SBC annual meeting
- Great Commission task force overwhelmingly approved
Georgia Baptist executive director named to historic group
- Georgia students serve as pages at SBC annual meeting
- On a show of ballots, Southern Baptist Convention messengers June 23 authorized their president, Johnny Hunt, to appoint a task force to study how Southern Baptists can work "more faithfully and effectively together in serving Christ through the Great Commission."
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Wynn named to NAMB Great Commission re-focus task force
- Twenty-four Southern Baptists from a broad cross-section of the denomination - theologians, missiologists, practitioners, denominational leaders, and pastors of churches of varying sizes and ethnicities - comprise the new North American Great Commission Task Force, which met for the first time on June 23, prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.
- Hunt names GCR task force members
- Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt appointed 18 people to the "Great Commission Resurgence Task Force" June 24 during the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.
- Pastors' Conference looks toward unity
- On the second day of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference at the Kentucky Exposition Center June 22, speakers exhorted pastors to lead with "One Love," "One Spirit," and "One Purpose."
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Motions: GCR endorsed; Driscoll criticized
- Messengers offered 31 motions but approved only one during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting June 23-24 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
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WMU envisions a changed world
- One changed life for Christ can change the world, Kaye Miller said.
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Wii want to register
- More scenes from SBC 2009
SBC Annual Meeting Details (05/21/09)
SBC Annual Meeting News (06/04/09)
SBC Coverage (06/18/09)