INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The SBC voted June 11 to discontinue its cooperative relationship with a Virginia church that has a female associate pastor. The church has ordained at least three women as pastors over more than four decades and told the SBC Credentials Committee it would consider a female as senior pastor.

INDIANAPOLIS — A couple of weeks ago, a huge storm hit the building of Jack Graham’s church, Prestonwood Baptist in Plano, Texas. “The 90-mile-an-hour winds just blew out the side of our beautiful worship center,” said Graham, Prestonwood’s senior pastor. 

INDIANAPOLIS — Robert Smith Jr. said the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch is a “miniaturized fulfillment of the Great Commission” and a picture of Acts 1:8.  Philip, who started in Jerusalem with the rest of the apostles and moved to Judea, had gone down to Samaria where he had started a church. Then he was sent to the Gaza road by the angel of the Lord.

INDIANAPOLIS — Marriage, family, generosity and hope were the central themes of the North American Mission Board’s Send Luncheon on Monday, June 10, in Indianapolis as Southern Baptists blessed a family and provided support for adopting and fostering families.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – D.J. Horton, pastor of the Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, S.C., was elected president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference on Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmy Scroggins said he doesn’t have a magic marriage — he has a real marriage. The same goes for his parenting.

INDIANAPOLIS — They told stories about a young mother living in gang-controlled slums in a crowded city; Sudanese refugees who fled their homes with nothing and found a safe place in Uganda; Chuck, a third-generation Korean Japanese man living in Japan who was initially resistant to the gospel. 

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – In his first address as SBC Executive Committee president and CEO to trustees Monday, Jeff Iorg presented a mandate to address issues that have been roiling Southern Baptists in recent years.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Increasing financial transparency, combatting sexual abuse and electing a new slate of officers were among highlights of the SBC Executive Committee’s meeting Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Sharing that WMU has a treasured artifact that went to the moon and back, Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of national WMU, told her listeners how Astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest man to ever step on the moon, carried an emblem of the WMU pin to the moon and back in 1972.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders passed its largest budget ever on Sunday at its annual meeting in Indianapolis. The budget comes on the heels of one of the strongest years in the organization’s 64-year history.

INDIANAPOLIS – Preceding this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm, hosted a kickoff event on Sunday evening designed to set the focus for the busy days ahead.

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s been 13 years since Adam Dooley opened an envelope addressed to him marked “personal” — and afterward quit the ministry. It came during the “worst” season of his life — his son was battling leukemia, and they were traveling weekly to St. Jude for treatments. Dooley said the church he was serving was also “angry about everything.”

INDIANAPOLIS — James Noble said the imaginary letter he had to read to the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference on Monday was stained with water — maybe the sweat of the author’s brow, maybe tears.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – “We’re just getting started!” Victor Chayasirisobhon told more than 100 attendees of the third annual Asian Collective Kickoff Celebration on Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Hispanic Baptists kicked off their time in Indianapolis for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention with a celebratory dinner on Sunday night, June 9, at the Indianapolis Convention Center.

INDIANAPOLIS — Some churches today have a lot in common with the Savannah Bananas, pastor and seminary professor Hershael York suggested in his sermon Sunday night at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference in Indianapolis.

Members of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and the broader community mourn the death of June Williams Honeycutt, who passed away on Saturday, June 8, 2024, surrounded by her family.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — Hundreds prayed Sunday evening in the main meeting hall for God’s direction, the next generation, pastors and all others arriving for the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in the coming days. 

INDIANAPOLIS — Past faithfulness does not guarantee future faithfulness, and that’s especially true when it comes to the Great Commission. That was the warning Greg Mann, a 19-year missions veteran who now leads the International Mission Board’s Asia-Pacific Rim Peoples Affinity, emphasized during the opening session of the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference in Indianapolis on June 9.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force has launched the curriculum it hopes churches will use to train volunteers in preventing sexual abuse and responding to those who have experienced it.

INDIANAPOLIS — Baptist associations and associational mission strategists (or directors of mission) have an important role in the Southern Baptist Convention, especially when it comes to encouraging and equipping churches and pastors, candidates for the SBC presidency agree.

INDIANAPOLIS — Speaking on the theme “Faithful in Our Calling,” Bartholomew Orr opened the first session of the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference in Indianapolis on Sunday. Orr, senior pastor of Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Miss., since 1989, spoke on the life of Hezekiah, chronicled in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, and used a traffic light to illustrate his sermon title, “Watch the Light.”

NEW ORLEANS — Trying to share the Gospel with a 73-year-old man who was “rude,” reminded one  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Master of Divinity student, who is from East Asia, how God “patiently waited” for her when she came to Christ about seven years ago.

NEW ORLEANS — Crescent City Worship, a newly-named collection of students, staff and friends of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College, will release its first-ever album on streaming platforms in early June.