MOUNT VERNON, Ga. — Brewton-Parker College has been named one of the top ten most ethnically diverse Regional Colleges for the South region. The 2023 U.S. News and World Reports Best Colleges surveys rate colleges on the regional and national level, with BPC ranking regionally in two categories. Since last year, BPC has moved categories from the National Liberal Arts Colleges lists to the Regional Colleges - South list. This region has a total of 132 schools.

It was the strangest thing:  all of a sudden, she looked older.  Much older.  Her face was all wrinkly.  She saw it every time she looked in the mirror.  And her legs, they had varicose veins.   Everywhere.  She’d never noticed those.  Something strange must have happened during the surgery.  She would need to mention it all to her doctor when she went for follow up. Mrs. Wright just had cataracts removed.  Now she was seeing things she’d never seen before.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. — Brewton-Parker College English professor Dr. Grant C. Lilford and his daughter, Candace Lilford, presented separate papers at the East/Southeast Regional Meeting of the Conference on Christianity and Literature at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia.

BEAVERDAM, Va. – Georgia Pastor Jeremy Morton challenged a fresh crew of International Mission Board missionaries to always keep an intimate relationship with Jesus their top priority. “Intimacy with Jesus gives us the clarity we need to navigate the complexity of our world,” he said.

NASHVILLE (BP) — In a post on Twitter Wednesday morning, former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Adam W. Greenway announced that he would not be moving to a new position with the International Mission Board.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (BP) – Missouri Baptists are mourning the loss – and celebrating the life – of Don Hinkle, 68, founding editor of The Pathway. Many have expressed their condolences in comments to a Sept. 22 post on The Pathway’s Facebook page sharing the news of Hinkle’s death.

LOUDON, Tenn. (BP) – John Condra recalls the first rehearsal of The CenturyMen, a 100-member male chorus organized in 1969 in the days of the Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission. “When we got through singing,” said Condra, who was then music minister at First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Ala., “normally you talk or something. Nobody said a word. We just kind of looked at each other and said, ‘Where in the world did that sound come from?’

DULUTH, Ga. – Calhoun pastor Jamey Hunt will lead the Georgia Baptist Education Commission, a panel that supports the work of Brewton-Parker College, Shorter University and Truett McConnell University while also administering a scholarship program.

Four years ago, 300 candidates waited in IMB’s missionary pipeline, considering a call to the nations. That pipeline just surpassed the 1,100 mark, the highest in decades. This means that more than 1,100 individuals have started the process to help solve the world’s greatest problem – lostness – by becoming missionaries with the IMB.

DULUTH, Ga. – Hurricane Ian, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the U.S., destroyed a cross-section of Florida, trapping people in flooded homes, forcing patients from nursing homes and hospitals, cutting off a popular barrier island and obliterating a historic waterfront pier. Nearly 2.7 million people lost power as rain fell and waters rose. “We’re expecting heavy damage,” said Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief Director Dwain Carter.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) — Following a special-called meeting of the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Chairman Danny Roberts today announced that trustees have invited O.S. Hawkins and David S. Dockery to provide joint leadership to the seminary during the interim period. Dockery will serve as interim president, while Hawkins will serve as senior advisor and ambassador-at-large.

McDONOUGH, Ga. – Four people surrendered their lives to ministry at a missions conference for Georgia college students last weekend, and three others made salvation decisions. They were among about 650 co-eds who attended Baptist Collegiate Ministries’ annual Confluence conference at Eagles Landing First Baptist Church.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Substantial majorities of evangelicals in the United States say they want an immigration solution that both secures the border and values those already in the country. In a study sponsored by the Evangelical Immigration Table and World Relief, Lifeway Research surveyed both self-identified evangelicals and those who qualify as evangelicals by belief to determine their attitudes toward immigrants and refugees as well as their opinions on potential legislative actions addressing the issues surrounding immigration.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Adam Greenway is joining the International Mission Board in a role that “will be focused on training missionaries to address the greatest problem in the world: spiritual lostness,” according to an entity spokesperson today.

DULUTH, Ga. – Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief crews are preparing to deploy as Hurricane Ian approaches on a track that puts the west coast of Florida in jeopardy. “I’ve put all of our Georgia volunteers on alert status,” said Dwain Carter, director of Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief.

ROME, Ga.  – Four-time World Series Champion and eight-time National League All-Star Darryl Strawberry will be the featured speaker at Shorter University’s 2022 President’s Gala on the campus in Rome on Thursday, December 1.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced Friday that President Adam W. Greenway has resigned from his post effective immediately. In the announcement, the seminary stated Greenway had accepted a position with the International Mission Board.

Talking about Jesus in public can be intimidating for some, but Danny Buitrago was up for the challenge. On a GoIMPACT mission trip in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Buitrago, and his team walked into a local park. When Buitrago approached a man standing by a tree reading a Bible, he thought this would be an easy conversation, but the stranger told him to go away.

PUERTO RICO – Following Hurricane Fiona’s landfall in Puerto Rico on Sunday, Southern Baptist churches on the island have begun meeting crisis needs and engaging their communities with the Gospel through Send Relief.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The team tasked with finding the next person to serve as president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee is looking at “11 quality candidates,” search team Chairman Adron Robinson said Monday.

APPLING, Ga. – Revival fires kindled by the Great Awakening are still burning brightly in Georgia’s oldest Southern Baptist church. Kiokee Baptist Church, founded 250 years ago by a pastor who was converted during the religious revival that swept through colonial America, remains one of the state’s top baptizing churches. And this weekend, when Kiokee celebrates its semiquincentennial anniversary, the congregation will baptize another 15 new believers.

Nancy Reynolds - One of Grace... The Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11. Everywhere she went her infectious smile and the …

Angela Marie Camp, "Gigi," of Acworth, Georgia, entered heaven with Jesus on Saturday, September 17. She was born in Marietta, Georgia, on March 6, 1971, to Anthony and Linda Smith.

NASHVILLE (BP) – This week’s Bible study is adapted from the MasterWork curriculum by Lifeway Christian Resources, and focuses on Numbers 13 – 1 Samuel 8.

A few weeks ago, my friend and neighbor, Paige, spotted beautiful apples on our other neighbor’s tree.  Since we both love the delicious fruit, she encouraged me to ask if we could pick some.