FARMERSVILLE, Texas (BP) – Texas pastor Bart Barber has announced he will nominate Nathan Finn, current provost at North Greenville University, for the position of SBC recording secretary at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

DALLAS (BP) – GuideStone, Lifeway Research and Baptist state conventions have again teamed up for the SBC Church Compensation Survey. Normally a biennial survey, the 2020 survey was canceled due to the pandemic; it was last conducted in 2018.

DULUTH, Ga. – One of the nation’s leading experts on sexual abuse will lead a webinar in Georgia on April 21 to train ministers to children and youth.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Javier Chavez, pastor of Amistad Cristiana Church in Gainesville, Ga., will be a candidate for the recording secretary position at this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) – Former International Mission Board missionary Wade Akins has announced he intends to nominate fellow former IMB missionary Robin Hadaway for SBC president at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Lakewood Baptist Church of Gainesville will open its renovated worship center on Sunday.

The first time a visitor walks into your church building, they probably know more about your church than you think. More than that, visitors may have even participated in a worship service already. 

University Baptist Church in Houston has commissioned one of its own to go out to the furthest mission fields.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – The upcoming SBC Pastors’ Conference will include twelve sermons and a time of prayer and worship before the meeting, President Matt Henslee announced.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Another 20 people made salvation decisions on Tuesday as part of a growing revival movement in Georgia that has seen hundreds of people come to Christ in recent weeks.

Archibald Cunningham “Arch” Cree (1872-1944) was 43 years old when he became the 5th Corresponding Secretary of the Georgia Baptist Convention in 1915. Born in a small village in Scotland, his family immigrated to North Carolina when he was 16.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – South Carolina pastor Alex Sands will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention second vice president at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., in June.

ATLANTA – Pozie Redmond, one of Georgia Baptists' most beloved pastors, passed away on March 24, 2022. He had served the Lord as a pastor for over half a century; and on October 7, 1989, he started New Calvary Missionary Baptist Church with 24 members at the Alphonso Dawson Funeral Home in Atlanta.

KINGSTON, Okla. (BP) – Keith Rogers planned to celebrate his 65th birthday preaching to Texoma Southern Baptist Church on March 27. Despite a tornado that destroyed the building and his home days earlier, he was still able to do so. 

CLEVELAND, Ga. – A beautifully crafted and exceedingly impressive gateway to the campus of Truett McConnell University was dedicated in memory of Richard Headrick, a valiant solder of the Cross, on Thursday, March 24, 2022. The archway is 25 ½ feet tall and 64-feet wide at the base and constructed of ½ inch thick steel letters welded together by Headrick Signs and Graphics, a company based in Laurel, Mississippi. 

COLUMBUS, Ga. – An evangelistic outreach in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Georgia resulted in 102 people becoming followers of Christ on Saturday, thrilling local church leaders eager to see their community transformed.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (BP) – Michael Catt is highly opinionated. He loves movies and attends The Masters every year in Augusta. His library held 10,000 books when he retired last year as pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Churchgoers may think their church leaders have it all together spiritually, but pastors admit they have room to grow.

DULUTH, Ga. – Subscribers to The Christian Index’s free daily newsletter are able to start their days with the latest news from around the world.

LVIV, Ukraine (BP) – Nearly a month into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Southern Baptist-trained church planter and educator Yarsolav “Slavik” Pyzh enjoyed a day of normalcy.

A few years ago, I needed oral surgery.  Dr. Leslie Horne and Beaumont Periodontics provided me with  everything I needed to have a successful surgery. 

Recently, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Toni Schuck put herself in harm’s way to protect people running a 10K across the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa.

THOMASVILLE, Ga. – What started out as a church plant during World War II quickly grew into one of Georgia’s premier soul-winning stations.

NASHVILLE (BP) – More than 2,100 professions of faith came as a result of the ministry of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) in 2021, which is a record number for professions of faith in a single year for the ministry.

DULUTH, Ga. – Georgia Baptists face “a God-sized” challenge in reaching the state’s millions of unchurched residents – a challenge that can only be met by strong, healthy churches working in unison.