ROCK SPRING, Ga. — More than 630 attendees from some 80 churches gathered Saturday, Aug. 23, at Peavine Baptist Church in Rock Spring for the first of this year’s six SPARK church-strengthening conferences hosted by the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — The 22nd annual Heritage Classic Golf Tournament on Monday not only raised $241,000 to benefit students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College, but featured a hole-in-one, which earned one golfer a new car, and had four teams deadlocked for first place.

School is back in session, and with it are all the prospects of learning and academic success. The older I became, the more I appreciated my times of studying. I was always most interested in the classes that involved literature or history. Math and science were not my strongest areas.

God never promised that believing Him and being obedient would be easy, yet in our good days and not-so-good days, we can experience God’s presence. God’s presence can bring peace and comfort on difficult days.

CONYERS, Ga. — Music filled the air to mark the celebration at Rockdale Baptist Church on Sunday, Aug. 10.  The church honored Karen Tanner, the church’s pianist, and Martha Hyde, the church’s organist, for more than 50 years of continuous service in the music ministry at the church.

With a search committee named and deployed to find the next president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptists remain both hopeful and skeptical on finding a new president who can help lead the ERLC forward.

INDIANAPOLIS – Three adults from the Southern Baptist Fellowship group Myanmar Baptist Churches U.S.A. led a two-week mission trip to Central Asia in July as chaperones for seven youth ages 14 to 17.

PARRISH, Fla. — North River Church in Parrish, an unincorporated community in northwestern Manatee County, is going “above and beyond” to reach its community with the gospel.

WEST POINT, Ky. (KT) – What makes a good day? Try 40-plus baptisms, 22 professions of faith, and more than 1,000 people coming together for an unforgettable worship experience. That was the scene Sunday afternoon, Aug. 17, at the second annual Church at the River, hosted by GracePointe Baptist and Beechland Baptist.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. — On Wednesday, Aug. 13, Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new nursing facility.

O.S. Hawkins, chancellor of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, returned to Israel in August as he has at least once annually for the past 50 years, excluding 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, this time to speak at a banquet where his friend and fellow Southwesterner Mike Huckabee was honored for his appointment as United States Ambassador to Israel.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Texas Baptist College welcomed new and returning students to campus with Welcome Week events and New Student Orientation on Aug. 15 as the seminary kicked off the 2025-2026 academic year on Aug. 18.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary has launched a brand-new podcast with President Jamie Dew titled “Beyond the Pulpit: Real Conversations for Ministry Leaders.” 

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – As the calendar marches on through August, college students throughout North America are transitioning back to the grind of life on campus. Thanks to GenSend, dozens are going back with an eye toward living “on mission.”

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (BP) – Although Michael Cooper and his wife Devon moved to West Valley City, Utah, in 2015 to work with the North American Mission Board as the Utah Church Planting Catalyst, the Coopers never anticipated that they would be the ones to plant a church in this area.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. _ Nearly a quarter of Southern Baptist churches are non-white. The growth of multi-ethnic minority churches and their increasing desire to understand the SBC were the stimulus for a monumental suggestion: The publication of “Navigating the SBC.”

ROME, Ga. — Shorter University welcomed its newest class of freshmen on Friday, Aug. 22, as students arrived on campus to begin their college journey.

CARROLLTON, Ga. — More than 350 people professed faith in Christ at a pair of Gridiron Day events hosted by Carrollton Baptist Association churches, said Tim Williams, the associational missionary strategist. Altogether, some 1150 students and school leaders attended the events at Roopville Road Baptist Church on Aug. 7, and First Baptist Church Villa Rica on Aug. 14, 2025.

CLEVELAND, Ga. — Truett McConnell University’s Walpot School of Education launched a new fully online Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Elementary Education, with the first cohort beginning this week.

LAGRANGE, Ky. (KT) — Bob Scott may have had the most unique summer of any Kentucky Baptist pastor. For three months, he and his wife Julie did long-haul trucking, transporting explosives to northern Alaska.

WACO, Texas — A new semester is on the horizon for college students, faculty, and staff across the country, but a group from Baylor University wanted to do something tangible to help others in need before classes start.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Are you worried that finding your next meal will be a struggle? Know someone who is? If food insecurity doesn’t affect you, it probably affects someone you know.

This week we are celebrating Dixie’s Gotcha Day. Dixie is the terrier mix pup my beloved rescued a year ago. We feel like God put him in the right place at the right time to find her. She has been a wonderful addition to our family.

Last Sunday at church, our sermon was about the ways God used seemingly insignificant people in the Bible to do significant things. I have thought about this a lot throughout this week.

MAYSVILLE, Ga. — One hundred families lined up early in the morning of Saturday, July 26, for the annual Maysville Baptist Church Back-to-School event at Primera Iglesia Bautista de Maysville Church.  Both churches provided 325 students with school supplies, backpacks, clothing, haircuts, burritos, a box of food, and the gospel.