DALLAS (BP) — Messengers to the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting approved a $190 million 2025-26 Cooperative Program allocation budget Wednesday, giving the Executive Committee a one-time $3 million special allotment for legal costs arising from investigations into its handling of sexual abuse claims.

DALLAS (BP) — In the latest attempt to abolish or defund the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, nearly 57 percent of messengers voted to keep the entity. 

DALLAS (BP) – A proposed amendment to the SBC Constitution stating the office of pastor should be held only by men was rejected by messengers, receiving approximately 60 percent of the vote, but not reaching the required two-thirds marker.

DALLAS — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly adopted resolutions of support for two time-honored tenets — the Cooperative Program and the Baptist Faith and Message.

Summer is here, and school is out. Total boredom for the grandchildren has not completely set in yet - but it's close. There has been so much rain that their outside time has been limited.

DALLAS — Memories of fishing the riverbanks and swamps in Louisiana left an impression on Tony Wolfe, executive director-treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention.

DALLAS — Southern Baptist messengers to the 2025 Annual Meeting rejected an amendment Wednesday that would have required the Southern Baptist Convention to publish detailed financial information like IRS Form 990 disclosures.

DALLAS — International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood encouraged all Southern Baptists to recognize their role in missions during the IMB report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS — Clint Pressley, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said if the SBC were a train, it would run on two rails — and both are a century old.

DALLAS — Brent Leatherwood, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, said his entity had two defunding questions on its plate as he delivered ERLC’s report on Wednesday to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS — Recognizing the important connection between discipleship and the local church, Lifeway Christian Resources President and CEO Ben Mandrell pledged to assist congregations in their calling to fulfill the Great Commission.

DALLAS —Nearly 1,400 participants gathered at Midwestern Seminary’s For the Church Dallas event at the SBC Annual Meeting to hear convention leaders discuss the 100-year impact of the Southern Baptist confessional statement.

CEDARTOWN, Ga. - Shirley Irene Jackson Randall, age 85, joined her husband in heaven on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. She was married to the late Dr. Maurice Lee Randall, and they served together as missionaries with the International Mission Board in Zimbabwe, Africa, for thirty years (1971-2001).

DALLAS (BP) — “The State of the SBC” panel discussion presented by 9Marks drew a late-night crowd that filled a 1,750-seat theater at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas on Tuesday.

DALLAS (BP) — They don’t get the same hype or recognition as some of the larger congregations within the Southern Baptist Convention. Still, Mark Clifton says most churches within the SBC are small, with 200 or fewer members.

DALLAS (BP) — SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving on Tuesday during the afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS (BP) — In 1925, Southern Baptists faced a “percolating maelstrom of denominational uncertainty,” Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg said in his EC report to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting on Tuesday. And in a time when solutions were needed, “courageous leaders redefined cooperation.”

DALLAS (BP) – Greg Perkins, president of the National African American Fellowship (NAAF) of about 4,000 Southern Baptist churches, reached back to the first century to encourage Southern …

DALLAS — Recalling his early years playing football, Clint Pressley recalled how there were some players he was friends with and some he “barely knew their name.” But he still recognized they were “all teammates” — and cooperation and teamwork were critical for the success of the team.

DALLAS — Southern Baptists witnessed a demonstration of partnership and purpose at the SBC Annual Meeting on Tuesday as the work of Send Relief — a collaborative compassion ministry between the North American Mission Board and the International Mission Board — took center stage.

DALLAS (BP) — It is possible to be well-known and desperately lonely, Sheila Walsh told a group of 2,000 women at the sold-out Ministers’ Wives Luncheon on Tuesday at the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas.

DALLAS (BP) – Jonathan Leeman addressed the elephant in the room right away. “If you’re here tonight because you want to know what 9Marks thinks of the IMB, … I’m afraid we’re going to disappoint you,” said Leeman, president of 9Marks.

DALLAS (BP) – The Law Amendment, abolishing the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, and a proposed revision to the SBC’s Business and Financial Plan were among topics of discussion Monday at a panel discussion hosted by the group Baptist 21.

DALLAS — North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley has been elected for a second term as Southern Baptist Convention president.

DALLAS — The North American Mission Board shared ways churches can engage in reaching North America and reported on the results of Crossover Dallas during its presentation on Tuesday, June 10, to the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas.