Get ready for a soul-stirring evening of worship at the Classic Worship Multigenerational Night of Praise, featuring the talented FBC Classic Worship Choir & Orchestra. This special event promises a beautiful blend of historic hymns and popular Christian radio tunes, creating a worship experience like no other. With two opportunities to attend, mark your calendar for Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 PM or Sunday, May 4 at 6:00 PM.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Jeff Iorg, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, addressed two sessions of the Missouri Baptist Convention's Resound Conference on Feb. 6 at Concord Baptist Church. 

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Ray Cucancic is the master builder guiding the work of Texans on Mission Church Builders in Huntsville this spring. However, the retired contractor does more than build on the work site. He also teaches. “I love working with people who are eager to learn,” said Cucancic, a member of Northside Baptist Church in Huntsville.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) - Kentucky Baptists are celebrating a surge in baptisms with 12,654 reported during the past reporting year, which ended March 15. It’s a significant increase over the past year and the highest year in almost a decade.

Two Alabama Baptist churches sustained damage in the storms Saturday evening, March 15 — Calera Baptist from a tornado, and Mignon Baptist in Sylacauga from flooding. Alabama was one of many states impacted by a weekend of deadly storms.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Okla. — An historic Native American Baptist Church was destroyed Friday, March 14, in a blaze that was part of an onslaught of wildfires driven by hurricane-strength winds across Oklahoma.

NASHVILLE (BP) — Deadly weekend storms across several southern states and into the Midwest have prompted a widescale response from Send Relief and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.

There is a popular comedian whose routine revolves around enjoying food and eating. He jokes about consuming fast food. Even though he is keenly aware that much of what we get through a drive-through window is unhealthy and low in nourishment, he still partakes.

Christian author Charles Sheldon wrote a novel and used a phrase from 1 Peter 2:21 as the title. The verse states, “For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps.”

Logistics services consultants, doctors, occupational therapists, accountants, counselors — your skills are in high demand on the mission field.  While many missionaries step away from careers when they move overseas, the International Mission Board needs missionaries who will bring and utilize their expertise on the mission field.   

There's an exciting opportunity for all of us to gather over the next several months at a church near you. The purpose of these meetings is to prayerfully discuss how we can work together to impact lostness across our state.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — If you were traveling on Hampton Road near Antioch Road in Fayetteville, Georgia during lunchtime on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, you would have seen lots of smiling kids riding bicycles around Woolsey Baptist Church. This was not just kids riding their bikes, it was kids riding bikes on a mission.

String Strong, a one-day string orchestra camp, will be held at Truett McConnell University in Cleveland, Ga., on Saturday, June 14, 2025, from 9am - 5pm, culminating in a concert at the end of the day. 

“We want this to be more than an event,” said Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director of national Woman’s Missionary Union. “We pray for those gathered to depart inspired and challenged to intentionally make disciples of Jesus who live on mission.”

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — The year 2025 is marked by five significant anniversaries for the Christian church and especially for Southern Baptists. Demonstrating God’s faithfulness in the lives of his people, these historical milestones also highlight the Church’s rich confessional, ecclesial, and missional heritage, which Southeastern Seminary is honored to teach and to steward.

NASHVILLE (BP) – High probability reports of extreme weather this weekend that include long-range tornadoes have Southern Baptist Disaster Relief directors contacting unit leaders and advising people to be prepared.

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. — In the wake of the floods that struck Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia, God’s Warehouse Ministries has mobilized a rapid response effort to deliver critical supplies to affected communities. 

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Harp’s Crossing Baptist Church saw a tremendous response to its 'Harvest Day' event on Sunday, March 2. Pastor Dennis Watson invites evangelist Keith Fordham to preach at the event each year, and this one was no different.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) — A bipartisan bill may give ministers who decided long ago to opt out of Social Security benefits the chance to change their minds.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 2025 Sizemore Lectures at Midwestern Seminary featured renowned Bible scholar Peter Williams, principal and CEO of Tyndale House, Cambridge. Williams delivered two lectures on March 4 and 5 and joined Midwestern Seminary President Jason Allen for a special Q&A luncheon with the seminary community.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary hosted the southeast regional meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Philosophical Society, which brought 175 scholars from surrounding states to Southeastern’s campus last week on March 7 and 8, 2025.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Chris Cook, pastor of Parkade Baptist, Columbia, didn’t know what to think when Pastor Mayinto Ganzon reached out to him on Facebook in November of 2023. Cook was a little skeptical at first, but he replied.

We live in an age where people resist and even resent the idea of authority. A rugged individualism that says you cannot tell me what to do governs our thinking. Misguided moral relativism whispers the lie that what’s true for you may not be true for me.

It’s a spectacular true story. When we step into the Israelites’ sandals, applying it to our lives, we gain insight and encouragement from the book of Exodus. The people of Israel came out of Egypt after 430 years of slavery. Their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, great-great-grandfathers, and so on and so on for centuries had all been slaves.

I don’t know about you, but I love a good rescue story.  You know the one’s where something or someone has been saved due to the heroic efforts of another person or a team of …