Barna and Impact 360 concluded a series of Gen Z reports on Thursday, Sept. 12, with 'Leading Gen Z,' a simulcast highlighting their final set of conclusions, based on more than a decade of research.

GRAND SALINE, Texas — The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart. 

CLAYTON, Ga. — Georgia Baptist Women hosted their Fall retreat at Pinnacle Retreat Center in Clayton on Sept. 13-14. Nearly 250 women gathered for the weekend, whose theme was Unleashed: Women on Mission.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Hershael York was one of the invited speakers to a Friday news conference organized by The Commonwealth Policy Center as a rebuttal to Gov. Andy Beshear’s recent executive order banning so-called conversion therapy. York, Dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, addressed what it means to be made in the image of God and to love your neighbor.

NEW ORLEANS — The “Abre Mis Ojos” conference (Spanish for “open my eyes”) gathered more than 700 guests from the Hispanic community at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary last weekend on Sept. 20-21. 

BOSTON — As the final Send Network Gathering of 2024 concluded in Boston, nearly 1,000 attendees left with a sense of urgency to focus on multiplication — making disciples who make disciples and planting churches that plant churches. The event took place last Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 16-17.

While Jesus preached a message of peace, New Testament Christians at times encountered difficult issues among fellow believers. With honesty, Luke describes a “sharp disagreement” between Paul and Barnabas about personnel issues for their next journey that led to the breakup of their missionary team.

If you own a toolbox, what would you say is the most critical piece in your assortment? The hammer must be considered because it can be used to build and tear down. For me, it is my cell phone. I do not have a “fix-it” bone in my body.

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. — Beulah Church/Iglesia Beulah introduces new members at its quarterly church business meetings, and seven families came forward at the last one. Of the seven families that joined at that meeting, five were Hispanic.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Baptist Faith and Message soon could be more difficult to amend. That’s a good thing, says the SBC messenger whose motion this summer in Indianapolis helped initiate the change.

CLEVELAND, Ga. — Truett McConnell University’s Rielin & Salmen School of Nursing proudly hosted its annual White Coat Ceremony on Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. in Odell Hall. This significant event honored the Nursing Class of 2026 as they begin their journey into the nursing profession, embodying the values of compassion, professionalism, and Christian service.

CORDOVA, Tenn. — Steve Gaines, senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, announced to the congregation on Sunday that he will be transitioning out of his role of senior pastor and into the role of “itinerate preacher.”

SUWANEE, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board and Friends of Kaleo, Inc., have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that could allow the continued operation of Camp Kaleo. Friends of Kaleo is a non-profit group of former staff, campers, churches, pastors, missionaries, and families created last year to generate financial support for Camp Kaleo and support its ministry.

Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter to their family’s Christian beliefs.

ONTARIO, Calif. — The presidents of Gateway Seminary and Korea Baptist Theological University and Seminary signed a memorandum of understanding on Sept. 12, 2024, to foster a growing educational relationship between the two schools.

After a 14-month battle with cancer, Earl R. Martin passed peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on August 23, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Martin, who taught missiology and world religions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1987, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1927. In 1948, he married Mary Jane Winchester, his high school sweetheart in Washington D.C.

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Days after an unnamed tropical storm-like system dumped historic rainfall across the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina, disaster response volunteers with N.C. Baptists on Mission are assisting those impacted by the storm.

ZEBULON, Ga. — On Sunday evening, Sept. 15, the Flint River Baptist Association met at First Baptist Church in Zebulon for its annual associational meeting and bicentennial anniversary celebration. Associational Mission Strategist Frank Nuckolls announced that “What He’s Done!” would be the theme for the meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College have returned to full operation after Hurricane Francine hit the campus on Wednesda, Sept. 11. The first day classes and offices operated as normal following the storm was Monday, Sept. 16.  

It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator. “The doctor said, ‘Jummai—maybe she’s gone even as we’re speaking with you.’” Philip recalls.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary and the Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership hosted the first annual Engaging Exposition Preaching Conference on Monday, Sept. 16. Welcoming over 150 pastors and church leaders to campus, the conference consisted of four sessions, breakout opportunities, and a panel discussion with key speakers.

History credits Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. with the assertion that some Christians are so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good. The same sentiment found its way into Johnny Cash’s 1977 album The Rambler when he recorded the song “No Earthly Good.” But is the idea true?

Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby let my people go. Hunh! If you sang that instead of just reading the words, you’ve been in church for a minute. It’s a fun song to sing about an intense true story written in the book of Exodus when God showed His power and might to Pharaoh and all of Egypt. We’ve been unpacking the drama in our youth Sunday School class.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Georgia Baptists are blessed to have a significant number of churches that seek to enable and empower a community of saints to embrace and evangelize a lost world through the love of Christ. Northside Baptist Church in Valdosta is one of those churches.

I grocery shop every week. I usually have a granddaughter that wants to tag along and most of the time it is Liza or Lottie. This past week it was Liza. She gets out of the car and immediately grabs my hand. She knows we are in the parking lot and that it's best to hold an adult's hand.