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Church missions network hailed in CBF commissioning service
HOUSTON (ABP) -- Participants at a July 1 commissioning service in Houston, held in conjunction with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, not only prayed for six field personnel who ar...
CBF adjusts to budget shortfall
HOUSTON (ABP) -- Eight months into the fiscal year, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's revenues were 20 percent below budget, the group's Coordinating Council learned July 1. But -- thanks to a plan...
ABCUSA delegates reject bylaw changes
ABCUSA General Secretary Roy Medley speaks to delegates during a business session during the denomination's Biennial June 27 in Pasadena, Calif.
Baptist minister's son jailed for rapes
THE son of a high profile Baptist minister has been jailed for more than 15 years for a series of aggravated rapes he committed in the 1980s. Phillip Alexander Kenworthy, 44, broke into the homes of ...
Baptist college refuses help from visiting teen group
University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist college in southeastern Kentucky, has abruptly rescinded an invitation to a Baptist youth group in Texas to help its students build homes for the poor.
At 84, U.S.S. Indy survivor attests to God's grace
Posted on Jul 2, 2009 | by Michael Foust JOELTON, Tenn. (BP)--Ask Edgar Harrell enough questions, and he can relive the horrific moments he experienced 64 years ago during World War II, floating help...
NAMB chaplains get biblical training
Posted on Jul 2, 2009 | by Ann Lovell SEOUL, South Korea (BP)--Chaplain (Major) Ed Choi understands the reality of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Deployed as a U.S. Army chaplain in Iraq for ...
337 baptized at First Baptist Orlando
Posted on Jul 2, 2009 | by David Ettinger ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--"People are going to die tonight."Not quite the first words most congregations want to hear from their pastor.But that is what David Uth ...
Benefits of alcohol in moderation debated; Barna poll assessed
Posted on Jul 2, 2009 | by Erin Roach NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Researchers continue to debate whether drinking alcohol in moderation yields any tangible health benefits after some studies have suggeste...
India blocks religious watchdog group
Posted on Jul 2, 2009 | by John Evans WASHINGTON (BP)--India has rebuffed a U.S. government watchdog group tasked with monitoring religious liberty abroad by denying entry visas for the group's plann...
Unwanted fireworks on the Fourth
DALLAS (BP)--The Fourth of July always brings memories of war for me. Fireworks remind me of an arcing transformer sending electric ash to the ground. The next thought is that of an Iraqi male about 4...
Pray for our military this summer
SPRING HILL, Tenn. (BP)--In 2003, I was given the opportunity to travel to the Middle East twice to report for Baptist Press about the faith of sailors and soldiers that I came into contact with. It w...
Teen Baptist choir forced to change trip
WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. -- A Texas church youth choir has diverted a planned mission trip after being told they're not welcome to perform and work in a Kentucky Baptist mission program.The Fort Worth Star-T...
True Love Waits partners with South African government
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Jesse Lyautey KING WILLIAM'S TOWN, South Africa (BP)--The students chant proudly as they walk the streets, ignoring the stares and questionable looks from those they pass b...
Egyptian court imposes Islam on twins
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Staff WASHINGTON (BP)--An Egyptian court has granted custody of Coptic Christian twins to their mother but also ruled that the twins must be considered Muslim on their iden...
Obama's new pastor ... Southern Baptist
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Michael Foust NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Is President Obama's new pastor a Southern Baptist? Apparently, it depends whom you ask.Time magazine posted a story June 29 stating Ob...
CP down 2.57%; off '09 budget by 2.4%
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Year-to-date contributions through the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program are 2.57 percent below the same time frame last year a...
Oldest BP articles now available online
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Erin Roach NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Baptist Press articles dating to 1948 now are available online in a searchable PDF format following a two-year digitization project by the...
'Church in a womb' inherits missions DNA
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Karen L. Willoughby SUFFOLK, Va. (BP)--Nansemond River Baptist Church "birthed" Harvest Fellowship eight years ago."I had this bright idea of what I called 'a church in the...
Woolley Award given to SBC's archives
Posted on Jul 1, 2009 | by Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives has received this year's Davis C. Woolley Award from the Baptist History and Heritage Soci...
The Cooperative Program from three angles
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--It's not unique to my experience, but I thought I would share my personal story about the Cooperative Program. My prayer is that my story will be one of encouragement and hope for S...
Critics and Supporters Agree He was America's Founding Father
BOSTON, (christiansunite.com) -- As America prepares to celebrate Independence Day this July 4, Vision Forum Ministries will be hosting a national celebration to honor the 500th birthday of John Calvi...
Christian aid worked killed in Mauritania
(christiansunite.com) - Al-Qaeda has reportedly claimed responsibility for shooting and killing an American aid worker, Christopher Leggett (39), on June 23 in Nouakchott, the capital city of Mauritan...
Acton Institute Says 'Lifestyle Tax' Just Camouflage for New Sin Taxes
WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- The Senate Finance Committee is pushing for what it calls a "lifestyle tax" to raise funds to pay for President Obama's $1.2 trillion health care plan. The lifesty...
Brust to Church Plant
MEDIA ADVISORY, (christiansunite.com) -- The Anglican Mission announced today that the Rev. Canon Ellis E. Brust, President, will be leaving his position this fall to plant a church in south Orange Co...
ChinaAid Calls for Prayer and Action on Behalf of Imprisoned Christian Shi Weihan
BEIJING, (christiansunite.com) -- ChinaAid calls on the international community to pray and act on behalf of imprisoned Christian house church leader Shi Weihan. On June 10 the Beijing Court found Shi...
SBC praises Obama's election, criticizes policies, in resolution
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution June 24 applauding the election the first African-American president, while criticizing policies of Barack Ob...
SBC re-elects Johnny Hunt as president
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- The Southern Baptist Convention re-elected Georgia pastor Johnny Hunt as president during the June 23-24 convention meeting in Louisville, Ky.
Generation gap creates dilemma for SBC
This Creation Museum skeleton of a mastodon featured prominently at the Southern Baptist Convention may have been an ironic symbol for younger attendees wondering if the SBC is becoming extinct.
Younger ministers flock to Louisville seeking place in SBC
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- A younger generation of ministers cannot be expected to support a denominational system that doesn't advance their church's mission, a panel said at a June 23 forum on...
Obama criticizes 'old attitudes' about homosexuality, says Americans will change
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Michael Foust WASHINGTON (BP)--President Obama became the first chief executive to host a White House ceremony celebrating "gay pride" Monday, telling several hundred homo...
Korean Baptists reach goal 1 year early
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Karen L. Willoughby LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Members of the Council of Korean Southern Baptist Churches in America are celebrating the mobilization of 1,000 people for missio...
NAMB honors top Annie-giving churches
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Mickey Noah LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--More than 350 representatives of small to large Southern Baptist churches were honored for their 2008 gifts to the Annie Armstrong Easter...
'Living life as an act of worship'
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Staff DELAWARE, Ohio (BP)--Kay Kwok, the late wife of Jack Kwok, executive director-treasurer of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio, is being remembered as a woman w...
Urban missions leader Francis DuBose dies
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Phyllis Evans SAN FRANCISCO (BP)--Francis M. DuBose, retired professor of missions and former director of urban church studies at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary,...
'Idol' concert among SBC family events
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Michael Ray Smith LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--"American Idol" season six finalist Phil Stacey presented a concert to students and their families as one of the many family activi...
Mohler receives Union's Dodd Award
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 | by Tim Ellsworth LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Union University presented R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., with its M.E. D...
Eternal life on death row
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--Razor wire in neatly stacked rows welcomes guests and inmates alike to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Guests wait at the entrance until an unseen guard -- somewhere ...
Missouri Baptist Children’s Home gets tax credit
Missouri Baptist Children’s Home , a St. Louis County nonprofit, has been approved for $141,775 in state tax credits. Missouri Baptist Children’s Home plans to use the Neighborhood Assist...
Baptist Health System announces changing of the guard
, the parent company of Baptist Health System. As a result of his planned departure, Baptist Health System Chief Operating Officer Graham Reeve has been named as Pilgrim’s replacement. “...
Christian woman facing blasphemy charges in Pakistan
(christiansunite.com) - Thirty-seven-year-old Asia Bibi was recently arrested by police on allegations of blasphemy in the village of Ittanwali, Punjab province, Pakistan. On June 19, some of the Musl...
Obama Proposal to Weaken Existing Law Will Result in More Lives Lost to Abortion
WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- Today Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser joined the House Pro-Life Women's Caucus to urge Congress to retain the Dornan Amendment, which prevent...
Boston Cardinal O'Malley Withdraws Caritas Christi from Potential Abortion Scandal
WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- The following is a statement from American Life League president Judie Brown regarding Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley's announcement that archdiocese-affiliated Car...
More Pressure on Christians
SANTA ANA, Calif., (christiansunite.com) -- Joseph Hovsepian says Christians who are protesting the June 12 re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran could face even more intense persecution.
Evangelists highlight revival preparations
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Keith Collier LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Evangelists from across the nation gained interactive training during breakout sessions at the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelis...
DOMs challenged to live as servant leaders
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Keith Hinson LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Associational leaders should live as servant leaders and find creative strategies for leading other Christians to do the same, speakers ...
Network renames award to honor Sid Smith
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Karen L. Willoughby & Demetrius Hicks II LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Members of the Black Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network honored the late Sid Smith during its ...
Ministers' wives ponder 'Quiet Influence'
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Shannon Baker LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--An overflow crowd of more than 1,600 women pondered the ways God could use the quiet influence of their lives during the 54th annual Mi...
Ohio's Kay Kwok dies in Owensboro, Ky.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Staff OWENSBORO, Ky. (BP)--Kay Kwok, wife of Jack Kwok, executive director-treasurer of the State Convention of Baptists in Ohio, died Saturday, June 27, in Owensboro, Ky....
'Bring the exiles home'
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Shannon Baker LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--All people are suffering from exile from the Garden of Eden, and the resurrection of Christ began the return from exile, James M. Hamil...
Great Commission Task Force chairman issues call for 5,000 prayer volunteers
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Staff NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The chairman of a task force charged with helping improve Southern Baptists' service to Christ through their Great Commission mandate has aske...
U.S. troops 'best of this generation,' top chaplain says
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Mickey Noah LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Gen. Douglas Carver, chief of chaplains for the U.S. Army, thanked Southern Baptists for the 1,300 SBC military chaplains who minister to...
Women gain freedom in God's Word, speakers proclaim
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Tammi Reed Ledbetter LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Early in her husband's ministry as pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, Elizabeth Luter recognized God calle...
Seminary luncheons draw alumni, guests
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Staff LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Fellowship and campus updates highlighted the alumni luncheons hosted by Southern Baptist Convention seminaries June 24 during the SBC annual m...
At 150, SBTS tribute to God's grace
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 | by Jeff Robinson LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--On Oct. 1, 1859, four young professors and nine students met for the first day of class when Southern Baptist Theological Seminary open...
Emergency measures for an economic drought
ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP)--In the west, drought is not an uncommon experience. There are times when extreme drought sets in and ranchers have to make emergency decisions to protect their bovine investments...
House churches attacked in China
(christiansunite.com) - At approximately 9:15 a.m. on June 14, several dozen officials from the Municipal Bureaus of Religion and State Security broke into a house church in Zhengzhou City, Henan prov...
GFA President Praises Indian Government Move to Strike Down Anti-Conversion Laws
CARROLLTON, Texas, (christiansunite.com) -- The newly elected Indian government, led by the moderate Congress party, is taking a strong stand against anti-conversion legislation that has restricted re...
Relationship Expert Offers Hope to Michael Jackson, Four Days Before His Death
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., (christiansunite.com) -- Gregory Dickow, Pastor of Life Changers International Church outside Chicago, baffled worshippers when, at the end of this past Sunday's Father's Day se...
Operation Rescue Office Attacked in Broad Daylight
WICHITA, Kansas, (christiansunite.com) -- Friday afternoon, June 26, a man on a bicycle attacked Operation Rescue's national headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, and attempted to disable the security syst...
Survivors Announce Southern California Rally for Life Featuring Rev. Walter Hoye on Tuesday, June 30 in Norco, California
NORCO, Calif., (christiansunite.com) -- The Southern California Rally for Life will take place on Tuesday, June 30, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at New Beginnings Community Church at 1769 Western Avenue in ...
Jacksonville’s Baptist South opens major expansion
Nurse Manager Jennifer Walton describes the Level II Newborn Intensive Care Unit in Baptist South’s new tower. The hospital, off Old St. Augustine Road next to Interstate 95, has more than doub...
Baptists face identity crisis
Four-hundred years after the founding of the Baptist movement by English religious dissenters, the largest and most powerful branch of that church is wrestling with an identity crisis.Years of late 20...
Pruitt Baptist Bringing Power Team To East Texas July 8-12
BREAKING THROUGH: John Kopta (below) of The Power Team breaks through a pile of bricks, while Bill Hall (above) takes on a wall of ice. These feats and more are typical during a Power Team evening, sa...
Southern Baptists have mixed view of Obama
Resolutions Committee Chairman Daniel Akin listens at left as Richard Land, who leads the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission talks about a resolution the group passe...
SBC messengers sever ties with Texas church over gay members
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- It took messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 23 only 30 seconds to sever a 125-year relationship with a prominent Texas congregation because of th...
Mike Huckabee slams Obama on Iran, abortion in speech to SBC pastors
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (ABP) -- Mike Huckabee -- the once and (possibly) future Republican presidential candidate -- staked out conservative political ground in a June 22 speech to Southern Baptist pastors.W...
Christian relief workers abducted and killed in Yemen
(christiansunite.com) - On June 12, nine Christian foreigners were abducted and three of them killed in Yemen. Reports indicate that they were targeted because they were Christian relief workers suspe...
Senate Vote Threatens American Sovereignty
CWA President Wendy Wright said, "Koh's extremely radical views threaten the great 'American experiment' of a representative democracy. He believes that foreign and international opinions take precede...
New Radio Drama Release Disproves Popular Darwinist Myths
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (christiansunite.com) -- Vision Forum Ministries has announced the release of "Jonathan Park and The Journey Never Taken", 12 new half-hour episodes that disprove popular Darwinist...
A.L.L. Promises Caritas Christi Investigation After July 1
WASHINGTON, (christiansunite.com) -- American Life League executive director Shaun Kenney announced a new campaign to investigate whether young mothers will be referred for abortions by Caritas Christ...
YouTube Removes New Undercover Student Video of Planned Parenthood without Explanation
LOS ANGELES, (christiansunite.com) -- Without offering any specific explanation, the video-sharing site YouTube has removed a new video by the student group Live Action that shows dishonest counseling...
Baptist Regional Medical Center Selects Pharmacy OneSource's Quantifi and Amplifi for Better Pharmacy Performance
BELLEVUE, WA, June 26, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Pharmacy OneSource, Inc., software as a service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced today that Baptist Regional Medi...
Southern Baptists keep low profile as meeting ends
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Southern Baptists ended their national meeting and quietly left their host town by avoiding the controversial political pronouncements that have marked past conventions.Convention ...
Baptist Homes in Mt. Lebanon names new COO, exec. administrator
Alvin Allison has been named chief operating officer at Baptist Homes’ Mt. Lebanon campus and Providence Point, which is located in Scott Township, the senior residential services agency announc...
Hunt re-elected, leads slate of new officers
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 | by David Roach & Garrett E. Wishall LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Johnny Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., was elected without opposition to a second term as pr...
N. America in dire need of Savior
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 | by Staff LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--God is transforming lives through the ministries of North American Mission Board missionaries and chaplains, but North America is still in dire...
Hawkins recaps GuideStone performance
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 | by Roy Hayhurst LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--GuideStone Financial Resources remains resilient in the face of volatile financial markets, O.S. Hawkins told messengers at the annual m...
GCR endorsed; Driscoll criticized
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 | by Keith Hinson LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Messengers offered 31 motions but approved only one during the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting June 23-24 at the Kentucky E...
Seminaries report to Louisville messengers
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 | by Staff LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention were reminded of the importance of theological education through reports fr...
Tightening belts — and helping others
.RICHMOND, Va. (BP)--If you just lost your job, you're probably not jumping up and down over recent signs the economy might be rebounding.You're not alone. More than 340,000 U.S. jobs were lost in May...
Baptist Conference Addresses HIV/AIDS In Black Community
Fear, religious beliefs and cultural differences are among the reasons why blacks do not get tested for HIV, participants of the National Baptist Convention USA's annual Congress of Christian Educatio...
Baptists urge faithful to live like Jesus
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Read the Bible. Act like Jesus. That's the advice the Rev. K. Marshall Williams Sr. has for his fellow Southern Baptists as they try to turn around declining membership and baptism...
Baptists honor President Obama, but decry some policies
Southern Baptists overwhelmingly passed a resolution on Wednesday honoring the breakthrough of President Barack Obama's election as the nation's first African-American president and hailing his dedica...
Heat drives Baptists from Detroit hotel
Detroit -- They came to reaffirm their beliefs and tackle pressing church issues, but hundreds of visiting Baptists on Wednesday said their faith had been tested by two days of heat and bad service at...
Southern Baptists Meet to Combat Membership Malaise
-- Southern Baptists opened their annual meeting Tuesday (June 23) with calls to turn around plummeting baptism rates, even as researchers warned that the nation's largest Protestant body could lose h...
Slain pastor honored with 1st HCSB Award
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Chris Turner LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Fred Winters was a man known for loving the Bible and people. It was reflected in his passion for preaching the Gospel and seeing people...
Land cites gains in Washington
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Dwayne Hastings LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Southern Baptists have gained "tremendous victories" in Washington in recent months, Richard Land told messengers at the annual meeti...
WMU world hunger bread loaf bank debuts
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Julie Walters LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--A bread loaf bank for missions made its debut during the Woman's Missionary Union report at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist ...
Mo. pastor delivers SBC convention sermon
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Allen Palmeri LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Showing some Ozarkian flair, John Marshall described how three blind men were each healed differently by Jesus in his convention sermon...
Evangelical Relations 'off to a running start'
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Norm Miller LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--The Executive Committee's Global Evangelical Relations initiative is off to a running start, Bobby Welch, strategist for the effort, said...
SBC's Committee on Nominations named
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by Staff LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Seventy Southern Baptists from 35 state Baptist conventions have been named to serve on the 2009-10 SBC Committee on Nominations.The Committee ...
Hispanics hear about GPS from Hammond
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 | by David R. Lema Jr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Several hundred Hispanic pastors, missionaries and leaders gathered at the annual National Hispanic Celebration June 21 to celebrat...
So, your child is asking for a cell phone
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Your child is asking for a cell phone. It is a sign of the times, and a sign that things are changing in your child's social circle. But how do you know if she is ready for her ...
Hotel woes sour experience at baptist convention
Detroit -- Problems with a lack of air conditioning, towels and other room amenities have upset several hundred members of the National Baptist Convention staying at the Riverside Hotel in Detroit. Ni...
Baptists told to reach out, save souls
He's seen the statistics showing declines in membership and baptisms, and fears it's because Baptists have forgotten the importance of sharing their faith.
Huckabee laments lack of morality in U.S.
Posted on Jun 23, 2009 | by Tim Ellsworth LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--An absence of morality, not a lack of money, is responsible for many of the problems facing the United States, former presidential cand...
Pastors' Conference looks toward unity
Posted on Jun 23, 2009 | by Staff LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--On the second day of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville June 22, speakers exhorted pastor...
EC report underscores financial freedom
Posted on Jun 23, 2009 | by Mark Kelly LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--Churches and believers under economic pressure need to focus on what the Bible says about money management, Las Vegas pastor Hoyt Savage t...
Missions trumps doctrinal divides
Posted on Jun 23, 2009 | by Erin Roach LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--As the Southern Baptist Convention considers the specifics of a Great Commission Resurgence, Morris H. Chapman said a fervor for missions ...
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