• Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says

  The Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly reaffirmed its intention to spread the gospel throughout the nation and around the world, members of the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence task force told reporters.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Task force recommendations could harm cooperation, Chapman insists

  Adopting the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force could have negative repercussions, Morris Chapman warned Southern Baptist Convention messengers during their annual meeting June 15.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Leaders urge B21 group to stay in the SBC hall, support task force

  Supporters of the Great Commission Resurgence task force took a final opportunity to garner votes for their report when they encouraged 1,300 primarily younger pastors attending the B21 conference Tuesday to leave the luncheon and become fixtures in the meeting hall.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Pastors Conference speakers affirm Great Commission Resurgence

  The Great Commission Resurgence is a “natural and spiritual outgrowth of the conservative resurgence,” seminary president Danny Akin told participants in the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  WMU elects new president, urges unhindered mission

  Participants at the 122nd annual meeting of national Woman’s Missionary Union elected a new president, listened to Sudan’s ambassador, honored Kaye Miller’s five years as WMU president, and heard missions challenges June 13-14 in Orlando, Fla.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Executive Committee elects Page president in executive session

  The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention voted in executive session June 14 to elect former SBC President Frank Page as the organization’s next president and CEO, replacing Morris Chapman, who retires Sept. 30 after 18 years.

  06/14/2010 - By Administrator

• Black Baptists donate $500,000 to Habitat housing in Haiti

  The presidents of five historically African-American Baptist denominations have presented a check for $500,000 to Habitat for Humanity International to help rebuild homes destroyed in Haiti by January's earthquake.

  06/11/2010 - By Administrator

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  SBC exec opposes task force report

  A top official in the Southern Baptist Convention used the denomination's news service to urge defeat of recommendations of a panel on denominational effectiveness to be presented to messengers at the convention's upcoming annual meeting.

  06/08/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Colleen Burroughs, vice president of the Passport youth-camping ministry, will be nominated as moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

  06/03/2010 - By admin

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  Book urges Christians to go green for God

  Jonathan Merritt says he was both disappointed and pleasantly surprised by the response he received after organizing several hundred Southern Baptists in 2008 to issue a statement identifying the environment and climate change as moral issues.

  06/03/2010 - By Administrator

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  Baptist ethicist says oil spill a moral issue

  A Baptist ethicist says the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a moral issue, although few Americans have framed the issue in moral terms.

  06/02/2010 - By Administrator

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  Former pastor, NAMB member, indicted for fleecing flock

  A former Southern Baptist pastor in Missouri has been indicted on charges of using his position to defraud church members into loaning him money that he did not repay.

  05/21/2010 - By Administrator