• MBC messengers increase authority of Executive Board over lawsuits

  Messengers to the 175th annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention broadened the authority of the MBC Executive Board to resolve ongoing lawsuits against five formerly related entities in their morning session on October 27 at First Baptist Church, Raytown.

  10/27/2009 - By admin

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  Next two CBF assemblies will mark 20 years of “movement”

  The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will stress community at the organization's 20th General Assembly June 24-25, 2010, in Charlotte, N.C.

  10/23/2009 - By Administrator

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  BWA leader highlights priorities at DBU gathering

  In the early years of the 21st century, Baptists worldwide have made significant contributions in areas such as relief and development, missions and evangelism and human rights, but they have far to go in the area of unity, a Baptist World Alliance leader told a group at Dallas Baptist University.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Former SBC leader says NAMB is obsolete

  An elder statesman who led three Southern Baptist Convention entities for a total of 40 years says the denomination's North American Mission Board is an obsolete bureaucracy that will likely have a diminished role or disappear altogether in the 21st century.

  10/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Cuban Baptists released from jail

  Two Cuban Baptist leaders held two weeks while authorities investigated what they regarded suspicious economic activity have reportedly been released from jail.

  10/19/2009 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs: IMB dips into contingency funds

  International Mission Board Treasurer David Steverson told trustees of the agency the mission board faces a budget shortfall “crisis.”

  10/16/2009 - By admin

• Jailed Cuban Baptists accused of illegal economic activity

  Cuban authorities say two Baptist leaders held in jail for 11 days in a city on the eastern end of the island are accused of illegal economic activities. They reportedly were delivering financial aid to churches.

  10/15/2009 - By Administrator

• Cuban Baptist leaders in custody; charges unclear

  Two Cuban Baptist leaders arrested Oct. 3 in the city of Santiago de Cuba remain in jail, reportedly without formal charge and with few details of why they are being held.

  10/13/2009 - By Administrator

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  Former ‘Baptist Hour’ preacher Charles Wellborn dies

  Former "Baptist Hour" radio preacher and Baylor University professor Charles Wellborn died Oct. 1 at his home in Georgetown, Ky.

  10/06/2009 - By Administrator

• Study says SBC funding plan inadequate to achieve stated goals

  The Southern Baptist Convention has identified a missionary-sending goal big enough to accomplish the nearly 2,000-year-old task of the Great Commission — but lacks a clear fund-raising plan for meeting it, according to an upcoming annual report on Christian stewardship.

  10/02/2009 - By Administrator

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  Maggie Lee for Good honors memory of girl killed in bus crash

  The parents of a girl who died this summer from injuries received in a church-bus wreck are asking 13,000 people to keep her memory alive by doing something good on Oct. 29 — which would have been her 13th birthday.

  09/24/2009 - By Administrator

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  Morris Chapman planning to retire

  Morris Chapman, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, announced plans Sept. 21 to retire at the end of September 2010.

  09/21/2009 - By Administrator