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  Victim of church-bus crash takes center stage at memorial service

  Maggie Lee Henson didn't live long enough to realize her dream of becoming a star on Broadway, but she took center stage in a memorial service celebrating her life Aug.6 at First Baptist Church in Shreveport, La.

  08/06/2009 - By Administrator

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  BWA advances in spite of financial challenges

  Despite a challenging financial outlook, Baptist World Alliance leaders moved ahead with the election of a new division director, welcomed two additional member bodies and called for new initiatives in both intra-Baptist relations and Christian-Muslim dialogue.

  08/04/2009 - By Administrator

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  Wrap-up: BWA moves forward despite financial challenges

  Despite a challenging financial outlook, Baptist World Alliance leaders have moved ahead with the election of a new division director, welcomed two additional member bodies and called for new initiatives in both intra-Baptist relations and Christian-Muslim dialogue.

  08/04/2009 - By Administrator

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  NAMB trustees consider removing agency head

  Two months after passing a resolution unanimously praising the direction of the North American Mission Board and affirming President Geoff Hammond for "exemplary, unique leadership and vision," NAMB trustees will meet Aug. 11 to consider removing him from office.

  08/03/2009 - By Administrator

• Shreveport girl dies from injuries in church-bus crash

  A July 12 rollover of a bus carrying a Shreveport, La., Baptist church youth group to a summer camp has claimed a second fatality.

  08/03/2009 - By Administrator

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  Scholar says Jamaican slave revolt has lessons for all

  The story of an African-Caribbean Baptist slave's 19th-century revolt holds theologically liberating implications for all Christians, an international Baptist scholar said July 29.

  07/30/2009 - By Administrator

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  National Guard, hospital had prepared for crash, pastor says

  Both a National Guard unit that responded at the scene of a July 12 church-bus accident and the hospital where most of the victims were taken had recently received training for situations similar to what actually occurred, according to the congregation's pastor.

  07/23/2009 - By Administrator

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  Baptist Briefs

  Participants in GuideStone retirement programs can find their new account statements on GuideStone’s participant website, www.MyGuideStone.org.

  07/21/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist newspaper apologizes for misusing governor’s signature

  A Baptist newspaper in Oklahoma has apologized for publishing a graphic illustration digitally edited to make it appear a controversial proclamation declaring America a Christian nation was endorsed by the state's Baptist governor.

  07/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Youth minister hurt in bus wreck released from hospital

  A Baptist church youth minister is recovering at home from injuries he received July 12 when a bus carrying his youth group to a church camp rolled over on a Mississippi interstate injuring 23 passengers, one fatally.

  07/20/2009 - By Administrator

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  Struggle continues for teenager injured in church-bus accident

  A teenager from Shreveport, La., continued to fight for her life in a Mississippi hospital four days after a July 12 bus crash that killed one and injured 22 passengers on their way to a church camp in Macon, Ga.

  07/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Adrian Rogers’ son resigning as IMB missionary

  David Rogers, son of the legendary preacher and Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, is resigning after 19 years as a missionary to Spain.

  07/16/2009 - By Administrator