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  Pandemic heightens need for job training ministry

  Churches that incorporate Christian Job Corps into their ongoing ministries are able to reach out to the community around them, sharing the love of Christ while equipping participants with vital life skills and pre-employment training.

  11/24/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Churches prioritize responsible outreach during a pandemic

  Pastor Sergio Arce believes a pandemic shouldn’t put a pause on outreach. Instead, he insists, it should serve as a catalyst to meet people in responsible ways in times of need.

  11/24/2020 - By Aaron Wilson / Lifeway

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  Priorities established to fight sex abuse in next year

  Southern Baptist churches, entities and leaders will continue to receive guidance in the year ahead from a convention partnership leading the fight against sexual abuse.

  11/16/2020 - By Tom Strode / Baptist Press

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  Surge prompts some churches to return to online-only worship

  A surge in new COVID-19 cases has some churches returning to online-only worship as many churches continue meeting onsite.

  11/09/2020 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  Border pastors continue adapting ministry to immigrants

  Despite COVID-19, pastors who form the backbone of Fellowship Southwest’s ministry to immigrants adapt to an ever-changing refugee flow and escalating needs of vulnerable people.

  11/04/2020 - By Elket Rodríguez / Fellowship Southwest

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  National WMU board approves reduced budget

  The board of national Woman’s Missionary Union approved a 2020-21 budget for the missions organization that is down about $1 million from its $5.8 million 2019-20 budget.

  11/04/2020 - By Margaret Colson / Baptist Press

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  Vietnamese Baptist Church burns amid Philadelphia unrest

  The Vietnam Baptist Church in Philadelphia building was burned Oct. 27 during the second night of unrest in the city after the police shooting of a Black man.

  10/29/2020 - By Laura Erlanson / Baptist Press

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  Ministry takes gospel to Spanish-speaking dairy workers

  Foundations of Faith—Fundamentos de Fe—views the dairy farms scattered across eastern New Mexico and West Texas as a fertile mission field.

  10/27/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Hearing set for Riley Foundation lawsuit

  A temporary injunction hearing in a lawsuit filed by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Baylor University against a charitable foundation is scheduled for Dec. 2 after a judge granted the plaintiffs’ motion for expedited discovery.

  10/21/2020 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

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  LifeWay agrees on terms of sale for Ridgecrest

  LifeWay Christian Resources has reached an agreement to sell Ridgecrest Conference Center and Summer Camps to the Ridgecrest Foundation.

  10/16/2020 - By Carol Pipes / LifeWay Christian Resources

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  Seminary retains building names but vacates chair

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees unanimously voted not to remove the names of slaveholding founders from campus buildings, but they vacated an endowed chair named after a controversial benefactor and approved funds for scholarships for Black students.

  10/14/2020 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  NAMB trustees pass significantly reduced budget

  Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board passed a $99.8 million operating budget for 2021—down about 20 percent from the previous year—at their Oct. 5-6 meeting.

  10/08/2020 - By Mike Ebert / North American Mission Board