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  Lifeway reverses course, continues church music resource

  After meeting with church music leaders, Lifeway Christian Resources announced its commitment to continue operating lifewayworship.com.

  06/04/2024 - By Carol Pipes / Lifeway Christian Resources

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  Task Force recommends shelving Great Commission Giving

  Final recommendations from the Southern Baptist Convention Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force address areas of statistical reporting to and from Southern Baptist churches.

  06/04/2024 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  ERLC opposes IVF, calls for Senate oversight

  The chief ethicist for the Southern Baptist Convention wants the federal government to clamp down on in-vitro fertilization, saying it causes harm to children and their mothers.

  06/04/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Tornado cut short prayer service, tore off church wall

  The sky grew dark with threatening clouds shortly before 6 p.m. May 22, but the eight people gathered for the midweek service at Dyess Grove Baptist Church decided to go ahead as planned.

  05/31/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  Henderson helps churches fulfill the Great Commission

  Kyle Henderson felt a clear calling from God to resign the pastorate of a church he loves to step out by faith and raise his own financial support to help churches to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission by 2033.

  05/31/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Small church leads giving to Texans on Mission

  Twenty years ago, Vincent Baptist Church had to decide whether to disband. The church kept going. Today, it’s a leading financial contributor to Texans on Mission.

  05/30/2024 - By Ferrell Foster / Texans on Mission

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  NAMB relationship with BGCT appears murky

  A spokesperson for the SBC North American Mission Board asserted “nothing has changed, and nothing is new” regarding its policy to grant church-starting funds only to state conventions that have affirmed the 2000 Baptist Faith & Message.

  05/29/2024 - By Eric Black & Ken Camp / Baptist Standard

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  Former seminary staffer ordered assault report destroyed

  Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary released more details about the attempted cover-up of a report about a sexual assault on campus that landed a former seminary staffer in federal court, charged with obstruction of justice.

  05/29/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

• Obituary: Nancy Layne Russell

  Nancy Layne Russell, longtime Texas Baptist church musician, died May 24 in Lubbock after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 76.

  05/29/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Church places Matt Queen on leave after federal charges

  A North Carolina Baptist church has suspended its pastor after he was indicted on allegations of giving false records to the FBI.

  05/29/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Around the State: BUA receives Lilly preaching grant

  Baptist University of the Américas received a $1.2 million grant from Lilly Endowment to help establish Proclama.

  05/29/2024 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

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  Dallas deacons convert containers into housing in Ukraine

  Four deacons from Cliff Temple Baptist Church in Dallas recently spent two weeks in Ukraine, helping a Christian ministry there convert shipping containers into housing for displaced people.

  05/29/2024 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor