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  Stories of faithfulness highlight WMU board meeting

  From Alaska to Maine, nearly 200 missions leaders from across the country gathered on Missionary Ridge in Birmingham for national Woman’s Missionary Union’s board meeting Jan. 6-8.

  01/16/2024 - By Julie Walters / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Pioneering missions storyteller Leland Webb dies at 91

  Leland Franklin Webb, a reporter and editor more than three decades at what is now the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board, died Jan. 8. He was 91.

  01/12/2024 - By Sue Sprenkle / Baptist Press

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  GuideStone will do business with Global Methodists

  Southern Baptists do not believe women can be pastors or churches should baptize infants. But that won’t stop them from doing business with non-Baptist churches that disagree.

  01/10/2024 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Search team has SBC Executive Committee CEO candidate

  The SBC Executive Committee presidential search team plans to announce its candidate to the public Feb. 18. The team announced Jan. 8 it will present the candidate to the Feb. 19 Executive Committee meeting in Nashville.

  01/09/2024 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  Addressing abuse requires churches to be prepared

  A church’s response to an allegation of abuse begins with a call to Child Protective Services. From there, it’s important not only to have an active partnership with civil authorities in addressing the case, but also to set up long-term care for survivors, experts say.

  01/08/2024 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Evangelist Junior Hill dies at age 87

  Junior Hill, a sought-after evangelist among Southern Baptists for more than 50 years, died Jan. 3 at his home in Hartselle, Ala. He was 87.

  01/05/2024 - By Art Toalston / Baptist Press

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  Gym church members work out their faith

  A gym may seem like an unorthodox location for a church, but that’s what it is—a growing body of believers and seekers who gather to worship and hear the Bible preached each week.

  01/03/2024 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  Accused of withholding abuse reports from congregation

  Facing accusations its leaders withheld information about reports of sexual abuse, Pastor Steven Smith of Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock issued a statement saying, “Nothing is more important than keeping our members and children safe.”

  12/13/2023 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Myanmar Baptist fellowship sends missionaries

  Six representatives of the Myanmar Baptist Churches USA fellowship traveled from Maryland to Virginia to support one couple who represents a historic milestone for the Southern Baptist Convention.

  12/11/2023 - By Julie McGowan / International Mission Board

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  IMB Project 3000 explorers seek unreached people groups

  International Mission Board missionaries are going the extra mile—quite often literally—to find unreached people groups.

  12/06/2023 - By Tessa Sanchez / Baptist Press

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  Progress noted in search for Executive Committee chief

  The team searching for the next leader of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee said it has moved into what it calls an investigation phase, according to a public statement from the group.

  11/28/2023 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  Executive Committee forms legal strategy study group

  In a special called online executive session Nov. 16, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee took steps to create a work study group to review its “long-term legal strategy.”

  11/17/2023 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press