“Jesus: to the Neighborhood and the Nations” is the theme for Southern Baptist Convention’s June 19-20 annual meeting in New Orleans, SBC President Bryant Wright has announced. Drawn from the rendering of the Great Commission in Luke 24:47-48, the theme emphasizes the dual importance of missions at home and abroad.
Daily Archives: April 11, 2012
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Registration is open for preschool childcare as well as Children in Action and Youth on Mission programs in conjunction with the 2012 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans. Activities will engage students in grades 1-6 in Bible study and grades 7-12 in hands-on mission work in the community.
North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell, in a live webcast April 9, answered questions and addressed concerns regarding changes in missionary roles and NAMB’s relationship with state Baptist conventions and associations. NAMB will send more than $42 million to state convention partners in 2012, which represents a decrease of […]
A bill that will allow Tennessee public school teachers to present the weaknesses of scientific theories such as evolution has become law without the governor’s signature. Supporters called it an academic freedom bill. At least 10 states now have similar laws, according to the Discovery Institute, which supports the laws.
Chengdu, China, has few government-sanctioned Christian churches — perhaps just three or four — among a population of more than 10 million people. Even so, as one Chinese man told a Christian who lives in the city, “China is really void of religion or faith right now.” The man confides […]
Two earthquakes hit near Indonesia, sparking fear of a tsunami akin to the 2004 disaster that claimed some 250,000 lives in the Indian Ocean region that sits on an arc of fault lines known as the “ring of fire.” The initial 8.6-magnitude quake April 11 struck 14 miles under the […]
Columnist and professor Mark Coppenger gives his testimony of how God financially provided for him in seminary and in his subsequent ministry.