Daily Archives: June 20, 2012

Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter Jr. engaged a roomful of reporters in his hometown of New Orleans June 19, sharing his surprise at “the confidence Southern Baptists are putting in me and my leadership skills and what God has done in my life.”

Fred Luter, in his first sermon since being elected as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention, exhorted believers to place their trust in the Lord and work through the church to heal today’s troubled society.

The descriptor “Great Commission Baptists” was approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention by a vote of 53 percent to 46 percent after nearly a half-hour debate June 19 at the SBC annual meeting in New Orleans.

International Mission Board President Tom Elliff reminded in his report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans that the Conservative Resurgence began some 30 years ago in New Orleans. If it was worth saving the Word of God, he asked, is it not worth more to share […]

WEDNESDAY’S SBC ANNUAL MEETING BLOG

Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, used a World War II analogy June 19 in New Orleans to warn that the Cooperative Program, which fuels SBC missions and ministry, is running low.

Missionaries and church planters shared the good work funded by church dollars at home and abroad during the Executive Committee report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans.