CBF Coordinating Council adopts budget
ATLANTA (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council voted by e-mail May 26 to recommend a 2011-2012 budget of $12.3 million at the group’s June 22-25 General Assembly in Tampa, Fla.
Harmony Heights digging out, mourning three killed as tornado flattens church
 |
More DR volunteers assist in Joplin; MBC sets up donation collection sites
The volunteer count continues to rise in Joplin as Missouri Baptist Disaster Relief calls in additional workers continue to assist residents to pick through possessions and clean up in the wake of a tornado that tore through the city on May 22.
Southern Baptists to review assignments of mission boards
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention is ready to consider revisions to working agreements that will allow the International Mission Board to work directly with internationals living in the United States.
American Christians urged to see Jesus in the poor and hungry
The church in the United States dare not ignore its mandate to seek justice for the world’s poor and hungry, Henry Williamson Sr., bishop of the Christian Methodist Church in Texas, told a world hunger conference.
Christians can eliminate widespread hunger, advocates insist
Christians can end extreme global poverty and widespread child hunger in this generation, leaders of organizations focused on world hunger told a national conference at Dallas Baptist University.
Redemptive aid demands ‘kingdom collaboration,’ Buckner chief says
Christ-centered agencies can serve as instruments of community transformation, but their effectiveness depends on collaboration, the president of Buckner International told a national conference focused on world hunger.
Causey retires from Center for Congregational Health
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) -- Jack Causey, a fixture in North Carolina Baptist life for a half century, will retire from the Center for Congregational Health at the end of May.
BGCT Executive Board calls for renegotiated agreement with Baylor
The Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board voted to take steps to renegotiate the relationship agreement between the state convention and Baylor University.
Focus stays on outreach with new facility
PARK HILLS -- May 1 marked a significant date in the lives of New Heights Church and First Baptist Church, Farmington, as both congregations celebrated the new physical home of a vision God stirred more than 10 years ago.