Baptist

Sports Crusaders, a Missouri-based sports ministry, celebrated its 20th season as a "summer of legacy," serving 2,544 campers and seeing 342 students turn to Jesus as Savior.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The president of the Baptist Union of Lithuania spent Aug. 18-25 in mid-Missouri to explore partnership projects, to share the story of Lithuanian Baptists and to be encouraged in kingdom work.

The Missouri Baptist Convention plans to have a strategy in place by April 2015 for use of land that once belonged to Windermere Baptist Conference Center. MBC Executive Board members recently authorized the convention president to appoint a taskforce to study possibilities.

Windermere Baptist Conference Center trustees likely will choose a new executive following the arrest of current President and CEO Jerald "Jerry" Hill.

Are Baptists and other evangelicals as willing to demonstrate the same commitment to religious liberty for everyone that early theologians did?

As church planting efforts burgeon and congregations look for new ways to reach their communities, opportunities for ministry outside the building grow. While leaders often are aware of safety issues at church, the same concerns must be examined outside the facility as well.

What is happening to Christianity in the United Kingdom is heading to the United States, one British theologian believes. And U.S. Christians can benefit from the lessons the English have learned as they continue to struggle with changes in a post-Christian world.

The 2014 Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly, meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta, will provide live streaming this year. The theme of this year's June 23-27 gathering is "Woven Together." More information about the schedule and a list of workshops can be fouund on the organization's page for the General Assembly.

A banquet and commissioning service kicks off the streaming, beginning at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday, June 25. Click here to access the stream.