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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Heartland will no longer help sponsor the mature adult retreat in Missouri.

In a meeting via video-conference on June 13, members of the CBF Heartland Coordinating Council decided not to contribute $1,000 for the retreat set for Oct. 12-14 at Windermere Baptist Conference Center.

Millennials see more affinity between religion and science.

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will gather for its 2015 General Assembly at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas, June 15-19. News updates from the meeting are available at cbf.net/dallas2015. In addition, CBF will offer live streaming of the Wednesday through Friday evening sessions at cbf.net/livestream.

The 2015 Southern Baptist Convention's is streaming its annual meeting, held this year at the Greater Columbus Convention Center on June 16-17 in Columbus, Ohio. The SBC annual meeting site can be found at sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc15/default.asp, including a link to live video straming. Registration (free) is required to access the signal.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Savannah Oswald elbowed her way through the crowds on Black Friday 2014, searching for the cutest clothes she could find for her limited bucks. She hit the stores that day to shop for Christmas gifts for family and friends. Instead, God led her to think of the young women who would soon pass through the first safe house in Iowa set up to serve only survivors of human trafficking.

Talking with church health consultants reveals similar stories. One common experience they often share features a church that asks for help after burning through several pastors in nearly as many years. During the consulting process, a deacon or other lay leader says something like “we just can’t find a good pastor” or “seminaries don’t train pastors like they used to.”

Pastors and church lay leadership must work to avoid becoming poisonous to their congregation and each other.

Word & Way’s print edition will become a monthly magazine starting in July. The magazine will replace the tabloid print edition currently published every other week.

“This means that the June 18 issue will be the final every-other-week newsprint tabloid newspaper we produce,” Editor Bill Webb said.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Pastor Elisey Pronin watched as Russian troops drove tanks and carted military equipment across Ukraine’s eastern border into the Lugansk region and into his town of Pervomaysk.

Christians must be disciple-makers and must be willing to do the Father’s will as Jesus did.

Jeff Johnson challenged attendees at the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska annual meeting May 1-2 at First Baptist Church of Kearney, Neb., to be disciples and evangelists.