The Windermere Baptist Conference Center Board of Trustees has named a new president and CEO — John Bailey — to succeed Jerry Hill, who resigned the position on Aug. 5. Bailey’s first day in the office was Jan. 5.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Churchnet elected both its first layperson and its first woman as president when it named Donna Potts as the top elected leader during the organization’s annual gathering April 5-6 at Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City.
CHICAGO (ABP) – Roy Medley, general secretary of American Baptist Churches USA, was elected president-elect of the National Council of Churches Nov. 9 at a meeting of the NCC governing board in Chicago.
ATLANTA (ABP) -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship officers have named a nine-member search committee to find a replacement for Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, who will retire June 30, 2012.
WACO, Texas (ABP) – A new scholarship at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary has been established as a tribute to a pastor and graduate of the school murdered March 3 in his church office.
Rudy Pulido's desire to preserve Baptists' historic stand on religious freedom has earned him an award named in his honor.
OMAHA, Neb. (ABP) -- Veteran Midwestern pastor Robin Stoops has been named the new regional minister for the American Baptist Churches of Nebraska, according to the American Baptist News Service.
Jefferson City — When the Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board tapped David Tolliver as its interim executive director upon the firing of David Clippard on April 10, it turned to one of the best-known activists in conservatives’ efforts to control the convention. Tolliver, 56, served
Jefferson City – Ongoing litigation between the Missouri Baptist Convention and five formerly affiliated entities has been placed in the hands of Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan. Judge Thomas Brown had heard most of the case since the MBC filed the
Jefferson City - Jennifer Harris, a reporter for the Buffalo (Mo.) Reflex, will join the Word&Way staff on Jan. 11 as a news writer.Harris, a 2004 graduate of Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, has been a writer and photographer for the Buffalo weekly newspaper for