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NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The Black Southern Baptist Denominational Servants Network will focus on "The Father's Business" and issue its annual awards June 17 in conjunction with the 2012 Southern... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Attendance at the National African American Fellowship's annual meeting will break records as the Southern Baptist Convention seems poised to elect its first black president,... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The North American Mission Board is seeking to show Southern Baptists how to be involved in penetrating lostness across North America, as NAMB plans for the Southern Baptist... more

WMU Missions Celebration and Annual MeetingJune 17-18, 2012New Orleans Morial Convention Center900 Convention Center BoulevardLa Nouvelle Orleans BallroomNew Orleans, Louisiana 70130Registration... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- With the theme "The Story Lives On," Woman's Missionary Union will hold its Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting June 17-18 in New Orleans.Missionary testimonies, music led... more

Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference ScheduleJune 17-18, 2012Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleanswww.sbcpc.netTheme: "Changing: Lives, Communities, the World"President, Grant Ethridge,... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- Change is in the air for the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, June 17-18 in New Orleans, themed "Changing: Lives, Communities, the World.""I am changing. You are changing.... more

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- The Alabama Baptist, the state's weekly Baptist newspaper with an estimated 225,000 readers, distributed a 56-page commemorative issue of the anniversary of the April 2011... more

CENTRE, Ala. (BP) -- The small congregation of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Centre, Ala., has faced two life-changing obstacles in the past year. First its church building was largely destroyed... more

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (BP) -- Some experiences in life you really want to forget because the pain is too much to bear. That is quite understandable. All of us could cite a chapter and verse about such... more

EDITOR'S NOTE: Alabama Baptists remember the death and destruction wrought by more than 60 tornadoes across the state a year ago today.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- History marks those days. Dec. 7,... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- For the first time, messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this year can stay up to date with an SBC Annual Meeting smartphone app, which will include... more

NEW ORLEANS (BP) -- The recommendation of "Great Commission Baptists" as a descriptive name and the prospective election of the first ever African American president are on the horizon for the... more

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- One of my dearest friends and I had just finished up a delightful afternoon of window-shopping. I pulled into her driveway, and as it usually happens with close friends,... more

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) -- This weekly Bible study appears in Baptist Press in a partnership with LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through its Leadership and Adult... more

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP) -- The LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center is being offered for $1 to the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, according to both LifeWay and state convention leaders.Jerry... more

WASHINGTON (BP) -- One of the age-old tricks of the legislating trade is to name legislation with a title that sounds either catchy or simply too good to oppose. Naturally, lawmakers invoke this... more

IRVING, Texas (BP) -- Southern Baptists of Texas Convention President Terry Turner rallied executive board members April 24 to pray faithfully for President Barack Obama and members of Congress,... more

RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- Less than two weeks before voters in North Carolina go to the polls to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, the main group... more

ATHENS (BP) -- Southern Baptists are reaching out to the growing numbers of Syrians fleeing violence in their country, but financial reserves are inadequate to meet the needs."Many of us have seen... more

NORTHERN JORDAN (BP) -- Muhammad*, two of his sisters and an elderly uncle sit on the floor of a rented house beside a trash-strewn gully in a town near Jordan's northern border with Syria.The... more

One of the largest Bible translators in the world is undergoing an independent review after critics claimed language in some of their translations intended for Muslim countries misses the... more

NAPLES, Fla. (BP) -- While multitudes mourn the death of Charles Colson, probably the best-known and most influential American Christian other than Billy Graham, I experience a profound sadness as... more

EDITOR'S NOTE: "From the Colleges" includes news releases of interest as written and edited from Southern Baptist-affiliated universities and colleges or state Baptist newsjournals.Today's From... more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Jazz musician Stockton Helbing drums like a chameleon, changing the shades of his style and rhythm for any musical setting."Every weekend, I'm playing contemporary Christian... more