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Chitwood visits with refugees, relief workers on Ukraine-Poland border

Greg Cooper | Mar 09, 2022

By BP Staff, originally posted by Baptist Press on March 2, 2022   POLAND (BP) – International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood has been in Eastern Europe this week, visiting with refugees and hearing stories of the devastation wrought by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Send Relief, Southern Baptists’ compassion ministry arm, is at work […]

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McLaurin named SBC Executive Committee interim president/CEO

| Feb 02, 2022

by Brandon Porter, originally posted by Baptist Press on February 1, 2022 NASHVILLE (BP) – Willie McLaurin will be the interim president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. The EC officers made the announcement Tuesday (Feb. 1). Since 2020, McLaurin has served as the vice president for Great  Commission relations and mobilization at the EC. “We […]

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Order Your Annie Armstrong Easter Offering Resources Online from SCBI

John Horn | Jan 10, 2022

The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering provides important financial resources for the North American Mission Board’s missionaries, church planting, disaster relief, and other ministries through Send Relief. To get the free resources for your church to promote this offering this Spring, we are now asking you to request them online at www.scbi.org by February 8; if […]

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IMB – Missions On and Off the Street

Greg Cooper | Dec 07, 2020

Naivasha Children’s Shelter, Kenya Hundreds of thousands of boys sleep on the streets in Kenya. These children are marginalized, beaten, sexually abused and arrested. Many Kenyans regard these children as worthless and not to be trusted. Kenyans call these boys “trash eaters.” International Mission Board missionary Kristen Lowry and the staff at the Naivasha Children’s […]

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Chinese government designates Lottie Moon’s church as historical site

| Dec 05, 2019

By Catherine Finch PENGLAI, China (BP) — The name, “Lottie Moon,” is known by Southern Baptists far and wide. From the Woman’s Missionary Union’s Lottie Moon Christmas Offering to movies, books and documentaries detailing her life of service, Lottie Moon is often hailed as a “missionary hero.” Lottie Moon’s legacy will now be preserved beyond […]

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Posted in Featured, Lottie Moon, National, SBC

FBI honors Baptist ministry for human-trafficking work

| May 23, 2019

WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) — Earlier this month FBI Director Christopher Wray presented the Baptist Friendship House of New Orleans with its distinguished 2018 Director’s Community Leadership Award for its work in fighting human trafficking. Kay Bennett, a Send Relief missionary with the North American Mission Board, accepted the award on behalf of the Baptist Friendship […]

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Platt: ‘Desperate prayer’ activates God’s plans

| May 02, 2019

WASHINGTON (BP) — Prayer is God’s chosen way of directing His actions toward the world and shaping history, David Platt told prayer leaders at a pre-National Day of Prayer breakfast in Washington today (May 1). “God in His sovereignty has chosen to make prayer a powerful means by which we interact with Him to effectively […]

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Ronnie Floyd named as EC president nominee

| Apr 01, 2019

NASHVILLE (BP) — Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd will be recommended for the presidency of the SBC Executive Committee, the EC’s presidential search committee announced today (March 31). The full EC will consider Floyd’s nomination Tuesday, April 2, at a special called meeting in Dallas to begin at 11 a.m. […]

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LifeWay to close its 170 stores, focus on digital retail

| Mar 21, 2019

NASHVILLE (BP) — LifeWay Christian Resources is charting a new course in 2019 marking a shift to a digital retail strategy. As part of the transition, LifeWay will close its 170 brick-and-mortar stores in 2019.   The Southern Baptist entity will continue to offer a broad selection of resources through LifeWay.com and the LifeWay Customer […]

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‘Who’s Your One?’ emphasis officially launched

| Mar 11, 2019

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) — The North American Mission Board (NAMB) officially launched the “Who’s Your One?” evangelism initiative today (Feb. 26) as part of an effort to encourage Southern Baptists to engage people with gospel conversations throughout the year. This evangelism emphasis asks believers to pray for and focus on one individual in the hope […]

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