TRUSTEES: NAMB celebrates offering, passes reduced budget, looks to 2021
2020 was the greatest Annie Armstrong Offering in the history of the North American Mission Board.
Permanent resettlement not a reality for 99 percent of refugees
For some refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people, resettlement is as close as a lamp in the window of a neighboring house. For others, it is a light glimmering on the horizon. For most, the light of permanent resettlement is like chasing the setting sun.
Ezell: ‘Greatest Annie Offering ever’ despite steep decline
"This year, Annie giving was down, but I am humbled and even more grateful for what was given. To me it is the greatest Annie Offering ever. For Southern Baptists to have so sacrificially given during a time when most churches were not even meeting for worship is nothing short of a miracle,” said NAMB president Kevin Ezell.
Cooperative Program giving in 2019-20 testament to Southern Baptists’ faithfulness
The 2020 fiscal year for the Southern Baptist Convention ended September 30, 2020, and despite challenges related to the COVID-19 global pandemic, giving by Southern Baptist churches through the Cooperative Program for national and international missions and ministries totaled more than $192.9 million.
Changed lives, gospel advance, and missionaries mobilized
October is when we encourage all Southern Baptist churches and congregations to promote our Great Commission mission and ministries giving through the Cooperative Program. Giving through the Cooperative Program is the financial fuel that helps us take Good News to the whole world.
Personal evangelism gets creative, overcomes coronavirus barriers
While masks, social distancing and extra time cloistered at home have made personal evangelism more challenging, some evangelism leaders have found ways around those challenges.
2021 SBC Annual Meeting hotel registration opens Oct. 1
Online hotel registration opens Thursday, Oct. 1, for the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting June 15-16 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville.
5 recent Supreme Court rulings impact churches, ministries across America
In the past few months, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued several decisions that impact religious organizations. Here is a breakdown.
Send Relief Day of Service: 7 ways to meet local needs
A 'Day of Service' is the easiest onramp for churches to get connected with their communities and give people an opportunity to discover ways to be involved with ministry in their own neighborhoods.
Lighting a fire: SPARK Conference trains over 1,700 during live premiere
The Georgia Baptist-sponsored Spark Conference, described as a 'disciple-making revolution that is biblical, exponential, and Christ-centered,' premiered live with 1,717 individual attendees tuning in throughout the day.