Southern Baptist Convention Archives

First Person: Five Things I Learned In Indianapolis

June 17, 2024
Dr. Ryan Day
BRN, SBC

Baptist Resource Network Pastor Ryan Day was a first-time attendee to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis. What he discovered there can make you genuinely optimistic about Southern Baptists' future.

WRAP-UP: SBC officer elections feature many candidates, several runoff contests

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

A crowded field of candidates led to numerous runoff elections in 2024. After two runoffs, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley was named president. Pressley is senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church near Charlotte.

Pressley leads slate of 2024 SBC officers

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley, elected SBC president from a field of six nominees, begins his term with two newly-elected officers and two officers reelected during the 2024 SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis.

New IMB missionaries celebrated during SBC annual meeting

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from the stage to more than 13,000 messengers and guests sent by local churches to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis, June 11-12.

CP Stage: To Iorg, the Cooperative Program is personal

June 13, 2024
Shannon Baker
SBC

Jeff Iorg, recently incoming president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee told listeners from the CP Stage that the Cooperative Program was personal to him.

‘Accept and bear the weaknesses’ of others, Barber urges in presidential address

June 13, 2024
Shannon Baker
SBC

In his presidential address at the 2024 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, Bart Barber challenged messengers and guests to “get cooperation right” by bearing the weaknesses of one another, “even when the other guy is wrong.”

Perkins to Black pastors: ‘We can’t win the race if we refuse to run’

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

National African American Fellowship President Gregory Perkins encouraged Black pastors June 10 to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention amid challenging times that may tempt them to quit.

‘The mission matters most,’ Iorg says in first Executive Committee report to messengers

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

Jeff Iorg was ready to retire from the presidency of Gateway Seminary and spend more time with family when he was approached about seeking the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

Messengers vote to refer sexual abuse reform priorities to SBC Executive Committee

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

On Tuesday afternoon, June 11, messengers to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis overwhelmingly approved two recommendations brought forward by the SBC Abuse Reform and Implementation Task Force (ARITF).

GCR Evaluation Task Force recommendations approved

June 13, 2024
Guest Writer
SBC

Messengers adopted the six recommendations proposed by the Great Commission Resurgence Evaluation Task Force with one slight amendment during the SBC Annual Meeting’s Tuesday evening session June 11.