Summer Greetings
Baptist Resource Network Executive Director Barry Whitworth extends summer greetings to the BRN family, urging pastors especially to reach out when they need encouragement.
You are invited to two important events
Baptist Resource Network Executive Director Barry Whitworth shared about about two upcoming events that are designed to help pastors, personally as church leaders and professionally as a church body.
The first event is a set of regional roundtable discussions on the topic, “Understanding Stress Response Cycles and Compassion Fatigue,” led by Safe Place Ministry. The second event is the Spark Conference, a free, one-day, total church equipping online conference, which is hosted by the BRN's new partner, the Georgia Baptist Mission Board on Friday, August 28.
To sign up for these two events, simply visit online at brnunited.org/events.
California churches ordered to cancel indoor worship in at least 30 counties
Many California Southern Baptist pastors will likely find ways to continue to worship while obeying Gov. Gavin Newsom's Monday (July 13) order forbidding indoor worship once again.
Webinar: ‘Child abuse: Emerging trends from the biggest legal threat to churches’
Join us on Wednesday, July 22, for a free webinar, sponsored by Church Law & Tax, who will look at emerging trends in church-related child abuse cases and provide best practices to keep your church and children safe.
Florida Hispanic churches suffer deaths, illness in local COVID-19 surge
In the middle of one of the highest COVID-19 surges worldwide, pastors serving Florida's hard-hit Hispanic community are suffering illnesses among their respective congregations while continuing their ministry.
FIRST-PERSON: Pastors need prayers, patience amid pandemic
Even if they don't express it, many pastors feel they will be criticized no matter what -- if they begin to hold in-person services or if they don't, if they require face coverings in worship or if they don't. They find themselves in a "no-win" situation.
Gettys’ online SING! conference to focus on Scripture
The church needs to learn from what is happening in global music culture, according to Keith Getty, the renowned modern hymn-writer and founder of SING! Conference. This year, Getty's team hopes to accomplish that goal with the SING! Conference, as it expands virtually to six continents.