Paul Westbrook will join the Illinois Baptist State Association staff as Church Planting Director after three decades of pastoral ministry at the church he planted near St. Louis. Westbrook has served as Senior Pastor of Metro Community Church in Edwardsville for 31 years. The church has been instrumental in starting new congregations in Illinois since […]
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New reno plans to be presented
The IBSA Board will consider a recommendation to renovate a portion of the first floor of the IBSA Building in Springfield at its March 29 meeting. The former executive suite and original kitchen, largely unaltered since its construction in 1971, would be remodeled as a large board-style meeting room for medium size groups, an adjacent […]
Illinoisan to chair EC search team
Chicago-area pastor Adron Robinson was named chair of the six-member search team charged with finding the next president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee. Robinson, senior pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church in Country Club Hills, served two terms as Illinois Baptist State Association president, and was a member of the previous EC search team. […]
Illinois churches aim for new targets
We dubbed 2020 “the year of the asterisk.” It was like the famed home run statistic that had to be followed by a special notation (61*). The stats from the initial Covid year had to be footnoted, when many churches closed for months and all the usual measures of productive ministry dropped precipitously. We thought […]
Concerns raised over SBC’s new law firm
The 68-member Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee (EC) met February 21-22 in Nashville where members heard from the committee’s new law firm, Bradley Legal. The firm is representing the SBC EC as interim legal counsel in the on-going sexual abuse investigation as voted by messengers to the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention. The Missouri Pathway […]
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