Reality is setting in: The flooding in Louisiana was worse than many people realized, and recovery will take much longer than predicted. So, Southern Baptists nationwide are being called to join the relief effort. Read…
Kentucky Baptists fight trafficking
The Kentucky Baptist Convention will not do business with hotels that fail to train employees to recognize and report human trafficking, Executive Director Paul Chitwood announced in September. Read…
Illinois teams serve in La. flood zone
Three teams of Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers served in flood-ravaged southern Louisiana this month, and three more teams are set to go. More than 65,000 homes and 60 churches were damaged or destroyed. IBSA has over 1,600 trained volunteers who serve as part of the SBC’s Disaster Relief ministry. Read…
‘Witnessing machine’ Biker outreach yields results
The annual Sturgis Bike Rally drew around 300,000 people to South Dakota this summer; 242 left having made a decision to follow Christ. Before registering to win the prize, a 2016 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softtail Classic, rally attenders listened to the personal testimony of one of the volunteers. Read…
Three benefits of Baptist state conventions
The Southern Baptist Convention is organized through state conventions (though some of the “state” conventions combine multiple states). I suggest to you that these state conventions play a helpful but underappreciated role in the work of our faith and denomination. There are some benefits to the work of our state conventions that ought to be considered: they keep us locally focused, they connect us, and they support us. Read…