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Illinois Baptist State Newspaper

Candidates named for SBC office

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Editor’s note: Updated May 29 to include Kathy Litton’s nomination for SBC recording secretary. With less than a month before Baptists convene for their 2019 annual meeting, several candidates have announced their intent to run for denominational office. J.D. Greear (right) will be nominated for a second one-year term as SBC president, Pennsylvania pastor K. […]

Dew nominated to lead New Orleans Seminary

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The presidential search team for New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary announced May 20 that James K. “Jamie” Dew Jr. will be nominated to lead the institution. Dew is currently vice president for undergraduate studies and distance learning at Southeastern Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. The search committee will present him to the full trustee board […]

Missions past and present on display at Birmingham headquarters

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Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) is inviting Baptists traveling to their home city to participate in a day marking the mission auxiliary’s 131 years of helping Southern Baptists share the gospel in their communities and around the world. At WMU headquarters in Birmingham on Monday, June 10, participants are invited to choose from dozens of missions […]

Crossover 2019: ‘Simplified approach’ for annual evangelism emphasis

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Southern Baptists will take the gospel door-to-door in Birmingham June 8 as part of Crossover, the annual evangelism and outreach event on the Saturday preceding the Southern Baptist Convention. Over three decades, Crossover has included a variety of large-scale outreach projects, including city-wide evangelistic crusades the last two years. This year’s effort is focused on […]

Ronnie Floyd named as EC president nominee

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Nashville | Arkansas pastor and former Southern Baptist Convention president Ronnie Floyd will be recommended for the presidency of the SBC Executive Committee, the EC’s presidential search committee announced today (March 31).The full EC will consider Floyd’s nomination Tuesday, April 2, at a special called meeting in Dallas to begin at 11 a.m. Central at […]