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MIO 2023: Calling the next generation into the game

August 14, 2023 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Dwight McDaniel (right) with Blake Harding.

One-in-ten IBSA churches is looking for a pastor. As populations shift away from smaller towns and the numbers responding to a call to ministry decline, it’s harder to find a pastor. And it often takes longer. “Who will go for us?” is not only a question from Isaiah’s time. It’s very real today. That’s why […]

Illinois Baptists welcome new AMSs and pastors

August 10, 2023 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Welcome

Bob Burton’s retirement was brief. Three months after his departure from the North American Mission Board (NAMB), Burton has been called as Associational Mission Strategist for Salem South Baptist Association. He succeeds Kevin Carrothers and will start work Sept. 1. Burton served with NAMB 21 years in various positions, often working with local Baptist associations […]

Precedents ‘piling up’

August 8, 2023 By Illinois Baptist Staff

An Indianapolis Catholic High School was within its rights in dismissing a guidance counselor who was in a same-sex marriage, a federal appeals court ruled in July. The counselor, Michelle Fitzgerald, was a 14-year employee, but the school’s awareness of her relationship only happened a year ago. The court decided that her position was ministerial […]

MIO 2023: Each church healthy

August 7, 2023 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Mission Illinois Offering 2023

With nearly 9 million people who do not have a personal relationship with Jesus, Illinois is a mission field. But this is not an unreached mission field. God has had missionaries in the fertile ground of the state for over 200 years. They planted churches here, first along the mighty rivers that served as pioneer […]

Court sides with Christian web designer

August 3, 2023 By Illinois Baptist Staff

Lorie Smith

A High Court ruling preserving the right of a Christian web designer to refuse same-sex wedding business is “one of celebration and a milestone in the fight to preserve these precious freedoms,” retired judge Phil Ginn said. The 6-3 U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of Lorie Smith, owner of Creative 303 in Colorado, was […]

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Featured Columns

After another leadership failure, forgive? Yes. Forget? Maybe later.

Eric Reed

My cousin Holly’s house burned down in July. The family and their dog were saved, but they lost everything. Literally everything, except her grandmother’s ancient roasting pan just big enough for a 12-pound turkey and a diamond ring. Everything else in their rural home was gone in under an hour. The irony was that my […]

Nate Adams

Positive purpose

Nate Adams

Without question, more of my time and passion is invested in encouraging churches to give to missions through the Cooperative Program than through any designated offering, including our own state missions offering. I believe that’s as it should be. Yet both the CP and designated offerings have vital, important purposes. My conviction is that the […]

What personal missions commitment looks like

Meredith Flynn

“Your partnership is needed now.” That sentence jumped out as I looked over this year’s Mission Illinois Offering materials. This time of year always reminds me of the things that unite Illinois Baptists: the shared prayer that more people will come to know Jesus; the shared burden for our communities in need of transformation; and […]

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Newsmakers Interview with Bart Barber, Part 3

Eric Reed

Southern Baptist Convention President Bart Barber is featured in the September issue of the Illinois Baptist. An hour-long interview focused on key issues including women in pastoral ministry and “friendly cooperation.” Editor Eric Reed asked Barber to look ahead to the 2024 SBC in Indianapolis. They discussed the role of social media in our Baptist […]

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SBC EC votes at September 2023 meeting

Recap of this week’s SBC Exec Comm meeting

The Baptist Paper

While the anticipated next step regarding who will temporarily lead the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee in the interim period changed mid-way through the trustees’ meeting this week, trustee chair Philip Robertson plans to begin a new search right away. Recently retired Kentucky pastor Dan Summerlin provided this statement yesterday afternoon (Sept. 19) after alerting […]

Barber recalls ‘bold’ Southern Baptists, urges cooperation amid trials

Quick look at SBC Exec Comm agenda, Sept. 18-19

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Mission

Metro East church plant hosts multiplication meeting

Metro East church plant hosts multiplication meeting

Ben Jones

Pastors and church leaders from around the Metro East area gathered in Collinsville May 17 for the second Multiply Illinois Hub. These quarterly regional events are designed to encourage and equip those interested in church multiplication. Heights Community Church, planted in 2016, hosted the gathering in their newly renovated home. With the St. Louis skyline […]

Sallateeska baptism demonstrates SBC connections

A first-time ministry to migrant workers is very fruitful

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