One year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Baptists rebuild
Puerto Rico Convention’s annual meeting highlights new churches Southern Baptists in Puerto Rico celebrated nine new churches gained in the year since Hurricane Maria at their annual meeting in November. The meeting of the Convención de Iglesias Bautistas del Sur de Puerto Rico (Convention of Southern Baptist Churches in Puerto Rico) was the first since […]
Our family photo: Welcoming new IBSA churches
We call it the most chaotic three minutes of the year. It’s the part of the IBSA Annual Meeting when churches that are affiliating with IBSA come down front to receive their certificates and take a photo together. We documented it in this space a couple of years ago, celebrating the warmth of the moment […]
Kingdom givers, cheerful givers
“There is something special about writing out our tithe check to the church every payday,” reported a smiling Stephanie Grove, a member of First Baptist Church in Fairview Heights. She and her husband, David, were two of the Baptist Foundation of Illinois (BFI) clients who shared their stories of Christian stewardship during the Foundation’s report […]
Missouri Baptists denounce Dred Scott decision
Resolution calls for eradication of racism At their annual meeting this month, the churches of the Missouri Baptist Convention approved a resolution denouncing the 1857 Supreme Court ruling that Dred Scott, a slave living in a free state, was not an American citizen and therefore couldn’t file suit in a court of law. (Scott was […]
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