Michael Awbrey joined the IBSA Growth Team as a Leadership Development Director October 1. He has served as Associate Pastor for Family Discipleship at Tremont Baptist Church for ten years. The Texas native holds a Bachelors in Religious Studies from East Texas Baptist University, and a Master of Divinity from Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary […]
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Peters joins IBSA as zone consultant
Jonathan Peters is the new consultant for Zone 8, covering Metro East and Gateway Associations. He has served as Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church of Columbia since 1998. The Chicago native became a Christian while a student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Peters and […]
SBC Executive Committee: Many big decisions, but no new leader
Nashville, Tenn. | “Our needs at this moment are many, and they are profound,” SBC President Bart Barber told the Convention’s Executive Committee at their Trustees meeting Sept. 18-19. “We need God to raise up a prophet among us.” If they were hoping the prophet would emerge at that meeting, he didn’t—unless it was Barber […]
Recap of this week’s SBC Exec Comm meeting
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
Nashville, Tenn. | As the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee gathered Monday night (Sept. 18) in Nashville amid economic challenges, ongoing conflicts and a barrage of troubling headlines, Bart Barber challenged trustees to “look past those who tear down” and focus on cooperation — and the One “who will go before us and give us […]
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