Mass care feeding wrapped up this week as Send Relief and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) prepared and served nearly 40,000 meals in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine’s landfall in Louisiana as a Category 2 storm on Sept. 11. A team of Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR) volunteers was responsible for helping prepare more than […]
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Iorg reorganizes EC heads
Nashville, Tenn. | New President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee Jeff Iorg has reorganized the leadership team, ending speculation whether the previous interim EC head would leave. Jonathan Howe will stay on as VP of convention administration. He had led the communications team since 2019, before stepping up after the previous interim CEO […]
Foshie elected ERLC chair
Nashville, Tenn. | IBSA Health Team Director Scott Foshie was elected chairman of the board of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission on Wednesday, Sept. 11. Foshie first began serving as a trustee for the denomination’s public policy entity when he was pastor of Steeleville Baptist Church in Steeleville, Illinois. As chairman, he succeeds […]
Leatherwood to remain ERLC president
Nashville, Tenn. | Brent Leatherwood remains president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. ERLC executive board members say board Chairman Kevin Smith acted alone in an announcement of Leatherwood’s removal on July 22 and violated the entity’s bylaws. A early morning release from the ERLC executive committee says: “As members of the ERLC’s Executive Committee, […]
Leatherwood removed as ERLC president
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention announced Monday night, July 22, that president Brent Leatherwood has been removed from his position. He had served as president of the SBC’S public policy entity since September 2022. “In accordance with our bylaws, the executive committee [of the ERLC] has removed Brent Leatherwood as […]
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