The International Mission Board trustees’ presidential search committee announced Nov. 6 that the committee will recommend Paul Chitwood, 48, to be elected as the 173-year-old entity’s 13th president. The vote to elect Chitwood is scheduled for the Nov. 15 plenary session during their IMB board meeting in Richmond. A former chairman of IMB’s board of […]
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Illinois Disaster Relief heading to N.C.
Two teams of Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers left the state Wednesday, September 19 to serve in Lumberton, N.C. The town of 3,000 has become a virtual island due flooding caused by rains from Hurricane Florence. The teams – an incident command team based out of Wayne City and an assessor and chaplaincy team from […]
Platt to step down from IMB; Meador named interim president
Richmond, Va. | After receiving the resignation of Dr. David Platt, IMB president, to be effective at the Sept. 27, 2018, trustee meeting, the Executive Committee of the board of trustees of the International Mission Board voted in a special meeting Sept. 13 to approve Dr. Clyde Meador as interim president starting Sept. 27, subject […]
Greear answers tough questions; President addresses #MeToo, politics in national interview
Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear addressed topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to politics and evangelicals in a recent interview with NPR, one of his first since taking the role. Read…
IMB’s Platt initiates sexual abuse investigations
Two “thorough, outside, independent” investigations have been initiated by International Mission Board President David Platt into the IMB’s handling of any past sexual abuse allegations and into its policies of zero tolerance for such abuse. Platt also stated a public apology to Anne Marie Miller, who has alleged sexual abuse by an individual who subsequently […]
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