Friday, February 07, 2020

• First black Southern Baptist church casts vision for future

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Church Facebook photo

  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP) -- It's significant that the National Register of Historic Places now honors Greater Friendship Baptist Church as the first church founded by blacks on Alaskan soil, its pastor Michael Bunton told Baptist Press Friday (Feb. 7).

  But Bunton has a broader vision for the church distinguished as the first black Southern Baptist congregation -- at least since the 19th century -- when it was founded in 1951. Read More

• IMB workers see Light break through Scotland's gray skies

  by Leslie Peacock Caldwell, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  IMB photo

  GLASGOW, Scotland (BP) -- Patrick and Erin Schwartz have had to get used to the darkness that often clouds Scotland's beauty. According to the World Weather Information Service, Scotland has only around 100 days of sunshine each year. That leaves most days rainy or cloudy.

  Patrick says their family has missed the sunshine they enjoyed in New England, but after a few months back in the U.S. on a stateside assignment, they are ready to return to Glasgow this spring. Having lived there for three years, it now feels like home. Read More

• NAMB TRUSTEES: Ezell shares ministry center expansion plan, 5-year goals

  by Mike Ebert, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  Photo by Daniel Delgado/NAMB

  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (BP) -- North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Kevin Ezell shared a series of five-year goals, including more than doubling the entity's number of Send Relief ministry centers throughout North America.

  "Our goal," Ezell told NAMB's board of trustees this week, "is to add at least 13 more by 2025 so we can have 20." Read More

• Lee leading Tennessee 'toward justice,' ERLC's Moore says

  by Tom Strode, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has commended Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's multi-faceted proposal to protect unborn children.

  Lee reiterated during his State of the State address Feb. 3 his intention to present legislation to the Tennessee legislature that would prohibit an abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks. The legislative package, which the governor initially announced Jan. 23, also includes provisions to: Read More

• FROM THE SEMINARIES: SBTS, Gateway convocations focus on students' mission, character

  by Staff, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  At spring convocations, R. Albert Mohler Jr. (SBTS) tells students evangelism and missions must be the church's task 'to the end of the age'; Jeff Iorg (Gateway) urges students to "demonstrate the Christian character we long for in elected leaders." Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: James Leo Garrett Jr.: A tribute

  by David S. Dockery, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  David Dockery remembers his mentor James Leo Garrett Jr., whom he calls "a scholar of the first order ... a man of deep and genuine piety, kind and considerate toward others, a faithful churchman, and a devoted follower of Christ." Read More

• EDITORIAL: ¿Te sientes solo y abandonado?

  by Gustavo V. Suarez, posted Friday, February 07, 2020 (2 years ago)

  

  ¿Te sientes solo y abandonado? "¿Hasta cuándo, Señor, me seguirás olvidando? ¿Hasta cuándo esconderás de mi tu rostro?" (Salmos 13:1, NVI) Read More