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Task force: Keep legal SBC name, but adopt informal name, 'Great Commission Baptists
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—The task force appointed to study a possible name change of the Southern Baptist Convention is recommending the convention maintain its legal name but adopt an informal, non-legal name for those who want to use it: Great Commission Baptists. The report Monday night ended weeks of speculation by Southern Baptists [...]
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SBTC missions training opportunities abound
Interested in learning more about putting action to your faith at home or across the globe? The SBTC has training events planned throughout the year, from the annual SENT Conference—a weekend gathering with multiple speakers and breakout sessions—to smaller events with a specific missions focus in mind. There are also vision [...]
Continue ReadingSBTC seeks churches for 'Send Montreal' effort
MONTREAL—Driving across borders usually doesn’t result in drastic changes in scenery or culture. Crossing from the United States into the Canadian province of Quebec on Interstate 87 is an exception. In the bustling city of Montreal, just 42 miles north of Champlain, N.Y., half of 1 percent of the city’s citizens [...]
Continue ReadingSouth Asia partnership seeks churches
The need is immense and the mission field vast in South Asia. Millions of people have never heard the gospel and indigenous workers are few and untrained. Local governments are hostile and the danger is real. Despite the challenges, the call of the gospel remains. Answering the call, the Southern Baptists [...]
Continue ReadingCross-cultural missions: NO PASSPORT? NO PROBLEM.
If a church wants to do cross-cultural missions without passports, good news: The world has come to Texas. And it keeps on coming. Two examples are Texas’ largest metropolitan areas, Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston (respectively, the nation’s third- and sixth-largest metros). Together, they comprise nearly 13 million people. As of August 2010, [...]
Continue ReadingLifeWay trustees vote to continue selling ‘11 NIV
NASHVILLE, Tenn.—Trustees of LifeWay Christian Resources voted to continue selling the new NIV Bible in LifeWay stores, approved a new vice president for its largest division and elected new board officers. Meeting Feb. 13-14 at LifeWay offices in downtown Nashville, trustees heard a report from a special task force appointed to [...]
Continue ReadingWhat is Christian missions, anyway?
Rebekah Naylor entered a mud hut in an Indian village to find a woman lying on a mat, severely handicapped by burn scars on her arms and legs. Naylor, a longtime missionary doctor with the SBC’s International Mission Board, examined the woman and later performed surgery at an area hospital to [...]
Continue ReadingAtheist billboards timed for Black History Month
“Doubts about religion? You’re one of many.” The slogan on billboards in half a dozen American cities in February, including one in Dallas, is intended to draw African Americans to an organization touting secular humanism. The African American Humanists, a project of the Council for Secular Humanism, launched the billboard campaign targeting [...]
Continue ReadingHelping churches go where they are led
When the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention talks about partnership missions, it’s not with a one-size-fits-all approach in mind. What the convention does have in mind, says Tiffany Smith, SBTC missions mobilization associate, is helping congregations connect where they believe God is leading them. The SBTC has several high-priority mission partnerships to [...]
Continue ReadingTexas AG voices opposition of Obama 'contraceptive mandate'
AUSTIN—Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has joined with 11 other state attorneys general in a letter urging the Obama administrative to drop the controversial “contraceptive mandate” requiring religious employers to subsidize contraceptives, including abortion-causing drugs. “The more we learn about Obamacare, the more unconstitutional it becomes,” Abbott said in a statement. [...]
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