Tuesday annual meeting to feature persecution panel

FLINT—The Tuesday morning session of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention Annual Meeting at Flint Baptist Church will include a mainstage panel on the Persecution of the Church in America.

Nathan Loudin, pastor of Milwood Baptist Church in Austin and chairman of the SBTC’s Texas Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee, will moderate. Panelists scheduled include Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church Farmersville; Bob Fu, founder and president of ChinaAid; Keisha Russell, counsel for the First Liberty Institute; and Juan Sanchez, pastor of High Pointe Baptist Church of Austin.

Loudin, Barber, Fu and Russell were among several contributors to the Persecution Journal, a 70-page book edited by the TERLC and published by the SBTC. The new release, which contains essays regarding modern-day persecution of Christians in the United States and globally, will be distributed to attendees on Tuesday.

Register for the annual meeting at sbtexas.com/am21 and then scroll down to or click on “meals” to sign up for the various times of food and fellowship.