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  Baptist Briefs

  Participants in GuideStone retirement programs can find their new account statements on GuideStone’s participant website, www.MyGuideStone.org.

  07/21/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist newspaper apologizes for misusing governor’s signature

  A Baptist newspaper in Oklahoma has apologized for publishing a graphic illustration digitally edited to make it appear a controversial proclamation declaring America a Christian nation was endorsed by the state's Baptist governor.

  07/21/2009 - By Administrator

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  Youth minister hurt in bus wreck released from hospital

  A Baptist church youth minister is recovering at home from injuries he received July 12 when a bus carrying his youth group to a church camp rolled over on a Mississippi interstate injuring 23 passengers, one fatally.

  07/20/2009 - By Administrator

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  Struggle continues for teenager injured in church-bus accident

  A teenager from Shreveport, La., continued to fight for her life in a Mississippi hospital four days after a July 12 bus crash that killed one and injured 22 passengers on their way to a church camp in Macon, Ga.

  07/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Adrian Rogers’ son resigning as IMB missionary

  David Rogers, son of the legendary preacher and Southern Baptist Convention president Adrian Rogers, is resigning after 19 years as a missionary to Spain.

  07/16/2009 - By Administrator

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  Shreveport church focuses prayer on daughter of church staff member

  Five of six victims still hospitalized after a deadly July 12 church-bus accident were improving two days after the wreck, but the next 72 hours remained critical for a church staff member's daughter suffering severe head injuries.

  07/14/2009 - By Administrator

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  Pastor says National Guard saved lives following wreck of church bus

  A church-bus crash that killed one teenager and critically injured another July 12 could have been worse if a transport bus carrying National Guard soldiers had not come upon the accident scene nearly immediately, according to the pastor of the stricken congregation.

  07/13/2009 - By Administrator

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  Highest freedom is freely giving self to God, Baptist historian says

  Baptists must aspire to the kind of freedom that leads them to relinquish their autonomy to God, historian Walter Shurden told participants at the William H. Whitsitt Baptist Heritage Society’s annual meeting.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Baptist Briefs

  Delegates to the American Baptist Churches USA biennial meeting in Pasadena, Calif., torpedoed a major restructuring backed by denominational officials but criticized by some leaders and churches.

  07/09/2009 - By admin

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  Leonard: Baptists must find new ways to express ideals

  Baptist denominational systems across the United States are in transition and being redefined, spawning a number of issues that are complicating and clouding the Baptist landscape, Bill Leonard told a group of Associated Baptist Press supporters.

  07/07/2009 - By admin

• BWA chief invites Baptists to gather around the table of fellowship

  The communion table provides a metaphor for how the Baptist World Alliance can unite Baptists in a “true spirit of hospitality,” Neville Callam insisted. Callam, general secretary of the worldwide organization, addressed the challenge of bringing Baptists together during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s general assembly in Houston.

  07/06/2009 - By Administrator

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  Religious liberty demands constant vigilance, congressman reminds Baptists

  An advocate in the U.S. Congress for church-state separation thanked Baptists for their contributions to religious liberty and reminded them of the need to continue defending the wall of separation.

  07/06/2009 - By Administrator