The Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board selected Somer Nowak to fill the newly created position of prevention and response administrator.

Kevin Ezell, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, presented a series of five-year goals for the missions agency, including more than doubling the number of Send Relief ministry centers.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Feb. 6 over a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against the North American Mission Board by a former executive of the Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware.

Southern Baptists who recall a historic revival that swept through Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary 50 years ago say remembering what God did in the midst of one divisive period of American history should motivate believers to pray for it again.

GuideStone has released the 2020 Ministers’ Tax Guide for 2019 Returns. It includes changes based on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 and the current status of minister’s housing allowance after the recent 2019 litigation.

National Woman’s Missionary Union leaders emphasized the organization’s global reach during reports to the WMU board meeting in mid-January.

Paul Chitwood, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, announced the mission agency’s five-year plan during meetings with trustees Jan. 29-30 in Riverside, Calif.

Dusty Durbin, pastor of Big Level Baptist Church in Wiggins, Miss., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

A group of Southern Baptists announced Jan. 14 their intention to nominate Randy Adams, executive director of the Northwest Baptist Convention, as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Persistent rumors linking the Evangelical Immigration Table and Southern Baptists’ Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission to progressive billionaire George Soros prompted Baptist Press to publish an “explainer” disputing those claims.

Stephen Feinstein, pastor of Sovereign Way Christian Church in Hesperia, Calif., will be nominated for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the SBC annual meeting in June 2020 in Orlando.

Southern Baptists marked a year of transitions at several national entities in 2019, and they launched an initiative to help churches care for individuals affected by sexual abuse and harassment.