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  Border pastors continue adapting ministry to immigrants

  Despite COVID-19, pastors who form the backbone of Fellowship Southwest’s ministry to immigrants adapt to an ever-changing refugee flow and escalating needs of vulnerable people.

  11/04/2020 - By Elket Rodríguez / Fellowship Southwest

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  National WMU board approves reduced budget

  The board of national Woman’s Missionary Union approved a 2020-21 budget for the missions organization that is down about $1 million from its $5.8 million 2019-20 budget.

  11/04/2020 - By Margaret Colson / Baptist Press

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  Vietnamese Baptist Church burns amid Philadelphia unrest

  The Vietnam Baptist Church in Philadelphia building was burned Oct. 27 during the second night of unrest in the city after the police shooting of a Black man.

  10/29/2020 - By Laura Erlanson / Baptist Press

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  Ministry takes gospel to Spanish-speaking dairy workers

  Foundations of Faith—Fundamentos de Fe—views the dairy farms scattered across eastern New Mexico and West Texas as a fertile mission field.

  10/27/2020 - By Trennis Henderson / Woman's Missionary Union

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  Hearing set for Riley Foundation lawsuit

  A temporary injunction hearing in a lawsuit filed by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Baylor University against a charitable foundation is scheduled for Dec. 2 after a judge granted the plaintiffs’ motion for expedited discovery.

  10/21/2020 - By George Schroeder / Baptist Press

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  LifeWay agrees on terms of sale for Ridgecrest

  LifeWay Christian Resources has reached an agreement to sell Ridgecrest Conference Center and Summer Camps to the Ridgecrest Foundation.

  10/16/2020 - By Carol Pipes / LifeWay Christian Resources

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  Seminary retains building names but vacates chair

  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary trustees unanimously voted not to remove the names of slaveholding founders from campus buildings, but they vacated an endowed chair named after a controversial benefactor and approved funds for scholarships for Black students.

  10/14/2020 - By Baptist Press Staff

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  NAMB trustees pass significantly reduced budget

  Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board passed a $99.8 million operating budget for 2021—down about 20 percent from the previous year—at their Oct. 5-6 meeting.

  10/08/2020 - By Mike Ebert / North American Mission Board

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  LifeWay and Rainer settle contract dispute

  LifeWay Christian Resources and Thom Rainer have agreed to settlement terms in a breach of contract lawsuit between the SBC entity and its former CEO.

  10/07/2020 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

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  Rainer lawsuit paused, not dropped, by LifeWay

  After seeming to reverse course on a lawsuit against former president and CEO Thom Rainer, LifeWay Christian Resources said it will not officially withdraw its legal action against the SBC entity’s retired chief executive.

  10/03/2020 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

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  LifeWay reverses course and seeks resolution with Rainer

  LifeWay Christian Resources has decided not to proceed with a breach of contract lawsuit against the SBC entity’s former president Thom Rainer, but will instead seek to resolve the dispute without litigation.

  10/01/2020 - By David Roach / Baptist Press

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  LifeWay sues former president Thom Rainer

  LifeWay Christian Resources has sued its former president and CEO, accusing him of violating a noncompete clause in his contract.  

  09/30/2020 - By Yonat Shimron / Religion News Service