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  Hispanic Celebration focuses on fellowship and worship

  About 500 Hispanic Southern Baptists gathered for a night of fellowship, worship and encouragement in the Anaheim Convention Center preceding the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

  06/14/2022 - By Keila Diaz / Baptist Press

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  WMU offers women a ‘rolling missions adventure’

  Instead of gathering at a venue near a convention center, participants in this year’s Woman’s Missionary Union missions celebration loaded onto three buses for an experience called Embark: WMU’s Rolling Missions Adventure.

  06/14/2022 - By Grace Thornton / Baptist Press

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  Executive Committee rescinds previous budget motions

  With $4 million now pledged from Send Relief toward funding sexual abuse reforms over the next year, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee voted June 13 to rescind their recently approved recommendations for that same objective.

  06/14/2022 - By Scott Barkley / Baptist Press

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  Evans says church has become more partisan than Christian

  Noted Dallas pastor and author Tony Evans likened the church of today to referees on a football field who have chosen sides.

  06/14/2022 - By Diana Chandler / Baptist Press

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  CBN suffers setbacks prior to SBC annual meeting

  On the eve of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, the Conservative Baptist Network—a group that claims one of the nation’s most conservative religious groups is too liberal—suffered major setbacks.

  06/14/2022 - By Ken Camp / Managing Editor

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  Southern Baptists share gospel through Crossover Anaheim

  Following a week of Southern Baptist seminary students engaging neighborhoods around Anaheim, 34 churches engaged their communities through various  Crossover Anaheim outreach events June 11.
  

  06/13/2022 - By Brandon Elrod / Baptist Press

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  Some call for SBC to cut ties with Guidepost Solutions

  The executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board has called on the Southern Baptist Convention to “break all ties” with Guidepost Solutions after the company posted on Twitter its support for LGBTQ+ Pride month.

  06/09/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Judge orders Jurkovich’s church to turn over financial records

  A judge ordered a Louisiana church led by the spokesman for the Conservative Baptist Network—which claims the Southern Baptist Convention has become too liberal—to turn over nearly a decade of financial records to former members. 
  

  06/09/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Brad Eubank nominee for SBC first vice president

  A Mississippi pastor who is a sexual abuse survivor will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention first vice president.

  06/06/2022 - By Brandon Porter / Baptist Press

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  Attorney asserts SBC sex abuse response could lead to lawsuits

  In fiery comments to an online meeting June 2, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee warned that taking steps to prevent abuse in churches would lead to ruin.

  06/03/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  Saddleback Church names successor to Rick Warren

  After more than four decades, the pastor of one of the nation’s largest and most influential churches is ready to step down. And he has named a young couple to take his place.

  06/03/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service

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  SBC abuse task force seeks $3 million for reforms, website

  A Southern Baptist task force has asked the denomination to set up a “Ministry Check” website to track abusive pastors, church employees and volunteers and to spend millions on reforms to prevent abuse and care for survivors.

  06/02/2022 - By Bob Smietana / Religion News Service