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.

For the vulnerable and the hurting, Baptist Friendship House has stood as a beacon of hope in the heart of New Orleans for 75 years. For the past 20-plus years, Kay Bennett has played a key role in sharing that hope with area residents in need.

Carrie Jernigan’s routine trip to discount shoe store turned into a massive outreach affecting the whole town of Alma, Ark., after she bought all the inventory at a shoe store’s going-out-of-business-sale to give to children in need.

Donations at the Lattes for Lottie coffee counter at Mount Harmony Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tenn., not only raise money for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, but also raise awareness about the offering’s namesake.

Nearly half of New Mexico’s population is Hispanic—the highest share in the United States. Yet only 57 Hispanic Baptist churches minister to fewer than 3,000 Hispanics on any given Sunday across the state.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary denied charges by a former humanities professor, who identifies as a previously gay abuse survivor, that he was fired because he refused to stop talking about homosexuality and sex abuse.