With many families unable to maintain proper childcare in light of schools shutting down, college students without a place to live and insecure communities without essential household items, churches are stepping in to bring practical aid.

For participants in GuideStone’s health plans, including both HSA-qualified High Deductible Health Plans and Secure Health, GuideStone will waive costs for physician-ordered diagnostic testing for the novel coronavirus.

To help families during the COVID-19 crisis, LifeWay is offering “LifeWay Kids at Home,” a free temporary digital resource to supplement Sunday school from home.

Like other schools that have cancelled in-person courses to deter the spread of COVID-19, all six Southern Baptist Convention seminaries have taken action to move classes online.

It didn’t take long for Texas Baptist Men disaster relief volunteers to make their first friend upon arriving in Nashville, Tenn.

Baptist mission-sending agencies and universities scramble to make adjustments prompted by coronavirus-related travel restrictions and advisories.

Darrin Crockett is glad God did not answer a prayer to make the family dog quit barking. Because the dog kept him awake, the Crockett family is alive and well after a tornado blasted through their home in Cookeville, Tenn.

In light of the continuing global expansion of the COVID-19 virus, the International Mission Board’s coronavirus task force and senior leaders recommend that mission volunteers from U.S. churches postpone international mission-trip travel through April 30.

Religious freedom, civility amid religious differences and how to convey a message of hope in the current age were among the topics the president of the Southern Baptist Convention and a Muslim professor from Dallas discussed.

Mike Stone, chair of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, has named the members of a task force to study the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s effectiveness. Mike Lawson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Sherman, will serve on the task force.

The Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board is monitoring the spread of the coronavirus and has offered personnel options for redeployment, IMB President Paul Chitwood told a gathering in Fort Worth.

Market moves and minute-by-minute headlines on cable news and social media can be alarming, but David Spika, chief strategic investment officer of GuideStone, indicated volatility in the market at this point of the economic cycle would be expected.