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  Oil spill prompts environmental soul-searching

  While the political debate over the Gulf oil spill’s cause and ripple effect remains polarized, Christian environmentalists pondering the familiar question “What Would Jesus Do?” believe part of the answer includes cutting back on fossil fuels.

  06/17/2010 - By admin

• SBC messengers defeat attempt to open task force records

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 15-16 defeated an attempt to unseal written and audio recordings of Great Commission Resurgence task force proceedings.

  06/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  SBC resolutions highlight Gulf, family, homosexuality

  The Southern Baptist Convention decried ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, focused on the family and opposed the normalization of homosexuality as messengers approved seven resolutions with no debate during the SBC annual meeting in Orlando June 16.

  06/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  Rankin notes missions progress, but ‘not there yet’

  When it comes to reaching the world for Christ, Southern Baptists “are not there yet,” said Jerry Rankin, president of the International Mission Board.

  06/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  Texan Serratt receives WMU’s O’Brien award

  A 35-year-old prayer God that “never stopped answering” led Mary Lou Serratt to receive the Woman’s Missionary Union’s Dellanna West O’Brien Award for leadership development among women.

  06/16/2010 - By admin

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  SBC approves smaller budget, recognizes retiring executives

  Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla., approved a pared down budget for 2010-2011 and honored two agency presidents who retire this year.

  06/16/2010 - By Administrator

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  Georgia church planter elected SBC president

  In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Messengers embrace report, focus on Great Commission

  The Southern Baptist Convention embraced a future uncertain but focused on the Great Commission when a solid majority of messengers adopted the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force June 15.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

• Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says

  The Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly reaffirmed its intention to spread the gospel throughout the nation and around the world, members of the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence task force told reporters.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Task force recommendations could harm cooperation, Chapman insists

  Adopting the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force could have negative repercussions, Morris Chapman warned Southern Baptist Convention messengers during their annual meeting June 15.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Leaders urge B21 group to stay in the SBC hall, support task force

  Supporters of the Great Commission Resurgence task force took a final opportunity to garner votes for their report when they encouraged 1,300 primarily younger pastors attending the B21 conference Tuesday to leave the luncheon and become fixtures in the meeting hall.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator

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  Pastors Conference speakers affirm Great Commission Resurgence

  The Great Commission Resurgence is a “natural and spiritual outgrowth of the conservative resurgence,” seminary president Danny Akin told participants in the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference.

  06/15/2010 - By Administrator