Baptist Press Archive

Tuesday, November 03, 2015

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  • Alaska church maintains local & CP missions focus
    by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BP) -- Alaska's largest city -- 400,000 in the Anchorage's metropolitan area -- deals with many of the issues found in major cities of the lower 48.

    Homelessness, for example, is among the issues where Sunset Hills Baptist Church has become involved while also keeping a statewide, national and global focus through Southern Baptists' Cooperative Program channel of support for missions and ministry. Read More

  • CP starts fiscal year 3.26% over budget projection
    by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee in October were 0.18 percent above last year's opening month of the convention's fiscal year and 3.26 percent above the projected budget for the first month, according to a news release from SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Page. Read More

  • Paul Kim addresses seminary's Asian American conf.
    by Eunsun Han, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

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    FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Asian American pastors increasingly have a place in the Southern Baptist Convention, Paul Kim noted in an "A2CP2" (Asian American Church Planting/Cooperative Program) conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

    Kim, who serves as the Asian American relations consultant for the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, also is a ... Read More

  • Calif. Baptists celebrate 75 years, increase CP
    by Terry Barone and Holly Smith, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (BP) -- With the theme, "Until It's Finished," California Southern Baptists celebrated 75 years of ministry in the Golden State, adopted a budget with an increased percentage to the Southern Baptist Convention and re-elected their president during their annual meeting Oct. 27-28 at Valley Baptist Church.

    The California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Bakersfield, Calif., highlighted historical references to the ... Read More

  • N.Y. Baptists reject name change, increase CP
    by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

    HENRIETTA, N.Y. (BP) -- Messengers to the Baptist Convention of New York voted not to change the convention's name and asked the body's executive board to report next year on "the best plan to significantly increase" BCNY giving to Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.

    Gathered Sept. 27-29 at All Nations Church in Henrietta, N.Y., messengers also voted to increase the portion of Cooperative ... Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: 5 words to improve every sermon
    by Jason Allen, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Jason Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, notes five words "to improve every sermon": Bible, look, repent, you, Jesus. The words in a sermon, he notes, "come with the power of life and death; thus, the preacher must carefully choose his words." Read More