Stories tagged with: cross church

• 'Holy moments': Floyd commissions son as successor

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, May 20, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd called them "holy moments." The senior pastor of Cross Church for nearly 33 years, Floyd preached his final sermon May 19 and commissioned his son Nick as his successor.

  "Pastor Nick and my son, even as [the apostle] Paul knelt and he prayed, I put my hands in your hands today as a sign and a symbol to our people that God is transferring this to you," Floyd said as both he and his son knelt before Cross Church's combined congregations at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Ark. Read More

• Cross Church affirms Nick Floyd as senior pastor

  by Art Toalston, posted Monday, April 29, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Nick Floyd was affirmed Sunday (April 28) as the next senior pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, to succeed his father, Ronnie Floyd, president/CEO-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee.

  A statement posted at the church's website reported: "This morning, April 28, 2019, in the eleven services of Cross Church, Dr. Nick Floyd was voted upon and affirmed in an overwhelming manner to become the next Senior Pastor of Cross Church at the conclusion of morning worship on Sunday, May 19, 2019." Read More

• Nick Floyd nominated as Cross Church senior pastor

  by Art Toalston, posted Monday, April 15, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Nick Floyd has been nominated as senior pastor of Cross Church in northwest Arkansas, the church's board of directors announced to the congregation Sunday (April 14).

  A vote will be held in each service at Cross Church's four campuses on Sunday, April 28. Read More

• Layman weeps over needs in his native Ethiopia

  by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, April 15, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

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  ROGERS, Ark. (BP) -- Arkansas corporate executive Haileyesus Abate cries, he says, for the people of his native Ethiopia, a majority Christian nation where numerous tribes still worship nature as deities and have never heard the Gospel.

  Typical is the Mursi tribe in southwestern Ethiopia, whose men use clay and natural pigments to paint intricate, colorful patterns on their bodies to attract a bride, who likely will have had a hole punched just below her lip before puberty; the hole stretched by the insertion of progressively larger, round, flat, decorated wooden plates. The larger her plate, the larger dowry the groom's family pays in negotiating a union, according to custom. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Loving the local church

  by Jeana Floyd, posted Thursday, August 06, 2015 (9 years ago)

  "My greatest joys in life are being a wife, mother, grandmother and pastor's wife. You might say that I love my job," writes Jeana Floyd, wife of Southern Baptist Convention President and pastor Ronnie Floyd. "… I have definitely experienced firsthand the faithfulness of God, serving Him in the local church in the good times and the challenging times." Read More

• Cross Church gives $1 million to CP this year

  by Staff/Arkansas Baptist News , posted Wednesday, August 05, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

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  SPRINGDALE, Ark. (BP) -- Cross Church in northwest Arkansas announced Aug. 2 its commitment to give $1 million through the Cooperative Program in 2015, as well as plans to do the same in 2016.

  Ronnie Floyd, Cross Church senior pastor and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, said the church is increasing its previous pledge of $900,000 to $1 million and is setting its sights to do the same next year. Read More