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  • Record $5.1M 1-day missions offering at Johnson Ferry
    by Ann Lovell, posted Tuesday, November 12, 2019 (4 years ago)

    Photo courtesy of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church
    MARIETTA, Ga. (BP) -- Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., received a record $5.1 million in a single day for Great Commission causes, collected to honor outgoing senior pastor Bryant Wright and his wife Anne for 38 years of service.

    Receipts will be divided among the International Mission Board, the North American Mission Board and the church's ministry budget, said Clay Smith, Johnson Ferry's incoming senior pastor. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: Time is running out!
    by Frank S. Page, posted Friday, September 30, 2016 (7 years ago)

    The world's population is exploding, America is degenerating into godlessness and thousands die daily worldwide without Christ, Frank S. Page writes. "This urgency should compel all of us to a new passion for penetrating lostness and pushing back darkness," Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, declares. Read More

  • Great Commission Advance: 'Not Alone' in CP impact
    by Art Toalston, posted Friday, September 30, 2016 (7 years ago)

    NASHVILLE (BP) -- "Great Commission Advance" shouldn't be mistaken for a formal program. It's more personal.

    It's a call for "every Southern Baptist and every Southern Baptist church living up to the high calling of disciple-making, evangelism and missions, biblical stewardship and fervent and effective prayer," as Frank S. Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, defines the focus of a growing partnership between state conventions and SBC entities. Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: The evangelistic power of a family

    by Danny Akin, posted Tuesday, August 16, 2016 (8 years ago)

    Nurturing a new generation with a Great Commission passion should "begin but not end with those closest and dearest to us," seminary president Danny Akin notes. "Let it begin in our homes." Among his suggestions: joining a Great Commission church and participating in missions opportunities. Read More

  • Akin: Great Commission families
    by Danny Akin, posted Thursday, December 17, 2015 (8 years ago)

    Danny Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, describes "Great Commission families" as "one of the most biblical and strategic ways to impact the world's lostness." Read More

  • FIRST-PERSON: How's business?
    by David Jeremiah, posted Friday, October 16, 2015 (8 years ago)

    EL CAJON, Calif. (BP) -- "How's business?" David Jeremiah asks in regard to fulfilling Jesus' instructions to the church to disciple the nations. Various facets of discipleship, he notes, are pivotal to the Great Commission. Read More

  • Great Commission Advance 'imperative,' Page says
    by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, September 22, 2015 (9 years ago)

    Photo by Morris Abernathy
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- The needs are "glaringly obvious in our 21st-century world," Frank S. Page said in setting forth a Great Commission Advance 10-year initiative among Southern Baptists.

    "The need for a larger mission force, not a smaller one, is greater than ever," Page, president of the SBC Executive Committee, said during the opening session of the EC's Sept. 21-22 meeting in Nashville. Read More

  • GCR after 5 years: 'satisfied' but still challenges
    by David Roach, posted Tuesday, August 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

    BP file photo by Matt Miller
    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Five years after the Southern Baptist Convention's Great Commission Task Force called for a "Great Commission Resurgence," Baptist leaders say the GCTF's recommendations have contributed to a renewed focus on missions and the reversal of a 30-year decline in Cooperative Program giving as a percentage of churches' undesignated receipts. Read More