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  • Louisiana Baptists celebrate church planting
    by Brian Blackwell, posted Monday, December 02, 2019 (4 years ago)

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    ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- In addition to electing officers, passing a budget and other business, Louisiana Baptists celebrated 250 new church plants since 2010 at their annual meeting Nov. 11-12.

    Eddie Wren, LBC president, gave a sermon challenging messengers to wait on the Lord and not lose hope in the current age. Read More

  • Horn unanimously elected to lead La. Baptists
    by Baptist Message Staff, posted Wednesday, May 08, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    WOODWORTH, La. (BP) -- The Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Board voted unanimously to elect Steve Horn as the 19th executive director of the organization during the entity's spring meeting at the Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center in Woodworth May 7.

    He was nominated by a search committee composed of board members and led by Waylon Bailey, president of the Executive Board and the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church in Covington. Horn will succeed David Hankins, who retires as executive director June 30. Read More

  • Hate crime charges added in La. church arsons
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    OPELOUSAS, La. (BP) -- Hate crime charges have been filed against a white man accused of arson that destroyed three Louisiana black Baptist churches more than a century old.

    Holden Matthews, 21, pleaded not guilty April 15 to the charges in St. Landry Parish Criminal Court, according to the St. Landry Parish Clerk of Court's office. Matthews is charged with three counts of hate crimes, two counts of simple arson of a religious building and one count of aggravated arson of a religious building, and was denied bond. Read More

  • Friends, family celebrate David Hankins' leadership
    by Baptist Message Staff, posted Tuesday, April 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    WOODWORTH, La. (BP) -- Friends and family from around the nation paid tribute to David Hankins, the Louisiana Baptist Convention's outgoing executive director, during a retirement dinner Thursday, April 11.

    "Our hearts are full of gratitude -- gratitude to God for the blessings of this life," Hankins told the crowd gathered at the state convention's Tall Timbers Baptist Conference Center in Woodworth. "I would be the most ungrateful person in the earth to have one complaint or one gripe about what has happened in my existence. God is so good -- a great expression of that is you all. Read More

  • Suspect charged in La. black church burnings
    by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, April 11, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (BP) -- A 21-year-old white man is charged with arson in fires that destroyed three black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish. Investigators reportedly haven't determined whether the fires were racially motivated.

    Holden Matthews, the son of a St. Landry Parish sheriff's deputy, was arrested late yesterday afternoon (April 10) and charged with three counts of arson. No motive has been determined, but investigators are considering Matthews' membership in a band that plays "black metal" music, a genre that has promoted church burnings in other countries. Read More

  • Steve Horn nominated as Louisiana convention exec
    by Will Hall/Baptist Message, posted Monday, April 08, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    ALEXANDRIA, La. (BP) -- Steve Horn is a leader among leaders in the Louisiana Baptist Convention and someone who loves Louisiana Baptists, Waylon Bailey shared with the Baptist Message in announcing Horn as the candidate the search committee will present May 7 to the LBC Executive Board for a vote.

    If elected, Horn will replace David Hankins who is retiring June 30 as LBC executive director. Read More

  • Bob Anderson, friend to fellow pastors, dies
    by Baptist Message & BP Staff, posted Monday, December 17, 2018 (5 years ago)

    BATON ROUGE, La. (BP) -- Longtime Louisiana pastor Bob Anderson, a former first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, died Dec. 13 after a seven-year battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 84.

    Anderson led Parkview Baptist Church in Baton Rouge from 1974 until his retirement in 1996, growing the congregation to 5,000 members.

    He founded Parkview Baptist School in 1981, now one of Louisiana's largest private schools with 1,200 students from pre-kindergarten to high school. Don Mayes, Parkview's superintendent since 2013, is one of Parkview's alumni from the 1980s and the father of a high school senior there. Read More

  • La. Baptists hear call to reach the next generation
    by Brian Blackwell/Baptist Message , posted Wednesday, November 21, 2018 (5 years ago)

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    David Hankins, executive director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, has announced his plans to retire, sharing his intentions during the 2018 LBC annual meeting, with the theme of “Imprint -- Marking the Next Generation.”

    “I have every confidence that God is going to take care of this convention and bring about good things and better things for His glory,” Hankins, 68, told messengers during the Nov. 12-13 meeting at Temple Baptist Church in Ruston. “So I know you will join me in praying during these transition days. Read More

  • Hankins announces retirement plans
    by Staff, posted Monday, November 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

    RUSTON, La. (BP) -- David Hankins, executive director of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, announced his plans to retire during the pre-convention meeting of the convention's Executive Board in Ruston, La., Monday (Nov. 12).

    "At the close of this annual meeting, I will be giving Dr. Bailey, president of the Executive Board, official notice of my intention to retire," said Hankins.

    His retirement will be effective June 30, 2019.

    "The theme of this year's annual meeting is 'Marking the Next Generation,'" Hankins told the board. "I have great confidence in the future generation of leaders God will choose to lead Louisiana Baptists." Read More