Stories tagged with: montana southern baptist convention

• Montana OKs reciprocal partnership with Alberta

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, October 07, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  KALISPELL, Mont. (BP) -- Messengers to the 2019 annual meeting of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention voted unanimously Oct. 3 to enter into a seven-year reciprocal partnership with Baptist churches in Alberta that affiliate with the Canadian National Baptist Convention.

  "Alberta is the perfect place for us to begin to stretch ourselves some," MTSBC Executive Director/Treasurer Barrett Duke told messengers and guests. "After all, all you have to do is to get in your car and point it north, and you'll end up in Alberta in a few hours or less. Read More

• Mont. & Alberta partnership eyes 'connecting points'

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Monday, September 23, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- A seven-year partnership between Southern Baptist churches in Montana and Canadian Baptist churches in Alberta is on track to begin Jan. 1.

  Messengers to the Montana Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting will consider the measure Oct. 3-4 that was unanimously approved during the MTSBC executive board's August meeting. Read More

• Montana engages in its first Crossover outreach

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, October 12, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  HELENA, Mont. (BP) -- Twenty-nine people from across Montana stayed an extra day after the 2018 annual meeting of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention to participate in the convention's first-ever Crossover evangelistic initiative.

  The 29 messengers from the annual meeting assisted four of Helena's Southern Baptist churches Oct. 6 by joining in door-to-door Gospel conversations, canvassing neighborhoods and distributing flyers about the churches. Read More

• Prayer, new partnerships highlight Montana conv.

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, October 13, 2017 (6 years ago)

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- Six church plants and a new three-year partnership with the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention were among highlights of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting.

  The convention, known in-state as Refresh Montana, held its Oct. 5-6 sessions at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Billings, where Paul Jones has been pastor for 28 years.

  "Ministry in Montana is challenging on many levels," Executive Director Barrett Duke told the 203 attendees, which included 89 messengers from 52 of the state convention's 135 churches. "But you have proven that through dedication, hard work and God's leadership, great things are possible." Read More

• Mont. Southern Baptists 'Refresh' at annual meeting

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, November 08, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

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  MISSOULA, Mont. (BP) -- Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MTSBC) President Darren Hales described the group's 2016 annual meeting as having the "feel of a missions conference and the impact of a revival service."

  Southern Baptist Convention President Steve Gaines spoke during the meeting and "stoked the fire for spiritual renewal through prayer," Hales said. And Don Pierson, pastor of Stewart's Chapel Baptist Church in Flintville, Tenn., led the group in focused prayer at the meeting's prayer summit. Read More

• Barrett Duke begins in Jan. as new Mont. exec.

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, October 26, 2016 (7 years ago)

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- Barrett Duke will begin in January 2017 as the new executive director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MTSBC) after his near unanimous election to the post.

  "We are very excited about the opportunity the Lord has opened up for us in Montana. The convention confirmed for us what we believed God's call to be with a very strong vote. ... Read More

• ERLC's Duke top candidate for Montana exec

  by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, August 24, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- Religious liberty advocate Barrett Duke has emerged as the top candidate for executive directorship of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention.

  Bruce Speer, heading the MTSBC eight-member search team for the post, said Duke will receive the team's unanimous recommendation for the executive directorship at the group's annual meeting this fall. Read More

• Montana Baptists seek new executive director

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, March 31, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- The Montana Southern Baptist Convention is seeking a new executive director to lead the group of about 135 churches in a state where more than a third of the people reportedly don't attend church worship services regularly -- or at all.

  The new executive director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MTSBC) will need to be a successful pastor, an exceptional leader committed to evangelism, and must love pastors and local churches, said search team chairman Bruce Speer, who pastors Crosspoint Community Church in Missoula. Read More

• Montana exec Fred Hewett announces retirement

  by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, March 09, 2016 (8 years ago)

  

  BILLINGS, Mont. (BP) -- Fred Hewett, executive director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention, has announced he will retire after the convention's annual meeting in October.

  Hewett, 62, who has led Montana Baptists for nearly nine years, made the announcement March 4 in Billings during the two-day M-Pact Montana Conference for church ministry in today's culture. Read More

• Mont. Baptists to sell site, stay in Billings

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, November 24, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

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  BOZEMAN, Mont. (BP) -- Montana Baptists are downsizing from their Billings headquarters for a building to better accommodate their smaller, less centralized staff, messengers voted at their 2015 annual meeting.

  Fred Hewett, Montana Southern Baptist Convention (MTSBC) executive director, said the current site is too large, as the office staff has decreased from about 12 to three since 2008. Read More