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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

  • 'The Mailman' Karl Malone aids tornado-battered chapel
    by Baptist Message & BP Staff, posted Wednesday, May 01, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    RUSTON, La. (BP) -- Karl Malone, the NBA legend known as "The Mailman," made a delivery to the Baptist Collegiate Ministry at Louisiana Tech.

    Aboard his multi-ton CAT Excavator, Malone lifted a stately oak tree that crashed into the BCM's chapel in an EF3 tornado that left Ruston, La., with widespread damage April 25 around 1:50 a.m. 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

  • Church fires in La. spur Baptist outreach, care
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, April 09, 2019 (5 years ago)

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    ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. (BP) -- Bert Langley lives just two miles from Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, the latest building destroyed in a series of fires at black Baptist churches in St. Landry Parish, La.

    Langley, director of missions at Acadia Baptist Association (ABA), drove to the church site looking for pastor Gerald Toussaint who, according to news reports, works full-time as a truck driver. Langley found only a fire marshal surveying the remains of the church, which is said to be more than a century old. 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

  • Louisiana College quits CCCU over LGBT policy
    by Will Hall/Baptist Message, posted Thursday, February 14, 2019 (5 years ago)

    PINEVILLE, La. (BP) -- Louisiana College President Rick Brewer has notified the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities that the Baptist-affiliated college has withdrawn its membership from the organization.

    The issue involves a policy passed by the CCCU board of directors endorsing so-called "Fairness for All" legislation to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of federally-protected classes while also articulating protections for churches and religious organizations.

    Brewer, in a letter to CCCU President Shirley Hoogstra, strongly objected to the CCCU board's action last October. Read More