Stories tagged with: annual meeting

• 2021 SBC Annual Meeting preparations and planning underway

  by BP Staff, posted Monday, July 27, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- After the cancellation of the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando, preparations are underway for the 2021 meeting to be held in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.

  SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd is hosting a video conference call Aug. 11 with Tennessee-area pastors to share more about the event and encourage as many churches as possible to send messengers to the 2021 Annual Meeting. Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. CDT, the call is expected to last around 45 minutes. Read More

• Panel discussion covers racism, politics and evangelism

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from Baptist 21 YouTube

  NASHVILLE (BP) – Given the current upheaval race relations in the United States, Vance Pitman, senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas, said the Southern Baptist Convention must seize the tumultuous moment to change.

  "We have to move past as a denomination being ‘not racist,’ to being anti-racist," said Pitman during a panel discussion Tuesday (June 9) hosted by Baptist 21. "That’s got to become who we are." Read More

• 'Gospel Above All' drives diversity, unity, missions, abuse prevention

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Screen capture from J.D. Greear's Facebook page

  DURHAM, N.C. (BP) -- Promoting diversity, unity, missions and sex abuse prevention are goals the Southern Baptist Convention must continue to pursue in order to put the "Gospel Above All," SBC President J.D. Greear said in his 2020 presidential address Tuesday (June 9).

  Speaking from his office at The Summit Church in Durham, N.C., in a virtual format after the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Greear promoted those goals as central to removing stumbling blocks that would make it difficult for unbelievers to come to Christ. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Two percent of my life

  by Laura Erlanson, posted Tuesday, June 09, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  The work done at the annual meeting is important. Sometimes eternally so, Laura Erlanson says. But the fellowship is important too. Read More

• Racial healing, Great Commission, Cooperative Program headline SBC Advance

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Amid unprecedented challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as racial unrest and tumult after the recent death of an African American man in police custody, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee offered a healing balm Tuesday (June 2) with SBC Advance.

  The two-hour online event was not intended to replace the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting (originally scheduled June 9-10 in Orlando, but canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic), but instead to provide Southern Baptists the opportunity to hear how God has continued to work through the SBC. Read More

• SBC trustee system stable in spite of Annual Meeting cancellation

  by David Roach/TEXAN, posted Tuesday, June 02, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  BP file photo

  GRAPEVINE, Texas (BP) -- If history is any indication, the Southern Baptist Convention's trustee system will continue without a snag despite the cancellation of the 2020 SBC annual meeting due to COVID-19. The last annual meeting cancellations, during World War II, were followed by a boom of evangelism and discipleship resourced by the convention's entities.

  Still, the unique circumstances this year create some potential challenges for a convention reliant on annual trustee elections. Read More

• SBC Advance brings entity reports and reminder of missional focus

  by Tess Schoonhoven, posted Monday, June 01, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- SBC Advance, the two-hour online event providing ministry updates from Southern Baptist Convention entities and SBC president J.D. Greear, will be livestreamed at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 2, at SBCadvance.com.

  The SBC 2020 Annual Meeting, set to be held June 9-10 in Orlando, was canceled as a result of restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic. This online event is not meant to replace that meeting, but rather give Southern Baptists an opportunity to hear how God has continued to work throughout the SBC. Read More

• SBC Executive Committee to host SBC Advance June 2

  by BP Staff, posted Monday, May 18, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- While the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting has been canceled for the first time since 1945, Southern Baptists will still be provided with an opportunity to hear from the entities of the Southern Baptist Convention through an online event June 2 hosted by the SBC Executive Committee.

  SBC Advance, a two-hour online event, is not designed to be a substitute for the annual meeting, but will provide ministry updates from and interviews with all SBC entity and auxiliary heads, as well as SBC President J.D. Greear. The event will be livestreamed at SBCadvance.com starting at 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 2, 2020. Read More

• 2020 SBC Pastors' Conference canceled; 2021 conference to be SEND event

  by George Schroeder, posted Friday, April 17, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  ORLANDO (BP) -- The 2020 Southern Baptist Convention Pastors' Conference has been canceled, and its officers have asked the North American Mission Board to plan and produce the event in 2021.

  The decision brings resolution to an event that had become controversial because of its planned lineup of speakers. David Uth, president of the 2020 Pastors' Conference and pastor of First Baptist Church of Orlando, said in a statement released Friday (April 17) that the officers had "prayerfully considered options" and "sought counsel" from SBC president J.D. Greear and some former SBC pastors' conference presidents. Read More

• Floyd to pastors: 'We're in it with you'

  by Staff, posted Wednesday, March 25, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

  Ronnie Floyd, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, answers questions about the decision to cancel the 2020 SBC Annual Meeting and about the struggles pastors and churches are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More