Stories tagged with: ronnie floyd

• Julio Arriola named executive director of Hispanic relations and mobilization

  by Amy Whitfield, posted Sunday, November 10, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Julio Arriola has been named executive director of Hispanic relations and mobilization at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee.

  The new role is a partnership, jointly funded by the EC and the North American Mission Board with a primary focus to bring more Hispanic churches into the Southern Baptist family. Read More

• New England Baptists focus on evangelism

  by Kimber Huff, posted Thursday, November 07, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  HAMPSTEAD, N.H. (BP) -- "There are different methods to reach people … but here's the thing that brings us all together: the message," Chris Goeppner, a New Hampshire pastor whose church baptized 92 last year, noted in the opening remarks of the Baptist Convention of New England's 37th annual meeting.

  The Nov. 1-2 sessions at Island Pond Baptist Church in Hampstead, N.H., drew 169 messengers and 58 guests for fellowship, worship, prayer, business and celebrating what God is doing as the New Englanders focused on the theme of evangelism. Read More

• Floyd calls Baptists to culture of love

  by Adam Covington and Julie Owens , posted Monday, October 14, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  FORT WORTH, Texas (BP) -- Christ's message of love, conveyed in Scripture, should guide our churches, our convention, and our daily walk as Christians, said Ronnie Floyd in an Oct. 11 chapel sermon at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

  Floyd, president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, preached from John 13:34-35: "I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." Read More

• 'Rise up,' Floyd urges churches at inauguration

  by Grace Thornton, posted Monday, September 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  NASHVILLE (BP) -- At more than 47,000 churches strong, Southern Baptists can have a massive spiritual footprint -- they just have to harness the power of prayer and their resources for the sake of the Gospel, Ronnie Floyd said.

  "God has blessed us greatly," said the new president and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee. "We must rise up." Read More

• Floyd to NAMB staff: Champion Gospel unashamedly

  by Mike Ebert, posted Monday, September 16, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by North American Mission Board.

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) -- In his first visit to the North American Mission Board in his new role as president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, Ronnie Floyd challenged staff members to "champion unashamedly the sharing of the Gospel with America."

  "You have a great opportunity to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ -- and to lead us to do it -- to every person, every town, every city, every state all across this nation," Floyd said. "And when you touch this nation, and obviously Canada, you're going to touch the rest of the world." Read More

• Floyd showcases God's 'amazing' work in SBC

  by Diana Chandler and Erin Roach, posted Tuesday, June 11, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd celebrated this morning (June 11) "amazing things" God is doing in Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries as messengers gathered in Birmingham, Ala.

  "God loves refugees and so do we," Floyd said in his first annual meeting report as SBC Executive Committee president and CEO. "We need to be about telling and celebrating what God is doing." Read More

• Ronnie Floyd asks SBC, 'What do you see?'

  by Art Toalston, posted Tuesday, June 11, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Marc Ira Hooks

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- "What do you see," Ronnie Floyd asked, "for the future of the Southern Baptist Convention?"

  Floyd, the new president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee, asked the question Tuesday morning (June 11) to 7,500 messengers at the SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., and to an extended audience watching online. Read More

• Floyd: All Christians must 'spread the Gospel seed'

  by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, June 10, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- Evangelism is the commanded and authorized work of each Christian and church, Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd preached at First Baptist Church of Trussville, Ala. June 9.

  "Spreading the Gospel is what each Christian is to do, wherever they are, whatever our vocation is, or your location, your age or your stage of life," Floyd told 9:15 a.m. worshipers in advance of the 2019 SBC Annual Meeting in nearby Birmingham. "That is what each Christian is to do and that's what Jesus tells us to do. Read More

• Floyd shepherds first full EC staff meeting

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, May 28, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Shawn Hendricks

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Ronnie Floyd called Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee staff members to spiritual, professional and personal discipline Tuesday (May 28) in Nashville, pledging to give himself fully to his new calling as the SBC EC president and CEO.

  "I came here to do more with the Gospel and for the Gospel than I've ever done in my life," Floyd said in his first full meeting with staff since his arrival May 20. "I'm going to give the rest of my life in this capacity to advancing the Gospel to every person in the world and making disciples of all the nations, and leading this opportunity, this group, this network of churches in doing that." Read More

• Ronnie Floyd: Planning to lead with 'pastor's heart'

  by Shawn Hendricks, posted Friday, May 24, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  Photo by Rebecca Manry

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- In his office on the seventh floor of the SBC Building in Nashville, Ronnie Floyd sat down with Baptist Press to talk about his first fast-paced, meeting-filled week on the job as president of Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee.

  Floyd wrapped up his final sermon as pastor of Cross Church in Springdale, Ark., this past Sunday (May 19). And following the EC presidential search committee's election of Floyd in April, he has hit the ground running. Read More