Stories tagged with: 2014 state annual meeting roundup

• Mo. Baptists take stand on biblical marriage

  by Benjamin Hawkins/Missouri Pathway, posted Wednesday, November 05, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Bob Greenlee/The Pathway

  OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (BP) -- Missouri Baptist Convention messengers stood together during their 180th annual meeting to defend the biblical view of marriage and oppose the modern-day slavery of sex-trafficking. Read More

• 100-village challenge set before Alaskans

  by Staff, posted Tuesday, November 04, 2014 (9 years ago)

  SOLDOTNA, Alaska (BP) -- The challenge of 100 villages in Alaska with no evangelistic witness was set before messengers at the Alaska Baptist Convention's 69th annual meeting, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 in Soldotna. Read More

• Utah/Idaho celebrates 50th anniversary

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, October 31, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Chauna Sidwell

  LAYTON, Utah (BP) -- Recent rulings regarding same-sex marriage in Utah and Idaho were mentioned and a resolution was passed showing solidarity with Houston pastors against an attempt to subpoena their sermons, but for the most part the 2014 annual meeting of the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention was about the past, present and future of the 50-year-old convention. Read More

• Kan.-Neb. Baptists fight baptism decline

  by Eva Wilson, posted Thursday, October 30, 2014 (9 years ago)

  HUTCHINSON, Neb. (BP) -- Kansas-Nebraska Southern Baptists were urged to help break the 10-year trend of declining baptisms in the Southern Baptist Convention at their 2014 annual meeting. Read More

• CA Baptists assess affiliation process

  by Holly Smith & Terry Barone, posted Wednesday, October 29, 2014 (9 years ago)

  FRESNO, Calif. (BP) -- Messengers to the 2014 California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting weighed in on several issues including motions regarding church affiliation, a 2015 proposed budget and Cooperative Program objective, and amendments to the CSBC Constitution and Bylaws. Read More

• N.M. Baptists stress 'Standing Strong'

  by John Loudat, posted Wednesday, October 29, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by John Loudat

  DEMING, N.M. (BP) -- With "Standing Strong" as the theme of this year's annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico Oct. 21-22, messengers chose to take a stand in support of five Houston pastors entangled in a battle over a homosexual-transgender rights ordinance. Read More

• N.M. Baptists stand with Houston pastors

  by John Loudat, posted Monday, October 27, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by John Loudat of the Baptist New Mexican

  DEMING, N.M. (BP) -- The Baptist Convention of New Mexico has taken a stand with five pastors in Houston who have had their sermons and other communications subpoenaed following their opposition to a homosexual-transgender rights ordinance passed in May.

  "... whereas we believe that this attempt to subpoena their sermons and church communications is a violation of First Amendment rights and of the separation of church and state, we thus resolve to state our belief as such," reads the resolution unanimously approved during the convention's Oct. 21-22 annual meeting. Read More

• Dakotas continue CP upswing

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Thursday, October 02, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Karen Willoughby

  BISMARCK, N.D. (BP) -- A 2.5 percent-of-budget increase in Cooperative Program giving, after a 4 percent increase last year, attests to the growing health of the Dakota Baptist Convention, leaders say at the 30-year point of the two-state convention.

  Messengers from the 84 Southern Baptist churches in North and South Dakota unanimously voted the second-year increase during the celebration of 30 years of ministry by the convention, which dates from the time in 1984 when the four-state Northern Plains Baptist Convention dissolved into the Wyoming Baptist Convention and the Montana and Dakota Baptist fellowships. Read More