Stories tagged with: southern baptist convention

• 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

• January prayer focus: 'In All Things Pray'

  by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, December 30, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- January is a distinctive month of prayer across the Southern Baptist Convention.

  It is a time when a readiness to pray can gain new traction in churches, large or small, urban or rural.

  Listed as the "Call to Prayer" on the SBC Calendar, it gained momentum from the 2010 Great Commission Task Force report adopted by messengers to the SBC annual meeting in ... 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

• Wyo. Baptists mark 1st year of reorganization

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Friday, November 13, 2015 (8 years ago)

  BAR NUNN, Wyo. (BP) -- The Wyoming Southern Baptist Convention has marked its first year under a restructured format of three regions led by state strategists, after the group voted in 2014 to dissolve its eight associations.

  Executive Director Lynn Nikkel praised the WSBC Executive Board for its "wisdom and good counsel" in the restructuring ... Read More

• Utah/Idaho to form regional church planting teams

  by Karen L. Willoughby, posted Tuesday, November 10, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

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  TWIN FALLS, Idaho (BP) -- Old way: State convention strategist oversees all church planting in the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention. New way: Regional church planting teams oversee church planting. Read More

• Calif. Baptists celebrate 75 years, increase CP

  by Terry Barone and Holly Smith, posted Tuesday, November 03, 2015 (8 years ago)

  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (BP) -- With the theme, "Until It's Finished," California Southern Baptists celebrated 75 years of ministry in the Golden State, adopted a budget with an increased percentage to the Southern Baptist Convention and re-elected their president during their annual meeting Oct. 27-28 at Valley Baptist Church.

  The California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Bakersfield, Calif., highlighted historical references to the ... Read More

• EC members heed call to increase CP for IMB

  by David Roach, posted Thursday, October 29, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  Photo by Morris Abernathy.

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Since adopting a resolution in September pledging to "encourage and lead" their churches to "give more than ever before through the Cooperative Program," at least 17 of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee's 79 members have already recommended increases in CP giving at the churches where they are members. The proposed increases are intended to help the International Mission Board amid revenue shortages. Read More

• Platt live stream addresses IMB reset

  by David Roach, posted Wednesday, October 28, 2015 (8 years ago)

  

  IMB photo by Chris Carter

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Restoring the International Mission Board to full financial health will be a long process that requires patience among Southern Baptists and the cooperation of local churches through a variety of avenues, IMB President David Platt said Oct. 27 during a live stream question and answer session.

  Addressing a live audience that tuned in using more than 1,500 separate electronic devices, Platt reiterated the IMB's need to ... Read More

• 1% CP Challenge met by 4,422 churches

  by Diana Chandler, posted Thursday, October 01, 2015 (8 years ago)

  NASHVILLE (BP) -- Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee President Frank S. Page has personally signed letters to more than 4,400 Southern Baptist churches that have met or exceeded the 1% Cooperative Program Challenge.

  Recognized for their contributions are 3,846 congregations that met the challenge for the first time during the 2013-14 fiscal year (Oct. 1-Sept. 30) and 576 that met the challenge for two ... Read More