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Baptist volunteers minister amid ‘unimaginable’ suffering along Ukrainian border

NEW By Sharon Mager/Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, posted May 20, 2022

Southern Baptist volunteers who spent time serving Ukrainian refugees on the Ukraine-Poland border can’t unsee the horrors they witnessed and now can’t not care about the crisis.

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NEWS DIGEST: NAMB terminates agreement with Future Church; Former Illinois pastor arrested for grooming minor

By BP Staff, posted May 20, 2022 in SBC Digests

Mancini resigns ‘due to infidelity,’ NAMB terminates agreement with Future Church; Former Illinois pastor arrested on grooming charge.

In her sixth decade of involvement with Belmont University, Wiseman is a member the school's Athletics Hall of Fame as well as the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame. The Striplin-Wiseman Athletic Office Complex on campus also bears her name. Photo courtesy of Belmont Athletics

By Scott Barkley, posted May 20, 2022 in Sports

NASHVILLE (BP) – Betty Wiseman considers her path – the one that started in tiny Portland, Tenn., before going through Nashville and winding to the ends of the earth – to be orchestrated by God. He said it. That settled it.

An expo center in Warsaw houses thousands of refugees. Submitted photo

By Sharon Mager/Baptist Convention of Maryland/Delaware, posted May 20, 2022 in International News

Southern Baptist volunteers who spent time serving Ukrainian refugees on the Ukraine-Poland border can’t unsee the horrors they witnessed and now can’t not care about the crisis.

Nate Bishop, second vice chair for IMB trustees, opened the May 19 meeting with welcome and prayer. Bishop is lead pastor of Forest Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky. Bishop was elected to a second consecutive one-year term. IMB Photo

By Leslie Peacock Caldwell, posted May 20, 2022 in International Mission Board

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- International Mission Board trustees approved 56 new fully funded missionaries for appointment during their May 18-19 meeting in Orlando. The meeting was conducted in conjunction with the Celebration of Emeriti event held every five years to recognize retiring missionaries who have completed their service with the IMB.