News Articles by Bob Nigh

OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)--Native American churches virtually have been a silent segment of the Southern Baptist Convention, and Emerson Falls believes it's time they start beating their own drum.

BANGKOK, Thailand (BP)-—A Baptist Global Response assessment team sent to set the stage for Myanmar relief efforts never set foot inside its borders, but their ministry is stretching deep into the Asian country battered by Cyclone Nargis. The team, led by disaster relief director Sam Porter of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, spent a […]

NASH, Okla. (BP)--Lenni Nordloh has always supported the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions.       She and her husband Marty, who is pastor of a small Baptist church in Oklahoma, have benefited from the offering for many years -- first when Marty was a student at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and as they served as church planters in Wyoming and Arizona.       While Armstrong had always been a spiritual mentor of sorts, Miss Annie, as she was affectionately known, now holds a special place deep in Nordloh's heart. Last July, Nordloh, who is writing a book about her family history, sat stunned as she read words that changed her life forever.

OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)--Hundreds of pro-life supporters descended on the Oklahoma State Capitol Feb. 8 for the 15th annual Rose Day observance.

DEL CITY, Okla. (BP)--As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the scoreboard read 52-15.

KHAO LAK, Thailand (BP)--Several disaster relief workers in Thailand -– including three from Alabama and three from Oklahoma -- were injured around 2 a.m. July 25 when the two-ton truck in which they were riding was hit by another truck as residents fled a possible tsunami.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Anthony Williams never planned on standing in front of thousands of preachers and others at the Southern Baptist Convention, but when the opportunity arose, he said God immediately gave him a message.

MUSTANG, Okla. (BP)--Five months to the day after a nativity scene was disallowed in a fifth grade holiday program at an Oklahoma elementary school, the school system's board of directors unanimously approved a religious liberty policy May 9 that declares “the proper role of religion in the public school curriculum is academic and not devotional.”

OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)--Ten years have passed since the single worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history shattered a beautiful spring morning, when Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols triggered a massive explosion that sheared the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.