BP Staff

ORLANDO (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley has named the roster of tellers to count votes at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting June 9-10. Pressley named David Haynes, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Senatobia, Miss., to lead the team. Haynes and his wife April served as tellers at last year’s meeting in Dallas.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for April was below the budget goal for the month and total giving remains about 3.5 percent under budget for the year. However, in actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($110,336,543,27) is almost identical to the amount given through April of last year ($110,474,314.95) – a difference of .12 percent.

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (BP)—SBC President Clint Pressley announced May 4, that John Pendelton will chair the Registration Committee for the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando in June. Pendleton, pastor of Bardstown Baptist Church in Bardstown, Kentucky, was a member of the committee in 2025.

Danny Akin Global Missions Endowment established; Lifeway, B&H Publishing win 2026 SEPA and ECPA awards.

NOBTS receives positive accreditation update; MBTS, Spurgeon College host largest Preview Day in their history.

TAMPA, Fla. – A former Florida pastor will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury found him guilty earlier this week of 12 sexual abuse-related charges.

Greenway honored with portrait at SWBTS; MBTS hosts 9Marks conference.

NASHVILLE (BP) — The SBC Committee on Nominations has released its 2026 report in advance of the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting to be held June 9-10. Per SBC bylaws, the report is to be released through Baptist Press no later than 45 days prior to the gathering.

Sen. Josh Hawley delivers SBTS McCall Lecture; NOBTS Caskey Center conference gathers hundreds of pastors.

East Tennessee Baptist Association still dealing with Helene impact; Missouri Baptist Children’s Home president injured.