Chad Austin/Biblical Recorder

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Following a shooting inside a lab building at the University of North Carolina that left a faculty member dead, local churches have covered the campus in prayer while providing places for students to process the tragic events.

Spence Shelton, lead pastor of Mercy Church in Charlotte, is serving as chair of the Committee on Order of Business for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in New Orleans. After serving on the committee for the past three years, Shelton has had a front-row seat to what goes on regarding the scheduling and logistics behind the annual meeting.

THOMASVILLE, N.C. – One week after the longtime leader of the Baptist Children’s Homes (BCH) of North Carolina announced he was taking a voluntary leave of absence, BCH officials said they have launched an independent review of the organization’s finances in response to questions raised over accounting practices.

James David “Jim” Goldston III, chairman of the board of trustees for the Baptist Children’s Homes (BCH) of North Carolina, has resigned from the board and his role as chairman amid allegations that he and his wife poisoned their neighbor’s dogs and sent them threatening letters.

RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) – North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature voted on Tuesday (May 16) to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill banning most abortions in the state after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

CARY, N.C. – The heads of North Carolina’s largest Protestant group and the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention have sent a joint letter to N.C. lawmakers encouraging them to override an impending gubernatorial veto of recently passed legislation that would ban most abortions in the state after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

MACCLESFIELD, N.C. (BP) – First responders and members of Webbs Chapel Baptist Church are being hailed as heroes after they helped pull a man to safety from a burning vehicle after the car’s driver crashed through the front of the church building on Wednesday, March 8.

ELKIN, N.C. (BP) – A Piedmont Triad congregation’s plans to move into a new worship center this spring have been put on hold after cyber criminals stole more than $793,000 from the church in an online scam.

FRANKLIN, N.C. – A brand new mobile ultrasound machine that will serve several western North Carolina counties has already played an instrumental role in helping at least one expectant mother and her unborn child.

CARY, N.C. (BP) -- Here in North Carolina, it’s been said that college basketball is its own form of religion. If that’s true, no one has personified that statement like Horace Albert “Bones” McKinney.