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GRANITE FALLS, N.C. (BP) – A Caldwell County, N.C., pastor is facing multiple child sex charges following his arrest earlier this month.

RALEIGH – The new $30 billion state budget for the 2023-24 fiscal year that was approved by the North Carolina General Assembly last month includes a $5 million grant to N.C. Baptists on Mission to use for responses to natural disasters in the state.

OAK ISLAND, N.C. (BP) – A plane crash near the entrance to Beach Road Baptist Church early Sunday morning didn’t stop the church from holding both of its regularly scheduled worship services.

THOMASVILLE, N.C. – Michael C. Blackwell, longtime president and CEO of the Baptist Children’s Homes (BCH) of North Carolina, is retiring from his post effective immediately following an independent financial review revealed multiple instances of misuse of the organization’s funds.

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.