Georgia Baptist leader Levi Skipper moving to Houston megachurch
SUWANEE, Ga. (BP) -- Georgia preacher Levi Skipper will be heading west to serve as lead pastor of a Texas megachurch.
Georgia Baptists present $1.7M check to IMB
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (BP) -- Georgia Baptists have given an additional $1.7 million to the International Mission Board to support missionaries serving around the world.
Georgia Baptists to consider updates to governing documents
SNELLVILLE, Ga. (BP) — Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s annual meeting will consider updates to their 200-year-old governing documents when they gather in Snellville in mid-November.
119 college, university students among many being saved in Georgia
GAINESVILLE, Ga. (BP) – Georgia is seeing revival on college and university campuses where 119 students have made salvation decisions since early January.
Johnson Ferry announces senior pastor candidate
MARIETTA, Ga. (BP) -- The search team for Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, Marietta, Ga., announced Sunday (July 14) that North Carolina pastor Clay Smith will preach in view of a call on Aug. 4 to occupy the pulpit previously filled by former Southern Baptist Convention President Bryant Wright. Smith, who currently serves as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Matthews, N.C., is an M.Div. graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Currently he is pursuing his doctorate from Southwestern.
Georgia Baptists increase budget to $41M
SAVANNAH, Ga. (BP) -- Messengers to the 195th Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting approved an increased Cooperative Program budget of $41,000,000 -- 42 percent of which will be forwarded to Southern Baptist Convention causes. In addition, they re-elected Alpharetta pastor Thomas Hammond as president at the Nov. 14-15 gathering at Calvary Baptist Temple in Savannah. Of the remaining budget, 11.74 percent -- $4,812,500 -- will be allotted for ...
