SBC Life Articles by Erin Curry Roach

TURIN, Italy (BP)--Twelve volunteers from the South Carolina Baptist Convention intend to spark interest in the Gospel among the thousands from around the world now in Turin, Italy, for the Winter Olympics.

TURIN, Italy (BP)--A team of 11 women from Woman’s Missionary Union will travel to Italy Feb. 18-26 with the goal of sharing their faith as they interact with people from all over the world at the 2006 Olympics in Turin.

EULESS, Texas (BP)--Abraham Lincoln is undoubtedly one of history’s most compelling figures, and his life has been studied extensively by thousands of scholars, including a Southern Baptist pastor who at one time owned more than 300 books about the nation’s 16th president.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (BP)--The Air Force’s latest effort to regulate the free exercise of religion within its ranks was met with mixed reaction as some conservatives praised new Air Force guidelines as a step in the right direction while others voiced concern that the guidelines still discourage the use of prayer in Jesus’ name in public settings.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--A massive movement of prayer on a college campus has led to an extended time of corporate worship that had some students staying in the school’s chapel as long as 11 hours, and a Southern Baptist evangelism leader hopes it could be one of the spots where revival breaks out among a new generation.

Children born out of wedlock today are more likely to have mothers in their early 20s than teens, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics that prompted leaders of the True Love Waits abstinence movement to point to virginity pledges as a leading factor in the reduction of teen pregnancies. A record […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--On the day the controversial film “Brokeback Mountain” was lauded with eight Oscar nominations, a former homosexual sounded the alarm about the dangers such a film can pose to society when it only tells half the story about the experience of homosexuals in American culture.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--When pastors in Las Cruces, N.M., signed a Community Marriage Policy in January, they marked the 200th city to join the movement since leaders in Modesto, Calif., signed the first one in 1986. And since Modesto launched its marriage-saving emphasis, the divorce rate there has decreased 57 percent, said Michael McManus, creator of the Community Marriage Policies.

MARION, Ark. (BP)--A steady stream of baptisms at First Baptist Church in Marion, Ark., makes it, like others throughout the Southern Baptist Convention, vital to the “Everyone Can” challenge to witness to, win and baptize 1 million people throughout the SBC during the coming year.
      And, aware that it couldn’t adequately meet the spiritual needs of the community through its main campus alone, First Baptist sponsored a church restart in a nearby trailer park community, and that restart in turn planted a Spanish-speaking congregation.
      When the Everyone Can evangelism campaign officially began last fall after several months of SBC President Bobby Welch setting forth the vision across the country, the Arkansas Baptist State Convention launched a correlating emphasis called “Your Life Matters,” which encourages renewed outreach and simultaneous revivals to kick-start church growth.