Erin Roach

MAGNOLIA, Texas – Joshua Nostrand remembers lying on a gurney just minutes after playing basketball at student camp, telling God at 14 years old that he trusted Him to decide whether he lived or died.

DICKINSON, Texas – The church plant Kade Pierce is leading is in its infancy, but already he knows the value of the collective support behind him – and it’s something Southern Baptists across the generations also have realized.

GREENVILLE, Texas – Pastor Paul Faseler was driving to a staff meeting when he noticed workers setting up for a county fair. He knew they travel and work every Sunday in a new location, so he thought, “I bet they don’t ever get to worship.”

AUSTIN, Texas -- More than three dozen people from Acts Fellowship Church in Austin have gone to seminary, including 20 who have trained at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary—a testament to the vitality of a Cooperative Program partnership.

EDMOND, Okla. (BP) – Anita Bryant, an entertainer who was commended by the Southern Baptist Convention for standing up to the gay rights movement in the 1970s, died Dec. 16 at age 84.

PLAINS, Ga. (BP)--Former United States President Jimmy Carter, who spoke of his faith more openly than other modern leaders, taught a Baptist Sunday School class for decades and became the nation’s longest-lived president, died Sunday, December 29, at age 100.

ISAAN, Thailand – Noei was a housekeeper for an International Mission Board worker in Bangkok, Thailand, for many years when she accepted Christ as her Savior. 

HOUSTON (BP) – People are responding to the Gospel in a way Bob Crites has not seen in the nearly 30 years he has been at Sagemont Church. 

GRAND SALINE, Texas (BP) – The man who gave Christian recording artist Chris Tomlin his first opportunity to lead worship at a concert has been called to pastor his first church at age 70. In fact, it’s the church both he and Tomlin grew up in, years apart. 

TIMPSON, Texas (BP) – A squirrel was loose in the building at First Baptist Church in Timpson, so the pastor sent out a notice that he needed a trap to catch it. By the end of the day, a squirrel trap was set and a man he had been praying for was a new brother in Christ.