SBC Life Articles by J. Gerald Harris

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (BP)–Church buses, pick-up trucks, vans and automobiles transporting thousands of men were converging on First Baptist Church Woodstock Feb. 5 for the second mammoth men’s conference in consecutive weekends. Yet on the threshold of a tremendously busy weekend, Woodstock’s senior pastor, Johnny Hunt, wanted to talk about the Cooperative Program. It would be […]

With Southern Baptists no longer being a part of the Baptist World Alliance, Bobby Welch, former Southern Baptist Convention president and former pastor (for thirty-two years) of First Baptist Church of Daytona Beach, Florida, has helped the denomination write a new chapter in international relations. Since March 15, 2007, Welch has been Southern Baptists' ambassador […]

DULUTH, Ga. (BP)–As Southern Baptists’ ambassador of goodwill to evangelical bodies worldwide, Bobby Welch has helped write a new chapter in international relations. The former Southern Baptist Convention president and former pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., has served since 2007 as strategist for Global Evangelical Relations with the SBC Executive Committee. […]

CLEVELAND, Ga. (BP)--Truett-McConnell College's trustees have adopted the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message as the confessional identity for the institution and requested President Emir Caner to develop a plan for faculty and administrators to embrace the BF&M.

NORCROSS, Ga. (BP)--The New York Times called him "The Little Mr. Conservative." The Huffington Post called him a "Conservative Wunderkind." Fox News refers to him as a political prodigy. His biography is posted on Wikipedia.

DULUTH, Ga. (BP)--Baptist state convention presidents were called together March 19 to discuss the health of the Southern Baptist Convention with the president of the SBC. The meeting, held at the Georgia Baptist Missions and Ministry Center in Duluth, Ga., drew 26 of the state convention presidents.

MACON, Ga. (BP)--J.R. Moreno and his wife Cathy were on their honeymoon 30 years ago when they saw the artistic work of a college student airbrushing T-shirts in Biloxi, Miss.

DULUTH, Ga. (BP)--As a pastor for many years I discovered there were certain things that were extremely difficult to do.

WOODSTOCK, Ga. (BP)–Johnny M. Hunt, pastor of First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., will be nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC’s June 10-11 annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., announced May 6. Hunt is among four announced nominees for the post, joining […]

AUGUSTA, Ga. (BP)–Messengers to the 186th annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention adopted a new Cooperative Program budget, welcomed 62 new churches and missions, and approved the distribution of funds previously allocated to Mercer University. Messengers also celebrated the 15th anniversary of J. Robert White as executive director of the convention. The meeting at […]