Vietnam vet treasures church’s Christmas card
COLEMAN, Ga. (BP) -- It was a Christmas season that the 18-year-old Marine would rather not experience. Slogging through the mud in the drizzling, never-ending rain was beginning to wear on the enlisted man's spirit.
Church’s efforts went a long way in Vietnam
COLEMAN, Ga. (BP) -- For 145 years, Vilulah Baptist Church in Coleman, Ga., has served as the backbone of its small community about 60 miles west of Albany.
Ga. Baptists to limit campaigns to 8 weeks
UPDATED 12-20-12, 5:15 P.M. DULUTH, Ga. (BP) — The Georgia Baptist Convention hopes to have a shortened presidential election cycle in 2013 following a GBC Executive Committee vote to restrict campaign coverage by The Christian Index until two months before the annual meeting. In addition, the policy calls for greater diversity from the historical Anglo […]
Ga. convention launches reorganization
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) — The Georgia Baptist Convention has reorganized around a more aggressive strategy focused on reaching more of the state’s unchurched through five core initiatives. The GBC reorganization — the most far-reaching since 1997 — was shared with GBC executive committee members during their fall meeting on Sept. 11 and with convention staff […]
Ga. convention launches reorganization
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) — The Georgia Baptist Convention has reorganized around a more aggressive strategy focused on reaching more of the state’s unchurched through five core initiatives. The GBC reorganization — the most far-reaching since 1997 — was shared with GBC executive committee members during their fall meeting on Sept. 11 and with convention staff […]
Shorter affirms new direction as faculty resign
ROME, Ga. (BP) -- Shorter University President Don Dowless is defending the university's renewed commitment to Christian principles amid the departure of at least 36 faculty members, a number of whom have refused to sign Shorter's new lifestyle statement.
Ga. Baptists to explore property sale
DULUTH, Ga. (BP) -- The Georgia Baptist Convention's Executive Committee has voted to entertain any valid offers for a potential sale of its six-year-old Baptist Missions and Ministry Center and 43 acres of property.
Ga. Baptists adopt GCR report, pare budget
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (BP) — For the first time in a decade, two candidates ran for president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, with Statesboro pastor John Waters garnering 749 votes over Tifton pastor Fred Evers’ 656. In other business, messengers affirmed the state convention’s Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report, welcomed 65 new churches and missions, […]
EZELL INTERVIEW: Goal is to make NAMB ‘first choice of church planters everywhere’
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--When Georgia Baptists gather in Phoenix for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, they will hear from two new agency heads for the first time.
Volunteers called backbone of ‘Fireproof’
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article first appeared in The Christian Index, newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention, on the Web at www.christianindex.org. This story is part of a series of Baptist Press stories about Fireproof, which hits theaters Sept. 26. To read an overview of the movie click here. To read a review of the movie […]
