SBC Life Articles by John Evans

WASHINGTON (BP) -- Syrian Christians are caught in the middle of the conflict between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and rebel fighters.       What began as a peaceful protest against the Assad regime has progressed into a civil war ...

HOUSTON (BP) — Fred Luter, pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, was elected without opposition to a second term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention, leading a slate of candidates who ran mostly unopposed. Bart Barber, pastor of First Baptist Church in Farmersville, Texas, was elected first vice president, while Jared […]

HOUSTON (BP) -- Spurred by the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to admit openly homosexual youth as Scouts, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution on the matter June 12 during its annual meeting in Houston.

HOUSTON (BP) -- Fred Luter, Jr., pastor of Franklin Avenue Baptist Church in New Orleans, La., was re-elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

    The fast-growing Texas city of Houston has more than 220 spoken languages and countless people groups, presenting a challenge in reaching the city with the Gospel. “We’re the most ethnically, culturally diverse metropolitan area in the United States,” said Tom Billings, executive director of the Union Baptist Association (UBA), which helps mobilize Houston […]

HOUSTON (BP) — “Missional Living” will be the theme of the Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Directors of Missions annual meeting, June 8-10 at Houston’s Second Baptist Church. “So much of life is lived like parallel lines that never cross,” said Johnny Rumbough, SBCADOM president and director of missions for the Lexington Baptist Association in […]

HOUSTON (BP) — Even though the apostle Paul wrote of his heart’s longing for all Israel to be saved, there is precious little outreach to the Jewish community, says Ric Worshill, a Messianic Jew (a Jew who follows Jesus as Messiah) and a North American Mission Board police and disaster relief chaplain. “The actual effort […]

HOUSTON (BP) — Evangelizing North America — a continent where Christianity is declining — will undergird the “Run to the Darkness” theme of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists June 7-9 sessions in Houston. “What we’ve learned all over the world doing international missions is how to contextualize the Gospel, how to communicate the Gospel […]

WOODWAY, Texas (BP) -- Texas pastor Mike Toby was dying of brain cancer but said he wouldn't "bargain with the Lord for an additional 15 seconds."

WASHINGTON (BP) -- The U.S. government and the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom have issued calls for the release of an American pastor who may face the gallows for spreading the Gospel in Iran.