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WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP) -- A diaspora ministry conference inaugurated last year was so successful that organizers have scheduled a second event Oct. 27-28 at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. Chuck Register, a "Reaching the Nations in North America" summit organizer, said he was "more than pleased" with the response to last year's conference held in Brentwood, Tenn. "There were just under 400 registered participants, which was beyond our ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP) -- Addressing 33 retired International Mission Board missionaries at a dinner, North Carolina Baptists' Executive Director Milton Hollifield said, "Even though your place of assignment may be changing, you are still Southern Baptist missionaries." The audience was part of the 80 IMB missionaries from North Carolina who accepted the organization's Voluntary Retirement Incentive (VRI) or Hand Raising opportunity (HRO) during the past few months as part of IMB's organizational "reset."

LEMMONS, N.C. (BP) -- Robby Gallaty said his journey to passionate discipleship began when a college friend shared the Gospel with him in 1995. "I rejected the Gospel. ... But I will remember the seeds that he sowed in my life. God would bring that to fruition seven years later," Gallaty said during a discipleship conference in Clemmons, N.C.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP) -- The trustees of two Baptist colleges, Tennessee Temple University and Piedmont International University, voted unanimously to merge the institutions Tuesday (March 3).

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) -- What should a traditional, white Southern Baptist congregation do when they can no longer sustain their ministries or their facilities, when the community around them looks nothing like their membership, when they know they are dying? Emmanuel Baptist Church was a thriving rural fellowship. But after 61 years of ministry, the North Carolina church's leaders faced some painful decisions.

RALEIGH, N.C. (BP) -- Going on the offensive for North Carolina's marriage amendment, a state pastors' organization held a press conference at the state capitol to urge Gov. Patrick McCrory to defend the law in court.

CLEMMONS, N.C. (BP) -- North Carolina pastor Mark Harris has declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, joining a race that now has at least three other Republicans who are vying for the seat held by Democrat incumbent Kay Hagen.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) -- At the recent opening of the Passages Bible exhibition in Charlotte, N.C., Steve Green was described as "a man of no compromise who sticks to God's Word and does everything at a level of excellence." Green is the president of Hobby Lobby and owner of the world's largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP) -- At the recent opening of the Passages Bible exhibition in Charlotte, N.C., Steve Green was described as "a man of no compromise who sticks to God's Word and does everything at a level of excellence." Green is the president of Hobby Lobby and owner of the world's largest private collection of rare biblical texts and artifacts.

CARY, N.C. (BP) -- Dan Cathy oversees one of the country's most successful businesses. As president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Cathy leads a business with 1,608 restaurants that had sales of more than $4 billion dollars last year. They sell chicken and train employees to focus on values rooted in the Bible.