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Karen L. Willoughby

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Washington pastor develops strategy for leading troubled churches

SPOKANE, Wash. (BP) – Pastor Jim Shiner has a heart for orphans – the church kind.

3 families start Minnesota church

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. – When three families here decided they wanted to plant a church that would be outward-focused, they turned to Southern Baptists for help.

Wyoming church attacks strongholds and broken pipes

GILLETTE, Wyo. (BP) – A Florida transplant with a rodeo background two years ago relaunched what was started in 1963 as Gillette’s First Southern Baptist Church and in 1971 renamed Westside Baptist Church.

Hmong Baptist leader dies shortly after being diagnosed with cancer

ST. PAUL, Minn. (BP) – A month after he led the 2023 annual meeting of the Hmong Baptist National Association, Executive Director Wa Tra Xiong, 53, died suddenly from a virulent cancer and complications from the procedure to remove it.

Riverside Philly planted churches ‘as God opened doors’

HORSHAM, Pa. – Riverside Community Church, planted in 2000, has started four other churches, all with men from the church.  

SNAPSHOT: A state-by-state look at CP giving

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – An in-depth look at state and regional conventions across the Southern Baptist Convention shows a deliberate intent by state/regional leaders to work together and promote unity of purpose.

Christmas is family celebration for Washington State church

SPOKANE, Wash. (BP) – For many people, Christmas means family – even family that may not be kin.

Proven leader shares wisdom in reaching Native Americans

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – SBC Statesman Emerson Falls has developed a missiological strategy for reaching Native Americans with God’s life-equipping gospel of Jesus. 

Emerson Falls takes another new trail

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Southern Baptist Native American statesman Emerson Falls plans to retire by the end of the year, but he plans to not quit working for the Lord, probably not ever.

Mountain tragedy draws two distant churches together

PHOENIX – A car crash with a fatality on South Mountain derailed a mission team’s trip to Mexico even as it forged strong bonds between two Southern Baptist churches.