SBC Life Articles by Roger S. Oldham

Calling on the Southern Baptist PrayerLink team to “fan into flame a passionate pursuit of God in prayer,” Chris Schofield opened the winter leadership team meeting as the group’s first executive director.

The Cooperative Program was launched in 1925 as a threefold system of support.

During its third and final meeting, the Women’s Advisory Council received reports from work teams, reviewed research findings from a survey it conducted in 2016, and began formulating specific recommendations to present to Frank S. Page, president and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee.

The SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget is totally dependent on the support of two sets of Baptist bodies.

God continues to work mightily in people’s lives regardless of the surrounding society’s sinful setting.

Undesignated giving was one of only three categories of the Annual Church Profile that showed an increase in the most recent reporting year.

The Multi-Ethnic Advisory Council received six reports and engaged in conversation about common ministry needs among the ethnic and racial groups represented by council members at its March 10–11 meeting in Atlanta.

The size of “our big” is determined by the fruitfulness of “our small,” according to Mark Tolbert, vice chairman of the Bivocational and Smaller Church Advisory Council.

NASHVILLE (BP) -- It used to be heard everywhere, whether at Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings, pastors' conferences, evangelism rallies, training events, or other venues where Baptists gathered during the latter half of the 20th century -- "If you cut a Southern Baptist, he (or she) bleeds evangelism and missions." It was simply who we were as a people. It was hard-wired into our DNA. Whether "A Million More in 54" in the 1950s or "Bold Mission Thrust" in the 1980s and 1990s, Southern Baptists' collective heart's desire was to win the world to faith in Jesus Christ in our generation -- no matter the cost.

NASHVILLE (BP) -- Phil Miglioratti opened the winter leadership meeting of PrayerLink asking whether Southern Baptists are more interested in developing prayer guides (booklets and other resources about prayer) or prayer guides (individuals in congregations who help guide church members to be prayer warriors in the house of God). Drawing his lesson from the purification of Jesus recorded in Luke 2, Miglioratti pointed to two individuals in Scripture who serve as prayer guides for 21st century believers -- Anna and Simeon.