SBC Life Articles by Steve Achord

WASHINGTON (BP)–Five of a declared field of eight leading Republican presidential candidates have pledged to uphold “the sacred institution of marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman” and to oppose attempts to define it to encompass homosexual relationships. The Presidential Candidate Pledge on Marriage was drafted by Americans for Truth about […]

SUBLETTE, Kan. (BP)–In a small town in southwest Kansas, neighbors are reaching out to neighbors and, in the process, transcending cultural barriers. At Sublette (Kan.) Southern Baptist Church, basically two congregations exist in one building. One group primarily speaks English and the other speaks Spanish. Yet they both function harmoniously together and are actually bridging […]

TOPEKA, Kan. (BP)–At 33, Dee Ann Thompson never expected to be living in a group home, hundreds of miles away from her children and all alone to fight a deadly disease. Her rocky past behind her, her future uncertain, Dee Ann struggles to face each new day. “My past got in the way of my […]

WICHITA, Kansas (BP)–Winter had not quite released its grip on the city of Wichita when Delilah Countryman’s phone rang one afternoon. A strong north wind was blowing and she was anxious to settle into her warm house after a busy day at work. Life no longer had anything to offer, the caller told her. In […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)–The Broad Street bus made the same sweeping turn — around from Old Gentilly Boulevard onto Gentilly Boulevard, performing its typical, daily routine. A young woman, in a freshly starched white dress, stared intently out the bus window, nervously waiting for the bus to come to a complete stop. Nestled among the hundreds […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)–For Sale. Neighborhood grocery store with declining sales, inner-city strip mall location, older neighborhood, crime abounds, building in need of repair. Any buyers? Most people would pass on this opportunity, except for a man who had been asking God to lead him to an area to open a supermarket where he could get […]

NEW ORLEANS (BP)–For months, a group of students and faculty from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary had planned a summer mission trip to Coca, Ecuador. Their schedule and evangelism plans had been mapped out and the only remaining detail left was to board the airplane. However, a few weeks prior to their departure, their itinerary […]

SALT LAKE CITY (BP)–Georgia and North Carolina, with 800 Southern Baptist Convention messengers each, contributed the largest number of the 8,586 registrants at the June 9-11 SBC annual meeting at Salt Lake City’s Salt Palace Convention Center. Other leading states were Tennessee, 725; Oklahoma,700; Texas, 580; and Alabama, 540, according to unofficial figures compiled by […]

SALT LAKE CITY (BP)–Reflectinga broader scope and increased diversity in its ministries, the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention presented its first report June 9 to SBC messengers under its new name, LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention. Earlier Tuesday, messengers approved a recommendation to change the name. President James T. […]

SALT LAKE CITY (BP)–SBC Life, the journal of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, is biased, Bill Merrell, Executive Committee vice president for convention relations and journal editor, told messengersto the Southern Baptist Convention June 9 in Salt Lake City.“We are biased in favor of truth,” Merrell said in the denominational press report. “We write […]