1 millionth SBC messenger, Jennette Briggs, registers
SALT LAKE CITY (BP)–At 8:45 a.m. on Monday, June 8, Jennette C. Briggs of Fort Worth, Texas, stepped into Southern Baptist Convention history as she became the 1 millionth registered messenger for annual SBC meetings.“I think it is a great day to have passed this significant mark,” said SBC Recording Secretary Lee Porter, Lawrenceville, Ga., […]
Southern Baptists walk, pray on Salt Lake City’s streets
SALT LAKE CITY (BP)–Bill Graham deliberately walked the streets of Salt Lake City June 5 to pray. Despite sunny skies, a temperature of 70 degrees and snow-capped peaks around him, his mood was anything but jubilant.The more he walked, the sadder he became. The sadder he became, the more he prayed.“Despite the beauty, the orderliness […]
Saddleback youth pastor echoes purpose-driven ministry thrust
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–A healthy youth ministry is a purpose-driven youth ministry, and a purpose-driven youth ministry will have programs and structures that reflect evangelism, worship, fellowship, discipleship and ministry, said Doug Fields, youth pastor for one of Southern Baptists’ largest churches. Fields, a staff member at Saddleback Community Church in Mission Viejo, Calif., directed his […]
19 members of Hispanic congregation earn seminary leadership certificates
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–Gonzalo Rodriguez, pastor of Good Shepherd Baptist Church in New Orleans, has a banner across the front of his church that reads, “Dando Lo Mejor A Cristo En El ’98.” In English it means, “Giving the best to Christ in 1998.” Could this be the reason Rodriguez is losing some of his most […]
His studies spanned 19 years for master of divinity degree
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–When Michael Glenn puts his mind to it, his strong determination helps him accomplish his goals — even if it takes him 19 years. On May 15 Glenn received a master of divinity degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, a goal he set for himself in 1979 when he began his theological […]
Worship is key challenge facing Baptists, pastor says
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–“The day is upon us where the message needs to be clear and the bell needs to be rung solidly that God wants you to be a worshiper before you can be a worship leader,” Rick Ousley said during the final chapel service of the 1997-98 academic year at New Orleans Baptist Theological […]
New Orleans team leads 116 to Christ in Romania
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–Randall Broome could not help but be silent as he gazed at the massive, blood-stained, marble columns in front of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Timisoara, Romania. In that very spot nine years earlier, hundreds of citizens were massacred as they struggled to free their country from the control of the communist government. […]
Pastor: Baptists should learn from Karla Faye Tucker’s life
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–On Tuesday, Feb. 3, convicted pick ax killer and born-again Christian Karla Faye Tucker met Jesus face-to-face. Tucker, 38, was pronounced dead at 6:45 p.m., eight minutes after lethal drugs flowed into her body. Gov. George W. Bush announced he would not grant a 30-day reprieve to Tucker after last-minute appeals were turned […]
Embrace spiritual revolution to turn SBC, Roy Fish says
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–Christians must “return to revolutionaryChristianity and follow a true revolutionary: Jesus,” said Roy Fish, one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s premier evangelists. The world’s greatest revolution did not take place under a red star in 1917 in Petrograd, Russia, but began under a star in the city of Bethlehem over 1,900 years ago, […]
‘I’ve Been Praying for a Year for Someone to Tell Me about Jesus’
Having arrived safely in Loja, Ecuador, after a 12-hour journey, the Spring Break Mission Team from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary wasted no time in finding the school that had been reserved for them to use for eight days of revivals and other evangelism efforts. Accompanied by Southern Baptist missionary James Smith, the group eagerly […]
