WRAP-UP: Miss. messengers adopt record CP budget
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)–Messengers to the 172nd annual meeting of the Mississippi Baptist Convention on unanimously adopted a record Cooperative Program budget during their Oct. 30-31 sessions at First Baptist Church in Jackson. The 2008 CP budget of $34,263,763 reflects an overall 3.24 percent increase over the current budget. Giving to Southern Baptist Convention causes, remaining […]
Miss. Baptists, on the mend from Katrina, adopt record budget
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--A record Cooperative Program budget of $33,188,934 -– a 5.99 percent increase over the current year -– was approved without opposition during the Mississippi Baptist Convention’s Oct. 31-Nov. 1 annual meeting at First Baptist Church in Jackson.
First Baptist bids farewell to hurricane-battered site
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| Hundreds of people gather for the final worship service at the beachfront location of First Baptist Church in Gulfport, Miss. Church members have voted to begin the search for suitable property north of Interstate 10, father inland from the danger of future hurricanes. Photo by William H. Perkins Jr./Baptist Record |
“The church of Jesus Christ is not at this location,” said Ken Parvin, who was reared in the church and currently pastors Heucks Retreat Church in Brookhaven, Miss.
Gesturing to the hundreds of people gathered in and around the large tent pitched alongside the ruins of the church, Parvin said, “I am looking at First Baptist Church. Ladies and gentlemen, never forget that the church of Jesus Christ is in you.”
Miss. Baptists elect first Hispanic officer
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention made history Oct. 26 when they elected by acclamation the convention’s first Hispanic officer in Joel Medina, bivocational pastor of Iglesia Internacional Las Americas in Carthage.
Miss. Baptist bylaws to encourage loyalty for convention leaders
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention annual meeting, although turning away a proposed constitutional amendment to specifically exclude Cooperative Baptist Fellowship members from leadership positions, approved a bylaws amendment encouraging convention loyalty.
FIRST-PERSON: Understanding our limitations
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Another seven lives have been lost, and another space shuttle has been reduced to jagged, smoldering rubble. As we watched the tragedy unfold before our eyes once again, many people undoubtedly experienced flashbacks to that terrible day in 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger went down during launch from Florida.
Miss. Baptists re-elect Frank Pollard as president
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Messengers to the 167th annual session of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Oct. 29-30 at First Baptist Church in Jackson treated Frank Pollard to a standing ovation after his re-election by acclamation to a second one-year term as MBC president.
FIRST-PERSON: It’s time for Christians to get in the game
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Christian pro-lifers need not apply.
FIRST-PERSON: The fight over Pickering is a fight over ideas, values
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Politics can be brutal. Most of us know that, and despite all the modern safeguards that have been put into place, it is still occasionally possible for a good person to somehow get through the system and serve with honor.
Frank Pollard elected as Miss. Baptists’ president
JACKSON, Miss. (BP)--Messengers to the 166th annual meeting of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Oct. 30-31 at First Baptist Church in Jackson elected Frank Pollard as president and approved a record budget to fund their Christian missionary work in the state, nation and abroad.
