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Earlier this year, Lifeway Research released the results of a study on how Protestant churches welcome first-time guests. The results, as they say, speak for themselves.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (BP) – David Franklin is about as Georgia as you can get, from his drawl to his permanent smile as he makes his way among the churches in Bartow Baptist Association. As an associational mission strategist, he has developed a reputation for identifying needs and coming at them with a commonsense, biblical perspective.

I often wonder what comes to the mind of Southern Baptists when they think of their state convention. In Colorado, our state convention structure has shifted radically over the past 20 years. At one time our state convention office teamed with more than 20 staff; now there are only three.

DALLAS (BP) – As Southern Baptists prepare to observe the Cooperative Program’s 100th anniversary next month, a new book aims to help the celebration mean even more.

AUSTIN, Texas (BP) – Texas lawmakers banned nondisclosure clauses in sexual abuse settlement agreements May 26, following Missouri’s passage of similar legislation weeks earlier.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention and other defendants lost an appeal in a Tennessee district court but have appealed to the Tennessee Supreme Court. The case, Preston Garner et. al. v. Southern Baptist Convention et. al., regards an inquiry made by the SBC Credentials Committee in the course of following up on a confidential report made to the SBC’s abuse hotline.

DALLAS (BP) – Las empresas tecnológicas denunciaron más de 45 millones de imágenes en línea de abuso sexual infantil en 2019, más del doble que el año anterior y muchas más de las  3000 de una década antes, según publicó el New York Times en 2019.

SÃO PAULO, Brasil – Cuando Peter y Tina Kim llegaron a São Paulo, se sintieron como en casa. Los nuevos misioneros de la Junta Misionera Internacional (IMB) esperaban un gran choque cultural al mudarse de Rockville, Maryland, a Sudamérica. En cambio, la ciudad más grande del hemisferio sur les pareció como mudarse a una zona urbana de Estados Unidos.

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Trey Turner, pastor de Church at Wazeecha, que él y su esposa Lea Ann plantaron hace 16 años, será el próximo director ejecutivo de la Convención Bautista de Minnesota-Wisconsin (MWBC) el 1 de junio de 2025.