Leslie Osborn named new CFO for Oklahoma Baptists; Alabama feature leads to national audience for Bargainomics Lady.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (BP) – Since Long Hollow Baptist Church began experiencing what Pastor Robby Gallaty calls “a genuine move of God” last month, some 283 people have travelled to its Tennessee campus from all over the country to be baptized.

WASHINGTON (BP) – On the 48th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade abortion rights ruling today (Jan. 22), Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore is committed to advancing the sanctity of human life despite the pro-choice agenda of newly inaugurated President Joe Biden.

WASHINGTON (BP) – Advocating for religious freedom and the sanctity of human life will headline the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s 2021 public policy priorities at what the Southern Baptist entity described as “a time of unique peril and uncertainty” for the United States.

CLEVELAND, Ga. (BP) – One of my top ten life-changing books is Andrew Murray’s classic "With Christ in the School of Prayer." First published in 1885, it has been continuously in print for the past 136 years. Murray was a Dutch Reformed pastor in South Africa whose preaching and writing was a catalyst for revival in his own country in the 1860s and the great revival that began in Wales in 1904 and reverberated throughout England and the United States.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Mo Wildey was working as a consultant for an inner-city parachurch organization and became an elder at a nondenominational church with a strong focus on church planting. When some of the work the inner-city ministry was conducting resulted in a need for a new church, Wildey approached his own church for help.

RIO DE JANEIRO (BP) – It’s 6 p.m. and Fernando Brandão, executive director of the National Mission Board (JMN) of the Brazilian Baptist Convention, heads into the most important meeting of the day. This standing event occurs Monday through Friday for one hour, with the exception of the last Friday of every month, when six hours are blocked off. Brandão and the JMN team are there to pray.

Recordemos… Jesucristo es el mismo ayer, y hoy, y por los siglos. Hebreos 13:8

ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) - Los misioneros en toda Norteamérica siguen avanzando la misión durante un tiempo turbulento. En 2020, cientos de misioneros del ministerio de plantación de iglesias y ministerios de compasión suplieron las necesidades de sus comunidades y compartieron el evangelio con quienes buscaban esperanza.

SARALAND, Ala. (BP) - El ex presidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur, Fred Luter, anunció hoy (19 de enero) su intención de nominar a su amigo de antaño y pastor del área metropolitana de Mobile, Alabama, Ed Litton, para presidente de la Convención Bautista del Sur en la próxima reunión anual en junio.