2010 State Annual Meeting Roundup

LEXINGTON, Neb. (BP)–Kansas-Nebraska Southern Baptists added prayerwalks and evangelistic visitation to their 65th annual meeting, Oct. 11-12 at Parkview Baptist Church in Lexington, Neb. The full-house crowd of 238 registered messengers approved a 2011 budget of $5.19 million, nearly 10 percent below the 2010 budget. Before the vote on the budget, several messengers offered comments, […]

CLOVIS, Calif. (BP)–Messengers to the California Southern Baptist Convention approved a 12-member task force to study the state convention’s efforts in fulfilling the Great Commission during the CSBC’s 70th annual meeting at Clovis Hills Community Church in Clovis. Messengers also approved a trimmed down Cooperative Program objective for 2011. Following suit of the Southern Baptist […]

JONESBORO, Ark. (BP)–Messengers to the Arkansas Baptist State Convention approved a 2011 Cooperative Program (CP) budget of nearly $21.5 million during their 157th annual meeting, Oct. 26-27 at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro. The 2011 CP budget of $21,496,500 was the same amount as the 2010 budget due to the level CP receipts during the […]

RANDOLPH, N.J. (BP)--Messengers to the Baptist Convention of New York's Sept. 26-27 annual meeting in Randolph, N.J., voted to increase the percentage of Cooperative Program mission funds sent to national and international causes and were challenged to start 1,000 new churches in the state convention.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (BP)--A three-year extension of the missions partnership between Southern Baptists in Montana and Tennessee was signed during the Montana Southern Baptist Convention's Oct. 6-7 ...

FARGO, N.D. (BP)–After a three-year emphasis on living like a missionary, the Dakota Baptist Convention’s 2010 annual meeting focused on “Loving like a missionary.” “Loving like a missionary means loving God enough to say, ‘Here I am; send me,’ even to the frozen chosen of the Dakotas,” Garvon Golden, the convention’s associate executive director, said […]