2011: SBC Annual Meeting Roundup

PHOENIX (BP)–Even when she contracted malaria during a mission trip to Africa, and even after learning her brother was killed instantly in a biking accident, Anne Wright was able to experience “influential joy.” Wright, wife of SBC President Bryant Wright, spoke to a sold-out crowd of more than 800 during the Southern Baptist Ministers’ Wives […]

PHOENIX (BP)–The North American Mission Board honored more than 160 representatives of small and large churches who were among the top givers to the 2010 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions during a luncheon at the Southern Baptist Convention. NAMB invited the top givers in each Southern Baptist association, in terms of both […]

PHOENIX (BP)--Fellowship and campus updates highlighted the alumni luncheons hosted by Southern Baptist Convention seminaries June 15 during the SBC annual meeting in Phoenix.

PHOENIX (BP)--Hispanics celebrated the 524 professions of faith from the Crossover 2011 evangelistic outreach during a June 12 gathering at Central High School in Phoenix.

PHOENIX (BP)–Filipino Southern Baptist leaders met June 14 in Phoenix to ramp up church planting efforts among the 3.2 million Filipinos living in the United States and Canada. “We want to see the number of Filipino churches double,” said Roger Manao, president of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America and pastor of Philadelphia […]

PHOENIX (BP)--The multi-ethnic emphasis of the Southern Baptist Convention's 2011 annual meeting has made it "one of the best conventions I've ever been to," James Dixon told participants at the National African American Fellowship June 14.

PHOENIX (BP)–Members of the Fellowship of Native American Christians (FoNAC) voted at their annual meeting to hire a self-funded, full-time executive director to help bring a “voice” to Native Peoples across the Southern Baptist Convention. The June 13 morning session was held in conjunction with the June 14-15 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention […]

PHOENIX (BP)–Pastors and deacons from Chinese churches across the United States and Canada discussed a goal of planting 800 Chinese churches by 2020 during a June 14 meeting in Phoenix. The Chinese Baptist Fellowship, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, has 260 member churches, said Peter Leong, president and interim executive director of the fellowship. […]

PHOENIX (BP)–More than 120 Hispanic Southern Baptists pastors and leaders participated in a joint training in Spanish June 13 at the Phoenix Convention Center prior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. The “SBC Avanze Hispano” (SBC Hispanic Advance) was coordinated by Hispanic liaison staff of the International Mission Board, North American Mission Board and […]

PHOENIX (BP)–Sensitive to the need for greater diversity in leadership and increased participation of ethnics, the Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly June 14 to ask for greater accountability regarding their involvement in SBC life. During a news conference after the vote, Paul Kim, pastor emeritus of Antioch Baptist Church in Cambridge, Mass., said: “I want […]