2012: State Annual Meeting Roundup

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. (BP) — Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s annual meeting increased their budget, honored their executive director, J. Robert White, for two decades of service and emerged with a renewed commitment to reach their state and world for Christ. “My commission … the Great Commission” was the theme for the 191st annual […]

McMURRAY, Pa. (BP) — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania/South Jersey pressed on despite the impact of Hurricane Sandy on their region, gathering for a time of business and fellowship. In the immediate aftermath of the storm, with disaster relief just beginning in the eastern part of the convention, messengers […]

HAMPTON, Va. (BP) -- When church planter Clint Clifton was asked if the SBC of Virginia could do a video spotlighting his story of church planting during its 2012 annual homecoming, he didn't think it would lead to a spontaneous offering.

HONOLULU (BP) -- Hawaii-Pacific Baptists highlighted missions during their 70th annual meeting in Honolulu, even as the convention faces a 2.4 percent reduction in Cooperative Program funding for its outreach.

BUFFALO, Wyo. (BP) — Messengers to the Wyoming Southern Baptist Convention considered the biblical account of Gideon with the theme “Who Me? So What? Wow!” based on Judges 6-8 during their 29th annual meeting at Big Horn Baptist Church in Buffalo. The Nov. 8-9 sessions drew 90 messengers and 22 guests from the convention’s 106 […]

ROCHESTER, Minn. (BP) — Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptists increased their support of national and international Southern Baptist ministries for the third consecutive year, continuing a commitment to .5 percent annual increases toward reaching 50 percent of the anticipated Cooperative Program budget. Messengers at the Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention’s annual meeting voted to give 14.5 percent of an anticipated […]

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (BP) — Messengers to the 42nd annual meeting of the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists at Fairlawn Baptist Church in Parkersburg, W.Va., received “inspirational and instructive” reports, according to Terry Harper, the convention’s executive director. “Who could doubt that we have wonderful, conservative leaders heading our seminaries after hearing Chuck Kelley from […]

SALT LAKE CITY (BP) — Utah-Idaho Southern Baptists focused on extending their reach in line with the 2020 Vision of sharing Christ and starting and strengthening churches during their 48th annual meeting in Salt Lake City last month. Messengers unanimously approved the 2020 Vision report encouraging doubling the number of churches to 300 and reaching […]

DECATUR, Ill. (BP) — Messengers to the 106th annual meeting of the Illinois Baptist State Association heard an urgent plea: Go — to the places and people in the state with the greatest need and with a spirit of partnership and cooperation. “For Southern Baptists in particular, the strength has always been in cooperating,” IBSA […]

GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP) — After weeks of focused prayer and a call for spiritual awakening, the 182nd annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina ended with 34 North American Mission Board missionaries being sent out to plant churches in some of the least evangelized areas of the country and Canada. With the […]