2022 Annual Meeting

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Whether current events have Southern Baptists on edge or on the edge of their seats, one thing is clear – many church leaders are wrestling with anxiety on a regular basis.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood began IMB’s report to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting with recent good news from the mission field. He recounted a message he received the previous night from a pastor whose daughter serves overseas. Chitwood shared that three Muslim women had accepted Christ as Savior. These salvations were the first the IMB missionary team had seen among this people group.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Strengthen the partnership of the more than 50,000 congregations that cooperate in the work of the Southern Baptist Convention, Willie McLaurin exhorted messengers to the SBC 2022 Annual Meeting in his Executive Committee report June 14.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – During its presentation to the 2022 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Anaheim Tuesday morning, June 14, the North American Mission Board (NAMB) highlighted Send Relief, thanked Southern Baptists for their support and encouraged churches to engage in Send Relief ministry opportunities through the Serve Tour.

The Committee on nominations has released its 2022 reports.

ANAHEIM (BP) – Southern Baptists responded with an overwhelming majority in favor of adopting the two recommendations presented by the Sexual Abuse Task Force presented June 14 at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – After much discussion, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Credentials Committee chose to withdraw its recommendation related to Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – A motion made on first day of the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting will bring a vote to the floor of the convention to “abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention.” The vote is scheduled for 11:35 am Wednesday, June 15.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Resolutions affirming the mission field in rural America, denouncing the preaching of the prosperity gospel and calling for an end to the war in Ukraine were among those adopted by messengers to the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., Tuesday (June 14).

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – In his first report to Southern Baptist messengers, GuideStone Financial Resources President Hance Dilbeck recalled the first time he contacted the call center of GuideStone as a 25-year-old pastor as he and his wife Julie were expecting their second child and had no insurance.