2022 Annual Meeting

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Texas pastor Bart Barber won a run-off election for president of the Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday (June 14) evening at the Anaheim Convention Center in California. 

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton calls it a “gut punch” – Jesus’ reference to his disciples as an “unbelieving and perverse generation.”

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Jonathan Derbyshire grew up as a missionary kid in Thailand. But he never thought the missionary life was for him.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – The church of Jesus Christ has an important opportunity to care for vulnerable women and their children regardless of whether the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Roe v. Wade decision soon, speakers said Monday night (June 13) at an event hosted by the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.

ANAHEIM, California (BP) – A well-known singing group in the Philippines that regrouped after members all (separately) moved to Southern California brought their musical talents June 13 to the annual meeting of the Filipino Southern Baptist Fellowship of North America at the Anaheim Marriott.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – The biblical book of Exodus is “having a little joke on Pharaoh,” in the words of noted author and Bible teacher Jen Wilkin.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Longtime pastor Al Jackson closed out the 2022 SBC Pastors’ Conference study of the Book of Colossians by examining the list of faithful servants named at the end of the Apostle Paul’s letter, reminding pastors that even little-known saints are significant saints to God.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – “In the last 12 months, if the polls are right, half the pastors in this room have seriously considered quitting,” said the opening video for the North American Mission Board’s (NAMB) Send Luncheon at the Pastor’s Conference preceding the SBC Annual meeting.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Despite awakening to a dreary drizzling California morning, Hispanic pastors and wives, church planters and other church leaders started their day early to attend the SBC Español Workshops hosted at the Anaheim Convention Center on Monday, June 13.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP)—Ted Traylor, pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., intends to nominate Georgia pastor Frank Cox for the office of SBC president Tuesday (June 14) during the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting. Cox confirmed his candidacy to Baptist Press.