2024 SBC Annual Meeting

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – During their WMU report for messengers at the Wednesday, June 12, session of the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer, and Connie Dixon, president of National WMU, used stories to explain what their organization does.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Tony Wolfe, executive director and treasurer of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, was chosen June 12 to preach the convention sermon at the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Dallas.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — Messengers presented 50 motions at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting and acted on several, rejecting calls to abolish the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and censure Southern Baptist leaders and approving a motion to unseat messengers from a Virginia church.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Newly elected SBC President Clint Pressley, in his first press conference following the election June 12, expressed his confidence in Southern Baptists as he responded to questions on issues dealt with in the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting at the Indiana Convention Center.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley, elected SBC president from a field of six nominees, begins his term with two newly-elected officers and two officers reelected during the 2024 SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – SBC messengers spoke to in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the first time June 12, adopting a resolution on the topic after a sometimes-emotional floor discussion that featured messengers sharing their personal experiences with reproductive technologies.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Theological differences in convention authority and church authority were considered during the first of two 9Marks sessions June 10 at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown. More than 1,400 people attended ahead of the SBC’s vote on the Law Amendment.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Preaching from Hebrews 12:1-3, Dean Inserra reminded Southern Baptists of the “great cloud of witnesses” – particularly giants of the faith who have gone before – and exhorted them to run the race focused on Jesus rather than hindered by distractions.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — Southern Baptist messengers voted down the required second two-thirds approval for what has become known as the Law Amendment on Wednesday morning.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – During the Tuesday, June 11, evening session of the SBC annual meeting at the Indiana Convention Center, messengers approved four recommendations from the Cooperation Group, which was tasked in 2023 to study the issue of how Article 3 of the SBC Constitution references the Baptist Faith and Message.