Sacrificial giving has been Texas church’s story for 125 years
BEAUMONT, Texas – The sacrificial giving that happens at Calvary Baptist Church today has a direct link to the church’s beginning.
Russian/Ukrainian multiethnic church sees Gospel reconciliation as war lingers
TACOMA, Wash. (BP) – As lead pastor of Good News Church in Tacoma, Moscow-born Vasiliy Stupin appreciates the reconciling power of the Gospel among the church’s 800 or so members and attendees from Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe.
FIRST-PERSON: Celebrating the Cooperative Program with children
Funding missions cooperatively is a hallmark of Southern Baptist churches. But here’s a question worth asking: Do the children in your church know that?
FIRST-PERSON: Why am I a Southern Baptist?
Editor’s note: Recently, Midwestern Seminary & Spurgeon College hosted a chapel panel discussion on the topic, “Why We are Southern Baptist.” This article by Jason Duesing expands upon his comments during the chapel session and is based on his course lectures and essays written over the last two decades. Watch the full panel here. Why am I a […]
Katrina reshaped landscape, complexion, unity of New Orleans churches, leaders say
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The church doors would remain open, David Crosby decided after the levees failed New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi church stunned by Katrina repays NC volunteers after Helene
GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) – The people of First Baptist Church are very familiar with what it feels like to have your world swept away.
Colorado church trying to help raise up pastors
MONTROSE, Colo.(BP) – Celebration Church here has burst into bloom on the state’s Western Slope. Like the church, stunningly beautiful mountain meadow blooms cast their seeds as far as the wind takes them.
Citing challenges overcome 100 years ago, Iorg urges Southern Baptists to choose cooperation
DALLAS (BP) – In 1925, Southern Baptists faced a “percolating maelstrom of denominational uncertainty,” Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg said in his EC report to messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting June 10. And in a time when solutions were needed, “courageous leaders redefined cooperation.”
FIRST-PERSON: A foundational choice
One of the most important new sentences in the proposed revised Business and Financial Plan is in the first section – The Cooperative Program. Under the heading Priority, the Plan declares, “The financial health of the Convention is predicated on generous giving by churches through the Cooperative Program, and the Convention appeals to churches to prioritize giving through the Cooperative Program.”
FIRST-PERSON: Cooperation as a Southern Baptist distinctive
Cooperation as a convictional, operational mindset is the foundation of the movement known as Southern Baptists. Many Southern Baptists equate cooperation with the Cooperative Program, our common funding mechanism, but it is much more than that. Cooperation is the theological and theoretical foundation upon which our movement rests.
