Ethnicity

BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. – More than 600 pastors, church leaders and lay people traveled from across the country – 2,275 miles by plane from California, 11 hours by train from Louisiana or by car from across the region – to find renewal on “the mountain” at the 2026 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference (BCLFC).

TIGARD, Ore. – This fall, a Japanese-language church is to start in Chicago, adding to 52 others in the Southern Baptist Convention. A Japanese Baptist church in Tosu, on a southern Japanese island, started as a Bible study last year.

STATESBORO, Ga. – The Cambodian Southern Baptist Fellowship (CSBF) anticipates a “Joshua” surfacing in the near-to-middle future, but they’re not just waiting.

RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) – Jeff Iorg recalls a moment early in his discipleship when he came across Ephesians 5:18, “And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled by the Spirit.”

When I think about what happens when Southern Baptists pray, give and go together, I am reminded that the Gospel can advance farther than any single church could accomplish alone.

NASHVILLE (BP) – A spike in hatred and persecution against Jewish people was the motivation for the resolution on antisemitism passed by messengers at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando.

DALLAS – The Vietnamese Baptist Union of North America celebrated America’s 250th birthday during the Union’s annual meeting, which took place over the July Fourth weekend.

PUEBLO, Colo. – For Arod Javier, the first-time pastor replanting Living Faith, church growth is not his first priority. Making disciples who make disciples is. If that happens, the Filipino immigrant believes, the congregation will grow in God’s way and in God’s time.

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Chinese Baptist Fellowship of the United States and Canada’s dinner Tuesday evening, June 9, at First Baptist Church of Orlando was a precursor for members of their biennial meeting set for September in Texas.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Two items of business at the Korean Council’s annual meeting that could have resulted in a great deal of discussion instead drew little because of previous conversations at the local and regional levels.