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Chitwood previews IMB’s plans for annual meeting

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – In the latest “Road to Indy” video leading up to the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in June, International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood joins SBC Executive Committee Interim President and CEO Jonathan Howe to discuss the IMB’s plans for the meeting as well as to share updates from the entity’s work around the world.

2024 SBC Annual Meeting Schedule announced

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – A preliminary schedule for the Southern Baptist Convention 2024 Annual Meeting June 11-12 in Indianapolis was released March 18 by the Committee on Order of Business.

Ferguson to chair Committee on Resolutions through new process

NASHVILLE (BP) — SBC President Bart Barber has named Kristen Ferguson, associate dean of educational effectiveness and director of online education at Gateway Seminary, to serve as chair of the 2024 Committee on Resolutions.

Speakers lineup released for 2024 Pastors’ Conference

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Eleven speakers will join worship leader Charles Billingsley on stage for the 2024 Pastors’ Conference June 9-10 preceding the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.

Cooperation Group recommendations expected for late April, early May

NASHVILLE (BP) — Recommendations from the group tasked with defining what it means to be in friendly cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention are expected to be presented in late April or early May.

S.C. pastor D.J. Horton to be nominated for SBC Pastors’ Conference president

MOORE, S.C. (BP) – A Spartanburg-area pastor will be nominated to serve as president of the 2025 Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors Conference.

David Allen to be nominated for SBC president at 2024 SBC Annual Meeting

NASHVILLE (BP) – Well-known academic leader and preaching coach David Allen will be nominated for SBC president at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting this summer. Texas pastor Danny Forshee says he plans to nominate Allen in Indianapolis.

FIRST-PERSON: The Law Amendment is understandable, but unnecessary, unclear and potentially the unraveling of the SBC

At our annual meeting in 2023, SBC messengers passed the first approval of a constitutional amendment (what’s come to be known as the “Law Amendment”), which states that the Convention will only deem a church to be in friendly cooperation with the Convention which: “Affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”

FIRST-PERSON: What about churches with female children’s pastors?

In a previous essay “Responding to Opposition to the Law Amendment,” there was one objection that I did not address but that I have been hearing from different quarters of the SBC for some time now.

Ministers’ Wives luncheon launches new website for registration, nominations

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Resilience is central to the ministry of Yale and Autumn Wall in inner-city Indianapolis, serving college students and a zip code whose residents have a per capita income roughly half the U.S. average.