Brandon Porter

2 weeks ago | baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Brandon Porter |Timothy Cockes |Tom Strode

DALLAS (BP) — International Mission Board President Paul Chitwood encouraged all Southern Baptists to recognize their role in missions during the IMB report at the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Dallas. Chitwood delivered the report to messengers Wednesday afternoon near the conclusion of the two-day meeting. The focus of the entity’s report amplified the essence of IMB’s recurrent message that Southern Baptists are stronger when reaching the nations, together.

2 weeks ago | baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Brandon Porter |Laura Erlanson |Tom Strode

DALLAS (BP) – SBC Pastors’ Conference President DJ Horton will occupy a spot on a special committee alongside former Send Relief President Bryant Wright and Ted Traylor, longtime pastor of Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fla., to study the future of the event that precedes the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.

2 weeks ago | baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Laura Erlanson |Clint Pressley |Scott Barkley

NASHVILLE (BP) – A key figure in the Southern Baptist Convention’s investigation into the alleged mishandling of sexual abuse has died. Sources confirm to Baptist Press that Jennifer Lyell died late Saturday after a significant stroke. In 2018, Lyell told Baptist Press she had been sexually abused by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills while she was a student at the school.

4 weeks ago | baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Jayson Larson |Brandon Porter |Scott Barkley

NEW ORLEANS – The 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program was celebrated during chapel at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary throughout the spring 2025 semester. A series of videos shared during several chapel services featured NOBTS faculty members discussing the history and importance of the Cooperative Program. Faculty participants included Thomas Strong, Greg Wilton and Chris Shaffer.

4 weeks ago | baptistpress.com | Jayson Larson |Brandon Porter |Karen L. Willoughby |Scott Barkley

When many Christians imagine unreached people groups, they envision dense jungles and dusty trails. They see villages full of sun-baked huts with thatched roofs housing exotic natives in some of the most remote, difficult-to-reach places on the planet. In Europe, those unreached people aren’t hidden and they aren’t hard to reach. There are 820 million of them, and almost none of them know Jesus. Only 1.1 percent of Europe’s residents are evangelical.