Michelle Workman

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |David Roach |Michelle Workman |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Topic(s): Family, National NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: WEATHERFORD, Texas (BP) – The end of the Vietnam War, recognized on April 30, marked the end of a chapter for John Cope. But it also started another. An 18-month tour with the Air Force in the country ended in 1971. During his time there, though, Cope had grown fond of the South Vietnamese people. “They had given so much to me,” he told Baptist Press. “We had very good relationships with them.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |David Roach |Michelle Workman |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Topic(s): International NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: Phil Hopkins is a professor of missions at Gateway Seminary of the Southern Baptist Convention. Armenia, a small country around the size of Maryland located just north of the Middle East – surrounded by Muslim countries to the east (Azerbaijan), west (Türkiye) and south (Iran) – adopted Christianity as a people in 301 A.D., making it the first Christian nation in the world.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |David Roach |Michelle Workman |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Series: First PersonTopic(s): Mental HealthFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: Editor’s note: Terry Dorsett is executive director-treasurer of the Baptist Churches of New England. I was sitting in church on Easter morning, my second Easter since my beloved wife of 35 years, Kay, passed away from pancreatic cancer almost two years ago. I was thinking of the hope I continue to find in Christ since her passing. After a painful experience, hope often feels fragile.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |David Roach |Michelle Workman |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Topic(s): New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Stephanie Friend, who began a new career in chaplaincy after earning her Doctor of Ministry just shy of her 72nd birthday in 2021, doesn’t see life in numbers, but in seasons ordered by God.

1 week ago | baptistpress.com | David Roach |Michelle Workman |Michaela Classen |Scott Barkley

Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: HOUSTON (BP) – A lawsuit alleges Second Baptist Church in Houston unlawfully changed its governing documents to eliminate the congregation’s power to vote on virtually everything, including budgets and the selection of a senior pastor. One reason for changing the church’s bylaws and articles of incorporation, the suit claims, was “to secure the ascendance” of Ben Young, son of longtime pastor Ed Young, to the senior pastorate.