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1 week ago | 
kentuckytoday.com | Sue Sprenkle
ÃO PAULO, Brazil – When Peter and Tina Kim arrived in São Paulo, they felt right at home. The new International Mission Board missionaries expected a lot of culture shock with their move from Rockville, Md., to South America. Instead, the biggest city in the southern hemisphere felt like moving to an urban area in the United States. It wasn’t just the shopping malls, traffic and masses of people that felt familiar.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Erin Roach |Laura Erlanson |Sue Sprenkle |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Event(s): 2025 SBC Annual MeetingTopic(s): SBC Annual MeetingsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: DALLAS (BP) – Counseling for ministers’ wives will be offered for the first time this year at the SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas to address trials often experienced in isolation given the unique roles of such women.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Laura Erlanson |Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Event(s): 2025 SBC Annual MeetingTopic(s): SBC Annual MeetingsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: DALLAS (BP) – A group of 10 former Southern Baptist Convention presidents has released a letter expressing support for the continuation of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) – President Donald Trump has named Jack Graham, senior pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, as a member of the advisory board to the newly formed Religious Liberty Commission, the White House said in a statement on May 16. “I want to commend President Trump for initiating this commission,” Graham told Baptist Press. “He understands the vital importance of religious freedom in our country.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: An “unforced error” is a term borrowed from sports, especially tennis, meaning a mistake made due to one’s own lapse rather than being forced by an opponent. In everyday language, it refers to an avoidable mistake or misstep, typically resulting from a lack of attention or care rather than external pressure. Church leaders make unforced errors. In fact, they are far more common than they need to be.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: SÃO PAULO, Brazil – When Peter and Tina Kim arrived in São Paulo, they felt right at home. The new International Mission Board missionaries expected a lot of culture shock with their move from Rockville, Md., to South America. Instead, the biggest city in the southern hemisphere felt like moving to an urban area in the United States.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster ReliefFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: LONDON, Ky. (KT) — A path of downed trees in rural Laurel County signaled where a deadly tornado likely began a path of destruction last Friday night (May 16). The EF3 twister toppled trees, lifted rooftops, and moved a double-wide trailer approximately 10-15 feet from its foundation along KY 192, where it is believed the twister’s path toward London began after making a stop in neighboring Pulaski County.
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2 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Sue Sprenkle |Keith Taylor |Diana Chandler |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Disaster ReliefShare this post: LONDON, Ky. (KT) — A path of downed trees in rural Laurel County signaled where a deadly tornado likely began a path of destruction last Friday night (May 16). The EF3 twister toppled trees, lifted rooftops, and moved a double-wide trailer approximately 10-15 feet from its foundation along KY 192, where it is believed the twister’s path toward London began after making a stop in neighboring Pulaski County.
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3 weeks ago | 
brnow.org | Sue Sprenkle
KINGSTON, Tenn. — Eight women sat around a table, their laughter filling Union Chapel Missionary Baptist Church. Flour flew in all directions as Janice Poland instructed the group of 70- to 82-year-old women on how to make fried apple and peach pies. They have a hefty goal of making 2,000. Technically, that’s just phase 1 of their overall goal to support and send International Mission Board missionaries to fulfill the Great Commission.
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3 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Brandon Porter |Aaron Earls |Sue Sprenkle |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): Cooperative ProgramFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: MEMPHIS (BP) – The Ellis Auditorium was brand new May 13, 1925, when Southern Baptists met on a spring afternoon and voted to begin the Cooperative Program. Today (May 13), though the auditorium is gone, Southern Baptists gathered a just few yards away from the original location to recommit to cooperative partnership.
