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3 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Tessa Sanchez |Tom Strode |Tobin Perry
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BP) — Sixteen pastors met with fellow Southern Baptists congressional leaders this week. Pastors met with Ted Cruz, Mike Johnson and James Lankford this week as part of a two-day advocacy trip this week arranged by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Central to the trip was hand-delivering 10,000 signatures for the ERLC’s campaign to defund Planned Parenthood to Senator Lankford and Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s office. The group also held discussions with Sen.
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4 weeks ago | 
brnow.org | Tessa Sanchez
The National Parent Retreat, hosted by the International Mission Board (IMB) on March 20-23, brought 148 parents of IMB missionaries together for a time of encouragement and connection. Laura Harrell, the IMB’s director of alumni and advocate engagement, said her hope for the weekend was grounded in the retreat’s theme verse, “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11.
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4 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Tessa Sanchez |Karen Garcia |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): Religious LibertyFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: ATLANTA (BP) – As Georgia’s General Assembly continues its month-long push to pass a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a judge has ruled Utah’s RFRA protects a religious center’s practice of using illegal psychedelic mushrooms. Members of Georgia’s Republican-majority House Judiciary Committee mustered the votes to pass the RFRA bill March 26, a week after two Republicans joined Democrats in blocking the measure.
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4 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Tessa Sanchez |Karen Garcia |Tom Strode
Metadata:Topic(s): SBC NewsFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: CICERO, New York (BP) — Frank Williams has been voted the next executive director/treasurer of the Baptist Convention of New York (BCNY), the group announced in a press release today (March 27). Williams, 52, who will continue serving as pastor of Wake-Eden Community Baptist Church and Bronx Baptist Church for the foreseeable future, begins his role on April 2.
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4 weeks ago | 
baptistpress.com | Tessa Sanchez |Karen Garcia |Travis Hearne |Scott Barkley
Metadata:Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: The National Parent Retreat, hosted by the International Mission Board March 20-23, brought 148 parents of IMB missionaries together for a time of encouragement and connection.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Grace Thornton |Tessa Sanchez |Tom Strode
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: From the beginning of history, God has worked through agents to carry out His mission. Patrick Schreiner, Associate Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Midwestern Seminary, writes, “[God] enacts His mission and furthers His mission specifically through His people.”First, God created Adam and Eve as His image bearers on earth.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Grace Thornton |Tessa Sanchez |Tom Strode
Metadata:Format(s): Text ArticlesShare this post: I’ve been there. Ministry sometimes feels like a slap in the face, often when you least expect it to happen. A good friend turns against you. Somebody with more authority makes a decision that affects you negatively. Another leader misinterprets your actions and accuses you of wrong. One harsh word from another overshadows any good words you’ve heard the same day. Someone you led to the Lord tells you he’s walking away from his faith.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Grace Thornton |Tessa Sanchez |Tom Strode
LATAKIA, Syria (BP) – The number of Christians killed in the March 6 Alawite uprising and responsive attacks through March 9 is still unclear, but Christians have suffered collateral losses in sectarian violence that continues, Global Christian Relief (GCR) told Baptist Press.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Grace Thornton |Tessa Sanchez |Tom Strode
NASHVILLE (BP) — Deadly weekend storms across several southern states and into the Midwest have prompted a widescale response on the part of Send Relief and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief. Tornadoes, dust storms and wildfires are reported to be responsible for at least 40 deaths. At least eight of those were from a massive pileup of cars in Kansas that involved at least 70 vehicles.
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1 month ago | 
baptistpress.com | Grace Thornton |Tessa Sanchez |Aleja Hertzler- McCain |Scott Barkley
MIGNON, Ala. – At least two Alabama Baptist churches sustained damage in the storms Saturday evening, March 15 — Calera Baptist from a tornado, and Mignon Baptist in Sylacauga from flooding. Alabama was one of many states impacted by a weekend of deadly storms. Mignon Baptist was sheltering between 80 and 100 people in its basement-level fellowship hall when the water started pouring in, according to Pastor Jeremy Brown.
