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Apr 5, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Tom Strode |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry
NASHVILLE (BP) – Southern Baptist churches have given more than $97 million through the National Cooperative Program Allocation Budget in the first six months of the fiscal year with $15.8 million given in March.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry |Scott Barkley
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (BP) – Baptist college ministry, biblical counseling and enrichment for pastors’ wives are among key goals Puerto Rican Southern Baptists voiced at their 2023 annual meeting in San Juan. The Convention of Southern Baptist Churches of Puerto Rico (CIBSPR) also elected a new board and celebrated partnerships with Southern Baptists of Texas Convention (SBTC) and Send Relief. Cooperation and an emphasis on edifying pastors were especially evident at the Feb.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Lisa Misner |Art Toalston |Troy Bush
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) — Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief Director Randy Garrett was responding to tornadoes in north Mississippi March 31 when he heard the news that storms were heading to his home state of Arkansas. “And so, what we’ve done, we did what Patton’s army did in World War II. We turned the whole army around out of Mississippi and came back to Arkansas to deal with this,” Garrett said, referencing Patton’s maneuver at the Battle of the Bulge.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Diana Chandler |Lisa Misner |Art Toalston |Troy Bush
Authorities in Thailand fined but did not immediately deport members of a persecuted Chinese church, but the Christians continue to be detained three days after their deportation hearing. Members of the Shenzhen Holy Reformed Church – nicknamed the “Mayflower Church” for their commitment to religious freedom – were arrested March 30 and faced deportation hearings the next day. Fleeing persecution and harassment in their native country, the Chinese Christians first sought refuge in South Korea.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Lisa Misner |Art Toalston |Tessa Sanchez |Troy Bush
SHERMAN, Ill. (BP) – Living Faith Baptist Church had planned to host its annual Easter Palooza outreach event on April 1. Thousands of plastic Easter eggs had been filled with candy, cakes were baked for the cake walk, and church members had packed hundreds of grab-and-go sack lunches for the 300-500 kids who were expected to attend. But a tornado that struck the night before prompted a big change in plans. With tornado damage and no electricity, Easter Palooza could not go on.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Tessa Sanchez |Brandon Porter |Troy Bush
Lun’s journey from hiding in the jungle in a Southeast Asian country to working at the Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children is a journey of the Holy Spirit’s protection and guidance. Lun lost her father and brother to the civil war in her country. Her country’s recent history is a blood-spattered one. People groups have struggled and fought the ruling party for self-governance and independence for decades.
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Apr 3, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Art Toalston |Tessa Sanchez |Brandon Porter |Troy Bush
TAMARAC, Fla. — Lenin De Janon, the voice of Adrian Rogers in the Spanish-speaking world, died March 12 at the age of 89. A native of Ecuador, De Janon delivered sermons in Spanish for 26 years from Rogers’ Love Worth Finding broadcast. Rogers, who died in November 2005 at age 74, was a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of the Memphis-area Bellevue Baptist Church from 1972 until the spring of 2005.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | George Schroeder |Scott Barkley |Timothy Cockes |Troy Bush
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (BP) – It isn’t Haley’s first time at South Padre. So, the college student from Nebraska thought she knew the reason why the vans provide free rides, anywhere on the island, during spring break. “It’s about your religion,” she said. A student from East Texas nodded. That’s it—sort of, she said. And as she began explaining the purpose for the “Jesus vans,” a Gospel conversation unfolded.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Scott Barkley |Timothy Cockes |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry
LYNCHBURG, Va. (BP) – Trustees for Liberty University announced in a press release today (March 31) the appointment of retired Maj. Gen. Dondi E. Costin, PhD, as its next president and Jonathan Falwell as chancellor. Both will assume their duties ahead of the 2023-24 school year, trustees announced at their spring meeting.
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Mar 31, 2023 | 
baptistpress.com | Timothy Cockes |Brandon Porter |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP) – An immigration bill advancing through the Florida legislature would infringe upon religious freedom of churches to minister to immigrants there, pastors and other evangelical leaders say. Senate Bill 1718, introduced by Republican Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, would accuse churches of a class three felony of smuggling if they provide transportation to undocumented immigrants, whether knowingly or unknowingly of the immigrants’ status.
