DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will vote this summer on a budget $1.65 million smaller than the current spending plan. The CBF Coordinating Council voted Feb. 19 to recommend a $14.5 million budget for 2010-2011 at the…
CBF Coordinating Council recommends reduced budget
DECATUR, Ga. (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will vote this summer on a new budget $1.65 million smaller than the current spending plan. CBF moderator Hal Bass presides at Coordinating Council meeting Feb. 19. The CBF Coordinating Council voted…
New abolitionists shine light on domestic human trafficking
FORT WORTH, Texas (ABP) — In many places across the United States, a darkness that most people overlook clouds the eyes of hurting children, their stares serving as silent cries for help. They’re the glazed-over gazes of trafficked children who…
Freed Baptists hope attention will now focus on Haiti’s needs
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (ABP) — Eight Southern Baptist mission volunteers freed after three weeks in a Haitian jail said they hope their release will allow attention to focus once again on tremendous needs remaining from the Jan. 12 earthquake that…
Baptist reaction to Kenneth Starr choice as Baylor president runs gamut
WACO, Texas (ABP) — Early Baptist reaction to the surprise choice of a controversial national political figure to serve as president of Baylor University has ranged from enthusiastic to skeptical to outraged. Kenneth Starr The Feb. 15 news that former…
Former youth minister pleads guilty to abuse
SEAFORD, Va. (ABP) — A former associate pastor and minister of youth at a Southern Baptist church in Virginia pleaded guilty Feb. 11 to sex offenses against two teenage girls. Jack Duffer Jack Duffer, 41, was scheduled to stand trial…
Starr receives enthusiastic — but not unanimous — Baylor welcome
WACO (ABP) — Kenneth Starr received an enthusiastic — but not unanimous — welcome to Baylor University when he arrived at the Bill Daniel Student Center to be introduced to faculty, staff and students as the school’s president-elect Feb. 16….
CBF promotes Bible listening during Lent
ATLANTA (ABP) — Members of hundreds of churches affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be listening to the Bible during the 40 days of Lent. In January the Atlanta-based CBF launched "You've Got the Time," an audio-Bible-listening program, in…
Yearbook stats show SBC, ABC losing members again in 2009
NEW YORK (ABP) — Catholic, Mormon and Assembly of God churches all posted membership gains in 2009, while mainline denominations including the American Baptist Churches USA, lost members, according to an annual report by the National Council of Churches. And…