ORLANDO (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly June 15 to accept the recommendations of a task force appointed last year to rally fragmented factions in the denomination around the Great Commission, Jesus’ command in the Gospel of Matthew…
WMU elects new president, urges unhindered mission
ORLANDO (ABP) — Participants at the 122nd annual meeting of national Woman’s Missionary Union elected a new president and honored its outgoing president's five years of service and heard missions challenges June 13-14. Meeting just prior to the Southern Baptist…
Pastors Conference speakers affirm Great Commission Resurgence task force
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Great Commission Resurgence is a “natural and spiritual outgrowth of the conservative resurgence,” seminary president Danny Akin told participants in the Southern Baptist Pastors’ Conference, July 13-14. Akin, a member of the Great Commission Resurgence task…
Task force recommendations could harm cooperation, Chapman insists
ORLANDO, Fla. — Adopting the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force could have negative repercussions, Morris Chapman warned Southern Baptist Convention messengers during their annual meeting June 15. In his final report as president and chief executive officer…
SBC approves task force recommendations, elects Wright as president
ORLANDO, Fla. — The much debated recommendations of the Great Commission Resurgence task force won easy approval June 15 from messengers attending the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, but only after the report was amended twice to strengthen…
Messengers embrace report, focus on Great Commission
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention embraced a future uncertain but focused on the Great Commission when a solid majority of messengers adopted the report of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force June 15. “We are a Great Commission…
Approval signals Southern Baptist concern for ‘lostness,’ task force says
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Southern Baptist Convention overwhelmingly reaffirmed its intention to spread the gospel throughout the nation and around the world, members of the SBC’s Great Commission Resurgence task force told reporters. At least 75 percent to 80 percent…
Georgia church planter elected SBC president
ORLANDO, Fla. — In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year. Bryant Wright, senior pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church…
Frank Page elected president of SBC’s Executive Committee
ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) — Frank Page was elected as the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee June 14 in Orlando, Fla. A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Page will succeed Morris H. Chapman, who is…
OPINION: Executive Committee treats new boss shoddily
ORLANDO, Fla. — Frank Page was elected president-elect of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee during a bizarre and shoddy exercise June 14 in Orlando. Page is currently vice president for evangelism of the North American Mission Board and is…
WMU elects new president, urges unhindered mission
ORLANDO, Fla. — Participants at the 122nd annual meeting of national Woman’s Missionary Union elected a new president, listened to Sudan’s ambassador, honored Kaye Miller’s five years as WMU president, and heard missions challenges June 13-14 in Orlando. Debby Akerman…
President’s address promotes Great Commission Resurgence proposal
ORLANDO, Fla. — Out-going Southern Baptist Convention president Johnny Hunt promoted the Great Commission Resurgence during his president’s address June 15. Using Joshua 14 as his primary text, he asked if Southern Baptists were at their own Kadesh Barnea, the…