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Ky. Baptists pick young leaders for top offices, celebrate giving

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (ABP) — Continuing a recent trend of electing young leaders, the Kentucky Baptist Convention's new top three officers are under age 40. Darren Gaddis, 37, was elected president; Kevin Smith, 39, was elected first vice president; and…

‘Christ-followers’ offer early help to Chinese kids with cerebral palsy

ATLANTA (ABP) — More than 1.7 million Chinese children under the age of 13 have cerebral palsy. Because of poverty, limited medical services, and China's laws limiting each family to one child, these children are often abandoned to starvation, isolation…

Buckner names Reyes president of family services division

DALLAS (ABP) — In a move with implications for three Baptist General Convention of Texas organizations, Albert Reyes has been named president of Buckner Children and Family Services, which is being revamped to expand its ministries throughout the United States…

Conservatives win battles during Tennessee Baptist Convention

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ABP) — Conservative Southern Baptist Convention loyalists won battles over doctrinal matters, offices and nominations during the Tennessee Baptist Convention's annual meeting Nov. 14-15. Messengers to the convention, meeting at Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, voted overwhelmingly Nov….

Legislative bodies in South Africa, Mexico legalize same-sex marriage

JOHANNESBURG (ABP) — The South African Parliament voted overwhelmingly Nov. 14 to legalize same-sex marriage in the nation, making it Africa's first — and one of only a handful of jurisdictions in the world — to remove legal barriers to…

Virginia Baptist adopt resolutions an a variety of topics

Virginia Baptists expressed themselves on several topics during their annual meeting in Virginia Beach. No. 1: Appreciation With praise and thanksgiving to God through our Lord Jesus Christ, in whose name we have gathered, and to whose glory we consecrate…

Missouri convention disqualifies 19 churches, challenges Wal-Mart

Messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention elected a slate of theologically conservative officers for the 10th consecutive year and disqualified 19 churches under the convention's single-alignment stipulation approved at last year's annual meeting. Messengers also approved a resolution encouraging Missouri…

Arizona voters nation’s first to reject amendment banning gay marriage

Although 27 other states since 1998 have approved amendments to their state constitutions banning gay marriage, Arizona voters bucked the national trend. With 100 percent of the state's precincts reporting by midday Nov. 8, according to the Arizona secretary of…

CBF names first coordinator for U.S. disaster response

Charles Ray, a long-time Little Rock, Ark., resident, has been named the first coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's U.S.-based disaster response team. He'll begin his new position Jan. 1, 2007. The two-year position was created through a partnership between…

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Ky. Baptists pick young leaders for top offices, celebrate giving

‘Christ-followers’ offer early help to Chinese kids with cerebral palsy

Buckner names Reyes president of family services division

Conservatives win battles during Tennessee Baptist Convention

Legislative bodies in South Africa, Mexico legalize same-sex marriage

Virginia Baptist adopt resolutions an a variety of topics

Missouri convention disqualifies 19 churches, challenges Wal-Mart

Arizona voters nation’s first to reject amendment banning gay marriage

CBF names first coordinator for U.S. disaster response

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What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear