CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will be forced to recall missionaries from the field if donations to its annual Offering for Global Missions do not increase next year, CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal told the CBF Coordinating…
CBF, partners focus on future in retreat
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (ABP) – Chief executives of more than 20 organizations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship joined CBF national and state leaders and other invitees April 27-29 at a retreat center in southwest Georgia to imagine a future…
CBF leaders, partner group executives focus on organizations’ future
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (ABP) — Chief executives of more than 20 organizations affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship joined CBF national and state leaders and other invitees April 27-29 at a retreat center in southwest Georgia to imagine a future…
Baugh Foundation awards ABP $125,000 grant, matching challenge
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) – Associated Baptist Press has been given a $125,000 grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation for its 2010 operating budget. The award from the Texas-based charity includes $75,000 earmarked as a “matching challenge gift”…
Eula Mae Baugh, prominent Baptist philanthropist, dead at 89
HOUSTON (ABP) — Prominent Baptist philanthropist Eula Mae Baugh died Aug. 29 after suffering a stroke several days earlier. She was 89. Baugh and her husband, John, who died in March, are known for their support of Baptist efforts, including…
Baugh family challenge nets BJC nearly $1.2 million in two weeks
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A Texas Baptist family's spontaneous challenge to jump-start a Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty capital campaign netted the organization nearly $1.2 million dollars in just a couple of weeks. Brent Walker, executive director of the Washington-based…
Philanthropic Texas Baptist family issues challenge for BJC campaign
WASHINGTON (ABP) — A prominent family of Texas Baptist philanthropists has given a big boost — and a challenge — to the campaign to create a permanent home for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. BJC Executive Director Brent…
Longtime Baptist philanthropist John Baugh, 91, dies in Houston
HOUSTON (ABP) — Philanthropist John Baugh of Houston, a major benefactor of mainstream Baptist causes and institutions, died March 5. He was 91. Baugh, a member of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, was founder of SYSCO Corporation, serving as chairman…