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NAMB missionaries experience generosity: How the Annie Offering Is more than a gift • Pathway
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (720+ words) ST. LOUIS " Four years after being Annie Armstrong featured missionaries, Michael and Traci Byrd still enjoy reviewing the hundreds of notes they received. "Talk about encouragement," Michael says. "All those cards and letters we got, that's the kind of thing…...
South Carolina AMS Travis Kerns to be nominated for SBC recording secretary • Pathway
2+ hour, 53+ min ago (517+ words) February 20, 2026 By Brandon Porter LOUISVILLE (BP) " Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Denny Burk has announced plans to nominate Travis Kerns, a South Carolina associational mission strategist, for SBC Recording Secretary at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. "Travis" devoted service at various…...
Texas pastor George Schroeder to be nominated for SBC Recording Secretary • Pathway
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (536+ words) February 19, 2026 By Brandon Porter TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (BP) " Florida pastor Dean Inserra has announced his intention to nominate Texas pastor George Schroeder as SBC Recording Secretary at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting. Schroeder serves as lead pastor at First Baptist Church in…...
Most churchgoers regularly confess sin, according to Lifeway Research • Pathway
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (1021+ words) February 18, 2026 By Aaron Earls BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (Lifeway Religion) " Most churchgoers try to avoid sin before it happens and seek to confess it afterward. For many, confession is a regular part of their faith. The joint action of obeying God and…...
WRAP-UP: EC members prioritize CP, disability ministry • Pathway
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (774+ words) February 18, 2026 By Laura Erlanson NASHVILLE (BP) " In a meeting that was at once routine and consequential, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee adopted a realigned CP allocation budget, affirmed the need for ministry to those with disabilities, discontinued fellowship with…...
Together, Africans are ready to take the gospel to the nations • Pathway
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (946+ words) February 18, 2026 By IMB JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (IMB) " One hundred African leaders from 33 nations assembled in Johannesburg, South Africa, in early February to discuss the future of missions on their continent. A common theme reverberated from their lips: It's time for…...
New SBC disability ministry emphasis would mobilize entities, conventions, churches, WMU • Pathway
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (690+ words) February 17, 2026 By Diana Chandler NASHVILLE (BP) " A new ministry emphasis to the disabled would mobilize entities, state conventions and the Woman's Missionary Union in evangelizing those with special needs everywhere Southern Baptists share the Gospel. The Southern Baptist Convention Executive…...
Proposed CP allocation budget moves IMB to 51 percent • Pathway
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (588+ words) February 17, 2026 By Scott Barkley NASHVILLE (BP) " SBC Executive Committee members voted today (Feb. 17) to approve a 2026-27 Cooperative Program allocation budget that places 51 percent of those gifts with the International Mission Board, a recommendation first approved in 2010 with the implementation of…...
For CP, ‘the sky is not falling,’ pastor survey finds • Pathway
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (957+ words) February 17, 2026 By David Roach NASHVILLE (BP) " Southern Baptist pastors enthusiastically support the Cooperative Program (CP), according to a'survey'released Feb. 16 at the SBC Executive Committee's meeting in Nashville. But they also see opportunity for better CP vision casting to rising generations....
Pressley: Southern Baptist relationships aren’t always easy, but worth it • Pathway
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (633+ words) February 17, 2026 By Scott Barkley NASHVILLE (BP) " Life as a Southern Baptist includes working among others for a goal, SBC President Clint Pressley told Executive Committee trustees and guests. And even when getting there can seem more like a meandering line…...