SUWANEE, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board and Friends of Kaleo, Inc., have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that could allow the continued operation of Camp Kaleo. Friends of Kaleo is a non-profit group of former staff, campers, churches, pastors, missionaries, and families created last year to generate financial support for Camp Kaleo and support its ministry.

Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter to their family’s Christian beliefs.

ONTARIO, Calif. — The presidents of Gateway Seminary and Korea Baptist Theological University and Seminary signed a memorandum of understanding on Sept. 12, 2024, to foster a growing educational relationship between the two schools.

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Days after an unnamed tropical storm-like system dumped historic rainfall across the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina, disaster response volunteers with N.C. Baptists on Mission are assisting those impacted by the storm.

After a 14-month battle with cancer, Earl R. Martin passed peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on August 23, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Martin, who taught missiology and world religions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1987, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1927. In 1948, he married Mary Jane Winchester, his high school sweetheart in Washington D.C.

ZEBULON, Ga. — On Sunday evening, Sept. 15, the Flint River Baptist Association met at First Baptist Church in Zebulon for its annual associational meeting and bicentennial anniversary celebration. Associational Mission Strategist Frank Nuckolls announced that “What He’s Done!” would be the theme for the meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College have returned to full operation after Hurricane Francine hit the campus on Wednesda, Sept. 11. The first day classes and offices operated as normal following the storm was Monday, Sept. 16.  

It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator. “The doctor said, ‘Jummai—maybe she’s gone even as we’re speaking with you.’” Philip recalls.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary and the Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership hosted the first annual Engaging Exposition Preaching Conference on Monday, Sept. 16. Welcoming over 150 pastors and church leaders to campus, the conference consisted of four sessions, breakout opportunities, and a panel discussion with key speakers.

History credits Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. with the assertion that some Christians are so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good. The same sentiment found its way into Johnny Cash’s 1977 album The Rambler when he recorded the song “No Earthly Good.” But is the idea true?

Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby let my people go. Hunh! If you sang that instead of just reading the words, you’ve been in church for a minute. It’s a fun song to sing about an intense true story written in the book of Exodus when God showed His power and might to Pharaoh and all of Egypt. We’ve been unpacking the drama in our youth Sunday School class.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Georgia Baptists are blessed to have a significant number of churches that seek to enable and empower a community of saints to embrace and evangelize a lost world through the love of Christ. Northside Baptist Church in Valdosta is one of those churches.

I grocery shop every week. I usually have a granddaughter that wants to tag along and most of the time it is Liza or Lottie. This past week it was Liza. She gets out of the car and immediately grabs my hand. She knows we are in the parking lot and that it's best to hold an adult's hand.

DAVIS, Okla. — Days before the start of a new school year, more than 1,730 college students and leaders gathered at Falls Creek Conference Center in Davis, Okla., to learn how to live on mission and become passionate followers of Jesus. 

PHILADELPHIA (BP) — The task was enormous. They wanted every campus in the United States to have a Gospel ministry presence. For Brian Musser, a self-funded collegiate minister at Drexel University, that meant learning about every campus currently being reached by Baptist Collegiate Ministries. But it also meant learning which campuses were not being reached.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is excited to announce the launch of its new online Doctor of Philosophy in Christian Studies, further solidifying its commitment to making the highest quality theological education accessible to God-called men and women around the world.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — This summer, as thousands of kids and students attended Lifeway camps across the country, camp staff challenged them to think more broadly about their role in God’s mission to make disciples of all nations, and campers responded by giving generously to Southern Baptist missions endeavors.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention is a diverse, cooperative “force for good” that is poised to move forward on mission, Jeff Iorg said at his installation as the eighth president of the SBC Executive Committee, Monday, Sept. 16, in Nashville.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Speaking to the Executive Committee for the first time since being elected SBC president in June, Clint Pressley didn’t waste any time expressing his love for Southern Baptists on Tuesday morning, Sept. 17.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Steve Browning, lead pastor of First Baptist Church Alpharetta, will be nominated to serve as president of the Georgia Baptist Convention at the annual meeting scheduled for Nov. 11-12 in Statesboro.

WENTWORTH, Ga. — North Salem Baptist Church is positioned perfectly to bring the word of God to a dynamically growing community, and its new pastor, Drew Whaley, is extremely excited to lead the flock into its new era.

HOUSTON — MedAdvance has drawn healthcare professionals across the country since 2007. Doctors, nurses, therapists, nutritionists, pharmacists, fitness instructors, community health workers, other specialists and non-medical attendees gather at the annual event to hear how the International Mission Board is using global healthcare strategies to reach the lost all over the world.

CLEVELAND, Ga. — Truett McConnell University proudly announces significant enhancements to its Walpot School of Education, introducing Mrs. Taylor Gilleland as the new Chair alongside esteemed educators Mrs. Staci Ward, Mrs. Susan Sargent, and the continued support of Dr. Julie Lutz.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. — Brewton-Parker College is pleased to announce a generous grant of $600,000 from the Holland Underwood Foundation designated for student scholarships within the college’s nursing program and Temple Baptist Theological Seminary.

Did you hear about the tomato seed that wanted to be a watermelon? He was not content with being a smaller fruit and set his sights on something more significant. He read all the magazines and books he could find about watermelons. He studied the different varieties and the best environmental factors for harvesting watermelons and even researched how watermelons can be consumed and enjoyed.