ORLANDO (BP) – Messengers to the SBC Annual Meeting will be faced with dozens of decisions and much discussion. The Worship Initiative is offering a resource that leaders hope will help prepare the hearts of those decision makers as they travel to the meeting.

JESUP, Ga. — To pastors across southeast Georgia, Jack Lee was a faithful shepherd, a soul winner, and a trusted friend. To many in Wayne County, he was simply known as “the pope of Wayne County,” an unofficial title reflecting the extraordinary respect he earned across denominational lines and throughout the broader community.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (KT) – Hillvue Heights Church celebrated a remarkable milestone Sunday — the church’s 15,000th baptism during the 35 years that Steve Ayers has served as pastor. Yes, 15,000 baptisms.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (KT) — Key Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers from across the country gathered in Louisville recently to be trained to help effectively respond to national emergencies.

The International Mission Board has released Blueprint: Recognizing God’s Design for His Glory among the Nations, a new course and companion book for students, young adults, and ministry leaders to understand Scripture as one unified story and recognize their role in God’s global mission. 

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Richard Blackaby suggests pairing what he calls “godly habits” with daily routines.

Alexis Hewitt enrolled in Southern Seminary’s Seminary Wives Institute in 2023. She never set foot on campus. She completed seven courses from home, caring for four young children, and needed only two more to earn her certificate when she died on January 2, 2026. She had turned 32 on Christmas Eve.

TIGERVILLE, S.C.  — President David S. and Lanese Dockery were named the recipients of the Paula and Ken Hemphill Denominational Service Award at North Greenville University in South Carolina, prior to his giving the institution’s commencement address on May 8, recognizing the couple’s service in Southern Baptist life.

More than 550 people made commitments to the Lord Jesus Christ during the GO TELL AMERICA Upstate Crusade in Gaffney, South Carolina, on April 19-22, from among the 4,500 who attended the four-night event, according to event organizers.

International Mission Board missionary Eleanor James met Faith in an unlikely place – at baggage claim.

Georgia Baptists attending the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting this June are invited to gather for an evening of fellowship, encouragement, and connection during the Georgia Baptist Fellowship event hosted by the Georgia Baptist Mission Board.

ROME, Ga. — Shorter University celebrated the Class of 2026 during commencement ceremonies held May 7 at the Winthrop-King Centre as more than 350 graduates crossed the stage surrounded by family, friends, faculty, and the Shorter community.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. — Brewton-Parker Christian University (BPCU) celebrated its 120th graduation ceremony on Saturday, May 9, marking the institution’s first commencement since establishing university status. The ceremony honored the achievements of the Classes of 2025 and 2026, including graduates from December, May, and summer sessions.

BENEVOLENCE, Ga. - Bivocational pastors are spiritual heroes. Holding down a full-time job while also pastoring a church is not for the faint of heart. Doing so while pastoring three churches borders on the impossible. Lee Wright, who does just that, says God makes it possible.

ORLANDO (BP) – Crossover leaders are calling on others to begin the work of Southern Baptists’ pre-Annual Meeting evangelistic outreach 10 days before volunteers descend on the greater Orlando area.

Home. What does that word mean to you? Is it a specific house you go to? In days gone by, people referred to the church they grew up in as their home church. Scattered across the landscape, many churches still celebrate homecoming days with food, worship, and stories of how things used to be.

Following the Last Supper, Jesus and His disciples retreated to one of their favorite places, the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives. Jesus took His inner circle farther into the garden and asked them to pray.

NASHVILLE (BP) – After theology professor Gregg Allison taught about the Holy Spirit to a group of Southern Baptists, an older man approached him. The man said he had been a Southern Baptist for 40 years and had not heard a single sermon or lesson on the Holy Spirit until that day. His conclusion: “I feel cheated.”

FRUIT HEIGHTS, Utah – It’s getting increasingly difficult for church plants across the nation to find a suitable, low-cost place to meet on Sunday mornings. But King’s Cross Church had one handed to it in Davis County, a growing northern suburb of Salt Lake City. The building belonged to a dying church and came complete with a congregation, one of two that have joined with the three-year-old church plant that plans to plant two additional churches over the next two years.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – While ongoing wars grab the headlines, communities and families in several regions of the world fight their own daily battle to put food on their plates.

Jack Lee, 68, of Jesup, Ga. passed on to Glory on Saturday, May 23, 2026 from the Hospice of South Georgia Inpatient. He loved Jesus, his personal Savior, his family, church and people.

In one small Mexican village, life comes with a hard, practical rhythm. Children finish eighth grade and are quickly pulled into the fields or the factories that pay just enough for a family’s basic needs. Most men walk a mile or more just to catch the only truck that will ferry them to work.

ONTARIO, Calif. — What began in 2024 as a national women’s evangelism conference hosted by the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, Georgia, has now expanded across the country to serve women on the West Coast.

Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says he will propose what he is calling the “Truth and Unity Amendment” to the SBC Constitution during the Annual Meeting in Orlando in June.

JONESBORO, Ga. — English and Spanish worship filled the air at the Georgia Baptist Women Spring Event held at First Baptist Church Jonesboro in April. However, the clear message repeated from the platform was that what unites the women is far greater than what makes them different.