DULUTH, Ga. – The complexity of the sale of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s office building is delaying closing on a deal that would provide millions of dollars for a new endowment fund to strengthen ministry in the state.

ATLANTA – The Atlanta Braves will be helping to bring attention to the work Georgia Baptists are doing to provide medical and dentalcare to the working poor, to rescue victims of human trafficking, to get refugees from war-torn countries into homes and jobs in the Peach State, and more.

PEMBROKE, Ga. — Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief crews have completed a deployment in the eastern part of the state where tornadoes did widespread damage last week. And the Woman’s Missionary Union Foundation has provided a grant to help storm victims who are having temporarily relocate.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – For the first time, viewers may stream the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting and pastors’ conference on smart TVs and other app-based platforms. The new app, provided through a partnership of the SBC Executive Committee and the Acts 2 Network, makes the programs more accessible for those not attending in person.

DAWSON, Ga. – At Calvary Baptist Church, vacation Bible school isn’t just a summertime initiative. The Terrell County congregation, with the help of a mission team from First Baptist Church of Moultrie, pulled off a three-day VBS over spring break. It was Calvary’s first VBS since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Georgia two years ago.

PEMBROKE, Ga. — With parents busy making home repairs after an outbreak of tornadoes last week, Georgia Baptists Disaster Relief is deploying a childcare unit to the hard-hit town of Pembroke.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (BP) – Florida pastor Willy Rice has announced he will not seek the nomination for SBC president at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim. The announcement followed a release from him on April 1 containing what he called “sensitive information” concerning a deacon at Calvary Church where he is senior pastor.

MOULTRIE, Ga. – Pastor Trey Eakins felt great and thought he was perfectly healthy, but, at the urging of his wife, he went to a Georgia Baptist Mission Board health screening at Jeckyll Island for a quick checkup.

KYIV, Ukraine (BP) – The dean of a small evangelical seminary in Kyiv is among more than 400 civilians found dead on the streets in and around the capital city, the seminary confirmed.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Six months into the 2022 fiscal year, giving through the Cooperative Program totaled more than $105.9 million, almost $11 million above the mid-year budget of $95 million.

Paul Chitwood hadn’t planned on returning to Poland and Romania so soon. Just a few weeks ago, the president of the IMB walked the borders of Ukraine surveying needs and seeing how Southern Baptists could help during the first weeks of the Ukraine-Russia war. At the time, he asked Southern Baptists for two things — prayer and financial support for relief efforts.

Anna Leigh Breedlove spent the fall engaged in what she calls “one of the best and most challenging experiences of my life.” The physician’s assistant student spent eight weeks in Nalerigu, Ghana, working at the Baptist Medical Centre through the International Mission Board’s Global Health Rotation program.

DULUTH, Ga. – One of the nation’s leading experts on sexual abuse will lead a webinar in Georgia on April 21 to train ministers to children and youth.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Javier Chavez, pastor of Amistad Cristiana Church in Gainesville, Ga., will be a candidate for the recording secretary position at this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) – Former International Mission Board missionary Wade Akins has announced he intends to nominate fellow former IMB missionary Robin Hadaway for SBC president at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Another 20 people made salvation decisions on Tuesday as part of a growing revival movement in Georgia that has seen hundreds of people come to Christ in recent weeks.

ATLANTA – Pozie Redmond, one of Georgia Baptists' most beloved pastors, passed away on March 24, 2022. He had served the Lord as a pastor for over half a century; and on October 7, 1989, he started New Calvary Missionary Baptist Church with 24 members at the Alphonso Dawson Funeral Home in Atlanta.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – An evangelistic outreach in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Georgia resulted in 102 people becoming followers of Christ on Saturday, thrilling local church leaders eager to see their community transformed.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (BP) – Michael Catt is highly opinionated. He loves movies and attends The Masters every year in Augusta. His library held 10,000 books when he retired last year as pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Churchgoers may think their church leaders have it all together spiritually, but pastors admit they have room to grow.

LVIV, Ukraine (BP) – Nearly a month into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Southern Baptist-trained church planter and educator Yarsolav “Slavik” Pyzh enjoyed a day of normalcy.

DULUTH, Ga. – A team of Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers is being deployed to Poland to help care for the millions of refugees streaming out of Ukraine

DULUTH, Ga. – The Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s free television streaming service has made a series of popular sermons by the late evangelist Billy Graham available for viewing.

THOMASTON, Ga. – Pastor Bill Barber has blown the whistle on everything from unsportsmanlike conduct to personal fouls, even late hits.

SYLVESTER, Ga. – More than 100 people made professions of faith during an evangelistic outreach sponsored by churches in southern Georgia last week, a continuation of the localized revivals being reported in communities across the state.