LOCUST GROVE, Ga. – Joey Seabolt has been described as “a loving pastor,” “a gospel-centered preacher,” and “a faithful servant.”

SANTA ANA, Calif. (BP) – Afghanistan tops Open Doors' 2022 Watch List of top countries for Christian persecution, sending to second place North Korea which had held the top spot for 20 years.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Not all students at Brewton-Parker College, a conservative Baptist school in southern Georgia, are Christians when they enroll, but, says President Steven Echols, the hope is that they will be by the time they graduate.

MAYFIELD, Ky. (BP) – Members of one of the oldest churches and the only African American Southern Baptist church in Mayfield are finding ways to look ahead despite the sorrow of the Dec. 10 storms that brought significant damage to their small town.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The late Martin Luther King Jr. called the church the “conscience of the state” during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

ATLANTA, Ga. – Pastor Josh Saefkow stood at the front of the Senate chamber earlier this week, leading a time of devotion that he concluded by declaring Jesus as King of Kings.

KENNESAW – Some college students spend the winter break going to NCAA football bowl games. Others veg out in front of the television and catch up on Netflix. Others party hardy into the wee hours of the morning. And yet others are very content to spend a couple of weeks at home with their families.

DULUTH, Ga. – Season 1 of The Chosen, a Christian TV show depicting the life of Christ and his disciples, has been added to the lineup at ACT2, the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s alternative to network television.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pastors face unique difficulties inherent in their career, but what are their greatest needs? Pastors themselves say they're most concerned about seeing their churchgoers grow spiritually and making connections with those outside of their churches.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Officers of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee will meet with EC vice presidents by the end of January, with a recommendation for one of them to serve as interim president coming at the Executive Committee’s February meeting, EC Chairman Rolland Slade told Baptist Press.

FAYETTEVILE, Ga. — Georgia Baptist missionary Jason Cobb is awed by the Lord’s power to change lives, even among the most hardened criminals he ministers to in the prisons of Argentina.

WILSON, Wyo. – Volunteers from Christ Place Church in Hall County have developed a long-term ministry at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Bible College.

VALDOSTA, Ga. – The number of Baptist ministers may be on the rise in Georgia in the wake of an evangelism conference for teens held last week at the Wild Adventure Theme Park in Valdosta.

MONROE, Ga. – In a brainstorming session, leaders of two Georgia religious organizations asked what they could do to truly help tornado victims who lost their homes in Kentucky last month.

ROOPVILLE, Ga. – A former state lawmaker will serve as chairman of the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s Public Affairs Committee, a key panel that helps set legislative priorities for the state’s largest religious organization with nearly 1.4 million members.

BOWMAN, Ga. – Churches in north Georgia knew exactly what children in Kentucky communities leveled by tornadoes needed to lift their spirits.

SALAMANCA, Spain (AP) — When Kent Albright, a Baptist pastor from the United States, arrived as a missionary to Spain in 1996, he was unprepared for the insults and threats, or the fines from the police for handing out Protestant leaflets on the streets of Salamanca.

NEWNAN, Ga. – Nine months ago, Unity Baptist Church’s campus was in shambles with three buildings heavily damaged and two others destroyed by a massive EF-4 tornado packing winds in excess of 175 mph.

NASHVILLE – Americans making New Year’s resolutions are focusing on their health, finances and relationships, a new survey by Lifeway Research shows.

ATLANTA (BP) – The efforts of two groups of Georgia Baptists have sent school supplies, toys, Bibles, food and other materials to needy children both locally as well as into other states.

ALPHARETTA – Steve Browning declares that he is nothing more than a kid who grew up in a house on a dirt road in a small, out-of-the-way town in north central Florida who has been an incredible recipient of God’s grace. Today he is the pastor of one of Georgia Baptist’s most visible and strategic churches.

ALBANY, Ga. -- For artist Courtenay Puckett, worship is by no means confined to church sanctuaries. She  uses her talent to bring worship into homes, offices and, most recently, into one of Albany's premier art venues.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – Billy Duncan vividly recalls the parade of international missionaries who spoke at his home church every year as he was growing up. Most of their words have long since been forgotten, but not their passion for reaching the world with the gospel.

CUMMING, Ga. – A growing number of Georgia churches are recognizing the value of music education as a way to reach unchurches families.

DOUGLAS, Ga. – A down-and-out mother of five young children who had lost her job, her car and her home was looking at a very bleak Christmas.