We were at the beach last week for our family vacation. It's always an adventure when the adults are outnumbered by the kids - five adults to seven children under 14 keeps you on your toes, and I might add can be quite exhausting, but that's another story.

CUTHBERT, Ga. — David and Gay Crowdis said they believe it’s not the size of a church’s congregation that matters, but rather what that congregation does to serve its mission, regardless of its size. David is the pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church in Cuthbert. His wife said the church is “off the beaten path” near the border of Randolph and Calhoun counties, which each have fewer than 7,000 residents.

MORGANTOWN, Ky. (KT) - Graham West is what’s right with today’s youth. West is a junior at UK majoring in music performance, is taking classes at Clear Creek Baptist Bible College and is serving as pastor of Woodbury Missionary Baptist Church in Morgantown. And he is 19.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Most churchgoers believe Christians have a good reputation with Americans in general, but they worry those feelings are starting to sour. A Lifeway Research study finds 53% of U.S. Protestant churchgoers say most Americans have a positive perception of Christians. Two in 5 (40%) disagree, and 8% aren’t sure.

TAZEWELL, Tenn. — In the early evening hours of June 1, word began spreading among members of Springdale Baptist Church that their building was on fire.

FORT WORTH, Texas  — The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has continued its accreditation warning for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

One of the most treasured possessions in a family’s home is the collection of recipes. Passed down through generations, certain dishes become family favorites and even commemorate certain occasions.

The rapid growth of the Church caused concern among the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem. Notice the varied groups that were “annoyed” by the apostles’ proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus and therefore arrested the disciples (vv. 2, 3).

MACON, Ga. —  Dr. Tim McCoy, pastor of Ingleside Baptist Church in Macon, will celebrate his 66th birthday on June 29, just one day before his last Sunday as pastor of the dynamic and influential church he has served for 35 years.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) — This year's SBC Annual Meeting and Pastors’ Conference was responsible for an estimated $20,169,855 economic impact on the host city. With 10,946 messengers representing 3,988 churches and 16,818 total attendees, this year’s gathering was the third largest since 2010.

RIVERSIDE, Ala. — Riverside Baptist Church was destroyed by fire early this morning (June 20) after it was struck by a car that apparently missed a sharp curve outside the church. The driver, a male, was killed but has not yet been identified by officials.

Church planting was part of NewBranch Community Church’s vision from the beginning, says Teaching Pastor Ken Rucker. The question for this Georgia church, which began gathering in 2008, had always been, “When’s the right time to plant?”

Twenty people. No pastor. One nearly empty parking lot. A baptistry that hadn’t been filled in five years. That was what was left of Fishersville Baptist Church by the fall of 2022.

INDIANAPOLIS – In many ways, American culture is becoming more hostile to biblical Christianity, said Jimmy Scroggins as he and Trevin Wax opened the North American Mission Board’s Church-Based Schools Breakfast as one of the ancillary events at this year's SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

Jane Hwang’s eyes scanned the list of cities. The last job, for student ministry in Tokyo, caught her attention. In the job description, she noted the lack of hope and knowledge of eternal life among the Japanese, and she felt the Lord was leading her to serve in Japan. 

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — After 30 years of service, Don Startup, worship pastor at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cartersville, Ga., is retiring. On Sunday, June 16, one week before his final service as worship pastor, the church celebrated Pastor Startup and his ministry.

Repentance is a change of mind and attitude that results in a change of life and actions. Repentance is necessary after hearing and understanding the previous six essential elements of the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

CARTHAGE, Texas — An East Texas church’s year-end surplus enabled Baptist World Alliance partners to deliver thousands of Bibles to people in a rural area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Listening to the morning sounds in the mountains, I hear birds tweeting and greeting. They call across the hills, “Good morning! It’s time to get up.” God didn’t have to make birds sing. But He did.

Three sentences were jotted on the piece of paper a church member handed Nicholas Peveto after a morning worship service in 2011: “The time is short. You need to go. Trust God.” “Do you know what that means?” the church member asked. “I know exactly what that means,” Peveto answered. 

SPRINGFIELD, Ga. — First Baptist Church of Springfield suffered a tragic loss Monday when one of their VBS directors was killed in a traffic accident. The Effingham County Sheriff’s Department reported on its Facebook page that emergency personnel responded to a two-vehicle crash near the intersection of McCall Road and Highway 21 in Springfield. Two occupants of a pickup truck were taken to the hospital, and the driver of the other vehicle, Laura Devisscher, was killed

In April of 1860, Deacon Benajah S. Sheats, a Baptist layman/farmer from Clarke County, stood to make a motion at the Georgia Baptist Convention meeting in Macon.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – Tony Dickerson is known as a Baptist statesman, an anointed expository preacher, and a loving pastoral shepherd who is about to enter his 52nd year as senior pastor of Pinehurst Baptist Church in Columbus. He is also a proven leader and a genuine man of God.

When Children’s Director JoAnn Mann and her colleagues, most embarking on their first international mission trip, signed up with Send Relief to serve in Puerto Rico, they had no idea that the experience would forge deep connections not only with the family they were meant to assist but also with each other.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Late last Wednesday afternoon, June 12, the gavel dropped at the 2024 SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis and thus officially ended the service of those on the Convention’s Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force. However, several weren’t there to see it.