INDIANAPOLIS — The past five years of turmoil surrounding the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee led to growing chatter about whether the entity had outlived its purpose, but the voices seem quieter with the recent installation of Jeff Iorg as the EC’s new leader.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)—The North American Mission Board showcased its work during the SBC Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 11, highlighting the impactful ministries of evangelism, church planting, chaplaincy and Send Relief.

INDIANAPOLIS — Southern Baptist messengers approved recommendations presented by the Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force on Tuesday, June 11.

INDIANAPOLIS — While reflecting on his past two years as Southern Baptist Convention president, Bart Barber urged messengers to look past disagreements and struggles in their churches and to “bear one another’s weakness.” He delivered his final president’s address on Tuesday, June 11, during the SBC Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS — To kick off the morning session of the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference on June 10 in Indianapolis, Benny Wong preached from Exodus 32:7–14 and “its sister passage” Deuteronomy 9:8–29.

INDIANAPOLIS — Steve Gaines said he often sees 1 Corinthians 1:18 play out in real life — that the message of the cross makes no sense to those who are dying, but to those who are being saved, it changes everything.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The National Hispanic Baptist Network organized a day of workshops for Hispanic Baptists gathered in Indianapolis for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.

It’s likely a Fayette County first: A county marshal ordered a church pastor to appear before a judge to answer for a publicly advertised car show held during daylight hours entirely within the church property.

INDIANANPOLIS — Newly appointed missionaries looked around the Indiana Convention Center’s hall at the urging of Paul Chitwood, International Mission Board president. He gestured from the stage to more than 13,000 messengers and guests sent by local churches to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis. 

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The SBC voted June 11 to discontinue its cooperative relationship with a Virginia church that has a female associate pastor. The church has ordained at least three women as pastors over more than four decades and told the SBC Credentials Committee it would consider a female as senior pastor.

INDIANAPOLIS — A couple of weeks ago, a huge storm hit the building of Jack Graham’s church, Prestonwood Baptist in Plano, Texas. “The 90-mile-an-hour winds just blew out the side of our beautiful worship center,” said Graham, Prestonwood’s senior pastor. 

INDIANAPOLIS — Robert Smith Jr. said the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch is a “miniaturized fulfillment of the Great Commission” and a picture of Acts 1:8.  Philip, who started in Jerusalem with the rest of the apostles and moved to Judea, had gone down to Samaria where he had started a church. Then he was sent to the Gaza road by the angel of the Lord.

INDIANAPOLIS — Marriage, family, generosity and hope were the central themes of the North American Mission Board’s Send Luncheon on Monday, June 10, in Indianapolis as Southern Baptists blessed a family and provided support for adopting and fostering families.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – D.J. Horton, pastor of the Church at The Mill in Spartanburg, S.C., was elected president of the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference on Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmy Scroggins said he doesn’t have a magic marriage — he has a real marriage. The same goes for his parenting.

INDIANAPOLIS — They told stories about a young mother living in gang-controlled slums in a crowded city; Sudanese refugees who fled their homes with nothing and found a safe place in Uganda; Chuck, a third-generation Korean Japanese man living in Japan who was initially resistant to the gospel. 

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – In his first address as SBC Executive Committee president and CEO to trustees Monday, Jeff Iorg presented a mandate to address issues that have been roiling Southern Baptists in recent years.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Increasing financial transparency, combatting sexual abuse and electing a new slate of officers were among highlights of the SBC Executive Committee’s meeting Monday in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Sharing that WMU has a treasured artifact that went to the moon and back, Sandy Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer of national WMU, told her listeners how Astronaut Charlie Duke, the youngest man to ever step on the moon, carried an emblem of the WMU pin to the moon and back in 1972.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – The Southern Baptist Conference of Associational Leaders passed its largest budget ever on Sunday at its annual meeting in Indianapolis. The budget comes on the heels of one of the strongest years in the organization’s 64-year history.

INDIANAPOLIS – Preceding this year’s Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Send Network, the North American Mission Board’s church planting arm, hosted a kickoff event on Sunday evening designed to set the focus for the busy days ahead.

INDIANAPOLIS — It’s been 13 years since Adam Dooley opened an envelope addressed to him marked “personal” — and afterward quit the ministry. It came during the “worst” season of his life — his son was battling leukemia, and they were traveling weekly to St. Jude for treatments. Dooley said the church he was serving was also “angry about everything.”

INDIANAPOLIS — James Noble said the imaginary letter he had to read to the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors Conference on Monday was stained with water — maybe the sweat of the author’s brow, maybe tears.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – “We’re just getting started!” Victor Chayasirisobhon told more than 100 attendees of the third annual Asian Collective Kickoff Celebration on Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP) – Hispanic Baptists kicked off their time in Indianapolis for the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention with a celebratory dinner on Sunday night, June 9, at the Indianapolis Convention Center.