Draper Tower at LifeWay Christian Resources is scheduled for demolition Dec. 2. The entitity's move to its new location in downtown Nashville is slated for mid-November. LIFEWAY/Special By Diana …

Randy C. Davis, president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board, speaks during a press conference held Oct. 25. CORRINE ROCHOTTE/TN Baptist and Reflector By Lonnie Wilkey/TN …

Only a month remains for churches to assemble and deliver their backpacks to the Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting on Nov. 13-14. Several regional collection sites are also available. FORT …

In this file photo from shortly before he was elected IMB president in August 2014, David Platt interacts with schoolchildren in Indonesia. Platt, then 36, has had a tumultuous three-year presidency …

In the September 26, 2017 meeting of the Executive Committee, a motion was approved to recommend to the Convention that it amend Article VI of the Constitution of the Baptist Convention of the State …

J. Robert White, right, looks on as University of North Georgia Campus Minister Ken Jones present a photo of the Missions and Ministry Center. Helping to hold the photo, whose matting was eventually …

ATLANTA — When David Justin Freeman stood and extended his middle finger while shouting after a prayer by Pastor Jason Berry of 12Stone Church on Aug. 3, 2014, he was exercising his right to free …

TOCCOA — Last week the Georgia Baptist Mission Board staff hosted new ministers and their spouses for the Discover Georgia Baptists retreat at the Baptist Conference Center. At right Russ …

Literacy Missions workers at Memorial Baptist Church in Moultrie pray over Jonathan's DACA packet before it goes in the mail. JOE WESTBURY/Index This is the first of a two-part story on how Georgia …

The Georgia State Capitol, shown here in this predawn file photo from a recent Legislative Prayer Breakfast atop the James "Sloppy" Floyd Building, will be prayed over during a special early November …

Resolutions Guidelines for the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention   The 196th Annual Meeting of the Executive Committee to the Georgia Baptist Convention will be …

Fred Lodge My name is Stacy Dyer, and it is my pleasure to announce that my dear friend and mentor, Dr. Fred Lodge, is allowing his name to be placed in nomination for presidency of our convention. I …

This Saturday, runners in a 5K race at Oakwood City Park in Oakwood will help raise funds for hurricane relief through Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief. Registration is by donation and the race has no …

ROME — The 2018 Best Colleges Rankings by U.S. News & World Report ranked Shorter University among the “Best Regional Colleges in the South” and among the “Best Colleges for Veterans.” …

MOUNT VERNON — Brewton-Parker College is mourning the loss of a DeKalb County student who was shot and killed over the weekend in an off-campus party. Southeastern Georgia television station WTOC …

Billie Burgess from the University of North Georgia, left, and Chelsea Norton, from Truett McConnell University, take a break from ministry in Ottawa  earlier this summer. The May mission trip was …

Pastors pray together at Salem Baptist Church in McDonough on Sept. 14 in preparation for the 2017 Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting, to be held Nov. 12-14 at North Metro First Baptist Church …

To see all Top 200 Georgia Baptist Convention churches in baptisms for 2016, click on the image above. Note: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to these churches as "Georgia Baptist …

A family from Brunswick who fled their coastal home are finding safe haven at First Baptist Church of Cuthbert. BEN CROWDIS/Special Location wise, Moultrie and Cuthbert are about as close to Ground …

The I-75 and Sardis Road Exit near Macon offers what few evacuees expect ... an impromptu 16-acre RV campground at Lighthouse Baptist Church. TIM SIZEMORE/Special This story was posted near midnight …

It's been a long road back to normal for Savannah resident Rosalind Seymour, right, as she walks toward her home with Harold Baynes, Dalton Disaster Relief director for Unit 8R. Georgia Baptist …

Brewton-Parker College President Steve Echols, in a series of messages to BPC students and staff, said that although classes next Monday and Tuesday have been canceled ahead of Hurricane Irma, the …

New educational videos are now available on the Georgia Baptist Mission Board's Public Affairs Vimeo website. Religious Freedom. Gambling. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. These are just some …

Volunteer Martha Fox of Calvary Baptist Church in Tifton arranges some of the thousands of shoes donated to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina relief effort at Norman Park. The facility became known as Camp …

Saliba Chapel saw "great crowds of faculty, staff, local ministers, and students," said BPC President Steve Echols, adding that more than 70 students had come forward for salvation, rededication, or …