The Georgia Baptist Mission Board is encouraging all our churches to make sure their members are registered to vote in the general election by October 7. Citizens may go to the Georgia Secretary of …

SUWANEE, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board and Friends of Kaleo, Inc., have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that could allow the continued operation of Camp Kaleo. Friends of Kaleo is a non-profit group of former staff, campers, churches, pastors, missionaries, and families created last year to generate financial support for Camp Kaleo and support its ministry.

Florida pastor Melvin Adams knows a few hours of church programming every week is no match for the more than 30 hours children spend at secular schools, absorbing lessons that he says run counter to their family’s Christian beliefs.

ONTARIO, Calif. — The presidents of Gateway Seminary and Korea Baptist Theological University and Seminary signed a memorandum of understanding on Sept. 12, 2024, to foster a growing educational relationship between the two schools.

SOUTHPORT, N.C. — Days after an unnamed tropical storm-like system dumped historic rainfall across the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina, disaster response volunteers with N.C. Baptists on Mission are assisting those impacted by the storm.

After a 14-month battle with cancer, Earl R. Martin passed peacefully at home surrounded by loved ones on August 23, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas. Martin, who taught missiology and world religions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1982-1987, was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1927. In 1948, he married Mary Jane Winchester, his high school sweetheart in Washington D.C.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid.

ZEBULON, Ga. — On Sunday evening, Sept. 15, the Flint River Baptist Association met at First Baptist Church in Zebulon for its annual associational meeting and bicentennial anniversary celebration. Associational Mission Strategist Frank Nuckolls announced that “What He’s Done!” would be the theme for the meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Leavell College have returned to full operation after Hurricane Francine hit the campus on Wednesda, Sept. 11. The first day classes and offices operated as normal following the storm was Monday, Sept. 16.  

It was nighttime when Philip Nache received a call he’ll never forget. The doctor was asking for his approval to place his wife on a ventilator. “The doctor said, ‘Jummai—maybe she’s gone even as we’re speaking with you.’” Philip recalls.

WAKE FOREST, N.C. — Southeastern Seminary and the Center for Preaching and Pastoral Leadership hosted the first annual Engaging Exposition Preaching Conference on Monday, Sept. 16. Welcoming over 150 pastors and church leaders to campus, the conference consisted of four sessions, breakout opportunities, and a panel discussion with key speakers.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday pledged billions of euros in aid for Central European countries that suffered enormous damage to infrastructure and housing during the massive flooding that has so far claimed 24 lives in the region.

MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani looked up at a visiting crowd that turned out to cheer him and the Los Angeles Dodgers — and ended up getting to witness one of the greatest individual performances, and seasons, in major league history.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Matt Olson hit two of Atlanta's six home runs, Chris Sale coasted to his major league-leading 18th win and the Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 15-3 on Thursday.

BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week's deadly sabotage of its members' communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting would not be able to return until the war in Gaza ends.

ATLANTA – Georgia’s unemployment rate rose in August for the fourth month in a row, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. The state’s jobless rate of 3.6% last month was up two-tenths from July’s 3.4% but still six-tenths lower than the national unemployment rate. However, Georgia continued to set workforce records in August.

NEW YORK (AP) — Less than two weeks before his 100th birthday, former President Jimmy Carter is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, which has set aside its longstanding rule that the winner accept the honor in person.

History credits Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. with the assertion that some Christians are so heavenly minded that they’re no earthly good. The same sentiment found its way into Johnny Cash’s 1977 album The Rambler when he recorded the song “No Earthly Good.” But is the idea true?

CINCINNATI (AP) — Marcell Ozuna homered, Gio Urshela drove in three runs and Spencer Schwellenbach pitched six innings of one-run ball as the Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-1 on Wednesday night.

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah fired a new barrage into northern Israel on Thursday, continuing its drumbeat of exchanges with the Israeli military as fears of a greater war rise after hundreds of electronic devices exploded in Lebanon, killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 3,000 others.

ATLANTA (AP) — Another big Atlanta crowd finally got a chance to see Lionel Messi in an MLS match. They nearly watched United pull out a much-needed win over league-leading Inter Miami.

Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby let my people go. Hunh! If you sang that instead of just reading the words, you’ve been in church for a minute. It’s a fun song to sing about an intense true story written in the book of Exodus when God showed His power and might to Pharaoh and all of Egypt. We’ve been unpacking the drama in our youth Sunday School class.

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Georgia Baptists are blessed to have a significant number of churches that seek to enable and empower a community of saints to embrace and evangelize a lost world through the love of Christ. Northside Baptist Church in Valdosta is one of those churches.

I grocery shop every week. I usually have a granddaughter that wants to tag along and most of the time it is Liza or Lottie. This past week it was Liza. She gets out of the car and immediately grabs my hand. She knows we are in the parking lot and that it's best to hold an adult's hand.

DAVIS, Okla. — Days before the start of a new school year, more than 1,730 college students and leaders gathered at Falls Creek Conference Center in Davis, Okla., to learn how to live on mission and become passionate followers of Jesus.