Severe storms that included at least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after they spread damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas overnight before moving to the Deep South.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – Javier Chavez, pastor of Amistad Cristiana Church in Gainesville, Ga., will be a candidate for the recording secretary position at this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (BP) – Former International Mission Board missionary Wade Akins has announced he intends to nominate fellow former IMB missionary Robin Hadaway for SBC president at the upcoming 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces bombarded areas around Kyiv and another city just hours after pledging to scale back operations in those zones to promote trust between the two sides, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday.

For decades, the free flow of trade across much of the world allowed the richest nations to enjoy easy access to low-priced goods and supplies. It meant solid economies and stable markets.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Several hundred workers at a Kellogg's plant that makes Cheez-Its won a new contract that delivers more than 15% wage increases over three years after 1,400 workers at the company's cereal plants went on strike for nearly three months last fall.

GAINESVILLE, Ga. – Lakewood Baptist Church of Gainesville will open its renovated worship center on Sunday.

There’s no room for a surprise team at this Final Four. Duke, North Carolina, Kansas and Villanova have combined for 17 national championships. Each of the schools has won at least three …

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces operating in the West Bank on Wednesday arrested five Palestinians allegedly involved in a deadly shooting attack in central Israel, where a Palestinian gunman used an assault rifle to kill five people.

A NASA astronaut caught a Russian ride back to Earth on Wednesday after a U.S. record 355 days at the International Space Station, returning with two cosmonauts to a world torn apart by war.

The first time a visitor walks into your church building, they probably know more about your church than you think. More than that, visitors may have even participated in a worship service already. 

University Baptist Church in Houston has commissioned one of its own to go out to the furthest mission fields.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – The upcoming SBC Pastors’ Conference will include twelve sermons and a time of prayer and worship before the meeting, President Matt Henslee announced.

The House Economic Development and Tourism Committee approved a resolution Monday calling for a proposed constitutional amendment that, if ratified by voters, would legalize sports betting and “other forms of betting and gambling” in Georgia.

MOUNT VERNON, Ga. – Another 20 people made salvation decisions on Tuesday as part of a growing revival movement in Georgia that has seen hundreds of people come to Christ in recent weeks.

ISTANBUL (AP) — Soccer club owner. Ally of Vladimir Putin. Sanctioned oligarch. Could diplomatic go-between be added to the resume of Roman Abramovich?

Archibald Cunningham “Arch” Cree (1872-1944) was 43 years old when he became the 5th Corresponding Secretary of the Georgia Baptist Convention in 1915. Born in a small village in Scotland, his family immigrated to North Carolina when he was 16.

On Monday, March 28, in the House Economic Development and Tourism Committee, Representative Ron Stephens introduced legislation that would (for all practical purposes) legalize every form of …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Pelicans converted undrafted rookie guard Jose Alvarado's two-way contract to a guaranteed multiyear deal on Monday.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s military said Tuesday it would “fundamentally" cut back operations near Ukraine’s capital and a northern city, potentially a significant concession by Moscow amid talks aimed at ending the war that began more than a month ago.

Duke and North Carolina are taking their much talked about and often debated men's basketball rivalry on the road to a place its never been. The neighboring schools are preparing for another …

ANAHEIM, Calif. (BP) – South Carolina pastor Alex Sands will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention second vice president at the 2022 SBC Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Calif., in June.

ATLANTA – The Georgia House of Representatives gave final passage Monday to legislation prohibiting companies owned or operated by the governments of Russia or Belarus from bidding on state contracts.

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces claimed to have retaken a Kyiv suburb and an eastern town from the Russians in what is becoming a back-and-forth stalemate on the ground, while negotiators began assembling for another round of talks Tuesday aimed at stopping the fighting.

ATLANTA – Pozie Redmond, one of Georgia Baptists' most beloved pastors, passed away on March 24, 2022. He had served the Lord as a pastor for over half a century; and on October 7, 1989, he started New Calvary Missionary Baptist Church with 24 members at the Alphonso Dawson Funeral Home in Atlanta.