MOULTRIE, Ga. – Pastor Trey Eakins felt great and thought he was perfectly healthy, but, at the urging of his wife, he went to a Georgia Baptist Mission Board health screening at Jeckyll Island for a quick checkup.

KYIV, Ukraine (BP) – The dean of a small evangelical seminary in Kyiv is among more than 400 civilians found dead on the streets in and around the capital city, the seminary confirmed.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Six months into the 2022 fiscal year, giving through the Cooperative Program totaled more than $105.9 million, almost $11 million above the mid-year budget of $95 million.

Paul Chitwood hadn’t planned on returning to Poland and Romania so soon. Just a few weeks ago, the president of the IMB walked the borders of Ukraine surveying needs and seeing how Southern Baptists could help during the first weeks of the Ukraine-Russia war. At the time, he asked Southern Baptists for two things — prayer and financial support for relief efforts.

Anna Leigh Breedlove spent the fall engaged in what she calls “one of the best and most challenging experiences of my life.” The physician’s assistant student spent eight weeks in Nalerigu, Ghana, working at the Baptist Medical Centre through the International Mission Board’s Global Health Rotation program.

DULUTH, Ga. – One of the nation’s leading experts on sexual abuse will lead a webinar in Georgia on April 21 to train ministers to children and youth.

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.

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.

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.

COLUMBUS, Ga. – An evangelistic outreach in one of the toughest neighborhoods in Georgia resulted in 102 people becoming followers of Christ on Saturday, thrilling local church leaders eager to see their community transformed.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (BP) – Michael Catt is highly opinionated. He loves movies and attends The Masters every year in Augusta. His library held 10,000 books when he retired last year as pastor of Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Churchgoers may think their church leaders have it all together spiritually, but pastors admit they have room to grow.

LVIV, Ukraine (BP) – Nearly a month into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Southern Baptist-trained church planter and educator Yarsolav “Slavik” Pyzh enjoyed a day of normalcy.

DULUTH, Ga. – A team of Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers is being deployed to Poland to help care for the millions of refugees streaming out of Ukraine

DULUTH, Ga. – The Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s free television streaming service has made a series of popular sermons by the late evangelist Billy Graham available for viewing.

THOMASTON, Ga. – Pastor Bill Barber has blown the whistle on everything from unsportsmanlike conduct to personal fouls, even late hits.

SYLVESTER, Ga. – More than 100 people made professions of faith during an evangelistic outreach sponsored by churches in southern Georgia last week, a continuation of the localized revivals being reported in communities across the state.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Richard Ross has decades of experience when it comes to student ministry. And today, he’s observing a troubling trend.

A Disaster Assistance & Response Team of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) and volunteers returned from Poland last week to survey ways volunteers from the United States might engage and serve Ukrainian refugees fleeing the invasion of their homeland.

For years, Toby Thorpe and his friends Mike Stanley and Earl McMahon have kicked around the idea of cycling from coast to coast.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Guidepost Solutions is drafting its final report based on an investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s handling of sexual abuse complaints, the Sexual Abuse Task Force said in its latest update.

CUMMING, Ga. – More than 1,500 Georgia Baptists showed up for evangelism training over the past three weeks, a signal that the state’s largest religious group is ready to get back to the kind of soul-winning it has historically been known for.

Shelling by approaching Russian troops didn’t stop Baptists in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv from gathering for worship last Sunday.

NASHVILLE (BP) – The team tasked with searching for a new president & CEO of the SBC Executive Committee is asking for prayer. The group also has launched a 21-day prayer initiative and created a day-by-day guide to encourage specific prayers for each day the rest of the month.