Citing move to digital, LifeWay to close all stores by the end of the year
“LifeWay is moving into a new era with a strategic digital focus that will prepare us for the future…”
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Baptist News Summary: LifeWay to reduce ‘brick-and-mortar channel’
The number of stores to close and the timing of those closures has not been announced.
Thom Rainer announces retirement from LifeWay
LifeWay President Thom Ranier announced his retirement last night, effective in 2019.
We know why people leave the church. Now, new survey wants to know why they return
As a follow up to “Why They Stay,” new questionnaire asks whey they return.
Church planting up, but SBC baptisms slump to lowest level since 1946
Baptisms have now declined consistently for more than a decade.
Grady Cothen, former president of 2 SBC entities, dies
RIDGELAND, Miss. (BP) — Grady Cothen – the former chief executive of a state convention, a Southern Baptist university and two Southern Baptist Convention entities – died May 19 at The Orchard retirement home in Ridgeland, MS. He was 96. Among his service to Southern Baptists, Cothen was executive secretary of the Southern Baptist General […]
Small church with big idea makes huge splash for VBS
CHATSWORTH — Chris Ray was ready for just about anything as a young pastor when he accepted his first church five years ago in this North Georgia town. Of course, he had heard stories of how deacons could be rather “free” with their opinions when it came to giving advice. But he was not prepared […]