The Southern Baptist Convention is growing in three key metrics among ethnic minority fellowships despite a continuing decline among the broader SBC, according to a report the Convention Advancement Advisory Council (CAAC) released June 24.
Three years before the death of George Floyd opened up long-awaited conversations about race and the plight of Black people in the United States, twelve pastors from the Baptist Resource Network of Pennsylvania/South Jersey, six African American and six Anglo, sat at a table to listen and learn from each other.
Parent Partner is a new, weekly resource from LifeWay Students that provides step-by-step instructions for connecting with teenagers four different times throughout the week. Parent Partner enables parents and guardians to create meaningful connections over prayer time each morning, and drive time, dinnertime and activity time every week.
Juneteenth, or June 19th, is the day in 1865 when enslaved black people in Galveston, Texas, were informed by Union troops that they were free--901 days after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed! "I want to make people aware that our independence day was June 19th, 1865, not July 4th, 1776," Coleman said.
Speaking of the racial unrest across the U.S., K. Marshal Williams, pastor of Nazarene Baptist Church in Philadelphia, shared via Facebook Live, “It is imperative on the church today, especially cooperatively… all ethnicities and especially our brethren of the lightest hue” to speak against laws that contribute to institutional and systemic racism.
UPDATE (Sept. 22, 2020): The Baptist Resource Network has purchased the #Sparkcon2020 "associational" package of the entire conference to be able to give access to BRN churches after September 22. Churches now may view the entire library of Spark Conference videos, at…
Baptist Resource Network church leaders are invited to preview and take advantage of this free Georgia-hosted, one-day total church equipping online conference, premiering August 28, 2020.
Fusion is almost like a gap-year program, but much better! It is designed to equip young men and women to reach unreached and unengaged people groups around the globe in hard places.
Effective leaders know what matters. They hold tightly to the mission and the message, but they hold loosely to the means.
The Nazarene Baptist Church pastor shares words of encouragement and scriptures for those feeling overwhelmed by the COVID-19 season.