Hispanic Baptists from across the country gathered June 9 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas for a full day of training, encouragement and spiritual growth as part of the Hispanic Celebration preceding the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting.
Donna Gaines, wife of pastor Steve Gaines, and Gayle Rogers Foster, daughter of the late Adrian Rogers, were the featured speakers at the Pastors’ Wives and Women in Ministry Conference June 9 at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting.
“Let the nations be glad,” urged WMU Missions Celebration speakers as they celebrated the anniversaries of the IMB Journeyman Program, the North American Mission Board’s Annie Armstrong Easter Offering and the WMU Foundation during the June 8-11 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas.
During the June 10 afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving.
Missionary Jeremy Dager and his core team launched Port City Church in 2023 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In their first year, the church baptized 19 people and have seen weekly attendance rise to nearly 200.
Missionaries Temi and Modesta Akinsanya started ministering in Maryland after God called Temi to start a church that reaches people from African backgrounds and emphasizes pastoral care, local exposition, and the uniqueness of the African culture.
IMB missionary Matthew Fisher firmly believes in the transformative power of trauma healing groups. His training from the Trauma Healing Institute has made these groups a cornerstone of his church-planting strategy in South America.
On May 13, dozens of Southern Baptist pastors and leaders gathered in Memphis, Tennessee, to sign a Declaration of Cooperation, to honor the Cooperative Program's 100th anniversary.
Baptist Resource Network Executive Director Barry Whitworth was one of 73 pastors, national SBC leaders, state convention leaders, and ethnic leaders who gathered May 13 in Memphis to sign a declaration supporting the celebration and perpetuation of the SBC's historic funding mechanism, the Cooperative Program.
Missionaries David and Zoey Kim serve in Sub-Saharan African regions, taking the gospel to remote villages where most of the population lives in poverty, but is receptive to the Gospel!