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.
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.
Barry Whitworth, executive director of the Baptist Resource Network checks in to tell about the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas.
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.
Dr. Jeff Iorg, President and CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, shares the power of Cooperation and how the Cooperative Program is so much more than a common funding mechanism for the SBC.
Shannon Baker converses with Dr. Jeff Iorg about representation of smaller conventions among national entities, his observations of the work being done in non-South conventions, the importance of giving to the Cooperative Program and 'above and beyond' to the mission field, a summary of the response he is leading toward sexual abuse prevention, plus some of the miracles he's experienced along the way.
At it's Feb. 17-18 meeting in Nashville, the SBC Executive Committee took major steps to tackle issues that have been brewing in the Convention for several years.
Pastor Brent and Emily Phillips of Reclamation Church in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, are featured in the SBC's Cooperative Program story series for the gospel work they are doing in the western PA region.
