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.
Baptist Resource Network Pastor Ryan Day was a first-time attendee to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Indianapolis. What he discovered there can make you genuinely optimistic about Southern Baptists' future.
A crowded field of candidates led to numerous runoff elections in 2024. After two runoffs, North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley was named president. Pressley is senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church near Charlotte.
North Carolina pastor Clint Pressley, elected SBC president from a field of six nominees, begins his term with two newly-elected officers and two officers reelected during the 2024 SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis.
