ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. (BP) – The Psalm 139 Project, a pro-life ministry of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), celebrated its 100th ultrasound machine placement during a dedication in Elizabethtown, N.C., Friday (May 8).
ORLANDO (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley has named the roster of tellers to count votes at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting June 9-10. Pressley named David Haynes, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Senatobia, Miss., to lead the team. Haynes and his wife April served as tellers at last year’s meeting in Dallas.
This spring, members of King’s Cross Church in Fruit Heights, Utah, began worshiping in their newly renovated worship center. The three-year-old Southern Baptist church plant, located 20 miles north of Salt Lake City, recently merged with another congregation, acquiring a building as part of the merger. Photo courtesy of King’s Cross Church
FRUIT HEIGHTS, Utah – It’s getting increasingly difficult for church plants across the nation to find a suitable, low-cost place to meet on Sunday mornings. But King’s Cross Church had one handed to it in Davis County, a growing northern suburb of Salt Lake City.
Retired Northern Ireland Baptist pastor Clive Johnston, at microphones, is weighing appealing his conviction of violating an abortion zone after preaching a sermon on John 3:16. The Christian Institute U.K. photo
COLERAINE, Northern Ireland (BP) – A retired Baptist pastor is the latest Christian convicted for religious activity in an abortion buffer zone in the United Kingdom, this time for holding a church service on the outskirts of a zone.
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This season, it may look like your mission field is at the church, school, baseball field, basketball court, recital, graduations, college visits, wedding showers, or maybe all those places simultaneously.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (BP) – Accusations of sexual abuse going back 10 years have brought sexual battery charges and the arrest of a former youth pastor and minister who was on staff or volunteered at several Jacksonville-area churches.
ORLANDO (BP) – Southern Baptist Convention President Clint Pressley has named the roster of tellers to count votes at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting June 9-10. Pressley named David Haynes, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Senatobia, Miss., to lead the team. Haynes and his wife April served as tellers at last year’s meeting in Dallas.
