Brownsboro Church staff change

January 1, 2009

Joseph Cooper is the new pastor of Brownsboro Church. He has served as interim pastor of First Church, Bridgeport, and First Church, Richard City, Tenn.

Southern Seminary facing budget shortfall

January 1, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The head of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is predicting layoffs and tuition increases to manage a $3 million budget

Southwestern announces budget cutbacks

January 1, 2009

FORT WORTH, Texas — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) is “making difficult decisions in an effort to protect the institution from future financial crisis,” according

Tonga suffering relieved by Baptist food project

January 1, 2009

BINGA, Zimbabwe –– Southern Baptists have brought badly needed relief to an isolated region of Zimbabwe, where a national political impasse — compounded by hyperinflation,

Samford graduates 265, awards Hull honorary doctorate

January 1, 2009

Samford University in Birmingham conferred degrees on 265 graduates from 19 states and three foreign countries and awarded an honorary doctorate to retired former provost

Students blitz city in one of state’s biggest-ever projects

January 1, 2009

Christmas break brought something big for Alabama Baptist missions work. More than 270 Alabama college students, their leaders and trained disaster relief workers participated in

Shocco Springs celebrates 60 years, looks to future

January 1, 2009

When Rebekah Waller was born, her parents were working at Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center in Talladega. When Waller got older, she spent her summers