April CP giving below last year’s numbers
May 23, 2002
NASHVILLE — Gifts to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program in April were 10.72 percent below gifts for April 2001. Year-to-date support for CP missions,
War on terrorism could set back missions
May 23, 2002
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Popular Christian speaker Tony Campolo says the current U.S. war on terrorism could set missions back 1,000 years. Speaking to a North
SBC membership sets all-time record in 2001; Alabama among states reporting increases
May 23, 2002
Membership in Southern Baptist churches set an all-time record in 2001 with a total of 16,052,920 persons, an increase of 92,612 over the previous year.
Death penalty draws federal judge’s challenge
May 23, 2002
WASHINGTON — A U.S. district court judge has given the Justice Department just over two weeks to convince him not to rule that the federal
Glorieta again becomes a shelter from fire
May 23, 2002
In a repeat of events of two years ago, LifeWay Glorieta Conference Center in New Mexico again served as a temporary home to firefighters and
Holcomb elected officer of NAMB trustees
May 23, 2002
ASHFORD — Alabama’s Barry Holcomb, pastor of Bluff Springs Baptist Church in Ashford, was elected first vice chairman by the trustees of the North American
Missionaries’ captivity ‘has taken a toll’
May 23, 2002
NASHVILLE — A year of captivity “has taken a toll” on the health of kidnapped missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham, New Tribes Mission acknowledged in
NAMB commissioning shows diversity
May 23, 2002
The diversity of Southern Baptists was exemplified May 5 when Tacoma First Baptist Church hosted the commissioning service for 46 North American Mission Board missionaries.
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