Ezell announces full-time Northeast missionaries

Moving forward to shift more Southern Baptist resources to areas of North America with the most widespread lostness, North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell has announced new missionary placements for several states in the northeast United States that have not had a full-time missionary fully funded by NAMB.

DOJ ‘actively’ working to see DOMA overturned

When President Obama told the Justice Department in February 2011 to stop defending a key federal law that defines marriage as between a man and a woman, it was widely assumed the department would take a neutral position and sit on the sidelines.

N.C. Baptists chosen to serve SBC

Appointments to the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) Committee on Committees have been announced by SBC President Bryant Wright. Wright, pastor of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Ga., announced the appointments.

NAMB to link churches & mission field

Dean Sisk is bringing four men to Georgia in July from Belle Aire Baptist Church hoping they gain new vision and new connections for expanding their reach. “We came to a conclusion that our primary focus in missions needed to be on planting churches,” said Sisk, who has led the Tennessee congregation in assisting a half-dozen church starts across North America.

Ezell introduces missionary development plan

Having enough missionaries to support the Southern Baptist effort to impact lostness in North America will require intentional missionary development. Kevin Ezell, president of the North American Mission Board (NAMB), addressed that need during his monthly webcast with Baptist directors of missions and church planter catalysts May 1.

Obama first president to support gay ‘marriage’

President Obama Wednesday became the first sitting U.S. president to support gay “marriage” publicly, an announcement that was surprising perhaps only in its timing and one that could impact the general election.

N.C. native Anthony Allen elected as HLGU president

After a seven-month long search, Hannibal-LaGrange University (HLGU) trustees unanimously elected Anthony Allen as HLGU’s 17th president. The announcement came at the end of spring commencement May 5 at the Hannibal, Mo., campus. Allen was elected in a special called business meeting May 4.

Ky. board approves new staff structure

The Kentucky Baptist Convention’s (KBC) Mission Board approved a plan May 8 to overhaul the structure of the convention and its staff. The proposal, presented by KBC Executive Director Paul Chitwood, passed with a strong majority vote of the board. Only five dissenting votes were cast.

Day of Prayer may have been largest ever

Americans observed the National Day of Prayer by gathering at thousands of locations across the country in what was expected to be the largest such observance in its six-decade history.

Soldiers’ Bibles exhibit a walk through American history

The simplicity of the exhibit – copies of the Bible resting in glass cases – can be deceptive. But the Museum of Biblical Art’s exhibition, “Finding Comfort in Difficult Times: A Selection of Soldiers’ Bibles,” is American religious history come alive.