Posts published in “Mississippi”

2023 Preaching Conference slated for next week in three locations

2023 Preaching Conference slated for next week in three locations

April 13, 2023

JACKSON, Miss. (Special) – The 2023 Preaching Conference will be held next week at three Mississippi Baptist locations. “We encourage and invite all pastors, ministers,…

Collegiate missionaries spend Spring Break on mission

Baptist Student Union Spring Break Mission Trip – Lisbon, Portugal

Collegiate missionaries spend Spring Break on mission

April 11, 2023

Disaster relief teams break for Easter, return to fields this week

RESTOCKING – Supplies from a charity organization in Texas are unloaded March 29 at the First Church, Flora, disaster relief location in Rolling Fork. Volunteers from First Church, Clinton, and Country Woods Church, Byram, were assisting that day. (Photo credit: William Perkins)

Disaster relief teams break for Easter, return to fields this week

April 10, 2023

Disaster relief soldiering on after latest wave of bad weather

WRIGHT IN ROLLING FORK – Bryant Wright (left), president of Send Relief, the joint compassion ministry of Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board and North American Mission Board, visits with Baptist disaster relief workers stationed at First Church, Rolling Fork, on March 31. The Mississippi Delta city was virtually destroyed by an EF-4 tornado on March 24 and has seen a large on-scene response of trained volunteers from Mississippi Baptist Disaster Relief, Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief, and Alabama Baptist Disaster Relief. (Photo credit: William Perkins)

Disaster relief soldiering on after latest wave of bad weather

April 3, 2023

Rolling Fork pastors describe deadly storm’s destruction, aftermath

UTTER DESTRUCTION – Blue skies on the morning of March 27 belie the devastation of a direct hit by a massive tornado on the evening of March 24 in the Mississippi Delta city of Rolling Fork. Trained volunteers with Mississippi Baptist Disaster Relief are on the scene in multiple locations that suffered severe damage and deaths as the storm worked its way through the state. (Photo credit: Tony Martin)

Rolling Fork pastors describe deadly storm’s destruction, aftermath

March 29, 2023

Trump, pro-life leaders at
odds in recent developments
NASHVILLE (BP) — The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission released a letter Jan. 16 calling for President Trump’s action on recent issues that have brought friction between the pro-life movement and an administration historically supportive of it. Trump’s terms in the White House have been consequential for the pro-life movement, to say the least. Shortly after taking office last year, he enforced the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funding of abortions. He reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy. Perhaps most of all, the appointment of three pro-life Supreme Court justices in his first term led to the overturning of Roe v Wade. Last week, however, the president said conservative Republicans need to be “flexible” regarding Hyde during across-the-aisle negotiations over health care. Hyde has factored in debates on Affordable Care Act subsidies that expired last year. Conservatives, of course, didn’t like the idea, which led the White House to walk back the president’s comments. The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved another generic abortion drug last fall. Chemical abortions account for 63 percent of all abortions, per a 2023 study by the Guttmacher Institute. This week, it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services quietly released tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood through Title X that had been withheld since last spring as part of a move by lawmakers to defund abortion providers for at least one year. Trump told reporters he was unaware of those disbursements. Hollingsworth described the Hyde Amendment as “not up for debate.”