Posts published in “Mississippi”

Mississippi Baptists keep on giving even during economic unsteadiness

Mississippi Baptists keep on giving even during economic unsteadiness

January 7, 2022

By William PerkinsEditor Mississippi Baptists kept their focus on consistent giving to Kingdom work in a year that was marked by the advancing COVID-19 pandemic…

Horn Lake to be site of newest mosque in Mississippi

PERMITS ORDERED – A federal judge has signed a consent decree that orders the City of Horn Lake in DeSoto County to issue the necessary permits to allow construction of the northernmost Islamic mosque in Mississippi. (Image credit: ACLU)

Horn Lake to be site of newest mosque in Mississippi

January 6, 2022

North Greenwood Church makes sacrificial gift to relief effort

PRAYER FOR RELIEF EFFORT — Ed Litton (right), president of the Southern Baptist Convention and lead pastor of Redemption Church in Mobile, Ala., prays with disaster relief leaders (second from right), Bryant Wright, president of SEND Relief; Jamie Ward (second from left), co-lead pastor of Hillvue Heights Church in Bowling Green, Ky.; and Sam Porter, SEND Relief national director of disaster relief, at the site of a devastating tornado that struck the Bowling Green area on Dec. 11. (Photo Credit: Baptist Press/Morgan Bass)

North Greenwood Church makes sacrificial gift to relief effort

December 17, 2021

State fair evangelism outreach records professions of faith

SPECIAL MINISTRY — Hunter Tucker (left), student pastor at Good Hope Church, Richton, poses with volunteers from the church at the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board evangelism booth at the 2021 Mississippi State Fair in Jackson. Good Hope was one of several churches that sent volunteers to serve during the outreach effort.

State fair evangelism outreach records professions of faith

December 3, 2021

Justices hear legal arguments on Mississippi abortion law

FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT — Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch addresses the pro-life rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, the day the high court heard the state’s appeal in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization regarding Mississippi’s law banning abortions after 15 weeks gestation. (Photo credit: Baptist Press)

Justices hear legal arguments on Mississippi abortion law

December 2, 2021

Scholarship honoring Chapman
announced by Southwestern
FORT WORTH, Texas — During this week’s meeting of its Board of Trustees, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary announced the launch of a new scholarship initiated by the family of Morris H. Chapman to honor his denominational legacy. Chapman, 84, passed away Oct. 20. The Morris H. and Jodi Francis Chapman Denominational Scholars Award is an endowed fund that supports students preparing to serve the denomination as Chapman did as the president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), 1990-1992, and for 18 years as the president of the SBC Executive Committee, as well as other denominational posts. The scholarship will provide support for a student enrolled in the SBC Annual Meeting course through Southwestern, as well as providing scholarships for advanced research in areas such as denominational effectiveness, the history of Crossover, the Cooperative Program, or the life and ministry of Chapman.  Southwestern trustees affirmed the new scholarship by approving $20,000 in funds from its quasi-endowment fund to support the endowed scholarship.