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Cooperative Program continues healthy start to fiscal year

Cooperative Program continues healthy start to fiscal year

December 4, 2025

NASHVILLE (BP) — Cooperative Program giving continued to be strong during the second month of the fiscal year, again coming in above the budget goal.…

Viral videos draw attention to church benevolence practices

Members of Germantown Church serve food at the Memphis Union Mission. (Photo credit: GBC)

Viral videos draw attention to church benevolence practices

November 20, 2025

Former SBC president Luter announces 2026 retirement; son voted to succeed him

Fred Luter Jr. preaches at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in 2021. (Photo credit: NOBTS)

Former SBC president Luter announces 2026 retirement; son voted to succeed him

November 13, 2025

Women witness God’s purposes, plans on mission trip to Peru

Melissa Hanberry from Mississippi (left), connects with Walter Mattos, a pastor in Lima, Peru, whose church hosted a multiday health fair. Hanberry bonded with Mattos over their shared loss of a child. Hanberry was part of a women’s mission trip in October. (Photo credit: IMB)

Women witness God’s purposes, plans on mission trip to Peru

November 13, 2025

Veterans Day: Georgia soldier survives Vietnam, shares ‘most important’ event in life

Stephen Blanton (center) and his team prepare to turn their tools and helicopters over to the South Vietnamese Air Force. (Photo credit: Steve Blanton)

Veterans Day: Georgia soldier survives Vietnam, shares ‘most important’ event in life

November 11, 2025

Sanctions removal to
be recommended for
SWBTS, Dockery says
FORT WORTH, Texas — Sanctions placed on Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2023 by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) will be recommended for removal, President David S. Dockery announced in a letter to the seminary community April 8. The letter comes after an April 6-7 visit from a SACSCOC team who met with seminary board members, administrators, faculty, staff and students to evaluate the current status of the institution. Sanctions were put in place following a July 31, 2022, financial audit “revealed deep financial vulnerabilities, including large deficits that threatened the seminary’s long-term stability,” Dockery said. “Over the past 43 months, since the Board of Trustees initiated changes at the seminary, the administration has worked to address these challenges, making measurable progress each semester.”