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Ukraine Baptist seminary graduates largest class in history amid lingering war

Ukraine Baptist Theological Seminary in Lviv, Ukraine, awarded degrees, diplomas, and certificates to 700 students at its June 2025 commencement, marking the largest graduating class in its history. (Video screen capture: Ukraine Partnership Foundation)

Ukraine Baptist seminary graduates largest class in history amid lingering war

July 3, 2025

LVIV, Ukraine (BP) — In the early days of Russia’s full onslaught of Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian Baptist Theological Seminary (UBTS) transitioned its classrooms…

Resistance to revival: South Dakota pastor becomes an unlikely church planter

Jeff Mueller, pastor of Restore Church in Yankton, S.D., speaks to a group of Mississippi Baptist pastors on a Vision Journey to the Dakotas in 2023. (Photo credit: Tanner Cade)

Resistance to revival: South Dakota pastor becomes an unlikely church planter

July 1, 2025

Israeli Jews asking for New Testaments as wars usher in Gospel, Israeli pastor says

Adonai Roi Congregation founding pastor Avi Mizrachi (front row, right) and his wife Chaya (at his side) worship with the congregation in Tel Aviv. (Photo credit: screenshot)

Israeli Jews asking for New Testaments as wars usher in Gospel, Israeli pastor says

July 1, 2025

‘God still speaks through dreams’: Central Asian missionaries see God bring light in total darkness

(Photo credit: IMB)

‘God still speaks through dreams’: Central Asian missionaries see God bring light in total darkness

June 27, 2025

Retired pastors and their widows to be honored on Mission:Dignity Sunday

Retired pastors and their widows to be honored on Mission:Dignity Sunday

June 20, 2025

Clergy Act advances from House
Ways and Means Committee
DALLAS – On Dec. 10 the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the Clergy Act, H.R. 227, in a bipartisan, unanimous vote. The Clergy Act would provide ministers who opted out of Social Security a one-time window to opt back in. The bipartisan legislation was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by California Congressmen Vince Fong and Mike Thompson, and has gained the support of several co-sponsors. The legislation is supported by GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention and other leaders from a wide variety of large and historic denominational benefit boards. In a news release issued by Rep. Fong’s office, GuideStone President Hance Dilbeck expressed gratitude to Fong for his leadership. The Clergy Act would create a two-year window beginning in 2029 that would allow eligible ministers who have opted out of Social Security to revoke their exemption and begin contributing. Ministers must still meet the standard 10-year contribution requirement to earn full retired-worker benefits, receiving benefits proportional to their contributions.