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Mississippi’s Lee Brand Jr. serving as SBC’s first vice-president

NEW SBC OFFICERS – Southern Baptist Convention officers elected earlier this summer at the 2021 Annual Meeting in Nashville include (from left) Lee Brand Jr., first vice-president; John Yeats, recording secretary; Ed Litton, president; and Don Currance, registration secretary. Not pictured is second vice president Ramon Medina. (BP photo)

Mississippi’s Lee Brand Jr. serving as SBC’s first vice-president

August 5, 2021

By Tony Martin Associate Editor Mississippi native Lee Brand Jr. was elected first vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) earlier this summer at the 2021 Annual…

Pro-life battles moving to center stage in nation’s capital; Mississippi senator takes up mantle

KEEPING IT OPEN – A pair of unidentified “clinic escorts” wait at the driveway of the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s sole abortion clinic located on North State Street in Jackson, to escort women seeking abortions past pro-life protestors. The clinic filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s Gestational Age Act that would protect unborn babies from abortion after 15 weeks gestation. The case will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in October. (Photo credit: Pinkhouse Defenders Facebook page)

Pro-life battles moving to center stage in nation’s capital; Mississippi senator takes up mantle

July 28, 2021

LIFEWAY RESEARCH: Churches closing even as more are needed

LIFEWAY RESEARCH: Churches closing even as more are needed

July 22, 2021

Country’s political turmoil, dangerous situations lead people to salvation

ANOTHER SOUL SAVED — Surgeon David Vanderpool, founder of LiveBeyond Ministries, baptizes an unidentified new believer in an undisclosed location in Haiti. (Photo credit: LiveBeyond Ministries)

Country’s political turmoil, dangerous situations lead people to salvation

July 20, 2021

Pro-life measures shot down in U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. House of Representatives (Photo by mark reinstein/Shutterstock.com)

Pro-life measures shot down in U.S. House of Representatives

July 19, 2021

Messengers celebrate 100 years
of Cooperative Program giving
DALLAS (BP) — During the June 10 afternoon session of the SBC annual meeting in Dallas, SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg led messengers in celebrating 100 years of Cooperative Program giving. Referencing Joshua 4, he shared the story of God instructing His people to gather 12 commemorative stones from the Jordan River and to create a memorial to the miracle of God, who stopped the river so the Israelites could cross on dry ground. The memorial had two purposes, Iorg said. First, it was a reminder in verses 6-9 to celebrate a historic event when the river stopped flowing, and they walked on dry ground. Second, in verses 6-7, it was an object lesson for future generations. In a similar way, throughout this convention, Southern Baptists are erecting memorial stones of 100 years of cooperation demonstrated through the Cooperative Program, Iorg said. “We point to missionaries sent, churches started, students educated, institutions built and most of all, people saved because Southern Baptists have contributed more than $20 billion through the Cooperative Program in the past 100 years.”