American Baptist leader labels Patterson's charges "outrageous"

INDIANAPOLIS - Paige Patterson's assessment of the American Baptist Churches USA's (ABC) stand on homosexuality is "completely outrageous," declared ABC general secretary Roy Medley. ... (read the story)

SBC resolutions address secularization, marriage; don't reject public schools

INDIANAPOLIS - Southern Baptists adopted resolutions June 16 lamenting America's "cultural drift ... toward secularization" and urging Christians to engage culture and vote "biblical values," but they stopped short of calling for a full-scale withdrawal from public schools. ... (read the story)

Bobby Welch wins SBC presidency in contested election

INDIANAPOLIS - Bobby Welch, a Florida pastor known for his evangelistic zeal, won the first contested Southern Baptist Convention presidential election in a decade June 15. ... (read the story)

Convention approves Annuity Board name change, ministry expansion

INDIANAPOLIS - Messengers to the 2004 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) approved recommendations to change the Annuity Board's name to GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention and to expand its products and services to evangelical ministry organizations outside the SBC. ... (read the story)

Welch planning 50-state tour to promote evangelism

INDIANAPOLIS - New Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President Bobby Welch pledged to go to great lengths - literally - to encourage the SBC to baptize a million people each year. ... (read the story)

Chapman: Time for SBC to move beyond politics

INDIANAPOLIS - Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Southern Baptist Convention's "conservative resurgence," Morris Chapman declared June 15 that "the crusade phase of the conservative resurgence has passed." ... (read the story)

N.C. church, pastor honored for cooperative missions vision

INDIANAPOLIS - Dudley Shoals Baptist Church in Granite Falls and its pastor, Don Ingle, were singled out as exemplifying Southern Baptists' cooperative missions spirit when they were presented the M.E. Dodd Cooperative Program Award during the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) annual meeting June 15. ... (read the story)

Draper cites LifeWay accomplishments, concerns

INDIANAPOLIS - LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention has seen many accomplishments recently, but it serves a denomination that faces serious challenges, according to LifeWay president Jimmy Draper. ... (read the story)

ERLC launches voter awareness, registration campaign

INDIANAPOLIS - In a year when citizens will go to the polls and choose their president and many other leaders, more than one-third of Southern Baptists are not registered to vote, according to Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). ... (read the story)

Reccord shares 'God-sized' dreams, goals

INDIANAPOLIS - North America is encompassed in a sea of lostness, according to North American Mission Board (NAMB) president Bob Reccord. ... (read the story)

Seminary president hurt in fall

INDIANAPOLIS - Daniel L. Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS), was hospitalized June 15 after falling through an opening in the stage at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting. ... (read the story)

Southern Baptists called to seek God's kingdom

INDIANAPOLIS - Southern Baptists were urged to seek God's kingdom in a series of speeches at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting June 15 and 16. ... (read the story)

WMU participants explore ways to be radical Christ-followers

INDIANAPOLIS - Missionaries, Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) leaders and others explored what it means to be Christ-followers during WMU's 2004 annual meeting June 13-14 in Indianapolis. ... (read the story)