Heads of SBC mission boards say they will not fund new abuse reform non-profit
Nashville, Tennessee, US RNS Leaders of two major Southern Baptist mission boards said they will not help fund a proposed independent non-profit meant to implement the denomination’s abuse reforms. Plans for the non-profit were announced on Monday night during a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee. The headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention is seen […]
Cyber fraud cost Florida Baptists more than $US700,000
United StatesRNS Staff at the Florida Baptist Convention thought they were sending mission money to help pay for church planting. Then the money disappeared. “The Florida Baptist Convention continues to work with federal and state investigators, our internal and external auditors to recover over $700,000 in funds stolen from the convention through cyber-targeting,” according to […]
Who will pay for the SBC’s abuse reforms over the long term? No-one knows
United StatesRNS After years of delay, Southern Baptists passed a series of reforms in 2022 aimed at addressing abuse in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. Those reforms included setting up a “Ministry Check” database to track abusive pastors and training churches on how to prevent abuse and to care for abuse survivors. The plan for […]
The Interview: Vance Pitman, US megachurch pastor, on why he resigned as top leader at his Las Vegas church
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, speaks with Vance Pitman, who has resigned last December as senior pastor of Hope Church in Las Vegas to take on a new role as president of Send Network, the church-planting arm of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board…
New life: For dying congregations, a ‘replant’ can offer new life
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports on efforts to ‘replant’ churches by applying the lessons from start-up congregations…