Southern Baptists, faced in recent months with hundreds of allegations of sexual abuse in its ranks, have overwhelmingly adopted changes to governing documents that will bring greater visibility to their desire to disaffiliate with churches that do not handle instances of abuse properly.
A refugee girl in the “cradle of Christianity” – who captured the hearts of millions on TV and social media with a message of hope and forgiveness – is calling on Christians to take action on World Refugee Day, June 20.
This week, at Wheaton College in Illinois, specially trained movers will begin organizing, preparing and packing 3,235 boxes of paper items, 1,000 scrapbooks of news clippings dating back to the 1940s and more than 1,000 linear feet of videos, cassettes, reels, films and audio.
Southern Baptists hope to take steps at their upcoming annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., to address continuing reports of sexual abuse in their denomination.
Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team are deploying to Jefferson City, Mo., following a destructive EF-3 tornado that impacted an area of approximately three square miles, damaging more than 150 structures. The twister was one of more than a dozen that tore through the state earlier this week.
On May 1 – 4, Christ for all Nations (CfaN) hosted the Light the Fire Again Conference at the Attwell Centre in Toronto, Canada. The historic venue was the site of the Toronto Blessing – an outpouring of the Holy Spirit experienced by multiple hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-to-late 1990s. CfaN Lead Evangelist Daniel Kolenda said prior to the meetings, “We are believing God for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit to shake North America again!”
