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By Sue Sprenkle Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on gospel access made possible through virtual reality. Pictured above: Most enter the lobby of Virtual Reality […]

CLEARWATER, Fla. (BP) – Florida pastor Willy Rice announced his intentions to be nominated as a candidate for Southern Baptist Convention president at the 2026 SBC Annual Meeting in Orlando. […]

The 2026 SBC Pastors’ Conference aims to feature events for every member of a church leadership team. Conference President Aaron Burgner provided details in a video released Tuesday.

Joyful music and uplifted hands filled the banquet room as the SBC National Haitian Fellowship (NHF) gathered for worship and fellowship.

Family Church pastor Jimmy Scroggins plans to nominate fellow Florida pastor Aaron Burgner for SBC Pastors’ Conference president during the 2025 SBC Pastors’ Conference in Dallas. Burgner is senior pastor of Lakes Church in Lakeland, Fla.

Son pastores, diáconos y otros clérigos que trabajan activamente en las 500 iglesias haitianas de la Convención Bautista del Sur – al menos por cuatro semanas más.

They are pastors, deacons, and other clergy, actively working among the 500 Haitian churches in the Southern Baptist Convention – at least for another four weeks.

“From the start of the administration, the focus on deportation, the focus on limiting or closing the border, getting rid of the (Customs and Border Protections One) app that was actually allowing people to go through a legal process. That was very difficult, very challenging,” Felix told Baptist Press.

Lucy Pat Curl, the wife of a leader in First Baptist Church’s Pastoral Care ministry, remains in a coma four days after an attack at her home.

Southern Baptists are better together. That’s not just a slogan for the churches in the St. John’s River Baptist Association (SJRBA) in the St. Augustine and Palatka area of Florida – it’s a reality that’s fueled their shared mission of spreading the Good News about Jesus.