Messengers to make major decisions in 167th annual session
Messengers to the annual sessions of the Baptist State Convention (BSC) of North Carolina, meeting in Winston-Salem Nov. 10-12 will make major decisions in the election of officers, adoption of a record budget, election of a new executive director-treasurer, and action on several constitutional and bylaw changes ... (read the story)

Yates Association celebrates Seniors in Service
If you want to have a good time, a really good time, join a bunch of Baptist senior citizens! And it doesn't come any better than last month in Yates Association when the seniors met at Homestead Heights Church for one of their four annual sessions ... (read the story)

Southern Africans visit state to talk partnership strategy
The partnership between North Carolina Baptists and their counterparts in Southern Africa took another step forward when the coordinators from the African continent came to the state for several days of intense planning with Tar Heel Baptist leaders ...(read the story)

Familiarity, organization helped avert takeover in Texas, Wade says
The conservative movement that swept across the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) in the last decade has failed to take hold in Texas, because personal relationships and an early counter-movement minimized division among the state's Baptists ...(read the story)

Church in women's ordination dispute withdraws from Kentucky association
Faced with an ultimatum to come in line with "the position of the association" against women's ordination or be kicked out, First Baptist Church of Drakesboro, Ky., voted Sept. 24 to remove itself from Muhlenberg County Baptist Association ... (read the story)

European Baptist seminary shifts focus of academic program
The International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) in Prague, Czech Republic, will radically alter its academic program away from a traditional seminary model to supplementing the theological education offered at Europe's 45 national Baptist seminaries ... (read the story)