SBTC celebrates 10th anniversary at annual meeting in Houston, raises SBC causes to 55 percent
Tammi Reed Ledbetter | News Editor
HOUSTON — Hosted by Houston’s First Baptist Church, the annual meeting of Southern Baptists of Texas Convention returned, Nov. 10-11, to the city where the convention was launched.
“In 1998, conservative Southern Baptists living in Texas saw the need for a new state convention that would work in cooperation with and not in competition with the Southern Baptist Convention,” recalled SBTC President Bob Pearle, pastor of Birchman Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
“They saw the need for a convention that subscribed to the inerrant, infallible Scripture without caveat — heavy on miss...
HOUSTON—In a historic event, the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention closed its 11th meeting with a commissioning service for the third-largest group of missionaries appointed by the International Mission Board since at least 1980.
IMB Office of Overseas Operations Vice President ...
SBTC board marks overage for Ike relief, evangelism, missions
Tammi Reed Ledbetter | News Editor
HOUSTON—As the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention prepares to enter its second decade with an increased budget and larger contribution to Southern Baptist causes, the SBTC Executive Board devoted most of its Nov. 12 meeting following the annual meeting to the allocation of an antici...
IMB trustees approve slight budget increase, begin reorganization of mission board
Jerry Pierce | Managing Editor
HOUSTON—Trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board, meeting in Houston Nov. 10-11, approved a 2009 budget of $319.8 million—a 1.05 percent increase—while moving further along in the reorganization of the board’s missionary work, approving the reassignmen...
HOUSTON—Categorized by their attention to theological and moral issues and expressions of personal appreciation, 10 resolutions were adopted by messengers to the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention during the Nov. 11 session.
Resolutions Committee Chairman Malcolm Ya...
In these austere economic times (Wow, don’t you wish people would stop beginning sentences and lectures with that phrase?), a lot of religious organizations are making plans for curtailed ministry. That’s wisdom, I guess. People are pretty nervous about money right now and “extra” things like giving...
HOUSTON—This year’s Bible Conference of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention featured in its plenary sessions an All-Star pro baseball player, a seminary professor who also pastors a church, and a former Muslim who was disowned by his father when he accepted Christ. The common th...
Record 225 professions of faith reported during ‘Crossover Houston’
Tammi Reed Ledbetter | News Editor
HOUSTON—“Our people are so pumped that we want to do this again in the spring.”
That thought was expressed repeatedly by pastors reporting their results from “Crossover Houston,” the annual evangelism outreach of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention. Ten churches as diver...
HOUSTON—Seven Southern Baptist Convention leaders joined in the celebration of the SBTC’s 10th anniversary during its annual meeting in Houston, expressing appreciation for the SBTC’s commitment to share with SBC ministries a higher portion of its Cooperative Program funds than ...
