California Southern Baptist Convention
Empowering the vision of churches
Church
Planting
Partnering with churches to discover, develop, and deploy church planters to reach California for Christ.
Evangelism
Preparing churches to be on mission beyond the walls of their buildings.
Church
Revitalization
Leading churches through the complexities of church life and ministry.
Missions
Resourcing churches to be on mission cross-culturally.
CSBC’s newly elected president, Victor Chayasirisobhon, was featured in the Baptist Press as praising one of our convention’s greatest assets, our diversity. Reflecting on his personal life experiences growing up in an ethnically rich environment, as well as some refining missteps in his youth, Victor shares how the Lord used those experiences and influences to…
By Terry Barone CLOVIS, Calif. (BP)— After a 24-month hiatus due to COVID-19, messengers to the 80th meeting of California Southern Baptist Convention were exhorted to “RE-ENGAGE” with communities, church members, and the state convention, approved a motion to look into sexual abuse among California Southern Baptists, passed a resolution on race and racial reconciliation…
By Scott Barkley FRESNO, Calif. (BP) – As the Hispanic population continues to grow nationwide and in the Southern Baptist Convention, its impact will be observed not only culturally but in strengthening the SBC’s efforts to fulfill the Great Commission, said a California denominational leader. Pete Ramirez, associate executive director for the California Southern Baptist…