News – 2019 SBC Annual Meeting

Frank Luter, Jr. pastor in New Orleans and moderator of panel noted that the three goals of the panel were to “encourage you in your field of ministry, challenge you to do more in the area of racial reconciliation, and to inspire all of us to strive to make our churches, ministries and our communities on earth what heaven is going to be like.”

Diversity among Southern Baptists was conveyed via two key committee reports approved at the SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala., today (June 12).

More than 200 Hispanic pastors and leaders came together to celebrate their diversity and unity in Christ at the first national Southern Baptist Hispanic Leaders and Pastors’ Celebration on Monday night (June 10) in Birmingham, Ala. `

Mike Stone, reelected as EC president, is pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear, Ga.; Rolland Slade, vice chairman, is senior pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, Calif.;

Closed captions will be available in 21 languages during the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting live-stream and on the SBC mobile app, an expansion from three languages offered in 2018.

Nominees will serve if elected by the messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, June 11-12 in Birmingham, Ala.

Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear has named members of the Committee on Resolutions for the June 11-12 SBC annual meeting in Birmingham, Ala.

The supremacy of the Gospel will motivate Southern Baptist Convention President J. D. Greear as he leads Baptists to evangelize, plant churches, and mobilize college students for the Kingdom, he said in announcing his theme for the 2019 SBC annual meeting.

The 2019 Pastors’ Conference has announced eight of the speakers for its Birmingham meeting June 9-10 in advance of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, with other names expected soon.