The N.C. Baptist Assembly at Fort Caswell is closing this weekend as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the Carolina coast. Richard Holbrook, Caswell’s director, said a Sunday School Conference scheduled for this weekend has been cancelled. The Read More

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) students, faculty and staff will have to wait a few days longer for their return to campus. The tentative return date now is set for Sept. 8. Classes throughout the seminary system will be cancelled through Monday due to power problems on the main campus and two tropical systems ne...

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Robeson and Burnt Swamp associations will collaborate on an area-wide revival, led by evangelist Don Witt Oct. 5-8. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. at Robeson County Community College auditorium in Lumberton. Whitt, of Jackson, Tenn., has conducted more than 600 crusade and revival meetings nationally as well as India and South Africa. Jamie Parker, minister of music at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cord...

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FORT WORTH, Texas — The last vestige of a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) broadcast ministry that once had garnered an Emmy Award has been sold. Chesapeake Energy Co. purchased the 87,966-square-foot building that housed the former Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission (RTVC) in Fort Worth. The SBC began its broadcast ministry — the SBC Radio Commission — with “The Baptist Hour”...

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Through August mission gifts from churches through Cooperative Program giving to the Baptist State Convention are a million dollars behind the same period last year, according to statistics released by BSC comptroller Robert Simons. Cooperative Program receipts are 4.5 percent below those received through August last year and nearly 12 percent behind budget. Cooperative Program receipts — as ar...

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