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Broadmoor Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., issued a response to a decades-old report of sexual abuse at the church. In doing so, they may have become the model for how to properly report older cases.

• Mississippi church commits to ‘more thorough response’ for 1980s abuse case – https://bit.ly/3t3yC84
• Middle school principal, Baptist youth volunteer arrested on child sex-related charges – https://bit.ly/3fArmxq
• Churchgoers increasingly prefer a congregation that shares their politics – https://bit.ly/3U7MNVC
• Southern Baptist Disaster Relief receives $400,000 from State of Florida – https://bit.ly/3E0adGR
• Barber, Wellman issue statement on proposed constitutional amendment – https://bit.ly/3DDemPA
• California Baptists celebrate being ‘Better Together’ – https://bit.ly/3DD30ep
• Utah, Idaho partner in advancing the Gospel – https://bit.ly/3DD30ep
• Indiana Baptists resource each other – https://bit.ly/3fxvPkv
• Mississippi Baptists increase budget, unveil new logo – https://bit.ly/3fxvPkv
• ‘In Jesus’ Name’: Southern Baptists observe global prayer day – https://bit.ly/3FKV4dV

• Ants cause false fire alarm at Golden Gate
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/3089,05-Nov-1970.pdf

• Amy:
  • SEBTS professor continues musical legacy as ‘The Ambassador’
  • New Summit Worship Album
• Jonathan: Calling Out the Called – https://amzn.to/3FKJjV0

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Southwestern Seminary announced they had begun cutting staff in efforts to reduce seminary operating expenses by 10%. Also, winners of the annual Dove Awards were announced.

• Southwestern Seminary announces layoffs – https://bit.ly/3W78wyF
• Saddleback pastor says he’ll encourage women to preach but ‘doesn’t want to engage in denominational battles’ – https://bit.ly/3SFUG3j
• Dove Award winners include CeCe Winans, Phil Wickham, Anne Wilson – https://bit.ly/3U3pXyb
• Unify Project weeks from launch, Litton says – https://bit.ly/3gV5Iod
• Nevada sets renewed focus on discipleship – https://bit.ly/3TEFrsB
• ‘Church Forward’ launches new season of ministry for Kansas, Nebraska – https://bit.ly/3TEFrsB
• Alabama pastor arrested on child sex-related charges – https://bit.ly/3W9Kvqx
• Former South Carolina youth pastor charged with criminal sexual conduct of minor – https://bit.ly/3WekiHc

• George Schroeder named Brotherhood Commission Exec
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/370,30-Oct-1951.pdf

• Amy: Gloria Gaynor story – https://bit.ly/3gVhj6n
• Jonathan: Student Baptism Sunday – https://bit.ly/3DHMgEj

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The trustees at Southwestern Seminary met for their regularly called meeting and covered a number of issues last week at the campus in Fort Worth. Also, state convention recaps continue this week.

• SWBTS ‘not in a crisis,’ but financial challenges must be addressed, Dockery tells trustees – https://bit.ly/3CMCKho
• Gateway’s present strength has historic foundations, trustees told – https://bit.ly/3CSwxAH
• MBTS trustee meeting includes 10-year celebration, newly endowed chair, five-year plan – https://bit.ly/3CSwxAH
• Send Relief Serve Tour completes 2022 events, looks toward 2023 – https://bit.ly/3TFWI4h
• Baptist Resource Network meeting emphasizes missions, love – https://bit.ly/3F0UfNO
• Colorado Baptists celebrate church planting – https://bit.ly/3F0UfNO
• Montana announces sale of its building – https://bit.ly/3F6dllL
• Dakota Baptist Convention gathers in celebration – https://bit.ly/3F6dllL
• Matz named HLGU President, turnaround called ‘miracle’ – https://bit.ly/3F6dq93
• 2022 Lottie Moon offering and week of prayer resources available from IMB – https://bit.ly/3z0o3pW

• Missionary Kids Learn Manners
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/3270,22-Oct-1971.pdf

Preview Days are your opportunity to see first-hand all that Southwestern Seminary has to offer. During your visit, you’ll tour the campus, speak with faculty members, chat with fellow students, and experience the unique campus community of Southwestern Seminary.

And, all Preview Day attendees will have a chance to win a $1500 scholarship!

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at swbts.edu/preview.

• Amy: The Scripture and Hermeneutics Seminar, 25th Anniversary: Retrospect and Prospect
• Jonathan: ACTS2 TV Network

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SBC President Bart Barber was featured last week on the CBS news show 60 Minutes. Also, SBDR hit a milestone in its response to Hurricane Ian serving more than half a million meals in Florida.

• SBC President Bart Barber featured on CBS’ 60 Minutes – https://bit.ly/3CU6hqF
• Barber’s 60 Minutes interview brings positive reviews from SBC leaders – https://bit.ly/3ECmG4q
• SBDR nears 500,000 meals prepared, relief for hundreds – https://bit.ly/3CYds16
• Ezell issues statement for He Gets Us webinar – https://bit.ly/3CZgQIU
• Midwestern Seminary and Spurgeon College Celebrate Tenth Consecutive Year of Record Enrollment – https://bit.ly/3EHv8iU
• SWBTS trustees to receive crucial update next week – https://bit.ly/3EHv8iU
• Fall trustee meeting recap from SBTS – https://bit.ly/3g6ZLE2
• Fall trustee meeting recap from SEBTS – https://bit.ly/3g17pzH
• IMB to host annual Missions College – https://bit.ly/3rVtylL
• Chinese Fellowship installs new executive director – https://bit.ly/3CYyoVI
• North Greenville University mourns death of baseball player – https://bit.ly/3yBLllB

• Baker James Cauthen Elected Foreign Mission Secretary
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/106,14-Oct-1953.pdf

Preview Days are your opportunity to see first-hand all that Southwestern Seminary has to offer. During your visit, you’ll tour the campus, speak with faculty members, chat with fellow students, and experience the unique campus community of Southwestern Seminary.

And, all Preview Day attendees will have a chance to win a $1500 scholarship!

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at swbts.edu/preview.

• Amy: Political Gospel: Public Witness in a Politically Crazy World
• Jonathan: A biblical resource for pastors on gender and sexuality

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The International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board both announced record offerings. Also, giving through the National Cooperative Program Allocation Budget hit a 14-year high eclipsing $200 million for the first time since 2008.

• Lottie Moon offering reaches historic high, proves commitment to Revelation 7:9 vision – https://bit.ly/3EwAlK2
• National CP giving tops $200 million for first time since 2008 – https://bit.ly/3McKWM2
• Annie Armstrong Easter Offering hits all-time high as Southern Baptists give record $68.9 million – https://bit.ly/3MgSDRK
• NAMB Trustees celebrate record-breaking Annie Offering, meet faces behind numbers – https://bit.ly/3ebN9Lc
• Send Network unveils new values, leadership team, Spanish website – https://bit.ly/3ymDlVK
• New name, logo for Southern Baptist Hispanic group to represent unity – https://bit.ly/3fOtsd5
• Speakers for 2023 SBC Pastors Conference, plan for endowment announced – https://bit.ly/3CCm9y0
• STATE MEETINGS: Alaska, New York – https://bit.ly/3MfGoVj
• Chu Soh to succeed John Jones as GuideStone chief operating officer – https://bit.ly/3SOKAhh
• Pastor retires from Texas church where gunman killed 26 people in 2017 – https://bit.ly/3ymQiin
• Marilynn Blackaby, wife of ‘Experiencing God’ author Henry Blackaby, dies at 83 – https://bit.ly/3T1Qf3b

• Children’s Page and Possum Poem
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/686,06-Oct-1955.pdf

Preview Days are your opportunity to see first-hand all that Southwestern Seminary has to offer. During your visit, you’ll tour the campus, speak with faculty members, chat with fellow students, and experience the unique campus community of Southwestern Seminary.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at swbts.edu/preview.

• Bart Barber interview with Anderson Cooper to air Oct. 9 – https://bit.ly/3edSf9S

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Several changes were announced that reversed some previous decisions by the trustees at Southwestern Seminary and the International Mission Board. Also, at the IMB’s trustee meeting a huge announcement was made about the 2021-22 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

• Hawkins, Dockery announced as joint interim leadership at SWBTS – https://bit.ly/3E0xmtj
• Greenway not going to IMB – https://bit.ly/3fwoIs8
• Chitwood says Greenway to bring ‘invaluable’ experience to IMB – https://bit.ly/3rghwDl
• IMB trustees share good news reports, remain focused on Revelation 7:9 vision – https://bit.ly/3LRpBI4
• At Sending Celebration, IMB appointees reminded to abide in Christ – https://bit.ly/3LXLPYP
• Missionary pipeline growing, but so is the need – https://bit.ly/3xZyoBN
• Southern Baptists prepare for Florida cleanup, East Coast response to Ian – https://bit.ly/3LUZO1N
• Judson College bond holders sue; Alabama Baptist leaders respond – https://bit.ly/3dXqpPa

• The Role of the Church on Social and Political Issues
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/3258,29-Sep-1971.pdf

And on October 21, you have the opportunity to explore everything TBC has to offer at its Fall Preview Day. Students and parents are invited to tour the campus, talk to the faculty, explore degree offerings, and meet fellow students. Let Texas Baptist College help you find your calling.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at texasbaptist.com/preview.

• Amy: Confronting Jesus: 9 Encounters with the Hero of the Gospels
• Jonathan: Focus on CP Month

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Southwestern Seminary announced that president Adam W. Greenway has resigned from his post. Also, the SBC Executive Committee met and got a lot of business done—and collected a couple of really big checks.

• Greenway resigns from Southwestern presidency – https://bit.ly/3LFCftB
• SBC Executive Committee seeks unity, celebrates diversity – https://bit.ly/3SqkRLB
• Executive Committee deals with financial downturn, prepares for annual audit – https://bit.ly/3C5M6pt
• EC presidential search narrows to 11 candidates – https://bit.ly/3Spt4j6
• EC approves Caring Well Sunday for abuse awareness – https://bit.ly/3R9GZJd
• Proposed bylaw change would give messengers more time to ‘process’ resolutions – https://bit.ly/3r3xikI
• Executive Committee votes to disfellowship two churches following Credentials Committee report – https://bit.ly/3R2rWRq
• Ohio Baptists give $500,000 from camp sale proceeds to Cooperative Program – https://bit.ly/3BFeOMu
• Lifeway campers give more than $540,000 to IMB, NAMB – https://bit.ly/3BxPhVm
• Diversity highlighted in staff reports to EC – https://bit.ly/3BFeMnQ
• Longtime Missouri Baptist paper editor Don Hinkle dies – https://bit.ly/3BFNMV9

• New Pastor Has Big Day
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/299,25-Sep-1950.pdf

Preview Days are your opportunity to see first-hand all that Southwestern Seminary has to offer. During your visit, you’ll tour the campus, speak with faculty members, chat with fellow students, and experience the unique campus community of Southwestern Seminary.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at swbts.edu/preview.

• Amy: Christian Theology: Biblical, Historical, and Systematic
• Jonathan: SBC Calendar

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The Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission has a new permanent president in Brent Leatherwood. Also, Matt Carter has retired from pastoring to join the North American Mission Board

• Leatherwood named ERLC president – https://bit.ly/3RIcFq1
• Interim leadership led to Leatherwood’s ERLC election – https://bit.ly/3xt6HBj
• Matt Carter of Houston’s Sagemont Church named mobilization VP of Send Network – https://bit.ly/3xu37qA
• Kentucky Disaster Relief trains more than 200 volunteers in weekend event – https://bit.ly/3qJTa4A

• Registration Analysis Shows Low Participation
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/5903,17-Sep-1984.pdf

And on October 21, you have the opportunity to explore everything TBC has to offer at its Fall Preview Day. Students and parents are invited to tour the campus, talk to the faculty, explore degree offerings, and meet fellow students. Let Texas Baptist College help you find your calling.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at texasbaptist.com/preview.

• Amy: Advent Blocks
• Jonathan: Experiencing God Bible

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Hotel information for the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting has been released by the SBC Executive Committee. Also, Amy and Jonathan reminisce about the life and death of Queen Elizabeth II.

• Hotel information for SBC23 released – https://bit.ly/3D9eJmn
• With one month left in fiscal year, CP giving above budget by nearly $9.7 million – https://bit.ly/3QwMNw3
• Texas Baptists partner with Send Relief to launch ministry center in Laredo – https://bit.ly/3RLMyOu
• Ouachita Baptist defensive lineman Clark Yarbrough dies – https://bit.ly/3KYFyvH
• Missouri pastor’s wife dies in auto crash – https://bit.ly/3KZaMmm

• Arizona Seeks To Add ‘Southern’ To Title
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1192,10-Sep-1961.pdf

Preview Days are your opportunity to see first-hand all that Southwestern Seminary has to offer. During your visit, you’ll tour the campus, speak with faculty members, chat with fellow students, hear from President Adam W. Greenway, and experience the unique campus community of Southwestern Seminary.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at swbts.edu/preview.

• Amy: The Queen’s Speech
• Jonathan: Amy Grant – Behind The Eyes 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition

A lot of stories being shared about Her Majesty the Queen, but I've got one that tops them all. I once had the honor of touring the UK Parliament with a man who knew its history better than anyone. I asked for the craziest story he could share and he did not disappoint. 1/9

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Arkansas state exec Sonny Tucker announced his retirement, and another state convention has a new exec chosen. Also, Texas pastor Matt Chandler is stepping away for a season at The Village Church.

• Sonny Tucker, ABSC executive director, announces retirement – https://bit.ly/3B7sDEn
• BGAV Executive Board Approves Executive Director Nominee – https://bit.ly/3RtTlfz
• Search for new SCBC executive director-treasurer begins – https://bit.ly/3CRrlyD
• Matt Chandler to take leave of absence following ‘inappropriate messaging’ – https://bit.ly/3cCrLyb
• Former student pastor arrested for sexual indecency with a child – https://bit.ly/3wLwB2D
• ‘God has been faithful to preserve Lifeway,’ Mandrell tells trustees – https://bit.ly/3Rt5q4D

• Thief Takes Recorder and Sermons From Mississippi Preacher’s Study
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/355,31-Aug-1951.pdf

And on October 21, you have the opportunity to explore everything TBC has to offer at its Fall Preview Day. Students and parents are invited to tour the campus, talk to the faculty, explore degree offerings, and meet fellow students. Let Texas Baptist College help you find your calling.

Fall Preview Day is October 21, so register today, for free, at texasbaptist.com/preview.

• Amy: David Live
• Jonathan: Acts Commentary