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A new study from Lifeway Research shows that while the cost of living has increased dramatically in the past few years, pay for Southern Baptist pastors has not followed suit. Also, a kickoff event was held this past week in New Orleans in preparation for the 2023 Annual Meeting and Pastors’ Conference.

• SBC pastor pay stuck at same level since 2018 – https://bit.ly/3cruXfW
• Enthusiasm, hopes for ‘fertile soil’ highlight annual meeting planning in New Orleans – https://bit.ly/3dMKnvl
• Kody Gibson named new vice president of communications and brand strategy – https://bit.ly/3e21lWA
• Global Hunger Sunday highlights, supports hunger projects worldwide – https://bit.ly/3RaWpwX

• ‘Son of Sam’ Baptized in 1973 by Louisville Church
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4477,25-Aug-1977.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: Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
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The SBC Executive Committee announced last week that the United States Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the Convention regarding sexual abuse. Also, Baylor and the BGCT announced this week that they are reevaluating their relationship.

• SBC leaders respond to DOJ investigation – https://bit.ly/3AabTue
• Executive Committee, no individuals subpoenaed in DOJ investigation – https://bit.ly/3pAJNmY
• BGCT considering change in relationship with Baylor – https://bit.ly/3CirryI
• 2022 SBC Annual available online – https://bit.ly/3dEuY07

• Smith Leads Prayer at Democratic Convention
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/5109,19-Aug-1980.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: Following Jesus in a Digital Age
• Jonathan: Navigating the SBC

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SBC president Bart Barber named the full Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force. Also, a pair of seminaries announced an increase in missionary scholarships to the schools.

• Barber names abuse task force members – https://bit.ly/3pyduFD
• Barber says implementation task force strengthened by different perspectives, backgrounds – https://bit.ly/3C3jiOG
• SWBTS announces 100 percent scholarship for IMB missionaries – https://bit.ly/3dtP5y9
• NOBTS scholarship increase for active missionaries – https://bit.ly/3JQRWgC

• New Orleans Acquires Piano Of Bradbury
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1623,10-Aug-1962.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.

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Marshall Blalock and Mike Keahbone will lead the soon-to-be-named ARITF for Southern Baptists. Also, Keahbone and SBC president Bart Barber participated in Indian Falls Creek this week and highlighted a resolution passed at SBC22.

• Blalock, Keahbone to head Abuse Response Implementation Task Force – https://bit.ly/3SqR46d
• Barber and Keahbone discuss resolution dealing with Native peoples – https://bit.ly/3bEHxrw
• CP giving above budget by $10.4 million through July – https://bit.ly/3A0dfsU
• Southern Baptist chaplain inducted into Army Ranger Hall of Fame – https://bit.ly/3zZNwAI
• GUIDESTONE: Trustees receive mid-year update – https://bit.ly/3zCCTCj
• Pierre to lead Billy Graham School at SBTS – https://bit.ly/3oVd4sj
• Jonathan Welch joins SEBTS faculty as professor of Christian worship – https://bit.ly/3QjNskC
• David George announces plans to retire as president of WMU Foundation – https://bit.ly/3QjNskC
• James Porch, former TBC executive director-treasurer, dies at 81 – https://bit.ly/3QiUmGQ
• Kentucky, 7 other states have Disaster Relief boots on ground in eastern Kentucky – https://bit.ly/3BJEV6G

• Barna reports religion change of ‘gargantuan proportions’
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/06-AUG-1996.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.

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• Jonathan: Send Relief Sunday

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The search team tasked with selecting the next president of the ERLC updated Southern Baptists on the process and their progress this week. Also, longtime SWBTS professor David Allen has left the seminary.

• ERLC president search team continues work – https://bit.ly/3S8YOtq
• GuideStone adds new chief marketing officer, Justin Stowell – https://bit.ly/3OHsB9F
• Statement from Provost Benjamin M. Skaug on resignation of David L. Allen – https://bit.ly/3cQKAgw
• Gateway professor J.T. Reed dies – https://bit.ly/3OR7qSQ
• Amy Grant named Kennedy Center honoree in first for contemporary Christian music – https://bit.ly/3PZPxTf
• Amy Grant Hospitalized Following Bicycle Accident in Nashville – https://bit.ly/3PNnrKE

• Rick Ferguson Killed in Auto Accident
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/rick-ferguson-killed-in-auto-accident-led-denver-church-to-array-of-ministries/
  • https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/riverside-baptist-church-remembers-rick-ferguson-by-worshiping-god/
  • https://www.rmdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Church-Planting-Insights-from-Pastor-Rick-Ferguson-of-Riverside-Baptist-Church-in-Denver.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: Gateway prof offers loving home, discipleship as single foster mom
• Jonathan: SBC’s convention manager has ‘heart of a servant’

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NAMB has a new director of personal evangelism, and your state convention annual meeting could be streamed this fall in the Acts2 app.

• Washington to champion personal evangelism in new role at NAMB – https://bit.ly/3RS71lF
• State conventions signing up for ACTS2 platform to host annual meetings – https://bit.ly/3zrH1Xf
• Mission:Dignity recipients in New Mexico to receive 13th Check in 2022 – https://bit.ly/3zrH1Xf
• Former youth ministry leader pleads guilty to sexual abuse charges – https://bit.ly/3IU8FiF

• Religious Disputes on Rise In Supreme Court Caseload
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/5095,18-Jul-1980.pdf

This degree equips students with business and communications skills, as well as biblical and theological studies, preparing young believers for a lifetime of Christian ministry, wherever God calls them.

Let TBC help you find your calling. Learn more at texasbaptist.com/baics.

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Southeastern Seminary has implemented a new required course for all students in preventing sexual abuse and caring for survivors. Also, Mike Keahbone is ministering to other abuse victims thanks to a newly passed SBC resolution.

• SEBTS launches mandatory sexual abuse prevention and response course – https://bit.ly/3IFT4Tz
• Keahbone uses Native American resolution to minister to survivors of forced conversion – https://bit.ly/3PtEUqP
• Longtime pastor and SBTS alum joins faculty – https://bit.ly/3IFD2ci
• Pastor’s teen daughters, sister killed in collision – https://bit.ly/3P9hwPz
• Bill Mackey remembered for KBC leadership and being ‘epitome of Christian gentleman’ – https://bit.ly/3cd2NES

• J.E. Dillard Dies
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/85,13-Jul-1953.pdf

That’s what you can expect when you complete a Master of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. With a wide array of academic options, Southwestern Seminary offers M.Div. studies with concentrations in educational ministry, women’s studies, international church planting, and more.

So whether you’re called to student ministry, cross-cultural missions, pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, or anything in between, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary will equip you to live your calling.

You can explore all the options available within the Southwestern Seminary M.Div. at swbts.edu/mdiv.

• Amy: How to Thrive as a Pastor’s Wife
• Jonathan: 5 Things to Pray for Your Spouse

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SBC Pastors’ Conference president Daniel Dickard has announced who will serve as fellow officers as well as what the theme of the 2023 conference will be. Also, a camper at Falls Creek in Oklahoma lost his life after experiencing a cardiac event at the camp.

• 2023 SBC Pastors’ Conference theme, officers announced – https://bit.ly/3RhlG9N
• National CP giving reflects slowing economy – https://bit.ly/3yRfQEO
• Falls Creek camper dies after ‘major cardiac event’ – https://bit.ly/3bZP58i
• Chelsea Sobolik to join Lifeline Children’s Services – https://bit.ly/3RjNlXC
• Liberty University mourns loss of Dean Emeritus Ed Hindson – https://bit.ly/3RjNlXC

• Evangelism Meeting Outdraws Rock Concert
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/4876,05-Jul-1979.pdf

This degree equips students with business and communications skills, as well as biblical and theological studies, preparing young believers for a lifetime of Christian ministry, wherever God calls them.

Let TBC help you find your calling. Learn more at texasbaptist.com/baics.

• Amy: Jesus through the eyes of women
• Jonathan: BP Live – Life & Liberty

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New SBC president Bart Barber joins the show to discuss milkshakes, his process for and thoughts on selecting members of the ARITF, what gavel he might use next year, and so much more.

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Send Relief has officially established a sexual abuse survivor care fund for Southern Baptists to donate to, and a Louisiana church has baptized someone for 35 weeks in a row totalling 99 baptisms already in 2022.

• Send Relief establishes fund to support survivors of sexual abuse – https://bit.ly/3Airr0M
• Louisiana church celebrates 35 consecutive Sundays of baptisms – https://bi.ly/3IaCOJW
• Patriotic displays common in July 4th church services – https://bit.ly/3nz14fo

• 5,000 Rooms Available For 1961 Convention
  • http://media.sbhla.org.s3.amazonaws.com/1063,01-Jul-1960.PDF

That’s what you can expect when you complete a Master of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. With a wide array of academic options, Southwestern Seminary offers M.Div. studies with concentrations in educational ministry, women’s studies, international church planting, and more.

So whether you’re called to student ministry, cross-cultural missions, pastoral ministry, chaplaincy, or anything in between, a Master of Divinity from Southwestern Seminary will equip you to live your calling.

You can explore all the options available within the Southwestern Seminary M.Div. at swbts.edu/mdiv.

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