Diana Chandler

DALLAS – During the July Staff Week on Monday, July 27, Texas Baptists leadership announced the final round of staff and structure changes to realign and right-size Convention ministries. Previously, on June 1, Executive Director Julio Guarneri announced the creation of three new focus teams – Church Strong, Minister Strong and Mission Strong – and a field staff transition from area representatives to GC2 navigators. The realignment shared with staff builds upon that new structure.

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — Regular small group participants are likely to be among the most mature disciples in a church, but they still need encouragement in some areas.

SWBTS announces chapel speakers, new chapel location; Jared C. Wilson releases ‘Pastoral Mentoring: For the Care of Souls’; Travis Montgomery, Joseph Lanier release ‘Every Perfect Gift.’

NASHVILLE (BP) – Domestic abuse is epidemic among Peruvian women, but International Mission Board (IMB) missionary Amanda Waldraff is there to help. Last Christmas, an abused woman began attending a ministry co-led by Waldraff that provides Gospel witness, job training and trauma healing for women who have suffered intimate partner abuse. This summer she came to faith in Christ.

BRENHAM, Texas – Will Klotz is fast approaching his first anniversary in August as president of Miracle Farm Boys Ranch in Brenham.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Cooperative Program giving for July was just above the budget goal for the month and more than 7 percent above last July’s total. Total giving remains a little less than 3 percent under budget for the year. In actual dollars, year-to-date giving ($155,996,474.21) is slightly more than the amount given through July of last year ($155,238,788.72).

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A decades-long school backpacks ministry by North Charleston Baptist Church continues this month at a new location.

DALLAS – GuideStone Financial Resources is encouraging individuals to be alert to a rapidly growing fraud scheme known as the “Phantom Hacker” scam, which the FBI says has resulted in billions of dollars in losses nationwide, particularly among older Americans.

SPOKANE, Wash. (BP) – Churches and Southern Baptist Disaster Relief teams are continuing to respond amid historic wildfires in the Northwest.

When you’re proud of your work, you want the whole world to know it. That’s how one employee felt at a famous art museum in Munich, Germany. He took the liberty of hanging his own work among the 20,000 priceless works by such greats as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and…