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  Alan-Michael Sprinkle to be nominated for 2028 NC Pastors’ Conference vice president

  Alan-Michael Sprinkle, pastor of Lakewood Church in Black Mountain, will be nominated for vice president of the 2028 N.C. Baptist Pastors’ Conference. Chandler Donegan, lead pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Franklinton, plans to make the nomination during this year’s conference, which is scheduled for Nov. 15-16 at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in [...]Read More

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  Gateway Seminary reports enrollment and endowment growth

  Gateway Seminary President Adam Groza reported significant enrollment growth, increasing partnerships and strong fundraising to trustees at the fall 2026 board meeting held Oct. 12-13 in Denver. “We are grateful to God for bringing us more students,” Groza said. “Most importantly, serving more students fulfills our mission and has a positive effect on [...]Read More

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  Oklahoma church grows the New Testament way

  BIXBY, Okla. — Michael Gabbert started Evergreen Baptist Church in a Tulsa suburb in 1999 with fewer than 30 people. Today the church typically sees nearly 2,000 Sunday worshippers and still gives 10% of its undesignated budget to missions through the Cooperative Program (CP). Gabbert, with 11 years of pastoral ministry behind him when he [...]Read More

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  Dacey Triplett’s road to godly confidence as a little person offers timely lessons

  FERGUSON, N.C.(BP) — Dacey Triplett made the shot. At 13, she’d swung her basketball free throw with one arm and all the force of her three-foot, nine-inch frame. Backboard, rim and straight through the net, to roaring applause. Born with achondroplasia dwarfism, Triplett was about as tall as she would ever be. “I completely missed [...]Read More

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  FIRST-PERSON: Pastor appreciation that lasts beyond October

  October is Pastor Appreciation Month. Across our convention, churches will provide gift cards, handwritten notes, meals and encouraging words for the men who faithfully shepherd God’s people. Those expressions of gratitude matter. Pastors need encouragement. Ministry is often lonely work. The phone call often comes in the middle of the night. The burden of preaching [...]Read More

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  Georgia church sees attendance grow among young people

  GIBSON, Ga. — Fellowship Baptist Church in Gibson has more than doubled its Sunday attendance in the past year, and Pastor Jonathan Rosier says much of the spiritual energy is coming from teenagers who returned from summer camp determined to share the gospel. The 226-year-old church has grown from about 85 on Sunday mornings a [...]Read More

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  STATE MEETINGS: Kansas-Nebraska; Dakotas

  Kansas-Nebraska honors a faithful shepherd, welcomes new season of leadership By Kevin Ferstl, Church Forward KNCSB SALINA, Kan. (BP) — The 2026 annual meeting of Church Forward (Kansas-Nebraska Convention of Southern Baptists (KNCSB)) was hosted by the convention-owned Webster Conference Center on Oct. 12-13. This year’s gathering carried special weight as messengers and guests paused [...]Read More

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• Biblical Recorder2026-10-14✓ Read

  Gil Jones to be nominated for 2028 NC Pastors’ Conference vice president

  Gil Jones, a pastor at Grace Baptist Church in China Grove, will be nominated for vice president of the 2028 N.C. Baptist Pastors’ Conference. Luke Lunceford, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Salisbury, plans to make the nomination during this year’s conference, which is scheduled for Nov. 15-16 at the Joseph S. Koury Convention [...]Read More

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