FIRST-PERSON: My Katrina word
Even now, the memories, emotions, and trauma of those days can come boiling out at the most unexpected times, filling my eyes with tears and my heart with memories so real it is like being there again.
20 years post-Katrina, NOBTS stands strong
NEW ORLEANS – August 29 marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the storm that forever changed the city of New Orleans and the Baptist seminary which bears its name.
Sports betting ‘factors out God’ but pastoral help for gamblers waning
RENO, Nev. (BP) – Danny started betting on high school sports at age 12. He was good at it, so by 14 he had $80,000 in a bank account and a fake ID he used for gambling. That’s when his parents took him to see the family’s pastor, Joe Taylor at South Reno Baptist Church in Reno, Nev.
Latin American Baptists take next step with IMB sending missionaries to nations
CENTRAL AMERICA – Friendly banter came before the final decision on who would carry which flag. Several of the new missionaries wanted to hold Mexico’s flag, of course. In the end, Roselia processed in carrying the flag of her home country and the home of seven of the 10 new Latin American global missionary partners, soon to join International Mission Board teams.
SC Send Relief Serve Tour serves hundreds, sees dozens come to faith
COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the doors opened at 9:30 a.m., the crowd of international teachers hurried in. Madel Patal, who had been waiting since 5:30 a.m., went straight to the painting she had spotted through the glass doors hours before. Volunteers helped her claim it and later delivered it to her new apartment with her furniture.
FIRST-PERSON: How New Orleans pastors came together after Katrina
Eighteen months before Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, I left the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Kenner, La., (across the street from the New Orleans airport) to become director of missions for what was then called the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans and is now the New Orleans Baptist Association (NOBA).
From devastation to hope: The enduring legacy of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief 20 years after Katrina
NEW ORLEANS –– As with any major storm, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief (SBDR) crews staged personnel and equipment in several inland cities in August 2005 as Hurricane Katrina prepared to make landfall. Little did they know, those volunteers were in the vanguard of one of SBDR’s defining, historic responses.
Katrina reshaped landscape, complexion, unity of New Orleans churches, leaders say
NEW ORLEANS (BP) – The church doors would remain open, David Crosby decided after the levees failed New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina.
Mississippi church stunned by Katrina repays NC volunteers after Helene
GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) – The people of First Baptist Church are very familiar with what it feels like to have your world swept away.
‘Christ the only foundation’: Mohler’s charge at Fall Convocation
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Fall 2025 convocation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College marked the beginning of a new academic term, celebrating the new while grounding all the work of the seminary and college in the unchanging Christian faith. President R. Albert Mohler, Jr. emphasized, “This is not an exercise in self-congratulation. ... It is an exercise in our remembering this task of learning is worthy of disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
