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  • LifeWay's Black Church Conference sees growth thanks to digital platform
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, July 27, 2020 (6 days ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Using a fill-in-the-blank quiz, LifeWay Christian Resources' Mark Croston evoked phrases that have long spoken to the consciences of Black folks.

    He was teaching the early morning Bible exposition at the 2020 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference (BCLFC), held July 20-24 as on online-only event during the COVID-19 pandemic. He guided virtual attendees in completing the phrases. Read More

  • Balancing pastorate, marriage aim of conf. resource
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, August 30, 2019 (11 months ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- Happily wed to his new bride Pennie, Joe Wright didn't want to travel without her in his role as executive director of the Bivocational & Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN).

    "When I interviewed with the BSCLN and they offered me the position, I shared with them, 'This is a burden on my heart. A lot of ministers are struggling. I'm a newlywed, I'm happy and I want my wife to go with me,'" Wright told Baptist Press in describing a new BSCLN conference for pastors and their wives. Read More

  • Preaching, teaching, culture at black church conf.
    by Diana Chandler, posted Wednesday, July 31, 2019 (one year ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Gospel preaching, teaching and worship from urban and African American cultural perspectives prevail at the annual Black Church Leadership and Family Conference, a LifeWay Christian Resources event nearing its 30th year.

    Among the preaching lineup, pastor Adron Robinson appreciates the conference held July 22-26 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, N.C. Read More

  • All ages reached at LifeWay black church conf.
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 30, 2019 (one year ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- William "Duce" Branch rapped about eschatology at the Black Church Leadership and Family Conference, incorporating rhyme, rhythm and bounce.

    "Today feels beautiful. I wanted you to know, about a rescuer who can stop the funeral. He's beautiful.... Controls this life, and the next. He can take a life falling apart, tighten it up like a hex key." Read More

  • 'Thank you,' Greear tells black church assembly
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 23, 2019 (one year ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- As the annual Black Church Leadership and Family Conference opened to perhaps 1,000 attendees at Ridgecrest, N.C., Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear was in the number.

    "I want you to hear from me, who has the privilege of serving in this capacity as president, I want you to hear, 'Thank you,' and I want you to know that your sacrifices, and your prayers and your faith, have not been in vain, that God is using them," Greear told the predominantly African American audience on the event's opening night July 22. Read More

  • 'All Generations' at LifeWay black church conf.
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, May 10, 2019 (one year ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Empowering all generations in Gospel ministry is the aim of the 2019 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference, an annual LifeWay event that draws about 1,200 church leaders and family members.

    "To All Generations! Faithfulness, Forgiveness, Favor Forever" is the theme of the weeklong conference July 22-26 at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, N.C. Expanded breakout sessions and more recreational activities for millennials are new in 2019, said Mark Croston, conference convener. Read More

  • Small church, bivocational group offers free education
    by Diana Chandler, posted Monday, August 27, 2018 (one year ago)

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    NASHVILLE (BP) -- As Joe Wright Jr. and his wife Pennie worshiped with a Southern Baptist congregation of 12 members in the Tennessee Delta just a few weeks ago, the pastor's participation was noticeable.

    "We sat there and watched the pastor open his hymnbook and without a piano, he led those 12 people in about three songs," said Wright, in his fourth month as executive director of the Bivocational & Small Church Leadership Network (BSCLN). '"When he was done, he shut the hymnbook, and he said let's pray. And he prayed, and he said, 'It's time for the preaching.' And he opened the Bible, ... Read More

  • NAAF to 'fill the gap' in state conv. church training
    by Diana Chandler, posted Friday, July 27, 2018 (2 years ago)

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    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- Through a new initiative of the National African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention, consultants are available to help state conventions train church staff in discipleship, evangelism, missions and community ministries.

    NAAF's African American Ministry Assist Team (AAMAT) is designed to fill Southern Baptist resource gaps that NAAF said are widening for the nearly 4,000 African American churches in the SBC.

    AAMAT will fill a critical need for both churches and state conventions, said NAAF President Marshal Ausberry Sr., pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Fairfax, Va. Read More

  • 'In spirit & in truth' aim of black conf. worship
    by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, July 24, 2018 (2 years ago)

    Photo by Diana Chandler
    RIDGECREST, N.C. (BP) -- An original arrangement of "Blessed Assurance" at the 2018 Black Church Leadership and Family Conference culminated in a musical round of three different phrases sung in unison, harmonizing the word "assurance" at the same time.

    "Oh what a blessed assurance." "Blessed assurance, this is my song." "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine," sang the Whosoever Will Choir comprised of volunteers attending the conference.

    Arranger, worship pastor and recording artist Joe Pace, who serves under senior pastor H.B. Charles Jr. at Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., describes his arrangement as putting a "little spin" on the classic Fannie Crosby hymn. Read More