ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board will launch its new Engage 6 initiative with regional equipping gatherings beginning January 13–14 and continuing February 2–3.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Georgia Baptists will launch into the new year with two statewide Evangelism Conferences built around a theme drawn straight from Scripture: Not Ashamed. Hosted at North Metro Baptist Church in Hoschton on Feb. 22–23 and First Baptist Church of Thomasville on March 1–2, the conferences will offer pastors, staff members, volunteers, and church leaders a weekend of preaching, training, and practical encouragement for reaching their communities with the gospel.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Georgia Baptist Mission Board has named Steven Wright as its new Southwest and Southeast Regional Evangelism Consultant, expanding the team that helps churches equip members to share the gospel in their communities.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptists were reminded at this year’s annual meeting earlier this month that gospel witness does not begin and end in the pulpit. It also flourishes in classrooms, clinics, offices, and even on the Miss America stage.

ATLANTA – Georgia Baptist Convention president Steve Browning, lead pastor of First Baptist Alpharetta, delivered a passionate and personal challenge to messengers at this year’s annual meeting, urging them to renew their focus on reaching “everyone, everywhere” with the hope of the gospel.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. – When the federal government shutdown that began in October dragged into November, food ministries across Georgia saw a sharp rise in families seeking help. With federal nutrition programs slowed and holiday demand increasing, Mission Georgia stepped in to ensure churches and associations could continue meeting needs with compassion.

The story of the Pilgrims and America’s first Thanksgiving illustrates the point that historians do not always get the facts right, or at times may choose to ignore research in lieu of a preferred narrative. The first recorded English Thanksgiving actually took place at “Berkeley 100” in Virginia in 1619, two years before the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptists adopted a $61.9 million budget for 2026 at the annual meeting earlier this month, continuing a strong commitment to missions and ministry as the Cooperative Program marks its 100th anniversary year.

ATLANTA — Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s 2025 annual meeting earlier this month voted to welcome 24 new congregations into cooperative partnership.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptists heard a sweeping report on Mission Georgia at last week’s annual meeting, a presentation filled with testimonies of gospel impact in schools, clinics, disaster zones, and recovery ministries across the state. The report underscored what Executive Director Thomas Hammond called “a biblical response to the needs across our state.”

ATLANTA — In addition to sermons and messages from the main stage, the 2025 Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting last week hosted a series of fireside chats on strategies for making church ministries more evangelistic.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptist Mission Board Executive Director Thomas Hammond used his annual report Tuesday at the Georgia Baptist Convention's annual meeting, held at First Baptist Atlanta, to rally pastors around a long-term, statewide evangelism initiative. Hammond showed what that might look like in local congregations by highlighting ways in which the GBMB can help and support pastors, ministry leaders, and church members.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptists reelected Steve Browning, pastor of First Baptist Church Alpharetta, as convention president on Tuesday and chose two pastors known for cooperative, evangelistic ministry to serve alongside him as officers for the coming year.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptist Collegiate Ministries marked a century of campus outreach Monday night, celebrating 100 years of ministry on the opening night of the Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting at First Baptist Church Atlanta.

ATLANTA — Messengers to the Georgia Baptist Convention’s annual meeting reaffirmed their determination to oppose any expansion of gambling in Georgia and urged lawmakers to tighten access to marijuana and hemp-derived products.

ATLANTA — Georgia Baptists opened their annual meeting at First Baptist Atlanta on Monday, Nov. 10, with an evangelism conference built around the goal of reaching the state’s 7 million lost people with the gospel.

ATLANTA — The inspiration service that opened the Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting on Sunday at First Baptist Atlanta also became a sending service, as state leaders brought a group of new church planters to the platform and asked Georgia Baptists to pray for them, support them, and see them as “answers to prayer” for the state’s growing mission field.

ATLANTA — A panel of Georgia pastors addressed the opening inspiration service of the Georgia Baptist Convention annual meeting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Cooperative Program. They also urged churches to keep their commitment to missions through the Southern Baptist shared funding channel.

WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Send Network’s One Day event in Warner Robins brought more than a hundred pastors, planters, and lay leaders to Second Baptist Church on Tuesday, Oct. 28, for encouragement to multiply churches across middle and south Georgia.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Chris Renfro, lead pastor of Hope Church Union Hill in Alpharetta, will nominate GBC president Steve Browning for a second term at the annual meeting scheduled for Nov. 9-11 at First Baptist Atlanta. Renfro described Browning as a faithful pastor who leads First Baptist Church Alpharetta “with excellence.”

McDONOUGH, Ga. — Trea Brinson, lead pastor of Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in McDonough, will be nominated to serve as vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention at the annual meeting scheduled for Nov. 9-11 at First Baptist Atlanta.

THOMASVILLE, Ga. — Paul Ballard, pastor of Thomasville First Baptist Church, will be nominated for first vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and the pastor nominating him says Ballard brings both a missionary heartbeat and a proven record of revitalization.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — James Oney, pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in north Fayetteville, will be nominated for vice president of the Georgia Baptist Convention when messengers gather next week in Atlanta, according to Griffin Gulledge, senior pastor of First Baptist Fayetteville.

More than two hundred Georgians affiliated with Jubal Ministries recently traveled to Cuba in October to share the gospel through music and the spoken word in partnership with Global Missions Project. Though their goal was to help change Cuban lives through the power of the gospel, something unexpected happened along the way.

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — As Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief (GBDR) wrapped 2025 with eight well-attended trainings, multiple out-of-state deployments, and continued service at home, the ministry is looking forward to new service opportunities and a full training schedule in 2026.