From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Even as they prepare to vote on a formal ban on churches with women pastors, delegates to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to boot one ...

FOUNTAIN — A century-old church will celebrate a milestone this weekend with the installation of the first woman pastor in its history. Doris Jean Edwards will be installed as pastor of St. James Free ...

First Mount Zion Baptist Church in Dumfries has installed Rev. Sandra K. James as the first woman pastor in the church's 158-year history. The church, founded in 1867, is recognized as one of the ...

For the fourth consecutive year, 2025 saw Southern Baptists increase baptisms and plant at least 600 new churches while ...

The National Baptist Convention ordained its first woman preacher in 1965. Reverend Tracey L. Brown became the first woman to preach at a worship service during the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A.

The congregation of First Baptist Church, 720 Grand Ave., installed their new pastor, Rev. Joshua McCarty, in mid-June. McCarty, who became the congregation’s first pastor in their 142 years of ...

MARIETTA, Ga. — Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta has voted to unite with First Baptist Church of Woodstock, forming “One Church, Two Locations” effective Aug. 10, according to a news release ...