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Updated: Former Illinois Baptist pastor nominated NAMB president
By James A. Smith Sr., Florida Baptist Witness

PENSACOLA, Fla. (FBW) | Louisville pastor Kevin Ezell has been nominated president of the North American Mission Board, search chairman Ted Traylor told Florida Baptist Witness Aug. 31. Ezell pastored Marion First Baptist Church in the mid 1990s.

Katrina proved the mettle of Baptist disaster relief
By Mickey Noah, bpnews.net
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP) | "As early as Aug. 26, we had pulled in a skeleton crew and opened the disaster operations center [DOC]," recounted Mickey Caison, disaster relief coordinator at the North American Mission Board in Alpharetta, Ga., in 2005. "We had also called the state conventions and mobilized an incident command team."
Thrust in the center
By Nate Adams, Executive Director, IBSA

As football season gets underway this fall, our youngest son Ethan has found himself in an interesting position – quite literally.  After three years of playing running back, tight end and linebacker, he’s just begun his junior year on the varsity football team as its starting center

Planter opens home for new church, reaches out to Chicago’s south side
By Meredith Day, communications specialist

CHICAGO | When torrential rains fell in Chicago in late July, many of the city’s residents spent the next several days bailing water out of their homes. But Illinois Baptist church planter Ron Gray had less than 24 hours to get rid of the water in his flooded basement, in time for church to start at 10 a.m. Sunday morning.