an associate pastor and an attorney planned a takeover of the church and its $1 billion in assets. However, the 53-year-old leader of one of the largest Southern Baptist megachurches in Texas ...

California pastor ... system of elder-led church oversight. It’s foundational to Presbyterian denominations but is also present in subsets of other faith groups like the Southern Baptist Convention.

Eric Ara Holder, the Grace Baptist Church pastor recalled for his service to the community, died of influenza Feb. 15 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. He was 60 and lived in Coldspring Newtown.

"He was a fine, young preacher, but a much better person," Dennis Wiles, the pastor of First Baptist Arlington Church who handpicked Dobson to lead Northpointe Baptist Church in Arlington ...

A Texas man convicted ... a 28-year-old pastor who was beaten, strangled and suffocated with a plastic bag inside NorthPointe Baptist Church in Arlington. The church’s secretary, Judy Elliott ...

Since its founding on April 2, 1944, Bloomingdale Baptist Church has stood as a pillar of faith and community in the Kingsport area. Born out of a desire for local Baptist services, the church ...

It’s been a troublesome year, or even decade, for the Southern Baptist Convention. Continued turmoil and outcries have plagued the Texas ... Church. Alarcon was reportedly an associate pastor ...

but a group of congregants at Harlem’s influential Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City has filed a petition with a New York state court to void the election of its new pastor, Rev. Dr ...

Steve Gaines announced Sunday that he was stepping down as senior pastor at Bellevue ... since 1983 in Texas, Tennessee and Alabama before coming to Bellevue Baptist Church in 2005.

Another North Texas pastor has been removed from his post ... Lane says his client didn’t view anything inappropriate. "The Church and Elders will be receiving a pre-litigation letter soon ...

Cross Timbers Church Lead Pastor Josiah Anthony resigned from his position due to “inappropriate” actions, the Argyle church’s board of elders said in an email to members. Bigstock Cross ...