As Our Nation Approaches the General Election, Paul Gibson calls Us to Pray

Area V Adult Retreat, October 6 - 8

Greg Morrow, Bud & Barbara Lee, and Paul Gibson lead. Find more details in the September 24 issue of the Mainstream. (Download Poster and Flyer/Registration Form)

Class on Professional Boundaries, October 15

For the safety and reputation of the pastor and the church, every pastor must know and keep the moral and ethical boundaries of the ministry.

For this reason, we offer you a one day class in Professional Boundaries, to be held at the GRR Resource Center in Springfield, on October 15 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. (registration information)

Rev. Dr. Bill Steger (Oak Park Ave Baptist of Berwyn, IL), outgoing president of the GRR addresses 49th Annual Assembly

Coming Soon - 49th Annual Assembly Highlights

Celebrating Church and Clergy Anniversaries

If you are viewing this page on your desktop or laptop, you may see a scrolling section at the top of the left menu column. Congratulations on these years of ministry! (If on a handheld, this can be seen by clicking on the menu icon just below the stories on this page.)

The GRR will also list these in forthcoming issues of the Mainstream.

Also listed, but month by month, will be clergy - serving and retired - ordination anniversaries and anniversaries of clergy tenure in the church each is presently serving. Clergy ordination anniversaries may be found on the home page of Pastor's Health section of this site. Clergy tenure anniversaries may be found on both desktop/laptop and mobile devices on the "search for serving pastor" page.

Your GRR Staff celebrate these anniversaries of tenure.

If information in these lists is incorrect, please contact the GRR office to have that information corrected.

The lists are compiled from information GRR churches send in annual reports and from churches' communications with GRR ministerial Staff. Thank you.

Dwight Stinnett Reports Philippine Experience

Map of the Nation of the Philippines"National and Regional ABCUSA Leaders at Roundtable with Historic Baptist Partners in the Philippines"

On January 6-15, 2016, an American Baptist delegation of national and regional leaders engaged its historic partner in the Philippines, the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches (CPBC), in an unprecedented Roundtable wisdom sharing and disaster relief inspections in Iloilo City and its northern province, and urban slum/settlement ministry site visits in Metro Manila...Read/View entire summary report.

GRR Newsletter - Mainstream - Now Better for Mobile

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The Mainstream now has two new tools:

  • All online editions (2005 forward) now available in one year volumes.
  • Color editions beginning with November 24, 2015 edition now with active hyperlinks