At the 2025 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, newly elected SBC President Clint Pressley delivered an ...

First Baptist Church and First Presbyterian Church received “major” damage, he said. At least 25 homes are damaged or destroyed, and Wetumpka Police Station is heavily damaged.

The situation is not unique to the Presbyterian denomination. Southern Baptist congregations in Texas and throughout the U.S. have reported the lowest membership numbers in 50 years, according to ...