Founded in 1945 as Covenant Baptist Church, with an all-white Southern Baptist congregation, the changing desegregation laws altered the makeup of its surrounding neighbors, their regular attendees.

The newest church in Longview hopes soon to fulfill a perceived need for a more traditional worship service in the city. The Covenant Reformed ... with a local Southern Baptist church.

Southern Baptists have yet to formally opt in to the Covenant, partly due to ongoing ... Wake Forest professor of Baptist studies and church history, the NBC is an idea whose time has come.

Leaders from 40 Baptist ... the inaugural covenant meeting starts. It is hoped that the black church delegates will stay to join the various moderate Baptist groups for future networking on social ...

In under 48 hours, the head of the staunchly conservative public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention ... of three children who were at the Covenant School in Nashville last year ...