G3 Ministries

G3 Ministries

Formation	June 6, 2019 (2019-06-06)
Founder	Josh Buice, former President
Headquarters	Douglasville, Georgia
President	Dr. Scott Aniol
Director of Operations	Laramie Manga
Website	g3min.org
Formerly called	G3 Conference

G3 Ministries (or G3) was a 501(c)(3) organization and a Reformed Baptist ministry in the United States. The ministry was formally formed in 2019-2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic as a nonprofit organization, and it was most widely known for hosting the G3 Conference (Gospel – Grace – Glory) that began in 2013. The ministry's goal was to educate, encourage, and equip local churches with sound biblical theology. The founder and first president of the organization was Josh Buice. Scott Aniol became the final president of the ministry on July 14, 2025, and served until the ministry announced that it was closing on August 26, 2026.

The G3 Conference held its first conference in 2013 in Douglasville, Georgia on the campus of Pray's Mill Baptist Church (PMBC), where the Founder and current President Josh Buice has served as Pastor since 2010. The conference originally was held on an annual basis with several hundreds of attendees, but has since grown in conference attendance numbers to have several thousands of attendees. Since the formation of G3 Ministries in 2020, the conference transitioned to being held biennially (i.e. once every two years), in addition to occasional regional conferences (which cover a specific topic and have smaller audiences).

The national conferences grew to become one of the largest evangelical Christian conferences (and the largest Reformed Baptist conference) in the United States and globally. The conference has featured multiple notable figures in Christianity as conference speakers, including John MacArthur, Voddie Baucham, James White, Ken Ham, and Steven Lawson. As of May 2025, following the resignation of Josh Buice, and in response to concerns with "celebrity Christianity", G3 began shifting away from large national conferences and will instead be helping local churches organize local conferences (similar to the previously held regional conferences).

G3 Ministries had operated G3 Press since its founding in 2020, and has released book publications on theological, doctrinal, and other Christian-related topics. It began publishing Gloria Deo Journal of Theology in 2022. G3 Ministries also operated a network of Reformed Baptist churches known as the G3 Church Network, which had included a number of churches who have left the Southern Baptist Convention following the exit of PMBC, which was pastored by G3's founder and former president Josh Buice.

Controversies

Resignation of Josh Buice

On May 12, 2025, G3 Ministries announced the resignation of Josh Buice as president due to inappropriate conduct. Buice was also placed on indefinite leave as an elder at PMBC. According to G3, Buice had multiple anonymous social media accounts and substack accounts he had used to purposefully slander G3 speakers and fellow leaders at his own local church:

Dr. Buice had been asked on multiple occasions over the past two years whether he had any connection to these anonymous accounts. In each case, he denied any knowledge of them. On Sunday evening, May 4, 2025, after clear and comprehensive evidence emerged linking the accounts directly to him, the elders of PMBC confronted Josh. For some time, he continued to deny his involvement. Only after further evidence was presented and much pleading with him to walk in the light did Josh finally confess to his actions. Since then, Josh has acknowledged his sin, expressed sorrow, and asked for forgiveness. His desire is to personally ask forgiveness of every person he has slandered or lied to. While Josh has acknowledged with the elders that he is presently disqualified from serving as an elder, we do not believe at this time that his sin is necessarily permanently disqualifying. Accordingly, his content will remain accessible via the G3 website and G3+. To be clear, no other employee or board member of G3 knew Josh was engaged in this activity; he acted alone.

After initially announcing that it would keep Buice's content online, G3 reversed course the following day and removed them. It also canceled its 2025 conference scheduled for September, since Buice had "targeted several speakers on the lineup". Following the fallout of the Buice scandal, Dr. Scott Aniol announced a new vision and branding for the organization going forward. Shortly after Aniol's announcement, the ministry announced that Virgil Walker was leaving the organization and returning to local church ministry.

On July 14, 2025, the organization announced that Dr. Scott Aniol was named as the new president.

Anonymous letters concerning Tom Buck

On August 17, 2026, an article by Protestia (a Christian polemics and news site) released an article alleging that a G3 board member, Jon Norton, had allegedly mailed anonymous letters through the US Postal Service to churches and ministry organizations regarding Pastor Tom Buck of First Baptist Church (FBC), Lindale, Texas. The article cites an unnamed but verified source. However, different influential figures and supporters of Pastor Buck have since publicly supported the claims of the articles as being legitimate. On August 20, 2026, Tom Ascol of Founders Ministries released an article confirming that he had spoke with an elder of PMBC who admitted the allegations were true:

"When the Protestia article was published two days ago, I found it to be consistent with all that I had learned and been told up to that point. I reached out to one of the elders of PMBC out of concern for them and their church, and to ask if they were behind the letter. What I learned was heartbreaking. He admitted it, and told me that they acted anonymously because that was the “consensus” of several pastors whose counsel they sought back in February. He said that their intent was to keep matters private, but that Tom Buck had made it all public and had enlisted Protestia to attack him and G3. I expressed my deep concerns and judgments that what they had done was immoral."

On August 25, the ministry released a letter of apology to Tom Buck and FBC Lindale. That same day, G3 announced that the G3 Church Network would be shutting down. The following day, on August 26, 2026, G3 announced the deletion of their social media accounts. The website also showed an announcement that the ministry was ceasing operations.

See also

• Reformed Baptists
• Southern Baptist Convention
• Founders Ministries

External links

• Official website