___ 500 respond to ads. Evangelistic advertising campaigns in Boston and Las Vegas during the summer and fall have resulted in more than 500 professions of faith in Christ and thousands of requests for the "Jesus" video. The campaigns were part of the North American Mission Board's Strategic Focus Cities evangelism and church planting efforts in the two cities.
___ CBF changes two positions. Two high-level administrative positions with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship have been restructured due to implementation of a new strategic plan. Terry Hamrick, who has served as coordinator for congregational life and leadership since 1996, now is coordinator for leadership development, a position in which he will oversee congregational leadership development, theological education and collegiate student ministries. The Atlanta-based organization is seeking a coordinator for the other position, called coordinator for congregational life. The latter position will focus on evangelism and outreach, spiritual growth, congregational health, marriage and family, interfaith ecumenical dialogue, and reconciliation and justice, as well as Baptist identity.
___ Meacham to New Orleans. David Meacham, executive director of the Nevada Baptist Convention, has been named professor of church planting at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Meacham also will direct the seminary's Cecil B. Day Center for Church Planting. He had been Nevada Baptists' executive director since 1992.
___ ERLC honors Roberts. Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Phil Roberts received the 2001 John Leland Religious Liberty Award from the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. The award was presented at Midwestern Oct. 16 by ERLC President Richard Land, who cited Roberts for aiding the cause of religious liberty in Romania and Eastern Europe and for his role in production of the Chicago Declaration on Religious Liberty last year.
___ Hundreds of thousands served. The number of meals prepared by Southern Baptist disaster relief volunteers in New York City and Washington topped 335,000 last week. Those included meals prepared in a mobile kitchen at the Floyd Bennett Field airport in Brooklyn, where volunteers from Texas worked alongside volunteers from several other states.
___ Southwestern elects professor. Louisiana pastor Rick Byargeon has been elected associate professor of Old Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Byargeon, pastor of Temple Baptist Church in Ruston, La., began teaching as a guest professor in August. He is a graduate of Louisiana College and Southwestern Seminary and previously served as associate professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and assistant professor of religion at Oklahoma Baptist University.
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