Baptist Briefs_11204

Posted: 1/09/04

Baptist Briefs

Convention approves name change. The European Baptist Convention has voted to change its name to International Baptist Convention. "IBC captures our identity, location and missions vision," said Jimmy Martin, general secretary of the convention, which includes English-speaking churches in 21 European nations and one in the Middle East. More than 100 nationalities are represented in the convention's churches, and some churches have more than 30 nationalities among their members.

WMU names new consultant. Jane Geggus Blythe is the new ministry consultant for national Woman's Missionary Union's student resource team. Blythe comes to WMU after three years as a marketing and recruitment associate for the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board. She holds a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.

Stewart named professor emeritus. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary trustees named Don Stewart professor emeritus of New Testament and Greek. Stewart retired last summer after 25 years as a teacher and administrator at the seminary. In addition to his work as professor of New Testament and Greek and executive vice president under Landrum Leavell, Stewart served as director of the doctor of ministry program and guided the seminary extension center system.

College won't review book policy. Trustees of Louisiana College don't plan to revise the new policy that requires textbooks to be approved by administrators, said Chairperson Joe Nesom, despite student and faculty protests and threats from alumni to withdraw financial support. The new policy requires faculty to submit all class materials to their department chairs and the dean of academic affairs for approval. Previously, faculty members were given sole responsibility to choose their class materials.

Drummond dies at 77. .Lewis Drummond, former president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, died of a heart attack Jan. 4 in Asheville, N.C., as a complication from treatment for cancer. He was 77. At the time of his death, he was evangelism professor-in- residence at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Ashville and chancellor of schools of evangelism for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He served at Southeastern Seminary from 1988 to 1992.