Baptist Briefs_40504
Posted: 4/02/04
Baptist Briefs
Iorg nominated as Golden Gate president. Jeff Iorg, executive director-treasurer of the Northwest Baptist Convention since 1995, has been recommended as the seventh president of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. The seminary's trustees will meet April 26-27 to vote on the search committee's recommendation. Iorg was the founding pastor of Greater Gresham Baptist Church in Gresham, Ore., and has served in pastorates in Missouri and Texas. He is a graduate of Hardin-Simmons University, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Author Hefley dies. Jim Hefley, author of "The Truth in Crisis," a five-volume series that chronicled the "conservative resurgence" of the Southern Baptist Convention, died recently in Hannibal, Mo., after a long illness. He was 73. Hefley was the founder of Hannibal Books, an evangelical publishing company, and a former writer-in-residence at Hannibal-LaGrange College in Hannibal. He was pastor of churches in Louisiana, Tennessee and Missouri.
Hays nominated for SBC 2nd VP. John Hays, former president of the Ohio Baptist convention, will be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention second vice president during the June 15-16 convention in Indianapolis. Hays, pastor of the Columbus-area Jersey Baptist Church since 1981, will be nominated by Guy Morton, pastor of Lakeview Baptist Church in Vermilion, Ohio. Hays is a former trustee of the SBC International Mission Board and currently a trustee of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
04/02/2004 - By John Rutledge
