2004 Archives
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Around the State_30804
Posted: 3/05/04
Around the State
Seven people were endorsed by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship at a Feb. 18 meeting to work as chaplains at Texas facilities. Timothy Hunter was endorsed as a correctional facility chaplain; Patricia Baldwin, Charles Edmondson, Peggy Johnson, Brent Peery and Dora Saul as hospital chaplains; and Cameron Gunnin as a military chaplain.
Events
Southland Church in San Angelo commissioned 12 people as Stephen ministers Feb. 29. They were Elizabeth Benton, Sindee Davis, Dwain Dodson, Kayde Farquhar, Marvin Hall, Virginia Lester, Kay Leifeste, Frances Newman, Carla Presley, Cathy Rogers, Teri Rogers and Howard Ward. 
Carol Kelly, left, and Carole Harrell have been commissioned as Mission Service Corps volunteers in the mental health industry by Park Central Church in Dallas, where Philip Washburn is pastor. Cecil Deadman, associate director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas' MSC program, spoke at the commissioning service. Jana Whitworth, director of church and community ministries with Dallas Baptist Association, has worked with the women to develop the new ministry to promote church awareness, understanding and vision for mission action to mentally ill persons and their families. 03/05/2004 - By John Rutledge
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Baptist Briefs_30804
Posted: 3/05/04
Baptist Briefs
Welch to be SBC presidential nominee. Bobby Welch, pastor of First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Fla., will be nominated as president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the June 15-16 annual meeting in Indianapolis. Johnny Hunt, pastor of the Atlanta-area First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Ga., announced his intention to nominate Welch. Welch has been pastor of the Daytona Beach congregation since 1974 and is the co-creator of the FAITH Sunday school evangelism strategy. He is a former president of the Florida Baptist Convention and a former SBC vice president. Welch is a decorated Vietnam War veteran and a graduate of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and Jacksonville (Ala.) State University.
Past SBC presidents pick Davidson for VP. Gerald Davidson, pastor of the St. Louis-area First Baptist Church in Arnold, Mo., for 27 years and a past president of the Missouri Baptist Convention, will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. "The former presidents (of the SBC) have decided that Gerald Davidson should be first vice president, and Dr. Adrian Rogers has been asked to nominate him," Bailey Smith, president of the SBC from 1980 to 1982, announced Feb. 19 at a Real Evangelism Conference hosted by Davidson and First Baptist Arnold.
Compensation study under way. The 2004 church staff compensation study is being compiled by 41 Baptist state conventions in cooperation with the Southern Baptist Convention Annuity Board. In January, state conventions began mailing surveys to churches to be completed and returned by April 15. After the April deadline, the statistical information will be compiled, and the survey results, with customized salary and benefit information for different church staff positions, will be available in June. If a church did not receive a survey, it can be accessed at www.absbc.org.
03/05/2004 - By John Rutledge
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