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WMU board cancels Texas Leadership Conference
Posted: 11/18/05
Newly elected Texas WMU officers are (left to right) Nelda Tayor-Thieda, president; Shirley McDonald, first vice president; Nina Pinkston, second vice president; Frankie Harvey, third vice president; and Edna Wood, recording secretary. (Photo by Eric Guel) WMU board cancels Texas Leadership Conference
By Teresa Young
AUSTIN–After more than a half-century, Woman's Missionary Union of Texas has held its last annual statewide Texas Leadership Conference in Waco.
The Texas WMU board of directors voted Nov. 12 to cancel the conference–originally known as the WMU House Party at Baylor University–along with the WMU Associational Summit for 2006 and 2007 in favor of conducting regional training events around the state.
11/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
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BGCT approves sweeping change in governance structure
Posted: 11/18/05
Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting overwhelmingly approve changes in the convention's constitution and bylaws that streamline governance. (Photo by Robert Rogers) BGCT approves sweeping
change in governance structureBy Teresa Young
AUSTIN–Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting overwhelmingly approved a revised constitution and set of bylaws that streamline its governance structure and make the convention's Executive Board more directly involved in the decision-making process.
The decisions set in motion “the most sweeping changes in BGCT governance since 1959,” said Wesley Shotwell, pastor of Ash Creek Baptist Church in Azle and chair of the Executive Board's Governance Commit-tee.
11/18/2005 - By John Rutledge
