ATLANTA (ABP) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's new moderator has appointed a task force to explore ways the Fellowship can be a good partner to the Baptist World Alliance, which accepted the Fellowship into membership last year.
Bob Setzer, pastor of First Baptist Church of Christ in Macon, Ga., became moderator of the Fellowship at the close of the general assembly June 26. His first action was the naming of the task force.
Walter Shurden, executive director of the Center for Baptist Studies at Mercer University in Macon, will serve as chair of the task force. Hardy Clemons, retired pastor of First Baptist Church, Greenville, S.C., is vice chair. The other members of the task force are Carolyn Anderson, coordinator, Florida CBF, Lakeland, Fla.; Marv Knox, editor, Baptist Standard, Dallas, Texas; Emmanuel McCall, pastor, Christian Fellowship Baptist Church, College Park, Ga.; Julie Pennington-Russell, pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Waco, Texas; and Guy Sayles, pastor, First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C.
Barbara Baldridge, co-coordinator of CBF Global Missions, and Setzer will serve on the committee as ex officio members.
“You can see from the caliber of the people on this task force that the Fellowship is serious about being a good, contributing partner to the BWA,” Setzer said.
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