TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Florida Baptists experienced a harmonious meeting and re-elected Tampa-area pastor Tommy Green to an uncontested second term as president during the annual Florida Baptist State Convention meeting Nov. 10-11 at the Sun Dome in Tampa. The…
Tampa-area pastor re-elected at peaceful Florida Baptist meeting
TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Florida Baptists experienced a harmonious meeting and re-elected Tampa-area pastor Tommy Green to an uncontested second term as president during the annual Florida Baptist State Convention meeting Nov. 10-11 at the Sun Dome in Tampa. The…
S.C. Baptists hold line on budget, approve South Asia partnership
COLUMBIA, S.C. (ABP) — The 1,230 registered messengers attending the 183rd annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention adopted a $32.15 million budget for 2004, approved a three-year missions partnership with South Asia, and elected a Boiling Springs pastor…
Alabama court votes unanimously to remove Roy Moore from office
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (ABP) — Halfway through his term, the “Ten Commandments judge” has been ousted as the head of Alabama's judicial system. The Alabama Court of the Judiciary voted unanimously Nov. 13 to remove Roy Moore from his office as…
Wanda Allen dies in Georgia; wife of former SBC president
BIG CANOE, Ga. (ABP) — Wanda Ruth Massey Allen, 74, wife of former Southern Baptist Convention president Jimmy Allen, died at her home in Big Canoe, Ga., Nov. 13 after a long illness. Born in Duncan, Okla., she graduated from…
CBF’s Stan Parks accepts position with Texas Baptists’ mission network
LUBBOCK, Texas (ABP) — Stan Parks, a mission worker in Southeast Asia for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, was named associate at WorldconneX, a new missions agency created by the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Beginning in January, Parks will serve…
Kentucky Baptist messengers elect layman as president
LEXINGTON, Ky. (ABP) — Federal judge Eugene Siler was elected president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention Nov. 11. He is only the fourth layman elected to that post in the past 50 years. Siler, who serves on the 6th U.S….
Tennessee Baptists turn back changes proposed by conservatives
JACKSON, Tenn. (ABP) – Several attempts to place more conservatives in leadership of the Tennessee Baptist Convention and its institutions failed during the convention's annual meeting Nov. 11-12. The convention's 1,905 messengers also adopted resolutions supporting the proposed Federal Marriage…
Conservatives win again in N.C. as moderates ponder future role (updated)
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — Conservative candidates swept all three key offices of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Nov. 11-12 in what was anticipated as a make-or-break election for moderate Baptists in the state. David Horton, 43, pastor of…