Virginia missionaries Greg and Sue Smith will be commissioned as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship global missions affiliates at the Fellowship's 2006 General Assembly in June. The Smiths will remain in Fredericksburg, where they serve with the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. They…
Southern Baptist college association changes name, adopts global mission
CHARLESTON, S.C. (ABP) — Members of the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools voted June 5 to change the name of the 51-member organization to the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities. The change came after the group…
Va. Beach pastor to be nominated
Kelly Burris, pastor of Kempsville Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, has announced he will accept a nomination for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. According to Baptist Press, Terry Fox was to nominate Burris during the SBC's June…
SBC messengers address IMB dispute, but answers are few, tensions remain
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Although Wade Burleson got no resolution to alleged abuses by trustees of the International Mission Board, he left the Southern Baptist Convention June 13-14 with a dogged sense of optimism that those problems would be resolved…
Corrections
Please make the following corrections to stories in the June 13 release: In “WMU looks for God's call during missions celebration” please correct the spelling of Martha Myers name in the 16th paragraph. It is Myers, not Meyers. In “Messengers…
Condi Rice tells SBC messengers America’s job to spread freedom
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — In an address that was received like a campaign stump speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, exhorting her listeners to support the United States in spreading freedom around…
Rogers’ widow warns of narrowing theological parameters in SBC
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Adrian Rogers' widow captured unexpected attention at the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference by asserting her husband would not approve of narrowing parameters of fellowship in the Southern Baptist Convention. Joyce Rogers, whose deceased husband was a…
Amended abstinence resolution calls for all SBC trustees to be teetotalers
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Declaring “our total opposition to the … consuming of alcoholic beverages,” Southern Baptist Convention messengers adopted a strongly worded resolution on the issue. During the Resolutions Committee's initial report Wednesday morning, messengers adopted half a dozen…
New SBC president an inerrantist, but he’s ‘just not mad about it’
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — “I do not believe the convention elected me to somehow undo the conservative resurgence,” said Frank Page after he was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention June 13. “That's not who I am and that's…
SBC sends Burleson dispute back to IMB trustees
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board will get a chance to resolve its own trustee dispute, despite a plea for outside arbitration. Trustee Wade Burleson asked SBC messengers to authorize the convention's Executive Committee to…
WMU looks for God’s call during missions celebration
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Christians need to hear, understand, embrace and live God's call, program personalities reminded Baptist women during the 2006 Woman's Missionary Union celebration. “How can you hear God's call when those around you want you to mimic…
Seminary presidents Mohler and Patterson debate Calvinism
GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — Baptist seminary presidents Paige Patterson and Albert Mohler may have philosophical differences on the subject of divine election as interpreted by Calvinism, but those differences have small practical effect, an hour-long dialogue between the two revealed….