Baptist Briefs
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Fellowship elects Baldridges. Houston natives Gary and Barbara Baldridge were elected co-coordinators for global missions by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Oct. 14. The couple will jointly oversee the moderate Baptist organization's missions efforts with an annual budget of $9.8 million, 126 paid missionaries and an average 3,600 missions volunteers each year.
___ Daley dies. Chauncey Daley, editor emeritus of the Kentucky Baptist Western Recorder, died Oct. 18 in Louisville at age 81. Daley was considered the "dean" of state Baptist paper editors at the time of his retirement in 1984. He served as editor of the Western Recorder 27 years, 1957-84.
___ Anders to receive Maston award. Sarah Frances Anders, current moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and retired professor of sociology at Louisiana College, will receive the T.B. Maston Christian Ethics Distinguished Service Award from the T.B. Maston Foundation Nov. 5. Guest speaker for the event at the Las Colinas Omni Mandalay Hotel will be Carolyn Ann Knight, academic director and assistant professor of homiletics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. For ticket information, call (214) 828-5190.
___ Golden Gate to be debt-free. Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary have approved a plan to make the California seminary debt-free. Trustees agreed to use proceeds from property sales to retire bonds on the Southern California campus in Brea.
___ It's not just the Jews. The Southern Baptist International Mission Board drew international attention this fall by calling on Baptists to pray for Jews during their High Holy Days. Now, the IMB is asking Baptists to pray for Hindus as they begin celebrating their annual festival of lights, Divali, Nov. 3. Prayer guides may be ordered by calling (800) 866-3621.
___ New Virginia convention has 253 churches. The Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia convention, formed in opposition to the long-established state Baptist convention in Virginia, now numbers 253 churches among its members, the organization reports. Of those 253 churches, 200 are uniquely affiliated with the new convention and 53 are dually aligned with the Baptist General Association of Virginia. The convention has received 41 new churches in the past year. The new convention set a budget goal of $3.9 million for the coming year.
___ Southern prof to head conservative council. Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., has been elected president of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, a conservative organization that advocates male headship and a male-only pastorate and opposes gender-neutral translations of the Bible. Southern Seminary President Al Mohler also was named to the organization's 28-member governing council.
___ Lynn Porch dies. Lynn Porch, wife of Tennessee Baptist Convention Executive Director James Porch, died Oct. 19 at her home in Tullahoma, Tenn., following an extended battle with cancer. Porch, 57, was the daughter of James Sullivan, retired president of the Baptist Sunday School Board and the late Velma Sullivan.
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