December 8, 1999
BGCT names Maples associate to Wade
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___Dick Maples has been named associate executive director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___Maples, a former BGCT president who has been coordinator of BGCT minister/church relations since 1995, will assume the new post Jan. 1.
___Executive Director-elect Charles Wade nominated Maples to succeed Ed Schmeltekopf, who retires Dec. 31.
DICK MAPLES
___The nomination was approved by the BGCT Executive Board in a mail ballot since the board, which last met Sept. 28, does not have another scheduled meeting until Feb. 22.
___At the BGCT, Maples, 65, helped develop the intentional interim pastor program, offered help for terminated ministers and their families, and provided mentoring, conflict resolution and mediation to churches and their ministers.
___He previously was pastor of First Baptist Church in Bryan for 16 years. Previous pastorates include the First Baptist churches of El Paso, Texas City and Waynesville, N.C.
___A native of Goodnight, Maples is a graduate of Mississippi College in Clinton, Miss., and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. He earned the doctor of ministry degree from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., in 1975. He also was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
___During his years as a pastor, he served on the BGCT Executive Board, Administrative Committee and Christian Life Commission. He was chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention committee on committees in 1978 and was a trustee of the SBC Home Mission Board, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Hardin-Simmons University and East Texas Baptist University.
___He and his wife, Mary Jo, have two grown children--William Drake of St. Charles, Ill., and Paula Janice Lansford of Stillwater, Okla.
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