 March 17, 1999
Baptist Briefs
___ SBC child-care registration open. Registration is now being accepted for on-site child care for preschool children of out-of-town messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 15-16 in Atlanta. A registration form is available by
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RESCUE VEHICLES arrive on the scene of an anthrax scare at the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee building March 5. A letter purporting to be contaminated with the deadly substance arrived in the mail and was opened, although no immediate ill effects were felt and officials suspected the letter was a hoax. As a precaution, four employees and one emergency worker underwent decontamination procedures. (BP photo by Jim Veneman)
| writing to SBC Preschool Child Care, Rockdale Baptist Church, 1295 Smyrna Road, Conyers, Ga. 30094. Cost of child care is $5 per session per child, one-half the cost of previous SBC meetings.
___ Patterson calls for kinder Christians. Southern Baptist Convention President Paige Patterson, an architect of the conservative movement that threw the denomination into conflict for nearly 20 years, told a Texas audience last week that Christians should be kinder than they often are. "One of the tragedies in our world today is that there are conservative, Bible-believing Christians whose lives do not match their professions" of faith, Patterson said in a message at the SBC Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission annual seminar in Austin. He expressed concern with those "who are often unkind, uncharitable and un-Christlike in how they express the gospel and how they establish the mandate of God."
___ Veneman to Union. Jim Veneman, photo editor for LifeWay Christian Resources, will become director of visual communications at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., June 1. Veneman has served as photo director in the news room of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings since 1986. He also has directed an annual photojournalism conference at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
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