March 17, 1999
___Velasquez in concert. Christian singer Jaci Velasquez will present a concert with the group Brothers Keeper March 26 at Harvest Church in Fort Worth. Tickets for the 8 p.m. concert range in price from $15 to $30. For information, call (817) 414-4900.
___Lowry told students at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 25 "not to believe everything you hear coming out of the Lone Star State." He was referring to earlier predictions by Baptist General Convention of Texas President Russell Dilday that messengers to next fall's BGCT annual session might be asked to reduced Texas funding to certain Southern Baptist Convention institutions, including Southern Seminary. "It is our desire and our prayer that if certain leaders in the (BGCT) should attempt to defund Southern Seminary or Southeastern or Midwestern that the rest of us in Texas would do everything we could to make that up," said Lowry, pastor of Spring Baptist Church and an officer of the SBC Executive Committee.
ROBERT HAMMOND (center), retired minister of recreation at Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, is this year's recipient of the Frank Hart Smith Lifetime Achievement Award given by the church recreation department of LifeWay Christian Resources. Here, Hammond shares a laugh with Bill Chamblee (left), minister of recreation at First Baptist Church of Denton, and John Garner, recreation program director at LifeWay during RecLab at Glorieta Conference Center, where the award was given. (BP photo by Jim Veneman/LifeWay)
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