 April 14, 1999
Baptist Briefs
___ Watson dies. Thomas Watson, 69, retired Southern Baptist missionary to South America from 1959 to 1993, died in Fort Worth March 31. He served in Uruguay, Peru and Venezuela. Some of his ministry roles included church planter, media missionary, counselor and seminary teacher.
___ McIntosh leaves Annuity Board. Joe McIntosh has resigned as managing director of endowment and supplemental assistance at the Southern Baptist Convention's Annuity Board. He is credited by Annuity Board leaders with growing the ministerial relief program to a secure level. During his eight-year tenure, endowment funds grew from $6.6 million to $33.9 million.
___ Southwestern luncheon June 16. South-western Baptist Theological Seminary will honor five distinguished alumni award recipients during the national alumni luncheon June 16 at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta. Distinguished alumni for 1999 are Charles Bryan, former Foreign Mission Board senior vice president for overseas operations; Guinell Freeman, educational director at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla.; Robert Hamblin, retired vice president of the Home Mission Board; Felix Gresham, retired director of admissions and dean of students at Southwestern; and Jack Terry, vice president for institutional advancement at Southwestern. To order tickets, send a check for $15 per person to Alumni Relations, Southwestern Seminary, P.O. Box 22480, Fort Worth 76122.
___ BJC committee seeks nominations. A committee seeking a new executive director for the Baptist Joint Committee has announced it will accept applications until June 7 and nominations until May 7. Send correspondence to Barbara Williams, American Baptist Churches in the USA, P.O. Box 851, Valley Forge, Pa. 19482-0851.
___ SBC Cooperative Program up. Six months into the fiscal year, gifts to the Southern Baptist Convention's Cooperative Program unified budget are up 4.94 percent over the same period last year, according to the SBC Executive Committee. Giving through March 31 totaled $83.26 million, up from $79.34 million last year.
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