 April 28, 1999
Baptist Briefs
___ Endowment lowers ministers' wives' tickets. Pastor's wife and author Jill Briscoe will be the featured speaker at this year's Southern Baptist Ministers' Wives' Conference at noon Tuesday, June 15, in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Atlanta. Tickets are significantly reduced in price due to achieving the first goal amount for the SBC Ministers' Wives' Endowment Fund. Tickets requested by June 1 are only $10 each. For tickets, send a check (payable to the SBC Ministers' Wives' Conference) and a self-addressed stamped envelope to Diane Newell, 8649 Autumn Green Dr., Jacksonville, Fla. 32256.
___ Southern outlines $70 million in projects. Trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary have approved a master plan for development of the campus in Louisville, Ky., anticipating building projects totaling $70 million over the next decade. About half the construction projects are new buildings and half renovation of existing buildings and infrastructure. Projects in the master plan include a 1,500-seat performing-arts facility, expansion of the library and a 21,000-square-foot center for the seminary's Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Missions and Church Growth.
___ Golden Gate affirms family amendment. Trustees of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary have signal-ed support for last summer's amendment of the "Baptist Faith & Message" doctrinal statement and voted to require all faculty members to do so as well. By changing its constitution to require adherence to "Bap-tist Faith & Message" as it currently reads or may be amended in the future, Golden Gate followed the lead of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. Golden Gate President Bill Crews told trustees all current faculty members are willing to abide by the change, which means they accept last summer's addition of a section on family that drew criticism from some quarters.
___ ABP honors Martin. Baptist General Convention of Texas newswriter Dan Martin was honored by Associated Baptist Press April 9. He was recognized for his role in founding the independent Baptist news service in 1990 after he and Al Shackleford were fired as editors of Baptist Press, official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.
___ Smith heads Brewton-Parker. David Smith, a 1974 graduate of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, was installed April 13 as president of Brewton-Parker College, a Baptist school in Mount Vernon, Ga. He previously was director of admissions at Hardin-Simmons and vice president for institutional advancement at Wayland Baptist University.
___ Patterson speaks on evangel-icals/Catholic document. While he doesn't think Southern Baptist Convention leaders Larry Lewis and Richard Land should have signed the "Evangelicals and Catholics Together" statement in 1994, SBC President Paige Patterson said a small group who has called the two to "repent" is misguided. The call to repentance was issued by a group called Ex-Catholics for Christ during a March meeting in Texas. "Repentance is the appropriate response to sin," Patterson said in a statement, adding that authors of the call against Land and Lewis "have confused the issues of sin and cerebral judgment."
Frontpage / Contents/ Masthead / Why We're Here / Links / Archive / E-mail us/ SUBSCRIBE!
|