Baptist Briefs
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CBF to meet in Birmingham. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship will hold its general assembly June 24-26 in Birmingham, Ala., around the theme of "Nurturing Community." Keynote speakers include Bill Leonard, dean of the Wake Forest University Divinity School; Bill Hull, retired provost and current professor at Samford University; and Bill O'Brien, director of Samford University's Global Center. The assembly also will feature nearly 60 workshops plus a special recognition of retiring Global Missions Coordinator Keith Parks and his wife, Helen Jean.
___ Abernathy to LifeWay. Morris Abernathy, director of photography at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary since 1988, has been named corporate visuals coordinator for LifeWay Christian Resources in Nashville, Tenn. Abernathy, 43, succeeds Jim Veneman, who has taken a teaching and administrative post at Union University in Jackson, Tenn.
___ Henderson named Kentucky editor. Trennis Henderson, editor of the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine since 1992, has been elected editor of the Western Recorder, weekly newspaper of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He succeeds Mark Wingfield, who left the Recorder last fall to become managing editor of the Baptist Standard.
___ Roberts named vice president. The North American Mission Board has created a new vice president position and tapped staff member Phil Roberts to fill it. Roberts, who had been director of interfaith evangelism, was named vice president for strategic cities strategies.
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__ Souder named NAMB officer. Texas pastor Danny Souder has been elected first vice chairman of the North American Mission Board. Souder, pastor of Northlake Baptist Church in Dallas, also serves on the board of directors of Southern Baptists of Texas, the new state convention formed last fall.
___ Southwestern signs Cuban agreement. Fifteen teachers from the Baptist Theological Seminary in Cuba will study at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth this summer as part of a new agreement between Southwestern and Cuba's Western Baptist Convention. Southwestern also will send two professors to teach in Cuba each semester.
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__ NAMB gives tornado relief. The North American Mission Board has released $150,000 in disaster assistance funds to help victims of the May 3 tornadoes in Oklahoma. The money will be used primarily for $500 grants to individual families through local churches.
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