Vestal urges Missouri layman to
stop publishing loose allegations
___By Bob Allen
___Associated Baptist Press
___ATLANTA (ABP)--The head of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has written an open letter asking a Missouri layman to stop distributing materials that link the Atlanta-based group with pro-gay and other liberal views.
___The June letter by CBF Coordinator Daniel Vestal, also asks Roger Moran, a businessman in Winfield, Mo., who was recently elected to the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, to "apologize publicly" for his actions and "seek reconciliation" with "Christian brothers and sisters."
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Four missionaries drown
off southern coast of Mexico
___TAPACHULA, Mexico (BP)--A Southern Baptist missionary, his 11-year-old
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THE SLOAN FAMILY
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daughter and two summer missionaries died June 18 in a swimming accident on Mexico's southern coast.
___Gary Sloan, 37, his daughter, Carla, and summer missionaries John Weems, 21, of Nacogdoches, and Joy Murphy, 19, of Pelham, Ala., drowned in the ocean near Tapachula, Mexico, where they had gone with Sloan's wife, Gloria, their three other children and three other summer missionaries to celebrate a family birthday.
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