Glazener, Newton & Fenner elected officers
___CORPUS CHRISTI--Clyde Glazener, pastor of Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth, was re-elected to a second one-year term as president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas during the convention's annual session last week.
___BGCT messengers also elected Mark Newton, pastor of Baptist Temple in San Antonio, as first vice president and Joy Phillips Fenner, retiring executive director of Texas

Glazener, Newton and Fenner

Woman's Missionary Union, as second vice president.
___Both Glazener and Newton were unopposed and elected by acclamation. In the only contested race, Fenner defeated Carol Norton, director of missions for Grayson Baptist Association in Sherman.
___Glazener has been pastor of the Gambrell Street church since 1992. Previously, he served as pastor of churches in Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. He also has been an adjunct professor of Greek and New Testament at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
___A native of Kildare, Okla., Glazener is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Seminary.
___In the BGCT, he has been a member of the Human Welfare Coordinating Board, the Committee on Committees and the Executive Board.
___He and his wife, Kaye, have a daughter and four sons.
___A native of Burnet, Newton has been a pastor of churches in Chilton and McGregor. He is a graduate of Baylor University and Southwestern Seminary. He has served the BGCT as chairman of a special committee to study the basis of association formation and member of the State Missions Commission.
___He and his wife, Aurelia, have a daughter and a son.
___Fenner and her husband, Charlie, were missionaries in Japan for 13 years before she became leader of Texas WMU in 1981. Before that, she was director of Girls' Auxiliary for Texas WMU and secretary at First Baptist Church in Marshall.
___She is a native of Avinger and attended Paris Junior College and East Texas Baptist University.
___Three veteran BGCT officers also were re-elected to their posts: Roger Hall of Dallas, recording secretary; Irby Cox of Grand Prairie, registration secretary; and Eugene Greer of Dallas, secretary of the corporation.
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