Baptist Briefs
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IMB communications leader reassigned. Louis Moore has been relieved of duties as associate vice president for communications at the Southern Baptist International Mission Board and reassigned as a special assistant to President Jerry Rankin. Moore, a Baylor University graduate and former religion editor of the Houston Chronicle, will write a book about a missionary family that was murdered overseas.
___ Richards at Southwestern. Jim Richards, executive director of the new Southern Baptists of Texas Convention formed by conservatives dissatisfied with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, preached in chapel at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Feb. 2. Richards made no comment about the BGCT during his message. BGCT Executive Director Charles Wade is scheduled to preach in a seminary chapel service in April.
___ Orlando church offers housing. First Baptist Church of Orlando, Fla., will provide free housing for pastors, ministerial staff and missionaries attending this June's Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting there. The "Good Samaritan Inn" will rely on members of the congregation willing to open their homes to qualifying messengers and their families. To qualify, applicants must be current or retired ministerial staff or missionaries. They also must forward a letter from their church verifying their status and messenger credentials. To apply, send an e-mail message to GoodSamaritanInn@fbcorlando.org or by leave a voice mail message at (407) 514-4411. The deadline to apply is April 15.
___ SBC theme song nominated. "I Will Follow Christ," the theme song for the Cooperative Program's "Partners in the Harvest" campaign written by Christian artist Clay Crosse, has been nominated for a Dove Award. Crosse, a Southern Baptist, co-wrote the song with Steve Siler.
___ Patterson: Ethnic will be president. Declaring that "the day is over" when the Southern Baptist Convention is "a white Anglo Saxon denomination," Paige Patterson said he hopes that within five years the SBC will elect its first ethnic president. "I believe, deep down in my heart, with all my soul that the future of the SBC has to be a multi-racial, multi-ethnic future, or ... it has no future," Patterson said during an Ethnic Presidents Roundtable Conference last week in Wake Forest, N.C.
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