March 27, 2000
Joy Fenner announces retirement
from helm of Texas WMU
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___CEDAR HILL--Joy Fenner has announced plans to retire as executive director-treasurer of Texas Woman's Missionary Union Feb. 28, 2001.
___Fenner made the announcement to members of the Texas WMU executive board during their March 22-23 meeting at Mount Lebanon Baptist Encampment.
JOY FENNER
___Also during that meeting, the executive board approved personnel committee recommendations regarding consultants specializing in language WMU work and in ministries, Women on Mission and Adults on Mission.
___Fenner, 65, has served as chief executive for the statewide missions organization since December 1980. Previously, she worked more than seven years as Girls' Auxiliary (now Girls in Action) director for Texas WMU. She and her husband, Charlie, served 14 years as Southern Baptist missionaries in Japan.
___In a March 14 memo to the executive board and its personnel committee, Fenner said she consulted with Texas WMU President Jeanne Law of Lubbock regarding the timing of the announcement and the retirement date.
___She expressed a strong desire that the personnel committee have "ample time to review the profile and position description, to receive recommendations and evaluate them and to prayerfully make the selection of a person to be nominated to the executive board.
___"If action could be taken by September 2000, this would provide an overlap period of several months for the executive director-elect to become familiar with the complex operations of WMU of Texas before assuming the responsibilities of the office," she added.
___Noting that a new president for Texas WMU will be elected at the annual meeting Oct. 31, Fenner pointed out that the timing would allow a four-month transition period for the president to work with her and the executive director-elect before the retirement date.
___Fenner characterized the personnel committee as "nine capable, praying board members from a cross-section of our state." ?
___Lynette Adam of Cypress is chairwoman of the committee, and Bonnie Franklin of Stanton is vice chairwoman. Other members are Billye Davis of Austin, Adela Enriques of Robstown, Nelda Gerbine of Cleburne, Pat Lambright of Smyer, Bea Lewis of Killeen, Annet Reid of Corsicana and Melba Tiller of Nacogdoches.
___In other personnel-related business, the executive board approved a position description for a consultant specializing in language WMU and named Rose Zamora, ministry consultant with national Woman's Missionary Union to the post.
___Zamora, 44, is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth. She served as a River Ministry summer missionary.
___In her new role, she will work to develop, strengthen and expand missions awareness and involvement among Texas Baptist language/cultural congregations.
___The board also voted to employ Christine Hockin-Boyd, volunteer chaplaincy coordinator with the Baptist General Convention of Texas church ministries department, as consultant specializing in ministries, Women on Mission and Adults on Mission.
___Hockin-Boyd, 39, is a North American Mission Board-appointed missionary, a veteran curriculum writer and a volunteer chaplain at Vencor Hospital in Dallas. She graduated from Howard Payne University and Southwestern Seminary.
___She served on the staffs of First Baptist Church in Garland, North Side Baptist Church in Weatherford and First Baptist Church in Alvin.
___Hockin-Boyd, who has represented restorative justice ministry on the Women of Purpose Network, will continue to develop and expand networks with various ministries to mobilize adults in missions. She also will seek to strengthen and expand missions awareness and involvement among adults in Texas Baptist churches.
___Joy Fenner
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