May 1, 2000

NEW OFFICERS of the Texas Baptist Ministers' Wives Fellowship elected at the retreat are Nancy Duck of Lufkin, president; Lisa Massar of Tyler, first vice president; and Sue Cash of San Antonio, second vice president.	NANCY DUCK, new president of Ministers' Wives Fellowship (left) and Betty Dilday, Duck's mother and wife of Russell H. Dilday, greet speaker Millie Cooper of Dallas (center).

Ministers' wives pour out blessings
___By Orville Scott
___Texas Baptist Communications
___"A Tea Time Blessing" turned into a life-changing experience, according to women attending the 11th annual Texas Baptist Ministers' Wives Fellowship at Mount Lebanon

BEVERLY BROWN second vice president of the fellowship, greets Joy Fenner, exxecutive director treasurer of Woman's Missionary Union of Texas.

Encampment April 14-15.
___One of the participants, who confided to the outgoing Second Vice President Beverly Brown that her life had been changed, said: "When I came here, I was tired of being a pastor's wife. Now, I'm renewed, and I'm going back to what God has called me to do."
___Brown gave a theme interpretation during the retreat suggesting pastors' wives use tea parties to share Christ's love and

DANITA SAYLORS, outgoing fellowship president, displays a quilt made in honor of Bobbie Pinson, wife of retired BGCT Executive Director Bill Pinson.

to change church members' attitudes.
___"Invite them over for a tea party. They'll think differently about you," she said. "And take a pot of tea and a flower when you visit shut-ins."
___The retreat for ministers' wives is co-sponsored by Texas Woman's Missionary Union and the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___The ministers' wives presented a gift in appreciation to one of the retreat's founders, Joy Phillips Fenner, executive director-treasurer of Texas WMU since 1980. Fenner will retire next year.
___Throughout the retreat, the women were encouraged to make the most of the gifts God has given them.
___"Your churches may expect certain things of you, and you may expect things of yourselves, but be yourselves and be what God ordained you to be," urged Charles Wade in his first greeting to the group since becoming BGCT executive director.
___Wade's wife, Rosemary, gave each of the participants a set of wildflower note cards created by Tom Brannon, former director of the BGCT communications office. Each of the women also received a pearl necklace donated by a jewelry company.
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