SBC nominations favor new convention
___By Marv Knox
___Editor
___Churches affiliated with the new Southern Baptists of Texas Convention are 10 times more likely to be represented among Southern Baptist Convention nominations and appointments than are churches affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
___Thirteen Texans are among appointments and nominations to SBC boards and committees prior to the national convention's meeting this summer.
___Of those, seven are members of the 339 churches the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention lists on its website as affiliated congregations. That represents a ratio of one appointment to 48.4 churches.
___The 13 total appointments and nominations from Texas come from 12 of the BGCT's 5,975 churches. Assuming all the Southern Baptists of Texas nominees come from churches dually aligned with the BGCT and Southern Baptists of Texas --the SBT website doesn't indicate whether churches are dually or uniquely aligned--that represents a ratio of one appointment to 459.6 churches. Considering the two appointments from one church, the ratio is one to 497.9 churches.
___First-time nominees and appointees who are members of Southern Baptists of Texas churches are:
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Jim Bolton, member of First Baptist Church in Dallas, appointed to the Resolutions Committee.
___ Steve Cochran, first vice president of Southern Baptists of Texas and pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Longview, appointed to the Committee on Committees.
___ Casey Perry, pastor of First Baptist Church in Malakoff, nominated for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary board.
___ Dolores Ozuna, member of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Grand Prairie, nominated for the Committee on Order of Business.
___ Jim Richards, executive director of Southern Baptists of Texas and a member of First Baptist Church in Euless, nominated to the Baptist World Alliance.
___ Lenny Shores, pastor of Waldron Road Baptist Church in Corpus Christi, nominated to the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary board.
___ Rocky Weatherford, pastor of First Baptist Church of Tool, nominated for the board of LifeWay Christian Resources.
___Three other nominees, whose churches have not joined Southern Baptists of Texas, have close ties to the so-called "conservative resurgence" in the SBC:
___ Russell Kaemmerling, a lay member of Southwest Baptist Church in DeSoto, was the first editor of the movement's newspaper, the Southern Baptist Advocate, and is a brother-in-law of SBC President Paige Patterson. He was nominated for a seat on the International Mission Board.
___ Paul Pressler, widely regarded as joining Patterson as the co-architects of the "conservative resurgence," rotated off the International Mission Board and was nominated to the Baptist World Alliance. He is a member of First Baptist Church in Houston.
___ Nancy Pressler, Paul Pressler's wife and also a member of First Baptist Church in Houston, was named to the Resolutions Committee.
___The other three Texans are:
___ George W. Cook Jr., lay member of Sagemont Baptist Church in Houston, International Mission Board.
___ Ernest Easley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Odessa, International Mission Board.
___ J. Keet Lewis, member of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Committee on Committees.
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