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Summer projects still available. Appalachian Regional Ministry has many summer projects still available for Southern Baptist churches and volunteers. Projects include church-starting activities, Backyard Bible Clubs, sports camps, medical missions and evangelistic revivals. For more information, contact Terrie Hannah at (304) 757-0944 or terriehannah@compuserve.com.
___ Volunteer football coach sought for France. An International Mission Board team of missionaries is seeking a self-starting college graduate to be football coach for an International Service Corps assignment in Montpellier, France. Candidates should have a desire to learn French, two years of college football experience and be able to do sports evangelism and lead cell groups. For information, call Chris Mills at (800) 999-3113, ext. 1286.
___ Historical Society to study name change. The Southern Baptist Historical Society, independent of the Southern Baptist Convention since 1995, authorized a committee May 26 to study whether the 62-year-old organization should remove "Southern Baptist" from its name. The society for church historians formerly was an auxiliary to the SBC Historical Commission, dissolved in a major denominational restructuring. The motion to consider a name change was made by Alan Lefever, director of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection. The society "certainly includes the Southern Baptist Convention but is broader than that as well," he said.
___ Protesters headed for SBC. Homosexual activists are planning to protest outside the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 13-14 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. Soulforce, a national network of homosexual activists, has announced its intention to converge a national protest June 14. Mel White, one of the founders of Soulforce, told Baptist Press he hoped the demonstrations will be peaceful. "We will be there to win minds and hearts, not to cause anger and fear," he said. "However, so many people are angry at the Southern Baptists, and sometimes our training doesn't help control that anger."
___ Female pastors supported. First Baptist Church of Memphis, Tenn., planned a "Prayer Response of Concerned Christians" June 3 to protest proposed changes in the Baptist Faith & Message that would restrict the office of pastor to men only. "Southern Baptist leaders continue to live under patriarchy instead of under God's design of partnership of all God's people regardless of race and gender," said Carol Richardson, a deacon at the church.
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