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Missionary gets award. For the first time, a career missionary was named recipient of the award given annually by the African-American church relations component of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board. The Willie Simmons Award was given to Isaac Durosinjesu Ayanrinola for his mission work and his contributions in raising missions awareness among Africans and African-Americans. After eight years of service as a missionary of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, he came to the United States for schooling. He and his wife will return to Nigeria in August.
___ Stanley stands for women. Former Southern Baptist Convention President Charles Stanley has disagreed with the SBC's stand against women leading local churches. Stanley told a group of pastors in Charlotte, N.C., he was led to Christ by a woman pastor, the Charolotte observer reported. "There are some godly women out there. I would never say that a woman could not preach. ... You just can't put God in a box."
___ Presbyterians cross SBC. The Presbyterian Church (USA) has passed a resolution that condemns the Southern Baptist Convention for denying women can be pastors. By a vote of about 86 percent to 13 percent, delegates to the 2.5-million-member church's general assembly expressed "respectfully and publicly its Christian concern for and solidarity with women who are being denied the exercise of their pastoral gifts." The resolution made no direct reference to the Southern Baptist Convention; all direct references in the original resolution were deleted by a church committee. The resolution had specifically named the 15.7-million-member Southern Baptist Convention, which this summer formally voiced its opposition to women pastors.
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