BGCT creates new prayer office,
names Ted Elmore to lead effort
___By Ferrell Foster
___Texas Baptist Communications
___DALLAS--The Baptist General Convention of Texas has elevated prayer and spiritual development within its new staff structure by creating a separate prayer office and naming Ted Elmore to lead it.
___"I am grateful that the first new ministry office we have established is the office of prayer and spiritual development," said BGCT Executive Director Charles Wade. "Ted has
had an assignment within the evangelism division to work on matters of prayer, but now he will work with all our people in developing prayer strategies for all our ministries. He will work with local churches in developing prayer ministries in their congregations.
___"All who know Ted Elmore know him to be an evangelist with a deep heart for prayer," Wade added. "He knows how to depend on God. He can help us all to grow in prayer."
___The office of prayer and spiritual development will be part of the new church missions and evangelism section, led by E.B. Brooks. Judy Hackler is the office's ministry assistant.
___There is a "great need in our convention and our churches for prayer," Brooks said. "Realizing that, as much as any other time in history, Baptists need to be praying for the will of the Father, the office of prayer and spiritual development will give encouragement to and provide assistance with convention, association, church and individual prayer.
___"New initiatives in unified prayer ministries will be undertaken," Brooks said. "Greater emphasis will be given to prayer in meetings sponsored by the BGCT."
___Also, "efforts will be made to link Texas Baptist prayer ministries to those beyond our state and with other praying Christian groups."
___Elmore joined the BGCT staff in 1992 as evangelism consultant and has been associate director of the evangelism division about four years. Prior to that, he was a vocational evangelist for 14 years. He also has been pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Hamilton.
___Elmore said he is excited about the new position because when believers pray, God moves them toward his intents and purposes. When that happens, they "will never contradict Scripture" and the result will be "contemporary, because God is a God of today."
___Today's prayer movement is on "the cutting edge," Elmore said. God is using it to bring unity to God's body.
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