___ Crossover planned in New Orleans. The annual pre-convention evangelistic event held in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting is scheduled for New Orleans June 9. Volunteer opportunities include work with block parties, door-to-door canvassing, street evangelism, acts of kindness, ethnic festivals and inner-city evangelism. Further information and online registration is available at www.bagnola.org/crossover_2001.htm or by calling (504) 282-1428.
___ Canadian seminary accredited. The Association of Theological Schools has granted full accreditation to the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. The seminary was begun with the help of the SBC International Mission Board in 1987 and is the only seminary of the Canadian Convention of Southern Baptists. The seminary is located 15 miles west of Calgary overlooking the town of Cochrane and the Rocky Mountains. Enrollment at the seminary broke the 100 mark for the first time last fall.
___ Texan to be CBF moderator-elect. Veteran church administrator Phill Martin of Richardson will be nominated as moderator-elect of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship during the CBF General Assembly in June. If elected, Martin will serve as moderator-elect in 2001-02, then as moderator in 2002-03, presiding at the business sessions at the 2003 general assembly. He became director of education for the National Association of Church Business Administrators last June, after 24 years of ministry in Baptist churches. Most recently, he served at First Baptist Church of Richardson and South Main Baptist Church in Houston. Martin and his wife, Gloria, are members of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas.
___ Texas LifeWay manager honored. LifeWay Christian Stores has named Gabbie Maxner, manager of the chain's northwest Houston store, as Manager of the Year. The presentation will be made at the national sales meeting for LifeWay Christian Stores in Nashville, Tenn., in May. Maxner has been manager of the LifeWay Christian Store in Willowbrook Court on Tomball Parkway since November 1998 and is a member of Copperfield Baptist Church.
___ Free testaments at LifeWay. LifeWay Christian Stores and Broadman & Holman Publishers are offering a free New Testament to any customer who asks for one. Through April 15, copies of the Holman Christian Standard Bible Here's Hope New Testament paperback edition are being given away, one per customer. The Holman Christian Standard Bible is a new translation being developed by LifeWay Christian Resources.
___ IMB mails to Texans. The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has mailed a 12-page color brochure to Texas Baptist churches, accompanied by a letter thanking Texas churches for their support of the IMB. "We want to thank Texas Baptists for their partnership and encourage them to keep giving themselves wholeheartedly to the cause of telling a lost world about salvation in Jesus Christ," explains Larry Cox, IMB vice president for mobilization. The brochure notes that nearly 20 percent of the IMB's 5,000 missionaries come from Texas. The brochure also advertises a special IMB website for Texas Baptists, www.imb.org/texas.
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