November 18, 2002

Bob Campbell	Rudy Camacho	Debbie Ferrier

Campbell to serve second term as BGCT president

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___WACO--Bob Campbell was re-elected president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, to serve alongside First Vice President Rudy Camacho and Second Vice President Debbie Ferrier.
___All three top officers were elected without opposition during the BGCT annual session in Waco Nov. 11-12.
___Messengers also elected BGCT Treasurer David Nabors as recording secretary, a position traditionally held by the treasurer. Nabors assumed the treasurer's role earlier this year.
___Registration Secretary Irby Cox of Grand Prairie and Secretary of the Corporation Gene Greer of Dallas also were re-elected.
___Campbell, pastor of Westbury Baptist Church in Houston, is a graduate of Louisiana College in Pineville, La., and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, where he earned both master's and doctoral degrees in theology.
___He is a former professor of Bible and Greek at Howard Payne University and has been pastor of churches in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
___Camacho, immediate past president of the Hispanic Baptist Convention of Texas, is a deacon and missions committee member at Gambrell Street Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
___A retired Postal Service employee, Camacho is a lay preacher who has aided Hispanic Baptist work across the state. He serves on the BGCT Executive Board and the Truett Seminary board of advisers. He is a trustee of Howard Payne University, his alma mater.
___Ferrier, a longtime member of Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, chaired this year's BGCT committee on nominations for institution boards and serves on the BGCT's Missions Review & Initiatives Committee. She is vice chair of the board of directors for the Texas Baptist Laity Institute, serves on the board of Hispanic Baptist Theological School and on the coordinating council of Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Texas.

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