___ Southwestern expects 600 for Youth Lab. Youth culture, witnessing strategies and dealing with youth in crisis will be among the topics available to 600 youth leaders expected from around the country for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary's 34th annual Youth Ministry Lab in Fort Worth April 5-6. Four simultaneous conferences will take place: special training for students in seventh grade through college who sense a call to ministry; international mission trip training; World Changers training required for groups this summer; and campus coaches' training. Registration is $50 per person, $65 for couples and $40 for students. For more information, call (817) 923-1921, ext. 2LAB, or log on to www.swbts.edu/youthlab.
___ Foundation elects Weeks. Michael W. Weeks of Tupelo, Miss., has been elected as president of the Southern Baptist Foundation. Weeks will replace Hollis Johnson III, who is retiring June 30. Since 1998, Weeks has been vice chairman of BancorpSouth Bank and executive vice president of BancorpSouth Inc., the bank's holding company. He also has been executive vice president of BancorpSouth Trust and Asset Management Group. He is a member of First Baptist Church in Tupelo, where he serves as a deacon and teaches Sunday School.
___ Funding committee named. A nine-member SBC Funding Study Committee charged with analyzing Southern Baptist Convention funding issues, particularly as related to the six seminaries, has been named by Bruce Coe, chairman of the SBC Executive Committee. Bill Anderson of Clearwater, Fla., will chair the committee. Other members are Ted Kersh of Oklahoma, Rob Zinn of California, Frank Cox of Georgia, Mary "Marty" Odom of Oklahoma, Jim Butler of Mississippi, Gary Smith of Oklahoma, Gerald Harris of Georgia and James Hales of Kentucky.
___ Angell birthday bash planned. Friends and former students of Warren Angell are invited to a 95th birthday celebration planned for May 24-26 in Black Mountain, N.C. Angell is former dean of the College of Fine Arts at Oklahoma Baptist University. Planned events include a picnic, a banquet and alumni concerts of the Bison Glee Club and Bisonette Glee Club. For more information, contact Richard Huggins at huggins@tyler.net or (888) 484-4467.
___ Midwestern still eyes property. Trustees of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, meeting March 11-12 in Kansas City, voted to continue the process of acquiring the Farmland Inc. property adjacent to campus. Trustees expressed support for a $1.4 million purchase of the 30,000-square-foot office building that sits on 24 acres of land. The deal has not been finalized but is active. The purchase would be paid for primarily by borrowing from the seminary's general endowment fund.
___ IMB names Nelson. Dickie Nelson has been elected regional leader for International Mission Board work in the Caribbean Basin. Nelson and his wife, the former Diana (Dee) Jennings of Chickamauga, Ga., were appointed as missionaries to Venezuela in 1986. They served in Barinas, Rubio and Caracas before being assigned in 1997 to serve as the stateside associate for Caribbean Basin missionaries in the IMB's Richmond, Va., headquarters. Nelson is a graduate of Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He succeeds Ron Wilson, who recently joined the IMB's Richmond staff as associate vice president for leadership and ministries development.
___ Southwestern honors donors. Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary honored four people with its B.H. Carroll Award March 8. Honorees were Ray and Shirley Caldwell of Weatherford, Marjorie Baker of Dallas and Thomas Bickley of Bedford. All have been major donors to the seminary.
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