___ Ministers' wives to hear Parshall. The 2002 Ministers' Wives Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention will feature conservative Christian political commentator Janet Parshall at its June 11 meeting in St. Louis. Tickets for the luncheon at $10 in advance. Send payment and a self-addressed, stamped envelope by May 15 to Cynthia Thompson, 301 E. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, Fla. 33301.
___ CBF receives $4 million gift. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship's missions program received a $4 million gift from an anonymous donor. CBF's global missions team has grown from 18 in 1992 to more than 115 today, with an emphasis on unreached people groups. The CBF currently has 120 missionary candidates exploring the process of being appointed as missionaries. In keeping with the donor's wishes, the gift will be expended over a three-year period at $1.33 million per year. Eighty percent, or $3.2 million, is earmarked for missionary personnel, and 20 percent, or $800,000, for missionary projects. None of the gift will be spent on administration. According to CBF officials, the organization could sustain a 100 percent or more increase in missionary personnel while incurring nominal additional administrative costs. The donated funds will support 12 new career missionaries and 13 new Global Service Corps missionaries.
___ Curry & Mercer at SBC. Dayna Curry and Heather Mercer, the two relief workers who were held captive in Afghanistan, will address messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in St. Louis June 11. Both women are graduates of Baylor University and members of Antioch Community Church in Waco.
___ Midwestern buys property. The $1.4 million purchase of the Farmland Inc. property adjacent to Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was completed March 29 after being approved by the seminary trustees via an electronic ballot. A 34,000-square-foot building, which was a retreat center for Farmland, sits on the 24 acres of land just north of the present campus. The building overlooks a three-acre lake.
___ SBC gives heave-ho to HoJo. The Southern Baptist Convention has cancelled its block of rooms at a Howard Johnson hotel in St. Louis for this summer's SBC annual meeting. The cancellation is in protest of the Howard Johnson St. Louis Airport franchise hosting the sixth annual "Beat Me in St. Louis" conference April 26-28. The "educational pansexual event" is sponsored by St. Louis Leather and Lace, a group "dedicated to the free expression of alternative lifestyles and forms of loving." SBC messengers who have been assigned to the Howard Johnson hotel will be reassigned elsewhere.
___ Volunteers sought. Longtime partnership missions organizer W. H. "Dub" Jackson of Abilene is seeking team members and churches to participate in national revival campaigns in Sweden, Denmark, France, England and Japan through the SBC International Mission Board. The Sweden campaign is scheduled for Oct. 16-30. Especially needed are young people and musicians. The Denmark trip is Sept. 10-23, 2003, and includes a request for a small choir. The Paris and England trips are slated for 2004, and the Japan trip is scheduled for 2003. Contact Jackson at whdubjackson@compuserve.com or (915) 698-4899.
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