April 22, 2002
Nine named to BGCT chaplaincy board
___By Ken Camp
___Texas Baptist Communications
___The State Missions Commission at its April 9 meeting elected nine Texas Baptists to serve on the Baptist General Convention of Texas chaplaincy endorsement board.
___The BGCT Executive Board on Feb. 26 voted to create the board and grant it authority to act on the convention's behalf in endorsing chaplains and certifying pastoral care providers.
___The Executive Board had stipulated that the State Missions Commission select members of the endorsement board, with three members representing the commission, five chaplains or counselors representing various pastoral care disciplines, and one person representing BGCT institutional ministries.
___Joe Perez, a health-care chaplain from Harlingen, will serve as chairman of the endorsement board.
___Other members are Carol Carrier, municipal judge and chaplain from Houston; Guy Greenfield, Christian counselor and former seminary professor from Amarillo; State Missions Commission Chairman Randy Hager, who works with the regional Texas Education Service Center in Amarillo; Robert Hutcherson, retired military chaplain from Copperas Cove; William Ingram, commission member and retired music minister from Baytown; Robert Miller, commission member and pastor of North End Baptist Church in Beaumont; William Nash, health-care chaplain and counselor in Fort Worth; and Emmett Solomon, retired restorative justice chaplain in Huntsville.
___Bobby Smith, director of chaplaincy relations for the BGCT, told the commission that he and Col. David Park, command chaplain with the United States Air Force Space Command in Colorado Springs, went to Washington, D.C., March 25 to meet members of the U.S. Armed Forces Chaplaincy Board and formally request that the BGCT be approved as a chaplain-endorsing agency.
___Once a denominational entity receives U.S. Department of Defense recognition as an endorsing agency for chaplains, hospitals and other entities generally recognize the endorsement as valid.
___If the BGCT is granted the anticipated recognition, Park will become the first chaplain endorsed by the BGCT. Smith told the commission the chaplaincy board possibly could make a decision by late May.
Get printer-friendly version of this story
Send this story to a friend
News of religion, faith, missions, Bible study and Christian ministry among Texas Baptist churches, in the BGCT, the Southern Baptist Convention ( SBC ) and around the world.
Contents/ Masthead / Why We're Here / Links / Archive / E-mail us/ SUBSCRIBE!/ Signup for FirstLook