June 10, 2002
CBF will meet in Fort Worth this month
___FORT WORTH--Texans will play a large role in the annual national gathering of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship when it convenes its general assembly in Fort Worth June 27-29.
___This will be the third time for the 11-year-old organization to meet in Texas. Previous general assemblies were held in Fort Worth in 1995 and Houston in 1998.
___CBF Coordinator Daniel Vestal, former pastor of First Baptist Church of Midland and Tallowood Baptist Church in Houston, will address the body Friday morning, June 28.
___During the evening sessions on June 27 and June 28, former CNN personality Robin Johnson will host conversations with Baptist personalities such as Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity International. The speakers will share their personal testimonies about their changed lives and changed communities.
___Johnson and her husband, Jim, are leading a church-starting effort in Denton County.
___Among others sharing their stories with Johnson will be Phoebe Wabara, a doctoral student at Baylor University, whose family members were killed in the ethnic violence in her native country of Rwanda; David Massengill, a Wall Street lawyer who is a member of Metro Baptist Church in New York City; and Donald Meier, chief of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital in Dallas, who was one of the first CBF volunteers to travel to Afghanistan.
___Texas pastors Julie Pennington-Russell of Waco and Charlie Johnson of San Antonio will speak during evening sessions June 27 and 28. Texas pastor Roger Paynter of Austin will help lead closing worship and communion June 29.
___CBF also will celebrate its missions partnerships with a workshop hosted by CBF Global Missions Co-Coordinators Barbara and Gary Baldridge. The Baldridges will be joined by Steve Haas, vice president of church relations for World Vision; Felipe Garza, vice president for Buckner Children & Family Services; and Fuller.
___The three-day gathering begins with the first series of workshops at 2 p.m. June 27. All events will be held at the Fort Worth Convention Center and the Radisson Hotel.
___A Congregational Leadership Institute on June 27, designed for lay and clergy leaders, will offer two tracks. Ron Sider, professor of theology and culture at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, will lead "A Theology of Serving the Poor." Jeff Woods, executive minister of American Baptist Churches of Ohio, will lead "Missional Leaders: From Successful to Faithful."
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