April 14, 2003
___ Passport hires webmaster. Passport, an independent agency that stages summer youth programs and related services, has hired Tim Pennington-Russell of Waco as webmaster and information technology consultant. He has been a freelance web designer for the last two years and previously taught digital media design at Texas State Technical College. His wife, Julie, is pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Waco.
___ Arizona Foundation investors get payment. Investors in the failed Baptist Foundation of Arizona recently received their share of the $217 million settlement with Arthur Andersen, former auditor for the foundation. The latest distribution alone returns approximately 30 percent of the money investors lost in the foundation collapse, according to Clifton Jessup, the liquidating trustee. When added to previous distributions, this brings the total recovery to approximately 45 percent of an investor's holdings, Jessup said. Another previously announced settlement--with the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention and six other entities--is awaiting court approval and will raise the recovery paid to the investors to approximately 50 percent, Jessup said.
___ Resolutions committee appointed. Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham has named Mike Hamlet, pastor of First Baptist Church of North Spartanburg, S.C., chairman of the SBC resolutions committee. Other members of the committee appointed by Graham are Jim Butler, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church of Southhaven, Miss.; Craig Christina, pastor of First Baptist Church of Duncan, Okla.; Penna Dexter, radio talk show host and member of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano; Randy Hahn, pastor of Colonial Heights Baptist Church of Colonial Heights, Va.; Russell Moore, assistant professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.; Brandon Thomas, minister to young couples at First Baptist Church of Euless; Dale Wallace, an attorney and member of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala.; and Calvin Wittman, pastor of Applewood Baptist Church in Wheat Ridge, Colo.
___ Annuity Board taps Rojas. Kevy Rojas has joined the Annuity Board staff as multicultural relationship manager, to coordinate the board's educational and marketing efforts with ethnic churches and ministers throughout the Southern Baptist Convention. Rojas has served as associate pastor and church administrator for the past four years at Luz de Bethel Baptist Church in Austin and has had more than 10 years of combined work experience with the FIC Insurance Group in Austin and Fidelity Investments in Boston.
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