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Posted: 12/19/03

WorldConneX adds staff and adopts budget

DALLAS--The WorldconneX administrative committee has added two part-time staff to the new missions network, adopted a preliminary budget for 2004 and agreed to secure office space near downtown Dallas.

Meeting in Dallas Dec. 9, the committee selected Frank Dang of Keller to join the network's staff as part-time ethnic and emerging church associate.

Dang is a first-generation Vietnamese-American who has been an associate pastor at NorthWood Church in Keller for three years. In January, he will begin serving as bivocational pastor of the Vietnamese Church of Fort Worth, a mission of Travis Avenue Baptist Church.

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Posted: 12/19/03

WorldConneX adds staff and adopts budget

DALLAS–The WorldconneX administrative committee has added two part-time staff to the new missions network, adopted a preliminary budget for 2004 and agreed to secure office space near downtown Dallas.

Meeting in Dallas Dec. 9, the committee selected Frank Dang of Keller to join the network's staff as part-time ethnic and emerging church associate.

Dang is a first-generation Vietnamese-American who has been an associate pastor at NorthWood Church in Keller for three years. In January, he will begin serving as bivocational pastor of the Vietnamese Church of Fort Worth, a mission of Travis Avenue Baptist Church.

Carol Childress of Rockwall will join the WorldconneX staff as part-time information and evangelical networking associate. Childress will resign from the WorldconneX board to assume the staff position. She will continue to work part time with Leadership Network, a Dallas-based organization that works with innovative church leaders.

Dang and Childress will join Bill Tinsley, network leader, and his associate, Stan Parks, on the WorldconneX staff.

The committee adopted a basic operating budget of $594,450, with an additional $100,000 earmarked for reserves. The budget is based on $702,688 in anticipated funds. These include $317,829 in unspent funds from 2003 and $252,743 from the Baptist General Convention of Texas Cooperative Program.

In 2003, WorldconneX also received nearly $114,000 from Texas Baptist churches through the “Texas missions initiatives” worldwide giving option offered on the BGCT giving form and about $18,000 in designated gifts.

The administrative committee authorized Chairman MikeStroope of Dublin and Tinsley to lease office space in Dallas. The offfices will be located at South Side on Lamar, a historic property that for many years was a Sears catalogue center but has been converted into lofts and office space.

The new WorldconneX office address is 1409 South Lamar No. 905, Dallas 75215.

The committee also agreed to recommend as a new board member missions strategist Bill O'Brien of Frisco. Pending confirmation by the board of trustees, he will replace Keith Parks, who resigned from the WorldconneX board after his son joined the network's staff.

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