Baptist Briefs: Campaign launched to provide Bibles for China

A new partnership involving LifeWay Christian Stores and Tyndale House Publishers allows individuals and churches to purchase Bibles for people in China. From now until June 20, customers at any of LifeWay’s 185 stores can purchase a Bible for $5 that will be printed in China and distributed to someone there who lacks access to Scripture. This is the fourth international Bible distribution project for LifeWay Stores. Most recently, LifeWay partnered with B&H Publishing and Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board for The Thomas Project, which resulted in more than 340,000 copies of Scripture distributed in South Asia. For more information about the Gospel for China project, or to purchase Bibles online to send, click here. 

CBF committee nominates leaders. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship nominating committee selected Doug Dortch, senior pastor of Mountain Brook Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., as the CBF’s next moderator-elect. Doug DortchDortch has served churches in Kentucky, Florida and Alabama. Valerie Burton, minister of Christian formation at Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham, Ala., and chair of the nominating committee, also announced additional nominees to serve on CBF’s governing board and missions council, who will be presented for approval at the CBF general assembly in Dallas June 19. Texas nominees include Brent Beasley, senior pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, to the governing board, and Jackie Baugh Moore, vice president of the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation in San Antonio, and Mark Wingfield, associate pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas, to the missions council. The governing board recommended Katie Sciba, a medical social worker in Stafford, to serve as recorder; Christopher Mack, minister of young adults at Trinity Baptist Church in San Antonio, and Jenny Howell, a doctoral candidate and adjunct faculty in the religion department at Baylor University, to the nominating committee; and Pat Ayers, professional in ranching, business and investment from Austin, Os Chrisman, judge and attorney in Dallas, and George Cowden, attorney in San Antonio, to the CBF Foundation.