Transition announced at BCS. After more than 41 years with Baptist Community Services and the related health care entities that preceded it, Tim Holloway will retire Dec. 31 as president and chief executive officer of BCS and the High Plains Christian Ministries Foundation. Steve Dalrymple, BCS senior vice president and general counsel, will be promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer effective Aug. 1 and will succeed Holloway as president Jan. 1, 2012, according to Robert Byrd, chairman of the BCS board of trustees. Dalrymple is a graduate of Baylor University and the University of Texas School of Law. Holloway recruited Dalrymple as senior vice president and in-house counsel at High Plains Baptist Health Systems in 1991, and he joined the BCS administrative staff in 1997. He and his wife, Sharon, are members of First Baptist Church in Amarillo.
Music conference slated at Baylor. Church music ministers and choir directors from across the country will gather for the 10th annual Alleluia Conference at Baylor University July 19-22. The conference includes technical sessions on organ music, praise teams, music fundamentals, youth choirs, conducting, piano, technology, handbells, worship music, hymns and vocal technique. Breakout session topics include introducing and using multimedia in smaller churches, transitioning a church toward contemporary music, teaching hymns to children, growing and maintaining a full-time ministry and coping with job loss. Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Cynthia Clawson will present a concert at 7 p.m., July 21, in the Paul W. Powell Chapel at Truett Seminary. Cost for the conference is $315 per person. For more information, contact Melinda Coats, Alleluia Conference coordinator, at (254) 710-2360.
Conference focuses on reaching Boomers. “Beckoning the Boomers” is the theme of a leadership training conference Sept. 8-9 on the Baylor University campus in Waco. Eleven breakout sessions will focus on varied aspects of reaching and ministering to Baby Boomers. Amy Hanson, a writer and consultant from Omaha, Neb., will be the keynote speaker. Sponsors for the event include the Baylor School of Social Work, the Bible study/discipleship team from the Baptist General Convention of Texas, Collin Baptist Association and First Baptist Church in Allen. For more information, visit texasbaptists.org/events/beckoning-the-boomers/.
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