Southeast Missouri took a significant hit on Jan. 27 with ice and snow storms knocking out power and forcing people into warming centers and the homes of friends and fellow church members.
Feb. 3 marked a pair of significant new developments among Baptists in Missouri: (1) the election of interim David Tolliver as the Missouri Baptist Convention’s new executive director and (2) an appeals court decision in favor of Windermere Baptist Conference Center and against the MBC.
Homer Earl DeLozier, executive director of St. Louis Baptist Association (now St. Louis Metro Baptist Association) from 1955 until his retirement in 1976, died Feb. 11 at The Baptist Home in Ironton at the age of 101.
Kansas City --- Windermere Baptist Conference Center acted within its legal rights when it changed its articles of incorporation, a Missouri appellate court ruled Feb. 3.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — David Tolliver, who served as interim executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention for the past 22 months, has been named the new executive director.
KANSAS CITY — A three-member panel of the Western District Court of Appeals has upheld a Cole County Circuit Court decision in favor of Windermere Baptist Conference Center’s right to amend its articles of incorporation in 2001 without the approval of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
