Messengers elected a new slate of officers and mainly handled routine matters during brief business sessions of the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting Oct. 27-29 at Tan-Tar-A Resort on the shores of the Lake of the Ozarks.
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Timothy D. Gilbert, longtime professor at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, has been elected dean at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, a post he will assume July 1.
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VIRGINIA, Liberia (ABP) – A former war refugee who returned to his native Liberia in 2005 to run a K-12 boarding school has been elected president of the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention.
Texas Baptists have a story worth telling—“preaching grace and doing good”—newly elected Executive Director David Hardage said, and he looks forward to communicating that message.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (ABP) -- Trustees elected Kentucky pastor Kevin Ezell president of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention after a four-hour called meeting Sept. 14.
In a surprise move, Southern Baptists said no to two well-known presidential candidates and elected a church planter from Marietta, Ga., to lead them in the coming year.
Candidates identified with ‘Save Our Convention’ win top elections again By Bill Webb Word&Way Editor ST. LOUIS — For the second year in a row, messengers to the Missouri Baptist Convention annual meeting elected officers identified with the Save Our Convention (SOC)
Lee's Summit — Harlan Spurgeon of Springfield will serve as president of the Baptist General Convention of Missouri for 2006-07.Messengers to the BGCM annual meeting March 31-April 1 elected Spurgeon, a retired missionary and pastor, by acclamation. He is a member of University Heights Baptist