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Guidelines posted for submitting resolutions at SBC in Phoenix

by Staff, posted Monday, April 21, 2003 (21 years ago)

PHOENIX (BP)--Detailed guidelines for submitting resolutions to be considered by the 2003 Southern Baptist Convention Resolutions Committee have been posted on the SBC website, www.sbc.net.

To access the guidelines, click "SBC Annual Meeting 2003, Phoenix AZ" atop the sbc.net site, then "Resolutions" on the left side of the annual meeting's webpage titled "KingdomFirst," then "How to submit a resolution."

New Resolutions Committee procedures approved during the 2002 SBC annual meeting in St. Louis will be implemented for the June 17-18 annual meeting in Phoenix.

The changes to SBC Bylaw 20 for the committee procedures include:

-- Proposed resolutions may be submitted as early as April 15 but no later than 15 days prior to the SBC annual meeting, giving the Resolutions Committee a two-week period in which to consider submissions. Resolutions may no longer be submitted during the annual meeting.

-- Proposed resolutions must be accompanied by a letter from a church qualified to send a messenger to the SBC annual meeting certifying that the individual submitting the resolution is a member in good standing.

-- Proposed resolutions preferably should be submitted by e-mail or mailed to the Resolutions Committee in care of the SBC Executive Committee. The drafts must be typewritten, titled, dated and include complete contact information for the person and his or her church.

-- No person will be allowed to submit more than three resolutions per year.

-- If a properly submitted resolution is not forwarded by the Resolutions Committee to the SBC annual meeting, a two-thirds vote of messengers would be required to bring the proposed resolution to the convention floor.

Mike Hamlet, pastor of First Baptist Church, North Spartansburg, S.C., and a former president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, has been named by SBC President Jack Graham as this year's Resolutions Committee chairman.

The other nine members of the committee appointed by Graham, in alphabetical order, are Jim Butler, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, Southhaven, Miss.; Craig Christina, pastor of First Baptist Church, Duncan, Okla.; Penna Dexter, radio talk show host and member of Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas; J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church, Durham, N.C.; Randy Hahn, pastor of Colonial Heights Baptist Church, Colonial Heights, Va.; Russell Moore, assistant professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Brandon Thomas, minister to young couples, First Baptist Church, Euless, Texas; Dale Wallace, an attorney and member of The Church at Brook Hills, Birmingham, Ala.; and Calvin Wittman, pastor of Applewood Baptist Church, Wheat Ridge, Colo.