Friday, November 16, 2018

• Chitwood as IMB pursued: 'OK Lord, I hear You'

  by David Roach, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

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  ROCKVILLE, Va. (BP) -- During the International Mission Board's presidential search process, Paul Chitwood knew departing from his role as executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention would be difficult. But he couldn't get away from Jesus' words in Mark 10:29 about leaving "house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children" for "the sake of the gospel."

  It came up so much, "I would not open my Bible to" it "because I didn't want to see that again," Chitwood said Nov. 15 following his election as IMB president at the board's International Learning Center near Richmond, Va. "And then the pastor would preach from it."

  "I finally had to say, 'OK Lord, I hear You.'" Read More

• California's Camp Fire: 'It never turned daylight'

  by Brandon Elrod, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

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  PARADISE, Calif. (BP) -- Members of Paradise Ridge Southern Baptist Church have asked pastor Bob Sorensen if they will continue to have a church but not because their building is gone. They ask because the Camp Fire destroyed much of their community.

  "We've had disasters before, and we thought we would be able to just go back," Sorensen said. "But you can't go back."

  While the church still stands -- "an amazing thing," he said -- Sorensen's home was destroyed by the fire.

  "I still have people from the church who are missing that I can't find," he said. "I spend hours a day trying to find them." Read More

• IMB: Chitwood 'God's next leader' for entity

  by Julie McGowan, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

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  RICHMOND, Va.(BP) -- Paul Chitwood was elected unanimously as the 13th president of the Southern Baptists' International Mission Board on Thursday, Nov. 15, during trustees' regularly scheduled meeting near Richmond, Va.

  Chitwood, 48, who has served as executive director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, took office immediately as the president of the 173-year-old entity, the largest denominational missionary-sending body among American evangelicals. More than 3,600 Southern Baptist international missionaries serve worldwide, with 42 new missionaries approved for appointment by trustees Wednesday (Nov. 14).

  Since September 2018, Clyde Meador, former missionary and IMB executive vice president, has served as IMB's interim president. At Chitwood's request, Meador was approved by trustees to remain in the President's Office as interim executive vice president for several months during the transition. Read More

• Mohler elected VP of Evangelical Theological Society

  by SBTS Staff, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  BP file photo by Van Payne

  DENVER (BP) -- R. Albert Mohler Jr. has been elected as vice president of the Evangelical Theological Society, effective immediately following this year's Nov. 13-15 annual meeting in Denver.

  Mohler was elected as vice president with no objections from fellow scholars at the 70th annual ETS meeting. He is the third representative in the last 15 years from Southern Seminary to serve as vice president of ETS, following Thomas R. Schreiner and Bruce A. Ware.

  Schreiner, Southern Seminary's James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament, was ETS vice president in 2012 and president in 2013.

  Ware, SBTS T. Rupert and Lucille Coleman Professor of Christian Theology, was vice president of ETS before becoming president in 2009. Read More

• Dilbeck installed as Okla. Baptist state exec.

  by Staff, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  EDMOND, Okla. (BP) -- The 2018 annual meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma (BGCO) featured many highlights, including the installation of Hance Dilbeck as the ninth executive director-treasurer in the state convention's history.

  More than 650 registered messengers, and many more guests, gathered at First Baptist Church, Edmond, on Nov. 12-13 for the 112th annual meeting of the BGCO, which had the theme of "To Him be the Glory in the Church."

  Dilbeck installed, gives inaugural address

  Military veterans were honored, and the Singing Churchmen of Oklahoma led times of worship in the opening of the annual meeting's first session. Read More

• 'WinTN' messages undergird Tennessee annual meeting

  by Lonnie Wilkey, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  

  Photo by James Wilson

  JACKSON, Tenn. (BP) -- Tennessee Baptists gathered at West Jackson Baptist Church for the annual Summit with a focus on winning their state for Jesus Christ.

  The meeting, held Nov. 11-14, drew 929 registered messengers from 409 churches, along with 160 guests. Among the business conducted, messengers elected a new set of officers by acclamation for the coming year.

  “We had a strong turnout,” said Randy C. Davis president and executive director of the Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. “But it wasn’t just the numbers. There was a strong sense of unity among the messengers. I believe Tennessee Baptists are recognizing that if we are to reach Tennessee for Christ we must do it together.” Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Codfish & catfish

  by Tim Patterson, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  Tim Patterson recounts a lesson about life's difficulties that he learned from codfish and catfish. God's watchfulness for His followers, he notes, "keeps us alive, alert, fresh and growing." Read More

• EDITORIAL: Saber perder

  by Luis R. Lopez, posted Friday, November 16, 2018 (one year ago)

  ¿Ha perdido usted algo recientemente? Las llaves, el teléfono, una cosa, un trabajo, una relación, pelos de la cabeza, etc. Si no ha perdido nada, ¡qué bendición! ... Read More