Stories tagged with: 2006 sbc annual meeting preview

• Yeats’ nomination to be made by Roberts

  by Staff, posted Monday, June 12, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)-—Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President R. Philip Roberts has announced that he will nominate John L. Yeats for another term as recording secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention. Read More

• SBC presidential candidates share views

  by Gregory Tomlin, posted Monday, June 12, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--The three candidates expected to be nominated for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention during its June 13-14 annual meeting outlined their visions for the future of the convention during a series of radio interviews June 12.

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• Conflict between church, association may be part of motion

  by Staff, posted Monday, June 12, 2006 (18 years ago)

  "“It has taken a toll on all of us. [DOM Stewart] keeps saying that Hank and his group were trying to take over. But all we asked them to do was come over and join us and fellowship with us."

  FBC Las Lomas member, treasurer, Bonnie Caudill, who is 80

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--A complex and messy two-year-old legal battle between a small California church and an association is expected to spill out on the floor of the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 13.

        At issue in the motion is whether New Life Community Church of Prunedale, Calif., is an SBC church. It has given directly to the SBC allocation budget the past two years -- in May 2005 and May of this year.

        At the heart of the controversy, however, is whether First Baptist Church in Las Lomas is an SBC church.

        To complicate matters, the Central Coast Baptist Association (CCBA) in Gilroy, Calif. brought a lawsuit against both churches in 2004.

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• Condoleezza Rice to speak to SBC messengers in Greensboro

  by Staff, posted Thursday, June 08, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to speak in person to Southern Baptist Convention messengers in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, June 14, at 10 a.m. EDT, SBC President Bobby Welch said June 8. Read More

• Virginia pastor Kelly Burris to be nominated for 1st VP

  by Staff, posted Monday, June 05, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--Kelly J. Burris, senior pastor of Kempsville Baptist Church in Virginia Beach, Va., will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention by Kansas pastor Terry Fox, Fox said June 5. Read More

• Huntsville pastor Jimmy Jackson to be nominated as 1st VP

  by Staff, posted Friday, June 02, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--Jimmy Jackson, pastor of Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, former Alabama pastor Fred Wolfe announced June 1. Read More

• Welch presents model of statue to Billy Graham association

  by Norm Miller, posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 (18 years ago)

  William Franklin Graham IV (left) receives on behalf of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association a model statue of Graham's grandfather, evangelist Billy Graham, from SBC President Bobby Welch. The 18-foot-tall version of the model will be unveiled at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C., and later will be placed in downtown Nashville. Photo by Norm Miller

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (BP)--In advance of the unveiling of a statue honoring evangelist Billy Graham at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Greensboro, N.C., SBC President Bobby Welch May 30 presented a bronze model of the sculpture to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association at its headquarters in Charlotte.

  Sculpted by Terrell O’Brien -- a bi-vocational pastor, whose church and studio are in Wyoming -- the bronze model depicts Graham standing before a cross, with outstretched arms, one of which holds an open Bible. Read More

• Inquiry into IMB trustee actions sought by board member

  by Staff, posted Thursday, June 01, 2006 (18 years ago)

  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Wade Burleson, the Oklahoma pastor whose relationships with fellow trustees of the International Mission Board have been strained for a number of months, announced June 1 he will ask the Southern Baptist Convention to approve an investigation of various trustee actions. Read More

• Candidate Frank Page calls for evangelism, inclusiveness

  by Tammi Reed Ledbetter, posted Friday, May 26, 2006 (18 years ago)

  TAYLORS, S.C. (BP)--As the second candidate willing to be nominated for Southern Baptist Convention president, South Carolina pastor Frank Page calls for adding passion, revival, soul-winning and missions to the convention’s 30-year concentration on doctrinal purity. Read More

• Evangelist Keith Fordham to be nominated for 1st VP

  by Staff, posted Monday, May 22, 2006 (18 years ago)

  GREENSBORO, N.C. (BP)--Evangelist Keith Fordham of Fayetteville, Ga., will be nominated for first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention, a fellow evangelist has announced. Read More