Stories tagged with: mississippi

• Mississippi Baptists ask Legislature to remove Confederate symbol from state flag

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, June 23, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON (BP) -- Offering a "voice of healing in the name of Jesus Christ," Mississippi Baptists asked the Legislature Tuesday (June 23) to replace the state flag with a design that does not include the Confederate flag.

  National racial tension and discussions regarding the flag in recent days prompted the move, Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) Executive Director and Treasurer Shawn Parker said in a press conference today in Jackson. Read More

• Mississippi College professor 'chief reader' for AP exam

  by MC Staff, posted Thursday, February 13, 2020 (4 years ago)

  

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  CLINTON, Miss. (BP) -- Distinguished Mississippi College (MC) professor and scholar David Miller has served since 2017 as the chief reader for the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition exam and will do so again this year.

  It's not an easy assignment for the MC professor of nearly three decades. Miller selects and manages 950 readers, all educators, who gather to review student essays, key parts of the AP exam. The event is organized and run by the Educational Testing Service based in Princeton, N.J. Read More

• Shawn Parker named Mississippi Baptist executive director

  by William H. Perkins Jr., posted Monday, December 23, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Shawn Parker, pastor of First Baptist Church, Columbus, Miss., was unanimously called on Dec. 19 by the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) to succeed longtime Executive Director-Treasurer Jim Futral, who will formally retire at the end of February after more than 21 years of service.

  Parker will begin his duties as Executive Director-Treasurer Elect on Jan. 13 and will become Executive Director-Treasurer on March 1, upon Futral’s retirement. Read More

• Mississippi Baptists say goodbye to Futral

  by William H. Perkins Jr., posted Friday, November 22, 2019 (4 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Messengers to the 184th annual meeting of the Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC) Oct. 29-30 at First Baptist Church in Jackson elected officers for the coming year, approved the 2020 Cooperative Program budget and bade farewell to Jim Futral, who is retiring from the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board (MBCB) after 21 years as executive director-treasurer.

  Futral, the son, brother, and father of ministers, is a graduate of Baptist-affiliated Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He was recognized for his 21 years of service to the convention board and his decades of pastoring in Mississippi and Texas prior to that. Read More

• Former justice retires into career for at-risk kids

  by Tim Tune, posted Monday, March 18, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Before former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Jess Dickinson was appointed commissioner of the state's Department of Child Protection Services, "My plan was to retire." But then a "new door" opened.

  Dickinson, who had served on the Supreme Court since January 2004, said he informed Gov. Phil Bryant in mid-2017 of his intention to retire by the end of the year. Instead, he was surprised when Bryant subsequently asked him to be CPS commissioner. Read More

• Jim Futral to retire as Miss. convention exec

  by Art Toalston, posted Friday, March 01, 2019 (5 years ago)

  

  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Jim Futral, executive director-treasurer of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board, has announced his retirement, effective Oct. 31 of this year.

  Futral, 74, has led the Mississippi convention for 20 years, since Oct. 1, 1998. Read More

• Miss. Baptists allocate CP gifts, elect officers

  by William Perkins, posted Thursday, November 29, 2018 (5 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss (BP) -- Mississippi Baptist Convention (MBC) messengers elected by acclamation Mark Vincent, senior pastor of Clarke-Venable Baptist Church in Decatur, to a second term as president during the MBC 2018 annual meeting.

  Messengers also approved without dissent a 2019 Mississippi Cooperative Program budget of $31,051,526, down 1.1 percent from the 2018 CP budget.

  Despite the slight decline, Mississippi Baptists will forward 37.9 percent of CP gifts, $11,799,579, to the Southern Baptist Convention for national and international causes, compared to 37.7 percent of receipts forwarded in 2018. Read More

• Gordon's Gulf flood risks put DR volunteers on alert

  by Diana Chandler, posted Tuesday, September 04, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

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  JACKSON, Miss. (BP) -- Anticipated flooding from Tropical Storm Gordon has Southern Baptist volunteers on alert in three Gulf Coast states, and may extend responses in the already-flooded Midwest as Gordon moves inland.

  The storm will likely intensify to a Category 1 hurricane as it comes ashore between western Alabama and eastern Louisiana this evening (Sept. 4), the Weather Channel reported, but will quickly weaken again to a tropical storm as it moves inland, perhaps over Arkansas. Read More

• Ohio State VP named as Mississippi College president

  by Mississippi College & BP Staff, posted Tuesday, May 15, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  CLINTON, Miss. (BP) -- A Mississippi native now serving as an Ohio State University vice president has been selected as the new president of Mississippi College.

  Blake Thompson, 43, will start July 1 as president of the 5,200-student college affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention, succeeding Lee Royce, who retires June 30 after 16 years as president.

  At Ohio State where Thompson joined its administrative leadership in 2009, he serves as vice president of the office of government affairs, representing the university at the local, state and federal levels, and as board secretary, one of three elected trustee officers at the 60,000-student university. Read More

• Lee & Rhoda Royce honored for 16 yrs. at Miss. College

  by Mississippi College & BP Staff, posted Monday, May 07, 2018 (6 years ago)

  

  CLINTON, Miss. (BP) -- The naming of Mississippi College's medical science building for Lee Royce is among the gestures of gratitude for his 16 years at the helm of the Baptist-affiliated college as he approaches retirement in late June.

  Lettering for the Royce Medical Science Center was placed on the building May 1. For his wife, the Rhoda Royce Prayer Garden near Alumni Hall has been named in her honor. Read More