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DAILY SmllKE W EVEXIS 

Saturdw, June 8, 1985 

SaTthern Baptist Wimen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, Wilshire heist Church: Session One, 9:30 

a.m. : steering camnittee meeting, 9:30 a.m. ; peoonference fellamhip a d lunch, 11:OO 

a.m.: mrship ad theme interpretation, 1:30 p.m. ; m ines meeting, 4:45 p.m.: hnquet, 

6:00 p.m. 

bdw, June 9, 1985 

Association uf Southern BaFtist Caps Ministers, Annual Meeting, F!& Bird Inn Beet Western; 

Sessionone, 1:OO p.m.: registration, 1:00 p.m.: Winess, 3:15 p.m.; session I and 

dialape, 3:30 p.m. : Session Tm, 7:00 p.m.: se~lsion 11 and dialogue, 7:30 p.m.; National 

Student Ministries reqkion, 9:00 p.m. 

Southern Ba@ist Church Mmic Conference, Annual Meeting, First Baptist Church: Session One, 

2:30 p.m. : call to order, 2:30 p.m. ; theme address, 3:20 p.m. ; lecture/demo~~~tration, 

4:15 p.m. : Session Tm, 6:45 p.m. : sermon, 6:45 p.m.: ammissioned anthem, 8:30 p.m. 

Southern Ba*ist Corderence Of Directors Of Missiom , A nna Meeting, Centxal Expressway Inn; 

Session One, 1:00 p.m. : registration, 1:00 p.m. : weloane, 1:30 p.m. ; =saw by J. 

Woodrraw Fuller, 2:00 p.m. ; Mines$ session, 3:25 p.m. : -sap by Morton Rose, 4:00 p.m. : 

message by Willim Pinson, 4:45 p.m.: Session Two, 6:00 p.m.: dinner, 6:00 p.m.; message 

by Gene Daniel, 7:05 p.m. 

Southern Ba@ist Pastors' Qrderene, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center; Session One, 

6:30 p.m.: message by Bill Weber, 7:15 p.m.; God News America reprt, 7:45 p.m.; 

-sage by D. Jaes Kennedy, 8:00 p.m. ; messaF by ~drian Rogers, 8:35 p.m. 

Southern Baptist Religious Education Asmiation, Annual Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market 

Square: Session One, 1:00 p.m. : registration, 1:00 p.m. ; new mgnbex orientation, 2:30 

p.m. ; general session, 3:00 p.m. : Session Two, 7:00 p.m. : genwal session, 7:00 p.m. : 

fellawship, 30th anniversary celelnation, 8:30 p.m. 

Southern Ba@ist Wanen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, Addl@us Hotel: Sessiori Tm, 8:30 a .m. : 

Bible study, 8:30 a.m. : morning warship, 9:30 a .m. 

Wanan' s Missiomry Union, Annual Meeting, Convention Center Arena; Session One, 2:45 p.m. 

missiom and ~epxation service, 2:45 p.m. 

Mcozday, June 10, 1985 

Association of Southern Eaptist Camp Ministers, Annual Meeting, Red Bird Inn Best Western: 

Session Three, 9:00 a.m. : hsiness and anmunments, 9:30 a.m. ; session 111, 9:45 a.m. ; 

session IV, 11:OO a.m. ; Session Four, 2:00 p.m. : session V, 2:15 p.m. ; hsiness, 3:30 

p.m. ; Session Five, 7:00 p.m. : hnquet and awards, 7:00 p.m. 

Conference uf Southern Baptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel; reception, 

Cascade Rocms A and BI 10 to 11:30 p.m.

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Southern Baptist Churd~ Mmic Corderenoe, Annudl Meeting, First Baptist Chur&; Session Three, 

8:30 a.m. : waship, 8:30 a.m., annual m ines session, 10:30 a.m. : panel discmeion, 

11:lO a.m. : Session Four, 1:45 p.m. : Wicians on Mission,. .in Action, 2:35 p.m. ; 

division meeting; 3 :45 p.m. ; lecture/dem01]6tration, 4:36 p.m. : Session Five, 6:45 p.m. : 

sermon, 7:30 p.m. ; installation of new officers, 9:20 p.m. 

Southern heist Corderence Of Directors Of Missiorrs, Annual ~eeting, Central Expressway Inn: 

Session Three, 8:00 a.m. : registration, 8:00 a.m., message by Doram C. McCarty, 8:35 

a.m.: message byW.E. Wrne, 10:lO a.m.: Texas barkc=, 11:OO a.m. 

Southern &gist Convention Forum, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center: &me, 1 :30 

p .m . ; -sap by Jmes Flaming, 1 :45 p .m . : message by Randall Ltley, 2:15 p .m . ; message 

by Catherine Allen, 3:05 p.m. ; message by Cecil Sherman, 3:40 p.m. ; message by Willian 

Self, 4:30 p.m. 

Southern Eh@ist Pastors' Qderence, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center; Session Tm, 

9:00 a.m. : message by David Walker, 9:20 a.m. : message by Jack Graham, 10:OO a .m. : 

message by Tan Elliff, 10:35 a.m. : message by Arthur Blessitt, 11:15 a.m. ; Session Three, 

1:15 p.m.: message by Morris Chapnan, 1:15 p.m.: =saw by Edwin Yomg, 2:lO p.m.; 

election of afficers, 2:50 p.m.; -sage by Jdm Wood, 3:10 p.m.: message by Jack Taylor, 

3:45 p.m.: Session Four, 6:30 p.m.: message by Richard Jackson, 7:10 p.m.; welccme by 

Charles Stanley, 7:45 p.m. ; message by R; T. Kendall , 8:00 p.m. ; message by W .A. Criswell , 

8:35 p.m. 

Sowthem Baptist Religious Education Association, Annual. Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market 

Square; mntinmtal brealdast, 7:30 a.m. : Session Three, 8:45 a.m. : general session, 8:45 

a.m. : vocationdl groups, 10:30 a.m. : Session Four, 1:30 p.m. : general session, 1:30 p.m. ; 

-in-s session, 3:15 p.m.; SessionFive, 6:30 p.m.: banquet, 6:30 p.m. 

W m ' s Missionary Union, Annual Meeting, Corrvention Center Arena: Session Two, 9:15 a.m. : 

missiors and pepration, 9:15 a .m. ; Session Three, 1:45 p.m. : missiom and pepration, 

1 :45 p.m. ; Session Four, 7:15 p.m. : Pbrday missiom night, a rally armd M .A. P. S. 

" 'Ihesdw, June 11. 1985 

CorSerenae af Southern Baptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Eiyatt Regency Hotel: healdast 

lxlsiness session, Cascade Rouns A and B, 7 to 9 a.m.; festival af ~aise, Remion 

Ballrot~ns A - C, 10 to 11:30 p.m. 

Southern Ba1Jtist Comtion, Annual Meeting, Dallas Cornrention Center: Session One, 8:30 a .m . : 

registration rept and mnstitution of Comtion, 9:10 a .m. ; -ittee on Order af 

Busines, 9:15 a.m.: anmtmaement ut C dttee oncdttees, Credentials, Ftesalutiom and 

- Tellers, 9:40 a .m. : Executive Canmi ttee report (part 1) , 9:45 a .m. : introduction af 

Ixlsiness and resolutions, 10:45 a.m. ; President' s address, 11:25 a .m. ; Session Tm, 1:00 

p.m. : election of ufficers (first), 2:40 p.m. : introduction of businas and resolutiom, 

3:00 p.m.; Ekecutive Camittee report (part 2), 3:25 p.m.; Annuity bard reprt, 4:10 

p.m. ; business session, 4:25 p.m. ; Session Three, 6:30 p.m. : election of officers 

(third), 7:25 p.m. ; .Sunday Schml Board repxt, 7:45 p.m. ; Foreig.1 Mission Board reprt, 

8:20 p.m. 

Southern Baptist Convention Ministers' Wives, Annual Ltmcheon, Fairmont Hatel: 12:15 p.m., 

ticbts, $15

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Wednesday, June 12, 1985 

Conference af Southern Baptist Evanqlists, Annml Meeting, First Baptist Churd~; Annual 

Conference, 1 to 5 p.m. ; festival a€ praise, Elyatt Rpcy Hotel, Reunion Ballsocffls A - C, 

10 to 11:30 p.m. 

Galden Gate Baptist Theolqical Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, 1:00 p.m., Elyatt Regency Hotel, 

Cascade kllrocm: tickets, $15, at seminary booth (subject to amilability) 

Midwestern BaHist Theological Seminary, A l d Ltn&eon, 12:45 p.m., Grenelefe Hotel: tickets, 

$10, available at seminary booth 

New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, A l d Lmcheon, 12:45 p.m., Comtion Center 

Hilton; tickets, $12, available at seminary Wth 

Southern Baptist Comtion, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center; Session Four, 8: 30 a .m . : 

election of aff icers (fourth) , 9:10 a.m. : Southern Baptist Thdqical Seminary reprt, 

9:25 a.m.; Stewardship Cunmission report, 9:35 a.m.; Soutlwestern l3ptist Theological 

Seminary report, 9:45 a .me ; Christian Life Camnission reprt, 9:55 a.m. : New Orleans 

Baptist' Magical Seminary report, 10:05 a.m.; Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs 

reprt, 10:15 a .m. ; -den Gate Baptist Theological Saninary reprt, 10:25 a .m. ; Southern 

Ba@ist Foundation report, 10:35 a .m. ; reprt of Southern Baptist Convention Canada 

Planning Group, 10:55 a.m.; kusiness session, 11:05 a.m.: Cornrention sermon, noon; Session 

Five, 6:30 p.m. : Winess session, 7:10 p.m. ; ~esentation of pst pesidmts, 7:45 p.m. ; 

presentation o£ newly elected SBC dficers, 7:50 p.m.; Bold Mission Thrust report, 7:55 

p.m. ; Planned Grcwth In Giving report, 8:05 p.m. ; Hme Mission Board report, 8:20 p.m. 

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, 1:00 p.m., Adolphus Hotel, Grad 

Ballroan: tickets, $30, available at seminary booth 

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Alunni and Friends Lincheon, 1:OQ p.m., Fairmont Hotel: 

ticlcets, $16, available at seminary booth 

Southestern Baptist Tkbeolcqical Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, noon, Jifyatt Regency Hotel: tickets, 

$15, avail&le at seminary booth 

Thursday, June 13, 1985 

Southern Baptist Cormtion, Annusl Meeting, Dallas Canvention Center: Session Six, 8: 30 a .m . : 

Southeastern Baptist Theolqical Seminary r,eprt, 9:10 a .m. : Mucation Camnission report, 

9:20 a.m.; Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary report, 9:30 a.m.; kdio and Television 

Canmission reprt, 9:40 a.m.: American Baptist: Theological Seminary Cdssion reprt, 

9:50 a.m. ; Baptist World Alliance reprt, 10:OO a.m. ; Brather- Canmission reprt, 10:20 

a.m. : hxinsss session, 10:30 a.m. : Session Seven, 2:00 p.m. : American Bible Society 

report, 2:40 p.m. : KWmn' s Missiomry Union report, 2:50 p.m. : Historical Camnission 

report, 3:00 p.m.; Ccmmittee on Dmaninatioml Calendar repxt, 3:20 p.m.; hnminatioml 

Press reprt, 3:30 p.m. ; business session, 3:40 p.m.

We bpe the news kit infaxmation w ill help you in your average af the Southern Baptist 

Convention and related meetings. 

For pur c~ontreniene, the kit is ccmpartmtalized into the following sections, with dividers: 

- General Informatim and 

- SBC and preSBC 

A&me Stories: 

This includes general infamation pieces on ivory p ~ , x 

about the SBC News Roan setup and the SBC; advance 

speches and Fograms availa6le when the kit was assaribled 

and other data. 

This section includes backgromd stories on green paper 

about the SBC ~ogram and Ixlsiness and other stories whi& 

will ar may relate to the SBC annual meting, June 11-13. 

It also aontains advances on the SBC satellite meetings. 

- Miscellaneaus -This section includes backgromd stories on green paper 

Wame Stories: which may be of help to pu in your mverage during the 

week and whi& relate to the SBC and its agencies. 

- SBC MJerq Reports: -This section aontains stories on green paper written in 

advance on what many of the SEE agencies will report to 

the SBC through 'the denmination' s Bodr of Reports or in 

mesentatiorrs to the mnvention. -These stories may mt 

cover everything an awcy will king &fore the 

convention because of last-minute developnents. 

-Throughout the week, a team of trained SBC reptere will cover all sessiom of SBC and FeSBC 

meetings. Copies of their stories will h delivered to your individuallyassiyed press boxes 

on blue paper. Also, any other hckgromd staries uf significanoe whi& break or advance 

speeches whi& arrive af ter assembly of this kit will also be provided.

NEm m INFOrnTICN SEwIcF,S 

AND FACILJTlES FoR' THE SBC 

->ME: to the 128th annual national session (140th year) of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

- The news and information services at the aonvwltion are designed to make your job as easy 

as possible. 

- THE NEWS is located in Dallas Convention Center, your hane away £run be. You will find 

typewriters, telemnes, electrical outlets, news stori~ aovering the anvention and a 

closed-circuit television system to enable pu to cover the swsiom f ran the News Rocm. 

"Tables in front uf the stage also are reserved far -king reporters, editors and 

@mtogra&ers. - The News Roan will opm at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jme 9, and at 9 a.m. each 

mmning during the aonvention. It will close about 10 p.m. each night. 

' TJJE NEW STAFF is headed by Wilmer C. Fields, press representative for the SBC; Dan -tin, 

News Roan Manager; and Craig Bird, @hotograghy/f eatures manager. A full list of the News 

Roan and Photogra&y staffs and their assignments is in this pcket. A receptionist will 

be on duty at the f r e 

desk at all times. She will have a paging system to mmce 

telephone calls and visitas. -The News is off-limits to all except authorized news 

personnel. Please do mt invite visitors into the News Roan, except fur interviews. 

NE#E KOM SERVICES include what we hope is cnnprehensive news average of the mnmtion. 

Releases, texts af resolutions and motions and other infamation will be placed in an 

individ&l b x assigned to you as quickly as possi-He. A team of reporters an our staff 

will write the stories. Fby ~enniGs is our "tit? editar" handling the mp4t. 

Reporters may cover the anvention via the closed-circuit-TV system with individual 

earphones in the News Raan, or £ran press tdbles located near the podium. 

- Ten teleMnes are ~ovided for we of reporters and editors in the SBC News R--six in 

the workman area and four in the lomge. Please do not charge long distance calls to 

News Roan @hones. 

Incaning calls far reporters and editors sbuld come on the main listed News Roan number 

214-65&7954. 

- There will be a spcial "hot line" nunber for news feeds for radio newscasts. 

me 3-M teleaopier will be ~ovided for use by reprters to transmit cow via telemne 

lines. Electrical connections for your acmputers also will be provided. If pu have 

questions, see the News Rocm manager. 

Special recording and RadieTV services are also available. See infoamation sheet in the 

News Kit. Electrical outlets will be provided far reporters and editors with ccmpters. 

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And Facilities Fa- The SBC 

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-TE!IS NEW IWD INTUWiTIm KIT is designed to answer your majar questions about the aomtion. 

We bpe it is helpful. News stories, produced pior to the wnvention, are on blue paper. 

News stories wduced during the anvention are on yellaw ppr. General infamation (not 

news story f om), texts of resolutions and motiom , s&edules, photo cutlines and other 

background materials are on yellaw pper. 

-%-News @otm d the anvention will be taken, developed and pinted by a 

photography staff . ". The mtos may be obtained at $3 ea* thraagh the convention photo 

service. htos will be posted on the bulletin board in the lounge area of the News Roan. 

Sets uf 15 slides are available for $6. Sets c& 30 slides may be obtained for $10. 

Envelopes for ardexing photographs are on the table by the bulletin board. Place pm mder with the receptionist. 

REFIES3HM3MB-Free mf f ee and soft drink are a~ilable in the News Roan, courtesy of the 

convention. If the supply of refreshnmts is &usted, please mtify the receptionist 

ar News Roan manager. - M e ref reshnents are far News Roan personnel, only. 

AGMN, WEKDME--If we can help you in any way, please call on us. 

-Wilmer C. Fields, Dan Martin and 

Craig Bird

Fcr Your Informtion 

1985 SaJTHERN BAPTIST mICN MmRY 

OF PARTICXPANIS IN THE m N G : 

SCVTHERN BAPTIST -1CN 

Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, ~ilshire Baptist Chur* and the Aldorjhm 

Hotel; June &9 

Association of Southern Ba#ist Campls Ministers, Annual Meeting, Red Bird Inn &st Western: 

June 9-10 

Smthern Eaptist Chur& Mwic Conference, Annual Meeting, First Baptist Churd~: June %10 

Southern Ba*ist Corderence of Directors cd Missiom , Annual Meeting, Central Expressway Inn; 

June 9-10 

Sartkrexn Ba@ist Pastors' Conferenoe, Annual. Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center; June 9-10 

Southern Baptist Religious Education Association, Annml Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market 

Square: June 9-10 

Wanan's Missionary Union, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center Arena: June S10 

Corderme of Southern Ehptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Mtt Rege~lcy Hatel, First Baptist 

church, Jme 1&12 

=hem m@ist Convwltion Fmun, Annual Meeting, Dallas Corntion Center; June 10 

Southern mptist Conventim Ministers' Wives, Annual Ltmheon, Faimont Hotel; June 11 

Southern Baptist Convention, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center, June 11-13

ALABAMA 

BIRMmmAM 

ALLEN, Catherine-associate exlecutive secretary of Wcman's Missionary Uniom-will speak at 

the Moxlday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Form annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

NELSa, Mrs. Dotson M.-minister of pstaral services at Me& Brook Bagist Churclk-will 

speak at the Momlay evening, Jme 10, s~sion of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting 

at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

WE;RTHF,RFOFtD, Carolyn--executive director of Wanan' s Missiomry Uni-will give the 

keynote address at the Sunday ewning, Jme 9, session of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual 

meeting at the Dallas Convention Center Arena; will give the Wanan' s Missiomry Union' s report 

at the- Tlusday a£ termon, Jme 13, session of the Southern E?a#ist Comtion annual meeting 

at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

mREIm3 

P K L N S , Adxepminister of music at Highland Baptist Churdk--will participte in a panel. 

discllssion at the Morday morning, Jure 10, session cd the Southern Ba#ist Chur& Ml~sic 

Conferene annual meeting at First Baflist Churd~, Dallas. 

mm 

WLJ?E, Fred H.-member uf the Cdttee an Order af Businass; ptw of Cottaw H ill 

Baptist Churd.1 

M m R Y 

SCHPDEBEL; Davi&-msic assistant at First Baptist Churdk-will presglt the cmmissioned 

anth at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, ssssion of the Southern Baptist Churc;h Mmic Corderenoe 

annml meting at First Bawist Churc31, Dallas. 

0-amm3 

BmING, Don-mbes of the executive mmcil uf the Southern Baflist Chur& Mwic 

Corderme-will give the benediction at the Monday af terrrmn, Jme 10, session af the Southern 

Baflist Churd.1 Mwic Conference annual meeting at First Ba#ist Churd~, Dallas. 

PEmNIx 

JPdZWCN, Richard-*tor ab Narth m i x Bagtist Chux&--will deliver a message at the 

Momlay evening, Jme 10, session of the Southern Baflist Pastms' Cbnberenae annml meeting at 

the Dallas Comtion Center. 

mSNO 

FCGS, 

Wendell-directar af the Christian developnent deprtment for the Ba*ist General 

Convention of Califaniti-will speak on association/state/~~~ ministry at the Sunday aftemn, 

Jme 9, session of the Southern Ebljist Religious Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, 

Market Square. 

r n . D 

BLESSrrr, Art--evangelist--will deliver a message at the Morday mmning, June 10, 

session of the Southern Eiptist Pastars' Corderenae annual eeting at the Dallas Corntion 

Center. 

laEuEmA 

MCALL, E.W.--tor UE St. Steghen Baeist Churdk-will give the Scrieure reading at the 

MoIlday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Fmun annual meeting at the Dallas Corntion Center. 

MIWl VALLEY 

MuXUY, Warn C .-prcbessar a€ ministry at Golden Gate Baptist Tlwlogical Seminary-will 

speak at the Morday marning, Jme 10, sasion uf the Southern BaGi st ConEerenae uf Directms 

of Missions annual meting at the Central Expessway Inn. 

m, F'ranklin D.-~esident a€ Golden Gate Paptist Theological Sdnary-will give 

Goldesl Gate Saninary' s repmt at the Wednesday mmning, Jme 12, session cd' the Southern 

E?a@ist Convention annual reeting at the Dallas Convention Center.

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9W ~ISCO 

IWEM4, Jane-Christian educatur/teacher-will lead in worship and the theme 

inteqr tation at the Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, s~sion a£ the Southern Bagist Wanm In 

Ministry annual meting at the Wilshire Baptist Chura, Dallas 

MEIEM, Km--aonert artist-will wesent a mncert at the Saturday evening, Jme 8, 

bancpet session of the Southern Baflist Wanen In Ministry annual meting at Wilshire Baptist 

Churd~, Dallas: will present a mmrt at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Faun annual 

meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

FOKT L,AumRDALE 

RBJNEDY, D. Janes--smiar minister at Cmal ~idge mptist Churbwill speak at the Sunday 

e-ing, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Baptist Pastors' Qrrferenw annual meting at the 

Dallas Convention Center. 

rn MYEIZS 

SPRI-, Clayton-associate pastor uf Riverside Baptist Chur&+will lead a prayer at the 

Wednesday evening, Jme 12, session of the Southern &z#ist Corntion annual meting at the 

Dallas Comtion Center. 

mCK, Jay-menber of the Cdttee on Order a€ Business: ptm ut ~iverside Ehptist 

chUrc3-l 

WILLIAIS, H. mpesident a€ Gulf Shxes BiMe Colleg~+-will give the benediction at 

the Wednesday ewning, Jule 12, swsion o£ the Southern Bagist Convention annual meting at 

the Dallas Cormntion Cmter . 

JAcKsowIL,L,E 

T~erry--pastor of First Baptist Chur+will speak at the Wednesday aftemxn, 

Jme 12, session of the Conferme aE Southern Baptist E3mngelists annual meting at First 

&&ti st Church, Dallas. 

PJmsimLA 

YL, 

J. Nimn 111--menber of the C d ttee on Order uf Business; attorney 

WEST PALMBEACH 

GWhM, Jack-ptor of First Ba#ist Churd-+will deliver a message at the Morday 

maming, Jme 10, session of the Southern gaptist Pastas' Corderenoe anntlal meeting at the 

Dallas Convention Center. 

ATLANTA 

CM!F.FEI, Wes--=prate executie-will lead the benediction at the Tuesday mcrrning, June 

11, session af the Southern l%*ist Convention anntral meeting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

GLWER, Jdm-director of First Baptist Church choir--will direct the music for the 

Tuesday mcsrning, Jme 11, session: will lead the aongre~tioml siraging at the Tuesday 

aftemn, Jme 11, session of the Southern E?a#ist Comtion annudl meting at the Dallas 

Conmtion Center. 

W, Cardl M&luremnaert krarpist--will give a mini-mrwert at the Morday af temn, 

Jule 10, session of the Sauthern Baptist Churd.1 Mwic ConEerenae annual meting at First 

hflist churd~, Ddlas. 

EWBWN, Wkert--vice~esident, e~ngelim, Hcme Mission EbardC-will speak at the Sunday 

eming, Jme 9, session of the Southern Baptist Pastors' mrderena3 annml meeting at the 

Dallaa Conwintion Center; will speak at the Wedn~day aftmn, June 12, session of the 

Conferene of Southern Baflist Ebmplists annml meting at First Baptist Chur&, Dallas. 

SELF, Willian L.-pstoa: of Wieuza Road Ehptist Church--will speak at the Moday 

aftemn, Jme 10, SEC Furun annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center. 

SWNLeY, Charle-~esident cd the Southern E!a@ist Corntion and pstor cb First Baptist 

Church--will give a welaane at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session of the Southern &gist 

Pastors' Corderen- annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center; will give the President's 

address at the Tuesday marning, Jme 11, session of the Southern Baflist Corntion annual 

meeting at the Dallas Cormntion Center; will king greetings at the Wednesday aftemn, Jme 

12# session of the Corderme Southem Paptist Evangelists annual meeting at First Baptist 

Church, Dallas.

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W R , Willim G.-~esident uf the Hane Mission Ebard-will speak at the Mo-y evening, 

Jme 10, session of the Wanan' s Missionary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center 

Arena: will give the t k Hane Mission Ibard's rept at Wednesday evening, June 12, session of 

the Southern E?aptiat Comtion annw meting at the Dallas Corntion Center. 

BRFm?N 

EMFEIT, Dick-music ewgelist--will present spcial rmsic at the Wednesday afterrmn, 

Jme 12, session of the Corderenae of Southern Baptist Evanc&sts annual meting at First 

Ba@ist Church, Dallas. 

FAYITITJWm 

FEIQWD, Dwight "1ke"--ptm of New Hope Baptist Chur&-will give a response to the 

welme at the T~sday morning, Jme 11, session af the Southern Baptist Canwntion annml 

meeting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

MARRIETTA 

FRWKLIN, Ebb L-director of missions fa Noorday Bagtist Association-will give the 

welarne and oorduct the business session at the Sunday aftermon, Jme 9, session of the 

Southern Baptist Corderencre a€ Directars a€ Missiom annual meting at the Central ExFessway 

Inn. 

M I r n W I L L E 

a, Jacksorr--nausic e~ngelist-will participte in a panel discmsion at the Moday 

mmning, Jme 10, session of the Southern E?aptist Chur& Music Conferenoe annual mxting at 

First Baptist Church, Dallas; will lead the music at the Wednesday aftemn, June 12, session 

af the ConEerenae uf Southern Baptist Evangelists annual meting at First Ba#ist Church, 

Dallas. 

ILLINOIS 

CHICAGO 

-R, k'ank--&ro director of student mk; pcesident-elect a€ the Association of 

Southern Baptist Cahp Minister*-will lead the worship at the Morday af temn, Jme 10, 

session of the Association of Southern Baptist Canpus Ministers annual rreeting at the Red Bird 

Inn Best Western. 

FWD, Gary-singer, sorrgwriter, remrding artist--will ~avide the mmic at the Morhy 

evening, Jme 10, kanquet of the Association of Southern Ba&ist C a p s Ministers annm 

meeting at the Red Bird Inn Best Western. 

HARROASBUIEG 

-=HIP, EBbminister af music at Harrodslxlrg Baptist Chur+will speak at the 

Moday af temn, Jme 10, session of the Southern E!a@ist Chux& Mmic Conferme annual 

meting at First Ba@ist Churd~, Dallas. 

mISVILILF, 

AIMS, Darrell-mnwrt artist-will sing at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Faun 

annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

CLAWCN, Cynthia--conert artist-will prfarm at the Saturday eming, Jme 8, banpt cd 

the Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry annml meting at the Wilshire Eaeist Church, Dallas; 

will sing at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SlBC Farum annml meting at the Dallas Comtion 

Center. 

WE, C. Anne--dean of social rnrrk at Southern Baptist Theological Sadmy-will spak 

at the Morday morning, Jme 10, session d the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meeting at the 

Dallas Conmtion Center Arena. 

ELLIUIT, Mi-1-missioruary in Louisville-will speak at the Morday morning, June 10, 

session of the Warm' s Missiarsnry Union annm meting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

GREO;,RY, Joel-~cdesscr at Southern Baptist TheolHcal Senimpwill lead the warship 

at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, and Morday evening, Jme 10, sessiom af the Southern Baptist 

Church Mwic Conferme annual meeting at First Baptist Chur*, Dallas. 

Ray L.-~esident af Southern Bagkist Theolqical Seminary-will give Southem 

Seminary' s report at the Wednesday mclrning, Jme 12, session of the Southern Baptist Convention 

axmual meting at the Dallw Comtion Center. 

MMBJdALbGREEN, Mollqcassistant pufesstrs of theology at Southern Baptist Thdogicdl 

Senimpwill ~ea5h at the Sunday marring, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Baptist Wanen In 

Ministry annual meting at the the Adolphw Hotel, Dallas.

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mFE, Bill-dean af the s-1 a€ religious education at Southern Ba*ist Theological 

Sdmpwill speak at the Morday mamning, Jme 10, session of the Southern Ba@ist Religiam 

Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

PRICE, Milmdean of the school a€ &ur& mmic at So&hern Baeist Theological 

Seminary-will lead the Southern ~ dmry CMir in a mmrt at the Sunday eming, Jule 9, 

session of the Southern Ba@ist Chur& Mwic Conferevlae armd meting at ~irst Baptist Chwrd~, 

Dallas. 

MA- 

NELSCN, Charles--ptar of Cub hptist am&--will lead a FaFs at the Tuesday 

af temn, Jme 11, session of the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas 

Convention Center. 

MIDDIEa3ORC) 

aANIELSt Bill-ptor af First Baptist Chur6will give the inmoation at the Morday, 

af temn, Jme 10, SBC Fmun annuid meting at the Dallas Corntion Center, 

RICHM3ND 

HAM, Richard-manber of the executiw mulcil of the Southern Baptist Chm& M-ic 

Corderen~will pesent the W. Hin- Sim Award at the Moday aft-n, June 10, session of 

the Southern Bagkist Church Mllsic Conferenae annual meeting at First Baptist Churd~, Dallas. 

-m 

LOUISIANA 

Marjcaie--W member-will speak at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, seesion of 

the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comention Center Arena, 

NEW ORWAN3 

BWINQIW, Jeassistant ~ofessaar of child- education at New Orleans Baptist 

Theolqical Semimrpwill speak on &ildrenl s/pres&ool ministry at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 

9, session of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association at the Marriatt Hatel, 

Markt Square. 

COW, Harxl;~-~esident-elect cb the Southern Ba#ist Church Mwic ConEera-will give 

the benediction at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session af the Southern E?aptist Church Mwic 

Conferenoe annual meting at First Ea$ist Chur&, Dallas. 

L€AVELZ, Landrun P.-wesident of New Orlems Baptist Theological Seminary-will give New 

Orleans Saninarry' s report at the Wednesday maning, Jme 12, session af the Southern msist 

Convention annual meting at the Dallas Corntian Center. 

SEmVEmlu' 

-T, Mike--pesident uf the ConEerenae UE Southern &iflist Evangelists-will lead 

the Forayer and give the welone at the Weesday aftemn, June 12, session a€ the Corbermae 

of Southern Ba@ist Evangelists annml meting at First Baptist Church, Dallas, 

BALTIXIRE 

T, James E.-direct- of associatioml missiom-will speak at the Morday eming, 

Jme 10, session of the Wcman's Missiorary Union annual meting at the Comtion Center 

Arena. 

MISSISSIPPI 

JAcKsm 

JCNES, mul-execlltive director-treasurer of the Christian Action Canmission for the 

Mississippi Ba@ist Corntion--will speak at the Maday morning, Jme 10, sssion cd the 

Association of Southern Bdgkist Camp Ministers annual meting at the Red Bird Inn Best 

western. 

W ~ ~ O a D 

-, Normti-W leader--will speak at the Morday marning, Jme 10, session af the 

Wanan's Missiomy Union annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena.

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YAZOO CITY 

SIQWST, R.L. and Beth-rmsic emngelists--will give a cronaert at the Morday mmning, Jme 

10, session of the Southern Baeist Churd-k M ~ i Corderme c annual meting at First Ba@ist 

Cbd.1, Dallas; will poceeent: specid nusic at the Wednesday a£ termon, Jme 12, session of the 

Conference a€ Southern Baptist Evangelists annual nreeting at First Baptist Churdn, Dallas. 

mLuM3IA 

v, Ashley-moderator of the Southen Ba#ist Wanen In Ministry-will lead at the 

p+-mrberenae fellclwship and lmdh at the Saturday, Jule 8, session of the Southern Ba#ist 

Wanen In Ministry annual meeting at the Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas. 

KANSAS CITY 

FERZJSCN, Milton-president of Midwestern Baptist Theo1cx$cal Sdnary-will give 

Midwestern Semimry' s report at the Thursday m dng, Jme 13, session of the Southern &z*ist 

Conmtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

LIBERIY 

STFJNCROGS, Joy--layperson frcrn Seoord Brnptist Chur&will give the benediction at the 

Morday af termon, Jme 10, SBC Fcaum annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

NOm KANSAS CITY 

WIIX3MW, Dor+swd vice~esident d the Southern Ba@ist Comtion; pstm of First 

Ba#ist Churd.1 

SPNNGFTELD 

NEWOHTI Rmsell-mic evangelist--will provide spcial rmsic at the Wednesday aftamon, 

Jme 12, session o£ the corder en^ af Southern Baptist Mgelists annml meting at First 

Ba@i st Churd7, Dallas. 

ST. LLWS 

FkNEIL, Jim-mic evangelist-will prticipte in a panel discwsion at the Morday 

mming, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Baptist Chur& Music Cordenme annual meting at 

First Baptist Churd, Dallas. 

NEW NAMPSHIm 

PoRTsEmM 

BRINDLE, bbrt H.-director of assdatioml missions--will speak at the Morday evening, 

Jme 10, session af the Wanan's Missiorary Union annd meting at the Comtion Center 

Arena. 

BIUNU, Susaw-wesidmt uf Wanan's Missiorary Union in New England--will lead a Fayer 

at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, 8-sion a€ the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting at the 

Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

NEW lvExIm 

~=UQUEm 

BRUEH?LW, W.A.--mrbr of the exzcutive ad1 af the Southern Baptist Chur& Music 

Conferen-will give the kenediction at the Morday macning, Jme 10, session UE the Southern 

Ba@ist Chur* Mmic Conferene annual meting at First Baptist Chur*, Dallas. 

HARLEM 

YL~M, 

Miaael--rrrissiomry to Harlan--will speak at the Sunday aftemn, June 9, 

swsion; at the Moxrjay evening, Jme 10, session af the Wanan's Missionary Union annual 

meeting at the Dallas Comention Center Arena.

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m YORK c m 

HL)LtAVAY, Ste*Ba@ist camp minister for New Yark City and haprain at Colunbia 

Universitpwill lead the -ship at the Swnday aftemn, Jme 9, s-sion uf the Association 

of Southern Eaptist Camp Ministers annual meting at the the Red Bird Inn &st Western. 

BuRLINQmN 

CRAWFORD, Larry C .-mernbzr of the C d ttee on Order of Business; &pician 

CARJxnm 

GtAERM, 5. Billydirectar of nussiwrs-will give a dewtiom1 at the Sunday ~~~~n, 

Jme 9, s~sion of the Southem Baptist cord^^ of Dire&ors of Missions annual rrreeting at 

the Central Ek~essway Inn. 

CHAHLClITE 

GCLIEA'IH, Betty-remrding secretary of Wanan's Missiomry ~niom-will lead a payer at 

the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, ssssion of the Wonan's Miesiorrtry Union annual meting at the 

Dallas Corntion Center Zuena. 

WILSCN, Grady B.-ewqlist-will read the Scripture and lead a papr at the Wednesday 

morning, Jule 12, session d the Southern Ba@ist Convention annllal meting at the Dallas 

Cornention Center. 

mHIL]; 

BFAN, Marie-&a@ain at Mars Hill Colleg+-will lead in warship and the therne 

inter~etation at the Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, session of the Southern Ba@ist Wcmen In 

Ministry annml meting at the Wilshire Baptist Chur&, Dallas. 

R.1m 

my, Cecil A.-natioml directar of Planned Grcwth In Giving-will give the Planned Gravth 

In Giving report at the Wedneeday evening, Jme 12, session uf the Southern Bafiist Comtion 

annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

ww?, mRESI' 

K4W, Midzael-prdessm of &ur& mmic at Southeastern Baeist Tbological Semimy-will 

pavide the entertairment at the Morday evening, Jme 10, I=anquet a€ the Southern Ba#ist 

Religiow Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

LLtbEY, Rardall-psidmt UE Southeastern Baptist Theological Sdmy-will speak at the 

MonSay aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Fmm annml meeting at the Dallas Convention Center; will give 

Southeastern Saninary' a report at the Thrsday mmning, Jule 13, session a€ the Southern 

Baptist Conwntion annual meeting at the Dallas Corntian Center. 

mIF, me--wesident of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association and 

p~ufessca: of Christian edmation at Southeastern Ba$ist Theological Seminary-will give the 

president ' s address at the Monday ewning, Jme 10, hncpet at the Southern Ba@ist Religious 

Education ~ssociation at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

WINGATE 

-TIC, Roweditm of publicatiom far the Southern Baptist Chur& Music ConEerm-will 

lead a Fapr at the Morday emning, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Baptist Church Mllsic 

Corferenae annml meting at First Baptist Church, Dallas. 

OHIO 

CINCINNATI 

JmSt Jhfer-student--will ~avide the mic at the Sunday eming, Jme 9, session; 

at the Morday morning, a£ t emn ad evening, Jme 10, sessiom af the Wanan's Missionary Union 

annual meeting at the Dallas Cornti- Center Arena. 

oKLwa4A CITY 

GARRISCN, Gene--pastor of First Baptist Churd~-will give the welacme and peside at the 

Moday aftemn, Jme 10, S8C Fmun annml rreeting at the Dallas Comtion Cmter .

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ELIER, Llayd--.presideslt a€ the Baptist Sunday Schml Board-will ~esent the Sunday sd.1001 

Board report at the Tuesday eming, Jme 11, session of the Southern Ebgkist Convention annual 

meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

FRCW, A. R.-pesident of the stewardship C d ssiow-will give the Stewardship 

Canmi ssion' s report at the Wednesday marning, Jme 12, session of the Southern Baeist 

Convent ion annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

FIED, Wilmer C .-press re~esentative; assistant to the executive secretary treasurer of 

the SBC Executive Cami ttee-will give the demrmimtional pess reprt at the Tkursday 

aftemn, Jme 13, session af the Southern E?a@ist Convention annual meeting at the Dallas 

Conmtion Center. 

=IS, We-secretary of the &ur& mtlsic deprtnaent at the Baptist Sunday Sdhml 

Board-will give the the address at the Sunday aftemn, June 9, session of the Southern 

Baptist Churd.1 Mwic Conferenae amml meting at First Baptist Churdh, Dallas. 

J-CN, Hollis-executive secretarytreasurer of the Southern Baptist Fomdatiam-will 

give the Fomdation' s repart at the Wednesday morning, Jme 12, session a€ the Southern Baeist 

Conmtion annual meeting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

KERR, mace-supervisa af the senicar/single adult section af the &ur& adninistration 

deprtment at the Ba*ist Sunday moo1 Board-will speak on senior adult ministry at the 

Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session cd the Southern Bagist Religious Education Assodation at 

the Marriott Hotel, Markt Square. 

MAY, Lynn E.-executive director-treasurer of the Historical Carmission-will give the 

Cdssion' s report at the Wsday aftemn, Jme 13, session of the Southern Bapzist 

Convention annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

M d L E W , Albert-Yank@lovi& resear& organization, retired ~ q a planning m secretary 

of the SBC ~xecutive Cumnittee--will speak on future trends and educational ministry at the 

Sunday ewning, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Ba#ist Religious Education Assaciation at the 

Marriott Hotel, Markt Square. 

PORTER, Lee-registration secretary of the Southern E!a@ist Convention: desiq editor in 

the Sunday s&ml deptmmt a€ the Baptist Sunday mml Board 

ROBERISCN, Fes--1983-84 president UE the Southern Ba#ist Chm& Mmic Corderme: section 

supexvisar , church music department af the Baptist Sunday Sdhml Ekwd-will peside at the 

Sunday aftemn and evming, Jme 9, sessions, and will ~eside and install the new Chux& 

Music Corderenae a€£ icers at the Morday eming, Jtne 10, session of the Southern Baptist 

CkplrCh Mwic Corderenae annual eing at First Ba@fst Churd~, Dallas; will lead the 

aongregatioml singing at the !l?hxsday mcnrning, Jme 13, session af the Southern Baflist 

Conwntion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

RX3F§, Mi Evans--minister of singles at Wdorrt Ba$ist Church--will speak on singles 

ministry at the Sunday aftemn, Jtne 9, session of the Southern Bagkist Religiom Echcation 

Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

mE, Mmtom-vicepesident, office of &wch pograms services, Baptist Sunday moo1 

Board-will speak at the S d y aftemn, Jme 9, session af the Southern Ba@ist Conference 

of Directors uf Missions arm& meeting at the Central Ex~essway Inn. 

SIRCKER, Joe--secretary af the &ur& adninistration deprtment at the Ba@ist Sunday 

Schml Board-will speak on =king to-ther at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, session of the 

Southern h*i st Religious E-ation Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

WALKER, Artknzr L .-executive di rector-treasurer of the Education C d ssiom-wi 11 give the 

Cdssion' s reprt at the Thrsday morning, Jme 13, session of the Southern Baeist 

Conwention annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

WILLM, James--umrdinator and associate to the pesident cd the Ba@ist Sunday Rho01 

Board--will speak on f utuxe trende and ducatioral ministry at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, 

session of the Southern Ba#ist Religious Education Assmiation at the Marriott Hotel, Market 

-re. 

VALEWINE. Fcy-executive di rector-treasurer of the Christian Life Canmi ssio~will give 

the Christian Life Canmission's rept at the Wednesday mmning, Jule 12, session af the 

Southern Baptist Conmtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

IRWlTDm, Lq&-~cbessar at Hardi~Sinmom University and direct= of 19B5 Texas Bagkist 

All-State Youth Clmip-will lead the ensenbLe in w+session ins~ratioral nwic at the Sundav 

af temn, June 9, session af the Wanan' s ~issioir~ Union annuai meeting at the Comtion a 

Cmter A m ; will lead the bad in a mmrt at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session, of the 

Southern Baptist Church Music Corrfermae annml meting at First Baptist Churd~, Dallas; will 

lead the &oir in music for inspiration at the T=s&y aftemn, Jme 11, session cd the 

Southern Baptist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.

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AtwuLU 

QDFFEY, Stemembsr of the C d t t e e on Order of Business; ptor of San Jacinto Baptist 

churdl 

FLUER, Mark-pving contractor-will lead a vayer at the Tlwrsday aftemn, Jme 13, 

session of the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

WRE, Winfred--tor of First Baflist Churd.l--will speak at the Morday eming, Jule lo, 

session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

AUSTIN 

MXJICA, Miguel-dssiomry in A~tiwwill SF& at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session 

of the Wcman' s Missiomry Union annm meeting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena. 

DALus 

CRISWEU, W.A.-pstm of First Baptist Chur&-will deliver a sermon at the Sunday 

ewning, Jme 9, sessim a€ the Southern Baptist Chur& Music Conferme annual meeting at 

First Baflist Chur*, Dallas: will deliver a messa* at the Morday evening, Jlne 10, session a€ 

the Southern Baptist Pastas' Cbrderenae annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

DANIEL, Gme-seniar viaevesident fcr markting at the Southern Baptist Annuity 

Ebard-will give an addweas at the S-y evening, Jme 9, session cb the Southern Baeist 

Coderenoe of Directors aE Missim annual Itleeting at the Central ExFessway Inn. 

ELLEITI mcy-assdate pastor at Royal Lane kptist Chur-will be the worship leader 

at the Sunday maring, Jme 9, session of the Southem Ba@ist Wanen In ini is try annual meeting 

at the the Adolfius Hotel, Dallas. 

EAMPE3REY, David--minister of mwic at ~irst Baflist Chur+will give the welaxne at the 

Sun&y af termon, Jme 9, session; will lead the &oir and oraegtra in worship at the Sunday 

eming, Jme 9, session uf the Southern E!a@ist Chur& Music Conferenae annLaZ meting at 

First Ba*ist Church, Dallas. 

LAND, Rick--crtrganist at First Ba@ist Chr&-will play the affertory at the Morday 

ewning, Jme 10, session af the Southern b@ist Chur& Music Corderen- annual meting at 

First Baptist Churdn, Dallas. 

MCLAWQlLIN, Charles-mi ssiom director far the Baptist General Comtion af Texas--will 

speak at the Monky evening, Jule 10, sesion of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting at 

the Dallas Comtion Center A m . 

MIRGAN, Dardd-president o£ the Annuity Board-will wesent the Annuity Board Rep t at 

the T ~shy aftemn, Jme 11, scssion UE the Southern Ba*ist Comtion annml eing at 

the Dallas Convent ion Center. 

PWR, Janes F.-director of the Sunset Sermaders d ~ lif f Temple &gist Church--will 

lead the &oir in a mmrt at the Morday mmning, Jme 10, session of the Southern Baptist 

Ch& Mwic Conferme annml meeting at First Ba*ist Church, Dallas. 

PINSCN, Willian M.-executive directcrr of the Baflist General Comtion of Texas--will 

give the welaane at the Sunday aftermon, June 9, session af the Southem Baptist Religious 

Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square: will spak at the Sunday aftemn, 

Jme 9, session of the Southern E!a#ist ConEerme af Directors cf Missions annual meeting at 

the Central Ex~essway Inn; will give the final adatess at the Moday evening, Jme 10, aasion 

of the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annml meting at the Convention Center Arena. 

PH3STImt San--nmic secretary af the Baptist Ggleral Camention uf Texas--will give a 

welame at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, s-sion; will prticipate in the mnaert at the Morday 

evening, Jule 10, se~ision a€ the Southern Baptist aura Music Corderme annual meeting at 

First E3aflist Churd.1, Dallas; will lead the mngregational singing at the Tuesday morning, Jme 

11, session of the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

FOXL, Darrell-rrnm-mt comultant-will lead the -diction at the Teeday aftemn, 

Jme 11, session af the Southem E?a@ist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas Comtion 

Cmter . 

m, Harold--rni.nister of msic at Shiloh Terrace bpti~t Church-will pesent spcial 

mmic at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, and Mollday mcpming, Jme 10 sessions af the Southern 

Ba@ist Corderne of Directors of Missiom annual meeting at the Central Ex~essway Inn. 

TEDRNE, W.E.--retired ~esident of the Dallas Baptist University--will speak at the Morday 

morning, Jme 10, sessim of the Sathem Baptist Coderenos a€ Directors d Missiom annual 

meting at the Central Ex~aressway Inn 

WEBERt Bill-ptm of Preetorwood Eh#ist Chur&-wil deliver a message at the Sunday 

evening, Jule 9, session af the Smthern Baptist Paetms' Oorderwoe annml meting at the 

Dallas Corntion Center. 

mE, Foarbes--an-* artist-will ~esent the music at the Sunday aftemn, June 9, 

session; bbrday marning, a£ temn ad ming, Jme 10, sessim a€ the Wanan' s Missiomry 

Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Axena . 

ZI-, Z i p first vice-presi-t uf the Southern Baptist Commtion 

EL PAS0 

BINTTEZ, Eli-ptar of ~ispm Baptist Churdr--will speak at the Morday evening, Jme 

10, session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annml meting at the Dallas Corntion Center 

Arena.

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EmES 

BRSLEY, 

Manley-mgelist-will be given special reaogi tion at the Wednesday a£ temoon, 

Jme 12, session UE the Conference al Southern Pa@ist Evangelists annml meting at First 

Bagist Churh, Dallas. 

GAGFr, Mi+-evangelist-will be givm special recowi tion at the Wednesday aftemn, 

Jme 12, seesion of the Conference of Southern Baeist Evangdists annual meeting at ~irst 

Ba$ist Church, Dallas. 

Em'?! mm 

ALLEN, Jirnny R.-&resident uE the Radio and Television C~ssion-will giv@ the 

Cdssim' s reprt at the Tkruesday maning, Jme 13, session a€ the Southern Baflist 

Contllention annual meting at the Dallas Camtion Center. 

BLACK, Wesley-pxEessor of youth education at Soutlw-tern E!a#ist Theological 

Semimywill spak on youth ministry at the S-y aftemn, Jme 9, smsion UE the Southern 

Baptist Religious Ehation Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

BRIGGS, Phil-yxdesscx of youth dmation at Southvestern Ba#ist TheohgicaJ. 

Sdmry-will speak at Sunday aftemn, June 9, session crE the Association of Southern 

Ba$ist C m p Ministers ~ annual *ing at the Red Bird Inn Best Western. 

EURTCN, Mkert--director of the Southestern Baeist Theolcgical Seminary Chxm and 

W i d Ensemble-will wesent a conert at the Sunday aftermon, Jme 9, session uf the Southern 

Basist Chur& Music CorrEerenae annual eing at First Ba@ist Clrmrdh, Dallas: will lead the 

&arm and ensemble in msic fa impbration at the Tlleschy evening, Jme 11, session cb the 

Southern Ba*ist Convention annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

DILmY, Ihmssell-~esident a€ Soutkwestern Baptist Theological semi my-will give 

SouthrJestem Sdmry' s mmt at the Wednesday mcnming, Jme 12, session of the Southern 

Ba*ist Conmtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Cmter. 

GONZXES, Daliemissionary to Spai~wi11 give the hendiction at the Wednesday mcarning, 

Jme 12, session ut the Southern Baptist Comtion annual metirag at the Dallas Comtion 

Center. 

ID-, W.F.-retired state dir@ctorr of st-t mck in Texas, faculty uf religiom 

education at Southestern bptist Thmlogical ~ dm.r)~will speak at the Morday aftemn, 

Jme 10, session ul tk Association a€ Southern Baptist C a p Ministers annual meting at the 

Red Bird Inn Best Western. 

KING, A. Jose@+-as-director af the SouthrJestern Ehptist Theological Seminary C bus and 

W i d Ensemble-will lead the &or= and azsemhle in lmrsic far inspiration at the Tuesay 

eming, June 11, session of the Southern Baei st Corntion annual meting at the Dallas 

Convent ion Center. 

May, Jdm-wic evangelist-will present a mini-amst and will lead the 

mnqegatioml singing at the Wsday aftemn, Jme 13, session of the Southern Ba#ist 

Conmtion annual meting at the ~al1as'~omtion Center. 

McKINNEY, Jmes-dean a€ the school a£ d1urd.1 music at SoutWestern mflist Theological 

Sdmrpwill lead a prayer at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session UE the Southern Baptist 

Cknlrd? Mwic Conferenae annml meeting at First Ba#ist Churd.1, Dallas. 

mD, Wlryl-director of the Singing Men of Texas--will partidpte in the concert fa the 

Morday etnwling, Jme 10, session a€ the Southern Ba]3tist Church Music Coldemae annual meeting 

at First Baptist Church, Dallas; will lead the Singing Men in music fa inspiration at the 

Wednesday evennig, Jme 12, session a€ the Scmthem Baptist Corntion annual meeting at the 

Dallas Comtion Cater. 

IEYNCGIE, Willian J.-wic director fa the Southern Eh@ist Comtion ad associate 

~dessar of music at Soutkwestern Ea#ist Theological Senimpwill lead the mngregatioml 

singing at the T ~s&y @wing, Jme 11, session; at the Wednesday evening, Jme 12 session af 

the Southern Bagkist Conwntion anrim eing at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

SEEM, Cecil-pstor of Brcadway Baptist Churd~-will speak at the Morday aftemn, 

Jme 10, SIK: Form annml meting at the Dallas Corntion Center. 

'WYLOR, Jack-head of Dimensiom in Christian Livinpwill deliwr a message at the Mo&y 

af temn, Jule 10, session of the Southern Bqtist Pastars ' Qnferenoe annd meting at the 

Dallas Conwntion Center. 

TERKY, Jack-dean af the sdxlol a€ religios education at Soutkwestern &l$ist Thedogid 

Sdmry-will spak on teeing ministry at the S d y af temn, Jme 9, session UE the 

Southern Baptist ~eligiars Ehation Association at the Marr iott Hotel, Market Square. 

m, Mark-student at Soutkwestern Bqtist Theological Sdmry-will lead a prayer at 

the 'I?.Llrsday maming, Jme 13, seesion Q£ the Southern Bagtist Comtion annual eing at the 


GRAND Pmm 

mCN, ~eminister of mic at Lakeview BalJtist Chur+will spak at the Morday 

af temn, Jme 10, session uf the Southern hflist Chur& Mwic Corderenae annual meting at 

First Baptist Churd~, Dallas.

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HarSMN 

II3LLACT3, Jane-assdate pastor of S-rd &gist Churh-will lead a prayer at the 

Tuesday evming, Jme 11, session a£ the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meting at the 

Dallas Conmt ion Center. 

-Ern, Thad-minister of mic at South Main Basist Ckrch-will lead the hymn at the 

Sunday a£ temn and evming, Jme 9, s~siore: will lead the msic f car the worship at the 

Morday maming, Jme 10, session a€ the S-hem E!a@ist Church Mwic Corderen- annual mxking 

at First Ba#ist Chrch, Dallas. 

YOtNG, Fdwi-pstor of Semrd &gist C1Purdh--will deliver a messaq at the Moday 

aftemn, Jme 10, session a€ the Southern Bagist Pastors' Cbnferena annual meeting at the 


Lm3QCK 

CASS, DOIF-pstor of Southcrest Ba@ist Chur+will give the benediction at the TTlaxrsday 

aftemn, Jme 13, swsion ul the Southem Ba@ist Convention annml meting at the Dallas 

Conwntion Cmter . 

HARRIS, Leo-advertising exlecuti-will give the bendition at the Tkaurs&y mmning, 

Jme 13, session of the Southern Ba$ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion 

Center. 

F!LmwIEw 

HAJSFOWD, Jim-& Waylad University and directcr of the 1985 Texas Baptist All-State 

Ycuth Orch&r-will prticipte in the mnaert at the Morday eming, Jule 10, se~tsion of the 

Southern Ba#ist Church Mmic Conferme annual rrreeting at First Ba@ist Church, Dallas; will 

lead the m&estra in mmic foa: inspiration at the T~sday aftmmon, Jme 11, session of the 

Southern BaFist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

SAN ANMNIO 

-& David-ptor of First Baflist Churdr--will deliver a message at the Morday 

maming, Jme 10, session of the Southern Ba#ist Pastors' Oonferene annml &ing at the 


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TYLER 

COX, Allen--minister of music at Green Acres Ba*ist Churdw-will speak at the 

Moey aftemn, Jule 10, session a€ the Southern Paptist Chur& Mwic ~orberene annml 

meeting at First Ba@ist Church, Dallas. 

P-, Dennis-minister of edmation and adninistration, Green Acree Baeist 

Church-will lead in the new member mientation at the S h y aftemn, Jme 9, swsion of the 

of the S-hem Baptist Religious Education Associat,ion at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square. 

WAaI - 

BECKER, Robert-dem af tM s&ml a€ lrrusic at Bayla Universi ty-will lead the 

mngregatioml singing at the Wednesday mcrning, Jule 12, session a€ the Southem Baptist 

Convention annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

JCNES, J-e-~cdeesar at Baylar University-will ~esent an crgan eci tal at the Sunday 

eming, Jme 9, session; will Nay the crgan fa the =ship at the Mo*y mming, June 10, 

session of the Southern Baptist md~ Mmic Cordewenoe annml meting at First Baptist Church, 

Dallas. 

PLEITZ , Darr-attorn-will lead a Fayer ak the Tmsday mming, Jme 11, s-sion of the 

Southern Baptist Comtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

SFNEE, HLgh-~cbessrn at Baylor Universitywill give lecture/daox16tration at the 

Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session ad at the Morday aftemn, June 10, session a€ the Southern 

&gist ChurCh Mmic Corderenae mml meeting at First Baptist Churd.1, Dallas. 

WD, Jh-pstor of First Bagist Chur&-will deliver a message at the Morday 

af temn, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Ba$ist Pastars' Qrderence annual meeting at the 


WICHITA FALJX 

CHAPMAN, Maris mar airman Cb the Canmi ttee on Order of Business; gastor of First 

Baptist Church--will deliver a -sags at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, session uf the 

Southern Ea#ist Pastors' Qrderence annml meeting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

GOMSBY, brrpdmatw-will give the mediction at the Tuesday eming, Jme 11, 

session of the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.

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ImmpELIER 

kMWIAM, Code-missimry in Vermorrt--will speak at the Morday afternoon, Jme 10, 

session af the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena. 

MWWPM, Jim-missimry in Vermont-will speak at the Morday @wing, Jule 10, 8-sion of 

the Wanan's Missionary Union annlal neting at the Dallas Camtion Center Arena. 

C W I ~ 

-IS, Addie-retired pastor-will lead in -ship ad the theme interpretation at the 

Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, session ut the Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry annd eing at 

the Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas. 

RumoKF4 

F'UUR, Charles G.-ptor of First Baptist Chur+will deliver the mnmtion sermon at 

the Wednesday mmning, Jme 12, session aE the Southern Baptist Conwmtion annual meting at 

the Dallas Convention Center. 

SPIFKX, Dayledirectur of the &oir of First Baptist Church--will lead the choir in a 

aonaert at the Morday eming, Jme 10, session af the Southern Ba#ist Chur& Music Corderme 

annlral e i n g at First Baptist Chur&, Dallas: will lead the &oir in music far inspiration at 

the Wednesday mcarning, Jme 12, session d the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annml meting at 

the Dallas Conmtion Center, 

RIcHbmD 

UilEVNE, John-sdcr oorsultant, hman n& ministriss, at the Fcrei~pl Mission -d-will 

speak at tb Morday mcrning ard ming, Jme 10, session3 d the Wanan's Missiorary Union 

annual meeting at t k Dallas Comtion Cmter Arena. 

EXMMNG, James-pstar of ~irst Ba@ist Churdx-will spak at the Morday aftemn, Jme 

10, Sf3C Farm annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

JXNT, *-retired exleclltiw secretary of Wanan' s Missiorary Uniow-will lead a prayer at 

the Morday mcnming, Jme 10, session a€ the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meting at the 

Dallas Comtion Cmter A m . 

O'BRIEN, Willian R.-exec&ive vicepresidant a€ the Fcreiq Mission Bar&will sing at 

the Mo&y aftemn, Jule 10, SBC Faun annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center. 

PARKS, R. Keitk-president a€ the Fareign Mission Board--will speak at the Morday @wing, 

Jme 10, session o£ the Wanan's Missiomry Union annw meting at the Dallas Corntion Center 

Arena; will give the Fareign Mission Bard R e p t at the Tcresday evening, Jme 11, session of 

the Southern Bagist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center. 

mSER, Anne P.-epstrrr of Bainbrid~South Hampton Ba$ist Church--will lead a prayer 

at the Wednesday mamning, Jule 12, session a€ the Sauthern E!aptist Comtion annual meeting at 

the Dallas Conmtion Center. 

CLASS, Gerhard-qmeral secretary of the BaFist Wmld Allian-will give the the 

Alliance' s ~ pxt at the Tkrursday mcarning, June 13, session cb the Southern Baptist Cornention 

annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

DUNN, Jam-executive direct=-treasurer of the Sagkist Joint C d ttee on Public 

Affairs-will give the Ehflist ~oint Canmi ttee' s report at the Wedneshy mcgning, Jme 12, 

session uf the Southern Baptist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

PRICKITIT, Marilyn--missiorary in Washingtow-will spak at the Morday eming, Jme 10, 

s-sim af the Wanan' s Missiorary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Cormtion Center Arena. 

A u m 

-PER, Jdm David-dsaiomry in Awtria-will speak at the Morday maning a d evening, 

Jule 10, sessiom a€ the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion 

Cmter Arena.

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@LE, Dale-missioruary veterimian to Bophuthatwana-will speak at the Monhy 

maming, Jme 10, session uf the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meeting at the Convention 

Center Arena. 

CENT= AM?#RICA 

BIIZTCE, Ja+-missiamry ad associate area direckor to Central Ameri-will speak at the 

Mody marning, Jme 10, session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annllal meting at the Dallas 

Convmtion Center Arena. 

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CHINA 

CWWG, C .K.-University of mui-will speak at the Sunday afternoon, Jule 9, session; at 

the Morday etnening, Jme 10, session af the Wanan' s Missimry Union annml meting at the 

Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

EwmND 

P N I A L L , R,T.-smia minister at Westminister Chapel, brdow-will deliver a message at 

the Morday evening, Jme 10, session af the Southern Baptist Pastors' Corderen- mml meting 

at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

GUArnMALA 

P ~ R Jane-missionary , 

to the K' ekchi Idians--will speak at the Morday mcming, Jme 

10, session cb the Wanan's Missimry Union annml meting at the Dallas omt ti on Center 

A m . 

LEBm 

WNCX), Nand-missimry to Lebmm-will speak on "First, Lave" at the Sunday aftemn, 

Jme 9, session; at the Morday eming, Jme 10, session a€ the Wanan's Missiomry Union annual 

meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

MExtCO 

7 FUENTES, Ester-president a€ Melbm M-will spsak at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, 

session at the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annlldl eing at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena. 

NIaRIA 

~ M ~ c Ruth--rtissiomsy K , to Nigeriewill speak on "Ministering to Orphans" at the Sunday 

aftemn, Jme 9, sssion of the Wanan's Missiomry Union amml meting at the Dallas 

Conmtion Cmter Arena.

(Note: Numbers indicate the original assigmnt number, scme photo ideas did not work out 

and others were added so the numbers are not mnsecutive. This is a canplete set of photo^ 

hawever. ) 

2B. INTE?EETION Lm--With 45,000-plus psple trading the Dallas Convention Center lines 

formed everywhere: to register, to get in the cafeteria, to get into meeting hall*-even to qo 

to the bathroam or buy a soft drink. (Photo by Ken L m ) 

3. 'FIRST L#E1 IN AND HAXJ34-Amng the speakers for the annual meeting of the 

Wanan's Missionary Union were Nancie Wingo, foreign missionary to Lebanon, and Michael Thanas 

Williams, home missionary to Harlem in New York City. They told hcrw "First Love," the thme of 

the 1985 session, keeps missions alive in those tvm areas. (Photo by Tim Fields) 

he Bold Mission Thrust draanatic musical "2000 A.D." premiered June 10 

of the Wanan1 s Missionary Union annual meeting, The musical, by 

s, was performed by ~raiSong fran Cliff Temple Baptist Church in 

(Photo by John M-e) 

-%?- 

TE-Arthur Blessitt, famed for carrying a 12-foot wooden cross alking all 

the speakers at the Southern ~aptist~astors' Canference. It was 

the third time in five years the popular evangelist had addressed the Pastorls Conference or 

the SBC. 

ected leadership for Wanan's Missionary Union for the aaning year has 

ers were reelected. Flanking WMU-SBC Executive Director 

hair) of Flint, Mich., and Betty 

Gilreath of (Photo by Mark Sandlin) 

a 

10. WHYNOT NOT NCRJ?--W.A. Criswell, 76-year-old pastor of First Baptist 

ed 20,000 people attending the closing session of the Southern Baptist 

~$3 rs' Conference at the Dallas Convention Center. He spoke on the pattern of death and 

rection in a denanination, an institution, a preacher and a professor. He asked why, 

while great revivals are sweeping Korea, Africa and other parts of the world, spiritual renewal 

is mt mre evident in the United States. (Photo by van Pme) 

11. PASTORS1 OFFICEW-Morris Chapnan, at pdim, was elected president @$he 

1986 Pastors' Conference which will meet in Atlanta prior to the annual meeting of e Southern 

Baptist Convention. Chapnan is pastor of First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas. Behind 

Chapan, fran left, are: W.A. Criswell, pastor of First ~aptist Church, Dallas, who preached 

the closing sermon of the 1985 Pasbrsl Conference; Dwight Reighard, pastor of New H o p Baptist 

Church, Fayetteville, Ga. ! secretarytreasurer, and Ned Mathews, pastor of Parktrlood Baptist 

Church, Gastonia, N.C. , vice-president. (Photo by Van Payne) 

11B. PASTOFS1 OFFICEE-Elected to head the 1986 Southern Baptist Pastors1 

Conference in Atlanta were, fran left: Dwight Reighard, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, 

p'J 

Fayettwille, Ga. (secretary-treasurer) , Eaorr is Chapnan, pasbr of First Baptist Church, 

Falls, Wxas (president) , and Ned Mathews, pastor o£ Parkwood Baptist Church, Gastmia, 

viwpresident) . (Photo by David Ham) 

13. POINTING TO A mJLL mE--A crud estimatd at 18,000 turned out for the Sunday night 

session of the 1985 S3C Pastors1 Conference in the Dallas Convention Center. Adrian Rogers, 

pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn., was the closing speaker for the session. 

He preached on seven principals which apply to Southern Baptist pastors--prepaxation, 

perspective, purpose, progression, protection, pwer and praise. (Photo by David Haywood) 

14. SIm aF THE TIMEs+l?he strong feelings wer which direction the SBC should follow were 

evident in many ways. One messenger dvertised his sentiments on the back of his mtorhme 

parked outside the Dallas Convention Cent r. (Photo by Tim Fields)

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15. PRESIDENTS PDR PEaCE-JThe /elected presidents of 37 state anventions which voluntarily 

cooperate with the Southern &ist Convention announced a "peace plann for the striferidden 

SBC at a news mnference on the eve of the annual meting of the SBC. Members o£ a task force 

of the state convention presidents, along with former SBC president and retired pastor of First 

Baptist Church, Nashville, Wnn., H. Franklin Paschal1 (who earlier had announced a peace 

effort 05 his awn) met reporters to explain the 10-point plan on June 10. Plans for Paschal1 

to make the official motion to the convention June 11were sidetracked when he forgot to bring 

his ballot and was denied admission to the hall. Among those at the news mnference were, 

seated fran left: Bill Hickan, Florida; Charles Pickering, Mississippi; Paschall; Wallace 

Henley, Alabama; Neil Thcmpson, Alaska, and Bob Latham, Indiana. 

(photo by John MdSyre) 

1 TEE OF PRAYER-When the presidents of the 37 state conventions which cooperate with 

the Southern Baptist Convention hosted a prayer meeting Sunday afternoon (June 9) it attracted 

soores of Southern Baptist leaders. In the group abwe, fr #lilton Ferguson, 

president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas L. Honeycutt, president 

of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lwisville, Ky. ; re, pastor of First 

Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas, and Charles Stanley, SBC: president and pastor of First Baptist 

Church, Atlanta. (Photo by John m e ) - 

16, and 16B. G I N G HW-Much of the tension in the Dallas Convention center was eased when 

Winfred Mmre, left, pastor of First ~aptist Church in AMeillo, T , unexpectedly 

naninatd for first vi&&esident of the SEE after losing to Char=ey, pastor cb First 

Baptist Church in Atlanta, in the presidential hlloting. Stanley called Moore to the platform 

to ask if he would allow his ncmination for first vice-president. The huanor and good feeling 

of the rnanent relaxed the crowded aonvention hall. (16. Photo by John IWPyre) 

(16% Photo by David Haywood) 

18. SBC DXXAS 1985-he WcQllcentration of Southern ~aptists in history gathered in 

Dallas June 11-13, 1985 for the 128th session of ~aptist Convention. The massive 

crowd overflowed the main meeting hall a her halls. When registration closed, 

45,519 messengers representing local chu registered. Spouses and 

children of messengers and visitors crowd munt wer 50,000. 

(Photo by Van Payne) 

20. FLOORED BY THE mICbJ-Messengers mrf lowed three roans of the vast Dallas Convention 

Center June 11 to decide who would be president of the Southern Baptist Convention for 1985-86. 

Many decided to sit on the concrete floor when all the chairs were occupied. 

(Photo by John w e ) 

22. ANOTHER DIMENSICAJ--For the first time in history the annual meeting of the Swthern 

Baptist Convention was televised around the a satellite system which connects 

the Baptist Sunday School Board with local &st every manent of the SBC 

sessions. Ceanchors for the coverage were Nashville, Tenn. and Richard 

McCartney af Oklahana City. (Photo by Ken Lawson) 

24. 'IHE WRITER AND THREE MAKER5 OF HISTORY-Harold C . Eknnett , executive secretary-treasurer 

of the SBC Ekecutive Cornnittee, presented special copies of the recently printed History of the 

Executive Carmittee to the book's author, Albert McCellan, and Bennett's two imnediate 

predecessors, Duke Meall, second frm left, and Porter Routh. MdSellan was an assistant to 

all three. (Photo by Mark Sandlin) 

26. PRESIDENTIAL J?FUVILM;E--SBC president Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of 

Atlanta, delivered an impassioned plea for Christlike love in his presidential address. Later 

Stanley was elected to a seoond one-year term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

(Photo by Tim Fields) 

30. aW3 MIRE LINE--he 1985 SBC meeting attracted a record number of resolutions. Abwe, Ron 

Sisk, messenger fran Tiburon Baptist Church, Tiburon, Calif., consults with a member of the 

Resolutions Carmi ttee. (Photo by Tim Fields) 

32. THE =I- AND THE PRESSearles Stanley, pasbr of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, 

held the traditional news wnference in the SBC Press Roan after his reelection as president of 

the Southern Baptist Camrention. More than 600 reporters were issued credentials to m r the 

Dallas meeting of the SBC. (Bmto by ~ i Fields) m 

33. EMB #EPOLIT--One of the more striking mcments during the ~oreign ~ission Board report to 

the 1985 meeting of the Southern ~aptist Convention was the parade of missionaries in the dress 

native to the countries in which they serve. FMB president R. Keith Parks received a standing 

ovation f ran messengers a£ ter his address. 

34. A T.IClSS AND A WIN-Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Church of 

in the presidential voting at the Southern ~aptist Convention despite 

(aLmost 20,000) than the total attendance at most SBC meetings. But 

"loser s news mnferencew he had been electd first vice-president of the 14.3 million member 

denmination. (Photo by Mar 6 Sandlin)

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35. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS--Leadership for the Southern Baptist Convention ~xecutive 

Carmittee for the 1985-86 year will be, fran left: Harmon M. Born, layman f ran Rex, Ga. , vice 

chairman; Lois H. Wenger, laywanan frm Orlando, Fla., recording secretary; David C. Maddox, 

layman £ran Anaheim, Calif., chairman, and Harold C. l3ennett of Nashville, Tenn. , president. 

(Photo by Norman Jameson) 

38. SBC OFFIQEItS-JThe bst attended Southern Baptist Convention meeting in history elected 

these three men as officers for the caning year: Henry Huff, an attorney £ran Louisville, Ky., 

second vice-president; W. Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas, first 

vice-president, and Charles F. Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, president. 

(Photo by David Hamood) 

40. PLANNED QEOWrn IN GIVING -e father-daughter team of Cecil Ray, at podium, and 

Susan Ray, in wheelchair, challenged the 1985 SBC to oonsider the claims of God in 

the area of financial stewardship. Ray is the headi lanned Gruwth In Giving, an SBC 

effort to raise the percentage giving patterns during the next 15 years. 

(Photo by David Haywood) 

41. HOME MISSION E3oAR.D FwOMhe Texas Deaf Choir was one of many inspirational and 

challenging manents during the Hane Mission Board report to the 128th session of the Southern 

Baptist Convention. (Photo by Tim Fields) 

42. INDIAN OFFICERS-JThe National American Indian Fellowship of Southern Baptists, which formed 

prior to the 1985 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, sel&ed the following officers, 

fran left: Blevin Hill, a Creek frm Oklahcma, secretary-treasurer; Victor Kaneubbe, Choctaw 

fran Arkansas, chairman; Cloyd Harjo, Creek-Seminole £ran Kansas, parlimentarian, and Emerson 

Falls, Sac-Fox and Choctaw f ran California, vicechairman. (Photo by Van Payne) 

43. AWFHE! VIEW-Adults may have been overwhelmed by the crowds o£ people swarming the Dallas 

Convention Center during the 1985 session of the Southern Baptist Conventiow-but imagine what 

it looked like to people under three feet tall. This young lady decided to brighten her 

outlook by peering over her sun glasses. (Photo by Sherri Brm) 

44. B- BASEBALk-One of the more popular attractions mng younger SBC Convention 

goers (and many older ones too) in the exhibit area was the Brotherhood Cmission both which 

featured a cmputerized game called Royal Ambassador Raseball. Royal Ambassadors is a mission 

program for boys in Baptist churches. (Photo by Ken Lawson) 

46. THE AGENCY OF PRAYER-JThe heads of Southern Baptist agencies were on call throughout the 

convention to answer questions and respond to needs. During the frquent praye?, times (left 

side, front to back) R. Keith Parks, president of the Foreign Mission Board, Lloyd Elder, 

president of the Sunday School Board and Roy C. Honeycutt, president of Southern'paptist 

Theological Seninary in Louisville, Ky., and (right) William Tamer, the Hone 

Mission Board, joined tens of thousands of others in bringing petitions to God. 

(Photo by Mark Sandlin) 

47. HAND VOTING--Marshall Love, a messenger f ran Liberty Baptist Church in Hawkins, Texas, was 

among more than 45,000 messengers at the 1985 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Nonballot 

votes are taken by messengers holding up their ballots--the back card of which is pink 

to make it~sier for the presiding officers to judge the results. (Photo by David Bell) 

INESS--The remrd n&r of messengers put a strain on many of the convention 

the moat pressure was probably on the registration process. Lee Porter, 

registration secretary of the convention, brought 34,000 packets of ballots--but more than 

35,000 messengers had registered by the night before the convention opened on Tuesday. Porter 

and Royal Ambassador pages joined other workers to hand assemble the ballots for the next 

10,000 messengers who would register before the convention closed. (Photo by Ken Lawson) 

50. OF BNXYE-JJ%e vote count of the SBC presidential election, which attracted more 

than 44,000 ballots, as both people and machines turned to the task. Above, 

members of the Telle ittee check to make sure all the ballots are the right number 

(Photo by John McTyre) 

51. WIVff OFFICERS-Elected to head &the Conference of Minister1 s Wives for 1986 were: Mrs. 

Russell ~ilday, Fort Worth, Texas, president; Mrs. Peter Rhea Jones, Decatur, Ga., vicepresident; 

Mrs. Ray Rust, Columbia, S.C., secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Bill Hinson, New 

Orleans, corresponding secretary. (Photo by Sherri Brm) 

52. CAMPtIs MINISTERS OFFICERS-Elected to lead the Association of Southern Baptist C~TQUS 

Ministers for 1985-86 were Wil Mall, vicepresident for 

Mississippi, Hattiesburg; Jan Fuller, vice-president for prqran, Y 

Ford, pr 

Student Ministers 

president for

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53. MUSIC OETICEIES-Elected to lead the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference 

for 1985-86 were: Harry Cuwen, minister of msic at First ~aptist Church, New Orleans, 

president; Hugh McElrath, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., presidentelect; 

Mary June Tabor, ass ist General Convention of Oklahcana, 

secretary-treasurer ; Wade D t, Baptist Convention of Georgia, vi 

president of denminational inister of music, Oakdale Baptist 

Church, Brandon, Miss., vi ivision, and A.L. "Pete" Butler, 

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas of rmsic educators 

division. (Photo by David Bell) 

54. aOM LEADERS--Directors of Missions officers elected during the 1985 SBC meeting in Dallas 

were, first row, fran left: Maurice Flavers, Jones County Associati Laurel, Miss., 

secretary; Russell Baker, Atlanta (Ga.) Association, 1986 host direc @ Bob Wainwright, Flat 

River Association, Oxford, N.C., treasurer; Mack flnoke, San Jacinto Association, Baytm, 

Texas, s-nd vice-president; k k 

row: Carl IXlck, Nashville (Tenn.) Association, first vice- 

president; IWerett Anthony, Chigago Met iation, Oak Park, Ill., editor, and Bob Lee 

Franklin, Nmnday Association, (Photo by Lonnie Wilkey) 

55. EVANGELIST OFFI(WS--Elected to Southern Baptist Evangelists Conference for 

next year were, frcm left: Bob Kendig, Tenn., parliamentarian; Rudy A. Hernandez, 

Catar ina, Texas, vice-president; Larry Taylor, Bandera, Texas, president; Jim MdJeil, St. 

Louis, music director; Dick Barrett, ~r&n, Ga., assistant msic director, and Jackson Cox, 

Milledgeville, Ga., secretary/treasurer. (photo by Lonnie Wilkey) 

56. PACKED FX)Ft3HIP SEWICE-A stmding room only crcrwd of 500 met for Sunday morning worship 

June 9 at the Adolphus Hotel during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Warnen in 

Ministry. Molly Marshall-Green, assistant professor of theology at Southern Baptist 

Theological Seminary in Zouimille, Ky., brought a message on Colossians 3:L2-17 and stressed 

the qualities of Jesus those 'Icalled to serve" should have. (Photo by Lonnie Wilkey) 

56B. WRSHIP BY WVEMEW4he Liturgical Dance Ensemble fran Second Baptist Church, Lubbock, 

Texas, led the call to worship for the worship service at the Adolphus Hotel June 9 which was 

part of the annual meting of the Women In Ministry. (Photo by John Mayre) 

57. 1985-86 SOUTHERN BAPTIST RELIGIOUS EOUCA!KRS ASSOCIATIQU CIFFIm- (1 to r) Don Dendy, 

minister of education, Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, vicepresident; Dennis Parrott, 

minister of education, Green Acres Baptist Church, Tyler, Texas, president; Mavis Allen, 

design/planning mrdinator, Sunday school department, Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville, 

Tenn., central vice-president; Joe Haynes, consultant, Sunday school department, BSSB, 

secretary/treasurer; and Katie Grogan, director, age-grwp cmrdination, ~aptist Convention of 

(Photo by Lonnie 

58. THE FIItST IlXlG LINE-The record registration at the 1985 SBC convention started with 

messengers mund back and for# around the floor of the Dallas Conventioncenter, two hours 

before registration opned at 3 p.m. June 9, More than 14,000 messengers were wocessed by 10 

p.m. (Photo by Ken Lawson) 

588. YOWG MESSEN-When the 36,500 churches across the Southern Baptist Convention sent 

messengers to the 1985 annual meeting in Dallas at a record pace, the messengers came in just 

about all ages, shapes, sizes These two young ladies were among more than 14,000 

menbers of SBC churches who go on June 9-the first day of registration. 

(Photo by Ken Lmson) 

61. 1-Rudy Rulido, a messenger fran Southwest Baptist Church in St. Louis got caught in 

the parlimentary snarl of SBC business Wednesday night. During the business session ~ulido was 

twice rqized by convention president Charles Stanley then twice asked to wait and Stanley 

would get back to him. He never was allawed to ask his question. (Photo by David Bell) 

62. PRESSING THEIR APPEM+rhree Baptist pastors--one each fran Texas, 

Virginia-called a news conference Wednesday night, June 12, to express pub1 i their 

unhappiness with the manner in which convention president Charles 

evening's and afternoon's business sessions. They said he would not hear their appeal so they 

63. VM@WINE HaW-arles Wade, right, pastor of First Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas, 

and chairman of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Carmission, presents the Canmission's 

annual Distinguished Service c ward to Foy Valentine, executive director o£ the Q;C, the 

convent ion' s mr a1 concerns agency. Valentine ' s wife, Mary Louise , looks on. Valentine has 

been head of the agency for the past 25 years--currently the longest tenure of any SBC agency 

head. (Photo by Tim Fields) 

e.3

Sunday School Board Trustees 

Approve Millennia1 Guidelines 

AWANCE RACKGRWND s m 

Baptist Press 

8/9/84 

NASHVILLE- Tenn. (BP)-~rustees of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board elected 

persons to fill three executive positions and affirmed January 1984 editorial guidelines 

giving equitable treatment in church literature to three views m the millennim during their 

sd-annual meting. 

-Trustees also adopted a reoord 1984-85 budget af $158.5 million and requested a study of 

editorial guidelines concerning ordination of men for presentation at the Felmuary 1985 

meeting. 

E. V. King, executive directm of the- Tennessee Housing Developnent Agency, was elected 

vicepresident for business and finance. He will succeed E. DeVaughn Woods who is retiring. 

King, 42, will be sespnsible far administeringthe board's office of finance, management 

services divisions and personnel department. King, a Baptist layman, holds the B.A. degree 

£ran David Lipcomb College in Nashville and the master's degree £ran the University of 

' Tennessee School af Management. 

-- Tm board m@ms, m t t aria Thcenas Clark, were pranoted to department management 

positions. 

Wood, 42, supervisor of the personnel canpensation section since 1981, will mnage the 

acmmting and control department. Clark, 45, supervisor of Broadman books and music section 

since 1977, was named manager of the Broadman ~oducts department. 

"-Trustee adopted seven reccmmesldatiom to assure equitable treatment in &ur& literature 

and Convention Press materials to three views af the millesmiun, events surrounding the second 

caning of Jesus Christ. -- The three views canmonly held among Southern Baptists are 

dispensational pemillennialism, historical ~emillennialism and amillennialism. Areas UE 

agreement include: return of Christ, resurrections of the dead, judgement, heaven, hell and 

GOd' s c~nswnmation of history. 

- The recommendations specify all curriculum lines will emphasize areas cxf doctrinal 

agreement mong Southern Baptists while, at the same time, dealing factually and fairly in 

areas where there are differing points of view. 

The reccmmendations follwed a request by two trustees at the February 1984 meeting for 

a discussion of treatment of eschatology (last things) in Sunday school literature and whether 

one line of curriculun might b assilpled to reflect primarily the mdllenniat view. -The 

board's editorial guidelines an the millennim were mnpleted last January as a follcw-up to an 

October 1983 Millennia1 Consultation. 

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Sunday School Eoardt' Trustees 

*rove Mellennial Guidelines 

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In affirmimg the guidelines, trustees awoved a reaxmendation that "no curricdun series 

will take any one doctrine or doctrinal viewpoint, including the doctrine of last things, as 

its arganizing principle." 

-% final recamtendation urges recqnition of diverse opinions about the millmnim among 

Southern Baptists and "the wisdom of rot making the millenniwn a test of faith, fellowship, 

conservative bib1 ical saolarship ar evangelistic ccpnmi tment . " 

"The 1984-85 budget of $158.5 million represents a six percent increase over the 1983-84 

budget of $149.2 million. 

In amther matter, trustees adopted a subtitute motion to refer to the administration and 

the plans and policies d t t e e a request far a study concerning editorial guidelines on the 

ordination of men. 

" The request as adopted follawed an earlier motion by Roland Maddox, a layman £ran Mem@is, 

,Term., asking that guidelines be developed "to assure that m publication of the Baptist Sunday 

School. brd will question or cast doubt upon the position of mt c~rdaining women as pstors coc 

deacons pact iced by most of our churhes; and mt pranote, foster or enmurage the ordination 

of women as pastors car deacons. " 

Joe Coursm, pstcx of Cinao Baptist Church, FWt Walton Beach, Fla., said a reguest f a a 

study should "mt change the administration in advance with what they have to ocme out with." 

He then introduced a substitute mtion, which was adopted, requesting a study with 

recanmendations to be presented at the February 1985 meeting. 

Also referred to the plans and plicies camittee for study was a motion that full salary 

and benefits infurmation be provided to trustees concerning ea& candidate they consider for an 

elected position at the mrd. 

In his first repxt to the trustess since his February installation, President Lloyd 

Elder, outlined highlights af board programs sumrting Bold Mission-Thrust, issued an appeal 

for respnsible trusteeship and pledged to carry out the actions of the trustees. 

"Wt us function together responsibly as a trustee board," said Elder. "Open, candid 

discussion is encouraged. Diverse opinions are welmed. Let us maintain a spirit of oneness 

and mutual respect. 

"Whm the mte is taken, the president acts upn the decisions uf the trustees and they 

will be reported accurately to our Baptist publics," Elder added. "Let us be servant leaders 

of the Baptist Sunday School Bwrd. We are here to serve the &ur&es, all the aurcihes. We 

are here to serve Baptist people, all Baptist pople." 

In a devotional mssage, Earl Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Memphis,'. Tenn., 

applauded effcnrts by the trustees to maintain a spirit of unity during a potentially divisive 

cvmmi ttee discussion on the mi llennial. guidelines. 

"I olxerved an overwhelming feeling of Laderstanding, trust and acceptance, a feeling of 

aweciation of dif f rent views. Every person in the rocan believed everyone else in the roam 

believes in Jesus, loves the Bible and wants to save a lost mrld," said Davis. 

Charles Stanley, president uf the Southern Baptist Convention and an ex-officio rnaibsr of 

all SBC agencies attended the tmday meeting. At a fellmship dinner, Stanley said, "It is my 

intmtion to be the ~esident of as many pple as will allm me to be president. I will be as 

obedient to God as I kmw what obedience is." 

Elder express& aweciation to Stanley for taking time to attesld and prticipate in the 

trustee sessions. "We pray fa him to succeed as he leads us in the mission of Southern 

Baptists," he said. 

In an internal restructuring, the telemmnunications mit managed by Joe Denney was given 

department status and w ill report to the vicelpesident for pblishing and distribution, ~ i q 

Edwards. 

Also approved were : 

--=isure Listening for Blind Youth and Adults, a monthly twlmur cassette tape, 

beginning October 1985 ; 

--Handbells, a marterly music periodical, beginning October 1985; 

--Preludio: mica y Adoracion, a quarterly Spanish music priodical purhsed £ran the 

Baptist Spanish Publishing House and offered by the board to U .S. churcihes , beginning January 

1985. 

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Baptist Press 

8/15/84 

I 

Cothen: No Re~esmtation 

False Issue By Ncrman Jmneson 

I 

SEWANEE, Okla. (BP)-Claims by inerrantists they have been Werrepesented on Southern 

Baptist Convention boards is a "false issue" oxding to Grady C. Cotha, recently retired 

president of the Southern Baptist Sunday Schm "T mrd. 

I 

Cothm, defeated by inerrancy canihte Charles Stanley fa Southern Baptist Convention 

presidevlt in June, has been associated with SBC boards since 1949 when he was elected to the 

Fmeign Mission Board as a 2&year-old pastor. He also was top executive of the Southern 

Baptist General Convention of Califmnia, Oklahana Baptist University and New Orleans Baptist 

- Theologiced Seminary. 

I 

"There ' s mt beesl a time in my 35 years association with any bwrd that the majority of 

rnePnbers did mt believe in infallibility of Scripture," Cothen told a national meting of SBC 

iwservice guidance directms at Oklahoma Baptist University. "Our boards always have been 

predcunimtely controlled by inerrantists , but they wexen t mean. 

I 

"Thy were people of good will. - They steered the Southern Baptist Corntion to the 

middle of the road, to the finest and largest system of education and missions evangelical 

Christianity ever hew." 

I 

Cothen, labled a "liberal" in the political punches thram between polarized seztians of 

Southern Baptists, said "I've been mder control af those rascals since 1961 and never a finer 

group of people bas the= h, Biblebelieving people. Wxt if I ' d have had a liberal hone 

in my body, one of those rascals muld have ampkatd it ." 

I 

He told them he has been trying to get a national discussion started on "what is a 

Southern Baptist," but feels "it may very well be when you start trying to &fine Southern 

Baptist, you cease being one. " 

I 

Others actively are trying to impose def initiam m Southern Baptists in the farm of 

creedal statements. Cothen detests such "axinnon gramd" statements because the Bible is the 

only Baptist autbity. He even said he wishes the Baptist Faith and Message statement of 1963 

never had been writtm because people aren't plying attmtion to the prezanble which recognizes 

soul canpetency of the Bliever. 

I 

Cothen, said creedal statements are put farth by people w b want a fixed statement by 

which to measure arthadoxy. "When we begin to measure arthodoxy, we are in a difficult 

situation as Baptists," he said. 

I 

When in 1970, the conmtion "instrmted" agencies to tea and write "according to and 

mt contrary to" the Baptist Faith and Message, "that made the Baptist Faith and Message our 

creed instead of the New Testment" he said. 

I "The Holy Spirit is the only adequate rule of faith and practice, " Cothen said.

Cothen: No Representation 

False Issue 

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The tm elements jousting far convention leadership are mt far apart on Scripture, but 

they differ on managing Baptist business, acccrrding to Cothm. He said he carrot ascribe to 

creedal statements which control because they: pt religious authmity outside Jesus Christ, 

or outside Scripture (what pople say about revelation, rather than the revelation) or outside 

his am priesthood; mean autkxity has hen ass- by those who control those who adopt the 

creed; assume its farmulators kmw what's best for all which make Southern Baptists surrender 

their piesthood. 

"Whm one group of Baptists assumes to hmw what ' s best f m. the rest of Baptists, they 

have ceased to be Baptists," Cothen claimed. He said "There is m way to hem us in with enough 

statements to keep us £ran cmnitting stupidity. 

"When the whole world is leaning toward the right--to authmitarianism, to bossism--this 

is m time to lose sight of who we are and mt acquiesce to people who are m 

call the shots." 

e than willing to 

Instead of mrrw creeds Cothen said South Baptist ccumnomlties are feud in theology, 

polityand method. But Cot- has found he m t discuss issues without being put into a 

camp. "As long as that frame of mind exists plarizaton is inevitable, " he said. 

To people who think that controversies on the SBC level have mthing to do with 

associatiornl meetin* m chur&es, Cothen suggests they wat& associational meetings this 

fall. "'The resolution on men will be a stick with whid.1 they try to beat the associations 

deciding fellmship with dhurhes that arcbin men." 

Cotha? agreed "a mer~tive presmtation of the Christian faith deserves the same fair 

and honest ~esentation as any other psition. A truly Christian miversitydeseming of the 

name will mt do it any other way, " he said, responding to claim inerrantist theology is 

riduculed in the classrcms of Southern Paptist colleges and semimries. 

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Sdnary President Declares 

'Holy War' In SBC Battle 

Awm EACK13- STORY 

Baptist Press 

8/29/84 

LCLTISVILLE, Ky. (BE')-In a strongly mded c4lallenge punctuated by frequent applause, Roy 

L; Wneycutt, paresident of Southern Baptist Theological Sdnary, ~uisville, Ky., has declared 

"holy war" on what he called "unbly fcorces whidh, if left unhecked, will destrq essential 

qualities of both our aonvmtion and this seminary." 

He also revealed far the first time several recent attempts by the inerrantists political 

arganization within the Southern Baptist Convention to draw seminary students into their 

opration as "camps subversives." 

Honeycutt's remarks came during the opening convooation of the s&ml's 125th anniversary 

year as the oldest institution of the nation's largest evangelical denomination. 

"Independent f mdamentalists and many sincere but naive individuals recruited to supprt 

their political party are seeking to hijack the Southern Baptist Convention," Hon-utt said, 

adding, their effarts are "damaging local &ur&es, risking the destruction of our 

demminatioml heritage and ccmpranising our Christian witness to the world." 

Amng tMse histmic Baptist ~inciples being endangered by the fundamentalist movement 

within the mnvention, Honeycutt said, are: 

;-The primacy and autharity of Scripture: "Adherance of the inentantist political prty 

has succlanbed to a radical farm of scientific rationalism. Holy Scripture must low give 

account of itself before the bar of human reason. They mw pmpse fidelity to their 

particular and restrictive theory about biblical migin as a test of both faith and 

f dlcwship. " 

->The priesthood of the believer, freedan of conscience and soul m ptene of the 

individual: "Hostile critics are misinterweting both freedom and lardship by propounding a 

Bill Gothard-style '&ah of camad' which places males second only to God, while relegating 

wcunen and &ildren to the same essential role as families of the patriar&s. 

"If Christ has made us free, then we are free indeed. We are free hefcore God, free in the 

family, free in society, free in the &ur&. We shall never go back to the bondage fran which 

he set us free. " 

--Wadership of the Holy Spirit in mnmtion governance: "Persons in our generation 

seeking unity by autocratic and dictatmial control should remember that individuals canrvst h 

coerced into mdty. History is repleat with hrm stcries of p~litical bosses, demagogues 

and tyrants. Sme people in every age demand a king, saying 'Big Daddy' rather than 'Our 

Father. "' 

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-Pluralism in witness and worship: "An authentic amnunity of faith does more than 

merely tolerate differences-it celebrates their creative presence. Unity does mt mean 

unifcermity because God has established the boundaries of Christian m dty with such breadth 

as to &ace our diversity within the larger unity created by a cosmic Christ. 

" Bib1 ical unity absarbs our di f fermces within a larger -pose discovered in Jesus 

Christ. Shll we harden aonvention lines af relatiorship into an icomclastic exclmiveness 

whi& affirms mly the dona who duplicate a single style of ministry and a momlithic 

biblical and theolqical system?" 

Hmeyt3utt charged the "independent f ~talists," w b he said are in the sixth year of 

their munced ten-year plan to take over the agencies and institutiom o£ the Southern 

Baptist Convention, "are seeking to legalize life by eviscerating f reedan f can the gospel. 

'(They) have mcare in mmon with Jeizers af ancient Galatia than with the apostle set free on 

the Damascus road. 

"If you meet one of these Southern Baptist Judaizers," Honeycutt said, "tell him the of 

us who are free by the grace of God in Jesus Christ shall mt subnit again to slavery's yoke. 

Far us there is rn turning back to a limited legalism, rro turning bck." 

-The audience, aespding twice with standing ovatiam during the address, overflwed the 

semimry' s 1,600 seat Alumni Chapel. Included were many of the 475 new students attmding 

their first convocation at the seminary. 

"I was mt unduly surprised by recent repmts of unscruplous and unethical acts by 

politicians heading the independent fundamentalist prty in the mnvention," Honeycutt said. 

"'Their actions aonfirm that in every generation there a ~e irdividuals dtted to religious 

causes wb walk on the dark side of ethical ooduct ." 

He described the practice of mlisting students to tap lectures by semimry professars 

"as well as addresses such as this aonmcation message fcar the Dallas war-socm with its 

repor td idmmation banks. I understand there may be files on as many as 400 of us cataloged 

there. It muld be a shame to be excluded f ran such a collection1 " 

Honeycutt also revealed that "one of the Texas lea&rs af the inerrantist political. psty 

recently invaded the privacy of the president's &£ice, to say mthing of my personal life." 

Accarding to Honeycutt , the f mdamentalist leader called a student who frequently drives 

the seminary presideat ' s cax to the airport to ask "whether the president may have said 

anything to the student during those trips which might IE of help to the caller and other 

political leaders uE the indepndent fudamep~talist prty," arganid by Paul Pressler of 

Hmton and Paige Patterson of Dallas. 

IAter, Honeycutt said, he learned of a hreaMast meeting in Kansas City, Mo., during the 

Southern Baptist Convention in whid.1 a Dallas leader sought "to enlist several Southern 

Seminary students as campus subversives." 

"Such espiomge is needless, " Honeycutt said. "If the Texas fundamentalists want a tap 

of this address, all they have to do is call IIE, and I'll have the audio-visual department send 

them one. ' This sdmry has mthing to hide, whether at the classroom lecturn m. the hap1 

pulpit," he mntinued. 

"At Southern Seminary, we seek to t ea and to live without repmch. We invite all the 

wald to hear and see aur actio~ 

and our wwds that they may h to whom we belong." 

Honeycutt , an Old- Testasnent s&olar a& former pastor, became the seminary' s eighth 

presidmt in 1%2. 

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Political Coalition 

Recruits SBC Support By David Wilkinson 

A W m BAC:KGRm STORY 

Baptist Press 

8/30/84 

WASHINGIW ( BP)-The president of the Southern Baptist Convention ad his three immediate 

predecessars have joined a political cqign "to help restore traditional, moral and 

spititual values" in America. 

SBC President Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist C~W&, Atlanta, and former 

presidents James. T. Draper Jr. and Adrian Rogers have agreed to serve on the executive hoard of 

the new American Coalition Em Traditioml Values. 

Arvsther fmmer pesidmt , Bailey Smith of Del City, Okla., is a member of ACI'V' s "mrd of 

governors," consisting of pastors £ran 300 majm U.S. cities. 

Organized in April and in full swing since early July, IXJrV claims to be an unbrella 

aganization representing millions cd Christians-"Amrica's larpst mimrity." It has been 

endarsed by arganizations swh as Maral Majarity and by religious media leaders such as Jim 

Bakker, Jerry F&Lwell, Rex Hunbard, James Robison and Jimmy Swaggart. 

'- Though overwhelmingly white and Protestant, the mganization &aim to repesent a brcad 

spe&rUII of "true Christians fran many varying doctrim1 positions." 

A W has identified 10 "basic mncems" by which it plans to measure plitical candidates. 

Headed by a constitutioml amendment pohibiting abortion, the list includes suppart fa a 

public s&ml payer amendmmt, tuition tax credits and a "strong national defense" aru3 

omsition to hanosexual rights, prnograNy and "misguided" we1 f are programs. 

Chaired by conservative authcx- Tim LaHaye, 2CW maintains a central staff in the San Diego 

offices of Waye's Fdly Life Seminars. Tk aoalition also emplv a fivemember staff in 

Washington and seven " field di recta s" in different regions of the amtry. According to Doug 

Shaddix, depty director of the ACIV field office, a Washingtowbased " talmt bnk" also has 

been established "to get Christians into positions of authority in government." 

Unlike Maral Majmity and other political action groups whi& communicate primarily via 

direct mail to individual hous~olds, ETV's basic strategy is to mrk through local 

congregations by soliciting the active support of pastors of "Biblebelieving chur&es." 

ACW furnishes camera-ready infarmation fa &ur& newsletters and bulletins and 

disseminates &&ures and other materials far distribution to &ur& mdrs. 

One of the "mst effective tools, " accarding to one field director, is the mntroversial 

"Presidential Biblical Scwebrd." The 4Gp393 publication wwides voting recards and 

statements uf wesidential, congressioml a d gdxrnatarial cadidates related to "traditioml 

family mcaral issues." 

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Seeks SBC S u ~ t 

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ACFV also encourages ea& &ur& to establish a "Good Government Cdttee" to help 

channel infmmation and to mganize rioter registration drives and "get out the mte" campaigns. 

The cmlition hopes to register mcrre than tm million new voters befcare the November 

elections, claiming that "if libzrals regain mntrol of the White House and Senate, a liberal 

socialist state will follow within a few years." 

Utilizing canbind mailing lists furnished by Falwell, Swaggart , Kenneth Copeland and 

others, XPV has contacted pastors aE nmre than 100,000 churhes. Its field directors are 

busily "follwing up" on sane 18,000 pastars who pledged to mduct voter registration drives. 

ACTV adminstratw Curtis Maynard, a former Southern Baptist mstor , claimed the mlition 

already has attracted "my mainstream Southern Baptists ." A mplete list of the "board of 

governors" is rot yet available, he said, but it includes a "a lot of Southern EBptist men." 

One of the most ~aninent of those, SBC President Stanley, was in Israel this week and 

unavailable fccr ccmment. But Draper, who turned over the SBC president's gdvel to Stanley in 

June, said he agreed to serve on ACI'V' s executive board "because it ' s the only avenue I have to 

say sane things I believe in." 

"Southern Baptists," he said, "do rot give me this kind of oppxtunitp-I wish they did- 

to take a star13 on issues I feel strongly about like s&ml prayer, religious liberty, 

parrrogramy and hcunosexuali ty. 'I 

Draper recently carried his role as an AClV emcutive mmni ttee member to a hearing of the 

platfccrm camittee of the RepubLican party. He spoke briefly on behalf of the carganization and 

introduced EIV spokesmen Falwell, Swaggart and Robison, who ~esented testimonies. 

Despite his entlmsiam £oar the coalition, Draper said he wodd "have to weigh carefully" 

the decision to join ACrV if he were still SBC wesident. "I muld have been mcare relmtant 

then, I'm sure," he explained. 

Tb Texas pastor also qualified sane of the claim made in ACW literature. The oft=- 

repeated claim to "represent 45 million Christians" is "gmd rhetoric," he said, "but I don't 

kmw how accurate that really is. I do think I@rV does repesat a lot of people. " 

Although ACTV literature speaks of addressing lplitical issues with a "unifmm mcaral 

voice," Draper admits a "diversity of opinion" is inevitable, even among Christians. 

Even ACFV's executive amnittee, he said, des mt have "absolute unanimity on the 

specifics" of all 10 concerns. "I'm mt positive myself on all ten, especially tuition tax 

credits , " he added. "Maybe I ' m against it just because I ' ve heard so many times I ' m supposed 

to be against it. Rut there are others m the board who feel very strongly about it ." 

Despite such qualifications, Draper believes "general unanimity" on conaems such as 

abortion ad prmgraphy is "a p d pssibilitpif you don' t beme legalistic almut it as 

sane other coalitions have done." 

AW's Maynard agreed there is "some room far difference," though "I find it hard to 

believe saneone w b muld mte far all 10 concerns muld mt b a better candidate than saneone 

who strmk out on all of them." 

He specifically defended EW1s strong stand on amtion. "Our position is very hardline, 

you might say. Same people talk about exceptions like rap. Well, ow psition is once you 

opn the dux to destroy life, whatever the reason, you open a real quagnire to defmd other 

situations. Who are we to take life away?" 

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SBC Executive C dttee Delays 

Decisiorl To Join Vatican Suit By Stan Hastey 

AWANCE BACKGROUND STOSiY 

Basist Press 

9/20/84 

WASmGIW (BP)-Despite a strcngly mded resolution adopted by the Southern Baptist 

Convention in Kansas City, Mo., ad a separate motion urging legal action, the SBC ~xecukive 

Carani ttee has mted to delay joining a lawsuit mallenging U .S. diplamtic relations with the 

Vatican. 

In a routine action takm Sept. 18, the Ekecutive C d t t e e accepted without debate a 

remmmdation fran its administrative and convmtion arrangements sukadttee that a decision 

on joining a lawsuit filed Sept . 19 by Americans United far Separation of Chur& ad State ad 

other religious groups be deferred until the February ESrecutive C dttee meeting. 

Although plaintiffs in lawsuits are tnder rn obligation to join at the time of filing, the 

f iwmnth delay bet- Executive C d ttee meetings muld mean the aase will have been argued 

in the U.S. District Court fcz Eastern Pennsylvania befcre the Executive Camittee acts. 

- The recanmendation to take no action at vesent came to the aMnistrative subcormnittee 

f ran the bylaws wrkgroup. -ding to observers pesent at the workgroup meeting, 

discussion over deferring action in the matter centered on avoiding the appear- of opposing 

Presidat Reagan duringhis reelection campign. 

Manbers of the workgroup are J&n ~ullivan, pstor of Bradmom Ehptist Chur&, 

Shrevepw t , LA. ; Carrel1 Robinson, pstor of Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobi let Ala. ; Frank 

Lady, an attorney f ran Jonesbwo, Ark; IBvid C . Maddox, a layman f ran Fullerton, Calif. : Paul 

Pressler, an appeals murt judq frm Houston, and JdW T. Tippett Jr., a retired pasta fran 

Savarndh, Ga. Ex-afficio members a€ the wurkgroup are Frank Ingraham, a ~ashville, Tenn., 

attorney w& is chairman of the administrative ard convention arrangements subrormni ttee, and W. 

Dewey Presley, &airman of the Executive C dttee. 

Southern Baptist participation in the suit against President Reagan, Secretary of State 

Gearge P. Shltz, Secretary of the Treasury Dorald T. Regan and U .S. ambssadar to the Vatican 

William A. WiLson bd been sowght by hricans United because the SEE, the nation' s largest 

mn-Catlmlic dmomimtion, is seen as imprtant to the suit' s success. 

The Kansas City motion requested the ESrecukive Camnittee "to see that this Corntion's 

position against a U.S. Ambassadm lm the Holy See. . .canes praperly befcsre any court 

adjudicating a lawsuit challenging the mnstitutiorality thereof, in whatever manner legal 

counsel recommends most effective to serve Southern Baptists' interest, it being understood 

that the Executive Camittee may m k in concert with other interested parties." 

In addition, messengers to the Kansas City conmtion adopted a resolution protesting 

U.S.-Vatican relatiom an3 pledging "suppwt of action3 whi& &allen* diplanatic relations 

I*l th the Holy See. " 

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Decision To Join Vatican Suit 

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idw western Paptist Theological Seminary &ur& histary ~afesscar G. m h Wamble, aut- of 

both the motion and the resolution, told Baptist Press he was "dissappinted that the Executive 

C d ttee decided to do nothing about opposing the embassy in the Vatican in the only farm now 

open to us, the federal judiciary. " 

-le, a former pesident of the Missouri Baptist Corntion and lorptime advocate of 

strict sepxation of &ur& and state, also said, "I can mnceive of only one Msis on whidl 

anpne could object to Southern Baptist prticiption in the suit ad that is that the suit 

names mmld W. Reagan, president af the United States of America, as prtyplaintif f . " 

Noting that under the Constitution, the president "has autbity to mrdwt foreign 

plicy," Wamble declared: "I canrot conceive of filing any suit that muld rnt m e the 

president as a partyplaintiff, regardless of w b he is. 

"Romld Reagan is the me who initiated the embassy to the Holy See. He mminated the 

ambassadm. I can mnceive that sane Southern kptists muld have a partisan political 

interest in avoiding naming President Reagan in a suit. Hcwever, I hop that Southern Baptists 

are mwilling to sacrifice our ~inciples respecting the First Ama?dment on any political 

altars, regardless of whose altars these may be. " 

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Criswell Saw Seminary 

hcesident Should Resign By Jim Jones 

AWAKE WKRCJJND STORY 

Baptist Press 

10/10/84 

DALLAS (Ell?)-W.A. Criswell, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, says a Southern 

Ba@ist sdmry pesident should resign if he wants to mntinue criticizing the denomination's 

f udammtalist faction. 

Cxiswell said he believes Ray L; Eionwt , president of Southern Baptist- Theolqical 

Seminary in Lbuisville, Ky., shouldn't criticize the people wlm py his salary. 

"I haw only one objection to it (the criticism)," Criswell said. "He depends upon (the 

denomination) to p~y his salary." 

"If he is going to castigate us, I think he should resign, get him amther job, and he can 

say anything about us he wants to," Criswell said. 

"But don't depend upon LW far his salary." 

Criswell made the amnmt in a wide-ranging interview prim to his 40th anniversary as 

pasta of the Dallas a&, celebrated Oct. 7. 

Meyt3utt rankled many fut-damentalists in his conmcation address last month at the 

Louisville seminary because he criticized what he called an "independent fundmentalist 

political party" in the denomination. 

One of the mjar leaders uf the inerrancy movement is Paige Patterson, Criswell's 

associate pastor and the president of the Criswell Center far Biblical Studies in Dallas. 

Honeycutt said in a telephone interview his remarks have been misinterpeted as 

criticizing the existence of "furdamentalism" itself in the ddnation. 

He said he only attacked the fundamentalist political faction, whi& he believes is trying 

to slibvert the traditional Baptist diversity of theological beliefs. "I apeciate Dr. 

Criswell, and he is a part of the diversity of our oonvention," Honqcwtt said. 

Wneycutt said the 125-~ar-old seminary, the oldest in the denomination, has had a 

tradition of presidents wkao addressed denomination issues, and he felt it is his responsibility 

to mmmt about what he sees as an attempt by a fundammtalist political rmchine to dkminate 

the aonmtion. "I ' m oonoerned about f reedan," Honeycutt said. "There is roan for 

fundamentalists in the convention. I'm fan: being inclusive, not aclusive." 

Honeycutt disagrees with the position that a person paid by the Southern Baptist Corntion 

should not spak out on issues. "That simply dercuts the whole prophetic emesis of 

the Old Testment and the witness ab the Ner~ Testament &ut bearing witness , " he said. 

Ebneycutt said the me of his statement about "holy war" has bm over mphasized and that 

he was simply using a biblical analogy." 

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(Jones is religion editor of the Fat Worth Star-Telegram. )

Board Rejezts Silencing 

Of Seminary President By Jim Jones 

AWANCE BACKGRUJND STOW 

Baeist Press 

10/18/84 

FCRT WRTH, Texas (BP)-Trustees cd Southestern hptist Theological Sdnary in Fcxt 

Warth, Texas, have tabled a motion which muld have instrmted seminary President Russell 

Dilday Jr. to stay out of derw,mimtioml politics. 

-Taliling of the motion was sem by semimy leaders as a mte of aonfidence far Dilday, 

even those who adamantly e sed Dilday' s involvement in denomirntiolzll controversy praisd his 

leadership at the s d m y and said they wuld continlr; to bck him on other sdnary matters. 

An unnamed trustee said about seven of the 30 trustees favored the motion. 

- The motion came in the second of tm rare executive sessiom in whi& the mntrwersy of 

Dilday's paninat role in what has bm called a Baptist holy war, was sharply debated bet- 

the f udamentalists and s-called moderates among the trustees. . The debate apprgltly occurred 

in a closed door session whid.1 toak up most af the Oct. 16 a ftemn trustee meeting. 

The trustees repartdly agreed rot to discuss the closed meeting with repters. 

In the session, Dilday repeated charges whid.1 he has ma& in speeches and in writing; 

namely that fmdamentalist farces are attempting to dcminate the denamination ad are a threat 

to the Baptist semimries and collecps. 

After Dilday's amnents, a trustee win asked mt to b named told the Fart Wmth Star- 

- Telegram, James7T. Draper Jr., new sdmry trustee wbn is imediate past presidmt of the SBC, 

told f ellaw trustees he was deeply hurt by Dilday' s accusatiom . Draper was sem as the 

candidate of the fundamentalist faction when he won the presidency. He said he tried to k 

fair to all during his two years as presidmt. 

Drapr said in an interview he is concerned dbout Dilday's role. "I think he's (~ilchy) 

gotten into an area of coqtrmrsy and polariation that we don't ned. I'm mt critical of 

his murage m right to speak out," said Draper, pastor of First Baptist, Euless; Texas, "I 

just regret the inclusion o£ his mice to be a polarizing factm.. . ." 

Dilday muld mt give any details about the exchanges whi& took place during the tm 

executive sessions whi& came during the regular open meetings a€ the trustees, but he 

ackmwledged there were differenms stated in both closed etings: "We had a very opn and 

clear expession of concern." 

Dilday, along with other Southern Baptist semimy and agency heads, have been attacking 

what they claim is an attempt by fundamentalists to take over the Southern ~aptist Convention. 

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Board Rejects Silencing 

Of Seminary President 

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ming the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Mo, last June, ~ilday, in a 

convention sermon, attacked the fundamentalists, calling them proud brokers cd per. mter 

Ray L. Jiloneycutt, pesident of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in ~auisville, Ky. , 

stirred emotions when he called for holy war against the fundamntalist plitical faction in 

the SBC. 

" The last six years fundamentalist leaders have successfully sought to elect their awn 

candidates to the SBC presidency. - The latest, Charles F. Stanley, pastor of First Baptist 

Churd.1, Atlanta, was installed as wesident during the Kansas City meeting. 

Dilday said one p rpe of the, Tuesday trustee meeting was to express concern the seminary 

is one of the "targets" of f milamentalist leaders af tes they cited a trend toward li&ralism 

in certain SBC-connectd colleges and seminaries. 

He said most trustees agree, "The seminary is right in the middle of this and the 

fmdamantalist movement is indeed aimed at the edmatioml institutions including the 

seminaries. Ard that's where our conem is." 

Sane semimy leaders fear a fundamentalist daninated convention might exact re~isals 

against professars viewed as too liberal and/= cut s&ml funding to a school viewed as having 

strayed too far £ran the mnser~tive Baptist viewpoint. 

Ralm Pulley, a Dallas layman on the seminary board, made the motion to instrllct Dilday to 

stay out of denominatioml politics, a trustee said. Pulley is one of three sdnary trustees 

who are members a€ the First Baptist Chur&, Dallas, where W.A. Criswell is past=. Criswell 

is seen by many as being the behid the scares oentral figure of the f-entalist movement. 

One of Criswell's associates at First Baptist, Paige Patterson, w b is also ~esident o£ the 

Criswell Center for Biblical Studies, spearheaded the fmdamentalist movement in the SBC. 

hther trustee, Jcrhn May, a Ft. Wffth music evdngelist, says he is a fundamentalist but 

mt aligned with any group. He has a great adniration fm Dilday but doesn't like his role in 

the Baptist controversy. "I don't feel like a person receiving a salary like Dilday's £ran the 

dmomination should chose sides," he said. 

Afterwards, even tbse who opposed Dilday' s involvepnmt in the mntrwrsy paisd his 

leadership at the saninary and said they would aontinue to bck him in semimry matters. McKay 

said, "Wz agreed to disagree. I love Dr. Dilday and I think he has done a marvelous job. I 

hate to see him drag the seminary into this fight. I don't think the seminary w ill get 

anything out of this exce* a blcdy mse. " 

Draper said he agreed Dilday had sane responsibility to speak as a seminary leader ht he 

would like Dilday's statements to h less divisive. "I'd like him to speak out and invite all 

the people to acme to the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas next y~ar instead of saying 

'these are the bad guys and let's get rid of them.'" 

-' The trustees also anmunaed a fiveyear program to raise $25 million has gone over the top 

and adopted a new UparS90 progsam goal OE raising amther $50 million f a the seminary by 

1990. 

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(Jim Janes is religion editor far the Fcrt Warth Star;-Telegram.)

Southeastern Fxulty 

S~pparts President 

Awm W~RCuND STORY 

Baptist Press 

10/25/84 

WAKE FOREST, N.C. (~p)-The faculty of Southeastern Baptist' Theolcqical Sdlaary, Wake 

Forest, N.C., unanimously adopted a resolution of suppwt far President W. Randall Lblley and 

renew& their oommitnaent to "fulfill our calling." 

- The resolution, amed at the regular monthly meeting of the 3amember faculty, cited 

Lolley far "poviding significant leadership fa this semimy and thrcughout the Southern 

Baptist Convention in a time a£ grave &allenges to our ewgelistic, missimry and 

educatioral wxk. . . " 

Lblley's ammitment a£ time, talent ad energy was sem as "a source of enaouragement arrd 

inspiration" to the members of the tea&ing staff, aclccarding to the resolution. 

He was further lauded fca: his affirmation of "the ministries of women in the tasks to 

which God has called them m yet shall call them,. ." ard fca: his m k "to open the doms cb 

opxtunity far ministry to all persolls who are thus called.. ." 

-The resolution expressed "gratitude far and our hearty s uFt of President mley." 

Lolley, wb was not pesent far the discussion and adoeian of the resolution, celehated 

on A q . 1 ten years as president c& the Smthern Bptist Coxlwntion seminary. 

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Southeastern Students 

Supxt Faculty, Wnistration 

AWArEE~RcmoSMSiY 

Baptist Press 

11 /2 7/84 

WAKE -T, N.C. (BP)-FO~ hundred and sixty sthts at Southeastern Baptist 

- Theological Sdmsy in Wake Farest, N.C . , have signed "A Statement of Apreciation" in support 

of the "faculty and adninistration of the semimy fm their unwavering stand far acadmic 

freedom in Christ and their abiding respct f ar the priesthood of e&h believer. " 

Laun&d by the ethics ccnrmi ttee of the student council, the signatures were oollected 

over a period of tm weeks ad were Fesented by the faculty at their monthly meeting. Neal 

Jones, seoond-par student f ran Smi thf ield, N.C., and &airman of the mmmi ttee, said the 

statement was drafted "to let the faculty and awnistration lcnow tlmt we cherish the 

sdnary' s tradition of standing strong far acadmic freedom.. . . " 

In addition to expressing s uwt fcr the faculty a d adninistration, the statement also 

expressed thanks to the sdmry's trustee& far "their suppwt in the bringing of Gc&called, 

academically canpetent men and wanen to the faculty and adtninistration." 

Southeastern seminary, one of six seininaries aperated by the Southern Baptist Conv~ntion, 

was founded in 1950, and hs an mrdllmmt of 1,246. 

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Seminary Tnstees Affirm 

President ' s Leackrship Role 

A W A N C E ~ S T O R Y 

Baptist Press 

1012 5/84 

L€XJISVILU, Ky. (BP)-The executive crmmittee of Southern Baptist Theological Sdnary' s 

board of trustees has affirmed the right and responsibility of seminary President Roy TRe 

Honeycutt to take an active lea&rship role in the Southern Baptist Cormtion. 

In a strmgly mded resolution, trustees expressed sumt fcx Honeycutt's "current 

leadership role in the den~mi~tion as an ap~~qiate part of his responsibility as president." 

Trmtees also irdicated agreement with Honeyxtt ' s "assessment and respnse to the 

political issues addressed in his 1%4 convacation address and in "The Tie", the official 

seminary mication. 

In the mn-tion address in late August, Hon-utt declared "holy war" on what he dled 

"un-ly farces whid.1, if left un&eeked, will destroy essential. qualities of bth our 

convention and this seminary." 

Hmeycutt also &allenged the semimy camuni ty and all Southern Baptists to fulfill 

their Christian a d denomimtioml duty to preserve the Baptist heritage of priesthood of the 

believer, soul ccpnpetency and f reedm of mmcience in Christ. 

Honeymtt's plea to "maintain the mity and the diversity of the Southern Baptist 

Conmtion ad to cmrduct ourselves at all times with bmr and persoml integrity" also were 

reaffirmed by the resolution. 

- a resolution points to the histmic involvement of sdnary presidents in anfronting 

denominatioml crises. - l'he role of Southern Sdmry President E.Y. Mullins in leading 

Southern Baptists thrwh the denomimtioml controversy of the 19209 specifically was cited. 

"Slx!cessive presidents uE the seminary have mnfrcnted critical and, at times, 

controversial. natioml and dmominational issues mt only on the basis of prsonal Christian 

canscienm but as a direct and appropriate respmibility of the presidmt of the Southern 

Ba@ist7 Theo1qical Sdmry, I' the resolution says. 

' The trustees said the seminary pesident must have "se freedm as &aracterizes the 

pro@mtic and apostolic witness to the Gaspel and its implicatiolls fm idividual believers and 

fcx our carporate life as Southern Bptists." 

In pledging suppwt of Honeycutt, the trmtees called on Southern Baptists "to reaffirm 

our historic Baptists emmses," to return to an open Southern Baptist Comtion, and 

rea£firmed "the Southern Baptist Corntion's action in 1979 at Howton, by whi* the 

conwntion adopted a motion rejecting omrt political activity as a convention pocess." 

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Mocae Says Stanley 

Sbuld Be Replaced 

AW?Kz WIGROUND STCWY 

Baptist Press 

11/1/84 

DAIUS (BP)-Winfred w e , presidmt of the 2.3 millior~mmbr Baptist General Conmtion 

of' Texas, does mt believe Southern Baptist Comtion President Charles Stanley should he 

reelected whm the SBC meets in Dallas in Jme of 1985. 

me, speaking during a news mnfereslae imnediately follawinghis unanimous reelection as 

BGX president, said Stanley has been too involved in the dmomimtioml controversy bet^ 

f mdamentalists ad conservatives to be a unifying factcr . 

Also, Stanley has skvcrwn a lack of suppwt far Southern Ehptist cawes, m e 

said. 

Mocar-who has been speculated to be the didate to oppose Stanley in 158%-also said he 

did mt consider himself a good candidate fm SBC ~esidmt because he, too, has been 

politicized in the media. 

Hawever, Mmre said a candidate must be found to restore harmory to the denomination. "If 

we're ever going to unify the aonmtion, we're going to have to £id sanebody," he said. "It 

is my hope and prayer that we muld f id a person w b would unify the mnmtion. " 

Although Mmre would mt specify a certain percentage, he did say the contrilxlCion to the 

Cooperati- Program by the cardidate' s &ur& should be a determining f actar in the election. 

Stanley often has been criticized far the law percentage his &ur& gives to the Cooperative 

Program, the mified giving plah whid.1 supports SBC agencies and institutions. 

Mmre said he did not consider himelf a candiate UE any plitical faction last year, rw>x 

does he mider his reelection this year to b a statement far either conservatives cr 

fundamentalists. 

"I would be mncemd if anybody controlled the thinking of Southern Baptists," he said. 

"I didn't consider -elf a cardidate uf anybody last year, m this year." 

m e expressed conmm about the cdll by furdamentalist leaders for the resignation of 

several professms at Baylcg University in recent months. "I really feel that they need to get 

to know the pxofe~isars," Pbme said. "The ones I h, I have m question a-ut their ability, 

or their belief in the Bible." 

One of the professars in question is a Wmon wlm tea&es in the Spanish department, and 

the other is a religion prafessa: who has said he does mt feel that evolution is necessarily 

inamptible with the creation theary. 

J!bre supparted Baylar Presidmt Herbert H. Reymlds f car the manner in whi& the 

university has backed the professars. "I think he's absolutely right in the way he has hadled 

that prticular situation, " m e said. 

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m e Says Stanley 

Sould Be Reflaced 

- The Southern Baptist laity will mt all= Texas Baptist a: Southern Baptist institutions 

to be thzeatmd or aontrdlled by one particular t-logical faction, Mcme ~edicted. "The 

lay people-the grass roots-I don't think they're ewr going to allw that to Imppen." 

Moare said he feels the current denomimtiaral mntroversy has remained alive simply 

because of a "lack of canmunication" among factioral leaders. In his discussiolls this past 

year with the ~sious leaders frcm both sides a€ the issue, Moare saidhe has dismwred tMt 

"we are pretty much theologically to~ther . " 

He adnitted he participated in sane dceed-dom meetings with leaders a€ both factions, 

but said he has made a axmitment to decline merit until additional meting5 are held. 

He said the meetings are being held to "try to wark out the dif f emaes. " 

On the antroversial issue on the crdination of warn- in Southern Baptist &ur&es, m e 

said he feels the matter must be left to the lo& church. His am dux&-First Baptist 

C1.atrd.1, Amarille-has mt mhind wanen, and Moore said he doubts the matter will cane up. 

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SoutktJestern Faculty 

%ppx ts Dilday ' s Act iom By J im Jones 

A W z m c E ~ S T O R Y 

Baptist Press 

11/27/84 

FORT PDKI'H, Texas (BP)-Faculty members at Sarthestern Baptist Theolqical Seminary in 

Fcrt Worth, Texas, have gim s&ml President Rtrssell H. Dilday Jr. a mte a€ d iden- as he 

canes under criticism far speaking out about the division -tween Baptist fundamentalist and 

mderate factions. 

In a special called session of the faculty N w , 13 while Dilday was in Kansas City, Mo., 

amoximately 90 of the 105 faculty makers ap& a resolution stating Dilday had a right 

a duty to speak out mthe current controwrsy. No aunt was takm of the stamling vote 

but m one stood in opition. 

Scott- Tatm, pufessca: of ~ea&ing and a senim facuty manber, ~esided at the 

special session, said Jdm Newprt, powst a& vice-president Em acadwic affairs at the 

semimy. Newport said he didnl t lovcrw whether faculty rn-rs h miat disagree with Dilday' s 

st& stayed away fran the meeting, but "I'm sure that sane don't agree with everything he 

says, but I think they agree on his right to speak out." 

Apparently all of the faculty members wfio were in town attended the special meeting, 

Newprt said. About 15 faculty menbers spoke at the meeting and also tacked Dilday' s right to 

speak out in the controversy. 

Dilday and leaders ob Scuthern Baptist seminaries, roll-s and other institutiom have 

been saying the SBC is in danger of being taken over by a fundamentalist political faction. 

Critics of the fundamentalists say the mnservative wing is trying to fare Baptists into 

a mold, shattering the demmimtion' s unity and its traditional way of f imcing its &ur& 

activities. 

E'mdamentalist leaders, including w.A. Criswell, pstor of First Baptist Chur* of Dallas, 

have said Baptist leaders *id by the demmimtion should stop taking sides in the 

f mdammtalist-&erate dehte. Criswell and others argue the heads ah seminaries and other 

institutions wkro are speaking against the fundamentalist faction are attacking a part uf the 

constituency whi& pp their salaries. 

- The three-pint resolution a=& by the seminary facaty, whi& is oonsidered among the 

most conservative of the faculties a£ the six Baptist seminaries, also reaffirmed the faculty's 

belief in the Ba@ist Faith and Message, a doctrinal statmat follcavd by Southern Baptists. 

" The first pint was the affirmation of Dilday. 

"As loyal Southern Baptists we value our &nomination and supt its wcnrldwide witness in 

mission, evangelism and Christian education, " the resolution began. "We want the great body of 

Southern Baptist ptms arrd people to Wow where we stand during the current crisis." 

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Soutlwestern Faculty 

mpprts Dilday' s Action 

Pap 2 

- The resolution states: "We reaff inn our pesident, Russell H. Dilhy Jr. Presidmt 

Dildzsy has spoken out an the issues facing the Southern Baptist Comtion am3 we feel he has 

both the ricjht ard responsibility as a denominational leader to make his voice heard. 

"We feel our pesidmt has pintd out real and serious danprs which threaten this 

seminary, as well as the entire work of the Southern Baptist Convention. We share his comrn 

and suppart his muragsous stand." 

-The s d and third pints were affirmation of the Baptist Faith ad Message and of 

loyalty to the Southern Paptist Convention. 

Dilday pbliely entered the debate last June at the Southern Baptist Comtion meeting in 

Kansas City when he said a fmdamentalist plitical machine was sht-circuiting the d-atic 

process o£ the denomimtion. 

Of the Paptist Faith and Masage, the faculty mted: "This conservative, biblical 

statmml expresses the heart of the historic Baptist faith. All o£ w wb tea& at 

Southwestern seminary sign tbt statement and tea& within its doctrim1 framemxk." 

- The faculty also stressed layalty to the SBC am3 the Cooperati= Program, the mnmtion's 

voluntary, unif id bud~t plan, as a vital prt of the seminary' s heritaq. "LWe R. 

ScarZxrsough, president of Smtbestern seminary f ran 1915 to 1942, led the campign whid.1 

famed the Cooperati= Program," the resolution said. Scarlmrough also muntered effcsts by 

fmdamentalists to Llrdo the SBC's "coopratiw witness ad work," the faculty added. 

- The dosing paragram of the statement said: "Fm mare thm 75 years the presidents, 

faculty and trustees oh this seminary have stood in the £carefroart of Baptist cmpratian in a 

united effarrt ta share the gospel. We &l all Southern Baptists to join LS in preserving this 

mble heritage . " 

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(Jim Jones is xeligim editor £car the Fart Worth StaF-Telegram. )

Ikptist Joint Camnittee 

Joins Vatican Challenge By Stan Haatey 

AWANCE I3AcKGRcuND STORY 

Baptist Press 

1/8/85 

WASHI- (Ell?)-Insisting President Reagan is bound by the First Amndmnt's b3n on an 

establishment of religion, the Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs has asked a federal 

district court to strike dam as uncmstitutioml Reagan's appointment last year of an 

ambassador to the Vatican. 

' TIE washington-dased agency, representing the chur&-state interests of eight U . S. Baptist 

mi*-including the Southern Baptist Conventio~suhnitted its views Jan. 7 in a case brought 

by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more than 15 religious Indies and 

numerous individuals challenging diplanatic relations between the U.S. and the Holy See. 

In a dramatic reversal o£ policy, the White House and the Holy See jointly announced in 

January 1984 they were immediately establishing full diplanatic relations. 

Although several recent U.S. presidents, including Reagan, have statioraed personal 

repsentatlives at the Vatican, the move followed congressioml reversal of an 1867 ban against 

formal diplanatic ceqition. 

-That ban follmed a 6&year priod at the beginning of U.S. history of full diplcmatic 

relations, a period whim ended in 1848 when the papal states ceased to exist and the Vatican 

became a lO&acre enclave in the heart of Rcme. 

&cause the new arrangement required formal reversal of the 1867 ban, the White House 

called on longtime advocate of renewed u.S.-Vatican ties, Sen. Ridhard G. LUgar, %Id., to 

lead the way. Liqar managed to secure Senate reversal on a mice vote with m debate. 

Reagan subsequently sent the name of his prsoml repesentative, longtime political ally 

William A. Wilson, to the Senate for approval as the new amhassador to the Vatican. Ard 

although opponents a€ the new arrangement were able to voice their alarm during a oneday 

confirmation hearing, the Senate quickly confirmed Wilson's mination last March, 81-13. 

Baptist Joint Carani ttee Gwleral Counsel John W. Baker, in a f riend-of-themurt brief to 

the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, declared "the President's power to 

appoint ambassadors is limited by the establiskaent clause." 

Baker cited the 1947 Supreme Court decision in Everson v. Ehrd of Education, a ruling 

which held the establishment clause "means at least this: Neither a state mr the Federal 

Government can... pass laws whi& aid one religion, aid all religions car pefer one religion 

over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious 

activities cr institutions, whatewr they may be called, or whatever form Ehey may adopt to 

teach or pactice religion." 

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Baptist Joint Camnittee 

Joins Vatican Challenge 

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By reestablishing diplanatic relations with the Vatican, Baker continued, Reagan violated 

all three parts af another high court test-first enunciated in 1971-that governmental actions 

must reflect a secular purpose, must have the primary effect of neither advancing nor 

inhibiting religion, and must mt excessively entangle government with religion. 

On the last pint-excessive entanglement-Baker argued further the decision to establish 

formal diplanatic relations with the Holy See already has resulted in "divisiveness along 

sectarian lines. . .bth widespread and deep. " 

Besides the establishmmt clause arguments, the Baptist Joint Camnittee brief directly 

attacked the govexnment's assertion in the case that those bringing suit do mt have'proper 

standing to do so because of presidential prerqatives in setting American foreign policy. 

Wlt Baker, achledging that Article I1 of the Constitution vests in the President the 

pcrwer to appoint and receive ambassadors, insisted nevertheless, "The President must exercise 

his pers ... within the strictures" of the First Amenht. 

Both sides in the dispute appear to agree a key determination to be made by the murts is 

the question of whether the Vatican is essentially a sovereiq natiowstate or a religious 

body. Baker's statement to the district court takes issue with the government's position that 

renewed relations are the of one sovereign state with another. 

- To make his point, Baker cited an address last year by Ar&bishop Pio IAghi, Apstolic Pre 

Nuncie-or ambassdor-to the U.S., in whi& Mghi declared, "It is ... the Pope's religious 

authority whi& confers upon him the classical right of legation, a diplanatic standing in the 

world." Laghi added: "Those who interpret Papal Diplanacy as emanating £ran the Pope's 

temporal sovereignty are failing to understand the true nature of the mission of the Holy See." 

In its concluding section, the Baptist Joint Cdttee brief argued the new diplunatic 

relationship "seriously jeopardizes the missiomry programs" of U.S.-based chur&es. 

"Because of anti-American, anti-religious and anti-democratic sentiments in many of the 

developing countries," Baker wrote, "missiomries and other persons representing religious 

institutions could actually becwne symbols of American govermental interest." Such mingling of 

religious and natioml purpses ptmtially brought on by diplanatic relations with the Vatican 

"offers an occasion for misunderstanding, invites cham and confusion, and places a burdensme 

albatross upon every American who represents religion overseas," Baker aoncluded. 

Concern over foreign mission wcxk in part moti~ted messengers to last year's Southern 

Baptist Convention to adopt a stronglywmded resolution protesting U.S.-Vatican relations and 

a separate mtion requesting the denomination's ESEecutive Caranittee to join any legal action 

challenging the new arrangement. 

But that M y last Septerribex declined to join the Americans United suit after same members 

reprtedly expressed concern the action might be interweted as an effort to emhrrass 

President Reagan duringhis bid for reelection. -The matter may resurface at next month's 

Executive Canmittee meeting in Nashville,- Tm. 

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AWAKE BP6:ICT:RcmD STORY

Conservatives Have No Plans 

To B e 

Vote: Pressler 

Page 2 

At the same time, conservatives have been criticized for their coordinated effmts to 

control convention election3 and resolutions, all the time denying they have any arganization 

beyond "friends talking to friends" and "Christmas card mailing lists." 

When asked if the Jan. 11 lunchan might be just such an organi~tioml meeting, Pressler 

denied the tm-hour lunckeon was anything mare than a friendly, informative get-together. 

Pressler said he would do the same far any group of Baptists. He especially covets 

invitations to speak on the cmpses of Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries where he feels 

especially maligned. 

He needs to speak on campuses, the target af most of his criticisms, because his side is 

mt presented in Baptist media, he feels. 

'The meeting Jan. 11 and others like it are by invitation only, with no media invited, 

because "I want to be able to speak with my friends in candar, " Pressler said. "We are 

misconstrued by those trying to attack us." --3s-

Hunger Giving Up 

Far Seventm Years 

ADVANCE BAcrGRouND s m 

Baptist Press 

1/23/85 

NASHVIILE,'. Tan. (BP)-southern Baptists in 1984 contributed $7,166,772 to their 

denomi mtion' s wogram of wcrrldwide hunger -relief, shattering the 1983 remd by mare than a 

mi llion dollars. 

It marked the seventh consecutive year gifts to hunger funds administered by the Southern 

E!a#ist Fmeign and Hcme Mission Boards surpsed the previous year's total. 

In 1983 total mrld hunger gifts were $5,996,000. 

-The Fcreign Mission Board reported receipts of $6,548,901 fa 1984, while the Hae Mission 

Board received $617,811 fonr dcmestic hunger, 

- TIE figures do mt reflect monies given fa hunger whi& were utilid in local &ur&es, 

associations and state mnvexltions. 

The hunger contributions repesent an overall increase of $1,170,772 or 19.5 percmt above 

the previous recwd set in 1983. FMB gifts increased $1,142,865 or 21 percent; HI43 giving was 

up $27,196 or five percent. 

m d giving during Novmbr and December, the months follawing the denomination's 

observance af Warld Hunger Day in October, pushed hunger funds at both mission bards byod 

the 1983 totals. 

At the Fmeign Mission Board, receipts fur Decedmr alone surpassed $2.4 million. FMB 

officials also attributed part of the dramatic increase to extensive news average of the 

Ethiopian hunger crisis by the national news media. 

At the Hcme Missim Board, part of the increase in danestic hun~r gifts resulted when a 

few Ehptist state aonventions during the year implmmted the 80/20 division of undesignated 

hunger gifts suggested by the Southern Baptist Corntion (80 percent to overseas hunger relief 

an2 20 permt to dmestic hunger relief). Other state mnvmtions have voted to move to the 

80/20 plan in 1W5. 

"These statistics speak eloquently concerning our Southern Baptist canpassion fm the 

hungry," said Foy Valentine, executive director of the Christian Life Carmission, which 

coordinates awareness and action on hunger issues fnr the Southern Baptist Convention. 

- The siqif icant increase in giving, he added, "repesents authaztic sacrifice on the part 

of my. I way our response to this grave moral issue will continue to increase responsibly 

so as to lmmr Christ mare worthily." 

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Planned GrWh In Giving 

Key To Bold Mission Success By Terry Barone 

AWANCE BACKGRCUND STORY 

Baptist Press 

1/29/85 

D m , Texas (BP)-Planned Grcwth In Giving was wesented as the key to the success uf 

Bold Missiori Thrust during a mi&-January natioml seminar in Denton; Texas. 

Planned Grmh In Giving is a 15-par plan to challenge Southern Baptists to increase 

their level of giving to their local &ur& and through their &ur& to mission causes 

4 throughout the world. 

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b Cecil Ray, natioml director of Planned Gravth In Giving said the purpose of these 

meetings is to equip chosen leership in states to beme trainers and leaders far about 475 

state seminars which will be attmded by pastors and congregatiml representatives. 

Ray said the state semimrs will key upon the "Church Eventtt--a part af the Planned Grwth 

In Giving emmsis when &ur& menbrs are introduced to Planned Grmh In Giving and asked to 

make a 15-year ammitment to increase their percentage level of giving to the local &ur&. 

Ray said that over the past 30 years, -hem Baptist families have mt changed their 

pattern of giving whidz is about a tm peroent average. 

He said the tm percent translates into the membership of SBC chur&es giving in excess of 

$3 billion in 1933. 33y the year 2000, Ray said that figure needs to be about $20 billion to 

accomplish Bold Mission' Thrust tasks. 

bld Mission Thrust is an effcart by Southern Ebptists to wesent the message of Jesus 

Christ to every person in the wmld by the year 2000. 

"Thig muld allm the entire denominatior+the &ur&es and other mtities-to take on the. 

dreams of Bold Mission Thrust which we have been talking about," he said. "At the sustained 

level (tqprcent), 

*I# we can't plll off what we (as a denomination) have planned." 

Ha sad Planned GrafJth In Giving is rot "a fund raising drive" but an emphasis hid? 

Wgib with "prso~l camnitmmt" and has a canpounding effect throughout the denorrimtion 

beginning in the local chur&. 

T.T. Crabtree, pastor of First Baptist Church, Springfield, Mo., and &airman of the 

ional Planned GrWh In Giving Task Face, said, "Planned Grcwth In Giving was m t cooked up 

mi* UE dersominatiorssll lea&rs and is mt a s&me to get mcare money. It is a call 

f gan Gad to catlmi t ourselves in a way that we ' ve never done bef me. 

"Planned Gravth In Giving, " he said, "is an invitation fran God to beme involved in his 

mrk atF+;"level where we've never been befcre." 

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Key To Bold Mission Smcess 

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He said a lost wrld calls rn to "generaus giving because there are three billion unsaved 

persons in the world and mess there is a radical chanw in the mindset of Southern Baptists 

taward giving, we are just whistling in the dark." 

William M. Pinson Jr., executive director, Baptist General Convention of Texas, said mt 

everyone is a "visiomry, " but everyone is sha@ by a vision and, "the dream whi& f ashion4 

Bold Mission' Thrust ard Planned Grcktth In Giving wi 11 fashion us and those who came after . " 

Pinson said dreams don' t last long and unless rekindled, they burn out. "Many times, 'I he 

said, "people don' t act on their dream because they are a£ raid--afraid of sacrifice, work and 

effurt. Many times, apthy and laziness can cause us to shun our dreams 'until they cp away." 

He adled, "If dreams are acted upon impropzrly, they can bcane nightmares. But, if acted 

upon adequately, they can move us on to what we've never experienced befae." He said mthing 

can stop what God has set fath, and "I believe he is standing with Southern Baptists." 

Ray believes this is an "hour of destiny" far Southern Baptists. "I believe God is saying 

we have a choice to accee the task at hand or allaw a theological cpzstion to split us." 

Harold C . Bennett, executive serretarytreasurer of the SEE Executive C m i ttee, edmd 

Ray' s merit, mting the current controversy is "causing tmsion which is pilling us (the SBC) 

apart. We hold the future of the SBC in our hands. Planned GrCkJth In Giving can move us into 

Bold Mission Thrust to accamplish what we set out to do." 

Several persons re~esenting various areas uE Southern Baptist life gave reports on Bold 

Mission Thrust and its progress thus far. 

- The Denton seminar was the sword of five to be mrducted whi& will train mare than 800 

persons. - The first seminar was in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 7-9. Future seminars include Skrx3co 

Springs, Ma., Feb. 4-6; Ridgecrest, N.C., Feb. 25-27 and Gulfshare, Miss., Mar& 4-6. 

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(RP) photo of Cecil Ray a d T.T. Crabtree available frm Texas bureau of Baptist Press.

SBC Features Prayer 

Times, Mare Business 

AWANCE-sm 

Baptist Press 

2/1/85 

DALLAS (=)-Prayer times at each session and exwed business time are features of the 

program £oar the 1985 annual meting of the Southern Baptist Convention, June 11-13 at the 

Dallas Convent ion Center. 

. The program, released by Marris Chapan, pistor of First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls, 

Texas, and &airman of the dttee an ardes of business, has the theme of "Pray p 

therefare. . . . " 

"The scriptural theme is a call to payer and to missions whi& has the potential to grip 

the heart a€ every person attending the anvention with an overwhelming burden far the 

unsaved," Qlapnan said. 

One of the highlights of the three-day annual meting of the 14.3 million member 

demmimtion, accarding to Ckpan is "small group prayer sessions whit31 have hen inserted 

into almt every session." ' The lsminute prayer times, he said, were added at the request of 

SBC President Charles Stanley, pastar of First Baptist Churd-r of Atlanta. 

"He asked that we insert this spcial time far Wayer. He (Stanley) is very conscious of 

God' s people mllectively praying for Gcd' s will and God' s p er, 

I' Qlapnan added. I 

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ArPther feature, he said, is m e time for business. "Messenqrs (to pevious conventions) 

had eqessed a desire to have a relatively unlimi td amount of time fm discussion of my 

issue," Qlapnan said. "The amdtment of the dttee has been to ~ d dthat e kind of time." 

Chapnan added he is mt wediding the aonvlention will be ranmous, saying he blieves 

"it is totally unpredcictable at this time. We (the cornmi ttee) were simply trying to respd 

to the ex~essed desires Q£ mssengers. We did mt make this decision based on anticipation 

(of mwh business )". 

One way in which the business t ime has ken ex- has been to start the sessions a half 

h~ur earlier, Chgpnan said. Amther hs been the elimination of a theme interpetation at 

every session. Instead, there will bz one thane interpretation, deliever& at the' Tuesday 

evening meeting. 

' Tan ElLiff, pasta of A p l d Baptist Church in Denver, will deliver the interpretation. 

Ellif f , a f mmer Oklahuna pastar, senred briefly on the foreign mission field before having to 

return to the United States because of family health reasons. 

"We felt7Tan Elliff pereonified as much as any man the dual ern-sis on prayer and 

missions," Chapan said. "He has been to the mission field, has a great mission heart and is 

a rnan who bs ptt a great em-is m prayer during his entire ministry. We felt his life gave 

strong em@msis of Matthew 9:38 (the scripturd. text of the Fogram theme), " Clhap~n added.

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Times, W e Wlsiness 

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. The strong emphasis m Fayer and mi ssiom will Ix? carried through Tuesday and Wedneshy 

nights, with presentations by the Fmeign Mission Board (lbsday) and the Hune Mission Board 

(~ednesday) . "We em& tbse to be extraardimry nights uf inspiration and strong statemmts 

about Bold Mission Thrust, " Chapman said. 

He added there will be rn business follwing the presentations, allaging messmgers to 

depart "on a rote of inspiration. We hop we will be able to leave the hall ea& night 

rejoicing over the great missions advance we lave been able to make throllgbut the wanld." 

Chapnan said there will be a business session Wednesday evening but added "it will be in 

advance of the Hare Mission Board presentation." 

"Also, ea& evening Bill Reynolds (convmtion music director) w ill begin singing &oruses 

as we are dismissed as a remidew that even when we are having business our ultimate intmt is 

just to praise the Ltcd," Chapnan said. 

-The convention ~ogram 

also will feature the annual pesidmtial aaress by Stanleyand 

the mnvention sermon by Charles Fuller, @stor of First Baptist Chur& of Roxnke, Va. 

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t

Dilday Claims Pressler Wants 

- To Create ' Criswell Clones ' By Jim Newton 

A Texas, 

A W m RACKGROUND s m 

Baptist Press 

2/8/85 

ATLZWllA (BP)-The president of the nation's larpst th~ological seminary charged that a 

conservative political takeover group within the Southern Baptist Convention is trying to make 

every Baptist seminary "just lib Criswell Bible Institute" in Dallas and "meate clam of Dr. 

(W.A. ) Criswell." 

Russell Dilday, president of Southwestern Baptist- Theological Seminary in Fart Warth, 

told about 1,000 "Conerne3 Southern Baptists" of ~eargia that unless the takeover is 

stopped within the next three or four pars, "Southern Ehptists will lose SoutWestern 

Seminary" and every other agency. 

Dilday quoted extensively Judge Paul Plressler of Houston and Criswell Bible Institute 

President Paige Patterson, whm he identified as key leaders in the SBC conservative "mntrol 

Inovement ." 

According to Dilday, Judge Pressler said in a radio kcadcast that he wanted to make every 

institution in the Southern Baptist Corntion "just like Criswell Bible Institute." 

Dilday quoted htterson as saying in a radiebroadcast seman at First Baptist Churd~ of 

Dallas his goal as president of Criswell Bible Institute was "to create clones of Dr. 

Criswell," the venerated pastor of the nation's largest SBC &ur&, First Baptist of Dallas. 

Dilday said he had difficulty believing Criswell was involved in the "takeover" mvement 

until he and sevexal others met with the Dallas pstor recently. Although Dilday said he and 

others had never lamwn what to call the Pressler-Patterson conservative malition, Criswell had 

referred to it as "a movement to control the Southern Baptist Corntion. 

"That's exactly what it is," Dilday said. ' The issue is mt theological conservatism 

versus liberalism, ol: the infallibility of the Bible, the issue is control o£ the Southern 

Baptist Convention, Dilday said. 

"'The issue is what kind of a convention will we (Southern Baptists) be, " Dilday said. 

"The very nature of the aonwntion is at stake. 

"Are we going to be a convention ormmitted to ~essing toward theological confcarmity and 

creedalism, ox are we going to be a convention that canes together to cooperate in doing 

missiors and evangelism and winning our world to Jwus Christ?" Dilday asked. 

Dilday claimed the leaders ul the "antrol mvennent" are mwilling to suwt anything 

f imcially they do mt agree with totally and canpletely, and their apoach to missions and 

emgelism is mt to cooperate with others, but to operate like "Indepndent Baptists." 

- The other key issue, said Dilday, is leadership. "Who will be the leaders of the 

convention? Will they be cooperating Southern Baptists a t t e d to missions and evangelism, 

or will they be indepndent and fmmtal in mmtdity, ccmnnitted to pra4hurch activity? 

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To Create 'Criswell Clones 

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"Will they be people more interested in a nation31 political awda than they are in what 

Southern Baptists do t ~ther in missions and evangelism?" Dilday said he was alarmed by 

"frightening indicators" that the same people involved in the movement to control the SBC are 

also involved in religious right political activities as ex~essed through such organizations 

as Mwal Marjority. 

During a question and answer session, Jim Strickland, pstor of First Baptist Chur&, 

Cartersville, Ga., who presided over the meeting, said election of the aonmtion president is 

the key to control of the convention. Strickland expessed hopes a "-prating Southern 

Ba#ist" would he elected president of the SBC when it meets in Dallas next June. 

Whm asked who might be a possible naminee to oppose Charles Stanley, current SBC 

president and pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Dilday said the name he has heard nost 

as a possible mminee is Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Churd~, Amarillo,-Texas, and 

current ~esident of the Baptist General Convention of7 Texas. 

"Unless the current wesident decides m t to seek reelection, there will mt be a lot of 

people itching far that responsibility," Dilday said. 

In his speed-^ Dilday offered four suggestions on "hcrw to get out af the mess we are in": 

(1) pray, not superficially but with real concern: (2) meet and beme infarmed about the 

issues: (3) speak out and take a stand, and (4) go to the wnvention in Dallas and vote. 

"Neutrality is mt a positive position to take," Dilday said. He said he readhed the 

point in his am pilgrimage as a Christian that he could rn longer be silent and be true to 

himself, his family, the facuty and students at the seminary, and "true to my Lxrd." 

He said as prt of his struggle in deciding to spak out, he had studied the Scriptures on 

what Jesus did when he saw things he felt were wrong in the- Temple. Dilday cmpred the 

tec2micpes being used by the "control ~vemmt" to techniques used by the &ief priests who 

sent out spies to trap Jesus. 

"Surely there is m Baptist, no Christian, who could agree that the tactics of swing and 

tap recording and trapping are appropriate in any Christian organization," ~ilday 

said. 

In amther speech to the group, a Baptist layman fran Claxton, Ga., Narman Cavender, said 

the mnservatives seeking to control the SEE are mt true to Baptist heritage emphasizing 

religious librty and the priesthaod of believers. 

Cavender, a farm poducts executive, claimed the group seeking to control the SBC "wants 

their system of understanding of the Bible to he imposed on the mnvmtion' s seminaries and 

agencies. -That's why if a seminary professor or agency employee says sanething they disagree 

with, they want him fired. ' They want everyone else to think and believe the way they do. 

"What they are trying to do," Cavender said, "is shackle the Bible with their awn opinions 

about the Bible. " 

Cavender drew awlawe when b declared, "It is mt their right to use a political madzine 

to seize tmntrol of this denomimtion and drag all the rest of us along with them. " 

He fiallmged Baptist laypeople to attend the Dallas convention as messengers and take a 

stand fcr liberty. "We Baptists have been fighting f a liberty far 300 years," he said. 

"Lfbrty can win again in Dallas if we will stand up and start acting like Baptists again." 

The meeting at Weiuca Road Baptist Chur& was the first of three such rallies sponsored by 

"Concerned Southern Baptists" in Geargia featuring addresses by SBC seminary presidents. 

Similar meetings are s&eduled Feb. 21 at First Baptist Chur&, Tifton, Ga. ; and on April 9 at 

First Baptist Churd~, Savannah. Ray Honneycutt , president of Southern Baptist Theological 

Seminary, L&uisville, Ky. , is to spak at the Tif ton rally; and Randall Lblley, president of 

Southeastern Baptist- Theological Seminary, Wake Fmest, N.C., is s&eduled fm. Savanndh. 

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Pressler , Patterson 

Respd To Dilday 

AWAKE EVICKGIWND S mY 

Baptist Press 

2/8/85 

HOUSTON (BP)--Paige Patterson and hul Pressler say the main issue in the Southern Baptist 

Convention Mmtroversy is the nature of Scripture, mt control af the denomination. 

Baptist Press contacted Ehtterson and Pressler after an address in Atlanta by Russell 

Dilday, president of Soutlwestern Baptist- Theological Seminary, Fart Wcrrth, Texas, in whid~ 

Dilday warned of a "movement to mntrol the Southern Baptist Corntion." 

Pressler, a Houston al~peals court judge, said: "Russell Dilday continues in his usual 

tactic of trying to make mmissues issues, to accuse mnservatives of things they have rot 

done and to make wild char~s that are mt accurate. 

"The issue is what Scripture is and that is the only issue that I kmw of. Conservatives 

are mt seeking adherence to a particular intervetation of Scripture, merely agreemmt that 

Scripture is entirely God's wwrd and does mt make mistakes," Pressler aaed. 

Pressler charged Dilday, rather than inerrantists, has tried "to make an interpetation a 

creed," and cited an "address to (~outkwestern) students July 5, 1984, in whid.1 he (~ilday) 

said dispensatioml ~emillennidam was a Southern Baptist heresy.. .labelling many, many 

Southern Baptist leaders heretics. 

"He (Dilday) has sought to make his interpretation a basis of arthodoxy, scmething 

conservatives have never done and w ill never do," Pressler added. 

Pressler said Dilday "misconstrued" remarks about Criswell center. "What I was 

emphasizing was that if every Southern Baptist schml taught people to bs soul winners and had 

the evangelistic zeal of Criswell (~ible ~nstitute) our convention muld be in gmd shape." 

Patterson, reached in Fayetteville, Ga., where he was teaching a Bible study, said he ma* 

a remark during a sermon that his -1 as wesident of CBI was to "create dones uf Dr. (w.A. ) 

Criswell," the pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and sponsar of the Bible s&aol. He 

aMd: "'The statement was made in fun, which Dr. Dilday very well h w s . Haever, the 

expression of concern aprently reflects a fear on Dr. Dilday' s part of the perf ul pulpiteer 

with an autharitative messaw from God. 

"It is interesting to me the parmia that is involved. Dr. Dilday alleges we are qing 

to lose Soutkanlestern (seminary) and all of our other agencies. I wuld simply ask: - To whom 

are we going to lose them? -To Criswell? Fbgers? Draper? Stanley?" 

Patterson referred to the current wesident and tm farmer ~esidents a€ the nation's 

largest wotestant de-iomimtion. Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Chur& in Memphis, 

Tenn.; James T. Drapsr Jr., pastor of First Baptist Churd~ of Euless, Texas, and Charles F. 

Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, are all inerrantists. 

Patterson also mt& Dilday raised questions of leadership. "I wonder if inadvertentlyhe 

did not put his finger on the real problem. Is it just possible that the real concern of sane 

is the possibility of fcrfeiting their awn leadership role?" 

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1964 Statistics flmw 

Lackluster SBC Year By Jim Lawry 

AWANCE EuuxGRUlND STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/11/85 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)-AltMwh gains outnunbered losses fca Southern Baptists in the 

fiml statistical. reprt fm 1484, it appears the denomination generally marad in place 

following four years af significant increases. 

Gains were recorded by Southern Baptists in the nmbr of churaes, total membership, 

Sunday school enrollment, church music enrollment, Brother- enrollment, mission expnditures 

and total receipts. Lssses were in baptisms, chur& training enrollment and Wcman' s Missionary 

Union enrollment. 

These figwes are based on unifurm &ur& letters received by the research services 

department of the Southern Rapkist Sunday S&ml Board. Projections related to Southern 

wist ~qrams were released in Decanter based on the first 26,000 letters received fran 

&ur&es. 

In the five program areas and in the numkr of &ur&es, losses and gains varied less thn 

one permtap point £run the previous year. Baptisms, hwever, suffering the s a d 

consecutive loss, were dm by mme than 22,000, or 5.7 percent, £ran last par. 

Chur& membership fur the denomination rea&ed a new total of 14,349,657 with a gain of 

164,203, whi& is the smallest increase since 1978. Mission expenditures and total receipts 

increased respectively by 7.3 and 8.8 percent. 

Wold C . Baulett , executive secretarytreasurer of the Southern Baptist Executive 

Camnittee, expressed regret about the decrease in baptisms, but said he remains optimistic 

because of the antact he has had with Southern Baptist &ur&es. 

"I have discovered a renewed interest in Christ a d in the preeing of the Gospel in 

&urdnes where I have visited," Bennett said. "I believe the lam& of Good News Amrica, the 

dmmination' s plan for simultaneous revivals in 1%6, will give Southern hptists a new all- 

time high in bptisms. Good News America will again mter our attention on reaching 

idividual persons for Jesus Christ and dhurch mesnbership." 

Several of the increases in the programs included in the 10 key repting areas were the 

smallest in several years, whid.1 could a£ fect the desires of the denomination for dramatic 

increases in sharing the Gospel ar& the world. 

nLrmber of churaes in the Southern Baptist Convention increased in 1984 to a new total 

A The 

of 36,740. This increase of 0.6 percent, or 209, is the smallest nmerical gain since 1979. 

- The &w& membership increase of 164,203, or 1.2 pexmt, is the same percmtage gain as was 

predicted. 

In Sunday s&ool, the denomirntion' s largest program, the onping enrollment was up by 0.5 

percent, or 41,894, to re& arrother recard total mrollmmt at 7,857,337. The actual total 

was 0.1 percent higher than the projeted gain. 

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1964 Statistics ShcxlJ 

Lackluster SBC Year 

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This year's baptism total of 372,028, has fallm fran 411,554 baptisms in 1B2. The most 

baptisms ever remded in the nation's largest p~otestant denomination was 445,725 in 1972. 

- The drop in baptisms also is refleded in the nunhr of &urdnes reporting a baptism in 19634, 

when the total dram by 0.7 percent to 29,850. . This means approximately onesixth of all 

&u~&es in the denomination did rot have at least one baptism. 

Church training enrollmmt was d m by 0.7 percent, or 14,483, in 1984, making the new 

total 1,972,907. ' This lass, whid.1 ccmes on the heels of four consecutive gains, is 0.1 percent 

more than the projected decrease. 

The enrollment in WMU activities in 1984 lost 0.5 percent, or 5,724, making the new total 

1,169,630. This was 0.2 percent less than the projected loss. 

The &ur& music program increase, the 19th consecutive gain, was the smallest numerical 

gain since 1977. - The 0.6 percent, or lO,62lI incrrease brings the church music enrollment to 

1,667,385. - The gain is 0.4 percent less than the predicted gain. 

Brotherhood enrollment in 1984 increased by 0.5 percent, or 3,034, to a new total of 

568,383. - This is 0.4 percent less than the projected total. 

Mission exmditures in 1B4 increased by 7.3 percent over the previous year to 

$568,059,173. - This total is mehalf of a percentage pint mcare than was pojected. 

Total receipts for the denomination last par rose by 8.8 prcent to a total of 

$3,665,735,085. ' The actual gain was about one permt higher than predicted. 

Baptisms 

Total Membrship 

Sunday Schml 

Ongoing Enrollment 

Churd-i Training 

Ehrollmen t 

Ongoing Music Ministry 

Enrollment 

Wanan' s Missiomry Union 

Onqing Ehrollment 

Brother- Ongoing 

Enrollment 

' Total Mission 

Ekpendi tmes 

Total Receipts 

Sunanary of the 1%4 Southern Baptist Comtion Statistics: 

Percent 

Gain ar Gain w 

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Patterson Discllsses 

'Conservative Resurgence' 

By RoS3ert H. Dilday 

AWAJsfcE RACKGRCUND STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/11/85 

ATLAMA ( BP)-A leader in the mcwermmt to turn the Southern Baptist Convention tward a 

mace conservative stance told a group of Geonrgia Baptist pstors the rnnventian's annual 

meeting in June w ill determine if a "conservative resurgence" will continue car whether there 

will be "a reversal back to...a liberal position." 

"There is m debate, among those who are best enough to face the issue, but that there 

has been a shift in Southern Baptist theolqical opinion, " Paige Patterson, associate pastm of 

First Baptist Chur& of Dallas, told about 60 people at First Baptist Church in Lilburn, Ga. 

-The meeting was a regular session of the ZBwrenceville Baptist Association Pastors' 

Conference. 

"What we have is a theological direction that leads us to a denial of certain aspects of 

Scripture," he added, warning eventually the tmdency would destrq evangelism in the 14.3 

mi llion-mwiber SBC. 

During a questiomand-answer period, Patterson was asked why Russell Ka~merling, editor 

of the Southern Baptist Advocate, published in Dallas to suwt the aims of the 

fmdzimentalists, refuses to reveal the names of the tabloid's bard members. 

"I persorally have tried to get them to go ahead and reveal it, " Patterson said. 

He indicated Ka~mrnerling, who is Patterson's kother-iwlaw, ~obahly is trying to protect 

the board frm "persecution as long as he can," and that the editor is resisting pressure £run 

so-called "moderates" in the mnvlention. 

"Chances are he (Kaemmerling) will mt be made to do it," Patterson said. "It's a mistake 

to apprm& Russ Kaemrnerling that way." 

Patterson insisted the issue in the conflict is theological, mt political, although he 

aMtted, "I don't deny at all that there is a political aide to it. One of the reasons 

there's all the mncern is that the group that ~esmtlyholds per is scared to death they're 

about to lose it . " 

"'The pint to whi& we have one is a mvewnt to the left, " he said. "'That is 

debateable. If it is dekriteable, why won't saneone debate it with us in public?" 

Patterson claimed he had offered to meet in a public fmm with Roy 1;; Ebneycutt , Wsell 

H. Dilday Jr. and W. Randall Lblley, the presidmts, respectively, of Southern Baptist 

- Theological Sdnary, Lbuisville, Ky. ; Southvestern Baptist- Theological Sdnary, Farrt War th, 

Texas, and Southeastern Baptist' Thedogical Seminary, Wake Farest, N.C., but they had refused. 

All three men have been outspkm in their owsition to Patterson's goals.

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'Conservative Resurgence' 

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"I'm willing to lay the evidence on the table," he said. "Why aren't they?" 

Patterson also criticized the "topheavy bureawracy" in the conwintion whi& he said was 

bccming mcare hierarchial in str~lcture. 

Ele cited pmf the "evolving of certain titles far denominatioml servants." 

"We used to have 'associatiornl missiomries, ' " he said. "But in sane associations they 

may soon beccme the director of missions, and in other associations it has cpne even farther, 

and he is mw the executive director of the association." 

Asked what he and those who share his concern will do if SBC President Charles F. Stanley 

of Atlanta, who is widely s u ~ t e by d furrdamgltalists in the convention, is defeated, 

Patterson said he hoped "conservatives" muld Fay fa the new ~esident, but "would see the 

seriousness UI the prohlen and decide whether ar rot we want our hurches in the tradition of 

Gearge- Truett and R.G. L&. . .and cane back at subsequent convention and finish the business. " 

"I very well understand the possibility of m h mcre serious things hawing, " he added. 

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(~ilday is associate editor of-The Christian Idex, newsjournal uf the Geccrgia Baptist 

Convgltion. )

Jbecutive C d ttee mses Vatican Envoy; Tax Penalty 

AWANSE BACKGRDJND STOW 

Baptist Press 

2/20/85 I 

By Stan Hastey 

WHV1LZ;E;Tmn. (BP)-1n separate actions the Southern Baptist Convention ESEecutive 

Camittee endarsed a legal brief opsing President Reagan's apintmat last year of an 

ambassadca: to the Vatican and micad o-sition to a feature in Reagan's tax refurm package 

whi& would reduce tax dducticm for dharitable mntributiom. 

In objecting to Reagan's proposal to elimimte income tax deductions far contributions to 

dmrity belaw tm percent of a tapyer's adjusted gross iname, the Executive Cunmittee 

declared its rejection of what it called "the dmracterization of tax deduztibility of gifts to 

&ur&es as the equivaleslt of government subsidy." 

Acknowledging what it described as "the fiscal urgency whi& the nation31 deficit creates 

far the United States Congress, I' the mmi ttee nevertheless asked lawmakers to follaw "the 

wisdom of the years" in ansidering hanges in tax policy "which will hinder &ur&es frcm 

doing their work." 

- The Executive Ccmmi ttee approved without discussion mdcrsement of a f riend-o£-themurt 

brief at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pmnsylvania filed by the 

Washington-based Baptist Joint Camni ttee on Public A£ f airs. 

- That Iwief , filed in suwt of a lawsuit bxaught by hricans Uni td far Separation of 

Chura and State ad several majar religious denominations, &allenged Reagan' s appointment of 

William A. Wilson as ambassador to the Vatican. The move follmed congressiol~al action sowht 

by the White House removing an 1867 ban on diplunatic relations with the Holy See. 

DeBte over U.S.-Vatican diplanatic ties dates to 1939 and Presidmt Franklin D. 

Raasevelt's decision to smd Myron Taylm as his persoml represmtative to the Holy See with 

the rank of ambssadcr. In 1951 President Harry S Trmmn sought to upgrade th~ relationship 

by Mming Gm. Mark Clark ambassadm but, after an enormous pLiblic outcry by fellaw Baptists 

ad others, the retired ge~leral witldrew his name and- Trman let the matter rest. 

Althoqh Presidents Dwight D. Eisenwer, Jdhn F. Kemedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had m 

official diplanatic ties with the Vatican, President Richard M. Nimn resumed the practice of 

sending a persoml re~esentative, a device subequmtly used by Presidents Gerald R. Fmd, 

Jimny Carter and Reagan. 

'The Baptist Joint Caranittee brief, writtm and filed by its late general counsel John W. 

Baker, objected to the new arrangement as a violation of the First Anmdment' s ban on an 

establis-mt o£ religion. 'Exchanging ambassadms with a churd~, the brief argued further, 

shcrws preference faa: one religion over all others. In a mvel argument, Baker told the 

district court the pxactice poses potential danger to overseas missimsies of all 

denomimtians by clouding their idmtity as religious repnresentatives, espcially iri Third 

World countries .

Executive C d ttee Owses 

Vatican Envoy, Tax Peslelty 

Although the Executive Cdttee endarsed the Baptist Joint Cdttee brief and urged the 

agmcy to fight the matter through the federal appellate process, it stopped shmt of entering 

the case as a ceplaintif f , the other opt ion available. LBslt Septembr the M y declind any 

involvement in the case in spite of a Southern Baptist Convention resolution last June 

corddng U.S.-Vatican relations and a separate motion asking the Executive Camittee to join 

any legal eff cart challenging the new arrangement. 

A£ ter a handf ul of m r s voiced concern that swh action might be interpreted as an 

effart to embarrass President Reagan duringhis bid £car reelection, the matter died last 

Se#mhr. -The decision m t to act resulted, hawever, in resolutiom by several Baptist state 

conventions in November urging SBC involvement. 

Executive Cdttee Ceneral Counsel James P. Guenther of Nashville, told Baptist Press the 

new action reflects the Southern Ehptist Cormtion's "historic support far the First 

Amendment's separation of &ur& and state." He said Southern Bapkists "stand united" in 

oppsition to U.S.-Vatican relations, not as "a matter of being anti-Catholic, " but because "we 

blieve the Vatican apintment is bad public policy and a dangerous and unwarranted 

entanglement of government and one &ur& body. " 

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SBC Executive Cornnittee 

Approves Statement On BP 

By Jim Newton 

AWANCE WKGROUND STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/20/85 

NASIWIILEI Tm. (El?)-After almost three hours of testimony and discussion, the Southern 

Baptist Conmtion Executive Camnittee mncluded tm Baptist Press news stories last September 

"when taken together" gave a balanced presentation of the news. 

- The fiml vote was t a with almost m discmsion, although the stories had stirred 

heated debate in tm preliminary meetings. 

- The stories were released Sept. 17 and 18, 1984. The first article reprted that a 

semimry student, J. Staffmd Durham, had filed a "farmal canplaint" with the Federal 

C~mmunications C d ssion alleging Houston judq Paul Pressler had secretly tape reccrrded a 

telemne anversation "in violation of his civil rights. "- The seoond story gave Pressler' s 

response to the charges. 

' The Executive Camittee said it was "untimly" and "un£urtunate" the first story appared 

seprately without an apprqriate rebuttal frm Pressler. 

The ccmmittee also ex~aressed support fat: the Baptist Press staff far "their strong 

reccrrrmitmnt to timely, accurate, and well-balanced news repxting:" reaffirmed "its 

longstanding policy of W e s s in its deliberations a d actions," and "its supt far a 

respnsible and free press as an essential element fm an infarmed Southern Baptist 

oonsti twcy . " 

The onrmittee also was told a "Baptist Press -rating policy" is being fmmulated by the 

Ekecutive Cdttee staff. 

While the recanmendations were awed by the 69-mmker d ttee virtually without 

comment, tw prelimimry meetings featured heated debate. Both meetings took place urmder 

"backgroutd rules" whi& prevent direct quotations f ran individuals during debate. 

The &airman of the public relations workgroup, Jim Jackson of Huntsville, Ala., ruled 

during the workgroup' s meeting on Feb. 18 that discussion on the matter would be lid t d only 

to the procedure in -ling the tm stories, mt whether anyone was right cx wrong; and that 

only members of the workgroup muld be allwed to discuss the matter. 

Pressler, who kought into the room a suitcase full of printed materials, objected 

strongly to the ruling whi& pevented him fran pesenting four kwws of testimony he said he 

had prepared. 

In interviews after the meeting, Pressler ccmplained the ruling was grossly unfair. "I 

don' t Wow why these people are sugpressing the truth. I had 35 greviences against E3aptist 

Press I wanted to ~esent, but they muldn't let me speak." 

Instead of hearing testimonyby Pressler and Baptist Press Director Wilmer C. Fields, the 

public relations mrkgroup discussed warding of the reccmmgldation which finally was adopted by 

the full Executive C d ttee. 

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QI the second day of the meeting, the administrative and conventions arrangements 

subcanrmittee voted 156 to allm a full a d canplete discussion of the issue, including 

testimony by any who wanted to speak. Pressler, a l edr in the movement sane claim is trying 

to gain mntrol of the SEE, is a member of the subcanmittee. 

Frank Ingraham, a Nashville attmney and hairman of the subccmmi ttee, ruled the mnmi ttee 

would allm Pressler and Fields 45 minutes each to pzresmt their argumats. 

Pressler passed out a seven-pint, 65-page stack of docunents detailing his canplaints 

against Baptist Press. 

In his written presentation, Pressler altrnitted tap recarding the telephone mnversation 

with Durham on Sept. 1, but denied he had done anything unethical ar illegal. "I took the 

precaution of taping the mnversation for several reasons," he said. He claimed "certain 

idividuals an the liberal side in the aonvention have umpletely and totally misre~esented 

conversations I had with them" . . . . 

He added he recorded the aonversation "fa self-protection ... to have a read of the 

telephone aonversat ion. . . . " 

Pressler listed 35 objections to the story, including a dzarge D~ham, in his canplaint, 

had given "a bogus citation to the Fm: cde which has m relevance to the matters involved." 

He suggested saneone must have advised and manipulated Durham to contact the EY3C. 

Pressler also &arm Baptist Press gives "liberals" in the onvention "full and 

ample oppartunity to resprd" to accusations, but "conservatives are mt always affrrded that 

privilege." He further canplain4 about use of writers "with fixed prejudices." 

"The question is whether the present anplqees a€ the Baptist Press are so f imly directed 

in their m i d set that they are unwilling or mble to look at what is occwing in the SBC fran 

an alternate viewpoint £ran their own, m whether they are incapable of separating their 

persoml ~ejudices f run their reprting of the evmts that are occurring within the 

convention," Pressler concluded. 

He asked the anmitt- to examine the tm stories and determine if "li'bel" was 

mnmitted, and argued he was defamed by the articles whi& shckJ "an intent to harm or malice." 

In respnse to Pressler's dzarges, Fields made a brief statement and passed out copies of 

the related Baptist Press articles. He said Baptist Press carried 1,118 stories last year, and 

only 22 of those stories (1.9 percent) could be aowidered "negative stories" about 

controversial issues to whi& saneone might dbject. Of the 1,118 stories carried, Baptist 

Press received canplaints only about three articles, including the Pressler -plaint, 

accarding to Fields. 

Fields said he regretted very much that time and space limitations caused the mailing of 

the secord story to bz delayed one day. He said that if the incident could ke done over again, 

the tm stories muld have been mailed the same day. 

Mwh of ~aptist Press' response to Pressler's &ar~s was devoted to a presentation by 

Southern Baptist Press ~ssociation President Bobby S: Terry, editor of Ward and Way, 

news journal of the Missouri Baptist Cornrention, who summarized a six-page "Rept of Spcial 

Incpziry" ccmmissiond and paid far by the press association. 

'- The six-page rept was vepared by journalism praf~scrs 

John Merrill of Lbuisiana State 

University, Cliffard Christians uf the University of Illinois and John DeMott of Memphis State 

University. All three are members of the ethics s uttee of the Association far Education 

in ~ournalism's d t t e e on prcxEessiom1 freedom ad responsibility. 

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SBC Executive Cmittee 

Approves Statement On EP 

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- The journalism professas said they f omd m "evidence of ill will taward Pressler, " and 

rn evidence the BP staff was "motivated by un~ofessioml intentions to &ma- the reputations 

of the principls involved. " 

"Release of the reprt of Sept . 17, without the respnse of Pressler, was mt unfair under 

the peculiar circumstances existing, and therefare did mt consitute p r journalism," the 

prafessars said. They described BPI s dilemma this way: "Should a reprter repart the news 

imediately, even though the response to sane accusation contained in it c m t be included in 

the first rep t . . . , or should he suppress the news temporarily while getting the response?" 

"...It is difficult to fault BP £car the decision it made, and few news editors wuld do 

so, " the professms said. "The decision made by BP is one made every day by many news 

organizations pacticing the highest standards in ow profession. 

The professors said the BP stories in question "shcw exemplary restraint and discretion in 

what is admittedly a potentially sensatioml event. They are both news accounts which refrain 

£ran editorializing. They do rot speculate regarding motives, editorialize almut the ethics 

involvd, or entertain reflections f ran unattributed sources." 

"The news releases," they continued, "appear to us to slxxl the mendable vigor of 

effective journalism caribined with the restraint that is demonstrated amonq the most 

respnsible in the news profession today." 

Pressler was mt satisf id with their study, hmever, saying in an interview a£ terwards it 

was done by "hired guns" wkbo were "paid" to say what they did. 

After the hearing, Pressler said he was pleased the mnmittee had heard his canplaint, and 

that his side of the story had been told. 

Fields observed the Executive Carmi ttee members and staff had talked thenselves together 

on the pr-r role of Baptist Press. "It is highly significant that the anmi ttee voted to 

reaff inn its suppt fm a responsible and free press as an essential elemmt fm an infarmed 

Southern Baptist constituency, " he said. 

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AWAKE BACKGRDLIND 'STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/21/85 

ACrs Fund Campaign 

Okayd; Lban Delayed By Dan Martin 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)-A three-year, $6-million fund raising campaign to finance the ACTS 

television netmrk has been apprwed by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive C& ttee, 

but approval to brrw up to $10 mi llion fm 10 years has been delayed. 

The action was taken during the Fehruary meeting of the Executive C d ttee, which is 

required by the SBC Business and Financial Plan to approve fwd raising campaigns by nation31 

agencies, and to give mnsent far "incunbrances which cannot be repaid out of anticipated 

receipts far current operations within a period of three years." 

The Radio ard Television C d ssion, whi& operates the Amrican Christian Television 

System netmrk, had asked to be allwed to coduct a special solicitation drive to raise $12.5 

million to fwd ACTS through fiscal 1986, and fa autharity to borrm up to $10 million with a 

l&year maturity. 

The recamn~ndationto delay aprwal of the total solicitation and the loan while 

approving the sharter term fund raising effart was made by the Wlsiness and Finance 

s m i ttee a£ ter an all-day session with Jimny R. Allen, RlW president, and other 

revesentatives of the Faart Warth, Texas-based agency. 

"We have looked long and hard at these tm requests," said Harmon Bcnrn of Atlanta, 

chairman of the subcamnittee. "We believe we have m e up with best possible solution." 

Born added the Executive Ccmunittee "is mt trying to substitute our judgement far that of 

the trustees of the Radio and Television Canmission. Wlt we are required by the (business and ) 

f imncial plan to study this. We must have all of the data we can gather. " 

Born said representatives of the smttee will go to Fart Worth to study the matter as 

soon as the fimncial audit fm fiscal 1984 is ccmpleted at the dssion. The audit, 

repxtdly will be mpleted within 30 days. 

Allen told Baptist Press he is "pleased" with the action of the Fxecutive C d t t e e in 

approving the solicitation campaiq. "They did rnt turn dam anything we asked, " he said. 

"The key far us is the right-ar the privilege-to conduct a public campaign." 

He said the only question to be resolved about the campaign is "whether it will be three 

or five years. We wanted it to be five years because it gives us mme latitude to negotiate 

with groups. We can function with three years, but we would rather have had five years." 

Allen added the omnittee "did rot turn dawn" the request to borrw up to $10 million, hut 

postponed it "because they need more infmmation. We have invited them to m e here to Fat 

Warth to study it and they will reprt back (to the Executive C d ttee) in June. " 

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ACTS Fund Campaign 

Okayed; Lban Delayed 

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John Roberts of Greenville, S.C., chairman of trustees and editor of the Baptist Courier, 

said the loan and the campaign are linked. "M& are after the loan and the mllateral. We are 

going to laund.1 a fund campaign and then bzrm against that. We need money faster tbn we can 

raise it. We need to go to the bank right away (to brw the money) and thaz hve a canpi9 

to p y it back." 

Roberts added: "Tim is both our enmy and our friend right row. We think that in 24 to 

30 months we will have suf f icievlt revenues caning in to meet most of our obligations. But f ran 

mw until thm, we are going to be operating at a loss...." 

Allm said the FKWC "has to raise something like $7 million alnove the Cooperative Program" 

budget allocation to fund the opration of ACTS, a Christian television netmrk operating 24 

hours a day through cable television outlets ad lcrw ad full pmer TV stations. 

Far 1984-85, the RlVC will receive $4.9 million through the Cooperative Program (the 

denomimtion's d f i d plan of collecting and distributing fuzlds). -ding to the 

c~ssion's fimcial statement, the 1984-85 budget is $13.1 million, of which nearly $6 

million will be used to fund ACTS. 

Allm said the olmmission "has a cash flm poblem now. We need $1.1 million and that is 

part of the bridge the $10 million loan muld take care of." 

RTVC trustees, during their January meeting, gave approval fa a $1.4 million shmt term 

line of credit to pay current oprating expenses of the netwxk. Agmcy executives have 

authmity to mrcw that amount without Fxecutive ~cmuni ttee awoval. 

Alla described the situation as being like "starting a new business. Wha you begin you 

need money right then. We ned the money up front. -The capital cmpaign is the solution, but 

we need a line of interim fimcing available. In 30 months, we will have sufficient revenue, 

but we need to get through the startup phase until the money flcw starts." 

He added the $10 rrci llion loan request also muld retire about $4 million previously 

borrwed to fund the ACE opration, leaving $5 or $6 rnillion to fwd the netwk through 

fiscal 1986, at whia time it is hoped ACTS will be generating enough inme to pay its way. 

Representatives of both the RTVC and the Executive Cdttee say the financial situation 

is mplicated because a national TV netwxk is a new area fa Southern Baptists. 

Tim A. Heaquist, directar of financial planning fm the Executive Ccdttee, said part of 

the five hour meeting was spmt trying to "understand new termimlogy and techmlogy. The RTVC 

is talking in new terms. This is ground we have never plmd befme." 

Hdquist added if the $10 mi llion had requested "to build a new dmmi tory at one of 

the s dmries, we probably would have mpleted the discussion in 15 cn: 20 minutes. But this 

(funding of ACTS) is scmething we have never done befare. " 

]Both Hedquist and FBrn said there is a & tmmt to helping ACTS susceed, but there also 

is a detedmtionto pactice fiscal responsibility. 

"One of the reasons the loan was rn t a-wed was that the audit was rn t available, " 

Hdquist added. "We have many of the projections on hmd, but to hve validity there must be 

an audit rept ." 

He added the Executive C dttee "bs ken warking with the FtWC fcn: several weeks to 

ascertain where they are ( fimcially) . " 

A time far the study session between repesentatives of the Executive C d t t e e ad 

trustees of the RTVC has mt been set. The rrrVC trustees' executive mannittee will meet Mar& 

5, and a full meeting of the board is sdzeduled April 15-16. 

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Executive C m i ttee Backs 

Revisions In SBC Budget By Craig Bird 

AIXTANCE BACKGRCUND STORY 

Baflist Press 

2/21 /85 

NASEWILLE, Tgm. (BP)-Southern Baptist agency heads have stressed the "cooprative" in 

the Cooperative Program while adjusting the mnmtion' s rntio-1 unified budget to current 

emmmic realities. 

What one observer described as "pssibly the bst spirit of teanwk we have ever had in 

the budget planning process" was evident in the 1.%5-86 budget pl af $130 million which was 

aprovd hy the Southern Baptist Convention Executive C d t t e e at its February meeting. 

Also approved was a plan to extend previously approved capital expenditures far 19534-88 

throqh the 1%590 fiscal year. 

- The proposals will he presented to messengers at the annual meting of the Southern 

Baptist convention in Dallas next June fm f iml aprwal . 

The 1935-86 figure is the same as the 1%4-85 budget PI., an attempt to bring budget 

expectations and receipts into harmony. 

Natioml Cooperative Prqram inme has continued to post healthy increases in terms of 

"real. dollars" over the past several years but the rapid drop in inflation put the long term 

budget planning process used by the SBC in a hind. 

Ehdgets are a-oved tm years in advance by messmgers to the annual meting. The 1%3- 

84 budget goal assmed in£ latian of eight prmt but the actual rate was abut three percent 

aid contributions-thqh up approximately $10 million mpred to 1%32-83--totalled just over 

$108.8 million. 

Projections for 1934-85 indicate inme should bz arom-d $118 million. 

Capital needs are mt funded until the basic operating budget ($114.5 million in 1%3-R4 

and $118 mi llim in 1984-85) is met. Therefcare $3.4 million in capital needs f run 1%3-84 and 

$6.87 million in 1934-85 were carried over into the 1%5-86 planning process. 

The 1%5-86 provides $120.6 million fcsr the hasic operating budget. Funding priarity far 

income above that will go to the 1983-84 capital neds and 1%4-85 capital needs will b~ funded 

next. - The remaining $1.56 million of the $130 million is last on the priority list ad will 'Ise 

distributed on the same percentage basis as the basic oprating budwt. 

-1 of the 19 SBC agencies whi& receive furding through the natioml Cooperative Program 

(whidh is based on voluntariy contributions £ran the 36 state oonventions affiliated with the 

SBC) present budget requests to the Executive Camnittee whi& has the respnsibility of 

recamending the budget to messengers to the mnvention. 

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Revisions in SBC Budget 

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"Each of the agencies are well aware of the aanging ecommic climate and exhibited 

Christian spirit of cooperation and understanding in the whole process," Reginald McDomugh, 

associate executive secretarytreasurer of the SBC Executive Canmi ttee, explained. 

"Obviously eadh agency heads feels strongly ahout the tasks they have been called to do to 

help share the message of Jesus Christ to the world and each has financial nds to finance 

their evangelistic and educatioml programs. 

"Yet the pervading sense in the entire process was 'Let's face financial reality, be fair 

to everyone involved and trust God to continue to bless om effarts' ... Things get mmh mme 

cmpetitive when there are mme discretiomry funds available," kDomugh said. 

Ncarmally the SBC budget prameters are set during the September meeting of the ~xecutive 

Cdttee but the belt-tightening process was extended five months this time until February. 

In the 1985-86 basic oprating budget the Faareiq Mission h rd will receive .W percent; 

the Hane Mission Ebrd w ill receive 19.72 percmt and the six SBC seminaries w ill share 20.56 

percent, divided according to a mplex formula has& partially on enrollment. 

The other agenices included in the disbursment are: Annuity Board, Southern Baptist 

Foudation, C d ssion on American Baptist Sdmry, Brother- C m i ssion, Christian Life 

C d ssion, Wcation Cornmi ssian, mecut ive Ccmnni ttee , Histm ical C m i ss ion, Radio-Television 

C& ssion, Stewardship C d ssion and the Puhlic Affairs C M ttee. 

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Stanley Willing 

To Serve Again By Dan Martin 

AW- BACKGRXJND STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/22 /8 5 

A m (Ell?)-Southern Baptist Convention President Charles F. Stanley said he is 

willing to serve a secord term at the helm of the 14.3-million m~mber &omination. 

Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Churd? of Atlanta, said: "I have been praying about the 

matter fm same time. God has given me perfect f redm in my heart to serve again if someone 

feels 1d to mminate me and I am reelectd." 

The anrrouncement ended several weeks of speculation as to whether Stanley would serve 

amther term as ~esident of the SBC. He was elected on the first ballot against two oppnents 

during the 1984 Southern Baptist Convention in Kansas City. 

Urder SBC rules, a president is elected to a oneyear term, but is eligible to serve a 

secord term, if he chooses. Until recent times, an incunbent president was usually reelected 

without challenge if he wished to serve. -ever, in the politicized climate of the aonvention 

during the past five years, two incunbent pesidmts have been &allenged fm election to a 

seaod term. Both, hmver, were reelected. 

Stanley did mt decide to allw his Mme to he placed in mmination in Kansas City, Mo., 

until hours befare mmimtions were to begin. He said earlier the decision to allow the 

mmination came only a£ ter a p erf ul experience with God. 

Since being elected, Stanley says he has "mt spent one minute of my time talking 

plitics. I did mt do one thing last time (to be elected) and I w lll not do one single thing 

this time. Anypliticking will have to be done by others on lmth sides." 

He said while he is "willing" to serve as presidmt again, he has "plmty to do. But if I 

am honest with C d and with myself, I have to he willing to serve. If I am elected again, that 

will be fine; if I am mt elected, that is still fine." 

The amuncaent was made only a few days a£ ter Stanley exhated Southern Baptists to 

measure their perf mmance in mprison to the potential rather than past a&ievements. He 

said that while the denomination baptizes about 400,000 persons per year, that £ igwe should be 

"in the millions if we live up to our ptential." 

In the sermon, he urged Southern Baptists to "do what we are capble of doing," and 

point&! to a simultaneous revival crusade planned far 1986, Good News America-God mves You, 

spnsared by the Southern Baptist Hme Mission Board. 

"What a great opprtunity to shout to the nation, 'You are loved, just as you axel' I do 

mt blieve we muld have mne up with a theme m e fitting than that fm the day in whid?, we 

live," he said, adding, in his opinion, rn other homimtion ha ever had the opptunity 

facing Southern Baptists "if we &sy God." 

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Stanley Willing 

To Serve Again 

Page 2 

In the interview with Baptist Press, Stanley said he would like to use a seaord term to 

help "Southern Baptists mobilize to make an impact on this nation in Gad News America. %t 

is my primary concern, where I muld spend my time, energies ad ef f m ts . I believe if we 

carry out that, there should be a healing. We canr~t do that if there is ill will, resentment 

ad bi ttemess . 

"(To do that) we must be right with Gd, and we are going to get right with God sm&cw." 

Stanley said "healing" has started in the SBC, which has h rocked by controversy during 

the past six years. "It is like healing of the body: it starts m the inside hefare it 

manifests itself on the outside. I am very enmuragel by what I see. I have not let the 

supposed opsition to me mncem my m i d because my goal is mt to win sanething, but to do 

sanething I believe God has called us to do." 

"In spite of aJ-1 of the mn£lict we have seen, we have agreed there are sane problems. We 

have denied that befcre. We have to face those problems and I see sane evidence of people wlm 

are row able to sit dam and talk throwh the disagreemants," he said. 

Stanley added that "in sane areas there must be give and take. I think there will be 

issues on whi& we canmt give and we must learn to live with ea& other in diversity. Sane 

people will probably decide they can't live with that and have to do something else." 

' The pastor said he "still believes our view of the Scripture is the hasic issue.. .the 

vital issue. I blieve our attitude toward the Scripture w ill determine hm God blesses us. 

When other deslominatians have departed f ran the authentic word of God, there has been a 

diminishing of God's blessings on them." 

"I cannot ccmpmnise my faith in the authenticity of the ward of God under any 

corditions, " he said, adding the leaders af the SBC agencies he has met do mt appear to differ 

significantly fwm his view. "I have mt met all of them, though," he said. 

He added he "hws there is mt ping to be whol&eartd agreement" on issues within the 

conmtion, but reiterated the "authenticity of the Scriptures is sanething we m t give on. 

If smeone is totally cdtted to a liberal viewpint, he may be hwier sanewhere else." 

Stanley commented that in the midst of the controversy "the angrier sane people get the 

mcre intense the verbiage bemnes. That is part of it (the mntroversy)." 

He mted he "is the same (theologically) as wha? I graduatd £ran Southwestern (Eaptist 

Theological) Seminary. But (since the SBC controversy has intmsif ied) I have moved £ran being 

(being described as ) ' conservative ' to ' ultraconservative' to ' fundamentalist ' to 

' irdependent ' . Yet I haven ' t changed a bit . " 

"When diverse issues rise to the surface, m a of real haracter will be able to resprd in 

the spirit of love and b nst discussion. Wlt when there is bitterness and anger ad 

resentment, ill w ill and jealousy, that says something about the haracter of the men involved. 

When that hams, they lose their usefulness before God. God can use a man who may be in 

errar , but whose spirit is right, but a man who is right in his theology but wrong in his 

spirit is a hirderance to God," he said. 

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htterson Predicts 

SBC Skwdcmn, Not Split By Terry Barone 

mAm3 RAC- STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/22 /85 

D m (BP)-~aige Patterson, president of the Cwiswell Center far Biblical Studies, 

predicted a shwdm, but not a split, when the Southern Baptist Convention meets June 11-13. 

Patterson's ccmments came during a farm on SBC issues at the fiveday moo1 of the 

Prrnets sponsmed by First Baptist Churh, Dallas. Mae than 200 prsons prticipated in the 

farm, whi& dealt with the six-year battle bet- wnservatives and moderates. 

Patterson said, "We have a nmbr of problems in the SBC, but we are rot close to 

'splittin this critter' up. I believe we may be on the verqe of a great revival. 

"I don't see the necessity fcrr dividing up the convention. The fly in that ointment is 

who' s going to get the Annuity Board?" 

He said the talk of division is "much, mmh ~emature" and said the situation is "only as 

serious as conservatives take the mnvmtion this year." 

Patterson urged those attending the farm to be sure m e than just the pastor and his 

wife attad the convention as messengers £ran their church. ~ailure to do so, he said, could 

be a sad situation if "Charles Stanley, the only intematiomlly-kmwn television preacher 

Southern Baptists have ever had, is humi liated (by being defeated) . " 

Ri&ard Land, vice~esidglt far academic affairs at CBI, e&d Patterson's sentiments 

ad said, "I can' t imagine any meeting of t& SBC where you could muster a majai ty wte fa a 

division of the Southern Baptist Convention. 

"Even if we were to lose a presidential vote ar sane other vote," Lad said, "we have a 

lot of practice at losing. We lost a lot befare 1979 and we didn't leave even when our views 

were Wing ridiculed in class. " 

Patterson said khe chances of unseating Stanley depmds on who shms up at the convention. 

'"There is the possibility, but I do not think they (Southern Baptists who plan to suppmt 

amther cardidate they say will be mme predmomination aid m e healing) will be successful 

(in defeating Stanley), " he said. 

Whm asked if sane large &ur&es would leave the denomination if the moderates win in 

Dallas, Patterson said, "There is m dispsition on the part of many of the men of leading 

&ur&es to continue funding that whi& is unconscio~ble. 

"There is a sense of accountability among these men that they will have to stad befare 

the judgement seat of Christ and will have to give an account of their lives, time and even 

money. " 

Patterson again said he thought a split was unlikely. 

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Shmdcwn, Not Split 

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He said the best thing to do would be to ow up the oonvention and let everyone b w 

where each faction stands and then let the anvention messengers ask denomimtioml leaders to 

lx accountable. 

Patterson asked Bailey Smith, former SBC president, and pastor of First Southern Baptist 

Churh, Del City, Okla., to give an account a£ himself, of what he and his &ur& believe and 

teach and of what the SBC should be doing. 

Smith said, "I believe a man who dces mt believe all the Bible is the Ward of God ought 

to go sell aluminum siding. 

"I don't m w why we are debating the issue," he said, "if you don't believe in the 

accuracy of the Scripture, the prdblen is you are dead wrong. We should mt have people of 

smh erroneous, shallm beliefs standing in pulpits ar college lecterns." 

Smith wmt on to say he did rot m i d being idmtified with Paige Patterson and said, "I am 

gratefd to st& with men who are a little extreme to the right and extremely c dttd to 

Jesus Christ. " 

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BJCPA Affirmed; New SBC 

Washington Office Nixed By Dan Martin 

ADVANCE WKGROUND STORY 

Baptist Press 

2/25/85 

NASHVILLE, Tan. (BP)--The establisFanent of a Southern Baptist Convention Public Affairs 

Off ice in Washington "does mt appear practicable, " accmding to a study corducted by the SBC 

Executive C m i ttee . 

During its February meeting, the Executive Cammittee adopted a recommendation affirming 

the SBC's "historic relationship to the Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs" and rept 

to the SBC annual nveeting in June that establis~ent of an office "exclusively related to the 

SBC does mt apar practicable." 

The study was sparked by a motion presentd at the 1984 annual meting in Kansas City, 

Mo., to "move to establish a Southern Baptist pesence in Washington to address public and 

governmental affairs...."- The motion was referred to the Executive Camittee, whi& is required 

to study the matter and rept to the 1985 annual mting. 

In presenting the recamendation to affirm the continuation of SBC involvement with the 

WCPA, Malcolm Jones a€ Baltimme, said establislnnmt of a SBC office in Washington "mad he 

very costly, both in startup and operation." 

Jones, Chairman of the mrmissions mrkgroup of the Executive C d ttee, said the SBC was 

instrumental in fourding RJCPA, adding the "canbind eff carts af the SBC and the E!JCPA has ken 

very effective in matters o£ separation of aura and state and religious likrty." 

The action to affirm EUCPA and to rept etabliskrment of an SBiC office was "mt 

practicable," was opposed by FB Drake, an attmney frcm Ddllas. Drake, although a membr of 

the Executive Cmmi.ttee, popsed defurding RJCPA during the 1984 annual meeting. 

While affirming aSCPA in its First Amendment effcsrts, Drake said there are a "great host" 

of other issues "such as hamosexuali ty and abwtion" mt covered by the BJCPA purpse. He said 

the SBC is the only majaar religious group rot to have its an presence in the nation's capitol. 

Drake mplaind "mt" of the other eight Baptist groups affiliated with the joint 

cauni ttee "are members of the Natioml Counci 1 of Churdhes . . .whi& mardzes to a different bat 

frcm Southern Baptists." Representatives of MCPA, hwever, reprt only tho of the eight 

member bodies-the hrican Baptist Churhes and the Prcgesssive Natioral Baptist Conventio- 

are N E mmbrs. The other six are mt. 

Drake also criticized James M. Dunn, executive directar of EJCPA, claiming D m " is m 

longer effective" in representing Southern Baptists. 

After Drake ' s apposition, the Executive C m i ttee adopted the recamnendation on a mice 

vote. Sane observers said it carried by at least a 3-to-1 mrgin. 

During its February meeting, the Executive C d 

ttee: 

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BJBA Affirmed; New SBC 

Washington Of £ice Nixed 

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-Declined to reccnnnad a change in the nlrmber of trustees serving on the 20 nation31 

agencies of the Southern Baptist Convation: 

--Reprted a study has determined trustees of the six SBC seminaries are elect& by the 

SBC exclusively; 

--Accepted Atlanta as the site far the 1991 annual meting, even thoqh the dates of June 

4-6 are earlier than usual; 

--Determined tm f mmer SBCroperated hospi tals--Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonvi lle, 

Fla., ad Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans--are "continuing to operate as Baptist 

aria?td...institutions consistent with the divestiture action" in 1970. 

--Elected Mrs. O.D. Lambirth, a member of First Baptist Chur&, Elida, N.M., to the 1985 

SBC mnmittee on lmards, replacing Rebcca Jean Wolfe, who 'became ineligible after accepting 

chur&-related emplqment . 

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Attanp to Fire Pro£ 

Fails At Soutlwestern Bj Toby Druin 

R W m EACIGRCUND STOHY 

Baptist Press 

3/22/1985 

FORT WFVH, Texas (BP)--Amid &arges a€ plitical implications and allegations a 

"pafane" man was being returned to the dassroan, Soutkwestern Eb#ist lbolcgical ~aninary 

trmtees Mar& 20 rejected a remendation frm the adninistration and their am acadmic 

affairs ommi ttee to fire a pafessor . 

The wte by secret lwllot was 19-12 to fire Farrar Patterson, associate ~ofesscar of 

amanmication and peadhing sin- 1969, but it fell tm mtes slmrt of the twthirds majority 

rewired by the seminary bylaws. 

It was 'believed to k the first time a motion to fire a profescur has been -ought to the 

Southestern trmtees since the institution was fomded in 1908, altbugh ~residmt Rwsell H. 

Dilday Jr . said sane hve resigned bzf ore their cases muld ccme to the bard. 

-. TTxi? Southern Baptist Convention plitical wntxoversy was puninat in the debate on the 

reacmmdtion to fire Patterson with several trmtees charging Dilday's involvement in the 

mntroersy ~aneed the reoanmendation. Dilday, in turn, contaded at least sane of the 12 

against the popsal were politically motivated. Farrar Patterson is rot related to Paige 

Patterson, president uE Criswell Center for Biblical Studies, wlm has been a leader uf one 

faction in the SBC mntrowrsy. 

" The balloting fallawed several burs a€ hearing3 by the academic affairs omnittee, which 

mted 8-1 for Patterson's dismissal, and discwsion by the full lPard on the reacmmendation 

that Patterson, w b recently was suspnded frcm his teeing duties, b dismissed. 

Dilday and the academic affairs ornmittee, chaired ly Drew Gunnells, pastor a€ spring ill 

-Gist Chur&, Mobile, Ma., brought a six-pint charge against Patterson, questioning: 

1) Lifestyle arad behavior, including prufanity and vulgar language, including cursing the 

dean of theology, critical a d negative drorrtations; 

2) Pmr example uf dhuxd-rmanship, includincj no record of active &urdananship, and 

marginal stewardship; 

3) Poor ~ality of work, including poor student evdluatiolg and apgraisals over the pars 

and no "scholarly apFeroach; 

4) Imubordi nat ion, including interference in D ilday' s accession to the pesidency and 

inter£ erene in the hi ring of others in the adninistration; 

5) Intentioral distcxtion aE the truth, including reprts of classes taken at North Texas 

State University in 1976; and a report @ven to an Arkansas pstor abut the facdty meeting in 

Nowmber 1984 in whi& Dilday' s right to spak out on the SBC mntroversy was a££ irmd by the 

faculty: 1 

6) Laek of respnse to significant warninq and attm@s to rim. Dilday said he had 

attempted to discuss the barges with Btterson, wlm lad refused. 

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Attern*.' To Fire Prcd 

Fails At Southestern 

page 2 

Dilday said he had attemged to discuss the barges with Fatterson, who hd ref~lsed and 

had told Dilday in a tele@one mn~rsation that the pesident was qing "to die" if he pursued 

the matter. Rtterson' s wife, Edwina, spke f ran the gallery that Dilday' s statement was mt 

trm, that she had overheard the mnwrsation. 

Dilday explained salary increases had denied to Patterson four times in the last few 

years because uf what was mrisidered an inadeqate performance and that he twice had ben given 

leaves witbut p y o m by former SWBTS President Rokrt E. Naylcar--to get his affairs in 

order. 

Dilday aclmowledged the incident fallanling the Novmber f acd ty meeting in which mtterson 

gave what Dilday called an erroneous reprt of the meeting to W .O. Vaught , pastor emeritus cd 

I rrmm~~l Ba@i st Chur* in LPttle Rock, was the " cdminat i ng" incident . 

Fatterson, who did not attend the faculty meeting, reprtedly called Vaught and reprted 

the faculty was divided on support of the president's right to spak out. Hawever the 

disagreement in the f acaty actually was on h the action in support uf the ~esident was to 

be desaibd, sources said. 

mtterson' s report to Vaught was reprted to Dilday by a ~lmida pstor, Dilday said. 

Fatterson was stmmoraed to Dilday's cdfice on Jan. 14. Dilday said he had represted the 

discussion bE! oonf ident ial , according to the faculty manual pocedures, but said mtterson had 

reprted it to others. Rtterson subsequently was suspended fran his teaching duties and the 

remendat ion ma& for hi s di smi ssal . 

Had it mt ben for the incident invlolving the xeprt to Vaught, Dilday said the matter 

likly would rot haw m e w. He added it was the final straw in a longten matter which 

slmuld have been dealt with peviously. He said had he &en ~esident at the time Patterson 

received tenure (it was granted while Robert E. Naylor was gresident) he would rot have mted 

to appow it. 

The pli tical mrtones *re repated in armnents fawring and opping the recxnrmmdation 

to fire Patterson. 

Ralg2-1 Pulley, atturney and member o£ First Chur&, Dallas, and wlm ma& the motion in the 

October 1984 meeting to curtai 1 Dilday' s onanents on SBC pol i ti c=s , was the m cst md., at one 

pint saying emmatically he would be heard m tbugh a call to cut off discmsion had been 

ma&. 

Fiilley cpestioned if Patterson hd been given due Fsrocess in the matter and moved early in 

the pooeeding to open the matter for disc~sion to hear fran sane a€ Patterson's studmts and 

others, including retired pofessor Cal Guy. 

Emrd Chairman Davis Cooper, pasta of University Hills ~alJtist Char&, Denwr, restricted 

prticiption in the discussion to trustees and adniAstration.- FUlley's motion to open it up 

f ai'led . 

It was mtd mast uf the trustees had heard the full discussion of the charges, including 

testimorry by Rtterson, at the meeting o£ the academic affairs mmnittee the evening befcare. 

-. The meeting had pne on mtil 12:45 a.m. 

Eblley and others questioned the ~msdure f ollmed in hinging the reaamnendation and the 

Dallas attorney mted many of the amplaints were mt of a recent nature and that the mast 

recent student evaluation, which f dlmed Rtterson' s first semester af teaching f ollwing 

sabhtical in 1982-83, had been good. 

Dean of-Theology William Tolar, while acknowledging the gwleml student evaluation of 

Patterson had been good, said Btterson' s perf arman- was rated by the students at 50 percent 

of that cb other facdty mmhrs, and that he had disclssed with Ritterson the aarges that he 

often came to dlass "totally un~epred" and had med "alxlsive, vulgar langmge." 

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Attern@- To Fire Prcd 

Fails At Soutlwwtern 

page 3 

Other westions were raised by Job MdCay, music evangelist and member of Gleslview Baptist 

Churd.1, Hurst, Texas, w b arnpred the treatment a€ Patterson to the "inquisition" of Jesus; 

Bill Grubbs, member of First Baptist Churd.1, Dallas, WID wiced mnoern over the systm of 

review, the lack of what he saw as " formal docunentatiod1 of the &arge and the incident with 

Vaught; Jim Bolton, also a mmbr of First Church, Dallas, who said he had called Vaught, who 

he said was his farmer pstm and had a letter frm him about the incident; 

James T. Draper Jr., pastor of First Ba@ist Church, Ness, Texas, wlm said he had talked 

to Patterson's pstor and was told he had not intmded for his report on Patterson's 

churdmmnship to be wed to fire him: Hugo LPdqist, pastor of Bethel Baptist Churd~, Oklma 

City, who cited "the political overtones" af the matter and told of positive reports fran 

Patterson' s f mer students: 

Dr. Kenneth L$lly, mgnber of First Baptist Church, Faurt Smith, Ark., wko qestioned when 

Patterson' s salary had been wi thbld, when kK had hen granted tenure and what " redemflive 

acts" had been initiated sin- the inquiry by Dilday; 

Billy Tolbzrt, pastor of El Tmo Baptist Churd~, El Tcrro, Calif., w b said he had ~ayed 

atout the matter and had talked with a student w b attri'lxrted his ability to share the qspel 

with having been in Patterson's dass. Tolkrt said in light cd that he muld mt support the 

remendation to fire Patterson. 

Others spoke in famr a£ the reocrmnendation, including the mnmi ttee &airman, Gunnells, 

w b answered Draper' s marks smut churchmanship, saying the other charges alone would justify 

Patterson' s dismissal . 

Stanley Hand, member of First E?a@ist Churd~, Orlando, Fla. , f amred the recommendation, 

saying while the action was "mfortunate," a "prdessar is mt doing his job, so President 

Dilday is doing his." He mted the orranittee was reacrrrmending mtterson bz- given a par's 

salary and fringe Mnefits. A person dismissed in secular 'trusiness would be lucky to get tm 

wee-' salary, he said. 

Milton Cunnincjham, pastor of Westby Baptist Churd~, Howton, cited the political nature 

of the discussion, and barged it had shifted f ran dealing with Patterson to "dealing with our 

wesident (Dilday) ." He arMed, "It is rn secret where this acmes f ran. It canes cut of one 

churh," an amrent referenoe to First Churd~, Dallas, where Pulley, Gr- and Blton are 

mmbrs; which bmes the Criswell Center fox Biblical Studies headed by mige Patterson, and 

wbse pastor, W.A. ~riswell, has criticiz~d the outspokenness of seminary pesidents in the SBC 

aontrowrsy. Cumin- said the seminary trustee meeting had a "hidden agenda." 

-. The Houston pastor moved to dose the disc~sion, pm+ing Pulley to insist he was "going 

to haw time to resprfl," regardless of the action. 

Others spaking for the remendation included Stephen Hyde, pastor af First Baptist 

Chur*, Silver Spring, Md., wM said he hd hen mnvinaed by Patterson's testimorry at the 

academic affairs cwmittee hearing, whi& he said seened to him to oontain "half truths, 

innuendoes and real anten* for the adninistration.'' 

The mte by secret ballot askd the trustees to wte "Yes" or "No" to the remendation 

f cur dismissal. Mtyone mtes wuld have been required of the 31 Fesent to sustain the 

xemmmendation. Cooper at first cast a ballot and then witmew it when he was told he auld 

mte only in case uf a tie. Currently, there are 34 trustees. One recently has moved and is 

no lo-r eligible to serve and amther was ill and unable to attend the meeting. 

McKay opposed the secret Mlot and also asked they be siqd in case of legal action. 

Uter, rather than risk amther split mte, the trustees by conaensus askd the academic 

a£ f airs manmi ttee to review the wble evalmtion procedure and mtterson' s future perfmance. 

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Fails At SoutWestern 

page 4 

Dilday said htterson muld bs returned to the classroan but the seminary would maintain 

the "highest expectation3 aE Christian behavia, quality churdmanship, quality academic and 

scholarship work, a qality spirit of relatiomhip and cooperatiow-the kind that rn exists, 

the harmony and unity the faculty row has ." 

While achledging sane do~lessly had me to their decision to oppse the dismissal 

recamendat ion out cb sincere mnviction, Dilday blamed pli tical ansiderat iorrs f car others. 

He said he muld not belie= the wte m t to sustain the a t t e e reammendation was an 

endmsenent af Patterson's record, and added, "I don't think anpne afl pu would want to be.. . 

responsible far answering to Southem Baptists why pu would endoxse saneone in this kind of 

key position in this seminary to the detriment a€ all the other faculty wlm std so firm in 

their psition." 

-' Though he said he would mt sqgest there b d been any mdinated e£ f cart by the 12 wlm 

mted against the reaarrmmdation, "I think behid your votes and decision3 made here are the 

other ccxnplicatiom d the plitical involvement cd our convention, my m psition in it, and 

in spite of sewral denials to the cpntrary, that is my only way of understanding ar 

ratiomizing hm any one of the 12 could pssihly have mted (the way pu did)." 

Pulley noted he had smt a memo to all the trmtees follwing last October's meeting 

regarding Dilday' s plitical involvement. He asked them to review that memo and mcouram 

them to write to Dilday. 

Dilday said following the meeting he would review his political inmlvrment. 

' The pesident told the Bagkist Stardard, nws journal cb the Baptist General Convention of 

' Texas, that in spite cb the mte he did mt corsider it an illdimtion of lack of mnfidence in 

his ~esidency and that he k d given absolutely rus mmideration to resigning. 

Dilday said March 22 he and Vicepresident J h N-rt and Tolar had met the previom day 

with mtterson about a " remgagement plan" to return him to the dassrmn . - Tky sat dam 

responses and aorditiors, Dilday said, under whi& the p~Eessm will return to his duties. 

The mte a€ the trustees was mt to fire Patterson, Dilday said, ht it is the duty of 

the adninistxation to follaw thraagh on his return to teming. 

After the mte rejecting his dismissal, Btterson told the Stardard he was @eased with 

the action. He declined to say whether plans legal action. Late Friday, after the 

meeting with Dilday, Newpxt and Tdar, Fbtterson issued a brief statenat: "I deeply regret 

all this cane up. Nm I want to get hck to m k and do the best job I can with the students. 

I an grateful far those who supported me." 

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(Druin, associate editor of the mflist Standard, newsjournal a€ the Baptist General Corntion 

o£ Texas, wovided news mverage af the trustees meeting at the rewest d E3a@ist Press. )

92ripture , Mission Action 

Explmed At WMU Callas Meeting 

AWANCE WERrnD STORY 

Baptist Press 

3/26/1985 

WUAS (BP)--The accanplishnents of Southern Ba*ist mission effcrrts-ad sane a€ the 

met needs--will be outlined apinst scriptural guidelines Jme %10 at the annual natioraL 

meeting aE the Wanan' s Missiomry Union. 

- The tmday meeting, held in the Dallas Comention Center arena inmediately pior to the 

annual Southern Bagkist Comtion, has been built a r d a thane taken £ran Revelation 2:4-- 

"I have sanething against thee. . .thou hast left thy first low." 

Mission speakers frm Harlem, New Yark; Vermont; Texas; Kentucky; Whington, D.C. ; New 

Haphire, Maine, and Maryland will focus on h e mission efforts while missioraries to 

Lebansn, Gmtemala, Eastern Europe, Bo&uthatswarm and natiorals f ran China and Mexiao will 

look at what Southern &Gists are doing to evangelize t he outside the United States. 

A highli@t will I=e the Morday evening "rally aromd M.A.P. S.-Missiorr; and Prayer, 

Eeople, Places and Priorities." It will be sponsored jointly with the Wmen's Missiomry Union 

by the Hane Mission Ebard, the ~oreiy Mission Bwrd, the Baptist Sunday School bard, and the 

Brotherhood C d ssion in moperat ion with the m@i st General Comtion of Texas and the 

Directors of Missions Corderme. 

The ni&t will include the premiere of poduc?tion mmic £ran the new Bold Mission l'hrmt 

dramatic musical, "2000 A.D." and a missions news sunmary ~esented by R. Keith Parks, 

president of the Faceiq Mission ]bard, and Willian G. Tanner, pesident UE the Hane Mission 

bard whid.1 will look at four statss in the USA and five geografic areas arand the world. 

Bill Pinson, executive director of the Baptist General Comtion of. Texas, will give the 

closing address. 

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800 Students Sign 

Petition Far Dilday 

AWzwz, BACrGRCUND STORY 

Ba$ist Press 

3/29/85 

FOHT WTcTH, - Texas (BP)-convicted the March 20 action of Soutlwestern mptist Theological 

Seminary tr~tees to retain a wufessar was "political" and "pu can k right in what p u 

believe Iwt wrong in what pu pactice," at least one student is circdating a petition in 

support of President Rwsell H. Dilday Jr. and the trvstees aE the academic affairs cxrranittee. 

Jiv Ebckett , religiom education student and a missions volunteer, told the Ehptist 

Standard, Eh*ist General Convention ul Tews n&lrsjournal, he has more than !30 signatures on 

the petition and bps to ham at least 1,000 be£ me pesenting it to Dilday next week. He 

said he has heard other similar petitions are being circulated among the 3,615 students at the 

seminary this sgring. 

Fucktt said he qt the idea for the petition follming the action of the trustees who 

mted 19-12 (tw votes sbrt of the tm-thirds majrmrity required) to fire Farrar Patterson, 

associate pofessar of ccmmunication and peaching. Dilday and the academic affairs cxrmni ttee, 

which mted &1 for dismissal, had reatrnmended mtterson be fired. 

Pucbtt said he attended the trustee meeting and did mt lih what he saw. "I just felt 

lih it (the trustee action) was political," he said. They were attacking Dr. Dilday and the 

methods they were using were just mt ri@t ." 

Puchtt, a mylar University graduate wbse father, James Puckett, is pstm uf First 

Ba$ist Church, Msinney, Texas, said, "I am comermtive and I have had bsically the same 

aonaerns that Paige Patterson and Ebul Pressler hw had and I have supported them hsically in 

their gods up until the board meeting. 

"Wlt what I saw ping on in the tr~tee bard meeting greatly alarmed me. I jmt at that 

point felt pu can be right in what you believe but wrong in what 4;ou ~actice." 

The petition idea was o~npletely his, he said. - The only inflmce was the bard meeting. 

"When I saw what was going on, I reali~d then that maybe sane a€ om comervatiw 

kothers haw qne too far . I hew then that I needed to do sanething to maybe mmter this 

extreme action. I really blieve that Dr. Dilday is a mllservatiw and wanted to enmurage 

him. So I jmt started on my own to bgin this petition and haw talked to so many students 

w b felt the same way." 

-TIE petition states: "We the students d Southvestern ... wish to e-ess our support and 

aweciation of the leabrship of President Rmsell H. Dilday Jr. and we wish to achledge 

and affirm our mnfidence in lmth President Dilday and the academic affairs arranittee." 

Most students have been "really anxiom" to siq and have told h im they think it is a good 

idea, Fuckett said. Several--"mt many1--haw told h im they disagree with him. 

"Quite a few told me they would like to siy the ptition ht were afraid--fearful. for 

their future-it m ight affect: their job dawn the road or their seminary career," he said. 

Askd wlmn m y were afraid of, he answered, -"This pli tical faction led by Pressler and 

Patterson. Quite a few said they were afraid. " 

Pucbtt said the petition mainly jmt has been circuated bet- dasses became the 

seminary allows rn petitions to b placed on camp^. 

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100 Soutkanrest ern Faca ty 

Support President Dilday Ey Toby Dsuin 

AWANCE BFU3EROWD STORY 

Baptist Press 

3/29/85 

F W WHTH, Texas (BP)-Responding to the charge that recent action of the trustees d 

Southwestern Ehflist Theological Seminary impired the leadership of President Rmsell H. 

Dilday Jr., 100 out of 101 mhrs cb the seminary faculty have siwd "an open letter to 

f ellw Southern Ba@istsW affirming the ~esident 

Cnly Farrar Patterson, associate ~ofessor af aommmication and peaching, w-se dismissal 

was reammended kry Dilday but rejected by the tr~lstees Mar& 20 w h it failed to get a ttmthirds 

majcrity mte, failed to siw the letter. 

There currmtly are 101 wting manbers of the faculty. Dilday and two vicepesidents, 

Jokrn Neqort and Jeter Basden, wb are faculty members were mt asked to siy. ' Tvm other 

facaty members, Marvin L ee, visiting prafessar of missiors and L; Jack Gray, wM is retired 

lxlt still t ees, also sigd the letters. 

Earl R. Martin, ~ofessar of missiorrs and world religions, praposd the letter to a 

meeting af the facuty March 22, fallawing the trustee action and news reprts aonaerning it. 

- The apen letter states: 

"W, the mdersiyed mmbers of the faccilty af Southwestern Ba@ist Theological Seminary, 

Fart Worth, Texas, in the li#t af recent developnents and Fess reprts, wish to affirm our 

wesident, -sell Dilday. He stands tall in the line uf illmtriow pesidents d this 

institution. His adninistration fm the past six years has been distinguished by a 

thedlqically consermtiw stanae. He has led this saninary to significant grmth at every 

lewl . Urder his ~esidency Soutwestern hs mntinued its ri& heritage of achmncing the 

Kingdm of God through evangelism and world missions . We a££ irm, contrary to the suggestion 

that the recent trwteesl action has impired his leadership, that, indeed, he enjoys our full 

aordidene . 

"This letter bas mme about spntaneomly. It is ocmpletely idepndent a€ the 

adhistration. By this, we mdersmre our solidarity in support a€ our ~esident." 

Martin said 56 of the faculty members imediately siwd the letter at the faculty meeting 

ad the other 44 did so in the few days following. Sane, on sabhtical, or out of town, were 

aontacted by tdeghone ad indicated by telegrm arr tele@one mnversations that they wanted 

their names affix~d to the letter. 

Martin, w b joind the seninary faculty in 1982 after more than 25 years as a Southern 

Ba#ist missiomry in east Africa, em@asid in an interview with the Baptist Standard, 

newsjourndl. a€ the Baptist General Comtion cd Texas, the letter was mpletel-y irdependent 

of Dilday and the seninary adninistration. 

Neither Dilday mr any manber of the sdnarry adtninistration hew of the letter mtil it 

was read in the Mar& 22 faculty meeting, Martin said. 

Martin said he is M "campigner ol: crusader," lxlt falladng the trustee action on the 

Patterson matter and a nws story in the Fart Worth Star- Telegran about it, he said he felt 

sane exgression needed to be made to shm suppwt for Dilday. 

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100 Soutlwestem Facdty 

Sumr t President Dilday 

m9e 2 

In the Star Telegram story, reporter Jim Jones quoted Houston Judge Paul Pressler as 

saying in regard to Dilday's reormmendation of the dismissal a€ Patterson: "I don't know Dr. 

Patterson. mt I think this (firing incident) is mther example of the inept altninistration 

which has caused Russell Dilday to lose respect and confidenoe of many at the seminary and many 

on the lxMrd of trustees." 

Martin said he discussed the trmtee action and Pressler's mat infarmally with other 

faculty rnmkrs and then asked tm of than "wb axe @ with wardsw--Scott Tatun aryd Harold 

Freeman, both pdessms d preadhing-to help him draft the letter. 

"We did our best to Fepre a letter that we £el t reflected the general tenor of the 

f acuty," EJBrtin said. 

He said sane had mted the letter apl~cach was a " risk" which auld bacMire if only a 

small peraentage siwed. Martin said he told then it was time to take a risk. 

The 100 out of 101 resprse is "overwhelming--bprd my wildest drem," he said. 

He denied any pessure was exlerted on any faculty manber to sign the letter--that the 56 

had done so spntaneously at the faculty meeting and many siyed afterward, not knowing what 

their mlleaps had done. 

Pressler, apised of the facdty action by the Stanlard, contended it was instigated by 

Dilday. 

"I am aware af the fact that Dr. Dilday is trying to bolster his psition by nuneras 

ways," Pressler said in a tele&one interview. "One, a petition among students, whi& I heard 

f ran ~e Fmt Worth Star Telegram, had been able to garner less than 300 siqatures among the 

over 5,000 students (sic) at Southestem. I had mt heard of the (faculty) letter &It I an 

not sur~ised at all." 

(-ding to semimy records, there actmly are 3,516 students enralled at the s&ml 

fm the 1-5 sping semester.) 

- Told of the 100 siqatures , Pressler said he beliews it is "obvious to anybody with any 

intelligsnce at all," that such an action by the faculty would be instigated by Dilday. 

"I think Russell Dilday w ill do ewrything he can to blster his position and put gressure 

on those in the s&ml to give him credenue," Pressler said. 

"I think e vemy knows the pl i tical activity uf Rlssell Dilday has caused a 

polarization among the students, among the faculty, amoq the lsoard and that the smimry has 

sLdfered greatly under the adninistration of Rwsell Dilday," Pressler added. 

Martin dismissed the tkrought uf Wessure by Dilday. 

"I think this kind of talk is prniciow and comtexpodLEctive and prsors who persist in 

such a thing as mqiwcal as this slm their true alars, " he said. "This kind of pernicious 

innuendo and casting of smpiciom has to stop. I m not saying we are qing to stop it, lxrt 

this is an effart to stop it." 

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Live Co~rage Anmmced 

Of Annual Convention 

AWAKF, BXFGROLND STORY 

Ba@ist Press 

3/1/85 

NASHVILLE (BP)-The 1985 Southern Baptist Comtion will be transmitted live £ran Dallas 

on the Baptist Telwwnmdcation N etmk Jme 11-13. 

The gavel-to-gawl coverage of the mnvmtion will begiri Tuesday, Jme 11, at 8:30 a .m. 

(CUP.), and conclude with adjourrnnent Thursday, Jme 13, at 4:30 p.m. acaxdling to officials uf 

the Ba@ist Sunday School Board. 

An&ors f m the average will be Ganer LBsch, anchor of SBC Newscene and senior BZN 

mmultant at the Sunday Sd-1001 Wrd, and Dick McLlartney, editor of the Oklha Baptist 

Messenger. 

"The Southern heist Comtion in Dallas will be like a vast tawn hall meeting and 

should b of keen interest to Ba@ists all across the Comtion, 'I said Lloyd Elder, president 

of the bard which opxates BRJ. 

"We are pleased to wing this siyificant mt to Southern Baptists via BTN. I u r ~ 

informed and grayerful prticiption in this most significant time in Southern Baptist life." 

Joe Denney, manager of the teleccmmunicatiorrs deprtmmt , said coverage will include hrief 

weviews and wrapups d ea& session as well as every action af the mnmtion, induding 

Ixlsiness, the pesidmt's address, the annual oonvention sermon and agency reports. Special 

events such as the news mnferenoe uf the newly elected pesident also will be aovlered live. 

Denney urged all BZN sukcrihrs-&ur&es, associatiors, state aonmtiom and SBC 

amciee-to open their facilities and enmurage persom in the area to wat& sessions aE the 

conwntion. All BmJ subcribers will receive an "SBC '85 Sukcriber Particiption Guide," 

outlining ways to Fanote viewing of corntion sessions, Denney said. 

As d Jan. 31, a total a€ 4,433 churd~es hve access to BTN through &ur& or association 

subcripiom, Dmey said. 

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Draper Warns Stanley 

Defeat May Collapse CP By Craig Bird 

AWANCE BACrnUND STORY 

Ba#ist Press 

3/2 9/8 5 

RICHmD, Va. (BP)- he Coaperative Prqram muld collape and tlmusands cb dhurches micjht 

withdraw financial support if Charles Stanley is defeated for a semrd Far as president a€ the 

Southern &Fist Convention, Jmes T. Draper Jr. has warned. 

Draper, president af the SBC 1982-84, told the Baeist Public Relations Association annual 

meeting in Ricknnord, Va., heads d Southern Baptist institutiors are leading a "massive 

attan*. . .financed with Cooprative Prqatn funds" to deny Stanley a semrd Far as SBC 

president . 

Stanley, pastor of First E?a&ist Churd~ of Atlanta, already has mmmd he will aLlcrw 

his name to be presented for a seco1-d on+Far ten as ~esident cd the 14.3-million member 

denomination. Under SBC bplaws, a psident may ser* tkl~ mrse~utive oneyear terms. 

-- Tradi tiornlly, a pesident who wishes to serve a semd tern has keen mopposed . However, 

in the pst five years, incunbent pesidmts haw hen &allen@ fcr the s ad term. 

Already, ef f acts are underway to momt a campi- challenging Stanley at the 1W5 annual 

meeting, s&eduled for Jme 11-13 in Dallas. 

Draper said if Stanley is defeated, "kY3W can we expect his churd-~ to aontin~le to give 

$500,000 to the Southern mptist Convention.. .and tlmusands cb &urd.les muld ~obl5Ly fdlw 

that lead in refusing to swrt the convention any lopr." 

In an interview fallwing his presentation, Draper was asked what the &ur& where he is 

pstor muld do if Stanley is defeated. He replied the d~urch, First Elaptist Churd-~ of Euless, 

- Tews, mi@t escranl its denominational gifts (apyxdmately $400,000 this par) if Stanley is 

defeated, "to force people to sit Cbm and adopt a strategy to resolve our ~mems." 

Drapr, also a trwtee uf Southvestern Baptist- Theological Seminary in Fart Wolrth, Texas, 

said he would "be speaking in eery chur& I can beteen mw and June" to pcmote Stanley's 

reelect ion. 

EIe told more than 150 BPRA mbers £ran Southern &@st rntioml and state institutions 

he had attended a recent meeting with leaders of the effart to turn the mnmtion into a mare 

conservative direction. "We said sin- we haw already been accused (of being highly organized 

politically), tried and wnvicted, we might as well go ahead ad amnit the crime. We will be 

there in Dallas and we will be mganimd." 

He said the "organizatiodl earlier h d ben rn mcre than "600 names on (Houston judge) 

Bul Pxessler's persoml mprter, with a mntact pexson in ea& state they (Pressler and Bige 

Patterson, associate pastor uf First Baptist Church of Dallas) smd material to." 

Hmewr, he charged an mnamed SBC institution with using its mputers and a 46,000 name 

mailing list fur ~olitical prpses. Draper declined to name the institution, but referred to 

Baylor University and Southwestern Baflist magical Seninary and mted "bth of them .have 

about that nunber on their mailing lists." 

"I am not accusing than of sending out clardestine letters, ht they are using their 

mailing lists to make sane accusatiors, to cmganiz~ a partisan agmda and to create hysteria. 

All you haw to do is look at the Baylor ~fne, other Baylor micatiom and to read 

Soutkwestern News f cw the last nine months to b able to see that, " he said. 

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Draper Warns Stanley 

Defeat May Collapse CP 

page 2 

The Baylm ~ine and Soutlwestern News are alunni publicatiors uf the insti tutiom . 

"Where is the mnaern for (Russell) Dilday's artisan involvement in mnmtion 

politics?" he asked. He also referred to Southern Baptist- Thedl@cal Seminary President Roy 

C. Honeycat and chastised him far "declaring Holy War against his Christian kothexs." 

Later he said Dilday, president a€ Soutlwestern seminary, is "reportedly using 50 percent 

of his time trying to defeat Stanley. ..ad he is mt qing off salary fur that time so he is 

using Cooprative Prqram funds." 

"You may disagree with me," he told his audience. "But I m your Christian brother." 

Drapr said there are times he leans against the wall car pts his head on his desk and 

weep m r the anger and lmstility being expressed in the SBC, but insisted that tirednsss 

muld rot came him to stop. 

"It daesn' t matter wb 'wins' in Dallas if it is a hostile convention," he said. "Becawe 

if it is bstile we all lose. I'd bp Charles Stanley would be reelected witbut opposition." 

Despite his &arges a€ institutional leership opposing Stanley, Drapr said he believes, 

"in the integrity of ea5h of tlmse mm (institutioml headts), I don't want anyboay fired. EUt 

I do wish we could hear in public what sane a€ than say in pxivatethat we do hve problems." 

While agreeing it is inaccurate to call any group in the SBC "lihral" ad dedlaring his 

distaste for all terms currently hing used (liberal, moderate, consenmti~, ultraaonservatim 

and fundamentalist- terms he &led "weasel wmds because they mem different 

thin9 to different people"), Drapr insisted it is an oversimplification to say tm grq, one fran the right side of the spectrun and one £ran Ehe left side af the spectrun within the 

SBC, are -wing all the ~aroblans. 

"There is a third group-the institutioml group-whi& is p hbly the most dan-rom. I 

think it is dhanging, ht &ten sinaere inquiry is treated with sustpicion and institutions feel 

they must grotect themselves. That is why it has ' appeared' that institutions have me dawn 

on the 'roderate' side." 

"We have had enough gripe sessiowwhat we need is to sit dam and talk abut solutiom 

to our ~roblems." 

Draper said the convention muld h better served if all SBC institutions qned their 

trustee meetings to reprters. "We all filter things through grid of our experienaes. There 

will be less distoxtiow-arrd I man uf our pre$ions-if we see sanething ourselves instead 

of having saneone tell us what happened. " 

He said SBC journalists are in a key position to deal with the SBC situation. 

"Please help us," he said. "This anvention muld die.. .if kvsstilities mntinue to build 

there will be a great @ling away f ran the Coaperative Prcqram. Thm what are we going to & 

-mil pstcards to all our missionaries arand the world and ask them which side they are on, 

ask them wM they want to p y their salaries? 

'We may b living in the days a€ the death of this denanination ar in the day of the 

f orerumer af the greatest revival in the histmy of the denanination. You shap public 

opinion.. .be Chxistians first and journalists secord." 

When asked if he were trying to influence "~IMYE~ 

icial" SBC news publicatiorrs , Draper 

said he was trying, but mt very successfully. "I ha= read things in sane publicatiors that 

are mklievahle, " he said. "But Rws Kaemmerling (editor cb the Southern Ba@ist Admeate) is 

the only one that will talk to me. I have wri ttm to the editm of The Call: 85 abut an 

incorrect story, but have mt heard f ran him, and the latest issue a£ SBC Today is full of 

misinformation. Wlt I do spend a lot a€ time trying to get Russell Kaemmerling not to be what 

is his nature-sarcastic." 

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Cooperative Program 

Beccmes Battlegromd By Dan Martin 

AWAKE BACIQGRmD S'IWY 

%&tist Press 

4/4/85 

NASMIILU, Tenn. (BP)- he Coaperative Prqam, Southern Baptists' mified plan af 

supporting missiors and education, could be seriomly damaged ly the mntinuing controversy 

in the 14.3-million member &mmimtion, key leaders believe. 

Fcarmer SBC President James T. Draper Jr. warned the Cooperative Prcgam auld collape if 

current pesident Charles Stanley is defeated during the 1985 annual meeting in Dallas. 

Draper, pastor of First Baptist Chur* of Euless, Terns, said "thowads uf churches" 

could witlfkw supprt if a "massive attat@. . .finand by Coaperative Program funds" ad led 

by demninatioml executives is sucmssf ul in denying Stanley a semrd oneyear ten. 

Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, said: "I think Jimmy (Draper) is 

trying to get people's attention. He is trying to get them to adnit we have poblms and to te 

willing to sit fhm and talk almut then. If godly men will sit dGcrwn a d talk about these 

~oblms like qdly men, we can me to agreement. If we don' t and aontin~ to call ea& other 

names, we have major groblems," Stanley said. 

Stanley said First Baptist Chwdh, Atlanta, has doubled Cooperative Program giving to 

$250,000 fm 1985, and has "ma* m pwision to do anything, whether I win or lose." 

He mated the way Southern BaFists "go m ut facing our poblems" auld affect the 

denomination' s witness. ,"The worst thing that oould h a p is that our witness muld p dmn 

the drain. It auld hurt cry church and every pstor if we act in an Mhrist-like manner. 

We can either Monstrate a beautiful example af hm Christians can settle their differences, 

or we can demollstxate an attitude that muld destroy our witness for generatiom to me." 

Baptist Press antacted b y leaders for respme to Draper' s amnents, including pastors 

of the f iw churhes which gave the largest anomts to the Cmpsxative Program, and twr, pastors 

frcm ea5h of the -sing wings af the denmination. 

The pstor: of the top Cooperative Prqram &ur&, Dan Vestal of ~irst Baptist Church of 

Midland, Texas, said: "The wMle Cooperative Prqran and mission enterprise uf Southern 

heists is based on txmt. My greate~it fear since the kginning.. .is that our txmt whi& 

holds m to~ther is being e r a , " said Vestal, wbse &ur& pve $944,512 thrcugh the 

Coaperativle Pxcgram last year. "It will inevitably aff ect our giving." 

Vestal said the aura is "arnrmitted to the mperative way of missions and theolcgical 

education." He added: "The distr~lst in the damtination is graving, and I grieve aid lment 

Wut that. The f i$t in the convention is dessing LB. Winning people to ~hrist ad 

hilding up churches is taking semd @ace. The mntrwlersy is possessing ad obsessing us." 

John Sullivan, pastor of Brm&om Baptist Chur& of Shrewprt , La., said: I doubt the 

Cooperative Program is so fragile it w ill allape, but there is m doubt it will b hurt." 

Bra!dmor Ba@ist Churd~, which last year gave $588,858 as the fifth flace CP church, "has 

no intention af doing anything other than supporting the C-rative Program," Sullivan said. 

He said the basic issue in the di spte is " m e @los@cal than theological. " The 

question is: 'Will I support significantly that whi& I m t weciably control?' I think 

we m s t get a mttee together and kgin negotiating our differences. I me 'negotiation' 

advisedly, because in a negotiation, no one gets everything he wants." 

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Coaperative Program 

Beccmes Battleground 

mge 2 

Jim Henry, pastor of First Baptist Church of Orlando, Fla., said he blieves the 

Cooperative Program "is king used by bth sides and I hate to see that happn. I haw a 

ao~oern that saw would grade spirituality by hckJ much they give. I also do mt think it is 

fair to use it (the CP) as a tool to hdger others to take aertain psitiom." 

Henry, wbse &ur& was mked third with gifts a€ $626,532, said the cnngregation "has rn 

plans to anything other than what we are doing. Of course, if we see a deteriaration (in 

the theological stance af natioml agencies ) we would have to aorrsider hanqs. " 

Ri&ard Jackson, pastor of Nmth *mix (Ariz. ) Baptist Church, where the cpngregation 

placed second with $687,500 in gifts last year, said it is his hope mntrilxtiors will re& 

the $1 million lewl smn. 

"Several years agD I was mminatd for president (of the SEC)," Jackson said. "I didn't 

get elected. The next year the doubled its giving. I don't think the laypeople in this 

amtion want to see missiors giving used to hold anything over an-' s head. I think a 

lot af pstors will be surpised if they try (to withbld CP giving). 

Winfred Mome, pastor af First Baptist Church of Amarillo,. Texas, and widely touted as the 

man w b will run against Stanley at the 1985 a nnu meeting, said the Texas congregation " will 

keep right on giving jmt lib it has been" regardless a€ wlm is elected. ' The church, whi& 

last year placed fourth with $591,428, will do so, said Moare, "bcause we are giving to the 

LWd to his mrk." 

Adrian Rogers, pstor of Bellevue Baptist Chur* of Memphis, and pesident OE the SBC for 

one term (1980), said he is "acnrmitted to the Southern BaIjist Convention and to mprative 

missions . But I have a higher ccmuni tment and that is to the Word of God. " 

He said if he leaws Dallas feeling the "aomtion has taken a direction away £ran the 

Wmd of W, then we would have to make a decision smut hckJ we muld place our money so as to 

be as cooprative as possible w itbut ocmpanise. We have sane deep theological mnvictiorr; 

a d I will mt crmify tbse mnvictions on the altar of cooperation." 

William L. Self, pastor of Wiema Road Baptist Churc5 in Atlanta, and a leader o£ the 

moderate faction, said the &ur& "did not witmaw funds whm the 'fundamentalists' took over 

in 1979. 1 am a Southern Baptist by conviction, not by comenienae." 

He referred to the effart to witwld funding as "manipilation and intimidation. We are a 

family a d families don't do that to one mther." 

l'm other representatives are pessimistic about the future. 

"I know of mkody w b can king m tqther kmwe the issues are so deep and strong," 

said miley E. Smith, president af the SBC 1980-81, and pstor af First Southern Ebptist Church 

of Dd City, Okla. "We have tm denminations row; we should jmt adnit it and move on." 

Snri th said the OMahcPna Citysuhrban &ur& cut CP giving fran $175,000 in 1984 to 

$125,000 this year as a protest against a "seminary ~esident w b is wing armd the amtry 

on Ccmprative Program money trying to defeat Charles Stanley. My deamrs said they weren't 

going to py for that. I had to mrk to kep than £run c&ting it more." 

Cecil Sherman, ~stor af Brcadway Baptist Chur& in Fort Worth, Texas, said he has "given 

uphope" af a reconciliation. He called the threat to witWro1d or witl-draw funds 

"intimidation, bullying ad pkting a gun to the head of the denoanination." 

"These 'fmdamentalistsl have a medieval frame d mid: they are right and everpne else 

is wrong. I am not willing to create an autharitative arrangement where they how the ' mind of 

the Lard' ad all the rest at us beme senrile and fdlm. I would giw upmy mptist 

birthriglnt if I listened to that kind of piom bullying," he said. 

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FOC Refers Durham Canplaint 

To Department Of ~ustice By Wry Chesser 

A W m BAmmmm STORY 

Baptist Press 

4/4/85 

WASlWGlXN (BP)-W Federal ~anmdcatiom Camnission has concluded its investigation of 

a canplaint alleging Houston apals court judge Paul Pressler taped and released to the press 

ptions a€ a telerjhme anversation with a Southern Baptist seminary student and has referred 

the matter to the Deprtment of Justice. 

J. Staffmd Durham, a stude~t at Southern Baptist Thealqical Seminary, LauisviLle, Ky., 

f ild an infarmal canplaint with the Sept . 14, 1W4 alleging Presslex taped their S@. 1, 

1984 telephone mnversation w itbut his @or consent m lumwledge and later released pnctiom 

of the taped conversation whidh appeared in a Houston newspapr. 

The FC follwed its mrmal processes in asking ATsrT ChmLnzications and Southwestern Bell 

to investigate the taping camplaint, In their reprts to KX3, both canpanis said they 

communicated to Pressler that taping phone 03nversations witbut picar consent violates tariff 

provisions uder whi& they operate, but that the Texas appeals murt judge ref used to answer 

questims abut the matter. 

A spokesperson fclrr FC said Durham's canplaint was forwarded to the Jmtice Departmmt 

because o£ its allegaticm that partiom ob the tap were released to the press. 

"If we receive a -plaint here at thg-Comnission and it is mt sanething within our 

jurisdiction, we routinely refer the matter to the federal m state agency ar agencies that 

would have jurisdiction over the issues raised," said Kathi Kneff , a public utilities 

specidlist with m. 

"In this particular canplaint the release o£ the infoerrnation of the alleged tape would be 

a civil matter mt within our jurisdiction," she added. 

A Juatiee Departmmt spkesman told Baptist Press the question in such cases is whether 

information released frm the taps is "wed far injurious means." 

Acccrrding to Kneff, the taping of a conversation without prior consent m bwledge of the 

parties involved violates tariff regulatiom. After substantiating suzh violations, a warning 

£ran local *one a~npanies is mrmally issued and a loss aE service muld result if violations 

cant inue . 

AltMrgh neither AT&T mr Southestern Bell irrdicated in reports to the F X they had 

substantiated Durham's allegations, Kneff wrote Durham the -pies were "adewately 

responsive" to the crmplaint mtice, 

"The phone asmpanies were responsive to our -plaint mtice e m though it is mt clear 

the cdlls were placed in their territory," beff told Baptist Press. 

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FOC Refers Durham Canplaint 

-To Deprtmmt Of Justice 

Pap 2 

In its reprt to the FQC, Soutlwestern Bell stated a ampmy official contacted Durham w M 

describd the circumstances cb the mnversation he alleged was taped and released to the 

Houston Chronicle. 

Later, the Soutlwestem Bell official cont~ted Pressler "tm advise him of Mr. Durham's 

allegation to the ?XX .It 

TIE reprt said "Judge Pressler declined to camtent on the accwation" and the Bell 

representative "verified that Jud- Pressler is aware tMt such an action wuld be a violation 

of the tariff ." The repxt concluded that the mmny was "unable to sukstantiate Mr. Durham's 

allegation. " 

In its repwt, ATGT mted it was " iqible" to determine whether it cr sane other 

interexmange carrier provide3 the service to the calling party. Hmever, its afficials 

contacted Durham and Pressler in mspnse to F0(3's anplaint mtice. 

' The AT&T report said a ampany official contarcted Pressler in March "to determine if he 

had used ATr;T Clcnanunications service to call Mr. Durham of Stamping Grcrund, Kentucky, and 

recorded the convzrsatim without prim consent and to infarm Judge Pressler that had he done 

so, he would have been in violation of the AT&T Ccrronunicatiom F.C.C.-Tariff NO. 1. Jud- 

Pressler refused to answer any questions regarding this canplaint." 

- The FCC has farwarm the repxts to Durham along with a c w of its letter to the Jwtice 

Deprtment . Kneff said this action aoncludes FCC' s handling of the matter unless Dmham elects 

to file a fmmal canplaint with the agency. -3G-

Drapr, Smith, Rogers 

Discuss SBC On CBN By Craig Bird 

AWANCE EWKGROUND STORY 

Baptist Press 

4/4/85 

NASHVIUE, Tan. (BP)-The graving unrest in the Southern Baptist Convention mntinues to 

attract attention f ran outside the 14.3-mi llion member denomination. 

During the last week in Mar& the three innnediate past presidents of the SBC appeared on 

the 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, to explain their perspective of the mntroversy and to 

underline the imprtance of the current vesident, Charles Stanley, being reelected next June. 

James T. Drapr Jr. (president 1%2-84), Bailey Snri th (1%0-82) and Adrian Rogers 

(1979-80) appeared on the natioml talk shckJ ad gave examples (without mes) of what they see 

as a pulling-away £ran abelief in the inerrancy of the Bible. 

The program also included filmed camments £ran the presideslts of tm Southern Baptist 

semimries u us sell Dilday of Soutl-westem Baptist Theological Seminary in Fcrt Worth, Texas, 

ad Roy C . Honeycutt of Southern Baptist Theolqdcal Seminary in L&uisville, Ky. ) who hve been 

outspoken in their defmse of the theological ad evangelical integreity of their schmls. 

Also interviewed on film was Peg Witts, an ahin& minister who co-pastas a Southern 

h@ist churdl in Durham, N.C., with her husband, and F?,d Young, pstor of Secod Baptist Church 

of Houston. 

Rogers, whose election in 1979 signaled the public outbeak of the struggle between so- 

called "cx)nservatives" and "derates, " said semimry professors, "believe the Bible is 

inspired" and contains the revelation of spiritual truth, "but they do mt think it can 'm 

depded on historically w scientifically." One example, he said, is same Old Testamglt 

passages almut the nature of God, are damplayed as reflecting an inadequate or liini td 

'mwledge o£ the true nature af God. 

Drapr said the "only hope" of continuing the turning of the SE3C to a more mnservative 

stance is the reelection of Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Chu11d-1, Atlanta. 

He ad Robertson, wbse "idepmdmt" ministries include a university, television 

netwrk, missions a d evangelism effarts financed in part by on-air solicitations over the 700 

Club, explained hw the reelection of Stanley could be advand by Southern Baptist viewers. 

Robrtson urged churches to respord to the "crisis" in the SBC and send properly elected 

messengers to Dallas next June to supprt Stanley. 

- The three SBC ptms raper f ran First Baptist Church, Ness ,- Texas; mi th f ran ~irst 

Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla., and Rogers, £ran Bllewe Baptist Chur&, Mmphis, 

- Tenn.) joined hands as Rabertson prayed far the SBC ard asked that God's spirit prodme a 

"unity-rot aT ccmplranise but unity on the authcsrity of pur ward." 

Robertson is the secod praninent, mwSouthem Baptist to go public in s u p t of the 

reelection of Stanley in recmt months. Earlier this year, Jerry Falwell pedicted a split of 

the denomimtion if Stanley is mt reelected. - 30--

SBC Fmun Returns 

Far Secord Year 

A W m BAaGRaJND STORY 

Ba@ist Press 

4/11/85 

DALIdS ( BP)-The s a d annual meeting af the SBC Form dl1 be Morday, Jme 10, f ran 

1:30-5 :00 p.m. in the West Hall ct€ 'the Dallas Convention Center. 

Begun last year in Kansas City, Mo., the Form cdfers in its second Far an e-ed 

program a d dbuhled seating capcity. Organi~rs expected last year's attendanoe UE over 

2,000 to increase si~pificantly this year. 

Featured speakers and their messages include Janes Flamming, pastor of First Baptist 

Chur*, Ridmord, Va., - "Ortdoxy of Love;" R-11 Lolley, ~esident a€ Southeastern Baptist 

' Theological Seminary, Wake Fcaest, N.C. - "Integrity in proclaiming the Gospel:" Catherine 

Allen, associate executive director of Wanan's Missionary Union - 'The Doctrine cb First 

Thing; " Cecil Sherman, pastor of Brmdway Baptist Churd~, Fart Worth, Texas - "To Twt 

Again, " and Willian Self, pistor of Wieucla Road Baptist Church, Atlanta - 'What They Don' t 

' Tea& You at a E?a@ist Preacher's School." 

CBSI Television news analyst Bill Eaoyers also is d t t e d to speak if mt called away on 

spcial assignment. presiding far the sand time is Gene Garrison, pastor of First Baptist 

Chur*, Oklahcma City. 

Featured musicians include Christian artists Cynthia Clawson, Ken Medema, Darrell Adams, 

an3 Bob Bailey, and Fareim Mission hrd Exec~ive Vice-President William O'Brien. Bill 

Jarmes, minister of mmic, Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, will direct the a£tenu>onls mwic. 

Organi zrs cb the meeting are aontinuing the Morday nigM Tellcwship for SBc messengers 

begm in Kansas City. ' This y~ar's reception w ill be in the Remion Pallram of the H ~ t t 

Regency Hotel f ran 7 to 10 p.m. 

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Ministers Wives Called 

- To Prayer F a SBC 

AWzwm 5?mm(3CND STORY 

Baptist Press 

4/12/85 

ATLANIR (BP)-Ministers' wives acrcss the Southern Baptist Corntion hzPw Men dled to 

"join together in fervent grayer" for "mity, harmony and God's love to pevail in the hearts 

of all w b am" to the mml SBC meting in Dallas Jme 11-13. 

' The appeal was issued by Mrs. Ellm (Willian G. )7 Tanner of Atlanta, wife a€ the ~esidlent 

of Southern Baptist Hane Mission Board. Mrs ." Tanner was asked by officers cb SBC Ministers' 

Wives' Coderen- to be natioral prayer &aiman fa the 1985 SBC. 

Mrs.' Tanner wrote last week: "It is my heartfelt desire for men o£ our Southern Baptist 

Convention to pray for harmony, fm low and fa real mity in our aomtion. Surely, our 

Led is mt going to stad and w ait for IS to settle our differenes while tlmwands are dying 

witMut -ledge uf him eat& day." 

She added: "It is my conviction that if we will earnestly p y the price in prayer on our 

knees, he will hear and answer our payer and heal our convention. L& w pray that Christ our 

Lwd a d Saviour will be the victar; that his wnrk of winning alaa ministering to the world may 

be wried on; and that we will still be usable in his kingdcm vmk." 

Mrs. Tanner ks enlisted at least tm persons in e& state mnvention to be e 

&airprsom f a payer. Fa& ministers' wife will be enmuraged to Fay with their Iusbands, 

with a yJrayer prtner, with wives of other staff mbes ad at the mmtion in Dallas. 

Mrs. Earl Kelley of Jackson, Miss., is ~esident af SBC Ministers' Wives Conference. In 

February, officers a€ the mnferene issued a statanent =king wives acrms the nation to pray 

for " forgiveness, f oor bnility, far mity of purpose ad f ca: renewed pwer to fallm the Wd' s 

to go into all the world and pea the qspl . " 

' Tickts to SBC Ministers' Wives' Corderme lun& Jule 11 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas 

are available for $12.50 £ran Mrs. Martha Garrison, 432 NW 17th, Oklakrana City 73103. 

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Childcare, Bus Routes, 

Set Fa SBC Sessiors 

AWANCE EwaGRrnD STORY 

Ba*ist Prss 

4/12/85 

DALJAS (E3P)-Free shuttle kus rcutes and cbildcare infamation far messen~rs to the 

annual meeking af the Southern Ba@ist Convention,, Jme 11-13 in Dallas has been released. 

Shuttle buses will connect all the majca: btels mt within walking distanoe and a majar 

prking area with the Dallas Convention Center. 

Preschool childcare w ill be bmed at First Baptist Chur& in Dallas while the 

Bratherl-md Canmission will host a missiom day camp for &ildrm in grades one thrcugh six at 

a local. park. 

Far $7 per thy ($20 for all three days ) , elementary s-1 &ildren will be provided 

supervised activities whi& include mission studies, games, crafts, nature study and sports. 

Children will taken to a city prk by Ixts , leaving the mmtion mter e& day, Tuesday 

thrqh Thursday, at 8:30 a.m. ' !they w ill return to the mrmention mter at 5 p.m. on Jme 11, 

12:30 p.m. on Jme 12 ad 4:30 p.m. Jme 13. 

Registration and additiod idcamation will be availahle beginning Jme 10 at the 

Brother- Ccmmission both in the amtion display area. ' There is rn p-e-registration ht 

interested parents are maouraged to sicpup on Jme 10. 

Pres-1 &ildcare fm messengers wkP live outside the Dallas-Fact Worth area will be 

provided at First Baptist Church in Dallas far $5 a session. The May 24 preregistration 

deadline is important:. Planning will be based on the nunbzr si~d up by the deadline. 

"Messengers w b shcrw up needing preschool childcare wi-ut peregistering than are mt 

guaranteed anything," Tim Hedqist, director of financial planning for the SBC Executiw 

Canmittee ad mnwntion manager, said. "We will certainly do everything we can to help than 

lxlC we can't stress azough the import- of contacting the people at First Baptist in Dallas 

in advance." Messengers £ran -the Dallas-Fmt Worth area w ill mt be included in the program. 

K. Adele Suddath, director of pres-1 ministries at the church, is heading up the 

progran. She may be contacted by mail at First Baptist Church, 1707 San Jacinto, Dallas, 

' Tem, 75201 or by phone at 214-969-0111. A armplete information sheet and registration form 

will be sent to anpne requesting than. 

Fa the awts, of course, parking a d transportation is always a majar amern. A& this 

year there are several hits cd good news. First there are, "a couple d thosard" prking 

spces in the anvention enter amplex, acaording to Hedest . Swofiy, the shuttle bus 

system is mt only extensive-it will be free. 

The shuttle service won't oxt users in 1%5 became cd the generasity af the Dallas 

Baptist Association aid the Baptist General Comtion cb Texas. ' The natioral amtion 

Ixldget always heavily sdsidims the bus service to leep the axt lw. ' This year the natioml 

hdget will aontritute $25,000 but the Dallas association and the F3QX have agreed to make up 

the differen- riders usually haw to pay. 

' Their shared mrrtrilxltion will be a~oldmtely 

$10,000, Hedwist aid. 

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; The shuttles w ill begin ntvling at 7:30 a.m. each day of the mnmtion. ' They will xun 

until 9:30 p.m. on Jule 11 and 12 and ultil 5:30 p.m. on Jme 13. 

Buses will mt stop at ea& Mtel individmlly Imt will stop at a central pint at 

clwt rs o£ btels. FCC schedule information messengers s bld heck with the mrmntion 

infamation lmth in the Convention Center Whm they register ar at their idvidual hotels. 

Fbute hotels are: Best Western, Quality Inn, Holiday Inn Market Center, Raalkay Inn 

Market Center, Sheraton Mockin@ird, mt Hotel, Rcsikay Inn, m n t a Central,' Twin Sixties, 

Mac Hotel, Sheraton Downtawn, Pla of the Americas, Fairmont , L ews hatole, Marriott, 

LWuinta Inn Re@ Raw, Hdliday Inn Regal Rm, Ranada Inn, Ward Jdrson, Tbm3m-e Hotel, 

Vismmt, EKecLAive Inn, Ntxth Park Inn, Dozlbletree Inn, Trcpicaxla Inn and Expaessway Inn. 

' There will be rn service to the idiate dawntawn btels: Hilton, Adol@w, Wtt , 

BracEord atd the Holiday Inn Dclwntawn. 

* The shuttle also w ill run fran the Remion Arena prking lot at the corner of Memorial 

Drive ad Hotel Street. - This is the lot where Wes are suppoaed to pxk. 

Autancbile parking in the Convention Center will be $4 and $3 in the Remion Arena prarking 

areas (no in ad out privledges ) . Bus prking w ill I=e $6. 

This year special ~uvisiom have heen made fon: Wcappd, Special prking passes will 

be available at the anvention infmnation booth in the Comtion Center. Perso= mmt have 

bth the special pass and a handicapped lime tag on their ve&ide ar state idmtification 

as a handicappd dxiver. 

' The infomation mth also will haw map d the Corntion Ceslter indicating elevator 

acoess fa wheeldrs, ramp and restrmns and eating facilities whi& are accessible to 

the hadicapped. I 

Wne planning to attmd the convention wm kras mt wt made a hotel reservation may 

call Hedcplist's aEfice (615-244-2355) during regular =king hours fcar the natnes a€ btels 

whid.1 still ha= wcancies and whid.1 may be contacted directly by individuals. 

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State Comtion LBabrs 

Discuss SBC Contrmrsy By Bob Terry 

AWAKX EwmRamD STORY 

Baptist Press 

4/12/85 

ST. UUIS (EP)--mmrn about the mntrmrsies engulfing the Southern Ba*ist Convention 

brqht a together the ~esillenta cb 23 state Baptist 03nventiom foa: Fayer and disctssion. 

' The meeting took place April 11-12, ad was the first time in the history at the 14.3 

million mber &nomination that state ~esidmts have met at their am initiative to discws 

issues facing the natiod my. 

Proording to mnvlenor Charles Pickering af Mississippi., the ~esidents agreed that the 

volatile rhetoric of the mrhrmries " j-rdize the opprtmity Sarthern Baptists hate to 

reach the world with the low a€ Jestls Christ." 

Pickering, an attorney f ran Laurel, Miss., was one a€ nine state mmtion psidents 

serving on a steering amittee for the meeting. ' The state m mtion leaders met ~ivately 

- Tkaursdsy ni@t and Friday mmning prim to inviting the press in for a bsiefing. 

- The ~esidents rele~ed a statement rmd a nwsrelease mrulerning their meeting ad spent 

abmt an bur answering cpestiom. 

In the ~ epred statanent , the ~esidents declared: -'The nranner in whi& the present 

mntrmreies are bing disccssed anong Southern Ba@ists, in many instances, diminishes ax 

ability to reflect Christ's lo= to the world, limits arr ability to cawry out the Great 

Camnission arrd diverts our attention fran the respmibilities cod has given w." 

Pickring said the ~esidents are mnoerned that Southern Baptists micjht mt be able to 

sieae the opportunities d Good News Anrerim, Bold Mission Thrmt ad other ewplistic 

opportmities if conmtion rhetoric is mt toned durn. 

"We believe we reflect: the vast majmity of Southern Ba@ists wha fear we lave been 

diverted fran our majar task. We want to gst on w ith our missions and evangelism efforts," 

Pickexing told a Friday maning news mnference. 

* The pesidents called the persoralities involved in the wntrersy "sinere pe@e 

seeking to serve the cause cd Christ" Zxrt: urged all partiuanta to "reflect the character af 

Christ in their disc~siom, articles a d statments." 

'"The tr= evidence that the came a€ Christ is being served is in reflecting love," the 

statement contin-. 

In an d m n s action, the ~esidents called on Southern Baptists to set aside May 19 as 

a day of Fapr for the annual meting of the Southern Bqkist Comtion in Dallas and offered 

three sqgestiorrs to relie- mting political pessuree . 

During the day uE Fayer, the pesidats asked Southern Ba*ists to pay that revid. and 

spiritual awakening will break out within the denmination, that under the leadership of the 

Hdly Spirit healing and reaonciliation w ill tale place and that Southern Baptists might 

effectively ada aim the Gospel arand the world to the glary of God. 

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Discms SBC Controwwsy 

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Convention resolutiom was one sort UE political pressure cited by the presidents. In the 

offiddl statenmt, messengers were urged to "exercise restraint in filing resolution3 ." 

Pickering said the group was mt attenfling to stifle discmsion. "We only want the 

messengers to b mirdful uf the impct their resolutiors miw have on the mmtion." While 

declining to cite examples, the presidents agreed -st aomtion resolutions haw been a 

souroe UE convmtion differenaes. 

' The ~esidents also dled on "tbse.. .wb male appointments" ad "those w b carry out 

prqrams. . .to be mid£ ul cb involving people f rcm a braad range a€ our mmti tmcy." 

Pickering said the ~esidents believe that in the past plitical pessures have ben 

hoqht to bar on tbse wkro mah appointments and those wlm adninister ~ q m n s - . The 

political Fessures had to do with mrrtrd d the mmtion, he cbemed. 

Other presidents said people on all sides of the ~esent wntrarersy feel left out. "We 

are jwt asking the respnsible parties to b as inclmive as possible," picbring am. "If 

we are midf ul uf halancing our appintmmts and prcgrans, that will help relieve the political 

pressures. " 

' The presidents also asked Southern Baptists to remember the aonvention was created to 

Fanote missiors, education, benewlent emteqrises and other social services. A mrrect view 

of the anvention w ill help alleviate f dse expaztatiom, one pres idmt told Word and Way. 

Repeatedly, the ~esidents denied they came together as a political group. "'This group 

rewesmts men of dif femt perspectives," one prticipnt mtd. "We agreed to sublimate mr 

di fferenaes and ooane together where mi ty can b f omd. " 

Pickering denied any di sctssion alPut candidates had taken places. "That was never on the 

agenda and we ham' t discwised the first mrd mut it. We came tqther to pay and discms 

the problems, We didn' t *fend or attack anyone." 

When askd mut the serio~lsness cd the SBC mntrmrsies, ~ickering said the fact that 

the presidents took the mprecedmted action a€ meeting together ideates they belie- the 

problen is sexio~. "I hope there won't be a split. We m e together to pcmote healing so vie 

can get about our task a€ missiom and evangelism." 

While agreeing the cantrmries are wi-pread, the pesidents mtd the emotiolvr Sean to 

rul higher in sane prts cb the country than in others. 

Fhrticipting in the twday meeting were: 

Wdlam Hdey, Alabama: Neil' Tkunpson, Alaslca; JonM. Stubblefield, Arkansas: Narman 

Taylm, District af Columbia; Bill Hickem, Flmida: mvid Sapp, vice~esident, Gecrrgia: 

Charles Chardler, Illimis, RoBrt Lathan, Idam: 

Ed Gregory, Iwa: Mahlon Morley, Kansas-Nebraska ; Jim LW~ s , Kentucky; Raymord ~oswell 

Lmisiana; Ralph men, MarylhDelaware; Frank Hemby, Minnesot+Wismmin; picbring: ~ohn 

Gilbrt , Missouri : Ed Hewlett , New Ymk: 

Ncrnan wiggim, Narth Cardlina: John Miller, Northern Plains; Well Estep, Okl-a; 

Earl Crunpler , South Cardina; Job May," Tennessee, Earl Scott, Virginia. 

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(~oki.Terry is editox of Word and Way, newsjournal cd the Missouri Ba@ist Comtion.) 

,

Canmi ttee On bards 

Reprt Released Early By Dan Martin 

AWW BAcNaalND s m 

Ba#i st Press 

4/16/8 5 

NASINlUJ3,- Tenn. (BP)-The 1985 report cd the Cdttee on Boards, Cdssiom and 

Stanling Cdttee was relezsed April 16, tevl days kfore the required release date. 

^ The report, whi& mmt be released 45 days in advane a€ the annual meting, was released 

early became of runars ad plblic statements comrning the mntents cf the reprt, acatrrding 

to Chairman Ebb Eklmd of Dallas. 

Eklmd, urban emn~lism assmiate in the e~ngeliam division uE the mptist General 

Convention of Texas, said aontents aE the reprt were to k kept confidential until the 

s&eduled release dateApril 26-b.at the release was accelerated in order tn wdde more 

accurate infarmation mncerning mntrmrsial aspects d the reprt . 

The 5>mmber Cdttee on bards dnates persons to serve as trustees cb the 20 

natioml agwncies af the 14.3-million member Southern Baptist Corntion. ' The dttee is 

amposed of tm person+-one a layprson and one in &ur& or ~ n a t i o ~ related l y wcrkf 

rcm e& of the 26 state comtiom which have in excess a€ the 25,000 manbers necessary to 

qualify for re~esmtation. 

!.Th 1985 report includes 243 nominatiom, including 114 new trmtees and 129 

rdnatiom. Currently, there are 950 persors holding trusteeship. 

Messengers to the 1995 annual meeting of the SBC rrust adopt the report d elect the 

rumcinees to the wriom mar&. In recent years, portiorm aE the dttee reprt haw been 

Mlenged fran *e £1- of the cpnvmtion. 

Eklmd said the decision was made to releae the reprt early because "we wanted Southern 

Ba#ists to have the information. "As chairman, I have been asked many cyestiors . I ha= 

decided to mak sane statanents in the top it w ill settle sane issues that pople are 

discussing wi tbut laming all the facts ." 

- The Temn haracteriaed the report as "very tpd" ad added: "I feel we haw a F R ~ 

strong m e of people being dmted this war." 

He said: "It is my grayer our wmk will mntrifxrte to a healing in our mmtion. 

We tried to rise almw the ~oblans and mt bemne a part a€ the ~oblem. - The people on the 

reprt I know persorally are Bihle-believing, cooperating Southern Eh#ists with hearts f car 

missioxls. Fran the reports I had on the pople whn I do mt lolow personally, they, too, are 

strong, cmperating Soerthern Baptists." 

While saying he believes the majocrity of the reprt is @, almd said he is "well aware 

that we have one ar tm spts that likely will be &al.lenged." 

One dzallmge may cane over Jerry GiLmoae, a Dallas attorney, wlm was mt rerv~minatd to 

the Hone Mission Board, altbrgh, he was eligihle for a sword four-year tern. 

Gilmcare, a mmkr of Cliff Temple Baptist Church, "ap~arently has served well as a 

trllstee," Eklmd said. "Amding to Dr. ~illizm G.' Tanner (presidmt a€ the HM) he has hen 

an outstanding trmtee and for the pst tw years a most dfectitne chairman." 

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Report Released Early 

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2 Baptist press 

Eklmd said the tw Terns ~p%saltati~eS reammended Gilmme for remination, f allwing 

a acPlrmi ttee guideline whit% specifies a person eligible f m a seaord term be renaninated 

"mless w d and sufficient reason is given.. . ." 

Wsti0r-s arcse, hme=r, Eklmd said, concerning Gilmcxels wife, Martha, an c~rdained 

M e t W s t minister. 

"I defended Mr. Gilmre's rerrwnillation on the bsis he is an outstarding layman," Eklmd 

said. "On the issue uf men's ardination, I persorally am mt mnfm~e: lmwewr, this is a 

local &ILK& matter ard sin- Mr. Gilmosre is a member of a churd.1 that is mfcartaliLe with sudh 

ad at the same time a strong -prating Southern Baptist churd~, their members, in my 

opinion, slmuld be eligible to sem on SBC bards." 

Ekld said the d ttee mted 25 to 22 against renminating Gilmme. 

"It is one a€ tlmse situatiors where there w ill be criticism vdatever we do," he said. 

Gilmwe was the only person eligible for renoaninat ion wlm desired remnirmt ion wlm was 

"b.nnped" fran a trustee pst. Four other person3 were eligible, ht declined reranination. 

Eklmd said the only other challenged m ine was Willian D. DelhNe, assistant U.S. 

attorney for the Eastern District cb Nmth Caralina, Raleigh, WID was mimted as a trustee at 

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C. 

Eklmd said it was pintd out- if Ddabyle is elected, he would k the third person £ran 

the U.S. attorney's cffice in Raleigh to sene as a trustee aE one uf the SBC institutiom. 

Currently, the U.S. attorney, Samuel' T. Currin, is an the SBC Pu5Lic ~ffairs Canmittee, 

ad is its chairman; amther assistant, J.T. Kmtt 111, is a trwtee of the Baptist Sunday 

khwl Board. Currin WEIS elected in 1983; Wtt in 1984. 

"There did not seem tn b3 any thdogical westion involved," Eklmd said. "The pirtlary 

question was whether three men out cb the same uff ice slmuld haw majar respnsilxilities on 

Southern Ba@ist bards and awcies when Narth Carolina has so many yali fied people who ought 

to sene." 

He said Deldmfle was nrninated on a 32-17 vote. 

Amther possible pint of mntrmrsy mncems a person w b was nd ther rrominated mr 

remmmended for dnation. 

Eklmd said he is asloed "why J.T. Luther, an outstarding Southern Baptist layman, and 

10-time friend of Soutkwestern Fh@ist* Theological Seminary will mt bz a minee fm the 

op~3ning fram Texas on Sout'ktJesternl s board." 

The Laher matter hs been an issue since one ddnatioral leahr daimed L ~her was mt 

ncmirnted became "fundamentalists" mduely inflmced the millation ~oaess. 

Yt"'t is not so," Eklmd said. ,"This is an issue which never should have beme an issue. 

It is mt an instanae cb arqkody trying to block anykody. It was simply that Bill (W.O.) Watts 

(the Texas lay re~esentative) and I auld mt agree on a dnee." 

Eklmd said, "There were efforts to influence this psition frun #e movers d shakers 

of all sides. It wasn't just one side, or e m tm; there were effcarts f ran all sides .I1 

He pinted out he a d Watts, fran Woodbwo, agreed "harmomowly" on six of the seven 

persoxs they d mted. When they could not agree on the SMTS minee, they ccmpanised ernd 

named Wayne Allen, a -term Texas pstor . 

mlund told lh$ist Press amther potential aontrmrsy was elimimted when Jmes T. 

Draper Jr., pastor af ~irst ~aptist Church of Euless; Texas, and imdate pt ~esident cb 

the SBC, withdrew his rnmi~tion as SBC repesentative to the Baptist World Alliance. 

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In a letter ta Eklmd, Draper reqested his m e be withlrawn and Caralyn Weatherfcard, 

executive directw of the Wanan' s Missiomry UniomSBC, be subtituted. Draper said he 

klieves the execaive uE the WMJ s-ad sew the E#i '%y virtue aE her cdf ice." 

Weatherf ad, wb currently is an SBC re~esentative to the EBh, was rnt rencuninated 

became of a change which names the current SBC ~esidmt ad the wesidmt d the Sunday 

School Board to the E3bA by virtue of their offices, elirnimting tm at-large psitiom. 

"I do mt think Miss Weatherfmd was eliminated intentiorally. I think it was jmt an 

-rsi$t. I apeciate Jiq (Draper) taking this action," Eklmd said. 

Executive Canmi ttee, 

Ebards Naninated 

NASWILZE,'Tenn. (BP)-Nanine for the Executive C dttee and the four lmards d the 

Southern E?a@ist Convention ham &en released ly the SBC aamrj ttee on m ds, Comnissiors and 

Starding Canmi ttees . 

Naninees are clergy ar dmmimtioml related, unless specified. 

EXECUTIVE CCMWTEE (69 members): 17 nominations mmidered; fiw new members, 12 

renoaninatiom. 

New makers replacing rnabrs indigible for reqpintment indude Benny King, First 

Southern church, Ncrth Glenn, Cdo., replacing O tis B.' Teterman uf Grad Jmction; C. Ray 

Fuller, director of missions, Joliet , Ill., repXacing Wesldell Garrison a€ Fairview Heights; 

Jmes Yates, First &urch, Yazm City, Miss., replacing Clark W. M&urray, Pascagoula; Ri& 

Lher, First &w&, ~ersonville, 

N.C., replacing Jdm M. -is a€ Ralei*. 

Nanimted to a term W expire in 1986 is Jmes M. Mmton Jr., of Trinity Church, 

Liwrmare, Calif., replacing J.' Word Gear-, of Gilroy, w b mwd. 

Rencmimtd to 8-d terms are Jiq E. Jackson Huntsville, Ma.; Mrs. a s H. Wager, 

Orlado, Fla. ; Hmnon M, B=rrn, F&x, Ga. : bmld I. Gent, IWan~~ille, Id. : -don D. mian, 

Wi&ita, Kan. ; Jdm R. Cknistian, Hqkinsville, Ky. ; 

G. Nelson Duke, Jefferson City, Mo.; Qmad Bost, Sdliskrury, N.C.; Frank C= 

Franklin,' Tam. ; Willian F. Collins Jr., MemMs; Tenn. ; W. LeRay Fowler, HoISton, and G-9 

M, Kissinger, N-rt News, Va. 

FOREIGN MISSIm B- (84 members): 22 dnatiom mrrsidered: nine new members, 13 

renominations. 

New members include Leo E. Eisert, a businessman and member of ~irst &m&, ~anblia, 

Ill., replacing Mrs. William D, Ri&ardson of Trqr, Ill., wlm &cline3 to sene. 

New members replacing persom ineligible far reappointment include Mrs. Elizabth (Betty) 

Swadley, housewife and member of South Ham &ur&, @ringfield, Mo., replacing Mrs. Carter 

Reed of St. Jokns: Horace A. Hmm of Fuquay Varina church, F'uquay Varina, N.C., replacing W. 

Henry Cw& of Charlotte; 

William H. Cook of First chur*, Bartlesville, replacing Jerry H. Fielder af Oklahzma 

City: mris H. Mills, a semi-retired milder and dewlaper ad member o£ Bellevue church, 

Memfis,' Tenn., replacing Wendell G. MClinton uf Donelson, Tenn.; 

Bonnie B. WestWaok Jr., a medical e a r and member of Calmry dhurd.1, &aunork,' Texas, 

replacing Riclhard M. Cobb of Dallas, and Jchn M. Sinrarrs, an attorney ad member of First &ur&, 

Roamk, Va, , reflacing W. Curtis English of Altavista, Va. 

Naninatd fa a four-par term as a local rmnber is Charles H. Jon= of Kanpdll churd?, 

Virginia Beach, Va., replacing B. R. Yarkcugh of Manassas, w b resigned. 

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Renominate3 for seoord terms are G-ge Gaskim, fiakewxd, Cdo. : Lewis A. Miller, 

' Tecyesta, Fla. : Fblert (Bob) Marsh, Atlanta: Harald E. (Eddy) Halloek, Linmln, Neb. : ~udith C . 

Fit*, Paducah, Ky. : Mn Herrod, Kenner, La, ; Richard Smae, Flint, Mi&. : 

Henderson elk, Charlotte, N.C.; Harry L. I.Iarmah, Puyallup, Wash.; W@ G. 

Memphis,- Tenn. : R.C. (bb) Callan, Atllarillo, Tern; Ward A. Ealdwin Jr., Ridmod, Va. 

(local), ad Jmes Harwood Cochrane, Ridmod, Va. (local ) . 

HlB MISSIm BQARD (a mere): 24 nomination3 mnsidered: 11 nw members, 13 persons 

rmmirrated. 

Ral* Smith, pastor of Hyde Park churd? of Awtin; Texas, was minated, replacing Jerry 

C. Gilmae, an attorney a d member of Cliff Temple &a&, Dallas, w b was eligible far a 

secod fom-year tern but was mt rammimted. 

New members replacing members ineligible fm renomination include Willim Tanner, a 

professor of geology and member of Fellmship church; Tallahassee, replacing A an C.' Ta£t of 

Cardl Gables; Mrs. Alice Wahl Sanders, a lmmwife a d member of First &ma, Barnberg, S.C., 

replacing Bobby L. Hquley of Colunbia; 

Ron Phillip d Central &m&, Hi~on, Tenn., replacing Bill Skaennan of Nashville; Gecsge 

Harton Harris a€ Castle Hills &urdn, San Antonio, replacing Billy Webr of Dallas; Rudy 

Hemadez, an evangelist and manber of Gethsemane &urch, Carrim Spring3 ,' Texas, replacing 

O m H. Pachecano of El Paso, and Frank Wells a€ ~riarcliff d.1urd.1, Atlanta, replacing J. 

Enanett Henderson QE Norcrcss . 

Named to fill unexpired terms are Brad Allen cb ~irst &mch, Dmcan, Okla., replacing 

C.B. Hoguz- d Tulsa, wb moved (1986); Mrs. Joe L; Ingran, wife d the execlltive directar of 

the Baptist General Corntion uf Oklahcma and mgnbex af N i h l s Hill &urch, OWha City, 

replacing Mary Lee Gmsett a€ Norman, who resiqed (1987 ) ; Claude Hmplenan d First &ur&, 

Ellcville, Ill., replacing John Hessel d West Frankfat, win move3 (1988), and Rodd B. Long 

of Glenmod Hills &m&, LlWnia, Ga., replacing Janes Charles Elder Ss., of Corprs, wlm 

resiged (local term to expire in 1987). 

Mmted to seaord terms are Jmes F. Walters aE Clanton, Ma. ; Rm D. Sattemhite d 

Fart ~cnllim, Cdo. ; O.S. Hawkins a€ Fart Lauderdale, Fla. ; Nelson L;- price af Marietta, Ga. ; 

Willim J. V i a Jr . , of Essex, Md. ; Willim W. Durr of Clinton, Miss. ; Mrs. ~aulina M . Bram 

of sM~~M, Mo. : M.O. Owens Jr., of Gastoma, N.C. ; Billy Sellers UE Matthews, N.C. : 

Mrs. Willian D. Walker of Bea~rton, Ore. ;- Travis E. wiginton of Norman, Okla. ; Wrshel R. 

Chevallier of Kmxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Robert D. Larders d Jonesboro, Ga., (local member). 

SCHOO&-BOARD (84 menbers): 23 drBtion3 mrrsidered; 11 new members, 12 

rennmiratiom. 

New members replacing members ineligible fm dmtion include ~ichard E. ranc cis d 

First church, Trussville, Ma., replacing James A. Amkrmuty Jr., of Birmingham; ~eff S. 

Wers, an insmane executive ad mankr of First southern &m&, Cmga Park, Calif., 

replacing Jrmes C. Metcalf of Riverside; 

Bill Arrderson cb Calvary church, Clearwater, Fla., replacing Rokrt M. McMillan cd 

' Talldhassee; S. Craig Tally of First chur&, Japlin, Mo., replacing Charles D. Butler of 

Jefferson City; Brme C. Little, an insurance exlec&ive ard menber of Bethesda &ur&, Durhaan, 

N.C., replacing T. Marshall Collim Jr., of High Point: 

Flayd Williams, a lxsineesman ad member of Brcladnoa &ur&, Memphis," Tenn., replacing 

Rokert A. Saders aE Kmmille, ad William G. Wilson uf B m t d churd~, Brentwwd, Tenn., 

repZacing Alhrt Sidney Waits d Manms (local mhr). 

W. Gene Hmderson a€ First &ur&, Greenville, Miss., replaced William E. Hardy Jr., of 

Colunlxls, wb kcane indigible for a s a d term vihm he irmred frcm the state. 

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Caranittee On Ebards 

Reprt Released Early 

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Named to fill unexpired terms are Raymord Lmrence, ~esident cd Midaontinmt Baptist 

College, Mayfield, Ky., replacing Gary Watkins a£ Flarenae, wb moved (1986); Greg IBamann, a 

&mist wb lives in Edvardsville, Ill., lxlt is a membr of Sumban &a&, Granite City, 

Ill., replacing Will D. Selman af Skokie, wlm resi~d (1987), and Billie Friel d First 

d1urd.1, Mant Jaiet ,' Tenn., replacing Ral* Stone a€ Nashville, w b moTFed (local ten tn 

expire in 1987) . 

Raxmirnted to secord terms are Ferrell D. Mcrrgan, Fat Smith, Ark. ; Jeff McBeth, Colara* 

Spinq, Colo.; Rabert W. bel.1, Merritt Islard, Fla.:. TDmy Jon=, Macon, Ga.; B. Hugh ~fttle 

Jr., of Marietta, Ga.; Jdkrn C. Wilson a€ Paris, Ky.; Jerry S. LRe af Jackson, ~iss.: Ibbert 

-' Tan- of Wganton, N.C.; Samuel Gearge Lmll uf Corway, S.C.: Bo Baker of 1rving,- Terns; 

Jase B. Flcrwers d Hampton, Va. ; 

Lbcal rmnbers rer#lmimted to seaord terms are J h David Laida of Clarksville, Tam. ; 

William Lynn Moench of Nashville,' Tenn. : Fbbert H. ~ible d Mmristown,' Tenn., and Pat L; 

L&drun of Brighton,' Tenn. 

ANNUITY BaARD (54 mcmbrs, being reduced to 48) : 11 dnatiom mmidered; four new 

mmbrs, tm remminations, five pitiom eliminated. 

Ncmirmted to replace nmbers v h are ineligiljle for rea-intment are Jon M. Stubhlefield 

of Central church, Maqmlia, Ark., replacing Cline D. Ellis of Kirq1a.d: Ehrdd A. Stephens, a 

telephone mpny manager ad m e r of First churd~, Fat Tlmas, Ky., replacing David A. 

Nelson uf Owensbro, and W. Gordon H O W Jr., a banker ad member af First church, 

Richardson, Terns, replacing Everett G. Brcwn Jr., of Dallas. 

Nonimted to fill an mered term is Carl B. Allen, a retired denanimtioml mkr and 

member of Third &ur&, Murf reestoro,- Tenn. , to replace Alden Wilson of Jackson, wb mved 

(1988). 

Ibcmimtel to semrd terms are Clevzlard R. Hrarne Jr. of O'Fallon, Mo., and William C. 

Clark of Smmerville, S.C. 

mitiom eliminated include t he held by LUther N. Davis Jr. of Mobile, Ala.; Ray C. 

Melton of Jachon~lle, Fla. :- T.L. Caskwell Jr., of Raleigh, N.C.: B. J. Martin af Pasadena, 

' Tems, ad H.E, Kmx of New Braulfels,' Texas. 

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Boards Sukami ttee 

For Dallas Nmed 

AWANCE EwzmRowD STORY 

Ba#ist Press 

4/17/85 

NASWILZIE, Tenn. (BP)-A sdxamdttee to mnsider vacancies a d other &anges in the 

repxt aE the Cdttee on Boards, Cdssiom and Starding Ccmmittees has &en aminted by 

Chairman Ebb Eklmd. 

: The seven-mbr sdxmmi ttee will meet in advance cd the 1985 annual meting of the 

Southern Baptist Corntion, seheduld Jme 11-13, at Dallas Comtion Center. 

Urrder SBC aperating plicies, the subcaranittee c~an cnrsider vacancis h qht aWut by a 

ndnee refwing to serve, mdng ca: dying bet- the meeting of the Curunittee on Ebards and 

the tine the report is pesented to the mmention. 

Eklund said several psitiom were left vacant ad will be filled at the Dallas meeting. 

He add, hawewr, the subccmmittee is mt autlnrisd to make sulxtitutiors ~CD: pmom 

already appointed, uril-s the raninee is, far sane reason, wble rn unwilling to sew. 

' To sene on the s* ttee will be Eklmd, urbn ewplism associate with the Ehptist 

Gmeral Comtion uf Terns, Dallas; John Maddox, pastor of ~irst ~aptist Wynne, Ark. ; 

J.T. Kmtt Jr., a hsineesman fran Raleigh, N.C.; Lynn Clayton, editor of The mflist MessaW, 

newsjournal cb the ~ouisiarvn Ba$ist Corntion, Alexlardria, La.: 

Ken Sn'tith, pastor of Fell-ship Baptist Chur&, Tallahassee, Fla. : Jay Chance, v ie 

pesident fm plhlic affairs at C alifda Ba#ist College, Riverside, Calif., and Martin King, 

a layman frcm Arderson, Ird. 

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AW= EwERaJND STOKY 

Baei st Press 

4/17/8 5 

NASWU,' Tmn. (BP)-Trwtees to sem the six Southern m@ist Comentio~affiliated 

saninaries ha= been mminatd by the SBC m ttee on Boards, Canmissiom and Standing 

Camni ttees . 

The mminatiors are includd in the Camnittee on Boards reprt, released to Baptist Press 

April 16, by Bob mid, urban ewmqlism associate with the Baptist Weral Cornention d 

Texas, Dallas, and d t t e e &aiman. 

Under convention bylaws, seminary trustees serw fieyear terms and are eligible fm 

tm full terms on the bard. 

' Trzlstees are clergy or &nominatiomlly related, unless specified. 

m R N =MINARY (63 trmtees): 14 nominations considered; 10 new trmtees, four 

reappointed. 

Nanimted to replace mmkers ineligible fm a semrd term are John T. Wallace of Parkway 

churd.1, Uxington, Ky., replacing Wayne Dehoney, Louisville; W. Ray Frye, a lard developex ad 

member of Calvary &w&, Alexsdria, La., reflacing ~illim P. Grealee, Lake Charles: William 

Watkim Causey af Parlway &w&, Jackson, Miss., replacing David R. Grant, Jackson: 

Gerald C . prim cd Eller Memaial churd.1, Greensbro, N.C . , replacing W. ~inville Roach of 

Greenslmro; Kenneth E. Hall, a ontractor ard member of Cresmt Hill churclh, Louisville, 

replacing Joe- Smpher of ~ouisville (local mhr) ; Joe D. Crass, an auto &aler and membr 

of Walnut Street d.lurd.1, ~ouisville, replacing Frank ~llis d ~ouisville (local member), and 

R q Sa~ge, Hillside chur13-1, Greeley, Cdo, replacing Jam- Latimr, Denver (at-lar~ member). 

Naninees to fill unexpired terms are Sm H. Mmahon Jr. of ~irst church, Charlotte, N.C., 

r placing John L. Ryberg, Smithfield, who died (1986), and R-rt D. Beddingfield of First 

&m&, South Lpns, Mi*., replacing Gary W. S%witz, N d , who resiqed (1987). 

Bob L. Wager of Seaorrd &w&, Marion, Ill., regaces Jim W. Fbbinson Sr., Belleville, 

w b declined a semrd term. 

Reappointed to a seaord tern are ~illian H. McBeath, Washington, D.C. ; Romld D. Stwart, 

Letamn, Ohio: Ridzard T. Hoppsr, Arhme, Okla. , and Vemn 0. ELmcae , Carpus Christi ,' Texas. 

-STERN SMINAKY (36 trmt-): 8 persors ao~idered; 6 new trustees, 2 

reappointed. 

New truetees replacing m a k r s ineligible for seaord terms are Jim V. Dice, a businessman 

ard member of First church, Salem, Ill., replacing George H. Kunce, Herring: Trunan B. Smith of 

First churd~, Clio, Mi&., replacing Michael M. Nardin, Detrait; F&e&in L. South, execaive 

directar of the Missouri Ba@ist Convention and member of First &urch, Jefferson City, 

replacing Domld V. Wideman, Ncrth Kansas City, and Ron S. Lads, a &ur& qakh specidist 

arrd mmber of Clearvi ew church, Brent &, ' Tenn. , replacing Melvin G . Faulher of Seymour. 

Wayne Lee Allen of First churd~, Carrdtnn; Teas, was dnated fm a full tern, 

replacing Kenneth Chaf in d Houston, wko resi-ed (at- large menber) . 

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Seminary Trustees 

Ndnees Named 

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Acie Charles Bawtt cb First church, Haysville, Kan., fills the mexpired term of Earl 

E. (Gene) Hawldns,' Topeka, wko resiyed (term expiring 1989) . 

-inat& fm s-nd terms are Drew J. Gmels Jr., Mdle, Ma., ad J* P. 

McNaughton, Fort Wath,' Texas (at- large member) . 

&EW ORLEANS SEMINARY (36 trustees): 7 mmimtiom mnsidered; 3 new trustees, 4 

reappointed. 

Naninated to replace trustees ineligible for reappintment are Charles L. Wmd of 

University churd?, Widxi ta, Kan. , replacing Kenneth D . Emerson cb Wihita: Far rest Jacbon cb 

First c9urd.1, Pqar, Okla., replacing Robert Post,' Tulsa, ad Gene Brock, a dentist and member 

of First dhur& Wichita Falls,' Tellas, replacing Wayne 0. Watts, Wi&ita Falls. 

Fknminated for secord terms are David B. Ray, Pontiac, Mi&. ; Ernest L; Carswell Jr., 

. Taylcps, S.C. ; B. Conrad Jdhnston, Wen, Va., and Adrew C. Nolin Jr., Morkgcmery, Ala. (local ) 

XUIWEMEIW SEMINARY (30 trustees): 7 mmirntions oomidered; 5 new trustees, 2 

reappointed. 

Ndnatd to replace trwtees ineligible far reappointment are R-rt D. Crawley of 

Montrcse &w&, Rmkville, Md., replacing J h E. Roberts, Baltimre, and ~rlie L. Mdlaniel 

Sr . , director of missiors menber of Trinity church, maow, Idaho (re~esmting Nrntl-~est 

Cormention), replacing W.E. Speed, msm, Wash. 

Jmes Warren Herron af First &w&, Rock Hill, S.C . , replaces Hmry Finch Jr . , of Rock 

Hill, wko resiyed; William Dial Delahoyle, assistant U.S. attorney and member of ~rddmce 

&ur&, Weigh, N.C., replacing Charles D. Page, Charlotte, who mwed, and Ralph E. Halt Jr. , 

of Lake Fareet &w&, Wilmington, N.C., replacing J& G. Hicks, Asheville, who died. 

Renomixlated to semrd terms are Bill G. Brtster , Knnxville,' Tenn. , a d Jesse P . Chapan 

Jr., Asheville, N.C. 

MIlXESERN SE- (35 trwtees): 8 mminations mmidered, 5 new trustees, 3 

reappointed. 

Naninated to =@ace members indigihle for renomillation are Robert' T. Baggott Jr., first 

&u&, Dothan, Ma., replacing Willian A. Hartley, ~irmir@am: Wvin M. Hill Sr., direct= of 

missions anA member of First cburd?, t rand view, Mo,, reflacing Dan ~aimlt, Independme 

(loclal), ad Rohzrt L. Ferry, directm af missiom ard mmhr of Nashua &w&, Karrsas City, 

Mo., replacing K. David Stone uf Idependenae (local). 

David Sinpon, editor of the Indiana Baptist ad mb2r of Calvary church, ree end, 

Id., fills the mexpired term of Rodell L. Stoval1 ,' Terre Haute (expiring 1987), and -ell 

E. Somldsky, a mllege ~cbessar ad member of Westside &urch, Omha, Neb,, fills the 

mexpixed term of William H. Cap, Cdunbia, Mo. (expiring 1986). 

Rmomimtd to secord terms are Marvin R-h, Hyattsville, Md. (DC ~bmtion); Philip 

Lykes, Lalclelarrt, Fla., arrd J.- mtt Gmn, Sbne Moultain, Ga. 

GCLIEN S m 

reappointments . 

(35 members): 8 rrominatiors ansidered; 3 new txustees, 5 

Ebrmi G. Metcalf, assistant prcdessar at Califcrnia Sagtist Callege, ad member of Palm 

&m&, Riverside, Calif,, was med to replaze Gearge Musacchio, Riverside, w b was ineligible 

for reappintrent (at-large member). 

Naned to fill unexpired terms axe Ncxman H.' Wlor af First &ur&, Silver Spring, Md. (DC 

Corntion) replacing Jdm W. Baker, wlm died (term edring 1986), and Robert Few11 

~asemont &ur&, Montro~ie, Calo., replacing Murray Boyd, Amma, wlm resiyd- 

Reappointed to seaod terms are Mrs. Willian L. Self, Atlanta; 0.8. Quick, Baton 

Rqe, La. ; Mal U t l q , Lexington Park, Md. ; James H. Slatton, Ridxnord, Va., and Janes W. 

Rives Jr., Van Nuys, Calif. (at-large mber).

- -tee Nunine 

Reprt Released 

m9= 3 

NASWIUE, Tenn. (BP)-Trwtee dnatiom for Southern E!a$ist dssiors and amnittees 

have beesl relesed by the SBC Clnanittee on Ehrcb, Cdssions and standing C dtteas. 

' 'Ihe Camnittee on Boards report was rele~ed April 16 by Chairman Bob Eklmd, urban 

evanqlism associate with the Bagist General Corntion aE Texas. 

Nanin- are clergy ar dencmimtiomlly related, unless specified. 

WJIFERN BAPTIST FWNl&TICYN ( 35 mmbers) : 10 nominations aomidered; 4 repzsmtatives 

uf SBC agendes and 1 at-large menber to md when the Carnni ttee on bards s u k d ttee 

meets in Dallas ~ i b m the annual meting. 

Reappinted are 0. Q. Quick of Baton Rouge, La., re~esenting Golden Gate seminary ad 

Narxi s E. Smith of Menws, revesenting the Historical Canmission. 

At-larp members reappointed are Gilbert E. South, ~Ikhe~lle, Md.: illy M. C q , 

Hmtinqlon,' Tm., ad R-rt F. w, Foley, ZUa. 

k~esentatives to be named later are £ran the Fareiq Mission Board, replacing W. Curtis 

English, Alta Vista, Va. ; m e Mission, Ibard, replacing Bill Sherman, NasW lle,' Tm. : Annuity 

m d , replacing Alden Wilson, Jacbon,' Tenn,, ard Brother- Canmission, replacing R-rt A. 

Alexader , Murf reesboro,- Tenn, 

' The at-large nenber to be med later w ill replace Morris Early, Nashville, Tm. 

MERICAN mSSICkJ (16 menbers): 3 nominees aollsidered: 2 new members, 1 

reappinted . 

New members are Gecrge W. Impkin, an edmatar arwl member of First church, Nmfolk, Va., 

replacing Janes M. Griffin, Han@on, Va., w b resiqed, and Stephen R: Taylor, First church, 

Gmdlettsville, Tam., replacing Fred E.A. J-on, ~ashville,' Tenn., w b is ineligible for 

reappointrrrent . 

Reapinted to a sword term is Roy D. Raddin, Greenville, Miss. 

-TION mSSION ( 21 menbrs): 6 rroanimtiorrs comidered; 1 new memar, 5 reeinted. 

New mgnber is Bob R. Agee, ~esident OE Oklahoma ~aflist university ad member of ~irst 

&m&, Shawnee, Okla., replacing Lmn S. Hill a€ ~nid, Okla. (indgihle). 

Reappointed are Leslie Wright, Birmintjhm, Ala.; D. Jack ~icbla8, Walnut Ridge, Ark.; 

Williepn R. Hann, Westminster, Calif.: bbrt E, Umbsrt, Castle Rock, Cdo. (at-large) and 

Bill W. Stacy, Cape Girardeau, Mo, (at large). 

BFUEERtDOD mSSION ( 36 manbers) : 10 ndnatiore clorsidered; 4 new members, 6 

reamirked . 

New members are Willim Tim Brm, an dwatar and member of Riwrlard Hills d1urd.1, 

Cdlunbia, S.C., replacing L;W. Brasington, Calunbia, S.C. :' T)lanas W. Daniels, retired military 

ad current realtor ad membsr of Gemantown chur&, Gemantown, Tam. , replacing Wendell W. 

Crews, Athens, Tm.; 

New at-large members are Joel E, Waddell, minister of mmic at ~tamnerville chur&, 

Smunerville, S.C , , replacing W, Lee Prince, Merson, S.C . ; ard Jm T. won, a bankr ad 

member of Travis Avenue church, Fcat Warth, Terns. 

Reappointed are B.G. Byrd, Sanlsa Zma, Calif.; Gregory W. Brachan, Littleton, Calo.; Tbn 

L. McGuire, Wth Fart Mprs, Fla. ; James M, Hensley, Spokane, Wash. : Henry ~drion 111, Fcrrt 

Wmth, Terns, ad Fred W. Graham Jr., Asheb3r0, N.C. (at-largs) . 

CHRISTIAN LIFE mSSION ( 30 menbers): 8 nominatiors mrsidered; 2 new members, 6 

reappointments. 

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Nunines Released 

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I New 

members are R. Llqd Crawfad, a businessman and member of Apple& &urdh, 

Wheatridge, Colo., replacing Mrs. Edith Hargis, Narthglenn, Cdo., indigible far 

reappintment, ard m a s E. Bold, a banker ad mmbr of ~irst &m&, Chmblee, Ga., 

replacing Lon L. Day Jr., Atlanta, who declind a sea& term. 

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&appointed 

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are Fred Lackey, Athens, Ala.; J.W. Atchison, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Larry Caton 

Noia, Fomtain Valley, Calif. ; b y T. -sf Tallahassee, Fla. ; C. David Matthews , ~reenville, 

S.C., ad Mrs. Virginia H. Hendricks, Glcarieta, N.M. (at-large). 

HISrORICAZI mSSIm (34membexs): 9 mnirntiors oonsidered: 4 new mmhrs, 5 

reamintmmts . 

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members are Mrs. Marlena Rikard, assdate ~cbessar uf histmy at Smfurd university 

ard mgnber of Shades Crest &ur&, Birminm, Ala. : &s. Gaylon Cothem, a freelance writer 

ard member of Starliat &urch, Phoenix, Ariz., arrd F%il Langley of Cram Peak chur&, 

Brachute, Cdo. 

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to fill an mexpired tern is Mrs. Miles L. Dawson, a hanemakr and member of 

Hoffmantown &urch, Alkuqmque, N.M., replacing Mrs. Ebrmie B. O'Brim o£ Altxlcpercpe, w b 

moved (term ta expire 1986). 

I Reappinted 

are Mrs. Helen Y. M&ee, Washington: James R. Beasley, DeLatld, Fla. ; Mdo P. 

Harris 111, Washington, Ga. ; Richard T. McCartney, Okl- City, ad Narris E. Smith, 

Mm@"ds, Tenn. (local mhr). 

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RRDIO AND TELEVISION mSSION (26 menbers): 7 mminatiom mnsidered; 2 new members, 5 

reappintea . 

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New membrs are Richard L: Wakefield, First a&, Calml, Mo., replacing Jolm E. Hwhes, 

Indepndenae, w b was ineligible for rea-intment, and Michael S. HEmlet, New Pisgah dnurch, 

Wrtanbxg, S.C., replacing Jchn E. Robsrts d Greenville, wlm declind a semd full term. 

(Roberts, canmission chairman, served a threeyear mexpired term d a f ul1 term. He was 

eligible far a seaord four-par term, but: declind). 

Reawinted are Jack B. Jdmson, Ebdx, Ariz.; LdVerne Butler, Louisville, Ky.; T.W. 

Terral, Baton Rouge, La. : W. John Peper Sr. Glen Buzrnie, Md., and Richard L. C*ane, mbn, 

I 

-P mSSION ( 26 manbers ) : 11 rrminees ansidered: 4 new members, 1 new maker 

to be appointed later, ard 6 reappointmts. 

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New mmbrs include B. Lee Black, f mdation secretary f a the BaFtist Convention uf New 

Mexi-, Allxlqerque, regacing Bernard W. Wharty, Alanaqrdo, and Joe E. Burton, First 

&m&, RadEord, Va., replacing Jchn C. Ivins, Ridmod, Va. 

New members filling rnexpired terms are Levi Parrish Jr., Eastgate &m&, Burton, Mich., 

replacing Domld Cmp'bell, Flint, Mi&. , w b moved (term tn expire in 1987), and Jim Rich, 

stewardship secretary for the Calmado Baptist General Convention, Englewood, replacing Daniel 

Pena, Cdolrado Springs, wlm resiyd (term b expire in 1988) . 

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A new menbzr will be m ed in Dallas to replace Larry Taylor, Jefferson City, Tm., w b 

Reappint& are Jams C. mriety, Blakely, Ga.; Lqd R. Wil~on, Nape~lle, Ill.: Mrs. 

Tkromas A. Dm-, Alexardria, La.; Tan A. Gratton, Suitland, Md.; Willian D. Ledbetter, ~ing's 

Moultain, N.C., and Ben Green, Wenatchee, Wash. 

I FUZIC AFFAIRS C@MllEE (15 members, eight a€ whm serve by virtue d office as SBC 

adoinistratora ) : 2 persolri amidered, 2 new manbrs. The Canmi ttee on -ds also ncminstes 

the chairman d the PAC. 

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Nm are Bill Gmter, secretary af insurance for the state cd ~lcwida and member of 

First &urch,> Tallahassee, replacing Dorald R. Brewer, ~hlatine, Ill. ; a d Lardrun P. maw11 

11, wesidmt uf New Orleans semimy and member of First &m&, New Orleans, replacing 

Russell H. Dilday Jr., Fat Wurth,' Texas. 

Sand T. Currin, current chairman and U .S. attorney far the Eastern District of Norrth 

Cardim, Raleigh, was remnmended as chairman. 

DENOMINAT1~'CAIENDAR C@MTEE (6 members): 2 dnatiors allsidered, 2 n w members. 

' The Camnittee on Boards also rrsminates the &airman. 

New manbrs awe Mrs. A.D. Farenan, a Iwrmemaker and member of ~ixst &m&, Monroe, La., 

replacing Mrs. Don Wmhan, L&lmck," Texas, ad Jdmny Roger Jo;hnson, Trinity chmh, 

wring£ield, 'Ore., replacing Wayne V. Maill, Wtlard, Ore. 

I Fred Pawell, senior assdate -tor at First chur&, Atlanta, was mninated as &airman. 

CMTlEE OFUER QF BUSINES (6 manbers plus the current presidglt of the SBC): 2 

naminatiors mmidered, 2 new members. ' The Cumnittee on IBards also dmtes the &airman. 

Nw members are Willxlr A. (mt) mtterson, baMr and membr of Emmanel churd.1, Oerld 

hrk, Kan., replacing J. Nimn Daniel 111, Pensamla, Fla., and Reed Larson, hnker and 

~esidmt of the Natioml Ri*t to Wcark Cdttee, Annadale, Va., arvd mmbr of First dnurch, 

Falls Church, Va., replacing Larry C , Craw£md, Burlington, N.C. 

- The Camnittee recamended Fred H. Wdfe, Cotta~ Hill dwrch, Mohile, Ala., as &&man. 

BAPTISl? WKLD (11 merribers, including 5 by virtue aE SBC crEfice, whi& includes 

bylm dhanges stipilating the current ~esidmt of the SBC--Charles F. Stanley, First aura, 

Atlant-ad the psident a€ the E?a#ist Sunday School ~&LIoyd Elder--sene by virtue a€ 

office. The move eliminated tm at-large psitiom.) 

Other persors serving by virtue cb a€£ ice are Harold C. mett, execaive secretary 

treasurer, Ekecutive Camnittee, Nashville, Tm.; R Keith Farlcs, president, ~oreiq Mission 

Ebard, Ridmord, Va., ad William G. Tanner, wesident, m e Mission Ebard, Atlanta. 

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The camittee ansidered six other rrrminatiors. Three new members were dnated: three 

were rennmimted. 

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New m-xs are C.B. EEogLle, executive direct- of the Southern Baflist General Comtion 

of California, Fresm, replacing Warren C. Hultgren, Tulsa, Okla.; T. Truett Ott, appellate 

judge and member of First &utrch, Tap, Fla., replacing John D. Ratliff, Allxcpercpe, N.M., 

ard S. Tmtt Cathy, businessman ad member of First am&, Jomsboro, Ga., replacing Frrter 

W. Routh, Nashville, Tenn. 

Rmanirrated were Owen Cooper, Yaaoo City, Miss., and Jack R. Jones, Arlington, Va. 

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The amnittee mninated Jaes T. Draper Jr., imnediate pst pesidmt af the SBC ard 

pstor of First &ur&, Ness, Texas, far a fiveyear term. Draper, hawever, declind the 

nomiration, remending instead that Carolyn Weatherf ad, exectti* director of the Wanan' s 

Missiorawy UniomSBC, Birmincjham, Ala, , be rdnated. 

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Fbsts held by J-se Fletcher, Z4bilene, Te-, ad Lee Satterfield, Alta Vista, Va., were 

eliminated. 

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NURlW AM3RICAN BAPTIST -P (15 menbers, seven of whm serve by virtue of dfice). 

Eight minations mmidered; 4 new -rs, 4 remmimtiom. 

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New m-rs are Hon V. Lao, a building wmultant and marker of Bethel church, Conrad, 

Calif., replacing Kell C . Williems, St. Peterslmrg, Fla. : Brian Harmur, First &urd~, 

Peneacola, Fla. , replacing Glen Braswell, Denver, Cdo. ; ~il1 W r , First dm&, Ef fingbm, 

Ill., replacing Stafley 0. White, LaHalxa, Calif., aW J&m B. Brashear, Brmlside church, 

ReynoldsWg, Ohio, replacing Mrs. Huis Cay me, Cmsicam, Tems. 

I Reappinted are O m Cvr, Yazm City, Miss. ; Floyd W. Harris, FWt, Va. ; Ted Coldirm, 

Md, Okla., and William E. Hull, Shr mprt , La.

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SBC amnittee3 By Dan Martin 

AWANa BAaGRrnD STORY 

Ba$i st Press 

4/2 6/8 5 

NASEWILLE, Tem. (BP)-The C d ttee on C d ttees arrd the Resalutiom C d ttee f m the 

1985 annW meting a€ the Southern Baptist Corntion 'have teen announ& by Charles F . 

Stanley, convention ~esident 

. 

The amnittees were anrpmoed April 26, in -ping with bylaw ~ovisions uf the SBC 

Corstitution, whi& rewire the release a£ the tw ky camnittees 45 days in admnce a€ the 

annual meting, adeduled Jme 11-13 in the Dallas Convention Center. 

- The tm d ttees are appointed by the corntion president, ad do mt re@ re 

ratification by mcssenwrs. Stanley also appoints the Credentials ad Tellers Ccnrmittees, 

whi& will be released later. 

T b key respmihility af the Cdttee on Carunittees is to rrsaninate the Cdttee on 

Eoards, Canmissiors ad Starding Canmissions, whi*, in turn, nominates txustew fm fie 20 

natioml SBC agencies. The Camnittee on Cdttee~i also is &are with nominating "all 

special dtteas autlnriaed during the session aE the Convention mt otherwise pwided far." 

The ~esdluti0r-e Canmi ttee remives , prcaesses ad repxts hck to the anvention any 

resolutiom ~ esentd during the thr-day convention session. 

The Canmittee on Camnittees is made up of 52 persore, tm £ran ear=h state whi& qualifies 

fcrr representation on SBC boards by having more than 25,000 members. The Resnllltiom C d t t e e 

is made up of 10 persom, three a€ wlmn mmt b members d the SBC Exec*ive Camnittee. 

Stanley told Bafiist Press he receid mare than 500 nanimtiom far the 62 posts. 

"The appintment ~wedure is an momolzs task, " he said. "There are so many worded ul 

people out there to serve, it is hard sanetime to make a &ice. Stanley added he " telepbond 

each of the people appointed prsomlly to talk with than mut their respomibilities ." 

He said in early Fall, 1984, he solicited namee frcm state anvention executive directors, 

presidents, as well as receiving dmtiors frcm individuals. The 500 names were put into a 

aanputer and the winmdng ~ oaess started. 

"We asked mry state convention if there was any reason any person sbuld rot sene. Any 

person they mention&, we did not ap@nttl' Stanley said. "Any mes subnitted by persors 

viewed in their state as extreme, hostile rn re~esentatiw cd a political malition were rot 

mnsidexed. We tried to choose pople w b could make a aontrilxtion, w b did mt have any axe 

to grid." 

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He said one potential minee "said he did mt think he ought to serve because a€ his 

persod feeling3 ab& the convention right row. He wi-ew his &nation." 

Stanley said: "In the mse cb the Texas appointments, where there is enotioml 

involvement on bth sides, the prsom selected were re~ammdd f ran out a€ state." 

Stanley said ea& state mmnention &£ice was called a d mkd mut Coaperative Progran 

mr&rihtiorrs £ran ~e &urcAes cE whi& ptgltial rminees were members. "With only tvm 

elace$iom, the 03nwmtior-s provided the infamation we reqested," he said. 

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"I sought to appint people who are, in my opinion, lcryal, rooprating, Bihlebdieving, 

evanMistic, mission minded servants of God. ' The &ur&es they re~esmt are fran a wide 

spectrun in siae, giving ad involvement," he said. 

Stanlq said he ~ovided the lists to vice-pesidmts Zig Ziglar of Dallas and Don Wideman 

of Kansas City, Mo., for swstiom and in*. "We did rot sit &MI and discllss the wble 

thing, but I told then m provide me with suggestions d I muld coreider then," he said. 

He adaed that while le did receive suggestiors, the final selectiolls were his. 

Stanley said he does mt believe the Cdttee on Cdttees will have musual 

respnsikilities, such 9s dmting persons to serve on a "bleribbn" amnittee to study the 

crisis in the denomination. Runc~s are circaating a motion will be introduced calling f oa: the 

creation uE a mmittee to study the situation and suggest means to resol= it. 

"Frm what I haw heard, any motion will include remmmmdatiors aonnerning the mbxship 

of ma& a oommittee," Stanley said. 

He added the Resolutiom C d ttee "wi 11 ha= to k very, very careful. I think we don' t 

need to mntrihte any mcare mnfmion cr volatile subjects than neessary." 

He said, however, he klieves the prsom he has appointed "are exy wise people. I think 

they w ill serw well arrd ma)oe wise decisiom . I think they w ill oorsider resdlutiom in the 

context aE the tension (currently in the anvention.)" 

Stanley named Geurge Schrder, a fiysician and a mkr of Little Rock (Ark.) First 

Baeist C'lnuch, chairman aE the Cdttee on Cdttees. 

Larry Lewis, mesident of Hannihl-LzGrange Callege in Hannihl , Mo., was named &airman 

of the ~esdlutiom Camittee. HarmiM-LGsange College is a four-par sdxlol affiliated with 

the Missouri Ba#ist Comtion. 

kec&ive Camnittee h r s are: Gary Yomg, pastor of First Southern E!a#ist Churd~, 

Phoenix, M z . ; Cardlyn Miller, a housewife ad member of First Ba@ist Church, Hmtsville, 

Ala., ad Tanmy Himon, pastor of First Baeist Church, West Menrjhis, Ark. 

Other members are: 

k v Marew, a layman frm Circle Drive churd.1, Colonrab Spring>, Cdlo.: Billy Cline, 

-tor of Merximn Avenue &urch, Asheville, N.C.: Cecil Sins, execlai~ directm af the 

Narth-t Baptist Comtion, Patlard, Ore. : Alma R&h Morgan, a church staff mn-r f ran 

First church, ~rtlesville, Okla.; Larry Halley, a &ysiuan d member of North Ed &a&, 

Beaunont ,' Texas: Ebb Dlgan, pstor of Colunbia aura, Falls Chur&, Va., and Lewis, chairman. 

A1;ABZM: A1 Jackson, pastor al Lakeview &ur&, Aukurn; Larry Sellers, member of 

Thtrmasvi lle &mch, TkPsnasville, 

-AS: James Bqant, pastor of Grand Avenue d~urch, Fmt Smith: Schroeder, chairman. 

ARIZCNA: Bill Store, pastor uf First church, LitMield krk; R.G. Whitehead, director of 

associatiod dssiom , Estrella association, Phoenix. 

CALIFORNIA: Jim Goodman, a chirqractcn: a d member of First &ma, Tbmd Oab; Roger 

Spradlin, pastor of Oildale First Church, Bakersfield. 

COLORAID: Art Graws, pastor of Bioentdal~c=hurch, kzbta; ~lri Grebenik, howwife ad member of Black Faest First churd~, Cdloaracb Spring. 

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DI5TRICF CF CIDL~IA: Joe Ed~onds, pastar uf ~ r i d church, y Frimdly, Md.: Sa~n Hodges, 

a tpwrranent enplayee and menber of Hillcrest church, Washington. 

FWRIDi: man Hwkins, housewife aru3. member of First &ur&, Fat LauderdaLe; Hmer 

Lidsay Jr . , mpstor of First church, Jacksonville. 

GEORGIA: Andy Frahler , educator ad member of First &w&, Atlanta: Ike Reighard, pastor 

o£ New Hope church, Fa~tte~ille. 

ILLINOIS: hkrk Mi=, layman d member of Gateway church, Millstadt: hmy O'Guin, pastor 

of Tabernacle Decatur. 

BlDIlFA: H. S. (Hqh) Bargew, lapan and rnemwr of Calmry chur&, Evansville; bvid 

Sirpon, edibr of the Irdiam Baflist, news journal cb the State Comtion a€ Baptists in 

Irdiana. 

MAS-NEBIWSKA: Dean Denington, layman ad member of First Sakhern Churd~," Tapela; 

Charles E. Mmonald, pastor of First dux&, Belle Plaine, Kan. 

KENTUCKY: Richard Deer, pastor of Hall Street &mdI, Oweslmro: James E. Wheeley, 

laman ad member of St. Matthews churd.1, Lmisville. 

mSIANA: Mile Gil&rist, evangelist d rnenber of Willow Point &ur&, Shreveport: 

Carrdll Karkalits, educatm and member of Trinity chuxd.1, Lab Charles. 

MAKYL?WD-IELXWE: Carma Hartsfield, pastor of Ladowr church, Lando-r Hills; William 

Taaffe, journalist and membsr of Montrase church, bntrase. 

MICHI-: Floyd Key, layman and mernkr of Westside &ur& in Flwhing: -ge Seelad, 

pastor of Dix Amue church, Lincoln Park, 

MISSUIRI: Rich Mme, attorney and member of First &m&, West Plains: John Gilbert, 

pastor of First &ur&, Po@ar BluEf ad ~esident 

af the Missouri Baptist Comtion. 

MISSISSIPPI: Doris Evans, housewife ad meubr of Colonial Heights chur&, Jacbon; 

Will ian Green, pastor of Edmrds &ur&, War&. 

NOmH ~WBIINA: Harace Hall, pstor of Freedan &r&, Wilmington: Ibn Taylor, layman and 

member of Beverly Hills church, Asheville. 

NW MEXIQ3: Jim Prock, pastor uf First churd.1, Carlsbd; Lillian Green, howwife and 

mmbr of First church, Jal. 

NOKTHWST: Danny Dichon, -star of East Side churdn, &rin#ield, Ore.; Ridnard Eurson, 

layperson and menber of Vine Street d~urd~, Raseburg, Ore. 

OHIO: r ill Barner, director of missiom, Greater Colunhm association. Jerry Lankfad, 

layman and member of Greater Ccilunhs &m&, Cdlunhs. 

: Stew Boehning, pstor of Immmuel &ma, Shawnee; Tan Hdld, layman and 

member of ~icjhlard hwk churd~, Bartlewille. 

-3NA: James L. Oliver, pastor of Central church, Darlington: Gearge Sdth, 

layman arrd makr of First &m&, CdlunMa. 

TENNESSEE: Bob Bur&, pastor of Calvary dhurd.1, Kmmille; Joe Rwell, layan & mm&r 

of Briarcrest &urch, Mmfis. 

. TEXAS : DPmon Skrsok, pastor uf Champion Fmest chur&, Houston; Wk Fuller, layan and 

m-r of San Jacrinto hurd.1, Amarillo. 

VIRGINIA: Ann Davis, layperson ard member of BetM church, Ymktawn; Bob Estes , pastor 

of Ooean View aura, Virginia Beah. 

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SBC Vi-President 

Objects To Omission By Ebb S. Terry 

A W m Brau2lR-D STORY 

Bafiist Press 

4/2 6/85 

W A S CITY, Mo. (BP)-SBC Vice-President Dodd V. Wideman says he was "not given 

opprtmity ar asked to give inplt to the list of names frcm &i& Presidglt Charles Stanley 

made his appointments" to ley amnittees fm the 1985 annual meting of the SBC. 

Widman's reaction came falldng a Thursday morning tele-ne d l frcm Stanley in which 

the SBC pesident said the appintmmts had been released to ~a@ist Press Wednesay 

a£ temn. Widman, pstm of First Baptist Church, Nmth Kamas City, Mo., said his only input was 

to suggest a person to serve on the amittee an resalutiors £ran a list cb individuals 

~ovided by Stanley's dfice. 

"I asked him (Stanley) why he didn't include me ad the reason I.le gave foe: dtting me was 

that he was so htsy a d that the appointments were such a tremendous job," Widernan recalled. 

"I find that incredible. He was too bay to mmult me )sut I h ow for a fact that he did call 

ad ask other pople f car suggestions. ' That has &en annoma4 in pthl ic meetings. 

"I cnnsider what he has done to h mt only a vialation af the bylaws, ht also a 

violation af Christian ethics and murtesy am3 the spirit a d fairness and right," he said. 

Bylaws aE the SBC re@ re the ~esident appoint the C d 

Resal&iors Canmi ttee " in mmultation with" the vice~esidmts 

. 

ttee on C a d 

ttees a d the 

Widanan said he believes he was "plrpsefully mi tted" £ran the appintmt pmss and 

called his anission, "a persoml insult and an &front to the m e than 7,000 Southern BaGists 

wko elected me as vice~esident a~isuning I mud be included in the vwess." 

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He &led Stanley ' s " irdepmdent , arli trary style OE leadership" a sharp contrast to that 

of Jmes T. Draper Js. when he wae ~esident (1982-83) . Draper reportedly initiated and 

maintain& cammication with his vimpresidents , Se~ral. meetin- beetween the SBC uf f icers , 

were reprted ad all appointments were made jointly. 

Widanan said he has initiate3 every contact with Stanley sine being elected in Jme. 

&but three weeks ago, after receiving m respmers, Wid- said he sent a personal lett r 

offering to meet anytime, anywhere, in light: a€ the pessing time sasdule. 

The respnse was a telephone dl £ran Fred Pcwell, a membr of Stanley's staff, wideman 

said, adding he remembered Well as mdinatar of the ~atterson/~ressler cxmmmications 

netwrk whm Pwell was a Missouri pastor. Wideman said he wm told a list aE name vauld be 

foararded to him d he was to a€£ er suggestions £ran W list. Also, an appintmt was made 

faa a phone anversation with Stanley. 

When the tw men did make tele@one antact, Stanley did rot ha= his list a€ mes in 

frmt d him, Wideman said. "He asm me to make swwstiom lxt all I was e=r allwed to do 

was to react to nam- vhich Stanley's dfioe ~ovided, I was nwr able to initiate any 

stqgestiom," Wideman added. 

"I fird it certainly -setting to reali~ 

that the first tine I will b ow W Charles has 

appointed w ill be when I mad it in Baptist Press," he said. 

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S8C 'Peace Initiati~' 

Fails: Said 'Too Late' By Dan Martin 

AWANa EwraaND STORY 

Baljist Press 

4/2 6/8 5 

0- CITY (=)--A "peace initiative, " desicpd to amid a "wblesale blodhthl' at the 

annw meeting uf the Scruthern Baptist Comtion in Dallas apprently has failed. 

Gene Garrison, pastor o£ ~irst Ba#ist Chur* of 0klal.roma City, ad famer secprd vice 

wesident uf the SBC, told Ba@ist Press he proposed a meeting of key leaders frrm mrious 

faction3 in the dmanimtion in an effclpt to "kep this thing (the SBC) £ran &ng aprt ." 

L aders aE the ricjht-wing aa inerrancy faction, he said, t urnad dmn the plan. hey said 

it was too late.. .that the missiles are already in the air," Garrison said. 

Garrison, seen as a "moderate", said the overture was made "entirely on my awn & cane 

about kcawe I have really been trdiled by what is happening. I have praised God an3 

every3x)dy that I an mt wing to be part cb the slarder a d divisiveness that is going on hat 

that I w ill try to do what I can to king peace. 

"I haw been in at least three meetings where attempts were made to discuss anr 

differenaes. I left ea& f &ling more alienated. What I ~q-~osed was that we ~IE- a meeting 

where w muld mt talk abut our di f f erenaes txlt about ways to amid division, " Garrison said. 

Garrison said he Md "at least three long telemne comersations with Adrian Rogers," 

former ~esident cb the SBC ad ptm of Bellevue Baptist Church of -phis, Tenn., smut ways 

to king abut s& a meeting and a detailed agenda f m any smh meeting. 

"We started out talking about binding arbitration, " Garrison said. "But that idea was 

draEped kcawe we knew there would b ~obl~zns getting a panel acdeptible to both sides. I 

sqgested that we jmt haw a meeting of the pe-e wko haw hen leaders on both sides to see 

if we muld head off ~oblems in Dallas .I1 

Garrison said he suggested a four pint agada and R q r s suggested a fifth. 

First-"We would urcp that Charles Stanley (current SBC ~esident) be umpposed. In 

@*an@, he would ocmmit himself to a Fwees a€ dnatiom ad appointments a& wuld 

assure fairness cn all sides .I1 

Seaond-"All of tkPEie w b are row involved in trawlling acrass the a mtion and 

speaking in rallies wuld stop speaking, or, at lest, turn their attention taward pace .I1 

' Third--"During the d n g ~ a r we , would make sane soart cb arrangement whereby the nam 

articles concerning the mntrmrsy could be screened by sane froc~ess to have the anotioml 

factors remowd. In efiange, plblicatiors such as the Southern Ba@ist Adwcate stop 

wishing entirely." 

FourtklThe Reolutiorrs Cdttee (at the 1985 meeting) would either i-e cr decline to 

hardle divisive iss~s whid.1 haw W spoken to during the last five ar 10 years." 

The fifth, which Garrison said Rogers pqpsd, would negotiate "negativle desiwtion" of 

Cqrative Prqm mntrilxltiom, allawing churd~es to decline to support certain mrk sLldh BE^ 

the six semiraries, whi* they fid objectiomhle. 

lbgzrs was antacted by Bqkist Press ad aordirmed Garrison' s ~opsal. 

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"I really apeciated the &fat Gme made," Rogers said. "I think his reasoning is 

pobsbly sod. I don't think that what protends far Dallas is good. I an grieved becawe I 

knm the Father (~cd) is displeased whm his hildrcm can't get along. I appmiated the 

effort Gene made: I appreciated him calling." 

Rogers added he believes such a meeting is "still mt an impossibility. It may still 

transpire, but the ~diltim is that m many things have &m set in mtion that we don't knw 

whether m mt mething like this can be done." 

The Men@-is -tor said he talked to Stanley abotlt the propsal during a meeting. 

"Basically Charles (Stanley) felt he dozsn't I.la= anything to hrqiin with except gxd will. 

He said he has cpne aulermd to make the appintments good, solid Scuthern Ba#ists." 

Al-ugh Rogers did mt elmrate on the meeking in which the popsal was discussed, 

Ba@ist Press has learned Stariley and Rogers met in Dallas in the Amfac Hotel April 17. ' The 

meeting also includd farrier SBC pesidmts Smith ad Draper; Paul Pressler; ~aiq Patterson; 

Rmsell Kaemerling, editar of the Sahern Baptist A&cate, and Fred Pawell, smim assdate 

pastor at First Baeist Church, Atlanta. 

Rogers added the first four points "are ideas Gene (Garrison) had ad I hsically would 

agree with those. On the matter of negative designation, I want to be wry careful. I think 

the best thing fa us (the SBC) would be for LS all to Irtlieve as mwh dlih as we can. I zm 

mt far the demise d wperative missions, I em for moperative missiors. 

"The only reason negative designation is mentioned is to m p people f ran feeling they 

have to crucify their convidtiom to support all we are doing. This is a way of seeinghow we 

can continw to cmprate," Rogers said. 

He added he belie-s the SBC came into being to "do missions. Nm, by ad large, all we 

do is called missions. Themf ae whm we give to ' missions ' we also give to the Historical 

Canmission, the Christian Life Canmission, theological edwation a d all a€ that. Sone a€ it 

is missiors, sane is quasi-miesiom and sane is mt missiors at all ," 

Garrison said garticipnts aould inclwde semimy ~esidents Roy Lee Honeycat cb 

Southem, -sell H. Dilday Jr, of SmtWestern, and Randall Lolley of Southeastern, Cecil 

Sherman, pastor of Brcadway E?a#ist Church, Fclrt Wcath, Texas, ad Kmeth Chafin, ~dessar at 

Southern seminary. 

On the other side cb the table, he said, regresentatives muld be Paige Patterson a d 

%ul Pressler, leaders d the inerrancy movement: Stanley a d former SBC pesidents Rogers, 

Jmes T. Draper Jr. a d Bailey E, Smith. 

"If we add ~t a group lih this together, tbe w b are actually lead spokesmen fa the 

tm sidee, a d eac3-1 side would make sane mnaessions, I think we could head this thing off in 

Dallas. If things keepon like they are qing, it doesn't make any differen- whether Charles 

Stanley wirrs a lases the election; the real loser will be the Southern omt ti on." 

Garrison said he asked Rogers to discuse the possibilities d such a meeting with Stanley. 

" ~ told e me he would be meeting with Stanley to gray a d -murage him, ad that the popsal 

wuld be disclssed. He (Rogers) told me there was Imp+-rot big-hrt Imp .I' 

The 0kl8homa City pstor said he dled Rogers far an answer. "He told me he had met with 

Stanley a d 'the kethren' and they felt they had mthing to negotiate with ad that su& an 

effmt was Itroo late."' 

Rogers said he is "in f am of +dy ptting together be£ are cr after or anytinre to 

talk ard to pay and to be open arvd loving," Hadever, he added: '2 think the possibility af it 

(a meeting sw31 as Garrison ~ aposed) is a little remote. 

"I think it is p5bZily a little late for that. I an doing what I can to sqprt the 

ministry and presidency of Charles Stanley, lnrt at the same time I m trying to do what I can 

to be loving and positive in s@ri t tcrward tbse wfio may disagree ." 

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He added he does mt believe Stanley sbuld ocme "hat in had and say, 'Please don't 

oppos me. ' I think the ball is in the murt a€ the wlm will appose Charles. Either they 

will cer will mt. That is almast a decision they haw to make milaterally," Rogers said. 

Rogers added he "certainly expects Charles Stanley to be reelected. But in all bnesty, 

I think hethren owht to negotiate whether Ehey win ar lose if there are pints where they can 

nqtiate. I don't think the ' wmervatives' ought to fail to nwtiate because they think 

they have a psition a€ strength. 

"The pint is that I don' t b ow that we have anything really to neptiate with other than 

matters d conscience. Ad that cmmt be neptiated." 

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Wuthern Baptist Evangelists 

Set lB5 &&ing, Prqm 

AWANCE BXIGRCCND STORY 

BaFist Press 

5/6/8 5 

DALLAS (BP)-Different aspects d the work of Southem Bagist mqlists will be 

repesented by the thee f eakured speers at the Corderen- cd Southern Baptist Evangelists, 

Jme l(F12 in Dallas. 

The meeting, held in mnjm&ion with the mud session af the Southern Baptist 

Comtion, will hold its ~imary meeting at First Ba@ist Church in Dallas, Jme 12. The 

lxlainess session and three f ellawship functions will b at the H ~ tRegency t Hotel in Dallas. 

mrt HEmblin, vicecpresident fa -ism at the Southern Ba#ist Hane Mission Board, 

Bill Sta£f ad, an ewgslist fran Chattarrsoga, Tenn, , and Jerry Vines, ~pstm UE First 

Baptist Chur&, Jacksonville, Fla., will gre& to the gathering. 

Also Charles Stanley, -star a€ First Baptist Churd.1, Atlanta, will deliver greeting3 to 

the evangelists as ~esident 

uf the Smthern Baptist Comtion. 

The Hane Mission Board will bst a reception far all Southern Bqkist mngelists d 

state directors a€ e~ngelism 

1(F11:30 p .m . at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. 

Then T~lesday and Wednesday nims, after the SBC sessions have adjourned, the C.O.S.B.E. 

will bst a Fastid a€ Praise featuring 15 individuals cr gr- each night wb are music 

evangelists fran 1(Fll:30. The public is invited. 

The annual meeting, acaxding to M i k Gildrist uf Shreveprt, La., vesident fulfill8 

several af the purposes a€ C.O.S.B.E. sudh 8s "~ariding deep spiritual fdlawship among 

Swthern kiptist evangelists, wariding greater visibility for ~iliLical emngelism, ard 

grdding evangalistic inspiration and infamation to messenFrs attmding the Southern Baptist 

Convention meeting." 

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Integrity, Ruls 

Key To R qi stration E3y Dan Martin 

AWmm BPIZIGRrnD STORY 

E3a@ist Press 

5/7 185 

DALLAS (EP)--'"I% integrity of the registration ard blloting process at the 1985 annual 

meeting o£ the Scuthern Baptist Corntion depends m the integrity uf the local church," said 

Lee Pcrter, mC registration secretary. 

Porter noted the registration ~oaess has been "tightmed up'' acrcss the pst sevsral 

years, particdarly as mntrmrsy in the 14.3-million member Mmtion kas intmifid. 

"Became feelings are so intense on lmth sides, it is abolutely essential the registration and 

Uloting ~ooess be witmut yestion," he said. 

As in the past, he added, the local churd.1 is the ley. "It is the respmibility of ea& 

locaL church to see they fallm the eovisiom d the convention constitution in seleing 

their messenFrs ard in making sure the messengers are paperly certified, " he said. 

Wter added the "messenger' s mmcienae a d the local chur&' s integrity are the main 

imuranae the systm mks. Mawever, he said, check will be made to make sure churd~es and 

irdividuals b mt vialate the registration ~ovisiom in the SBC mmtitution arrd Bylws. 

"At the anvention we want to mrtify ewry mssenger £run every church wlm fdlms 

Foper ~oaedure. Churd-~es need to mdezstard the importan- cb electing 'messeng2rs'. In 

Southern Ba#ist life, we elect 'messengers' a d mt 'delegates'. They come to the convention, 

hear the disctssiom ad, as best they how, follm the ledrship of the Lord in ewry mte." 

Pcarter said ewry churd~ "a& is in friendly cooperation with this aonmtion and is 

synpthetic with its ppes ad vmrk and has during the fiscal par peceeding been a 

bonaf ide antributor to the Comtion' s mK' is entitled to one massenger . 

Ckle additioml messenger is allawed f a ewry 250 memhrs cr fca: each $250 paid to the 

mrk of the mnwmtion. "No &ur& is enti Ud to mare than 10 messengers, " Pcarter said, 

pointing out scme &ur&es 'beme tmnfmed kcause they are allwed mare messengers to the 

stat mnmtion m 9ssociatioml annual meting. 

Pcater pointed out tm additional fadoors which haw mused sane mnfmion in the past: 

--There is m pwision for alternates, and alternates sbtild not register. The 

oonstitution provides mly fa a maximun a€ 10 messengers. 

--'lChr&es which haw crganiaed sine Jan. 1, 1985, are mt digible fur representation. 

We mmt the povision in the mmtitution mnerning mntihtion to mean the ~eceeding 

calendar par. Themf care, chur&es crganized sine Jan. 1, 1985, wpuld ham been mission 

&ur&es ad are contrilmtiom were comted through their mother &urch." 

Poarter add&: '!No one is autcrnatidly a mesenger. Messengers mmt be elected by the 

d.1urd-1~~. EBstors, ddmtioral anployees a: missiorarias are rnt messengers by virtue cb 

their position. They, too, mmt le elected by the mngregstion." 

He said &ur&cs slnuld secure registration card3 either frcm state mnmtion oa: 

associatioral df ims. Thy s bdd be properly filled out an3 simed. 

"The messenger sbuld king that card to the registration mth at the Dallas Comtion 

Center. I muld suggest messengers register as soon as pssiue after arriving," Pcrt r said. 

"If persom are mable to secure aurds, they sbuld king a letter frm their &ur& certifying 

they are messengers. If they do mt Ira= a card or letter, they will have to tel-ne the 

&w& ad haw the church send a telegram la the credentials d t t e e at the Dallas 

Corrt~ntion Center." 

Pmter addd: "If msmgers me with paper credentials, simd ad totally filled out, 

they can register fairly yicldy. Ad, we will haw to do that sin- we axe anticipting 

bet- 26,000 and 27,000 messmFrs, the largest mnvention we have eter had." 

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19435 SBC Pastors' Qrderene 

To Trace 'Raimw Through The Rain' 

Awm l3KmROWD STORY 

Baptist Press 

517 /8 5 

DUAS (IF)--The annlial Southern Bagtist Pastms' Corderme, held pior trD the yearly 

Southern Bagtist Comtion, will met at the Dallas Corntion Center, Jme (510. The 1W5 

theme is "Tracing the Rainlmw Tknrou~h the Rain." 

The program includes 15 sermor~, including tw by fanner pesidents d the SBC. Tbqh 

mast speakers will be Southern Ba@ists, a minister frcm Englard (educated at Southern Bapkist 

Theological Semimry, Lmisville, Ky., and a fonner pstm of SBC &ur&es in Flctrida) and a 

Preslyterian pstor are also on the ~ogram. 

"This is the 50th anniversary af the Pastars' Qrdereae ad we felt it was a @ time to 

focus cm God' s panises," O.S. Hiwkins, pastor cb First ~a@ist Chur&, Ft. Lauderdale, Fh., 

ad gresideslt a€ the mnfexenae this yar, exglained. 

"Ever sine God set the rairibw in the sky far Noah, rai-ws lmvs ma* people think of 

panis=. Each of our speakers will facls on one af God' s pdses . The pmgrarm ref 1-s an 

effort to gather a crcss section fran acrcss the Southern Ba#ist Comtion. Sevxal speakers 

have newr spa- at the an£ewenae befme and, of aomse, others haw Men on the ~ q r a r m , 

su5h as Dr. (w.R) CriEiweLl dA&ianRogers. 

"This mad be the pirmtal meting in the histcry af the Sarthern Convention and 

we bpe, by preaching the peciow granises d God d centering on the psitim, the Pastors' 

Corderence am set the tone f on: the conwntion to tse Christ-bmring." 

The Sunday eming program Jme 9 begins at 6:30 p.m. and will feature Bill Weber, pastor 

of Prestommod Eh#ist Church in Dallas; Ro'bert ~mkilin, vice~esidat for emngelism at the 

Southern Ba#ist Hone Mission bard in Atlanta; D. Jmes K-crdy, $mion: minister at Ccgal 

Rid* presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauder&le, Fla., and Adrian Rogers, -stor of Bellevue &gist 

Ch& in Manphis, Tenn. (ad pesident cd the SBC in 1980) . 

The first session Jme 10 starts at 9 a.m. ad features David Walker, pastor of First 

Ba@ist Church, San Antonio, Texas; Jack Grdmm, pastor cd First Baeist Churd.1, West Palm 

&a&, Fla.; Tan Elliff, pasta a€ *l& Baeist Chur&, Denver and ArtW Blerssitt, 

evangelist f rcm Holl~OOd, Calif, 

The aftemn session Jme 10 begins at 1:15 ad will include the election cb officers as 

well as sennorm by Marris Chapan, pastor of First Baptist Churd.1, W i d t a Falls, Texas; Edkin 

Ymg, pastor uf S-rrd Baptist Cknxrclh, Elmston: Job Wood, pastar of First Ba@ist CM&, 

Waco, Tams, ad Jzk Taylur, head of Dimmiom in Christian Living, Fcrt Wcrth, Texas. 

The 1B5 conference will mnclude with a session bginning at 6:30 p.m. Featured speakers 

will include Rihard Jackson, pastor of Narth Finmix (Ariasm ) Baeist Churd~: R.T. Kendall, 

senior minister £ran Westminister Chapel in Lo~n, Ekqlarrd, and W.A. Ckaiwell, paatm of 

First Ba@ist Ckwch, Dallas (and pesident a€ the SBC for 1%9 ad 1970) . 

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Camps Ministers 

Set 1%5 meting 

WAN03 B?CEROWD STORY 

Baeist Press 

5/8 18 5 

IlALLM (BP)-The Association uf Southern Bartist Canp Ministers will bld its annml 

meeting Jme 9-10 at the R e Bird Inn Best Western in Dallas, imdiately ~ i oto r the Southern 

&I*ist Comtion. 

There will b five sessiom spread over omar+a-half days examining the theme, 

"Heritage, Dewlapnent and Update: Our Cormntion.. .Om ~aith.. .Our Wark." 

Session I on Sunday eming will feature Phil Briw, prafsssar at Southvetern Ehsist 

Thealcqical Saninary in Fart Warth, Terns, speaking on "Faith Demlapnent in ini is try." Walter 

Shurden, ~dessoa: at Southem Bagkist Mqical Seminary in ~dsville, Ky., will address 

"Roots af Our Diversity' in the Sunday nicjht session. 

Morday mdng will include tw session3 : Jesse C . Fletder , pesident & Hardin-Sirmom 

University in Abilene, Texas, on "Care and Maintenme cb the Canp Minister' s Life," ad mul 

Jon=, exec&iw directs-treasurer o£ the Christian Aaion Cdssion d the Mississi* 

Ba#ist Comtion, on "Ethical Issues Whic3-1 Danard Attention." 

The Morday af temn f ocm will be on "History and Developnent uf Student Warkt' by W .F. 

Hcward, retired state director of studmt mrk f m the Ba$ist General Comtion a€ Teras . 

The final session, Moday evening, will feature the yearly awarcb hnquet, music by 

rearding artist Gaxy Rard of Chicaq and an address by J& Tadlock, Baptist Student Union 

director at Clanson University in South Cardim. 

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State Leadership Disregarded 

In Pifflointments, Presidents Say E9y Dan Martin 

AWANCE BElGROLND S W 

BaFist Press 

5/8/85 

D W (w)-southern E3afiis-t Convention President Charles F. Stanley largely disregsrdd 

sggestiors by state mnntion leadership when kuj made appointments to tm by cad ttess , 

acaarding to an elected SBC dficial ad a surwy uf state cnmtion ~esidents. 

Stanley, pastor of ~irst Baptist Church of Atlanta, reaently appinted the 52mber 

C d ttee on Ccrmni ttees ad the l&menker Reedlutiom Canmi ttee to sene at the 1985 SBC, 

scheduled in Dallas June 11-13. 

In mmmcing the appointments, he said the 62 were selected f ran a list nore than 500 

names subnitted by "state amtion exec&iw directas, gresidents.. .ad iradividuals." 

Don Wideman, pastor of First Baptist Wch of Nmth Kansas City, Mo., and secx>d Vice 

~esident a€ the mnwntion, said acaoxding to his recards state exec&ives suhnitted "Wut 

300 names" to Stanley fm mmideration. "Only three a€ the mes shed up on the Cdttee 

on Cumnittees ard one on the Resolutions C d tte," Widenan said. 

Fdllming Wideman's ~nrmcnts on the disprity bet- recanmendations by state leaders and 

appointment, Baptist Press mrrtacted the ~esidente d 21 of the 26 stat- eligible fa 

regresentat ion on SBC cnrrani tt-. 

With only one exce$iow-Al&me-e& o£ the ~esidents reported mne a€ the persons they 

d m t d £car the tw dttees were named. 

"It was a nice, friendly gesture far Dr. Stanley to invite us to hve input," said Raymord 

bewell, a Shrewport insuranoe escaiw wko is pesidmt d the Ldsiana Baptist Cornention. 

"But in the end, it didn't mean anything." 

"We qt a letter inviting our re-mdatiorrs. Dr. Lee (Rdkrt L. Lee, exr;c&ie director 

of the LBC) ard I b th sulmitted rvlmes cb p ee w b are actidy inmlved in the life and wark 

of their local chux&, association, state and mti0m.l wnwntiom," Boswell said. 

"None cb the people we reamanended were appointed. I haw to say I an wry disappointed," 

Boswell said. "Frcrn dmt I haw hard, that seas to be tw* acrass the amtion. I an very 

wnaernd that out Cd all a€ the mes suhdtted 5 all of the state convention presidents and 

=cutire directors, there was an apprent disregard Ear the mimtiors ." 

"I appeciated his letter =king IB to gi= input , ht the action was witlmut mezming. It 

had absolutely no siq~ificance," -well a*. 

m y one state mnwntion ~esidmt, Wallace Hailey, pstor af Malwain Bafiist Church in 

Bidngham, and ~esidmt a€ the Alabeuna Pagkist Comtion, said he had dmtd a person w b 

ultimately appointed. T 

"I prt together a list of names txlt I pol~liLy owrdid it. I suhnitted three pgs aE 

names to him (Stanley) ," H d e y said, adding he dmted A1 Jackson, pstm aE Labview 

Ba@ist Church in Amtawn, wlm was appointed to the Canmi ttee on C d ttees . 

-ding to Wideman' 8 recar&, only in Alahma, Arkmas, North Cardim and Missmi 

were re~cmmendatiom followed. 

Widman said only Ja#rkson; Jan- Bryant, pastor of Grad Amu? &gist Church in Fmt 

Smith, Ark.: ad Jdm Gilbert, ptor of First Bagkist Church of P@ar Bluff, Mo., ard 

~esidmt a€ the Missmi Baptist Comtion, were remanmended by state leadership ard 

appointed to the dttee on ammittees. 

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State Leadership Disregarded 

In eintments, Presidmts Say 

2 

Only Billy Cline, pastor af Merrimn AWE Eaflist Churh in Ashwille, N.C., was 

r e m e d by state leadership a d dtimtely appointed to the Rssolutions Cdttee. 

' The Ba#ist Press surwy revealed the pesidents d the 21 state mnwntiors did not 

rwimte tbse dtimatdy appointed. 

' They are Arkmas, Califarnia, Calcnradb, District uf ~olunbia, ~lmida, ~ecargia, ~llimis, 

Kansas-Nebraska, Kentlrcky, Louisiana, MarylaribDelaware, Missouri, Mississippi, Nmth Cardim, 

New Mexim, Oklahcxna, South Caxolina,' Tennassee, Terns and Virginia. 

Presidents d Arimm, Irdiana, Miclhigan, WtWest and Ohio were mt mntactd. 

'he execttiw director uf the Kmtucky Baptist Cornention, Willian Marshall, confirmed 

none of the suggestiors he made were appointed. Marshd.1 aamnented the psident cd the KBC, 

Jam- Lewis, pastor af Westprt Rmd Baeist Chur&, Louisville, Ky., made se~ral suggestiom, 

none cd whid.1 were acae#ed. 

"The only condusion I can draw is that the pe@e suggested by m were mt acceptalde to 

Mr. Stanley," Marshall a-. 

Winfred Moare, pastor aT First Ba#ist Church of Amarillo, ad pesident cB the hptist 

General Convention a€ Terns, said "mt one single name I suggested skwed up on the 

appintmmts cB the tva dttees." 

Mmce took exrregion to Stanley's mished ocmment tht the SBC ~eaident wed 

swgestions "fran out a€" Texas because "there is emotioml involvement on bth sides." 

"If there is any turmoil in aur state mrnention, I an mt ware aE it. TheCoaperatiw 

Prqrm is up $1 million m r last par, Mission Terns is rim on schedule arrd we are moving 

ri@t alorq," he said. 

"What sbcM me was that his dfice wrote ad asbd us far in@. I assuned they at 

least wanted them; thm I f id out they never mrrjidered than te-me there was so much 

' turmoil. ' I would haw rather b had rot even asked for my re~endatiors," m e said. 

Momre added: 'My mnclwion is that he really didn' t want our sugestiors.. . ." 

Widman, w b was elected sea3r-d vice-president at the 1984 annual meeting in Kansas City, 

said he wrote to state cnnwntion exsc&ives two montls after his electio-on Aug. 16, 1984-- 

asking their reocmmmdatiom. 

"I told them I bpd Charles (Stanley) would ask than far sudh a list," Widenan said. "I 

askd them to provide me with names became I was trying to get zcqainted with people frcm all 

mer the convention. I asked the execaives to suggest peaple wlm muld re~esent their 

aonvmtiors well ." 

Widenan said all cd the execaives, with the exception uf leers in ~ichigan and ~dana, 

resprded with names. When Widanan amfiled his list there were 294 names on it. 

Later, Stanley compiled a list a€ 500 nam- £ran vhich he said he ww ping to make 

selectiorrs. Widman said "mt" ul the mes on his list appeared on Stanley' 8 list, as well. 

" 1 know of nearly 300 names an my list, only three were named to the Cclwni ttee on 

Canmitt- and one to the Camnittee on Bards. Also, 12 persom were app~inted w b did not 

ehrw up on any list ~eviom to the appointment, " he added. 

Widenan, w b said he learned the actual aqintees by reading a Ih@ist Press release, 

said Stanley "did mt inwlve" him in the appointment prwess. Stanley also, he said, did mt 

reaeive his suggestiom on the list a€ persons wkr, hd been dnated. 

"I suggested po@e wlm are solid, corsertkltive Southern heists, wlm do mt have an ax 

to grid ad wl.lo haw not identified with any group in the mnwntion," Widman said. "He 

(~tanley) did not e i n t any uf them." 

Widanan added: "I think @wry state sbuld look at their ckjn rqresentatiws ard see if 

they really do regresent the state." 

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Chrch Mclsic Coderenae 

Set A t FBC Dallas 

AWlwa EWmRrnD STORY 

Baptist Press 

5/9 /8 5 

DALLAS (=)--The rale d mmic in missiom ad m@ism will receive mrrsiderable 

attention during the 1965 meeting aE the Southern Ba@ist Chmch Mmic ConEerenae, Jme 9-10 at 

First Ba@ist Church, Dallas. 

. The cpnfermae meets each par pica to the Southern Bagkist Comtion whi& is set fcc 

Jme 11-13 at the Dallas Comtion Center. 

. There will be two sessions Sunday, Jme 9, and three sassiors Jme 10. 

The Sunday afternoon sasion features the theme address, "Musiciam on ~ission," by Wes Fahis, secretary af the &ur& mwic dsprtment cb the FhpCist Sunday moo1 Board in 

Nashville, Tmn. ; mnaerts the Southvestern Seninary Singers ad Nei lson a d Yomg (concert 

artists fran Dallas), ad a lecture/denomtration on "ClmraX Tmiqaes for tbe Churd.1," by 

Htqh Saders, ~ dessrn at Baylor University, Warn, Texas. 

Sunday night will include worship at First Baptist, including music by the church birs 

and or&estxa a d a sermon by Fastor W.A. Criswell. Other pcrgran activiti- include an argan 

recital by Jqce Jones, pruferssor at Baylcor; a ancert by the Southern Sdmry Cbir fran 

Louisville, Ky., and pesentation uf a crxrrmissiond anthem, "Lard Thy CMr& on Earth is 

Seeking," by David S&wo&el, mmic assistant at First Baptist Chur&, Montfpnery, Ala. 

The evening will close with a receFion hxted by the chur& mmic *prtment u€ the 

Baptist General Comtion cb Tems . 

Morday morning will &gin with warship lead by Joel Gregory, prcdessm at Southvestem 

seminary, followed by a aonoert by the Sunset Serenaders aE Cliff Temple Baeist Church in 

Dallm, and a pnel discmsion on "The Rde a€ the Music EVanwlist." 

Tire session also will include ~esmtation a€ brorary menbership and a mnert by R.L. 

ad Beth Sigrest , mmic evangelists f ran Yam City, Miss. 

Morday aftemn will center on "Flusidan on Missiom.. .in Adion" with looh at pison 

ministry, wuth &oil: mission tours and "Adopt a Miesiorary." There also will be mnoerts by 

Carol McClure Hahn, a harpist frcm Atlanta and the Singing Churdmen af O k l h ad amther 

l&ure/danorstration by Sarders cn "Choral T-icpes in the Chur*. 

The daing session, Morday evening, includes arrother sermon by Gregory ad tw mxwerts: 

one by the dmir ad orch~tra f ran First Bagist Chur&, Rmmlae, Va., and amther by the 

~3mhined wioes d the 1%5 Tems Baptist All-State Youth Cbir ad the Singing Men a€ Texas. 

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Directors d Missions 

To Meet Jule %10 

AWANCE BAWGRCUND STORY 

Baflist Press 

5/9 /8 5 

IXLiLM (BP)-The Southern Bagist Corferencle a€ Directarrs d Missiom will met Jme 9-10 

at the Cmtral Expressway Inn, Dallas, i dately viar tm the Southern Ba#ist Corntion. 

Th three-sssion pogra~n, under ~e theme, "The Director d Mission+- Wh? IXM," will 

look at basic information far the job. 

During the opening session S~day aftemn: J. Wodrclku Fuller, retired directar of 

missions in Tems and Flcarida, will discws " W h is a Director of Missiors and What Does He 

Do?," while his wife, Jme Fuller, will talk abtk the role af a wife of a director of 

missiorrs; -ton Rme, viepesident at the Ba@ist Sunday moo1 Board in ~ash.lle, Tenn. 

will disclss, "Haw Does a Director of Missiom Maintain Excellenae in Proypms?," ard ~illian 

Pimon, executiw director of the m@i& General Cornention of Terns, will speak on "HUM DCES 

a Directoa: of Missiolls Drean?" 

Sunday eming Gene Daniel, senica vicepesident for marloeting at the Annuity Board, will 

explare the relatiorship bet- the Annuity Emrd ad the director of missions. 

During the clcsing session Morday mmning, Darm C. McCarty, prcdessar at Golden Gate 

Bagtist Theological Sminary, Mill Valley, Calif., will speak on "What Does the Fame Hold?, " 

a d W .E. Wrne, retired president a€ Dallas Bagist university, will disctrss, "Haw Does a 

Director of Missions Plan f m a d Enjoy Retirement? " 

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Tellers, Credentials 

Camnittees minted 

WAN03 l3ACERCUND STORY 

Bagist Press 

5/15/85 

DALWllS (=)-The tellers ad credentials clcmmittees ha= been apinted for the 1985 

annml meting of the Solltkaern Ba$ist Corntion, Jme 11-13, in the Dallas Corntion Center. 

91C President Charles Stanley anmmaed the appintment aE the credentials cxmrmittee, 

while SBC ~egistration Secretary Lee Pcater released the name af the tellers camnittee. 

Stariley, as pesident, appoints both mmnittees. ^ Ths medentids ananitte is apinted 

by the mnwnt: ~esident " in mnsul tation with the vice-~esidents ," while the talers Wdy 

is med by tk ~esident , " in aomdtation with the registration secretary." 

Parter wks with 'Lath amnittees during the three-day annual meting. 

The credentials amnittee, acmrding to the SBC bylaws, "shall review and rule upon any 

qeetiom wxdh may arise in registration mnaerning the credentials a€ messengers ." The 26- 

menber group also considers "any aontcintion arising on the f locar (of the mnmtion) conc=erning 

seating of messengers. 

The tellers camittee, made up of 13 m enbrs, is responsible for talxllating any mte tam 

by Irallot during the mnrmtion. 

Acmrang to Porter, both amittees wxk to maintain the integrity of the registration 

and Wloting pass at the annual, meeting. EWever, the bnstyard integrityof the local 

&ur& ard of the individual messengr are the main safeguard of the balloting a d registration 

~OaeSS. 

Wter said safeguards haw keen Wlt into tb s~tan. 

"Msssengers wko lrirmg their a=m@eted and signed registration car& am wegister in less 

than fiw minutes," Porter said. "Persons wW haw letters ar mllst rely on telqrams will have 

to appear in prson &fore the credentials dttee," he added. "~nydisplted ar mnteated 

matter also will be referred to the amittee." 

Ral* M. Smith, pastor of Hfle Park Eh@ist Chur& in Amtin, Tems, will be &airman a€ 

th credentials camittee. A. Earl Potts, executiw directar cd the Alabma Eh$ist State 

Convmtion, Montgmery, is chairman cd the tellers. 

Charles Waltan, pastcm af ~irst Ba@ist Ckanrd~, Bridge City; Texas, will be seretary of 

the medentids orranittee. 

Other members d the credentials cnmmittee are: E. R EP3bott, pistor, First &urch, 

Smyrna, Ga. ; Gwy W . Brink, pastor, Innrenuel church, Rcmeo, Mi&. : -9 Clerihew , director a€ 

missiom, Denton (Texas ) ~apist Assodation: Harrell R. Cmhirq, pastor, First &m&, 

Gadsdm, Ala,; W. Leroy Daniel, layperson ard menbsr d First churdh, Wid.lita Falls, Terns; 

David R. Dean, pastor, First church, S.~dbxy, Mass. ; San ~riend, petas, First church, 

Bothll, Wash. ; V. Allen Gaknes, pastor, Ebrkuiew dhurd-~, Newport News, Va. : W.C. Garlard Jr., 

pastor, S d d1urd.1, Hot Springs, Ark.; 

Eddie L. Hamilton, pastor, First &urd-~, Carthage, Miss.: lhx D. Hester, Fast=, Calvary 

chur&, I~ne, Ky.: ms. Mse Hdtzinger, layperson frcm L e d , Kan., wkP attends Swp 

Park church, Kmas City, Mo.; B. Conrad Jdrmston, pgstoar d S d a *~d.1, Salem, Va-: Thmas 

M. Kmtts, director ct€ missions, AiM Association, ~raniteville, S.C.; 

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" Tellers, Credentials 

Catmittwe minted 

2 

Je T. Letanon, layperson ad member of ~ravis Awmw &ma, Fact Worth, Tern: C. LEmar 

Lifer, pstor cd Olitnet chur&, Little Rock, Ark. ; Fred Lawery, pastor, ~ixst chur&, bssier 

City, La. ; Jmes Merritt, pastor, Himad &m&, Laurel, Miss. ; 

Jack Nicjhtingde, pastor, Nmtbide &urch, D d d , Fla. ; Edward E. Piky, pastor, First 

&ur&, Waterloo, Ill.; Mrs. Currin Ann Seely, layperson fran Park Tcwer d~urrh, Plam, Tern; 

Jae Simns, layperson fran Sa-ont &ur&, -ton; Jim Wells, pstor, OWood chw*, Kansas 

City, Mo., and Marvin T. Yak Jr., layperson f run Park Cities &urch, Dallas. 

Tellers are: Rodd D. Allen, pastor, First d~urch, Rapme, Mo. ; Mrs. Myra B ts, 

lawrson f rcm Hoarse Sbe, N.C., and member uf First &m&, ~endersonville; Charles D. Btts, 

pastor, First dhurcb, ~andalia, Ohio; Well Estep, pastor, Comcil Road churd~, Bethany, 

Okla. : 

Billy T. Hargrom, di rectoor uf stewardship pranotion fa the Missouri Ba@ist Corntion, 

Jefferson City Ernest J. Kelley, regioml mdinatar fa the Hane Mission Board, Atlanta; 

Charles S. WN, pastor, First &ur&, Marietta, Ga.; 

Kenneth Mahaneas , pastor, Far H ills &urch, Dayton, Ohio; Jmers M. pCp& Jr., pastor, 

First &mch, Tulldxma, 'IQnn. : J h Lee Taylcr, pastar, First &ur&, Jackson, %inn. : Ms. 

bnnie White, layperson f rm Louisville, Ky., ad memher of First church, Prcspect; ad Daniel 

G. Vestal, pastor, First church, Midlard, Tk-. 

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m e Will Allw 

Presidential Nanimtion Bf Toby Dhn AW- BPI=EQ;RrnD STmY 

Ba@ist Press 

5/15/85 

AE.RIUWO, Terns (EP)-With the urging of " several hmdred letters" ard the anviction " it 

is time to turn our mnmtion kack to the maimtrean and its main onrmitment to missiom, 

Christian education and service," W. Winfred Mocre anrw>maed May 10 he will allw his 

dmtion for ~esident a€ the Southern Ba@ist Comtion. 

. The ammm~ent, he said, cane after log deliberatiom and pawr and with the full 

support a€ his wife ad the deamns d First Baptist Church, Amarillo, where he has been pstor 

far the last 25 years. 

Mome, 65, tkruEl ended month d spclilation smut whether k would oppose current SBC 

President Charles Stanley wka ~eviously ammd he will permit his ncmimtion far a s 

term. 

a d 

Moare, who is in his seaorrd year as president a€ the Ba@ist General Comtion uf Terns, 

said after his sea3d straiw election withxk apposition last fall, he did mt think he ar 

Stanley were the man to lead the SBC. 

He has &an+ his mid, he said, "Because mlmdy else has me faward to say they are 

willing to db it ." 

"I have keg b@ng smeMy would emer- that aermdy codd agree is the person to lead 

IB, but: it hasn't kappmed," he said. Instead, he has received hundreds of letters fran 

mstors and lawen fran ewry area a€ the SBC imisting that he is the man, he said. 

Newrtheless, he does so relmtantly, he said. 

"I haw fomd myself in the middle of this throqh the millation I ma& last par," he 

said, referring to his U~EILE~SS~~~ miration cb Dallas ptm Bruce M&=r to replace that a€ 

Paul Pressler of Hollston fur the SBC Executive Cc-ttee. 

"Nobdy asked me to m& that ranination and I did so witMut any animosity tward 

anpne," he said. "I jmt didn't Mnk it (Pressler's ranination) revesentd mairstream Tems 

Ba@i st -where we are." 

He said, "as the par has pne by and I haw tried to look at what we are doing as 

Sahm &Gists, I ha= been mnvicted we h~ to 9 hck ad suppxt om imtittltiom anld 

agencies and get on with Ebld Mission Thrtmt .I' 

He newx 't-raEi qim credenae to the &arge d "liberal drift" in the mnvwltion, he said, 

"Became I het~ where I stood ad where the page I an assdated with star&-as 09memtiw 

as anybody auld k ." 

"In fact, I haw been IddM ad laughed at mut king sdh an ar& mmerwtiw. ' Tb 

p e e I know are pwe w b &lie= the Bible. 

"As I have said many times, I don't agree with all a€ them Jxt it Wn't occw to me, 

jllst kecame I disagree with than mt they don't helie- the Bible. ' There may be sane w b 

&not, but I don't lasow than." 

Of his am tkrealogy, Moare said, "I Wiew the Bible jmt like it's written. I ace* it 

as God's m d to me. I have m pablan acce@ing any of it, original mmcri$e a€ the BiHe 

we hw today." 

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W e Will All- 

Presidential Ndmtion 

Pa* 2 

"I don1 t mderstand a lot af it," he added, "bt I ace* that which I do mderstand and 

that which I don't-e~ry bit uf it fran beginning to end." 

m e o s &ur& was for many ~ ars the SBC leader in mntrilxtiom through the Cqratiw 

Prqran ad this par will give $827,000--19.5 peraent cb its mdesi~pated receiFs. 

"The chw& wted in 1981 to increme its Coopmati= Prqm supprt by 10 permt per 

year throqh the 1%OsIqo bbcxe said, "ad thw far we are ahead of schedule." 

If he is mt dected SBC pesident, he said, it will haw m effect on the churd.1'~ 8 

support. "We are wing to keep on giving jtlst exactly lik we have W giving, no matter wlm 

is elected," he said. 

Sane fmdamentalist leaders ham irdicated they might lead their &ur&es to "escraw" 

their Cocpewative Progran gifts if Stanley is mt dected. Others have asked they be allmd 

to exlude sane SBC agencies £ran M r gifts and still have then mmidered Cooperati= 

Prcgran gifts. 

In the late 19603 Moare's &urch asked the Christian Life Cdssion b excluded £wan 

reeiving its share a€ the &urch1s 8 gifts because a€ the spnsmship of a seminar in Atlanta 

whi d~ feat wed an address by a Playboy magazine edi tcor . 

"That was a mistab," Pbme said. "I still disagree as ampletelywith them as I did 

tM, 'but if I were doing it ImdayI muld certainlydo it differently. I muTd 9 sit dckJn 

with Fay Valmtine (CLC exsc&iw direct=) ad discms it. I muld use the pmss." 

"I think now that what I did was worse than what they had ibne. My reaction was bd, " 

m e 

said. 

F& decries the emergmae cf politia3 in the denanination, he said, ad doesno t like any 

prt cb it-on any side. 

If elected, he said, he w ill supprt a d ttee to try to fird a sol&ion to the 

ddnatioral mntrmrsy. 

."The My way we can arrive at reanciliation is to look spcifically at areas where 

people think there are polilens, whether in the seminaries cr agencies," he said, "to look at 

them realistically, ~aprfully, with a view to making whatewr cwrrectiors need to be made 

wi-ut accming anybody ad everybody." 

Such a dttee, he said, would ha= to represent mry s-1 af tlmqht- "to sit daJn 

together and work through this so m can all do the mission m k God has given B to da." 

Mocrre is a mtiw uf Tamessee. He receivled his education at Lmbth Cdlege, Union 

Uniwrsity a d Gecrrge Peabdy Cdlege. He has been awarded Mmrary doctwates by Waylad 

Eheist University and Baylor University. He did rot attmd semimy. 

He has a low histmy of involwnent in the Amarillo association and Tems mnmtion. He 

was chairman a€ the dttee to reorgani~ the execaive bxrd staff a few pars am and was a 

member af the sear& &ttee which reammended Willian M. Pirson Jr. as emecutiw directcx of 

the Tems anvention in 1982. 

First ~a#ist a€ Amarillo, has mare than 10,000 members and is me ul the largest churches 

in the SBC. Last year it reoorded 234 baptisrrrs and $591,428 in gifts to the Coopzrative 

Prcgran. 

Its total gi fts to mi ssim were $1,266, XI4 out of total receip s aE $4.8 million. 

Moare aame to the Amarillo am& in 1959. He also has ben pstor of 0liw Bran* 

Ba$ist Church, Olive Bran&, Miss. ; Ehrrishrg Ba#ist Church, Tupelo, Miss. ; First Baptist 

Clwrd~, Ebrger, Te-, and Central Park Ba$ist Church, Binnin-, Ala. 

Moare married his wife, ElizaMth, when they were senicxs in college. Tky haw three 

children, a son ard daughter wlm live in Dallas and a daughter in mil lo ad four 

~ ~ i l d r e n . 

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Winfred Mocere, -'Tool1 

Of Liberals, Ehtterson Says 

AWmm BzXKRCUND STORY 

Bagist Press 

5/17/85 

LU-Bm, Terns (BP)--Inerrantist ledr Paige Patterson hs called Anrawillo, Telas 

pstm Winfred Mome a "toal" a€ lihrals, acmrding to ~ssociatd 

Press. 

Moare will he mminated far ~esident a€ the 14.3-million mmbr Southern &Fist 

Comtion next Jme at the annml meeting of the SBC. Ratterson, assdate -tar cd the 

25,000-mmbr First Bagtist Church of Dallas, is supprting the reelection of the incurtbent, 

Charles Stanley, pastor uf First Baptist Churd.1 in Atlanta. 

" The Asdated Press story wted Fhtterson as describing Mocsre, pastor a€ the First 

Bagtist Churd.1 of Amarillo and ~esident a€ the 2.4~llion member Bagist General. Comtion 

of Terns, as a "tool1' ~ "liberals" sdh as Russell Dilday, president d Southwe&ern Baptist 

Tkreolcgical Seminary in Fart Worth. 

"I don't think he's a libral, but b's being used by them," Patterson reportedly told the 

mngregation at Flet&er Eman~l Baptist Church in the southeast Tems town uf Lunberton. 

During the May 12 meeting, Ebtterson also askd the peoge to ~ a for y the Southern &Fist 

Camtion whi& blds its annual meeting Jme 11-13 in Dallas. 

Mocnre, in a telephone intervim with ~ssociated 

Press, defended his credentials. "The 

people in Amarillo h 'w known me fa the p t 25 years md.d tell you that I wuld mt he 

wed by anybdy and I don't intend to b?," he said. 

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To Study S3C Crisis 

State Presidmts 

Prqse Camnittee & Dan Martin 

AWZWU3 BEFGRCWD STaWY 

Ba#ist Press 

5/17/85 

MEhPHXS, Tenn. (EIP)-A~ eight-pint @an to oreate a special cvmrmittee to study m ans d 

resalving the aisis in the Sdhern &gist Corntian will be p~oposed presidents d state 

&gist aonventiom at the 1985 annual meeting of the SBC . 

The ~aposal, drafted by a sewn-mbr task £me during a meeting at a Maws btel May 

14, will be ~esented to other state convention pesidents at a called meeting Jme 10 in 

Dallas, on the eve a€ the annual meeting. 

The @an dls far appclintment cb a acPmrdttee to "seek to determine the sour- af the 

mntrmrsy in our mnvention axd make firdiw and reacrrrmendatiom regarding these 

mntxmrsi es . . . . " 

Bill Hickem, ~esident aE the Flcrrida Ehptist Convention and &aiman d the task £care, 

said the motion will specify the persons WID will Serve on the dttee. "The arrrmi ttee will 

bz made up of 15 persons re~esmting bth sides aE the crmntrmrsy as well as those we 

mmider bridcplmilders ad middle-d-the-rmd po@e," he said. 

"We are mt ready to name them yet, bawe they must k pnresented to the (Jme 11) 

meeting fa the appowl a€ the ather presidmts," Hicbm said. 

The plan is the first detailed ppsal to k revealed, altbqh manentun is gathering fa 

the establishnent aE a ammi ttee to st* the dsis in the ddmtion. Faner SBC pesidmt 

H. ~ranklin Paschal1 af Nashville, Tm, , last fall pmp3sed a dttee appra%& to resolving 

the conflict rocking the 14.3 million manber denanimtion, (see sewrate story). 

Ebth of the key candidates far SBC ~esident- incunbent Charles Stanley of Atlanta and 

Winfred Mome a€ Amarillo-haw said they support creation cd a mmni ttee to resdw the 

mnflid, ad amther farmer pesidmt-W.A. Criswel.1 a€ Dallas--also supports the idea. 

Hidm said the ~oposal will be ~esentd during a regular binas session Tuesday 

aftemn (Jme 11). Ihmms haw almunded an effcrrt will be made to go into special lmsinsss 

session as the mnwmtion apens. The runas idmte a prt af any @an wuld be to eliminate 

a &allenge to incunhnt pesident Stanley. 

The Flcerih pesident said the " incunent pesident , w h ~ IE r miat be ,I1 will be an ee 

cdfido member of the cannaittee. He insisted the popsal "does mt deal with current 

pesidential politics." 

TIE starte pesidents' p-al qew out ciE a meeting -il 11-12 in St. Louis, called by 

Charles Picloering, president af the Mississippi Baptist Comtion, ad attended by ~esidents 

d 23 of the 37 SBC-aff iliatd state mnwmtiom, 

"This (the pxopal ) was a spimff d the St. Lds me&ing. We met fm Faps and 

sharing d mutual mncems aut the ~oblans d the anvention. Ollt aE our discwsion cresne a 

thoqht that we neded to awirrt a task f cvrae to mne up with a clear motion, " Hickem said. 

ALtbqh the idea of a amnci ttee was disclssd at the St. Luuis meeting, it was mt 

mentioned when the yxesidents met with the press at the condmion aE the dosed meeting. 'RE 

pxsibility of a motion was ~vsded several weeks later in a news releae ~epred by Wallace 

Henley, president a€ the Alalruna Ea@ist Comtion, ad a f mer newsppeman. 

-rmr*

State Presidents 

Prapose C& ttee 

hg; 2 

Picbring told m$ist Press the 'I idea m e up toward the latter prt a€ the meeting. We 

did not haw time to give it as mu5h amideration as it deservzd. Comqently, a task for- 

was appointed to mrk in that area and report hack to us ." 

HicM said the state ~esidents "were mt trying to em@ anmy. If saneone hs a 

better plan, we would be more than ham to ttisc~~s it. We jmt felt in the absence a€ 

anything else, we had to arme up with sanething." He aaed he was mt ware Paschal1 had made a 

similar propal last fall. 

"The p pse cf this d ttee will mt ke to have a witdihunt. We need to give a 

aommittee time to wrk. It is our kope that the arnmittee am help us examine ourselves and 

c=ame up with what is best fa^: our convention, " he added. 

The "task face" whi& drafted the propeal indudes Hickm, Picbring, Hmley, Jch 

Gilbert, Missouri; Jack May, Tamessee; Neil Thpon, Alas-, ad Nunnan Wiggirrs, Narth 

Cardim. The group also met with SBC President Charles Stanley in Dallas April 17 "to idcam 

him uf om meeting in St. Louis and to get his inprt," acmding to Henley, -stor of McEldn 

Baptist Churd.1 in Birmim, Ala. 

Stanley told Ba@i st Press he talked with the pesidents and added: 'They are wing about 

this in the rim way. I think they are thinking ad talking wisely alP~ their am&. I 

muld fa- such an ap~roach and think they (the Fesidents ) are right on tar@. 

The SBC ~esident mted, hcmewr, he has mt seen the fiml draft. 

"I think it is abmlutely essential we have a httee. W b they (the presidents) put on 

it will be the ultimate test cb whether it psses a mt," Stanley said. 

The draft motion mntairrs eim sectiom and a peanue whi& says: 'Feeling that 

Southern Bagists haw mprallded optmities to serve God, but reaogidng that if 

differenaes in our mnwntion are mt resdved we amrat fullfil these cpfmtmities, and 

feeling a heavy burden fm our rnnwntian, the f~residents d the state mnmtions, after 

~apwfully seeking ways to fird mity in our Lmd and Savicx Jess Christ, reamnmend the 

fdlwing motion." 

The first section creates the special mnmi ttee ard mes the 15 menbers . 

The s e d specifies the acPrrmi ttee "shall seek to determine the souraes d the cnntrowrsy 

in om mnmtion and male f irdirags and reoamnendatim regarding these mntxoversie so 

Southem Bs@ists might df ectiwy dis&arge their respnsibilities to God by cooperating 

togetkrex to acmmplish evaneism, missiom, Christian edmation ad other cnwa autkmized by 

our mnsti tution, all to the Glcrry ob God." 

The third section sped fiea the 15rmnber 4 ttee " shall seek to m k with and thrqh 

appro~iate lmards, canmissions d agencies," ad says the "trmtees, boards and 

agncies.. .shall fully -prate with this dttee to acaom@ishl' its plrpses. 

The dttee shall report m "the Fogress d its h ~ to ~ ea& k meeting of the Executive 

Cumnittee," the propesed motion says, ard staffing "shall be the respomihility af the 

Exehive Camnittee, whi& may include ~cdeesiaal assist-." 

The fourth section spci fies f d n g "shall be ~ovided thragh the SBC Operating EUdget ." 

The fifth says the dttee aan m k in apen session, hold pblic win*, "htt.. Jnay 

also bld execlai= (clased) sessions to ac03mflish its mk." 

The sixth section says any vacancy on the artanittee "shall be filled at the next meeting 

of the Executiw Camnittee," lxlt specifies "hlanos shall be maintain&." 

The sevmth notes the amittee "my make its final rept to the 1986 amml meting," or 

that it may make "a pelinrimy report to the 1986 conventiod' ard lz aontinwd fm an 

additioml year. In any case, the d ttee "shall make a final report to the 1987 Sahhern 

Baptist Corntion." 

The eighth section urges all Scuthern Basists to "exercise restraint, to refrain fran 

divisiw action a d aomments ad to reflect: Christian 1- while the anmi ttee is doing its 

wrk." 

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Secret Taping Called 

' Unethical, Disbnest ' 

By Dan Martin 

AWANCE EtAcrGRrnD STORY 

Ba$ist Press 

5/17/8 5 

FOKT mKl?H, Texis (BP)--The secret tapring of a "mnfidmtial a d persoml mnferene 

witlout my bowledge crr permission is mther siq of behavia that is methical, disbnest and 

Whristian," said Rllssell H. Dilday Jr. 

Dilday, president a€ Southestern Bapltist Tkdcgical S dmy in Fat Worth, Texas, 

canmented to Ba@ist Press after newsstories rewaled Farrar Patterson, a px?fessor of 

ummuinicatiors and ~ea&ing, had secretly taped a mnferenae with Dilday and released 

transcrifls to the pess . 

Th secret tap is the latest dewlopent in mntsowrsy surromding an e£f art by Dilday 

to fire Patterson, a ~ufesscr sin- 1969, whi& failed when SoutWatern trtlstees mted 19-12 

to dismiss, falling tw mtes skPrt cd the tmthirds mte nded to dismiss a f acuty member. 

The secret tap initially was releas& to Louis Moore, reli4on editor of the Howton 

Chronide, by Patterson's attorney, Walt Carpenter crf Homton, w b said he did so to mmter 

amnents made by ~ilday as to why he attempted to fire Patterson. The stay subseplently 

appared in other Telas newsppers . 

Dilday told Ba@ist Preas May 17 he "has mt heard the tape," mr 'b he heard £ran 

Patterson ar Carpenter sine the rearding was released to the pess . 

The seminary pesidmt said he has attem@ed to mntact Patterson sine the release a€ the 

transcrifls, "ht I have been told he will mt speak to me wept through his attmney. It is 

~ r difficdt y to wry on an am-ic ~ q a witkput n being ahle to mmicate with the 

f acdty memkr;r." 

Dilday said the reaxding was af a wnferems Jan. 14, which was cb a "personaX ad 

aordidential nature" regarding Ebtterson' s performance. "It is part of the redemptive mture of 

tkre sanimry that we try to lleal first on a personal and very anfidential @$is.. .to mme to 

resdution (with faculty members) in sudh a way that will not mduely emhrrass the irdividual 

or his fanily." 

Dilday said there were six "wry seriw dmrges" acpinst Patterson, including one that he 

had "yxesented an mtrw repxt a€ action cd the seminary faculty" to W .O. Vaught , pastm 

merit- a€ Immanml Ba@ist C h& of Little Rock, Ark. 

- The barges, Dilday said, include lifestyle ad behavim (such as ming ~ofanity and 

vulgar language, indhng cursing the dean a€ the s-1 a€ thedogy): poor example cb 

churdmanslip; poor qmlity UE mrk; insubordination, intmtiod distmtion uf the truth, and 

lack of xespnse to si~lificant warning3 and atttenss to redeem." 

"This (the release a€ the transcri*) would seem b me to be neither bililical ror 

Chistian. It wuld seem la me to lz mcst mntrary to the Christian a=-&. ..not to speak 

directly to the person invalved, lmt to releae it first to the ~ Uic and to the secular 

mess, " Dilday said. 

"The wry ,fact h (Ebtterson) came to the oonferenoe armed with a secret tape remrder is 

to me an aaission a€ guilt," he added. 

Dilday said: "The fact he Irqht a recorder and secretly taped what was to be a 

aonfidential and prsoml aonfexene, accnrding to the (semimy) bylaws, witbut my permission 

CM hmledw is mther sign of behavim that is methical, dishmest ad Wlaristian. 

"Had I laown b did that, that also wdd have hen prt a€ the &arges koqht acpimt 

him for dismissal. It represents an action aqiletely contrary to the wwnant relationship we 

have here at Southwestern." 

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wet Ta$ng Called 

'Unethical, Disbmt' 

2 

Fallwing the failure aE the attempt to fire Patterson, Dilday said "the vice-~esidmt 

(Jdrm Nwprt),the dean a€ the school a€ theology (William Tdax) ad I set up what is called a 

ranedial mengagement &an. Sim we were within a few w e b UE the end ok the sanester, we 

did not fed it wise to pt him (Fbtterson) back into the dassracm." 

"We asked him b use the time to improw his classraan prfonnanae, to wrk on a 

scholarbxk not mmgeted even tbugh he has had several sabbtiaals to do so, a d to i m ~ w 

his &ur& prticiption. He was asked to report back, an3 the report ideates a a3ntinM 

lack of local, &ur& inwvement," Dilday said. 

He added Fhtterson "had hen assi~ped to te&ing in the sunmer term, but thxe plans are 

mw micertain kcawe aE this dewlopnmt ." 

AltkPrgh EBtterson, tknroqh his attorney, has askd Dilday to subnit to arlitration, 

Dilday has declind. 

-"This matter is mt persod, but an acaddc a d institutiornl anern. ' Therefme, it is 

not a matter af persoml arbitration," Dilday said. "It is a dear pooess by whi& the 

institution has dealt with a facdty menber wbe behavice: and prfomance has led to a 

reammendation a€ dismissal. 

"It is mt jmt the presidmt reammeding to dismiss lxlt was kroght by the academic 

affairs vice ~esidmt , the dean aE the sdxlol cb theology and reartmended to the Ward by the 

academic affairs camittee which mted 8 to 1 for his dismissal," Dilday said. 

He said the "mtrm and imrect report uf the action of his facdty oolleagues is only 

one a€ six very seriom charges. None d them lms hen answered in any way. These (the six 

chargas) re~esent the kird of perfamance which cmmt h tolerated in a s-1 that is 

eyipping and training ministers." 

Dilday said the dismissal ~ocess "has ben kardled pecisely the way the Wlws 

recmrmd' ad a-: "A mimrityaf the bxrd did mt deal with the &ages cr the 

dacunmtation. ' They dealt with the matter as a way of expessing di sagrement with the 

wesident. Their mte idicated they had mt dealt with the &arges agaimt the ~dasar." 

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htterson Meno 

Sent To Faculty 

FORT WKTH, Wms (@)-A memararu3un frcm ~afessar Farrar Patterson Ins been distrihtd 

to the f acuty at Southestern &gist TWa$cal Seminary in Fort Wcath, Telcls . 

In the memmardun, dated May 14, ad a&-sad to "the facdty ad trmtees of 

Southvestern b#ist Sanimry, mtterson disc~sd his " lping puljlic in my defense cd the 

accusatiors by Dr. (Rmsell H.) Dilday Jr. (SWBTS president.) 

"I haw done so as I see it as the ofly way to b able to resprfi to mfmded &arges he 

(~ilday) has made pblicly agaimt me. I wry mudh want all a€ this a t cd the puhlic faun 

ad will cease talking to the pss if Dr. Dilday will do the same and will 9 into Christian 

arbitration," the memo says. 

Ehtterson, tkoqh his attorney, Walt Carpnter of Houston, has recpsted Dilday s a t m 

ar~tration throqh the Christian Reaonuliation Service a€ Dallas-Fat Worth. 

In the meno, Patterson wrote: "I =ry mu& regret it if any cmments tab out a€ context 

mayapar to be derogatory to any of wu as idividuals a as a group. My ~ouen is withDr. 

Dilday, persoyally, not any of pu and I bp it stays that way." He a& he suprts the 

etatemmts made by Carpenter b the press, "I have aamflete tape tsanscrigs aE what he said 

and will furnish any of pu a cnw if pu desire. If p u hear then, you will mderstard my 

position better and see that the above statenents are tru?." 

He says he "remrded the Jan, 14, 1985, meeting with a small pocket sized remrder as Dr. 

D ilday advised me by phone that my job was at stab and daanded an imd ate meeting. As I 

p3raeiW this as a threat (with good reason as it turned out), I elected to reard it pely 

as a defense. I had rn intmtion aE releasing it to the Fess at that time." 

He adds: "I relezsed it to the ~ e s s as it was the orily way to skvvw Dr. Dilday's true 

motive in constant attach on me in the ~ e s s 

.I1 Patterson df ers to furnish a copy of the tap 

to f ellw faclilty menbers ad trustees. Ehptist Press mntacted Ebtterson May 17, but he 

declinsd to mmt "at this time." --3o--

Amther Tap Fuels 

Fi@t Amng Baptists 

A W m EwrGRrnD STORY 

Ba$ist Press 

5/17/8 5 

HOIISTCN (w)-Amt-r s-et tape has emerged in the struggle betwsen the moderate and 

f mdamentalist mnp3 in the Soclthem Baflist Comtion. 

A T e ~ Southern s Ba#ist seminary pafeesoar secxetly taped a mnersation in whi& Rwasell 

H. Dilday Jr., president a€ Soutkwastem Bagkist Tkrealogical Sdmry in Fort Warth, Texas, 

told the pxfessor k was lping to omt him frcm the factilty fa talking ~ivately with a 

leahr in the fmdamentalist wing. 

The secret tap, made with a microme mnealed on the ~ufesscr, was released to the 

Houston Chronicle May 9 by the pmfessar' s attorney, Walt Carpnter uf Howton. Carpenter said 

he released the tape to amter ments Dilday has made Wut why he is trying to fire the 

pruf essm , Farrar Patterson. 

Dilday has energsd as the key leader in the moderate wing of the convention, whi& is 

trying to turn tack the convation' s f mdamentalists, wlm in 1979 lamched a 10-year @an to 

mntrd the Southern Baeist Comtion. Dilday said he did mt bow Patterson kad taped the 

meeting. He added, "I haw rw> polilem with the mnwrsation king bwn, but it was a wry 

aon£idmtial meeting." 

Tkre attemged firing of the pufessca, whi& failed when Dilday did mt receiw t e thi rds 

support frm his bxrd of trustees, has bcrme a majm issm in the battle fca mntrol d the 

Southern Baptist Comtion. 

Dilday has charged Eatterson gaw illaccurate infarmation to W .O. Vaqht , an Arlensas 

Baptist gastor and fmdmentalist, about the seninary faculty's support fm Dilday's stad in 

the mnwation fi*t. TIE disagreement revolves wand a mte d facdty mankrs in suplprt cb 

Dilday' s stad. Dilday said fatterson told Vaqht the mte was mt ~~. Eatterson told 

Dilday he told Vaught the s d nary' s f acd ty does mt w x t him 100 peroent . He told Dilday 

the facdty mte did not involve the wlmle f acdty and sane f acaty manlsers Wtaind. 

the tap, Fhtterson told Dilday that facdty suppDrt fc~r him was mt manimam. "I 

that impression," 

didn' t say it was ," said Dilday in response. "Well, the (news)paper lea~s Patt rson respnded. "I don' t care what impession it leaves," Dilday replied. 

"The newspper (apprently the Fcrt Warth Star-Tdegrm ) presents tk f acd ty as being 

&mollsly behid Jpu, and they're mt, Dr. Dilday," Patterson said. 

Ih his eff arts to try to fire Patterson. Dilday also &aged Wtterson b s rsed p.cbanity 

and has mt been the kind of ~ofesscrr h wants CPI his faculty. Tbse charges are discwsed on 

the tap, but in a mudh 1-s momt af time than discu3sion also* Patterson's talk with 

Vaqht . 

Carpenter said Eattenon secretly taped the mnvzrsation kcawe he swpected Dilday was 

after him. Carpenter said the pdani ty harp, which has bemme the f ocm a€ the argunmt 

agsinst Patterson in the Baeist news media and in letters to the editor of the Tern Baeist 

Stardard, has exaggerated greatly and has lsearne a cmnadla~ f ca: the real reason Dilday 

has tried to fire Pattereon. 

EEe says Dilday is trying to fire Patterson 13eca-e Dilday c-t stand to ha= anyDne on 

his faculty who evesses an opinion di f femt f run Dilday' s. "The real isse here is that 

Rllssell Dilday wants the ri*t to speak out himself, but lm wants to deny that ri@t to others 

mr wbm kre has lewrage ," said Carpenter. 

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Amtkrer Tape Fuels 

Ficjht Amng E?a#ists 

2 

Dilday denied Car~ter' s charges. "I mad mt lid t our facdty speaking their 

mnvictiom to peo@etW k said. "That' s mt within my power or anything I muld want to do. 

I ' w keen =king to potect our f acd ty f ran any kid of w-sie mntral lik that, ' Wt 

wuld mt be a reason far kinging action against a faculty menber." 

On the tap, Dilday spends much of the time di scwsing what Patterson told Vaught md only 

a Wid time discussing wofanity. 

mtterson adnits on the tap to using "Ml and &no' a few times lxlt said he has repented 

ad does mt use tkPse wards regdarly and bps to n-1: me than agsin. Fhtterson denies on 

the tap Dilday' s accmatiors that he and Dilday had an earlier mnfw-ation in 1978 in whid.1 

Fbtterson ~sed pofanity in front af him. 

Ibtterson tells Dilday on the tape that if he is ping to fire him far sing "hell and 

damn" that he must a1 so " fire a third of the f acd ty." Dilday respxds, "I wish I had the 

evidenae. If I did, I'd dD it." 

Carpnter says ~ilday'newr m d to fire Patterson over the Lse uf "hell ad damnt8 mtil 

Dilday di smwred Ehtterson had talk& to V a w , comidered a key leader f ca the 

f mdamentalists in Arbmas. 

Vaught l-as said ewrything Eatterson told him in the mnwrsatian aincides with what he 

has heard and read elsewhere, ad that W rot mnsider the infamation to hne secret 

ar imccurate. mtterson said on the tap the mnversation with Vaqht was incidental, 

un$annd ad nothing more than dmtter kt- friends. He said he never realized it muld 

Elm up into a majar &rmnimtioral issue. 

Carpenter said he is trying to use "bililiml ways" to fare Dilday to apologize to 

Patterson for "ruining his reptation." He said he has asked the Christian Reamciliation 

Service UE DalleFcwt Worth to try to arhitrate the situation. - That service arbitrates 

disptss betwen Ckistiat-s wko do not want to go to dvil mmt. 

&cause a€ all the strife in the Scuthern Baeist Comtion today, Carpnter said he is 

popsing the arbitrators arne fran Presbyterian, Ltrtheran, Met'lPdist a d other mwBagtist 

&urches. Dilday said he sees m reason faa s& arbitration. 

Carpenter said if all else fails and there is rn satisf actmy arlxitration, he may turn to 

the civil oourts. Hweww, he added, "No &cision has been ma&'' to sue Dilday. 

Carpenter said he bps by making the tap public arrd Irj going puhlic with his defense cd 

Patterson that Dilday will ceage attacking mtterson in speed.les across the mmtry. He 

declined to let Patterson be interviewed, saying he is waiting fa a maore opprtme manent. 

Meanwhile, a seminary trwtee, attorney Ral* W. -ley Jr. of Dallas has written a 

statement mi tiad a€ Dilday. He wrote, "The ~esident (Dililay) a-rently feds he

mylar President Refutes 

Ziglar Attack On University By Craig Bird 

mANm EmGRouND STORY 

Baptist Press 

6/25/85 

WACO, " Texas (BP)-Zig Ziglar's election as first vice president of the Southern Baptist 

Convention doesn' t make him knowledgeable abaut Baylor University, according to Herbert 

Reynolds, pxesident of the Baptist sdhool. 

'- The June 17 issue of the Dallas- Times Herald carried an intwview with Ziglar in which the 

motivatioml speaker critized tw Baylar ~~rofessors: a Monon teaching in the Spanisk 

Portuguese department and a religion professor who, he said, believes emlution played a part 

in the creation of the world. 

Reynolds, in a formal statement released by the Baylor public relations affice, answered 

the charges while discounting Ziglar's qmlificatiom as critic. 

Ziglar has "never ken on the Baylor camp to my hmledge," Reynolds said, but is part 

of a "pxiestly and self-anointed group" which "is smart amugh to know that if they can oontrol 

the educatioml system of Baptists and our piblishing houses, they can be effective in 

producing the kind of clones whidh will make willing followers of demaqxpes who seek to h g e 

the essential characterists of the Southrn Baptist llenominatim." 

Ziglar, who says he believes the Bible, "fran Genesis to map" has rat been a voting 

messenger to a national, state or association Southern Baptist convention prior to this year, 

according to the'Times-Herald, but said he decided to beacane involved recently after learning 

abxt the Bayla professors. 

He said he was asked to run for vice president af the SBC four to five months ago by a 

m&z of the inerrancy group within the anvention led by hige Patterson of Dallas and Fhul 

Pressler of Houston. Not long afterwards, he said, he was told, "I was the first &ice of Dr. 

Stanley" as a running mate. 

Wries Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, was elected president of the 

SBC on the first Wllot . Patterson is an associate pastor at First Baptist Chm& in Dallas 

where Ziglar is an active lay member. 

Ziglar urged that Rillip Johnson, a Mormon who has taught at Baylor since 1977, be 

removed frtm teaching duties. "I think since they've ma& the colossal mistake of putting him 

on tenure, he needs to be put in a caretaker psition or in the registration office, away from 

students," Ziglar said in the interview. 

Reynalds defended both Jdhnsm and the mnamed religion ~ofesscc, saying Ziglar "is a 

plitical candidate in terms of wr convention" whose ooncem is "to identify issues to attempt 

to discredit not only Baylor but our Baptist-related agencies." 

A Baylor policy against hiring Mormons went into effect in 1982 after the Southern Baptist 

Convention Fareign Mission Board den& Mormonim a "cult, " Reynolds said. 

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Eaylcrr President Refutes 

ZigLar Attack On University 

"We are not ping to treat this individual to be the totality of Mormonim," he mntinued. 

"He has never in anyway tried to share his belief with anyone and he possesses a letter of 

instruction fran me that any such action would result in action being taken against him. 

"The best witness we can be is to treat him in a Christian fashion. He doesn't have a 

thing to do with religion. No Southern Baptists applied for the position." 

Reynolds also said Jcihnson, a Phi Beta Kapp s&olar, is very much respected by his 

students and faculty colleagues. 

"If Baylcr, as a 14Syear-old institution with 60,000 alumni, 10,000 students, 1,500 

faculty and staff and the mdergirding of three millioriTexas Southern Baptists is mt strong 

enough to prevail in the face af one single individual whose activities have been 

circlanscribd, we are not as strong as I fully believe ~ts to be," he added. 

- !Ibe religion ~ofessar, "who ks spoken of emlution in relation to God's revelation of 

His creation, has been a deeply ccmmitted Christian since he was a by, " Reynolds said. "He 

has never stated or alluded to the fact that there is any creation apart £ran Eod and makes it 

very clear he is ccrmmitted to 'the Bible as God's Holy Scripture given to us by 

revelation and inspired by the Holy wirit . ' 'I 

He and all rrresribers of the Baylor religion department voluntarily signed the Baptist Faith 

and Message in October 1979, Reynolds said. 

Ziglar told the Times-Herald he is convinced he has an important role to play in he 14- 

million member SBC. "Mostly I see myself as the individual who will reach the lay people, " he 

said. "I think God has put me in this psition for this purpose." 

Reynolds said, "I don't think he (Ziglar) is going to hve an impact on Baylor. He's a 

Jchnyccme-lately on the Baptist scene," but if the "group" of whi& he is a part is 

smessful, Reynolds warned, "our (bptists') historical camitment to the priest- of the 

believer would be replaced by the belief that we need a priestly group of inerrant interpreters 

because the rest of us are mt considered sufficiently capable of reading the Word of God far 

ourselves and responsible for our ck~n souls on that day of judgment when each of us must stand 

alone be£ ore Him. " 

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