6/1/1985 - Amazon Web Services
6/1/1985 - Amazon Web Services
6/1/1985 - Amazon Web Services
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
Fm Your Information<br />
DAILY SmllKE W EVEXIS<br />
Saturdw, June 8, <strong>1985</strong><br />
SaTthern Baptist Wimen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, Wilshire heist Church: Session One, 9:30<br />
a.m. : steering camnittee meeting, 9:30 a.m. ; peoonference fellamhip a d lunch, 11:OO<br />
a.m.: mrship ad theme interpretation, 1:30 p.m. ; m ines meeting, 4:45 p.m.: hnquet,<br />
6:00 p.m.<br />
bdw, June 9, <strong>1985</strong><br />
Association uf Southern BaFtist Caps Ministers, Annual Meeting, F!& Bird Inn Beet Western;<br />
Sessionone, 1:OO p.m.: registration, 1:00 p.m.: Winess, 3:15 p.m.; session I and<br />
dialape, 3:30 p.m. : Session Tm, 7:00 p.m.: se~lsion 11 and dialogue, 7:30 p.m.; National<br />
Student Ministries reqkion, 9:00 p.m.<br />
Southern Ba@ist Church Mmic Conference, Annual Meeting, First Baptist Church: Session One,<br />
2:30 p.m. : call to order, 2:30 p.m. ; theme address, 3:20 p.m. ; lecture/demo~~~tration,<br />
4:15 p.m. : Session Tm, 6:45 p.m. : sermon, 6:45 p.m.: ammissioned anthem, 8:30 p.m.<br />
Southern Ba*ist Corderence Of Directors Of Missiom , A nna Meeting, Centxal Expressway Inn;<br />
Session One, 1:00 p.m. : registration, 1:00 p.m. : weloane, 1:30 p.m. ; =saw by J.<br />
Woodrraw Fuller, 2:00 p.m. ; Mines$ session, 3:25 p.m. : -sap by Morton Rose, 4:00 p.m. :<br />
message by Willim Pinson, 4:45 p.m.: Session Two, 6:00 p.m.: dinner, 6:00 p.m.; message<br />
by Gene Daniel, 7:05 p.m.<br />
Southern Ba@ist Pastors' Qrderene, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center; Session One,<br />
6:30 p.m.: message by Bill <strong>Web</strong>er, 7:15 p.m.; God News America reprt, 7:45 p.m.;<br />
-sage by D. Jaes Kennedy, 8:00 p.m. ; messaF by ~drian Rogers, 8:35 p.m.<br />
Southern Baptist Religious Education Asmiation, Annual Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market<br />
Square: Session One, 1:00 p.m. : registration, 1:00 p.m. ; new mgnbex orientation, 2:30<br />
p.m. ; general session, 3:00 p.m. : Session Two, 7:00 p.m. : genwal session, 7:00 p.m. :<br />
fellawship, 30th anniversary celelnation, 8:30 p.m.<br />
Southern Ba@ist Wanen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, Addl@us Hotel: Sessiori Tm, 8:30 a .m. :<br />
Bible study, 8:30 a.m. : morning warship, 9:30 a .m.<br />
Wanan' s Missiomry Union, Annual Meeting, Convention Center Arena; Session One, 2:45 p.m.<br />
missiom and ~epxation service, 2:45 p.m.<br />
Mcozday, June 10, <strong>1985</strong><br />
Association of Southern Eaptist Camp Ministers, Annual Meeting, Red Bird Inn Best Western:<br />
Session Three, 9:00 a.m. : hsiness and anmunments, 9:30 a.m. ; session 111, 9:45 a.m. ;<br />
session IV, 11:OO a.m. ; Session Four, 2:00 p.m. : session V, 2:15 p.m. ; hsiness, 3:30<br />
p.m. ; Session Five, 7:00 p.m. : hnquet and awards, 7:00 p.m.<br />
Conference uf Southern Baptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Hyatt Regency Hotel; reception,<br />
Cascade Rocms A and BI 10 to 11:30 p.m.
IJST CF EVENIS -- Page 2<br />
Southern Baptist Churd~ Mmic Corderenoe, Annudl Meeting, First Baptist Chur&; Session Three,<br />
8:30 a.m. : waship, 8:30 a.m., annual m ines session, 10:30 a.m. : panel discmeion,<br />
11:lO a.m. : Session Four, 1:45 p.m. : Wicians on Mission,. .in Action, 2:35 p.m. ;<br />
division meeting; 3 :45 p.m. ; lecture/dem01]6tration, 4:36 p.m. : Session Five, 6:45 p.m. :<br />
sermon, 7:30 p.m. ; installation of new officers, 9:20 p.m.<br />
Southern heist Corderence Of Directors Of Missiorrs, Annual ~eeting, Central Expressway Inn:<br />
Session Three, 8:00 a.m. : registration, 8:00 a.m., message by Doram C. McCarty, 8:35<br />
a.m.: message byW.E. Wrne, 10:lO a.m.: Texas barkc=, 11:OO a.m.<br />
Southern &gist Convention Forum, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center: &me, 1 :30<br />
p .m . ; -sap by Jmes Flaming, 1 :45 p .m . : message by Randall Ltley, 2:15 p .m . ; message<br />
by Catherine Allen, 3:05 p.m. ; message by Cecil Sherman, 3:40 p.m. ; message by Willian<br />
Self, 4:30 p.m.<br />
Southern Eh@ist Pastors' Qderence, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center; Session Tm,<br />
9:00 a.m. : message by David Walker, 9:20 a.m. : message by Jack Graham, 10:OO a .m. :<br />
message by Tan Elliff, 10:35 a.m. : message by Arthur Blessitt, 11:15 a.m. ; Session Three,<br />
1:15 p.m.: message by Morris Chapnan, 1:15 p.m.: =saw by Edwin Yomg, 2:lO p.m.;<br />
election of afficers, 2:50 p.m.; -sage by Jdm Wood, 3:10 p.m.: message by Jack Taylor,<br />
3:45 p.m.: Session Four, 6:30 p.m.: message by Richard Jackson, 7:10 p.m.; welccme by<br />
Charles Stanley, 7:45 p.m. ; message by R; T. Kendall , 8:00 p.m. ; message by W .A. Criswell ,<br />
8:35 p.m.<br />
Sowthem Baptist Religious Education Association, Annual. Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market<br />
Square; mntinmtal brealdast, 7:30 a.m. : Session Three, 8:45 a.m. : general session, 8:45<br />
a.m. : vocationdl groups, 10:30 a.m. : Session Four, 1:30 p.m. : general session, 1:30 p.m. ;<br />
-in-s session, 3:15 p.m.; SessionFive, 6:30 p.m.: banquet, 6:30 p.m.<br />
W m ' s Missionary Union, Annual Meeting, Corrvention Center Arena: Session Two, 9:15 a.m. :<br />
missiors and pepration, 9:15 a .m. ; Session Three, 1:45 p.m. : missiom and pepration,<br />
1 :45 p.m. ; Session Four, 7:15 p.m. : Pbrday missiom night, a rally armd M .A. P. S.<br />
" 'Ihesdw, June 11. <strong>1985</strong><br />
CorSerenae af Southern Baptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Eiyatt Regency Hotel: healdast<br />
lxlsiness session, Cascade Rouns A and B, 7 to 9 a.m.; festival af ~aise, Remion<br />
Ballrot~ns A - C, 10 to 11:30 p.m.<br />
Southern Ba1Jtist Comtion, Annual Meeting, Dallas Cornrention Center: Session One, 8:30 a .m . :<br />
registration rept and mnstitution of Comtion, 9:10 a .m. ; -ittee on Order af<br />
Busines, 9:15 a.m.: anmtmaement ut C dttee oncdttees, Credentials, Ftesalutiom and<br />
- Tellers, 9:40 a .m. : Executive Canmi ttee report (part 1) , 9:45 a .m. : introduction af<br />
Ixlsiness and resolutions, 10:45 a.m. ; President' s address, 11:25 a .m. ; Session Tm, 1:00<br />
p.m. : election of ufficers (first), 2:40 p.m. : introduction of businas and resolutiom,<br />
3:00 p.m.; Ekecutive Camittee report (part 2), 3:25 p.m.; Annuity bard reprt, 4:10<br />
p.m. ; business session, 4:25 p.m. ; Session Three, 6:30 p.m. : election of officers<br />
(third), 7:25 p.m. ; .Sunday Schml Board repxt, 7:45 p.m. ; Foreig.1 Mission Board reprt,<br />
8:20 p.m.<br />
Southern Baptist Convention Ministers' Wives, Annual Ltmcheon, Fairmont Hatel: 12:15 p.m.,<br />
ticbts, $15
LIST a? EWEfE -- Page 3<br />
Wednesday, June 12, <strong>1985</strong><br />
Conference af Southern Baptist Evanqlists, Annml Meeting, First Baptist Churd~; Annual<br />
Conference, 1 to 5 p.m. ; festival a€ praise, Elyatt Rpcy Hotel, Reunion Ballsocffls A - C,<br />
10 to 11:30 p.m.<br />
Galden Gate Baptist Theolqical Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, 1:00 p.m., Elyatt Regency Hotel,<br />
Cascade kllrocm: tickets, $15, at seminary booth (subject to amilability)<br />
Midwestern BaHist Theological Seminary, A l d Ltn&eon, 12:45 p.m., Grenelefe Hotel: tickets,<br />
$10, available at seminary booth<br />
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, A l d Lmcheon, 12:45 p.m., Comtion Center<br />
Hilton; tickets, $12, available at seminary Wth<br />
Southern Baptist Comtion, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center; Session Four, 8: 30 a .m . :<br />
election of aff icers (fourth) , 9:10 a.m. : Southern Baptist Thdqical Seminary reprt,<br />
9:25 a.m.; Stewardship Cunmission report, 9:35 a.m.; Soutlwestern l3ptist Theological<br />
Seminary report, 9:45 a .me ; Christian Life Camnission reprt, 9:55 a.m. : New Orleans<br />
Baptist' Magical Seminary report, 10:05 a.m.; Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs<br />
reprt, 10:15 a .m. ; -den Gate Baptist Theological Saninary reprt, 10:25 a .m. ; Southern<br />
Ba@ist Foundation report, 10:35 a .m. ; reprt of Southern Baptist Convention Canada<br />
Planning Group, 10:55 a.m.; kusiness session, 11:05 a.m.: Cornrention sermon, noon; Session<br />
Five, 6:30 p.m. : Winess session, 7:10 p.m. ; ~esentation of pst pesidmts, 7:45 p.m. ;<br />
presentation o£ newly elected SBC dficers, 7:50 p.m.; Bold Mission Thrust report, 7:55<br />
p.m. ; Planned Grcwth In Giving report, 8:05 p.m. ; Hme Mission Board report, 8:20 p.m.<br />
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, 1:00 p.m., Adolphus Hotel, Grad<br />
Ballroan: tickets, $30, available at seminary booth<br />
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Alunni and Friends Lincheon, 1:OQ p.m., Fairmont Hotel:<br />
ticlcets, $16, available at seminary booth<br />
Southestern Baptist Tkbeolcqical Seminary, Alunni Lmcheon, noon, Jifyatt Regency Hotel: tickets,<br />
$15, avail&le at seminary booth<br />
Thursday, June 13, <strong>1985</strong><br />
Southern Baptist Cormtion, Annusl Meeting, Dallas Canvention Center: Session Six, 8: 30 a .m . :<br />
Southeastern Baptist Theolqical Seminary r,eprt, 9:10 a .m. : Mucation Camnission report,<br />
9:20 a.m.; Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary report, 9:30 a.m.; kdio and Television<br />
Canmission reprt, 9:40 a.m.: American Baptist: Theological Seminary Cdssion reprt,<br />
9:50 a.m. ; Baptist World Alliance reprt, 10:OO a.m. ; Brather- Canmission reprt, 10:20<br />
a.m. : hxinsss session, 10:30 a.m. : Session Seven, 2:00 p.m. : American Bible Society<br />
report, 2:40 p.m. : KWmn' s Missiomry Union report, 2:50 p.m. : Historical Camnission<br />
report, 3:00 p.m.; Ccmmittee on Dmaninatioml Calendar repxt, 3:20 p.m.; hnminatioml<br />
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<br />
Convention and related meetings.<br />
For pur c~ontreniene, the kit is ccmpartmtalized into the following sections, with dividers:<br />
- General Informatim and<br />
- SBC and preSBC<br />
A&me Stories:<br />
This includes general infamation pieces on ivory p ~ , x<br />
about the SBC News Roan setup and the SBC; advance<br />
speches and Fograms availa6le when the kit was assaribled<br />
and other data.<br />
This section includes backgromd stories on green paper<br />
about the SBC ~ogram and Ixlsiness and other stories whi&<br />
will ar may relate to the SBC annual meting, June 11-13.<br />
It also aontains advances on the SBC satellite meetings.<br />
- Miscellaneaus -This section includes backgromd stories on green paper<br />
Wame Stories: which may be of help to pu in your mverage during the<br />
week and whi& relate to the SBC and its agencies.<br />
- SBC MJerq Reports: -This section aontains stories on green paper written in<br />
advance on what many of the SEE agencies will report to<br />
the SBC through 'the denmination' s Bodr of Reports or in<br />
mesentatiorrs to the mnvention. -These stories may mt<br />
cover everything an awcy will king &fore the<br />
convention because of last-minute developnents.<br />
-Throughout the week, a team of trained SBC reptere will cover all sessiom of SBC and FeSBC<br />
meetings. Copies of their stories will h delivered to your individuallyassiyed press boxes<br />
on blue paper. Also, any other hckgromd staries uf significanoe whi& break or advance<br />
speeches whi& arrive af ter assembly of this kit will also be provided.
NEm m INFOrnTICN SEwIcF,S<br />
AND FACILJTlES FoR' THE SBC<br />
->ME: to the 128th annual national session (140th year) of the Southern Baptist Convention.<br />
- The news and information services at the aonvwltion are designed to make your job as easy<br />
as possible.<br />
- THE NEWS is located in Dallas Convention Center, your hane away £run be. You will find<br />
typewriters, telemnes, electrical outlets, news stori~ aovering the anvention and a<br />
closed-circuit television system to enable pu to cover the swsiom f ran the News Rocm.<br />
"Tables in front uf the stage also are reserved far -king reporters, editors and<br />
@mtogra&ers. - The News Roan will opm at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jme 9, and at 9 a.m. each<br />
mmning during the aonvention. It will close about 10 p.m. each night.<br />
' TJJE NEW STAFF is headed by Wilmer C. Fields, press representative for the SBC; Dan -tin,<br />
News Roan Manager; and Craig Bird, @hotograghy/f eatures manager. A full list of the News<br />
Roan and Photogra&y staffs and their assignments is in this pcket. A receptionist will<br />
be on duty at the f r e<br />
desk at all times. She will have a paging system to mmce<br />
telephone calls and visitas. -The News is off-limits to all except authorized news<br />
personnel. Please do mt invite visitors into the News Roan, except fur interviews.<br />
NE#E KOM SERVICES include what we hope is cnnprehensive news average of the mnmtion.<br />
Releases, texts af resolutions and motions and other infamation will be placed in an<br />
individ&l b x assigned to you as quickly as possi-He. A team of reporters an our staff<br />
will write the stories. Fby ~enniGs is our "tit? editar" handling the mp4t.<br />
Reporters may cover the anvention via the closed-circuit-TV system with individual<br />
earphones in the News Raan, or £ran press tdbles located near the podium.<br />
- Ten teleMnes are ~ovided for we of reporters and editors in the SBC News R--six in<br />
the workman area and four in the lomge. Please do not charge long distance calls to<br />
News Roan @hones.<br />
Incaning calls far reporters and editors sbuld come on the main listed News Roan number<br />
214-65&7954.<br />
- There will be a spcial "hot line" nunber for news feeds for radio newscasts.<br />
me 3-M teleaopier will be ~ovided for use by reprters to transmit cow via telemne<br />
lines. Electrical connections for your acmputers also will be provided. If pu have<br />
questions, see the News Rocm manager.<br />
Special recording and RadieTV services are also available. See infoamation sheet in the<br />
News Kit. Electrical outlets will be provided far reporters and editors with ccmpters.<br />
--lmr+
News and Information <strong>Services</strong><br />
And Facilities Fa- The SBC<br />
Page 2<br />
-TE!IS NEW IWD INTUWiTIm KIT is designed to answer your majar questions about the aomtion.<br />
We bpe it is helpful. News stories, produced pior to the wnvention, are on blue paper.<br />
News stories wduced during the anvention are on yellaw ppr. General infamation (not<br />
news story f om), texts of resolutions and motiom , s&edules, photo cutlines and other<br />
background materials are on yellaw pper.<br />
-%-News @otm d the anvention will be taken, developed and pinted by a<br />
photography staff . ". The mtos may be obtained at $3 ea* thraagh the convention photo<br />
service. htos will be posted on the bulletin board in the lounge area of the News Roan.<br />
Sets uf 15 slides are available for $6. Sets c& 30 slides may be obtained for $10.<br />
Envelopes for ardexing photographs are on the table by the bulletin board. Place pm mder with the receptionist.<br />
REFIES3HM3MB-Free mf f ee and soft drink are a~ilable in the News Roan, courtesy of the<br />
convention. If the supply of refreshnmts is &usted, please mtify the receptionist<br />
ar News Roan manager. - M e ref reshnents are far News Roan personnel, only.<br />
AGMN, WEKDME--If we can help you in any way, please call on us.<br />
-Wilmer C. Fields, Dan Martin and<br />
Craig Bird
Fcr Your Informtion<br />
<strong>1985</strong> SaJTHERN BAPTIST mICN MmRY<br />
OF PARTICXPANIS IN THE m N G :<br />
SCVTHERN BAPTIST -1CN<br />
Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry, Annual Meeting, ~ilshire Baptist Chur* and the Aldorjhm<br />
Hotel; June &9<br />
Association of Southern Ba#ist Campls Ministers, Annual Meeting, Red Bird Inn &st Western:<br />
June 9-10<br />
Smthern Eaptist Chur& Mwic Conference, Annual Meeting, First Baptist Churd~: June %10<br />
Southern Ba*ist Corderence of Directors cd Missiom , Annual Meeting, Central Expressway Inn;<br />
June 9-10<br />
Sartkrexn Ba@ist Pastors' Conferenoe, Annual. Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center; June 9-10<br />
Southern Baptist Religious Education Association, Annml Meeting, Marriott Hotel, Market<br />
Square: June 9-10<br />
Wanan's Missionary Union, Annual Meeting, Dallas Convention Center Arena: June S10<br />
Corderme of Southern Ehptist Evangelists, Annual Meeting, Mtt Rege~lcy Hatel, First Baptist<br />
church, Jme 1&12<br />
=hem m@ist Convwltion Fmun, Annual Meeting, Dallas Corntion Center; June 10<br />
Southern mptist Conventim Ministers' Wives, Annual Ltmheon, Faimont Hotel; June 11<br />
Southern Baptist Convention, Annual Meeting, Dallas Comtion Center, June 11-13
ALABAMA<br />
BIRMmmAM<br />
ALLEN, Catherine-associate exlecutive secretary of Wcman's Missionary Uniom-will speak at<br />
the Moxlday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Form annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
NELSa, Mrs. Dotson M.-minister of pstaral services at Me& Brook Bagist Churclk-will<br />
speak at the Momlay evening, Jme 10, s~sion of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting<br />
at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
WE;RTHF,RFOFtD, Carolyn--executive director of Wanan' s Missiomry Uni-will give the<br />
keynote address at the Sunday ewning, Jme 9, session of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Convention Center Arena; will give the Wanan' s Missiomry Union' s report<br />
at the- Tlusday a£ termon, Jme 13, session of the Southern E?a#ist Comtion annual meeting<br />
at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
mREIm3<br />
P K L N S , Adxepminister of music at Highland Baptist Churdk--will participte in a panel.<br />
discllssion at the Morday morning, Jure 10, session cd the Southern Ba#ist Chur& Ml~sic<br />
Conferene annual meeting at First Baflist Churd~, Dallas.<br />
mm<br />
WLJ?E, Fred H.-member uf the Cdttee an Order af Businass; ptw of Cottaw H ill<br />
Baptist Churd.1<br />
M m R Y<br />
SCHPDEBEL; Davi&-msic assistant at First Baptist Churdk-will presglt the cmmissioned<br />
anth at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, ssssion of the Southern Baptist Churc;h Mmic Corderenoe<br />
annml meting at First Bawist Churc31, Dallas.<br />
0-amm3<br />
BmING, Don-mbes of the executive mmcil uf the Southern Baflist Chur& Mwic<br />
Corderme-will give the benediction at the Monday af terrrmn, Jme 10, session af the Southern<br />
Baflist Churd.1 Mwic Conference annual meeting at First Ba#ist Churd~, Dallas.<br />
PEmNIx<br />
JPdZWCN, Richard-*tor ab Narth m i x Bagtist Chux&--will deliver a message at the<br />
Momlay evening, Jme 10, session of the Southern Baflist Pastms' Cbnberenae annml meeting at<br />
the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
mSNO<br />
FCGS,<br />
Wendell-directar af the Christian developnent deprtment for the Ba*ist General<br />
Convention of Califaniti-will speak on association/state/~~~ ministry at the Sunday aftemn,<br />
Jme 9, session of the Southern Ebljist Religious Education Association at the Marriott Hotel,<br />
Market Square.<br />
r n . D<br />
BLESSrrr, Art--evangelist--will deliver a message at the Morday mmning, June 10,<br />
session of the Southern Eiptist Pastars' Corderenae annual eeting at the Dallas Corntion<br />
Center.<br />
laEuEmA<br />
MCALL, E.W.--tor UE St. Steghen Baeist Churdk-will give the Scrieure reading at the<br />
MoIlday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Fmun annual meeting at the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
MIWl VALLEY<br />
MuXUY, Warn C .-prcbessar a€ ministry at Golden Gate Baptist Tlwlogical Seminary-will<br />
speak at the Morday marning, Jme 10, sasion uf the Southern BaGi st ConEerenae uf Directms<br />
of Missions annual meting at the Central Expessway Inn.<br />
m, F'ranklin D.-~esident a€ Golden Gate Paptist Theological Sdnary-will give<br />
Goldesl Gate Saninary' s repmt at the Wednesday mmning, Jme 12, session cd' the Southern<br />
E?a@ist Convention annual reeting at the Dallas Convention Center.
Who's Wb-- Page 3<br />
9W ~ISCO<br />
IWEM4, Jane-Christian educatur/teacher-will lead in worship and the theme<br />
inteqr tation at the Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, s~sion a£ the Southern Bagist Wanm In<br />
Ministry annual meting at the Wilshire Baptist Chura, Dallas<br />
MEIEM, Km--aonert artist-will wesent a mncert at the Saturday evening, Jme 8,<br />
bancpet session of the Southern Baflist Wanen In Ministry annual meting at Wilshire Baptist<br />
Churd~, Dallas: will present a mmrt at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Faun annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
FOKT L,AumRDALE<br />
RBJNEDY, D. Janes--smiar minister at Cmal ~idge mptist Churbwill speak at the Sunday<br />
e-ing, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Baptist Pastors' Qrrferenw annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Convention Center.<br />
rn MYEIZS<br />
SPRI-, Clayton-associate pastor uf Riverside Baptist Chur&+will lead a prayer at the<br />
Wednesday evening, Jme 12, session of the Southern &z#ist Corntion annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
mCK, Jay-menber of the Cdttee on Order a€ Business: ptm ut ~iverside Ehptist<br />
chUrc3-l<br />
WILLIAIS, H. mpesident a€ Gulf Shxes BiMe Colleg~+-will give the benediction at<br />
the Wednesday ewning, Jule 12, swsion o£ the Southern Bagist Convention annual meting at<br />
the Dallas Cormntion Cmter .<br />
JAcKsowIL,L,E<br />
T~erry--pastor of First Baptist Chur+will speak at the Wednesday aftemxn,<br />
Jme 12, session of the Conferme aE Southern Baptist E3mngelists annual meting at First<br />
&&ti st Church, Dallas.<br />
PJmsimLA<br />
YL,<br />
J. Nimn 111--menber of the C d ttee on Order uf Business; attorney<br />
WEST PALMBEACH<br />
GWhM, Jack-ptor of First Ba#ist Churd-+will deliver a message at the Morday<br />
maming, Jme 10, session of the Southern gaptist Pastas' Corderenoe anntlal meeting at the<br />
Dallas Convention Center.<br />
ATLANTA<br />
CM!F.FEI, Wes--=prate executie-will lead the benediction at the Tuesday mcrrning, June<br />
11, session af the Southern l%*ist Convention anntral meeting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
GLWER, Jdm-director of First Baptist Church choir--will direct the music for the<br />
Tuesday mcsrning, Jme 11, session: will lead the aongre~tioml siraging at the Tuesday<br />
aftemn, Jme 11, session of the Southern E?a#ist Comtion annudl meting at the Dallas<br />
Conmtion Center.<br />
W, Cardl M&luremnaert krarpist--will give a mini-mrwert at the Morday af temn,<br />
Jule 10, session of the Sauthern Baptist Churd.1 Mwic ConEerenae annual meting at First<br />
hflist churd~, Ddlas.<br />
EWBWN, Wkert--vice~esident, e~ngelim, Hcme Mission EbardC-will speak at the Sunday<br />
eming, Jme 9, session of the Southern Baptist Pastors' mrderena3 annml meeting at the<br />
Dallaa Conwintion Center; will speak at the Wedn~day aftmn, June 12, session of the<br />
Conferene of Southern Baflist Ebmplists annml meting at First Baptist Chur&, Dallas.<br />
SELF, Willian L.-pstoa: of Wieuza Road Ehptist Church--will speak at the Moday<br />
aftemn, Jme 10, SEC Furun annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
SWNLeY, Charle-~esident cd the Southern E!a@ist Corntion and pstor cb First Baptist<br />
Church--will give a welaane at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session of the Southern &gist<br />
Pastors' Corderen- annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center; will give the President's<br />
address at the Tuesday marning, Jme 11, session of the Southern Baflist Corntion annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Cormntion Center; will king greetings at the Wednesday aftemn, Jme<br />
12# session of the Corderme Southem Paptist Evangelists annual meeting at First Baptist<br />
Church, Dallas.
Who's W b -- Page 4<br />
W R , Willim G.-~esident uf the Hane Mission Ebard-will speak at the Mo-y evening,<br />
Jme 10, session of the Wanan' s Missionary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center<br />
Arena: will give the t k Hane Mission Ibard's rept at Wednesday evening, June 12, session of<br />
the Southern E?aptiat Comtion annw meting at the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
BRFm?N<br />
EMFEIT, Dick-music ewgelist--will present spcial rmsic at the Wednesday afterrmn,<br />
Jme 12, session of the Corderenae of Southern Baptist Evanc&sts annual meting at First<br />
Ba@ist Church, Dallas.<br />
FAYITITJWm<br />
FEIQWD, Dwight "1ke"--ptm of New Hope Baptist Chur&-will give a response to the<br />
welme at the T~sday morning, Jme 11, session af the Southern Baptist Canwntion annml<br />
meeting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
MARRIETTA<br />
FRWKLIN, Ebb L-director of missions fa Noorday Bagtist Association-will give the<br />
welarne and oorduct the business session at the Sunday aftermon, Jme 9, session of the<br />
Southern Baptist Corderencre a€ Directars a€ Missiom annual meting at the Central ExFessway<br />
Inn.<br />
M I r n W I L L E<br />
a, Jacksorr--nausic e~ngelist-will participte in a panel discmsion at the Moday<br />
mmning, Jme 10, session of the Southern E?aptist Chur& Music Conferenoe annual mxting at<br />
First Baptist Church, Dallas; will lead the music at the Wednesday aftemn, June 12, session<br />
af the ConEerenae uf Southern Baptist Evangelists annual meting at First Ba#ist Church,<br />
Dallas.<br />
ILLINOIS<br />
CHICAGO<br />
-R, k'ank--&ro director of student mk; pcesident-elect a€ the Association of<br />
Southern Baptist Cahp Minister*-will lead the worship at the Morday af temn, Jme 10,<br />
session of the Association of Southern Baptist Canpus Ministers annual rreeting at the Red Bird<br />
Inn Best Western.<br />
FWD, Gary-singer, sorrgwriter, remrding artist--will ~avide the mmic at the Morhy<br />
evening, Jme 10, kanquet of the Association of Southern Ba&ist C a p s Ministers annm<br />
meeting at the Red Bird Inn Best Western.<br />
HARROASBUIEG<br />
-=HIP, EBbminister af music at Harrodslxlrg Baptist Chur+will speak at the<br />
Moday af temn, Jme 10, session of the Southern E!a@ist Chux& Mmic Conferme annual<br />
meting at First Ba@ist Churd~, Dallas.<br />
mISVILILF,<br />
AIMS, Darrell-mnwrt artist-will sing at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Faun<br />
annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
CLAWCN, Cynthia--conert artist-will prfarm at the Saturday eming, Jme 8, banpt cd<br />
the Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry annml meting at the Wilshire Eaeist Church, Dallas;<br />
will sing at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, SlBC Farum annml meting at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Center.<br />
WE, C. Anne--dean of social rnrrk at Southern Baptist Theological Sadmy-will spak<br />
at the Morday morning, Jme 10, session d the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meeting at the<br />
Dallas Conmtion Center Arena.<br />
ELLIUIT, Mi-1-missioruary in Louisville-will speak at the Morday morning, June 10,<br />
session of the Warm' s Missiarsnry Union annm meting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
GREO;,RY, Joel-~cdesscr at Southern Baptist TheolHcal Senimpwill lead the warship<br />
at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, and Morday evening, Jme 10, sessiom af the Southern Baptist<br />
Church Mwic Conferme annual meeting at First Baptist Chur*, Dallas.<br />
Ray L.-~esident af Southern Bagkist Theolqical Seminary-will give Southem<br />
Seminary' s report at the Wednesday mclrning, Jme 12, session of the Southern Baptist Convention<br />
axmual meting at the Dallw Comtion Center.<br />
MMBJdALbGREEN, Mollqcassistant pufesstrs of theology at Southern Baptist Thdogicdl<br />
Senimpwill ~ea5h at the Sunday marring, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Baptist Wanen In<br />
Ministry annual meting at the the Adolphw Hotel, Dallas.
Wb's W b -- Page 5<br />
mFE, Bill-dean af the s-1 a€ religious education at Southern Ba*ist Theological<br />
Sdmpwill speak at the Morday mamning, Jme 10, session of the Southern Ba@ist Religiam<br />
Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
PRICE, Milmdean of the school a€ &ur& mmic at So&hern Baeist Theological<br />
Seminary-will lead the Southern ~ dmry CMir in a mmrt at the Sunday eming, Jule 9,<br />
session of the Southern Ba@ist Chur& Mwic Conferevlae armd meting at ~irst Baptist Chwrd~,<br />
Dallas.<br />
MA-<br />
NELSCN, Charles--ptar of Cub hptist am&--will lead a FaFs at the Tuesday<br />
af temn, Jme 11, session of the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas<br />
Convention Center.<br />
MIDDIEa3ORC)<br />
aANIELSt Bill-ptor af First Baptist Chur6will give the inmoation at the Morday,<br />
af temn, Jme 10, SBC Fmun annuid meting at the Dallas Corntion Center,<br />
RICHM3ND<br />
HAM, Richard-manber of the executiw mulcil of the Southern Baptist Chm& M-ic<br />
Corderen~will pesent the W. Hin- Sim Award at the Moday aft-n, June 10, session of<br />
the Southern Bagkist Church Mllsic Conferenae annual meeting at First Baptist Churd~, Dallas.<br />
-m<br />
LOUISIANA<br />
Marjcaie--W member-will speak at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, seesion of<br />
the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comention Center Arena,<br />
NEW ORWAN3<br />
BWINQIW, Jeassistant ~ofessaar of child- education at New Orleans Baptist<br />
Theolqical Semimrpwill speak on &ildrenl s/pres&ool ministry at the Sunday aftemn, Jme<br />
9, session of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association at the Marriatt Hatel,<br />
Markt Square.<br />
COW, Harxl;~-~esident-elect cb the Southern Ba#ist Church Mwic ConEera-will give<br />
the benediction at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session af the Southern E?aptist Church Mwic<br />
Conferenoe annual meting at First Ea$ist Chur&, Dallas.<br />
L€AVELZ, Landrun P.-wesident of New Orlems Baptist Theological Seminary-will give New<br />
Orleans Saninarry' s report at the Wednesday maning, Jme 12, session af the Southern msist<br />
Convention annual meting at the Dallas Corntian Center.<br />
SEmVEmlu'<br />
-T, Mike--pesident uf the ConEerenae UE Southern &iflist Evangelists-will lead<br />
the Forayer and give the welone at the Weesday aftemn, June 12, session a€ the Corbermae<br />
of Southern Ba@ist Evangelists annml meting at First Baptist Church, Dallas,<br />
BALTIXIRE<br />
T, James E.-direct- of associatioml missiom-will speak at the Morday eming,<br />
Jme 10, session of the Wcman's Missiorary Union annual meting at the Comtion Center<br />
Arena.<br />
MISSISSIPPI<br />
JAcKsm<br />
JCNES, mul-execlltive director-treasurer of the Christian Action Canmission for the<br />
Mississippi Ba@ist Corntion--will speak at the Maday morning, Jme 10, sssion cd the<br />
Association of Southern Bdgkist Camp Ministers annual meting at the Red Bird Inn Best<br />
western.<br />
W ~ ~ O a D<br />
-, Normti-W leader--will speak at the Morday marning, Jme 10, session af the<br />
Wanan's Missiomy Union annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena.
Wb's Who - Page 6<br />
YAZOO CITY<br />
SIQWST, R.L. and Beth-rmsic emngelists--will give a cronaert at the Morday mmning, Jme<br />
10, session of the Southern Baeist Churd-k M ~ i Corderme c annual meting at First Ba@ist<br />
Cbd.1, Dallas; will poceeent: specid nusic at the Wednesday a£ termon, Jme 12, session of the<br />
Conference a€ Southern Baptist Evangelists annual nreeting at First Baptist Churdn, Dallas.<br />
mLuM3IA<br />
v, Ashley-moderator of the Southen Ba#ist Wanen In Ministry-will lead at the<br />
p+-mrberenae fellclwship and lmdh at the Saturday, Jule 8, session of the Southern Ba#ist<br />
Wanen In Ministry annual meeting at the Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas.<br />
KANSAS CITY<br />
FERZJSCN, Milton-president of Midwestern Baptist Theo1cx$cal Sdnary-will give<br />
Midwestern Semimry' s report at the Thursday m dng, Jme 13, session of the Southern &z*ist<br />
Conmtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
LIBERIY<br />
STFJNCROGS, Joy--layperson frcrn Seoord Brnptist Chur&will give the benediction at the<br />
Morday af termon, Jme 10, SBC Fcaum annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
NOm KANSAS CITY<br />
WIIX3MW, Dor+swd vice~esident d the Southern Ba@ist Comtion; pstm of First<br />
Ba#ist Churd.1<br />
SPNNGFTELD<br />
NEWOHTI Rmsell-mic evangelist--will provide spcial rmsic at the Wednesday aftamon,<br />
Jme 12, session o£ the corder en^ af Southern Baptist Mgelists annml meting at First<br />
Ba@i st Churd7, Dallas.<br />
ST. LLWS<br />
FkNEIL, Jim-mic evangelist-will prticipte in a panel discwsion at the Morday<br />
mming, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Baptist Chur& Music Cordenme annual meting at<br />
First Baptist Churd, Dallas.<br />
NEW NAMPSHIm<br />
PoRTsEmM<br />
BRINDLE, bbrt H.-director of assdatioml missions--will speak at the Morday evening,<br />
Jme 10, session af the Wanan's Missiorary Union annd meting at the Comtion Center<br />
Arena.<br />
BIUNU, Susaw-wesidmt uf Wanan's Missiorary Union in New England--will lead a Fayer<br />
at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, 8-sion a€ the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
NEW lvExIm<br />
~=UQUEm<br />
BRUEH?LW, W.A.--mrbr of the exzcutive ad1 af the Southern Baptist Chur& Music<br />
Conferen-will give the kenediction at the Morday macning, Jme 10, session UE the Southern<br />
Ba@ist Chur* Mmic Conferene annual meting at First Baptist Chur*, Dallas.<br />
HARLEM<br />
YL~M,<br />
Miaael--rrrissiomry to Harlan--will speak at the Sunday aftemn, June 9,<br />
swsion; at the Moxrjay evening, Jme 10, session af the Wanan's Missionary Union annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Comention Center Arena.
Who's Wlm -- P ap 7<br />
m YORK c m<br />
HL)LtAVAY, Ste*Ba@ist camp minister for New Yark City and haprain at Colunbia<br />
Universitpwill lead the -ship at the Swnday aftemn, Jme 9, s-sion uf the Association<br />
of Southern Eaptist Camp Ministers annual meting at the the Red Bird Inn &st Western.<br />
BuRLINQmN<br />
CRAWFORD, Larry C .-mernbzr of the C d ttee on Order of Business; &pician<br />
CARJxnm<br />
GtAERM, 5. Billydirectar of nussiwrs-will give a dewtiom1 at the Sunday ~~~~n,<br />
Jme 9, s~sion of the Southem Baptist cord^^ of Dire&ors of Missions annual rrreeting at<br />
the Central Ek~essway Inn.<br />
CHAHLClITE<br />
GCLIEA'IH, Betty-remrding secretary of Wanan's Missiomry ~niom-will lead a payer at<br />
the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, ssssion of the Wonan's Miesiorrtry Union annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Corntion Center Zuena.<br />
WILSCN, Grady B.-ewqlist-will read the Scripture and lead a papr at the Wednesday<br />
morning, Jule 12, session d the Southern Ba@ist Convention annllal meting at the Dallas<br />
Cornention Center.<br />
mHIL];<br />
BFAN, Marie-&a@ain at Mars Hill Colleg+-will lead in warship and the therne<br />
inter~etation at the Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, session of the Southern Ba@ist Wcmen In<br />
Ministry annml meting at the Wilshire Baptist Chur&, Dallas.<br />
R.1m<br />
my, Cecil A.-natioml directar of Planned Grcwth In Giving-will give the Planned Gravth<br />
In Giving report at the Wedneeday evening, Jme 12, session uf the Southern Bafiist Comtion<br />
annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
ww?, mRESI'<br />
K4W, Midzael-prdessm of &ur& mmic at Southeastern Baeist Tbological Semimy-will<br />
pavide the entertairment at the Morday evening, Jme 10, I=anquet a€ the Southern Ba#ist<br />
Religiow Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
LLtbEY, Rardall-psidmt UE Southeastern Baptist Theological Sdmy-will speak at the<br />
MonSay aftemn, Jme 10, SBC Fmm annml meeting at the Dallas Convention Center; will give<br />
Southeastern Saninary' a report at the Thrsday mmning, Jule 13, session a€ the Southern<br />
Baptist Conwntion annual meeting at the Dallas Corntian Center.<br />
mIF, me--wesident of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association and<br />
p~ufessca: of Christian edmation at Southeastern Ba$ist Theological Seminary-will give the<br />
president ' s address at the Monday ewning, Jme 10, hncpet at the Southern Ba@ist Religious<br />
Education ~ssociation at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
WINGATE<br />
-TIC, Roweditm of publicatiom far the Southern Baptist Chur& Music ConEerm-will<br />
lead a Fapr at the Morday emning, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Baptist Church Mllsic<br />
Corferenae annml meting at First Baptist Church, Dallas.<br />
OHIO<br />
CINCINNATI<br />
JmSt Jhfer-student--will ~avide the mic at the Sunday eming, Jme 9, session;<br />
at the Morday morning, a£ t emn ad evening, Jme 10, sessiom af the Wanan's Missionary Union<br />
annual meeting at the Dallas Cornti- Center Arena.<br />
oKLwa4A CITY<br />
GARRISCN, Gene--pastor of First Baptist Churd~-will give the welacme and peside at the<br />
Moday aftemn, Jme 10, S8C Fmun annml rreeting at the Dallas Comtion Cmter .
Wb's Who -- Page 9<br />
ELIER, Llayd--.presideslt a€ the Baptist Sunday Schml Board-will ~esent the Sunday sd.1001<br />
Board report at the Tuesday eming, Jme 11, session of the Southern Ebgkist Convention annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
FRCW, A. R.-pesident of the stewardship C d ssiow-will give the Stewardship<br />
Canmi ssion' s report at the Wednesday marning, Jme 12, session of the Southern Baeist<br />
Convent ion annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
FIED, Wilmer C .-press re~esentative; assistant to the executive secretary treasurer of<br />
the SBC Executive Cami ttee-will give the demrmimtional pess reprt at the Tkursday<br />
aftemn, Jme 13, session af the Southern E?a@ist Convention annual meeting at the Dallas<br />
Conmtion Center.<br />
=IS, We-secretary of the &ur& mtlsic deprtnaent at the Baptist Sunday Sdhml<br />
Board-will give the the address at the Sunday aftemn, June 9, session of the Southern<br />
Baptist Churd.1 Mwic Conferenae amml meting at First Baptist Churdh, Dallas.<br />
J-CN, Hollis-executive secretarytreasurer of the Southern Baptist Fomdatiam-will<br />
give the Fomdation' s repart at the Wednesday morning, Jme 12, session a€ the Southern Baeist<br />
Conmtion annual meeting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
KERR, mace-supervisa af the senicar/single adult section af the &ur& adninistration<br />
deprtment at the Ba*ist Sunday moo1 Board-will speak on senior adult ministry at the<br />
Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session cd the Southern Bagist Religious Education Assodation at<br />
the Marriott Hotel, Markt Square.<br />
MAY, Lynn E.-executive director-treasurer of the Historical Carmission-will give the<br />
Cdssion' s report at the Wsday aftemn, Jme 13, session of the Southern Bapzist<br />
Convention annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
M d L E W , Albert-Yank@lovi& resear& organization, retired ~ q a planning m secretary<br />
of the SBC ~xecutive Cumnittee--will speak on future trends and educational ministry at the<br />
Sunday ewning, Jme 9, session uf the Southern Ba#ist Religious Education Assaciation at the<br />
Marriott Hotel, Markt Square.<br />
PORTER, Lee-registration secretary of the Southern E!a@ist Convention: desiq editor in<br />
the Sunday s&ml deptmmt a€ the Baptist Sunday mml Board<br />
ROBERISCN, Fes--1983-84 president UE the Southern Ba#ist Chm& Mmic Corderme: section<br />
supexvisar , church music department af the Baptist Sunday Sdhml Ekwd-will peside at the<br />
Sunday aftemn and evming, Jme 9, sessions, and will ~eside and install the new Chux&<br />
Music Corderenae a€£ icers at the Morday eming, Jtne 10, session of the Southern Baptist<br />
CkplrCh Mwic Corderenae annual eing at First Ba@fst Churd~, Dallas; will lead the<br />
aongregatioml singing at the !l?hxsday mcnrning, Jme 13, session af the Southern Baflist<br />
Conwntion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
RX3F§, Mi Evans--minister of singles at Wdorrt Ba$ist Church--will speak on singles<br />
ministry at the Sunday aftemn, Jtne 9, session of the Southern Bagkist Religiom Echcation<br />
Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
mE, Mmtom-vicepesident, office of &wch pograms services, Baptist Sunday moo1<br />
Board-will speak at the S d y aftemn, Jme 9, session af the Southern Ba@ist Conference<br />
of Directors uf Missions arm& meeting at the Central Ex~essway Inn.<br />
SIRCKER, Joe--secretary af the &ur& adninistration deprtment at the Ba@ist Sunday<br />
Schml Board-will speak on =king to-ther at the Sunday evening, Jme 9, session of the<br />
Southern h*i st Religious E-ation Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
WALKER, Artknzr L .-executive di rector-treasurer of the Education C d ssiom-wi 11 give the<br />
Cdssion' s reprt at the Thrsday morning, Jme 13, session of the Southern Baeist<br />
Conwention annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
WILLM, James--umrdinator and associate to the pesident cd the Ba@ist Sunday Rho01<br />
Board--will speak on f utuxe trende and ducatioral ministry at the Sunday evening, Jme 9,<br />
session of the Southern Ba#ist Religious Education Assmiation at the Marriott Hotel, Market<br />
-re.<br />
VALEWINE. Fcy-executive di rector-treasurer of the Christian Life Canmi ssio~will give<br />
the Christian Life Canmission's rept at the Wednesday mmning, Jule 12, session af the<br />
Southern Baptist Conmtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
IRWlTDm, Lq&-~cbessar at Hardi~Sinmom University and direct= of 19B5 Texas Bagkist<br />
All-State Youth Clmip-will lead the ensenbLe in w+session ins~ratioral nwic at the Sundav<br />
af temn, June 9, session af the Wanan' s ~issioir~ Union annuai meeting at the Comtion a<br />
Cmter A m ; will lead the bad in a mmrt at the Morday evening, Jme 10, session, of the<br />
Southern Baptist Church Music Corrfermae annml meting at First Baptist Churd~, Dallas; will<br />
lead the &oir in music for inspiration at the T=s&y aftemn, Jme 11, session cd the<br />
Southern Baptist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.
m8s W b -- Page 10<br />
AtwuLU<br />
QDFFEY, Stemembsr of the C d t t e e on Order of Business; ptor of San Jacinto Baptist<br />
churdl<br />
FLUER, Mark-pving contractor-will lead a vayer at the Tlwrsday aftemn, Jme 13,<br />
session of the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
WRE, Winfred--tor of First Baflist Churd.l--will speak at the Morday eming, Jule lo,<br />
session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
AUSTIN<br />
MXJICA, Miguel-dssiomry in A~tiwwill SF& at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session<br />
of the Wcman' s Missiomry Union annm meeting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena.<br />
DALus<br />
CRISWEU, W.A.-pstm of First Baptist Chur&-will deliver a sermon at the Sunday<br />
ewning, Jme 9, sessim a€ the Southern Baptist Chur& Music Conferme annual meeting at<br />
First Baflist Chur*, Dallas: will deliver a messa* at the Morday evening, Jlne 10, session a€<br />
the Southern Baptist Pastas' Cbrderenae annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
DANIEL, Gme-seniar viaevesident fcr markting at the Southern Baptist Annuity<br />
Ebard-will give an addweas at the S-y evening, Jme 9, session cb the Southern Baeist<br />
Coderenoe of Directors aE Missim annual Itleeting at the Central ExFessway Inn.<br />
ELLEITI mcy-assdate pastor at Royal Lane kptist Chur-will be the worship leader<br />
at the Sunday maring, Jme 9, session of the Southem Ba@ist Wanen In ini is try annual meeting<br />
at the the Adolfius Hotel, Dallas.<br />
EAMPE3REY, David--minister of mwic at ~irst Baflist Chur+will give the welaxne at the<br />
Sun&y af termon, Jme 9, session; will lead the &oir and oraegtra in worship at the Sunday<br />
eming, Jme 9, session uf the Southern E!a@ist Chur& Music Conferenae annLaZ meting at<br />
First Ba*ist Church, Dallas.<br />
LAND, Rick--crtrganist at First Ba@ist Chr&-will play the affertory at the Morday<br />
ewning, Jme 10, session af the Southern b@ist Chur& Music Corderen- annual meting at<br />
First Baptist Churdn, Dallas.<br />
MCLAWQlLIN, Charles-mi ssiom director far the Baptist General Comtion af Texas--will<br />
speak at the Monky evening, Jule 10, sesion of the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meting at<br />
the Dallas Comtion Center A m .<br />
MIRGAN, Dardd-president o£ the Annuity Board-will wesent the Annuity Board Rep t at<br />
the T ~shy aftemn, Jme 11, scssion UE the Southern Ba*ist Comtion annml eing at<br />
the Dallas Convent ion Center.<br />
PWR, Janes F.-director of the Sunset Sermaders d ~ lif f Temple &gist Church--will<br />
lead the &oir in a mmrt at the Morday mmning, Jme 10, session of the Southern Baptist<br />
Ch& Mwic Conferme annml meeting at First Ba*ist Church, Dallas.<br />
PINSCN, Willian M.-executive directcrr of the Baflist General Comtion of Texas--will<br />
give the welaane at the Sunday aftermon, June 9, session af the Southem Baptist Religious<br />
Education Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square: will spak at the Sunday aftemn,<br />
Jme 9, session of the Southern E!a#ist ConEerme af Directors cf Missions annual meeting at<br />
the Central Ex~essway Inn; will give the final adatess at the Moday evening, Jme 10, aasion<br />
of the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annml meting at the Convention Center Arena.<br />
PH3STImt San--nmic secretary af the Baptist Ggleral Camention uf Texas--will give a<br />
welame at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, s-sion; will prticipate in the mnaert at the Morday<br />
evening, Jule 10, se~ision a€ the Southern Baptist aura Music Corderme annual meeting at<br />
First E3aflist Churd.1, Dallas; will lead the mngregational singing at the Tuesday morning, Jme<br />
11, session of the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
FOXL, Darrell-rrnm-mt comultant-will lead the -diction at the Teeday aftemn,<br />
Jme 11, session af the Southem E?a@ist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Cmter .<br />
m, Harold--rni.nister of msic at Shiloh Terrace bpti~t Church-will pesent spcial<br />
mmic at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, and Mollday mcpming, Jme 10 sessions af the Southern<br />
Ba@ist Corderne of Directors of Missiom annual meeting at the Central Ex~essway Inn.<br />
TEDRNE, W.E.--retired ~esident of the Dallas Baptist University--will speak at the Morday<br />
morning, Jme 10, sessim of the Sathem Baptist Coderenos a€ Directors d Missiom annual<br />
meting at the Central Ex~aressway Inn<br />
WEBERt Bill-ptm of Preetorwood Eh#ist Chur&-wil deliver a message at the Sunday<br />
evening, Jule 9, session af the Smthern Baptist Paetms' Oorderwoe annml meting at the<br />
Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
mE, Foarbes--an-* artist-will ~esent the music at the Sunday aftemn, June 9,<br />
session; bbrday marning, a£ temn ad ming, Jme 10, sessim a€ the Wanan' s Missiomry<br />
Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Axena .<br />
ZI-, Z i p first vice-presi-t uf the Southern Baptist Commtion<br />
EL PAS0<br />
BINTTEZ, Eli-ptar of ~ispm Baptist Churdr--will speak at the Morday evening, Jme<br />
10, session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annml meting at the Dallas Corntion Center<br />
Arena.
m's Who - Page 11<br />
EmES<br />
BRSLEY,<br />
Manley-mgelist-will be given special reaogi tion at the Wednesday a£ temoon,<br />
Jme 12, session UE the Conference al Southern Pa@ist Evangelists annml meting at First<br />
Bagist Churh, Dallas.<br />
GAGFr, Mi+-evangelist-will be givm special recowi tion at the Wednesday aftemn,<br />
Jme 12, seesion of the Conference of Southern Baeist Evangdists annual meeting at ~irst<br />
Ba$ist Church, Dallas.<br />
Em'?! mm<br />
ALLEN, Jirnny R.-&resident uE the Radio and Television C~ssion-will giv@ the<br />
Cdssim' s reprt at the Tkruesday maning, Jme 13, session a€ the Southern Baflist<br />
Contllention annual meting at the Dallas Camtion Center.<br />
BLACK, Wesley-pxEessor of youth education at Soutlw-tern E!a#ist Theological<br />
Semimywill spak on youth ministry at the S-y aftemn, Jme 9, smsion UE the Southern<br />
Baptist Religious Ehation Association at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
BRIGGS, Phil-yxdesscx of youth dmation at Southvestern Ba#ist TheohgicaJ.<br />
Sdmry-will speak at Sunday aftemn, June 9, session crE the Association of Southern<br />
Ba$ist C m p Ministers ~ annual *ing at the Red Bird Inn Best Western.<br />
EURTCN, Mkert--director of the Southestern Baeist Theolcgical Seminary Chxm and<br />
W i d Ensemble-will wesent a conert at the Sunday aftermon, Jme 9, session uf the Southern<br />
Basist Chur& Music CorrEerenae annual eing at First Ba@ist Clrmrdh, Dallas: will lead the<br />
&arm and ensemble in msic fa impbration at the Tlleschy evening, Jme 11, session cb the<br />
Southern Ba*ist Convention annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
DILmY, Ihmssell-~esident a€ Soutkwestern Baptist Theological semi my-will give<br />
SouthrJestem Sdmry' s mmt at the Wednesday mcnming, Jme 12, session of the Southern<br />
Ba*ist Conmtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Cmter.<br />
GONZXES, Daliemissionary to Spai~wi11 give the hendiction at the Wednesday mcarning,<br />
Jme 12, session ut the Southern Baptist Comtion annual metirag at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Center.<br />
ID-, W.F.-retired state dir@ctorr of st-t mck in Texas, faculty uf religiom<br />
education at Southestern bptist Thmlogical ~ dm.r)~will speak at the Morday aftemn,<br />
Jme 10, session ul tk Association a€ Southern Baptist C a p Ministers annual meting at the<br />
Red Bird Inn Best Western.<br />
KING, A. Jose@+-as-director af the SouthrJestern Ehptist Theological Seminary C bus and<br />
W i d Ensemble-will lead the &or= and azsemhle in lmrsic far inspiration at the Tuesay<br />
eming, June 11, session of the Southern Baei st Corntion annual meting at the Dallas<br />
Convent ion Center.<br />
May, Jdm-wic evangelist-will present a mini-amst and will lead the<br />
mnqegatioml singing at the Wsday aftemn, Jme 13, session of the Southern Ba#ist<br />
Conmtion annual meting at the ~al1as'~omtion Center.<br />
McKINNEY, Jmes-dean a€ the school a£ d1urd.1 music at SoutWestern mflist Theological<br />
Sdmrpwill lead a prayer at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session UE the Southern Baptist<br />
Cknlrd? Mwic Conferenae annml meeting at First Ba#ist Churd.1, Dallas.<br />
mD, Wlryl-director of the Singing Men of Texas--will partidpte in the concert fa the<br />
Morday etnwling, Jme 10, session a€ the Southern Ba]3tist Church Music Coldemae annual meeting<br />
at First Baptist Church, Dallas; will lead the Singing Men in music fa inspiration at the<br />
Wednesday evennig, Jme 12, session a€ the Scmthem Baptist Corntion annual meeting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Cater.<br />
IEYNCGIE, Willian J.-wic director fa the Southern Eh@ist Comtion ad associate<br />
~dessar of music at Soutkwestern Ea#ist Theological Senimpwill lead the mngregatioml<br />
singing at the T ~s&y @wing, Jme 11, session; at the Wednesday evening, Jme 12 session af<br />
the Southern Bagkist Conwntion anrim eing at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
SEEM, Cecil-pstor of Brcadway Baptist Churd~-will speak at the Morday aftemn,<br />
Jme 10, SIK: Form annml meting at the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
'WYLOR, Jack-head of Dimensiom in Christian Livinpwill deliwr a message at the Mo&y<br />
af temn, Jule 10, session of the Southern Bqtist Pastars ' Qnferenoe annd meting at the<br />
Dallas Conwntion Center.<br />
TERKY, Jack-dean af the sdxlol a€ religios education at Soutkwestern &l$ist Thedogid<br />
Sdmry-will spak on teeing ministry at the S d y af temn, Jme 9, session UE the<br />
Southern Baptist ~eligiars Ehation Association at the Marr iott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
m, Mark-student at Soutkwestern Bqtist Theological Sdmry-will lead a prayer at<br />
the 'I?.Llrsday maming, Jme 13, seesion Q£ the Southern Bagtist Comtion annual eing at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
GRAND Pmm<br />
mCN, ~eminister of mic at Lakeview BalJtist Chur+will spak at the Morday<br />
af temn, Jme 10, session uf the Southern hflist Chur& Mwic Corderenae annual meting at<br />
First Baptist Churd~, Dallas.
-'a Who -- Page 12<br />
HarSMN<br />
II3LLACT3, Jane-assdate pastor of S-rd &gist Churh-will lead a prayer at the<br />
Tuesday evming, Jme 11, session a£ the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Conmt ion Center.<br />
-Ern, Thad-minister of mic at South Main Basist Ckrch-will lead the hymn at the<br />
Sunday a£ temn and evming, Jme 9, s~siore: will lead the msic f car the worship at the<br />
Morday maming, Jme 10, session a€ the S-hem E!a@ist Church Mwic Corderen- annual mxking<br />
at First Ba#ist Chrch, Dallas.<br />
YOtNG, Fdwi-pstor of Semrd &gist C1Purdh--will deliver a messaq at the Moday<br />
aftemn, Jme 10, session a€ the Southern Bagist Pastors' Cbnferena annual meeting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
Lm3QCK<br />
CASS, DOIF-pstor of Southcrest Ba@ist Chur+will give the benediction at the TTlaxrsday<br />
aftemn, Jme 13, swsion ul the Southem Ba@ist Convention annml meting at the Dallas<br />
Conwntion Cmter .<br />
HARRIS, Leo-advertising exlecuti-will give the bendition at the Tkaurs&y mmning,<br />
Jme 13, session of the Southern Ba$ist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Center.<br />
F!LmwIEw<br />
HAJSFOWD, Jim-& Waylad University and directcr of the <strong>1985</strong> Texas Baptist All-State<br />
Ycuth Orch&r-will prticipte in the mnaert at the Morday eming, Jule 10, se~tsion of the<br />
Southern Ba#ist Church Mmic Conferme annual rrreeting at First Ba@ist Church, Dallas; will<br />
lead the m&estra in mmic foa: inspiration at the T~sday aftmmon, Jme 11, session of the<br />
Southern BaFist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
SAN ANMNIO<br />
-& David-ptor of First Baflist Churdr--will deliver a message at the Morday<br />
maming, Jme 10, session of the Southern Ba#ist Pastors' Oonferene annml &ing at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
-<br />
TYLER<br />
COX, Allen--minister of music at Green Acres Ba*ist Churdw-will speak at the<br />
Moey aftemn, Jule 10, session a€ the Southern Paptist Chur& Mwic ~orberene annml<br />
meeting at First Ba@ist Church, Dallas.<br />
P-, Dennis-minister of edmation and adninistration, Green Acree Baeist<br />
Church-will lead in the new member mientation at the S h y aftemn, Jme 9, swsion of the<br />
of the S-hem Baptist Religious Education Associat,ion at the Marriott Hotel, Market Square.<br />
WAaI -<br />
BECKER, Robert-dem af tM s&ml a€ lrrusic at Bayla Universi ty-will lead the<br />
mngregatioml singing at the Wednesday mcrning, Jule 12, session a€ the Southem Baptist<br />
Convention annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
JCNES, J-e-~cdeesar at Baylar University-will ~esent an crgan eci tal at the Sunday<br />
eming, Jme 9, session; will Nay the crgan fa the =ship at the Mo*y mming, June 10,<br />
session of the Southern Baptist md~ Mmic Cordewenoe annml meting at First Baptist Church,<br />
Dallas.<br />
PLEITZ , Darr-attorn-will lead a Fayer ak the Tmsday mming, Jme 11, s-sion of the<br />
Southern Baptist Comtion annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
SFNEE, HLgh-~cbessrn at Baylor Universitywill give lecture/daox16tration at the<br />
Sunday aftemn, Jme 9, session ad at the Morday aftemn, June 10, session a€ the Southern<br />
&gist ChurCh Mmic Corderenae mml meeting at First Baptist Churd.1, Dallas.<br />
WD, Jh-pstor of First Bagist Chur&-will deliver a message at the Morday<br />
af temn, Jme 10, session uf the Southern Ba$ist Pastars' Qrderence annual meeting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
WICHITA FALJX<br />
CHAPMAN, Maris mar airman Cb the Canmi ttee on Order of Business; gastor of First<br />
Baptist Church--will deliver a -sags at the Morday aftemn, Jme 10, session uf the<br />
Southern Ea#ist Pastors' Qrderence annml meeting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
GOMSBY, brrpdmatw-will give the mediction at the Tuesday eming, Jme 11,<br />
session of the Southern Baptist Comtion annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.
m's Who- pa^ 13<br />
ImmpELIER<br />
kMWIAM, Code-missimry in Vermorrt--will speak at the Morday afternoon, Jme 10,<br />
session af the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center Arena.<br />
MWWPM, Jim-missimry in Vermont-will speak at the Morday @wing, Jule 10, 8-sion of<br />
the Wanan's Missionary Union annlal neting at the Dallas Camtion Center Arena.<br />
C W I ~<br />
-IS, Addie-retired pastor-will lead in -ship ad the theme interpretation at the<br />
Saturday aftemn, Jme 8, session ut the Southern Baptist Wanen In Ministry annd eing at<br />
the Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas.<br />
RumoKF4<br />
F'UUR, Charles G.-ptor of First Baptist Chur+will deliver the mnmtion sermon at<br />
the Wednesday mmning, Jme 12, session aE the Southern Baptist Conwmtion annual meting at<br />
the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
SPIFKX, Dayledirectur of the &oir of First Baptist Church--will lead the choir in a<br />
aonaert at the Morday eming, Jme 10, session af the Southern Ba#ist Chur& Music Corderme<br />
annlral e i n g at First Baptist Chur&, Dallas: will lead the &oir in music far inspiration at<br />
the Wednesday mcarning, Jme 12, session d the Southern Ba@ist Comtion annml meting at<br />
the Dallas Conmtion Center,<br />
RIcHbmD<br />
UilEVNE, John-sdcr oorsultant, hman n& ministriss, at the Fcrei~pl Mission -d-will<br />
speak at tb Morday mcrning ard ming, Jme 10, session3 d the Wanan's Missiorary Union<br />
annual meeting at t k Dallas Comtion Cmter Arena.<br />
EXMMNG, James-pstar of ~irst Ba@ist Churdx-will spak at the Morday aftemn, Jme<br />
10, Sf3C Farm annml meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
JXNT, *-retired exleclltiw secretary of Wanan' s Missiorary Uniow-will lead a prayer at<br />
the Morday mcnming, Jme 10, session a€ the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Cmter A m .<br />
O'BRIEN, Willian R.-exec&ive vicepresidant a€ the Fcreiq Mission Bar&will sing at<br />
the Mo&y aftemn, Jule 10, SBC Faun annual meting at the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
PARKS, R. Keitk-president a€ the Fareign Mission Board--will speak at the Morday @wing,<br />
Jme 10, session o£ the Wanan's Missiomry Union annw meting at the Dallas Corntion Center<br />
Arena; will give the Fareign Mission Bard R e p t at the Tcresday evening, Jme 11, session of<br />
the Southern Bagist Comtion annual meting at the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
mSER, Anne P.-epstrrr of Bainbrid~South Hampton Ba$ist Church--will lead a prayer<br />
at the Wednesday mamning, Jule 12, session a€ the Sauthern E!aptist Comtion annual meeting at<br />
the Dallas Conmtion Center.<br />
CLASS, Gerhard-qmeral secretary of the BaFist Wmld Allian-will give the the<br />
Alliance' s ~ pxt at the Tkrursday mcarning, June 13, session cb the Southern Baptist Cornention<br />
annual meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
DUNN, Jam-executive direct=-treasurer of the Sagkist Joint C d ttee on Public<br />
Affairs-will give the Ehflist ~oint Canmi ttee' s report at the Wedneshy mcgning, Jme 12,<br />
session uf the Southern Baptist Comtion annml meting at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
PRICKITIT, Marilyn--missiorary in Washingtow-will spak at the Morday eming, Jme 10,<br />
s-sim af the Wanan' s Missiorary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Cormtion Center Arena.<br />
A u m<br />
-PER, Jdm David-dsaiomry in Awtria-will speak at the Morday maning a d evening,<br />
Jule 10, sessiom a€ the Wanan's Missiorary Union annual meeting at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Cmter Arena.
Mm's Wlm - Page 14<br />
-T-<br />
@LE, Dale-missioruary veterimian to Bophuthatwana-will speak at the Monhy<br />
maming, Jme 10, session uf the Wanan's Missionary Union annual meeting at the Convention<br />
Center Arena.<br />
CENT= AM?#RICA<br />
BIIZTCE, Ja+-missiamry ad associate area direckor to Central Ameri-will speak at the<br />
Mody marning, Jme 10, session of the Wanan's Missiomry Union annllal meting at the Dallas<br />
Convmtion Center Arena.<br />
-<br />
CHINA<br />
CWWG, C .K.-University of mui-will speak at the Sunday afternoon, Jule 9, session; at<br />
the Morday etnening, Jme 10, session af the Wanan' s Missimry Union annml meting at the<br />
Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
EwmND<br />
P N I A L L , R,T.-smia minister at Westminister Chapel, brdow-will deliver a message at<br />
the Morday evening, Jme 10, session af the Southern Baptist Pastors' Corderen- mml meting<br />
at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
GUArnMALA<br />
P ~ R Jane-missionary ,<br />
to the K' ekchi Idians--will speak at the Morday mcming, Jme<br />
10, session cb the Wanan's Missimry Union annml meting at the Dallas omt ti on Center<br />
A m .<br />
LEBm<br />
WNCX), Nand-missimry to Lebmm-will speak on "First, Lave" at the Sunday aftemn,<br />
Jme 9, session; at the Morday eming, Jme 10, session a€ the Wanan's Missiomry Union annual<br />
meeting at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
MExtCO<br />
7 FUENTES, Ester-president a€ Melbm M-will spsak at the Sunday aftemn, Jme 9,<br />
session at the Wanan' s Missiomry Union annlldl eing at the Dallas Comtion Center Arena.<br />
NIaRIA<br />
~ M ~ c Ruth--rtissiomsy K , to Nigeriewill speak on "Ministering to Orphans" at the Sunday<br />
aftemn, Jme 9, sssion of the Wanan's Missiomry Union amml meting at the Dallas<br />
Conmtion Cmter Arena.
(Note: Numbers indicate the original assigmnt number, scme photo ideas did not work out<br />
and others were added so the numbers are not mnsecutive. This is a canplete set of photo^<br />
hawever. )<br />
2B. INTE?EETION Lm--With 45,000-plus psple trading the Dallas Convention Center lines<br />
formed everywhere: to register, to get in the cafeteria, to get into meeting hall*-even to qo<br />
to the bathroam or buy a soft drink. (Photo by Ken L m )<br />
3. 'FIRST L#E1 IN AND HAXJ34-Amng the speakers for the annual meeting of the<br />
Wanan's Missionary Union were Nancie Wingo, foreign missionary to Lebanon, and Michael Thanas<br />
Williams, home missionary to Harlem in New York City. They told hcrw "First Love," the thme of<br />
the <strong>1985</strong> session, keeps missions alive in those tvm areas. (Photo by Tim Fields)<br />
he Bold Mission Thrust draanatic musical "2000 A.D." premiered June 10<br />
of the Wanan1 s Missionary Union annual meeting, The musical, by<br />
s, was performed by ~raiSong fran Cliff Temple Baptist Church in<br />
(Photo by John M-e)<br />
-%?-<br />
TE-Arthur Blessitt, famed for carrying a 12-foot wooden cross alking all<br />
the speakers at the Southern ~aptist~astors' Canference. It was<br />
the third time in five years the popular evangelist had addressed the Pastorls Conference or<br />
the SBC.<br />
ected leadership for Wanan's Missionary Union for the aaning year has<br />
ers were reelected. Flanking WMU-SBC Executive Director<br />
hair) of Flint, Mich., and Betty<br />
Gilreath of (Photo by Mark Sandlin)<br />
a<br />
10. WHYNOT NOT NCRJ?--W.A. Criswell, 76-year-old pastor of First Baptist<br />
ed 20,000 people attending the closing session of the Southern Baptist<br />
~$3 rs' Conference at the Dallas Convention Center. He spoke on the pattern of death and<br />
rection in a denanination, an institution, a preacher and a professor. He asked why,<br />
while great revivals are sweeping Korea, Africa and other parts of the world, spiritual renewal<br />
is mt mre evident in the United States. (Photo by van Pme)<br />
11. PASTORS1 OFFICEW-Morris Chapnan, at pdim, was elected president @$he<br />
1986 Pastors' Conference which will meet in Atlanta prior to the annual meeting of e Southern<br />
Baptist Convention. Chapnan is pastor of First Baptist Church, Wichita Falls, Texas. Behind<br />
Chapan, fran left, are: W.A. Criswell, pastor of First ~aptist Church, Dallas, who preached<br />
the closing sermon of the <strong>1985</strong> Pasbrsl Conference; Dwight Reighard, pastor of New H o p Baptist<br />
Church, Fayetteville, Ga. ! secretarytreasurer, and Ned Mathews, pastor of Parktrlood Baptist<br />
Church, Gastonia, N.C. , vice-president. (Photo by Van Payne)<br />
11B. PASTOFS1 OFFICEE-Elected to head the 1986 Southern Baptist Pastors1<br />
Conference in Atlanta were, fran left: Dwight Reighard, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church,<br />
p'J<br />
Fayettwille, Ga. (secretary-treasurer) , Eaorr is Chapnan, pasbr of First Baptist Church,<br />
Falls, Wxas (president) , and Ned Mathews, pastor o£ Parkwood Baptist Church, Gastmia,<br />
viwpresident) . (Photo by David Ham)<br />
13. POINTING TO A mJLL mE--A crud estimatd at 18,000 turned out for the Sunday night<br />
session of the <strong>1985</strong> S3C Pastors1 Conference in the Dallas Convention Center. Adrian Rogers,<br />
pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn., was the closing speaker for the session.<br />
He preached on seven principals which apply to Southern Baptist pastors--prepaxation,<br />
perspective, purpose, progression, protection, pwer and praise. (Photo by David Haywood)<br />
14. SIm aF THE TIMEs+l?he strong feelings wer which direction the SBC should follow were<br />
evident in many ways. One messenger dvertised his sentiments on the back of his mtorhme<br />
parked outside the Dallas Convention Cent r. (Photo by Tim Fields)
Page 2 SBC~CVm;RJES<br />
4<br />
15. PRESIDENTS PDR PEaCE-JThe /elected presidents of 37 state anventions which voluntarily<br />
cooperate with the Southern &ist Convention announced a "peace plann for the striferidden<br />
SBC at a news mnference on the eve of the annual meting of the SBC. Members o£ a task force<br />
of the state convention presidents, along with former SBC president and retired pastor of First<br />
Baptist Church, Nashville, Wnn., H. Franklin Paschal1 (who earlier had announced a peace<br />
effort 05 his awn) met reporters to explain the 10-point plan on June 10. Plans for Paschal1<br />
to make the official motion to the convention June 11were sidetracked when he forgot to bring<br />
his ballot and was denied admission to the hall. Among those at the news mnference were,<br />
seated fran left: Bill Hickan, Florida; Charles Pickering, Mississippi; Paschall; Wallace<br />
Henley, Alabama; Neil Thcmpson, Alaska, and Bob Latham, Indiana.<br />
(photo by John MdSyre)<br />
1 TEE OF PRAYER-When the presidents of the 37 state conventions which cooperate with<br />
the Southern Baptist Convention hosted a prayer meeting Sunday afternoon (June 9) it attracted<br />
soores of Southern Baptist leaders. In the group abwe, fr #lilton Ferguson,<br />
president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas L. Honeycutt, president<br />
of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lwisville, Ky. ; re, pastor of First<br />
Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas, and Charles Stanley, SBC: president and pastor of First Baptist<br />
Church, Atlanta. (Photo by John m e ) -<br />
16, and 16B. G I N G HW-Much of the tension in the Dallas Convention center was eased when<br />
Winfred Mmre, left, pastor of First ~aptist Church in AMeillo, T , unexpectedly<br />
naninatd for first vi&&esident of the SEE after losing to Char=ey, pastor cb First<br />
Baptist Church in Atlanta, in the presidential hlloting. Stanley called Moore to the platform<br />
to ask if he would allow his ncmination for first vice-president. The huanor and good feeling<br />
of the rnanent relaxed the crowded aonvention hall. (16. Photo by John IWPyre)<br />
(16% Photo by David Haywood)<br />
18. SBC DXXAS <strong>1985</strong>-he WcQllcentration of Southern ~aptists in history gathered in<br />
Dallas June 11-13, <strong>1985</strong> for the 128th session of ~aptist Convention. The massive<br />
crowd overflowed the main meeting hall a her halls. When registration closed,<br />
45,519 messengers representing local chu registered. Spouses and<br />
children of messengers and visitors crowd munt wer 50,000.<br />
(Photo by Van Payne)<br />
20. FLOORED BY THE mICbJ-Messengers mrf lowed three roans of the vast Dallas Convention<br />
Center June 11 to decide who would be president of the Southern Baptist Convention for <strong>1985</strong>-86.<br />
Many decided to sit on the concrete floor when all the chairs were occupied.<br />
(Photo by John w e )<br />
22. ANOTHER DIMENSICAJ--For the first time in history the annual meeting of the Swthern<br />
Baptist Convention was televised around the a satellite system which connects<br />
the Baptist Sunday School Board with local &st every manent of the SBC<br />
sessions. Ceanchors for the coverage were Nashville, Tenn. and Richard<br />
McCartney af Oklahana City. (Photo by Ken Lawson)<br />
24. 'IHE WRITER AND THREE MAKER5 OF HISTORY-Harold C . Eknnett , executive secretary-treasurer<br />
of the SBC Ekecutive Cornnittee, presented special copies of the recently printed History of the<br />
Executive Carmittee to the book's author, Albert McCellan, and Bennett's two imnediate<br />
predecessors, Duke Meall, second frm left, and Porter Routh. MdSellan was an assistant to<br />
all three. (Photo by Mark Sandlin)<br />
26. PRESIDENTIAL J?FUVILM;E--SBC president Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of<br />
Atlanta, delivered an impassioned plea for Christlike love in his presidential address. Later<br />
Stanley was elected to a seoond one-year term as president of the Southern Baptist Convention.<br />
(Photo by Tim Fields)<br />
30. aW3 MIRE LINE--he <strong>1985</strong> SBC meeting attracted a record number of resolutions. Abwe, Ron<br />
Sisk, messenger fran Tiburon Baptist Church, Tiburon, Calif., consults with a member of the<br />
Resolutions Carmi ttee. (Photo by Tim Fields)<br />
32. THE =I- AND THE PRESSearles Stanley, pasbr of First Baptist Church, Atlanta,<br />
held the traditional news wnference in the SBC Press Roan after his reelection as president of<br />
the Southern Baptist Camrention. More than 600 reporters were issued credentials to m r the<br />
Dallas meeting of the SBC. (Bmto by ~ i Fields) m<br />
33. EMB #EPOLIT--One of the more striking mcments during the ~oreign ~ission Board report to<br />
the <strong>1985</strong> meeting of the Southern ~aptist Convention was the parade of missionaries in the dress<br />
native to the countries in which they serve. FMB president R. Keith Parks received a standing<br />
ovation f ran messengers a£ ter his address.<br />
34. A T.IClSS AND A WIN-Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Church of<br />
in the presidential voting at the Southern ~aptist Convention despite<br />
(aLmost 20,000) than the total attendance at most SBC meetings. But<br />
"loser s news mnferencew he had been electd first vice-president of the 14.3 million member<br />
denmination. (Photo by Mar 6 Sandlin)
Page 3 SBCPmrrOCmLINES<br />
35. EXECUTIVE OFFICERS--Leadership for the Southern Baptist Convention ~xecutive<br />
Carmittee for the <strong>1985</strong>-86 year will be, fran left: Harmon M. Born, layman f ran Rex, Ga. , vice<br />
chairman; Lois H. Wenger, laywanan frm Orlando, Fla., recording secretary; David C. Maddox,<br />
layman £ran Anaheim, Calif., chairman, and Harold C. l3ennett of Nashville, Tenn. , president.<br />
(Photo by Norman Jameson)<br />
38. SBC OFFIQEItS-JThe bst attended Southern Baptist Convention meeting in history elected<br />
these three men as officers for the caning year: Henry Huff, an attorney £ran Louisville, Ky.,<br />
second vice-president; W. Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas, first<br />
vice-president, and Charles F. Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, president.<br />
(Photo by David Hamood)<br />
40. PLANNED QEOWrn IN GIVING -e father-daughter team of Cecil Ray, at podium, and<br />
Susan Ray, in wheelchair, challenged the <strong>1985</strong> SBC to oonsider the claims of God in<br />
the area of financial stewardship. Ray is the headi lanned Gruwth In Giving, an SBC<br />
effort to raise the percentage giving patterns during the next 15 years.<br />
(Photo by David Haywood)<br />
41. HOME MISSION E3oAR.D FwOMhe Texas Deaf Choir was one of many inspirational and<br />
challenging manents during the Hane Mission Board report to the 128th session of the Southern<br />
Baptist Convention. (Photo by Tim Fields)<br />
42. INDIAN OFFICERS-JThe National American Indian Fellowship of Southern Baptists, which formed<br />
prior to the <strong>1985</strong> meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, sel&ed the following officers,<br />
fran left: Blevin Hill, a Creek frm Oklahcma, secretary-treasurer; Victor Kaneubbe, Choctaw<br />
fran Arkansas, chairman; Cloyd Harjo, Creek-Seminole £ran Kansas, parlimentarian, and Emerson<br />
Falls, Sac-Fox and Choctaw f ran California, vicechairman. (Photo by Van Payne)<br />
43. AWFHE! VIEW-Adults may have been overwhelmed by the crowds o£ people swarming the Dallas<br />
Convention Center during the <strong>1985</strong> session of the Southern Baptist Conventiow-but imagine what<br />
it looked like to people under three feet tall. This young lady decided to brighten her<br />
outlook by peering over her sun glasses. (Photo by Sherri Brm)<br />
44. B- BASEBALk-One of the more popular attractions mng younger SBC Convention<br />
goers (and many older ones too) in the exhibit area was the Brotherhood Cmission both which<br />
featured a cmputerized game called Royal Ambassador Raseball. Royal Ambassadors is a mission<br />
program for boys in Baptist churches. (Photo by Ken Lawson)<br />
46. THE AGENCY OF PRAYER-JThe heads of Southern Baptist agencies were on call throughout the<br />
convention to answer questions and respond to needs. During the frquent praye?, times (left<br />
side, front to back) R. Keith Parks, president of the Foreign Mission Board, Lloyd Elder,<br />
president of the Sunday School Board and Roy C. Honeycutt, president of Southern'paptist<br />
Theological Seninary in Louisville, Ky., and (right) William Tamer, the Hone<br />
Mission Board, joined tens of thousands of others in bringing petitions to God.<br />
(Photo by Mark Sandlin)<br />
47. HAND VOTING--Marshall Love, a messenger f ran Liberty Baptist Church in Hawkins, Texas, was<br />
among more than 45,000 messengers at the <strong>1985</strong> meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention. Nonballot<br />
votes are taken by messengers holding up their ballots--the back card of which is pink<br />
to make it~sier for the presiding officers to judge the results. (Photo by David Bell)<br />
INESS--The remrd n&r of messengers put a strain on many of the convention<br />
the moat pressure was probably on the registration process. Lee Porter,<br />
registration secretary of the convention, brought 34,000 packets of ballots--but more than<br />
35,000 messengers had registered by the night before the convention opened on Tuesday. Porter<br />
and Royal Ambassador pages joined other workers to hand assemble the ballots for the next<br />
10,000 messengers who would register before the convention closed. (Photo by Ken Lawson)<br />
50. OF BNXYE-JJ%e vote count of the SBC presidential election, which attracted more<br />
than 44,000 ballots, as both people and machines turned to the task. Above,<br />
members of the Telle ittee check to make sure all the ballots are the right number<br />
(Photo by John McTyre)<br />
51. WIVff OFFICERS-Elected to head &the Conference of Minister1 s Wives for 1986 were: Mrs.<br />
Russell ~ilday, Fort Worth, Texas, president; Mrs. Peter Rhea Jones, Decatur, Ga., vicepresident;<br />
Mrs. Ray Rust, Columbia, S.C., secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Bill Hinson, New<br />
Orleans, corresponding secretary. (Photo by Sherri Brm)<br />
52. CAMPtIs MINISTERS OFFICERS-Elected to lead the Association of Southern Baptist C~TQUS<br />
Ministers for <strong>1985</strong>-86 were Wil Mall, vicepresident for<br />
Mississippi, Hattiesburg; Jan Fuller, vice-president for prqran, Y<br />
Ford, pr<br />
Student Ministers<br />
president for
Page 4 S B C ~ C ! U l ? L ~<br />
53. MUSIC OETICEIES-Elected to lead the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference<br />
for <strong>1985</strong>-86 were: Harry Cuwen, minister of msic at First ~aptist Church, New Orleans,<br />
president; Hugh McElrath, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., presidentelect;<br />
Mary June Tabor, ass ist General Convention of Oklahcana,<br />
secretary-treasurer ; Wade D t, Baptist Convention of Georgia, vi<br />
president of denminational inister of music, Oakdale Baptist<br />
Church, Brandon, Miss., vi ivision, and A.L. "Pete" Butler,<br />
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas of rmsic educators<br />
division. (Photo by David Bell)<br />
54. aOM LEADERS--Directors of Missions officers elected during the <strong>1985</strong> SBC meeting in Dallas<br />
were, first row, fran left: Maurice Flavers, Jones County Associati Laurel, Miss.,<br />
secretary; Russell Baker, Atlanta (Ga.) Association, 1986 host direc @ Bob Wainwright, Flat<br />
River Association, Oxford, N.C., treasurer; Mack flnoke, San Jacinto Association, Baytm,<br />
Texas, s-nd vice-president; k k<br />
row: Carl IXlck, Nashville (Tenn.) Association, first vice-<br />
president; IWerett Anthony, Chigago Met iation, Oak Park, Ill., editor, and Bob Lee<br />
Franklin, Nmnday Association, (Photo by Lonnie Wilkey)<br />
55. EVANGELIST OFFI(WS--Elected to Southern Baptist Evangelists Conference for<br />
next year were, frcm left: Bob Kendig, Tenn., parliamentarian; Rudy A. Hernandez,<br />
Catar ina, Texas, vice-president; Larry Taylor, Bandera, Texas, president; Jim MdJeil, St.<br />
Louis, music director; Dick Barrett, ~r&n, Ga., assistant msic director, and Jackson Cox,<br />
Milledgeville, Ga., secretary/treasurer. (photo by Lonnie Wilkey)<br />
56. PACKED FX)Ft3HIP SEWICE-A stmding room only crcrwd of 500 met for Sunday morning worship<br />
June 9 at the Adolphus Hotel during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Warnen in<br />
Ministry. Molly Marshall-Green, assistant professor of theology at Southern Baptist<br />
Theological Seminary in Zouimille, Ky., brought a message on Colossians 3:L2-17 and stressed<br />
the qualities of Jesus those 'Icalled to serve" should have. (Photo by Lonnie Wilkey)<br />
56B. WRSHIP BY WVEMEW4he Liturgical Dance Ensemble fran Second Baptist Church, Lubbock,<br />
Texas, led the call to worship for the worship service at the Adolphus Hotel June 9 which was<br />
part of the annual meting of the Women In Ministry. (Photo by John Mayre)<br />
57. <strong>1985</strong>-86 SOUTHERN BAPTIST RELIGIOUS EOUCA!KRS ASSOCIATIQU CIFFIm- (1 to r) Don Dendy,<br />
minister of education, Park Cities Baptist Church, Dallas, vicepresident; Dennis Parrott,<br />
minister of education, Green Acres Baptist Church, Tyler, Texas, president; Mavis Allen,<br />
design/planning mrdinator, Sunday school department, Baptist Sunday School Board, Nashville,<br />
Tenn., central vice-president; Joe Haynes, consultant, Sunday school department, BSSB,<br />
secretary/treasurer; and Katie Grogan, director, age-grwp cmrdination, ~aptist Convention of<br />
(Photo by Lonnie<br />
58. THE FIItST IlXlG LINE-The record registration at the <strong>1985</strong> SBC convention started with<br />
messengers mund back and for# around the floor of the Dallas Conventioncenter, two hours<br />
before registration opned at 3 p.m. June 9, More than 14,000 messengers were wocessed by 10<br />
p.m. (Photo by Ken Lawson)<br />
588. YOWG MESSEN-When the 36,500 churches across the Southern Baptist Convention sent<br />
messengers to the <strong>1985</strong> annual meeting in Dallas at a record pace, the messengers came in just<br />
about all ages, shapes, sizes These two young ladies were among more than 14,000<br />
menbers of SBC churches who go on June 9-the first day of registration.<br />
(Photo by Ken Lmson)<br />
61. 1-Rudy Rulido, a messenger fran Southwest Baptist Church in St. Louis got caught in<br />
the parlimentary snarl of SBC business Wednesday night. During the business session ~ulido was<br />
twice rqized by convention president Charles Stanley then twice asked to wait and Stanley<br />
would get back to him. He never was allawed to ask his question. (Photo by David Bell)<br />
62. PRESSING THEIR APPEM+rhree Baptist pastors--one each fran Texas,<br />
Virginia-called a news conference Wednesday night, June 12, to express pub1 i their<br />
unhappiness with the manner in which convention president Charles<br />
evening's and afternoon's business sessions. They said he would not hear their appeal so they<br />
63. VM@WINE HaW-arles Wade, right, pastor of First Baptist Church, Arlington, Texas,<br />
and chairman of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Carmission, presents the Canmission's<br />
annual Distinguished Service c ward to Foy Valentine, executive director o£ the Q;C, the<br />
convent ion' s mr a1 concerns agency. Valentine ' s wife, Mary Louise , looks on. Valentine has<br />
been head of the agency for the past 25 years--currently the longest tenure of any SBC agency<br />
head. (Photo by Tim Fields)<br />
e.3
Sunday School Board Trustees<br />
Approve Millennia1 Guidelines<br />
AWANCE RACKGRWND s m<br />
Baptist Press<br />
8/9/84<br />
NASHVILLE- Tenn. (BP)-~rustees of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board elected<br />
persons to fill three executive positions and affirmed January 1984 editorial guidelines<br />
giving equitable treatment in church literature to three views m the millennim during their<br />
sd-annual meting.<br />
-Trustees also adopted a reoord 1984-85 budget af $158.5 million and requested a study of<br />
editorial guidelines concerning ordination of men for presentation at the Felmuary <strong>1985</strong><br />
meeting.<br />
E. V. King, executive directm of the- Tennessee Housing Developnent Agency, was elected<br />
vicepresident for business and finance. He will succeed E. DeVaughn Woods who is retiring.<br />
King, 42, will be sespnsible far administeringthe board's office of finance, management<br />
services divisions and personnel department. King, a Baptist layman, holds the B.A. degree<br />
£ran David Lipcomb College in Nashville and the master's degree £ran the University of<br />
' Tennessee School af Management.<br />
-- Tm board m@ms, m t t aria Thcenas Clark, were pranoted to department management<br />
positions.<br />
Wood, 42, supervisor of the personnel canpensation section since 1981, will mnage the<br />
acmmting and control department. Clark, 45, supervisor of Broadman books and music section<br />
since 1977, was named manager of the Broadman ~oducts department.<br />
"-Trustee adopted seven reccmmesldatiom to assure equitable treatment in &ur& literature<br />
and Convention Press materials to three views af the millesmiun, events surrounding the second<br />
caning of Jesus Christ. -- The three views canmonly held among Southern Baptists are<br />
dispensational pemillennialism, historical ~emillennialism and amillennialism. Areas UE<br />
agreement include: return of Christ, resurrections of the dead, judgement, heaven, hell and<br />
GOd' s c~nswnmation of history.<br />
- The recommendations specify all curriculum lines will emphasize areas cxf doctrinal<br />
agreement mong Southern Baptists while, at the same time, dealing factually and fairly in<br />
areas where there are differing points of view.<br />
The reccmmendations follwed a request by two trustees at the February 1984 meeting for<br />
a discussion of treatment of eschatology (last things) in Sunday school literature and whether<br />
one line of curriculun might b assilpled to reflect primarily the mdllenniat view. -The<br />
board's editorial guidelines an the millennim were mnpleted last January as a follcw-up to an<br />
October 1983 Millennia1 Consultation.<br />
-. - -- --me -. -- - -- -
Sunday School Eoardt' Trustees<br />
*rove Mellennial Guidelines<br />
Page 2<br />
In affirmimg the guidelines, trustees awoved a reaxmendation that "no curricdun series<br />
will take any one doctrine or doctrinal viewpoint, including the doctrine of last things, as<br />
its arganizing principle."<br />
-% final recamtendation urges recqnition of diverse opinions about the millmnim among<br />
Southern Baptists and "the wisdom of rot making the millenniwn a test of faith, fellowship,<br />
conservative bib1 ical saolarship ar evangelistic ccpnmi tment . "<br />
"The 1984-85 budget of $158.5 million represents a six percent increase over the 1983-84<br />
budget of $149.2 million.<br />
In amther matter, trustees adopted a subtitute motion to refer to the administration and<br />
the plans and policies d t t e e a request far a study concerning editorial guidelines on the<br />
ordination of men.<br />
" The request as adopted follawed an earlier motion by Roland Maddox, a layman £ran Mem@is,<br />
,Term., asking that guidelines be developed "to assure that m publication of the Baptist Sunday<br />
School. brd will question or cast doubt upon the position of mt c~rdaining women as pstors coc<br />
deacons pact iced by most of our churhes; and mt pranote, foster or enmurage the ordination<br />
of women as pastors car deacons. "<br />
Joe Coursm, pstcx of Cinao Baptist Church, FWt Walton Beach, Fla., said a reguest f a a<br />
study should "mt change the administration in advance with what they have to ocme out with."<br />
He then introduced a substitute mtion, which was adopted, requesting a study with<br />
recanmendations to be presented at the February <strong>1985</strong> meeting.<br />
Also referred to the plans and plicies camittee for study was a motion that full salary<br />
and benefits infurmation be provided to trustees concerning ea& candidate they consider for an<br />
elected position at the mrd.<br />
In his first repxt to the trustess since his February installation, President Lloyd<br />
Elder, outlined highlights af board programs sumrting Bold Mission-Thrust, issued an appeal<br />
for respnsible trusteeship and pledged to carry out the actions of the trustees.<br />
"Wt us function together responsibly as a trustee board," said Elder. "Open, candid<br />
discussion is encouraged. Diverse opinions are welmed. Let us maintain a spirit of oneness<br />
and mutual respect.<br />
"Whm the mte is taken, the president acts upn the decisions uf the trustees and they<br />
will be reported accurately to our Baptist publics," Elder added. "Let us be servant leaders<br />
of the Baptist Sunday School Bwrd. We are here to serve the &ur&es, all the aurcihes. We<br />
are here to serve Baptist people, all Baptist pople."<br />
In a devotional mssage, Earl Davis, pastor of First Baptist Church, Memphis,'. Tenn.,<br />
applauded effcnrts by the trustees to maintain a spirit of unity during a potentially divisive<br />
cvmmi ttee discussion on the mi llennial. guidelines.<br />
"I olxerved an overwhelming feeling of Laderstanding, trust and acceptance, a feeling of<br />
aweciation of dif f rent views. Every person in the rocan believed everyone else in the roam<br />
believes in Jesus, loves the Bible and wants to save a lost mrld," said Davis.<br />
Charles Stanley, president uf the Southern Baptist Convention and an ex-officio rnaibsr of<br />
all SBC agencies attended the tmday meeting. At a fellmship dinner, Stanley said, "It is my<br />
intmtion to be the ~esident of as many pple as will allm me to be president. I will be as<br />
obedient to God as I kmw what obedience is."<br />
Elder express& aweciation to Stanley for taking time to attesld and prticipate in the<br />
trustee sessions. "We pray fa him to succeed as he leads us in the mission of Southern<br />
Baptists," he said.<br />
In an internal restructuring, the telemmnunications mit managed by Joe Denney was given<br />
department status and w ill report to the vicelpesident for pblishing and distribution, ~ i q<br />
Edwards.<br />
Also approved were :<br />
--=isure Listening for Blind Youth and Adults, a monthly twlmur cassette tape,<br />
beginning October <strong>1985</strong> ;<br />
--Handbells, a marterly music periodical, beginning October <strong>1985</strong>;<br />
--Preludio: mica y Adoracion, a quarterly Spanish music priodical purhsed £ran the<br />
Baptist Spanish Publishing House and offered by the board to U .S. churcihes , beginning January<br />
<strong>1985</strong>.<br />
.. -<br />
-- --?&-
Baptist Press<br />
8/15/84<br />
I<br />
Cothen: No Re~esmtation<br />
False Issue By Ncrman Jmneson<br />
I<br />
SEWANEE, Okla. (BP)-Claims by inerrantists they have been Werrepesented on Southern<br />
Baptist Convention boards is a "false issue" oxding to Grady C. Cotha, recently retired<br />
president of the Southern Baptist Sunday Schm "T mrd.<br />
I<br />
Cothm, defeated by inerrancy canihte Charles Stanley fa Southern Baptist Convention<br />
presidevlt in June, has been associated with SBC boards since 1949 when he was elected to the<br />
Fmeign Mission Board as a 2&year-old pastor. He also was top executive of the Southern<br />
Baptist General Convention of Califmnia, Oklahana Baptist University and New Orleans Baptist<br />
- Theologiced Seminary.<br />
I<br />
"There ' s mt beesl a time in my 35 years association with any bwrd that the majority of<br />
rnePnbers did mt believe in infallibility of Scripture," Cothen told a national meting of SBC<br />
iwservice guidance directms at Oklahoma Baptist University. "Our boards always have been<br />
predcunimtely controlled by inerrantists , but they wexen t mean.<br />
I<br />
"Thy were people of good will. - They steered the Southern Baptist Corntion to the<br />
middle of the road, to the finest and largest system of education and missions evangelical<br />
Christianity ever hew."<br />
I<br />
Cothen, labled a "liberal" in the political punches thram between polarized seztians of<br />
Southern Baptists, said "I've been mder control af those rascals since 1961 and never a finer<br />
group of people bas the= h, Biblebelieving people. Wxt if I ' d have had a liberal hone<br />
in my body, one of those rascals muld have ampkatd it ."<br />
I<br />
He told them he has been trying to get a national discussion started on "what is a<br />
Southern Baptist," but feels "it may very well be when you start trying to &fine Southern<br />
Baptist, you cease being one. "<br />
I<br />
Others actively are trying to impose def initiam m Southern Baptists in the farm of<br />
creedal statements. Cothen detests such "axinnon gramd" statements because the Bible is the<br />
only Baptist autbity. He even said he wishes the Baptist Faith and Message statement of 1963<br />
never had been writtm because people aren't plying attmtion to the prezanble which recognizes<br />
soul canpetency of the Bliever.<br />
I<br />
Cothen, said creedal statements are put farth by people w b want a fixed statement by<br />
which to measure arthadoxy. "When we begin to measure arthodoxy, we are in a difficult<br />
situation as Baptists," he said.<br />
I<br />
When in 1970, the conmtion "instrmted" agencies to tea and write "according to and<br />
mt contrary to" the Baptist Faith and Message, "that made the Baptist Faith and Message our<br />
creed instead of the New Testment" he said.<br />
I "The Holy Spirit is the only adequate rule of faith and practice, " Cothen said.
Cothen: No Representation<br />
False Issue<br />
Page 2<br />
The tm elements jousting far convention leadership are mt far apart on Scripture, but<br />
they differ on managing Baptist business, acccrrding to Cothm. He said he carrot ascribe to<br />
creedal statements which control because they: pt religious authmity outside Jesus Christ,<br />
or outside Scripture (what pople say about revelation, rather than the revelation) or outside<br />
his am priesthood; mean autkxity has hen ass- by those who control those who adopt the<br />
creed; assume its farmulators kmw what's best for all which make Southern Baptists surrender<br />
their piesthood.<br />
"Whm one group of Baptists assumes to hmw what ' s best f m. the rest of Baptists, they<br />
have ceased to be Baptists," Cothen claimed. He said "There is m way to hem us in with enough<br />
statements to keep us £ran cmnitting stupidity.<br />
"When the whole world is leaning toward the right--to authmitarianism, to bossism--this<br />
is m time to lose sight of who we are and mt acquiesce to people who are m<br />
call the shots."<br />
e than willing to<br />
Instead of mrrw creeds Cothen said South Baptist ccumnomlties are feud in theology,<br />
polityand method. But Cot- has found he m t discuss issues without being put into a<br />
camp. "As long as that frame of mind exists plarizaton is inevitable, " he said.<br />
To people who think that controversies on the SBC level have mthing to do with<br />
associatiornl meetin* m chur&es, Cothen suggests they wat& associational meetings this<br />
fall. "'The resolution on men will be a stick with whid.1 they try to beat the associations<br />
deciding fellmship with dhurhes that arcbin men."<br />
Cotha? agreed "a mer~tive presmtation of the Christian faith deserves the same fair<br />
and honest ~esentation as any other psition. A truly Christian miversitydeseming of the<br />
name will mt do it any other way, " he said, responding to claim inerrantist theology is<br />
riduculed in the classrcms of Southern Paptist colleges and semimries.<br />
-3%-
Sdnary President Declares<br />
'Holy War' In SBC Battle<br />
Awm EACK13- STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
8/29/84<br />
LCLTISVILLE, Ky. (BE')-In a strongly mded c4lallenge punctuated by frequent applause, Roy<br />
L; Wneycutt, paresident of Southern Baptist Theological Sdnary, ~uisville, Ky., has declared<br />
"holy war" on what he called "unbly fcorces whidh, if left unhecked, will destrq essential<br />
qualities of both our aonvmtion and this seminary."<br />
He also revealed far the first time several recent attempts by the inerrantists political<br />
arganization within the Southern Baptist Convention to draw seminary students into their<br />
opration as "camps subversives."<br />
Honeycutt's remarks came during the opening convooation of the s&ml's 125th anniversary<br />
year as the oldest institution of the nation's largest evangelical denomination.<br />
"Independent f mdamentalists and many sincere but naive individuals recruited to supprt<br />
their political party are seeking to hijack the Southern Baptist Convention," Hon-utt said,<br />
adding, their effarts are "damaging local &ur&es, risking the destruction of our<br />
demminatioml heritage and ccmpranising our Christian witness to the world."<br />
Amng tMse histmic Baptist ~inciples being endangered by the fundamentalist movement<br />
within the mnvention, Honeycutt said, are:<br />
;-The primacy and autharity of Scripture: "Adherance of the inentantist political prty<br />
has succlanbed to a radical farm of scientific rationalism. Holy Scripture must low give<br />
account of itself before the bar of human reason. They mw pmpse fidelity to their<br />
particular and restrictive theory about biblical migin as a test of both faith and<br />
f dlcwship. "<br />
->The priesthood of the believer, freedan of conscience and soul m ptene of the<br />
individual: "Hostile critics are misinterweting both freedom and lardship by propounding a<br />
Bill Gothard-style '&ah of camad' which places males second only to God, while relegating<br />
wcunen and &ildren to the same essential role as families of the patriar&s.<br />
"If Christ has made us free, then we are free indeed. We are free hefcore God, free in the<br />
family, free in society, free in the &ur&. We shall never go back to the bondage fran which<br />
he set us free. "<br />
--Wadership of the Holy Spirit in mnmtion governance: "Persons in our generation<br />
seeking unity by autocratic and dictatmial control should remember that individuals canrvst h<br />
coerced into mdty. History is repleat with hrm stcries of p~litical bosses, demagogues<br />
and tyrants. Sme people in every age demand a king, saying 'Big Daddy' rather than 'Our<br />
Father. "'<br />
--me--
Semi nary President Declares<br />
'Holy War' In SBC Battle<br />
Page 2<br />
-Pluralism in witness and worship: "An authentic amnunity of faith does more than<br />
merely tolerate differences-it celebrates their creative presence. Unity does mt mean<br />
unifcermity because God has established the boundaries of Christian m dty with such breadth<br />
as to &ace our diversity within the larger unity created by a cosmic Christ.<br />
" Bib1 ical unity absarbs our di f fermces within a larger -pose discovered in Jesus<br />
Christ. Shll we harden aonvention lines af relatiorship into an icomclastic exclmiveness<br />
whi& affirms mly the dona who duplicate a single style of ministry and a momlithic<br />
biblical and theolqical system?"<br />
Hmeyt3utt charged the "independent f ~talists," w b he said are in the sixth year of<br />
their munced ten-year plan to take over the agencies and institutiom o£ the Southern<br />
Baptist Convention, "are seeking to legalize life by eviscerating f reedan f can the gospel.<br />
'(They) have mcare in mmon with Jeizers af ancient Galatia than with the apostle set free on<br />
the Damascus road.<br />
"If you meet one of these Southern Baptist Judaizers," Honeycutt said, "tell him the of<br />
us who are free by the grace of God in Jesus Christ shall mt subnit again to slavery's yoke.<br />
Far us there is rn turning back to a limited legalism, rro turning bck."<br />
-The audience, aespding twice with standing ovatiam during the address, overflwed the<br />
semimry' s 1,600 seat Alumni Chapel. Included were many of the 475 new students attmding<br />
their first convocation at the seminary.<br />
"I was mt unduly surprised by recent repmts of unscruplous and unethical acts by<br />
politicians heading the independent fundamentalist prty in the mnvention," Honeycutt said.<br />
"'Their actions aonfirm that in every generation there a ~e irdividuals dtted to religious<br />
causes wb walk on the dark side of ethical ooduct ."<br />
He described the practice of mlisting students to tap lectures by semimry professars<br />
"as well as addresses such as this aonmcation message fcar the Dallas war-socm with its<br />
repor td idmmation banks. I understand there may be files on as many as 400 of us cataloged<br />
there. It muld be a shame to be excluded f ran such a collection1 "<br />
Honeycutt also revealed that "one of the Texas lea&rs af the inerrantist political. psty<br />
recently invaded the privacy of the president's &£ice, to say mthing of my personal life."<br />
Accarding to Honeycutt , the f mdamentalist leader called a student who frequently drives<br />
the seminary presideat ' s cax to the airport to ask "whether the president may have said<br />
anything to the student during those trips which might IE of help to the caller and other<br />
political leaders uE the indepndent fudamep~talist prty," arganid by Paul Pressler of<br />
Hmton and Paige Patterson of Dallas.<br />
IAter, Honeycutt said, he learned of a hreaMast meeting in Kansas City, Mo., during the<br />
Southern Baptist Convention in whid.1 a Dallas leader sought "to enlist several Southern<br />
Seminary students as campus subversives."<br />
"Such espiomge is needless, " Honeycutt said. "If the Texas fundamentalists want a tap<br />
of this address, all they have to do is call IIE, and I'll have the audio-visual department send<br />
them one. ' This sdmry has mthing to hide, whether at the classroom lecturn m. the hap1<br />
pulpit," he mntinued.<br />
"At Southern Seminary, we seek to t ea and to live without repmch. We invite all the<br />
wald to hear and see aur actio~<br />
and our wwds that they may h to whom we belong."<br />
Honeycutt , an Old- Testasnent s&olar a& former pastor, became the seminary' s eighth<br />
presidmt in 1%2.<br />
-3s-
Political Coalition<br />
Recruits SBC Support By David Wilkinson<br />
A W m BAC:KGRm STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
8/30/84<br />
WASHINGIW ( BP)-The president of the Southern Baptist Convention ad his three immediate<br />
predecessars have joined a political cqign "to help restore traditional, moral and<br />
spititual values" in America.<br />
SBC President Charles Stanley, pastor of First Baptist C~W&, Atlanta, and former<br />
presidents James. T. Draper Jr. and Adrian Rogers have agreed to serve on the executive hoard of<br />
the new American Coalition Em Traditioml Values.<br />
Arvsther fmmer pesidmt , Bailey Smith of Del City, Okla., is a member of ACI'V' s "mrd of<br />
governors," consisting of pastors £ran 300 majm U.S. cities.<br />
Organized in April and in full swing since early July, IXJrV claims to be an unbrella<br />
aganization representing millions cd Christians-"Amrica's larpst mimrity." It has been<br />
endarsed by arganizations swh as Maral Majarity and by religious media leaders such as Jim<br />
Bakker, Jerry F&Lwell, Rex Hunbard, James Robison and Jimmy Swaggart.<br />
'- Though overwhelmingly white and Protestant, the mganization &aim to repesent a brcad<br />
spe&rUII of "true Christians fran many varying doctrim1 positions."<br />
A W has identified 10 "basic mncems" by which it plans to measure plitical candidates.<br />
Headed by a constitutioml amendment pohibiting abortion, the list includes suppart fa a<br />
public s&ml payer amendmmt, tuition tax credits and a "strong national defense" aru3<br />
omsition to hanosexual rights, prnograNy and "misguided" we1 f are programs.<br />
Chaired by conservative authcx- Tim LaHaye, 2CW maintains a central staff in the San Diego<br />
offices of Waye's Fdly Life Seminars. Tk aoalition also emplv a fivemember staff in<br />
Washington and seven " field di recta s" in different regions of the amtry. According to Doug<br />
Shaddix, depty director of the ACIV field office, a Washingtowbased " talmt bnk" also has<br />
been established "to get Christians into positions of authority in government."<br />
Unlike Maral Majmity and other political action groups whi& communicate primarily via<br />
direct mail to individual hous~olds, ETV's basic strategy is to mrk through local<br />
congregations by soliciting the active support of pastors of "Biblebelieving chur&es."<br />
ACW furnishes camera-ready infarmation fa &ur& newsletters and bulletins and<br />
disseminates &&ures and other materials far distribution to &ur& mdrs.<br />
One of the "mst effective tools, " accarding to one field director, is the mntroversial<br />
"Presidential Biblical Scwebrd." The 4Gp393 publication wwides voting recards and<br />
statements uf wesidential, congressioml a d gdxrnatarial cadidates related to "traditioml<br />
family mcaral issues."<br />
--me
Political Coalition<br />
Seeks SBC S u ~ t<br />
Page 2<br />
ACFV also encourages ea& &ur& to establish a "Good Government Cdttee" to help<br />
channel infmmation and to mganize rioter registration drives and "get out the mte" campaigns.<br />
The cmlition hopes to register mcrre than tm million new voters befcare the November<br />
elections, claiming that "if libzrals regain mntrol of the White House and Senate, a liberal<br />
socialist state will follow within a few years."<br />
Utilizing canbind mailing lists furnished by Falwell, Swaggart , Kenneth Copeland and<br />
others, XPV has contacted pastors aE nmre than 100,000 churhes. Its field directors are<br />
busily "follwing up" on sane 18,000 pastars who pledged to mduct voter registration drives.<br />
ACTV adminstratw Curtis Maynard, a former Southern Baptist mstor , claimed the mlition<br />
already has attracted "my mainstream Southern Baptists ." A mplete list of the "board of<br />
governors" is rot yet available, he said, but it includes a "a lot of Southern EBptist men."<br />
One of the most ~aninent of those, SBC President Stanley, was in Israel this week and<br />
unavailable fccr ccmment. But Draper, who turned over the SBC president's gdvel to Stanley in<br />
June, said he agreed to serve on ACI'V' s executive board "because it ' s the only avenue I have to<br />
say sane things I believe in."<br />
"Southern Baptists," he said, "do rot give me this kind of oppxtunitp-I wish they did-<br />
to take a star13 on issues I feel strongly about like s&ml prayer, religious liberty,<br />
parrrogramy and hcunosexuali ty. 'I<br />
Draper recently carried his role as an AClV emcutive mmni ttee member to a hearing of the<br />
platfccrm camittee of the RepubLican party. He spoke briefly on behalf of the carganization and<br />
introduced EIV spokesmen Falwell, Swaggart and Robison, who ~esented testimonies.<br />
Despite his entlmsiam £oar the coalition, Draper said he wodd "have to weigh carefully"<br />
the decision to join ACrV if he were still SBC wesident. "I muld have been mcare relmtant<br />
then, I'm sure," he explained.<br />
Tb Texas pastor also qualified sane of the claim made in ACW literature. The oft=-<br />
repeated claim to "represent 45 million Christians" is "gmd rhetoric," he said, "but I don't<br />
kmw how accurate that really is. I do think I@rV does repesat a lot of people. "<br />
Although ACTV literature speaks of addressing lplitical issues with a "unifmm mcaral<br />
voice," Draper admits a "diversity of opinion" is inevitable, even among Christians.<br />
Even ACFV's executive amnittee, he said, des mt have "absolute unanimity on the<br />
specifics" of all 10 concerns. "I'm mt positive myself on all ten, especially tuition tax<br />
credits , " he added. "Maybe I ' m against it just because I ' ve heard so many times I ' m supposed<br />
to be against it. Rut there are others m the board who feel very strongly about it ."<br />
Despite such qualifications, Draper believes "general unanimity" on conaems such as<br />
abortion ad prmgraphy is "a p d pssibilitpif you don' t beme legalistic almut it as<br />
sane other coalitions have done."<br />
AW's Maynard agreed there is "some room far difference," though "I find it hard to<br />
believe saneone w b muld mte far all 10 concerns muld mt b a better candidate than saneone<br />
who strmk out on all of them."<br />
He specifically defended EW1s strong stand on amtion. "Our position is very hardline,<br />
you might say. Same people talk about exceptions like rap. Well, ow psition is once you<br />
opn the dux to destroy life, whatever the reason, you open a real quagnire to defmd other<br />
situations. Who are we to take life away?"<br />
-3w-
SBC Executive C dttee Delays<br />
Decisiorl To Join Vatican Suit By Stan Hastey<br />
AWANCE BACKGROUND STOSiY<br />
Basist Press<br />
9/20/84<br />
WASmGIW (BP)-Despite a strcngly mded resolution adopted by the Southern Baptist<br />
Convention in Kansas City, Mo., ad a separate motion urging legal action, the SBC ~xecukive<br />
Carani ttee has mted to delay joining a lawsuit mallenging U .S. diplamtic relations with the<br />
Vatican.<br />
In a routine action takm Sept. 18, the Ekecutive C d t t e e accepted without debate a<br />
remmmdation fran its administrative and convmtion arrangements sukadttee that a decision<br />
on joining a lawsuit filed Sept . 19 by Americans United far Separation of Chur& ad State ad<br />
other religious groups be deferred until the February ESrecutive C dttee meeting.<br />
Although plaintiffs in lawsuits are tnder rn obligation to join at the time of filing, the<br />
f iwmnth delay bet- Executive C d ttee meetings muld mean the aase will have been argued<br />
in the U.S. District Court fcz Eastern Pennsylvania befcre the Executive Camittee acts.<br />
- The recanmendation to take no action at vesent came to the aMnistrative subcormnittee<br />
f ran the bylaws wrkgroup. -ding to observers pesent at the workgroup meeting,<br />
discussion over deferring action in the matter centered on avoiding the appear- of opposing<br />
Presidat Reagan duringhis reelection campign.<br />
Manbers of the workgroup are J&n ~ullivan, pstor of Bradmom Ehptist Chur&,<br />
Shrevepw t , LA. ; Carrel1 Robinson, pstor of Dauphin Way Baptist Church, Mobi let Ala. ; Frank<br />
Lady, an attorney f ran Jonesbwo, Ark; IBvid C . Maddox, a layman f ran Fullerton, Calif. : Paul<br />
Pressler, an appeals murt judq frm Houston, and JdW T. Tippett Jr., a retired pasta fran<br />
Savarndh, Ga. Ex-afficio members a€ the wurkgroup are Frank Ingraham, a ~ashville, Tenn.,<br />
attorney w& is chairman of the administrative ard convention arrangements subrormni ttee, and W.<br />
Dewey Presley, &airman of the Executive C dttee.<br />
Southern Baptist participation in the suit against President Reagan, Secretary of State<br />
Gearge P. Shltz, Secretary of the Treasury Dorald T. Regan and U .S. ambssadar to the Vatican<br />
William A. WiLson bd been sowght by hricans United because the SEE, the nation' s largest<br />
mn-Catlmlic dmomimtion, is seen as imprtant to the suit' s success.<br />
The Kansas City motion requested the ESrecukive Camnittee "to see that this Corntion's<br />
position against a U.S. Ambassadm lm the Holy See. . .canes praperly befcsre any court<br />
adjudicating a lawsuit challenging the mnstitutiorality thereof, in whatever manner legal<br />
counsel recommends most effective to serve Southern Baptists' interest, it being understood<br />
that the Executive Camittee may m k in concert with other interested parties."<br />
In addition, messengers to the Kansas City conmtion adopted a resolution protesting<br />
U.S.-Vatican relatiom an3 pledging "suppwt of action3 whi& &allen* diplanatic relations<br />
I*l th the Holy See. "<br />
--me--
SBC Executive C d t t e e Delays<br />
Decision To Join Vatican Suit<br />
Page 2<br />
idw western Paptist Theological Seminary &ur& histary ~afesscar G. m h Wamble, aut- of<br />
both the motion and the resolution, told Baptist Press he was "dissappinted that the Executive<br />
C d ttee decided to do nothing about opposing the embassy in the Vatican in the only farm now<br />
open to us, the federal judiciary. "<br />
-le, a former pesident of the Missouri Baptist Corntion and lorptime advocate of<br />
strict sepxation of &ur& and state, also said, "I can mnceive of only one Msis on whidl<br />
anpne could object to Southern Baptist prticiption in the suit ad that is that the suit<br />
names mmld W. Reagan, president af the United States of America, as prtyplaintif f . "<br />
Noting that under the Constitution, the president "has autbity to mrdwt foreign<br />
plicy," Wamble declared: "I canrot conceive of filing any suit that muld rnt m e the<br />
president as a partyplaintiff, regardless of w b he is.<br />
"Romld Reagan is the me who initiated the embassy to the Holy See. He mminated the<br />
ambassadm. I can mnceive that sane Southern kptists muld have a partisan political<br />
interest in avoiding naming President Reagan in a suit. Hcwever, I hop that Southern Baptists<br />
are mwilling to sacrifice our ~inciples respecting the First Ama?dment on any political<br />
altars, regardless of whose altars these may be. "<br />
-30-
Criswell Saw Seminary<br />
hcesident Should Resign By Jim Jones<br />
AWAKE WKRCJJND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
10/10/84<br />
DALLAS (Ell?)-W.A. Criswell, pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, says a Southern<br />
Ba@ist sdmry pesident should resign if he wants to mntinue criticizing the denomination's<br />
f udammtalist faction.<br />
Cxiswell said he believes Ray L; Eionwt , president of Southern Baptist- Theolqical<br />
Seminary in Lbuisville, Ky., shouldn't criticize the people wlm py his salary.<br />
"I haw only one objection to it (the criticism)," Criswell said. "He depends upon (the<br />
denomination) to p~y his salary."<br />
"If he is going to castigate us, I think he should resign, get him amther job, and he can<br />
say anything about us he wants to," Criswell said.<br />
"But don't depend upon LW far his salary."<br />
Criswell made the amnmt in a wide-ranging interview prim to his 40th anniversary as<br />
pasta of the Dallas a&, celebrated Oct. 7.<br />
Meyt3utt rankled many fut-damentalists in his conmcation address last month at the<br />
Louisville seminary because he criticized what he called an "independent fundmentalist<br />
political party" in the denomination.<br />
One of the mjar leaders uf the inerrancy movement is Paige Patterson, Criswell's<br />
associate pastor and the president of the Criswell Center far Biblical Studies in Dallas.<br />
Honeycutt said in a telephone interview his remarks have been misinterpeted as<br />
criticizing the existence of "furdamentalism" itself in the ddnation.<br />
He said he only attacked the fundamentalist political faction, whi& he believes is trying<br />
to slibvert the traditional Baptist diversity of theological beliefs. "I apeciate Dr.<br />
Criswell, and he is a part of the diversity of our oonvention," Honqcwtt said.<br />
Wneycutt said the 125-~ar-old seminary, the oldest in the denomination, has had a<br />
tradition of presidents wkao addressed denomination issues, and he felt it is his responsibility<br />
to mmmt about what he sees as an attempt by a fundammtalist political rmchine to dkminate<br />
the aonmtion. "I ' m oonoerned about f reedan," Honeycutt said. "There is roan for<br />
fundamentalists in the convention. I'm fan: being inclusive, not aclusive."<br />
Honeycutt disagrees with the position that a person paid by the Southern Baptist Corntion<br />
should not spak out on issues. "That simply dercuts the whole prophetic emesis of<br />
the Old Testment and the witness ab the Ner~ Testament &ut bearing witness , " he said.<br />
Ebneycutt said the me of his statement about "holy war" has bm over mphasized and that<br />
he was simply using a biblical analogy."<br />
-3G-<br />
(Jones is religion editor of the Fat Worth Star-Telegram. )
Board Rejezts Silencing<br />
Of Seminary President By Jim Jones<br />
AWANCE BACKGRUJND STOW<br />
Baeist Press<br />
10/18/84<br />
FCRT WRTH, Texas (BP)-Trustees cd Southestern hptist Theological Sdnary in Fcxt<br />
Warth, Texas, have tabled a motion which muld have instrmted seminary President Russell<br />
Dilday Jr. to stay out of derw,mimtioml politics.<br />
-Taliling of the motion was sem by semimy leaders as a mte of aonfidence far Dilday,<br />
even those who adamantly e sed Dilday' s involvement in denomirntiolzll controversy praisd his<br />
leadership at the s d m y and said they wuld continlr; to bck him on other sdnary matters.<br />
An unnamed trustee said about seven of the 30 trustees favored the motion.<br />
- The motion came in the second of tm rare executive sessiom in whi& the mntrwersy of<br />
Dilday's paninat role in what has bm called a Baptist holy war, was sharply debated bet-<br />
the f udamentalists and s-called moderates among the trustees. . The debate apprgltly occurred<br />
in a closed door session whid.1 toak up most af the Oct. 16 a ftemn trustee meeting.<br />
The trustees repartdly agreed rot to discuss the closed meeting with repters.<br />
In the session, Dilday repeated charges whid.1 he has ma& in speeches and in writing;<br />
namely that fmdamentalist farces are attempting to dcminate the denamination ad are a threat<br />
to the Baptist semimries and collecps.<br />
After Dilday's amnents, a trustee win asked mt to b named told the Fart Wmth Star-<br />
- Telegram, James7T. Draper Jr., new sdmry trustee wbn is imediate past presidmt of the SBC,<br />
told f ellaw trustees he was deeply hurt by Dilday' s accusatiom . Draper was sem as the<br />
candidate of the fundamentalist faction when he won the presidency. He said he tried to k<br />
fair to all during his two years as presidmt.<br />
Drapr said in an interview he is concerned dbout Dilday's role. "I think he's (~ilchy)<br />
gotten into an area of coqtrmrsy and polariation that we don't ned. I'm mt critical of<br />
his murage m right to speak out," said Draper, pastor of First Baptist, Euless; Texas, "I<br />
just regret the inclusion o£ his mice to be a polarizing factm.. . ."<br />
Dilday muld mt give any details about the exchanges whi& took place during the tm<br />
executive sessions whi& came during the regular open meetings a€ the trustees, but he<br />
ackmwledged there were differenms stated in both closed etings: "We had a very opn and<br />
clear expession of concern."<br />
Dilday, along with other Southern Baptist semimy and agency heads, have been attacking<br />
what they claim is an attempt by fundamentalists to take over the Southern ~aptist Convention.<br />
--nor*
Board Rejects Silencing<br />
Of Seminary President<br />
Page 2<br />
ming the annual Southern Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Mo, last June, ~ilday, in a<br />
convention sermon, attacked the fundamentalists, calling them proud brokers cd per. mter<br />
Ray L. Jiloneycutt, pesident of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in ~auisville, Ky. ,<br />
stirred emotions when he called for holy war against the fundamntalist plitical faction in<br />
the SBC.<br />
" The last six years fundamentalist leaders have successfully sought to elect their awn<br />
candidates to the SBC presidency. - The latest, Charles F. Stanley, pastor of First Baptist<br />
Churd.1, Atlanta, was installed as wesident during the Kansas City meeting.<br />
Dilday said one p rpe of the, Tuesday trustee meeting was to express concern the seminary<br />
is one of the "targets" of f milamentalist leaders af tes they cited a trend toward li&ralism<br />
in certain SBC-connectd colleges and seminaries.<br />
He said most trustees agree, "The seminary is right in the middle of this and the<br />
fmdamantalist movement is indeed aimed at the edmatioml institutions including the<br />
seminaries. Ard that's where our conem is."<br />
Sane semimy leaders fear a fundamentalist daninated convention might exact re~isals<br />
against professars viewed as too liberal and/= cut s&ml funding to a school viewed as having<br />
strayed too far £ran the mnser~tive Baptist viewpoint.<br />
Ralm Pulley, a Dallas layman on the seminary board, made the motion to instrllct Dilday to<br />
stay out of denominatioml politics, a trustee said. Pulley is one of three sdnary trustees<br />
who are members a€ the First Baptist Chur&, Dallas, where W.A. Criswell is past=. Criswell<br />
is seen by many as being the behid the scares oentral figure of the f-entalist movement.<br />
One of Criswell's associates at First Baptist, Paige Patterson, w b is also ~esident o£ the<br />
Criswell Center for Biblical Studies, spearheaded the fmdamentalist movement in the SBC.<br />
hther trustee, Jcrhn May, a Ft. Wffth music evdngelist, says he is a fundamentalist but<br />
mt aligned with any group. He has a great adniration fm Dilday but doesn't like his role in<br />
the Baptist controversy. "I don't feel like a person receiving a salary like Dilday's £ran the<br />
dmomination should chose sides," he said.<br />
Afterwards, even tbse who opposed Dilday' s involvepnmt in the mntrwrsy paisd his<br />
leadership at the saninary and said they would aontinue to bck him in semimry matters. McKay<br />
said, "Wz agreed to disagree. I love Dr. Dilday and I think he has done a marvelous job. I<br />
hate to see him drag the seminary into this fight. I don't think the seminary w ill get<br />
anything out of this exce* a blcdy mse. "<br />
Draper said he agreed Dilday had sane responsibility to speak as a seminary leader ht he<br />
would like Dilday's statements to h less divisive. "I'd like him to speak out and invite all<br />
the people to acme to the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas next y~ar instead of saying<br />
'these are the bad guys and let's get rid of them.'"<br />
-' The trustees also anmunaed a fiveyear program to raise $25 million has gone over the top<br />
and adopted a new UparS90 progsam goal OE raising amther $50 million f a the seminary by<br />
1990.<br />
--3s-<br />
(Jim Janes is religion editor far the Fcrt Warth Star;-Telegram.)
Southeastern Fxulty<br />
S~pparts President<br />
Awm W~RCuND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
10/25/84<br />
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (~p)-The faculty of Southeastern Baptist' Theolcqical Sdlaary, Wake<br />
Forest, N.C., unanimously adopted a resolution of suppwt far President W. Randall Lblley and<br />
renew& their oommitnaent to "fulfill our calling."<br />
- The resolution, amed at the regular monthly meeting of the 3amember faculty, cited<br />
Lolley far "poviding significant leadership fa this semimy and thrcughout the Southern<br />
Baptist Convention in a time a£ grave &allenges to our ewgelistic, missimry and<br />
educatioral wxk. . . "<br />
Lblley's ammitment a£ time, talent ad energy was sem as "a source of enaouragement arrd<br />
inspiration" to the members of the tea&ing staff, aclccarding to the resolution.<br />
He was further lauded fca: his affirmation of "the ministries of women in the tasks to<br />
which God has called them m yet shall call them,. ." ard fca: his m k "to open the doms cb<br />
opxtunity far ministry to all persolls who are thus called.. ."<br />
-The resolution expressed "gratitude far and our hearty s uFt of President mley."<br />
Lolley, wb was not pesent far the discussion and adoeian of the resolution, celehated<br />
on A q . 1 ten years as president c& the Smthern Bptist Coxlwntion seminary.<br />
-30-<br />
Southeastern Students<br />
Supxt Faculty, Wnistration<br />
AWArEE~RcmoSMSiY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
11 /2 7/84<br />
WAKE -T, N.C. (BP)-FO~ hundred and sixty sthts at Southeastern Baptist<br />
- Theological Sdmsy in Wake Farest, N.C . , have signed "A Statement of Apreciation" in support<br />
of the "faculty and adninistration of the semimy fm their unwavering stand far acadmic<br />
freedom in Christ and their abiding respct f ar the priesthood of e&h believer. "<br />
Laun&d by the ethics ccnrmi ttee of the student council, the signatures were oollected<br />
over a period of tm weeks ad were Fesented by the faculty at their monthly meeting. Neal<br />
Jones, seoond-par student f ran Smi thf ield, N.C., and &airman of the mmmi ttee, said the<br />
statement was drafted "to let the faculty and awnistration lcnow tlmt we cherish the<br />
sdnary' s tradition of standing strong far acadmic freedom.. . . "<br />
In addition to expressing s uwt fcr the faculty a d adninistration, the statement also<br />
expressed thanks to the sdmry's trustee& far "their suppwt in the bringing of Gc&called,<br />
academically canpetent men and wanen to the faculty and adtninistration."<br />
Southeastern seminary, one of six seininaries aperated by the Southern Baptist Conv~ntion,<br />
was founded in 1950, and hs an mrdllmmt of 1,246.<br />
-3%-<br />
-- -_-__
Seminary Tnstees Affirm<br />
President ' s Leackrship Role<br />
A W A N C E ~ S T O R Y<br />
Baptist Press<br />
1012 5/84<br />
L€XJISVILU, Ky. (BP)-The executive crmmittee of Southern Baptist Theological Sdnary' s<br />
board of trustees has affirmed the right and responsibility of seminary President Roy TRe<br />
Honeycutt to take an active lea&rship role in the Southern Baptist Cormtion.<br />
In a strmgly mded resolution, trustees expressed sumt fcx Honeycutt's "current<br />
leadership role in the den~mi~tion as an ap~~qiate part of his responsibility as president."<br />
Trmtees also irdicated agreement with Honeyxtt ' s "assessment and respnse to the<br />
political issues addressed in his 1%4 convacation address and in "The Tie", the official<br />
seminary mication.<br />
In the mn-tion address in late August, Hon-utt declared "holy war" on what he dled<br />
"un-ly farces whid.1, if left un&eeked, will destroy essential. qualities of bth our<br />
convention and this seminary."<br />
Hmeycutt also &allenged the semimy camuni ty and all Southern Baptists to fulfill<br />
their Christian a d denomimtioml duty to preserve the Baptist heritage of priesthood of the<br />
believer, soul ccpnpetency and f reedm of mmcience in Christ.<br />
Honeymtt's plea to "maintain the mity and the diversity of the Southern Baptist<br />
Conmtion ad to cmrduct ourselves at all times with bmr and persoml integrity" also were<br />
reaffirmed by the resolution.<br />
- a resolution points to the histmic involvement of sdnary presidents in anfronting<br />
denominatioml crises. - l'he role of Southern Sdmry President E.Y. Mullins in leading<br />
Southern Baptists thrwh the denomimtioml controversy of the 19209 specifically was cited.<br />
"Slx!cessive presidents uE the seminary have mnfrcnted critical and, at times,<br />
controversial. natioml and dmominational issues mt only on the basis of prsonal Christian<br />
canscienm but as a direct and appropriate respmibility of the presidmt of the Southern<br />
Ba@ist7 Theo1qical Sdmry, I' the resolution says.<br />
' The trustees said the seminary pesident must have "se freedm as &aracterizes the<br />
pro@mtic and apostolic witness to the Gaspel and its implicatiolls fm idividual believers and<br />
fcx our carporate life as Southern Bptists."<br />
In pledging suppwt of Honeycutt, the trmtees called on Southern Baptists "to reaffirm<br />
our historic Baptists emmses," to return to an open Southern Baptist Comtion, and<br />
rea£firmed "the Southern Baptist Corntion's action in 1979 at Howton, by whi* the<br />
conwntion adopted a motion rejecting omrt political activity as a convention pocess."<br />
-30-
Mocae Says Stanley<br />
Sbuld Be Replaced<br />
AW?Kz WIGROUND STCWY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
11/1/84<br />
DAIUS (BP)-Winfred w e , presidmt of the 2.3 millior~mmbr Baptist General Conmtion<br />
of' Texas, does mt believe Southern Baptist Comtion President Charles Stanley should he<br />
reelected whm the SBC meets in Dallas in Jme of <strong>1985</strong>.<br />
me, speaking during a news mnfereslae imnediately follawinghis unanimous reelection as<br />
BGX president, said Stanley has been too involved in the dmomimtioml controversy bet^<br />
f mdamentalists ad conservatives to be a unifying factcr .<br />
Also, Stanley has skvcrwn a lack of suppwt far Southern Ehptist cawes, m e<br />
said.<br />
Mocar-who has been speculated to be the didate to oppose Stanley in 158%-also said he<br />
did mt consider himself a good candidate fm SBC ~esidmt because he, too, has been<br />
politicized in the media.<br />
Hawever, Mmre said a candidate must be found to restore harmory to the denomination. "If<br />
we're ever going to unify the aonmtion, we're going to have to £id sanebody," he said. "It<br />
is my hope and prayer that we muld f id a person w b would unify the mnmtion. "<br />
Although Mmre would mt specify a certain percentage, he did say the contrilxlCion to the<br />
Cooperati- Program by the cardidate' s &ur& should be a determining f actar in the election.<br />
Stanley often has been criticized far the law percentage his &ur& gives to the Cooperative<br />
Program, the mified giving plah whid.1 supports SBC agencies and institutions.<br />
Mmre said he did not consider himelf a candiate UE any plitical faction last year, rw>x<br />
does he mider his reelection this year to b a statement far either conservatives cr<br />
fundamentalists.<br />
"I would be mncemd if anybody controlled the thinking of Southern Baptists," he said.<br />
"I didn't consider -elf a cardidate uf anybody last year, m this year."<br />
m e expressed conmm about the cdll by furdamentalist leaders for the resignation of<br />
several professms at Baylcg University in recent months. "I really feel that they need to get<br />
to know the pxofe~isars," Pbme said. "The ones I h, I have m question a-ut their ability,<br />
or their belief in the Bible."<br />
One of the professars in question is a Wmon wlm tea&es in the Spanish department, and<br />
the other is a religion prafessa: who has said he does mt feel that evolution is necessarily<br />
inamptible with the creation theary.<br />
J!bre supparted Baylar Presidmt Herbert H. Reymlds f car the manner in whi& the<br />
university has backed the professars. "I think he's absolutely right in the way he has hadled<br />
that prticular situation, " m e said.<br />
-RICBC€+-
m e Says Stanley<br />
Sould Be Reflaced<br />
- The Southern Baptist laity will mt all= Texas Baptist a: Southern Baptist institutions<br />
to be thzeatmd or aontrdlled by one particular t-logical faction, Mcme ~edicted. "The<br />
lay people-the grass roots-I don't think they're ewr going to allw that to Imppen."<br />
Moare said he feels the current denomimtiaral mntroversy has remained alive simply<br />
because of a "lack of canmunication" among factioral leaders. In his discussiolls this past<br />
year with the ~sious leaders frcm both sides a€ the issue, Moare saidhe has dismwred tMt<br />
"we are pretty much theologically to~ther . "<br />
He adnitted he participated in sane dceed-dom meetings with leaders a€ both factions,<br />
but said he has made a axmitment to decline merit until additional meting5 are held.<br />
He said the meetings are being held to "try to wark out the dif f emaes. "<br />
On the antroversial issue on the crdination of warn- in Southern Baptist &ur&es, m e<br />
said he feels the matter must be left to the lo& church. His am dux&-First Baptist<br />
C1.atrd.1, Amarille-has mt mhind wanen, and Moore said he doubts the matter will cane up.<br />
-30-
SoutktJestern Faculty<br />
%ppx ts Dilday ' s Act iom By J im Jones<br />
A W z m c E ~ S T O R Y<br />
Baptist Press<br />
11/27/84<br />
FORT PDKI'H, Texas (BP)-Faculty members at Sarthestern Baptist Theolqical Seminary in<br />
Fcrt Worth, Texas, have gim s&ml President Rtrssell H. Dilday Jr. a mte a€ d iden- as he<br />
canes under criticism far speaking out about the division -tween Baptist fundamentalist and<br />
mderate factions.<br />
In a special called session of the faculty N w , 13 while Dilday was in Kansas City, Mo.,<br />
amoximately 90 of the 105 faculty makers ap& a resolution stating Dilday had a right<br />
a duty to speak out mthe current controwrsy. No aunt was takm of the stamling vote<br />
but m one stood in opition.<br />
Scott- Tatm, pufessca: of ~ea&ing and a senim facuty manber, ~esided at the<br />
special session, said Jdm Newprt, powst a& vice-president Em acadwic affairs at the<br />
semimy. Newport said he didnl t lovcrw whether faculty rn-rs h miat disagree with Dilday' s<br />
st& stayed away fran the meeting, but "I'm sure that sane don't agree with everything he<br />
says, but I think they agree on his right to speak out."<br />
Apparently all of the faculty members wfio were in town attended the special meeting,<br />
Newprt said. About 15 faculty menbers spoke at the meeting and also tacked Dilday' s right to<br />
speak out in the controversy.<br />
Dilday and leaders ob Scuthern Baptist seminaries, roll-s and other institutiom have<br />
been saying the SBC is in danger of being taken over by a fundamentalist political faction.<br />
Critics of the fundamentalists say the mnservative wing is trying to fare Baptists into<br />
a mold, shattering the demmimtion' s unity and its traditional way of f imcing its &ur&<br />
activities.<br />
E'mdamentalist leaders, including w.A. Criswell, pstor of First Baptist Chur* of Dallas,<br />
have said Baptist leaders *id by the demmimtion should stop taking sides in the<br />
f mdammtalist-&erate dehte. Criswell and others argue the heads ah seminaries and other<br />
institutions wkro are speaking against the fundamentalist faction are attacking a part uf the<br />
constituency whi& pp their salaries.<br />
- The three-pint resolution a=& by the seminary facaty, whi& is oonsidered among the<br />
most conservative of the faculties a£ the six Baptist seminaries, also reaffirmed the faculty's<br />
belief in the Ba@ist Faith and Message, a doctrinal statmat follcavd by Southern Baptists.<br />
" The first pint was the affirmation of Dilday.<br />
"As loyal Southern Baptists we value our &nomination and supt its wcnrldwide witness in<br />
mission, evangelism and Christian education, " the resolution began. "We want the great body of<br />
Southern Baptist ptms arrd people to Wow where we stand during the current crisis."<br />
--me
Soutlwestern Faculty<br />
mpprts Dilday' s Action<br />
Pap 2<br />
- The resolution states: "We reaff inn our pesident, Russell H. Dilhy Jr. Presidmt<br />
Dildzsy has spoken out an the issues facing the Southern Baptist Comtion am3 we feel he has<br />
both the ricjht ard responsibility as a denominational leader to make his voice heard.<br />
"We feel our pesidmt has pintd out real and serious danprs which threaten this<br />
seminary, as well as the entire work of the Southern Baptist Convention. We share his comrn<br />
and suppart his muragsous stand."<br />
-The s d and third pints were affirmation of the Baptist Faith ad Message and of<br />
loyalty to the Southern Paptist Convention.<br />
Dilday pbliely entered the debate last June at the Southern Baptist Comtion meeting in<br />
Kansas City when he said a fmdamentalist plitical machine was sht-circuiting the d-atic<br />
process o£ the denomimtion.<br />
Of the Paptist Faith and Masage, the faculty mted: "This conservative, biblical<br />
statmml expresses the heart of the historic Baptist faith. All o£ w wb tea& at<br />
Southwestern seminary sign tbt statement and tea& within its doctrim1 framemxk."<br />
- The faculty also stressed layalty to the SBC am3 the Cooperati= Program, the mnmtion's<br />
voluntary, unif id bud~t plan, as a vital prt of the seminary' s heritaq. "LWe R.<br />
ScarZxrsough, president of Smtbestern seminary f ran 1915 to 1942, led the campign whid.1<br />
famed the Cooperati= Program," the resolution said. Scarlmrough also muntered effcsts by<br />
fmdamentalists to Llrdo the SBC's "coopratiw witness ad work," the faculty added.<br />
- The dosing paragram of the statement said: "Fm mare thm 75 years the presidents,<br />
faculty and trustees oh this seminary have stood in the £carefroart of Baptist cmpratian in a<br />
united effarrt ta share the gospel. We &l all Southern Baptists to join LS in preserving this<br />
mble heritage . "<br />
--30--<br />
(Jim Jones is xeligim editor £car the Fart Worth StaF-Telegram. )
Ikptist Joint Camnittee<br />
Joins Vatican Challenge By Stan Haatey<br />
AWANCE I3AcKGRcuND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
1/8/85<br />
WASHI- (Ell?)-Insisting President Reagan is bound by the First Amndmnt's b3n on an<br />
establishment of religion, the Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs has asked a federal<br />
district court to strike dam as uncmstitutioml Reagan's appointment last year of an<br />
ambassador to the Vatican.<br />
' TIE washington-dased agency, representing the chur&-state interests of eight U . S. Baptist<br />
mi*-including the Southern Baptist Conventio~suhnitted its views Jan. 7 in a case brought<br />
by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more than 15 religious Indies and<br />
numerous individuals challenging diplanatic relations between the U.S. and the Holy See.<br />
In a dramatic reversal o£ policy, the White House and the Holy See jointly announced in<br />
January 1984 they were immediately establishing full diplanatic relations.<br />
Although several recent U.S. presidents, including Reagan, have statioraed personal<br />
repsentatlives at the Vatican, the move followed congressioml reversal of an 1867 ban against<br />
formal diplanatic ceqition.<br />
-That ban follmed a 6&year priod at the beginning of U.S. history of full diplcmatic<br />
relations, a period whim ended in 1848 when the papal states ceased to exist and the Vatican<br />
became a lO&acre enclave in the heart of Rcme.<br />
&cause the new arrangement required formal reversal of the 1867 ban, the White House<br />
called on longtime advocate of renewed u.S.-Vatican ties, Sen. Ridhard G. LUgar, %Id., to<br />
lead the way. Liqar managed to secure Senate reversal on a mice vote with m debate.<br />
Reagan subsequently sent the name of his prsoml repesentative, longtime political ally<br />
William A. Wilson, to the Senate for approval as the new amhassador to the Vatican. Ard<br />
although opponents a€ the new arrangement were able to voice their alarm during a oneday<br />
confirmation hearing, the Senate quickly confirmed Wilson's mination last March, 81-13.<br />
Baptist Joint Carani ttee Gwleral Counsel John W. Baker, in a f riend-of-themurt brief to<br />
the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, declared "the President's power to<br />
appoint ambassadors is limited by the establiskaent clause."<br />
Baker cited the 1947 Supreme Court decision in Everson v. Ehrd of Education, a ruling<br />
which held the establishment clause "means at least this: Neither a state mr the Federal<br />
Government can... pass laws whi& aid one religion, aid all religions car pefer one religion<br />
over another. . . . No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious<br />
activities cr institutions, whatewr they may be called, or whatever form Ehey may adopt to<br />
teach or pactice religion."<br />
--me--
Baptist Joint Camnittee<br />
Joins Vatican Challenge<br />
Page 2<br />
By reestablishing diplanatic relations with the Vatican, Baker continued, Reagan violated<br />
all three parts af another high court test-first enunciated in 1971-that governmental actions<br />
must reflect a secular purpose, must have the primary effect of neither advancing nor<br />
inhibiting religion, and must mt excessively entangle government with religion.<br />
On the last pint-excessive entanglement-Baker argued further the decision to establish<br />
formal diplanatic relations with the Holy See already has resulted in "divisiveness along<br />
sectarian lines. . .bth widespread and deep. "<br />
Besides the establishmmt clause arguments, the Baptist Joint Camnittee brief directly<br />
attacked the govexnment's assertion in the case that those bringing suit do mt have'proper<br />
standing to do so because of presidential prerqatives in setting American foreign policy.<br />
Wlt Baker, achledging that Article I1 of the Constitution vests in the President the<br />
pcrwer to appoint and receive ambassadors, insisted nevertheless, "The President must exercise<br />
his pers ... within the strictures" of the First Amenht.<br />
Both sides in the dispute appear to agree a key determination to be made by the murts is<br />
the question of whether the Vatican is essentially a sovereiq natiowstate or a religious<br />
body. Baker's statement to the district court takes issue with the government's position that<br />
renewed relations are the of one sovereign state with another.<br />
- To make his point, Baker cited an address last year by Ar&bishop Pio IAghi, Apstolic Pre<br />
Nuncie-or ambassdor-to the U.S., in whi& Mghi declared, "It is ... the Pope's religious<br />
authority whi& confers upon him the classical right of legation, a diplanatic standing in the<br />
world." Laghi added: "Those who interpret Papal Diplanacy as emanating £ran the Pope's<br />
temporal sovereignty are failing to understand the true nature of the mission of the Holy See."<br />
In its concluding section, the Baptist Joint Cdttee brief argued the new diplunatic<br />
relationship "seriously jeopardizes the missiomry programs" of U.S.-based chur&es.<br />
"Because of anti-American, anti-religious and anti-democratic sentiments in many of the<br />
developing countries," Baker wrote, "missiomries and other persons representing religious<br />
institutions could actually becwne symbols of American govermental interest." Such mingling of<br />
religious and natioml purpses ptmtially brought on by diplanatic relations with the Vatican<br />
"offers an occasion for misunderstanding, invites cham and confusion, and places a burdensme<br />
albatross upon every American who represents religion overseas," Baker aoncluded.<br />
Concern over foreign mission wcxk in part moti~ted messengers to last year's Southern<br />
Baptist Convention to adopt a stronglywmded resolution protesting U.S.-Vatican relations and<br />
a separate mtion requesting the denomination's ESEecutive Caranittee to join any legal action<br />
challenging the new arrangement.<br />
But that M y last Septerribex declined to join the Americans United suit after same members<br />
reprtedly expressed concern the action might be interweted as an effort to emhrrass<br />
President Reagan duringhis bid for reelection. -The matter may resurface at next month's<br />
Executive Canmittee meeting in Nashville,- Tm.<br />
-30-
AWAKE BP6:ICT:RcmD STORY
Conservatives Have No Plans<br />
To B e<br />
Vote: Pressler<br />
Page 2<br />
At the same time, conservatives have been criticized for their coordinated effmts to<br />
control convention election3 and resolutions, all the time denying they have any arganization<br />
beyond "friends talking to friends" and "Christmas card mailing lists."<br />
When asked if the Jan. 11 lunchan might be just such an organi~tioml meeting, Pressler<br />
denied the tm-hour lunckeon was anything mare than a friendly, informative get-together.<br />
Pressler said he would do the same far any group of Baptists. He especially covets<br />
invitations to speak on the cmpses of Southern Baptist colleges and seminaries where he feels<br />
especially maligned.<br />
He needs to speak on campuses, the target af most of his criticisms, because his side is<br />
mt presented in Baptist media, he feels.<br />
'The meeting Jan. 11 and others like it are by invitation only, with no media invited,<br />
because "I want to be able to speak with my friends in candar, " Pressler said. "We are<br />
misconstrued by those trying to attack us." --3s-
Hunger Giving Up<br />
Far Seventm Years<br />
ADVANCE BAcrGRouND s m<br />
Baptist Press<br />
1/23/85<br />
NASHVIILE,'. Tan. (BP)-southern Baptists in 1984 contributed $7,166,772 to their<br />
denomi mtion' s wogram of wcrrldwide hunger -relief, shattering the 1983 remd by mare than a<br />
mi llion dollars.<br />
It marked the seventh consecutive year gifts to hunger funds administered by the Southern<br />
E!a#ist Fmeign and Hcme Mission Boards surpsed the previous year's total.<br />
In 1983 total mrld hunger gifts were $5,996,000.<br />
-The Fcreign Mission Board reported receipts of $6,548,901 fa 1984, while the Hae Mission<br />
Board received $617,811 fonr dcmestic hunger,<br />
- TIE figures do mt reflect monies given fa hunger whi& were utilid in local &ur&es,<br />
associations and state mnvexltions.<br />
The hunger contributions repesent an overall increase of $1,170,772 or 19.5 percmt above<br />
the previous recwd set in 1983. FMB gifts increased $1,142,865 or 21 percent; HI43 giving was<br />
up $27,196 or five percent.<br />
m d giving during Novmbr and December, the months follawing the denomination's<br />
observance af Warld Hunger Day in October, pushed hunger funds at both mission bards byod<br />
the 1983 totals.<br />
At the Fmeign Mission Board, receipts fur Decedmr alone surpassed $2.4 million. FMB<br />
officials also attributed part of the dramatic increase to extensive news average of the<br />
Ethiopian hunger crisis by the national news media.<br />
At the Hcme Missim Board, part of the increase in danestic hun~r gifts resulted when a<br />
few Ehptist state aonventions during the year implmmted the 80/20 division of undesignated<br />
hunger gifts suggested by the Southern Baptist Corntion (80 percent to overseas hunger relief<br />
an2 20 permt to dmestic hunger relief). Other state mnvmtions have voted to move to the<br />
80/20 plan in 1W5.<br />
"These statistics speak eloquently concerning our Southern Baptist canpassion fm the<br />
hungry," said Foy Valentine, executive director of the Christian Life Carmission, which<br />
coordinates awareness and action on hunger issues fnr the Southern Baptist Convention.<br />
- The siqif icant increase in giving, he added, "repesents authaztic sacrifice on the part<br />
of my. I way our response to this grave moral issue will continue to increase responsibly<br />
so as to lmmr Christ mare worthily."<br />
--3s-
Planned GrWh In Giving<br />
Key To Bold Mission Success By Terry Barone<br />
AWANCE BACKGRCUND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
1/29/85<br />
D m , Texas (BP)-Planned Grcwth In Giving was wesented as the key to the success uf<br />
Bold Missiori Thrust during a mi&-January natioml seminar in Denton; Texas.<br />
Planned Grmh In Giving is a 15-par plan to challenge Southern Baptists to increase<br />
their level of giving to their local &ur& and through their &ur& to mission causes<br />
4 throughout the world.<br />
'I<br />
i<br />
b Cecil Ray, natioml director of Planned Gravth In Giving said the purpose of these<br />
meetings is to equip chosen leership in states to beme trainers and leaders far about 475<br />
state seminars which will be attmded by pastors and congregatiml representatives.<br />
Ray said the state semimrs will key upon the "Church Eventtt--a part af the Planned Grwth<br />
In Giving emmsis when &ur& menbrs are introduced to Planned Grmh In Giving and asked to<br />
make a 15-year ammitment to increase their percentage level of giving to the local &ur&.<br />
Ray said that over the past 30 years, -hem Baptist families have mt changed their<br />
pattern of giving whidz is about a tm peroent average.<br />
He said the tm percent translates into the membership of SBC chur&es giving in excess of<br />
$3 billion in 1933. 33y the year 2000, Ray said that figure needs to be about $20 billion to<br />
accomplish Bold Mission' Thrust tasks.<br />
bld Mission Thrust is an effcart by Southern Ebptists to wesent the message of Jesus<br />
Christ to every person in the wmld by the year 2000.<br />
"Thig muld allm the entire denominatior+the &ur&es and other mtities-to take on the.<br />
dreams of Bold Mission Thrust which we have been talking about," he said. "At the sustained<br />
level (tqprcent),<br />
*I# we can't plll off what we (as a denomination) have planned."<br />
Ha sad Planned GrafJth In Giving is rot "a fund raising drive" but an emphasis hid?<br />
Wgib with "prso~l camnitmmt" and has a canpounding effect throughout the denorrimtion<br />
beginning in the local chur&.<br />
T.T. Crabtree, pastor of First Baptist Church, Springfield, Mo., and &airman of the<br />
ional Planned GrWh In Giving Task Face, said, "Planned Grcwth In Giving was m t cooked up<br />
mi* UE dersominatiorssll lea&rs and is mt a s&me to get mcare money. It is a call<br />
f gan Gad to catlmi t ourselves in a way that we ' ve never done bef me.<br />
"Planned Gravth In Giving, " he said, "is an invitation fran God to beme involved in his<br />
mrk atF+;"level where we've never been befcre."<br />
--me--<br />
*
Planned Grcwth In Giving<br />
Key To Bold Mission Smcess<br />
Page 2<br />
He said a lost wrld calls rn to "generaus giving because there are three billion unsaved<br />
persons in the world and mess there is a radical chanw in the mindset of Southern Baptists<br />
taward giving, we are just whistling in the dark."<br />
William M. Pinson Jr., executive director, Baptist General Convention of Texas, said mt<br />
everyone is a "visiomry, " but everyone is sha@ by a vision and, "the dream whi& f ashion4<br />
Bold Mission' Thrust ard Planned Grcktth In Giving wi 11 fashion us and those who came after . "<br />
Pinson said dreams don' t last long and unless rekindled, they burn out. "Many times, 'I he<br />
said, "people don' t act on their dream because they are a£ raid--afraid of sacrifice, work and<br />
effurt. Many times, apthy and laziness can cause us to shun our dreams 'until they cp away."<br />
He adled, "If dreams are acted upon impropzrly, they can bcane nightmares. But, if acted<br />
upon adequately, they can move us on to what we've never experienced befae." He said mthing<br />
can stop what God has set fath, and "I believe he is standing with Southern Baptists."<br />
Ray believes this is an "hour of destiny" far Southern Baptists. "I believe God is saying<br />
we have a choice to accee the task at hand or allaw a theological cpzstion to split us."<br />
Harold C . Bennett, executive serretarytreasurer of the SEE Executive C m i ttee, edmd<br />
Ray' s merit, mting the current controversy is "causing tmsion which is pilling us (the SBC)<br />
apart. We hold the future of the SBC in our hands. Planned GrCkJth In Giving can move us into<br />
Bold Mission Thrust to accamplish what we set out to do."<br />
Several persons re~esenting various areas uE Southern Baptist life gave reports on Bold<br />
Mission Thrust and its progress thus far.<br />
- The Denton seminar was the sword of five to be mrducted whi& will train mare than 800<br />
persons. - The first seminar was in Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 7-9. Future seminars include Skrx3co<br />
Springs, Ma., Feb. 4-6; Ridgecrest, N.C., Feb. 25-27 and Gulfshare, Miss., Mar& 4-6.<br />
-30-<br />
(RP) photo of Cecil Ray a d T.T. Crabtree available frm Texas bureau of Baptist Press.
SBC Features Prayer<br />
Times, Mare Business<br />
AWANCE-sm<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/1/85<br />
DALLAS (=)-Prayer times at each session and exwed business time are features of the<br />
program £oar the <strong>1985</strong> annual meting of the Southern Baptist Convention, June 11-13 at the<br />
Dallas Convent ion Center.<br />
. The program, released by Marris Chapan, pistor of First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls,<br />
Texas, and &airman of the dttee an ardes of business, has the theme of "Pray p<br />
therefare. . . . "<br />
"The scriptural theme is a call to payer and to missions whi& has the potential to grip<br />
the heart a€ every person attending the anvention with an overwhelming burden far the<br />
unsaved," Qlapnan said.<br />
One of the highlights of the three-day annual meting of the 14.3 million member<br />
demmimtion, accarding to Ckpan is "small group prayer sessions whit31 have hen inserted<br />
into almt every session." ' The lsminute prayer times, he said, were added at the request of<br />
SBC President Charles Stanley, pastar of First Baptist Churd-r of Atlanta.<br />
"He asked that we insert this spcial time far Wayer. He (Stanley) is very conscious of<br />
God' s people mllectively praying for Gcd' s will and God' s p er,<br />
I' Qlapnan added. I<br />
I<br />
ArPther feature, he said, is m e time for business. "Messenqrs (to pevious conventions)<br />
had eqessed a desire to have a relatively unlimi td amount of time fm discussion of my<br />
issue," Qlapnan said. "The amdtment of the dttee has been to ~ d dthat e kind of time."<br />
Chapnan added he is mt wediding the aonvlention will be ranmous, saying he blieves<br />
"it is totally unpredcictable at this time. We (the cornmi ttee) were simply trying to respd<br />
to the ex~essed desires Q£ mssengers. We did mt make this decision based on anticipation<br />
(of mwh business )".<br />
One way in which the business t ime has ken ex- has been to start the sessions a half<br />
h~ur earlier, Chgpnan said. Amther hs been the elimination of a theme interpetation at<br />
every session. Instead, there will bz one thane interpretation, deliever& at the' Tuesday<br />
evening meeting.<br />
' Tan ElLiff, pasta of A p l d Baptist Church in Denver, will deliver the interpretation.<br />
Ellif f , a f mmer Oklahuna pastar, senred briefly on the foreign mission field before having to<br />
return to the United States because of family health reasons.<br />
"We felt7Tan Elliff pereonified as much as any man the dual ern-sis on prayer and<br />
missions," Chapan said. "He has been to the mission field, has a great mission heart and is<br />
a rnan who bs ptt a great em-is m prayer during his entire ministry. We felt his life gave<br />
strong em@msis of Matthew 9:38 (the scripturd. text of the Fogram theme), " Clhap~n added.
SBC Features Prayer<br />
Times, W e Wlsiness<br />
Page 2<br />
. The strong emphasis m Fayer and mi ssiom will Ix? carried through Tuesday and Wedneshy<br />
nights, with presentations by the Fmeign Mission Board (lbsday) and the Hune Mission Board<br />
(~ednesday) . "We em& tbse to be extraardimry nights uf inspiration and strong statemmts<br />
about Bold Mission Thrust, " Chapman said.<br />
He added there will be rn business follwing the presentations, allaging messmgers to<br />
depart "on a rote of inspiration. We hop we will be able to leave the hall ea& night<br />
rejoicing over the great missions advance we lave been able to make throllgbut the wanld."<br />
Chapnan said there will be a business session Wednesday evening but added "it will be in<br />
advance of the Hare Mission Board presentation."<br />
"Also, ea& evening Bill Reynolds (convmtion music director) w ill begin singing &oruses<br />
as we are dismissed as a remidew that even when we are having business our ultimate intmt is<br />
just to praise the Ltcd," Chapnan said.<br />
-The convention ~ogram<br />
also will feature the annual pesidmtial aaress by Stanleyand<br />
the mnvention sermon by Charles Fuller, @stor of First Baptist Chur& of Roxnke, Va.<br />
-30-<br />
t
Dilday Claims Pressler Wants<br />
- To Create ' Criswell Clones ' By Jim Newton<br />
A Texas,<br />
A W m RACKGROUND s m<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/8/85<br />
ATLZWllA (BP)-The president of the nation's larpst th~ological seminary charged that a<br />
conservative political takeover group within the Southern Baptist Convention is trying to make<br />
every Baptist seminary "just lib Criswell Bible Institute" in Dallas and "meate clam of Dr.<br />
(W.A. ) Criswell."<br />
Russell Dilday, president of Southwestern Baptist- Theological Seminary in Fart Warth,<br />
told about 1,000 "Conerne3 Southern Baptists" of ~eargia that unless the takeover is<br />
stopped within the next three or four pars, "Southern Ehptists will lose SoutWestern<br />
Seminary" and every other agency.<br />
Dilday quoted extensively Judge Paul Plressler of Houston and Criswell Bible Institute<br />
President Paige Patterson, whm he identified as key leaders in the SBC conservative "mntrol<br />
Inovement ."<br />
According to Dilday, Judge Pressler said in a radio kcadcast that he wanted to make every<br />
institution in the Southern Baptist Corntion "just like Criswell Bible Institute."<br />
Dilday quoted htterson as saying in a radiebroadcast seman at First Baptist Churd~ of<br />
Dallas his goal as president of Criswell Bible Institute was "to create clones of Dr.<br />
Criswell," the venerated pastor of the nation's largest SBC &ur&, First Baptist of Dallas.<br />
Dilday said he had difficulty believing Criswell was involved in the "takeover" mvement<br />
until he and sevexal others met with the Dallas pstor recently. Although Dilday said he and<br />
others had never lamwn what to call the Pressler-Patterson conservative malition, Criswell had<br />
referred to it as "a movement to control the Southern Baptist Corntion.<br />
"That's exactly what it is," Dilday said. ' The issue is mt theological conservatism<br />
versus liberalism, ol: the infallibility of the Bible, the issue is control o£ the Southern<br />
Baptist Convention, Dilday said.<br />
"'The issue is what kind of a convention will we (Southern Baptists) be, " Dilday said.<br />
"The very nature of the aonwntion is at stake.<br />
"Are we going to be a convention ormmitted to ~essing toward theological confcarmity and<br />
creedalism, ox are we going to be a convention that canes together to cooperate in doing<br />
missiors and evangelism and winning our world to Jwus Christ?" Dilday asked.<br />
Dilday claimed the leaders ul the "antrol mvennent" are mwilling to suwt anything<br />
f imcially they do mt agree with totally and canpletely, and their apoach to missions and<br />
emgelism is mt to cooperate with others, but to operate like "Indepndent Baptists."<br />
- The other key issue, said Dilday, is leadership. "Who will be the leaders of the<br />
convention? Will they be cooperating Southern Baptists a t t e d to missions and evangelism,<br />
or will they be indepndent and fmmtal in mmtdity, ccmnnitted to pra4hurch activity?<br />
--me--
Dilday Claims Pressler Wants<br />
To Create 'Criswell Clones<br />
Page 2<br />
"Will they be people more interested in a nation31 political awda than they are in what<br />
Southern Baptists do t ~ther in missions and evangelism?" Dilday said he was alarmed by<br />
"frightening indicators" that the same people involved in the movement to control the SBC are<br />
also involved in religious right political activities as ex~essed through such organizations<br />
as Mwal Marjority.<br />
During a question and answer session, Jim Strickland, pstor of First Baptist Chur&,<br />
Cartersville, Ga., who presided over the meeting, said election of the aonmtion president is<br />
the key to control of the convention. Strickland expessed hopes a "-prating Southern<br />
Ba#ist" would he elected president of the SBC when it meets in Dallas next June.<br />
Whm asked who might be a possible naminee to oppose Charles Stanley, current SBC<br />
president and pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Dilday said the name he has heard nost<br />
as a possible mminee is Winfred Moore, pastor of First Baptist Churd~, Amarillo,-Texas, and<br />
current ~esident of the Baptist General Convention of7 Texas.<br />
"Unless the current wesident decides m t to seek reelection, there will mt be a lot of<br />
people itching far that responsibility," Dilday said.<br />
In his speed-^ Dilday offered four suggestions on "hcrw to get out af the mess we are in":<br />
(1) pray, not superficially but with real concern: (2) meet and beme infarmed about the<br />
issues: (3) speak out and take a stand, and (4) go to the wnvention in Dallas and vote.<br />
"Neutrality is mt a positive position to take," Dilday said. He said he readhed the<br />
point in his am pilgrimage as a Christian that he could rn longer be silent and be true to<br />
himself, his family, the facuty and students at the seminary, and "true to my Lxrd."<br />
He said as prt of his struggle in deciding to spak out, he had studied the Scriptures on<br />
what Jesus did when he saw things he felt were wrong in the- Temple. Dilday cmpred the<br />
tec2micpes being used by the "control ~vemmt" to techniques used by the &ief priests who<br />
sent out spies to trap Jesus.<br />
"Surely there is m Baptist, no Christian, who could agree that the tactics of swing and<br />
tap recording and trapping are appropriate in any Christian organization," ~ilday<br />
said.<br />
In amther speech to the group, a Baptist layman fran Claxton, Ga., Narman Cavender, said<br />
the mnservatives seeking to control the SEE are mt true to Baptist heritage emphasizing<br />
religious librty and the priesthaod of believers.<br />
Cavender, a farm poducts executive, claimed the group seeking to control the SBC "wants<br />
their system of understanding of the Bible to he imposed on the mnvmtion' s seminaries and<br />
agencies. -That's why if a seminary professor or agency employee says sanething they disagree<br />
with, they want him fired. ' They want everyone else to think and believe the way they do.<br />
"What they are trying to do," Cavender said, "is shackle the Bible with their awn opinions<br />
about the Bible. "<br />
Cavender drew awlawe when b declared, "It is mt their right to use a political madzine<br />
to seize tmntrol of this denomimtion and drag all the rest of us along with them. "<br />
He fiallmged Baptist laypeople to attend the Dallas convention as messengers and take a<br />
stand fcr liberty. "We Baptists have been fighting f a liberty far 300 years," he said.<br />
"Lfbrty can win again in Dallas if we will stand up and start acting like Baptists again."<br />
The meeting at Weiuca Road Baptist Chur& was the first of three such rallies sponsored by<br />
"Concerned Southern Baptists" in Geargia featuring addresses by SBC seminary presidents.<br />
Similar meetings are s&eduled Feb. 21 at First Baptist Chur&, Tifton, Ga. ; and on April 9 at<br />
First Baptist Churd~, Savannah. Ray Honneycutt , president of Southern Baptist Theological<br />
Seminary, L&uisville, Ky. , is to spak at the Tif ton rally; and Randall Lblley, president of<br />
Southeastern Baptist- Theological Seminary, Wake Fmest, N.C., is s&eduled fm. Savanndh.<br />
-3&-
Pressler , Patterson<br />
Respd To Dilday<br />
AWAKE EVICKGIWND S mY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/8/85<br />
HOUSTON (BP)--Paige Patterson and hul Pressler say the main issue in the Southern Baptist<br />
Convention Mmtroversy is the nature of Scripture, mt control af the denomination.<br />
Baptist Press contacted Ehtterson and Pressler after an address in Atlanta by Russell<br />
Dilday, president of Soutlwestern Baptist- Theological Seminary, Fart Wcrrth, Texas, in whid~<br />
Dilday warned of a "movement to mntrol the Southern Baptist Corntion."<br />
Pressler, a Houston al~peals court judge, said: "Russell Dilday continues in his usual<br />
tactic of trying to make mmissues issues, to accuse mnservatives of things they have rot<br />
done and to make wild char~s that are mt accurate.<br />
"The issue is what Scripture is and that is the only issue that I kmw of. Conservatives<br />
are mt seeking adherence to a particular intervetation of Scripture, merely agreemmt that<br />
Scripture is entirely God's wwrd and does mt make mistakes," Pressler aaed.<br />
Pressler charged Dilday, rather than inerrantists, has tried "to make an interpetation a<br />
creed," and cited an "address to (~outkwestern) students July 5, 1984, in whid.1 he (~ilday)<br />
said dispensatioml ~emillennidam was a Southern Baptist heresy.. .labelling many, many<br />
Southern Baptist leaders heretics.<br />
"He (Dilday) has sought to make his interpretation a basis of arthodoxy, scmething<br />
conservatives have never done and w ill never do," Pressler added.<br />
Pressler said Dilday "misconstrued" remarks about Criswell center. "What I was<br />
emphasizing was that if every Southern Baptist schml taught people to bs soul winners and had<br />
the evangelistic zeal of Criswell (~ible ~nstitute) our convention muld be in gmd shape."<br />
Patterson, reached in Fayetteville, Ga., where he was teaching a Bible study, said he ma*<br />
a remark during a sermon that his -1 as wesident of CBI was to "create dones uf Dr. (w.A. )<br />
Criswell," the pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas and sponsar of the Bible s&aol. He<br />
aMd: "'The statement was made in fun, which Dr. Dilday very well h w s . Haever, the<br />
expression of concern aprently reflects a fear on Dr. Dilday' s part of the perf ul pulpiteer<br />
with an autharitative messaw from God.<br />
"It is interesting to me the parmia that is involved. Dr. Dilday alleges we are qing<br />
to lose Soutkanlestern (seminary) and all of our other agencies. I wuld simply ask: - To whom<br />
are we going to lose them? -To Criswell? Fbgers? Draper? Stanley?"<br />
Patterson referred to the current wesident and tm farmer ~esidents a€ the nation's<br />
largest wotestant de-iomimtion. Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Chur& in Memphis,<br />
Tenn.; James T. Drapsr Jr., pastor of First Baptist Churd~ of Euless, Texas, and Charles F.<br />
Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, are all inerrantists.<br />
Patterson also mt& Dilday raised questions of leadership. "I wonder if inadvertentlyhe<br />
did not put his finger on the real problem. Is it just possible that the real concern of sane<br />
is the possibility of fcrfeiting their awn leadership role?"<br />
-3s-
1964 Statistics flmw<br />
Lackluster SBC Year By Jim Lawry<br />
AWANCE EuuxGRUlND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/11/85<br />
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)-AltMwh gains outnunbered losses fca Southern Baptists in the<br />
fiml statistical. reprt fm 1484, it appears the denomination generally marad in place<br />
following four years af significant increases.<br />
Gains were recorded by Southern Baptists in the nmbr of churaes, total membership,<br />
Sunday school enrollment, church music enrollment, Brother- enrollment, mission expnditures<br />
and total receipts. Lssses were in baptisms, chur& training enrollment and Wcman' s Missionary<br />
Union enrollment.<br />
These figwes are based on unifurm &ur& letters received by the research services<br />
department of the Southern Rapkist Sunday S&ml Board. Projections related to Southern<br />
wist ~qrams were released in Decanter based on the first 26,000 letters received fran<br />
&ur&es.<br />
In the five program areas and in the numkr of &ur&es, losses and gains varied less thn<br />
one permtap point £run the previous year. Baptisms, hwever, suffering the s a d<br />
consecutive loss, were dm by mme than 22,000, or 5.7 percent, £ran last par.<br />
Chur& membership fur the denomination rea&ed a new total of 14,349,657 with a gain of<br />
164,203, whi& is the smallest increase since 1978. Mission expenditures and total receipts<br />
increased respectively by 7.3 and 8.8 percent.<br />
Wold C . Baulett , executive secretarytreasurer of the Southern Baptist Executive<br />
Camnittee, expressed regret about the decrease in baptisms, but said he remains optimistic<br />
because of the antact he has had with Southern Baptist &ur&es.<br />
"I have discovered a renewed interest in Christ a d in the preeing of the Gospel in<br />
&urdnes where I have visited," Bennett said. "I believe the lam& of Good News Amrica, the<br />
dmmination' s plan for simultaneous revivals in 1%6, will give Southern hptists a new all-<br />
time high in bptisms. Good News America will again mter our attention on reaching<br />
idividual persons for Jesus Christ and dhurch mesnbership."<br />
Several of the increases in the programs included in the 10 key repting areas were the<br />
smallest in several years, whid.1 could a£ fect the desires of the denomination for dramatic<br />
increases in sharing the Gospel ar& the world.<br />
nLrmber of churaes in the Southern Baptist Convention increased in 1984 to a new total<br />
A The<br />
of 36,740. This increase of 0.6 percent, or 209, is the smallest nmerical gain since 1979.<br />
- The &w& membership increase of 164,203, or 1.2 pexmt, is the same percmtage gain as was<br />
predicted.<br />
In Sunday s&ool, the denomirntion' s largest program, the onping enrollment was up by 0.5<br />
percent, or 41,894, to re& arrother recard total mrollmmt at 7,857,337. The actual total<br />
was 0.1 percent higher than the projeted gain.<br />
-=e--
1964 Statistics ShcxlJ<br />
Lackluster SBC Year<br />
Page 2<br />
This year's baptism total of 372,028, has fallm fran 411,554 baptisms in 1B2. The most<br />
baptisms ever remded in the nation's largest p~otestant denomination was 445,725 in 1972.<br />
- The drop in baptisms also is refleded in the nunhr of &urdnes reporting a baptism in 19634,<br />
when the total dram by 0.7 percent to 29,850. . This means approximately onesixth of all<br />
&u~&es in the denomination did rot have at least one baptism.<br />
Church training enrollmmt was d m by 0.7 percent, or 14,483, in 1984, making the new<br />
total 1,972,907. ' This lass, whid.1 ccmes on the heels of four consecutive gains, is 0.1 percent<br />
more than the projected decrease.<br />
The enrollment in WMU activities in 1984 lost 0.5 percent, or 5,724, making the new total<br />
1,169,630. This was 0.2 percent less than the projected loss.<br />
The &ur& music program increase, the 19th consecutive gain, was the smallest numerical<br />
gain since 1977. - The 0.6 percent, or lO,62lI incrrease brings the church music enrollment to<br />
1,667,385. - The gain is 0.4 percent less than the predicted gain.<br />
Brotherhood enrollment in 1984 increased by 0.5 percent, or 3,034, to a new total of<br />
568,383. - This is 0.4 percent less than the projected total.<br />
Mission exmditures in 1B4 increased by 7.3 percent over the previous year to<br />
$568,059,173. - This total is mehalf of a percentage pint mcare than was pojected.<br />
Total receipts for the denomination last par rose by 8.8 prcent to a total of<br />
$3,665,735,085. ' The actual gain was about one permt higher than predicted.<br />
Baptisms<br />
Total Membrship<br />
Sunday Schml<br />
Ongoing Enrollment<br />
Churd-i Training<br />
Ehrollmen t<br />
Ongoing Music Ministry<br />
Enrollment<br />
Wanan' s Missiomry Union<br />
Onqing Ehrollment<br />
Brother- Ongoing<br />
Enrollment<br />
' Total Mission<br />
Ekpendi tmes<br />
Total Receipts<br />
Sunanary of the 1%4 Southern Baptist Comtion Statistics:<br />
Percent<br />
Gain ar Gain w<br />
- 1983<br />
Lbss m s
Patterson Discllsses<br />
'Conservative Resurgence'<br />
By RoS3ert H. Dilday<br />
AWAJsfcE RACKGRCUND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/11/85<br />
ATLAMA ( BP)-A leader in the mcwermmt to turn the Southern Baptist Convention tward a<br />
mace conservative stance told a group of Geonrgia Baptist pstors the rnnventian's annual<br />
meeting in June w ill determine if a "conservative resurgence" will continue car whether there<br />
will be "a reversal back to...a liberal position."<br />
"There is m debate, among those who are best enough to face the issue, but that there<br />
has been a shift in Southern Baptist theolqical opinion, " Paige Patterson, associate pastm of<br />
First Baptist Chur& of Dallas, told about 60 people at First Baptist Church in Lilburn, Ga.<br />
-The meeting was a regular session of the ZBwrenceville Baptist Association Pastors'<br />
Conference.<br />
"What we have is a theological direction that leads us to a denial of certain aspects of<br />
Scripture," he added, warning eventually the tmdency would destrq evangelism in the 14.3<br />
mi llion-mwiber SBC.<br />
During a questiomand-answer period, Patterson was asked why Russell Ka~merling, editor<br />
of the Southern Baptist Advocate, published in Dallas to suwt the aims of the<br />
fmdzimentalists, refuses to reveal the names of the tabloid's bard members.<br />
"I persorally have tried to get them to go ahead and reveal it, " Patterson said.<br />
He indicated Ka~mrnerling, who is Patterson's kother-iwlaw, ~obahly is trying to protect<br />
the board frm "persecution as long as he can," and that the editor is resisting pressure £run<br />
so-called "moderates" in the mnvlention.<br />
"Chances are he (Kaemmerling) will mt be made to do it," Patterson said. "It's a mistake<br />
to apprm& Russ Kaemrnerling that way."<br />
Patterson insisted the issue in the conflict is theological, mt political, although he<br />
aMtted, "I don't deny at all that there is a political aide to it. One of the reasons<br />
there's all the mncern is that the group that ~esmtlyholds per is scared to death they're<br />
about to lose it . "<br />
"'The pint to whi& we have one is a mvewnt to the left, " he said. "'That is<br />
debateable. If it is dekriteable, why won't saneone debate it with us in public?"<br />
Patterson claimed he had offered to meet in a public fmm with Roy 1;; Ebneycutt , Wsell<br />
H. Dilday Jr. and W. Randall Lblley, the presidmts, respectively, of Southern Baptist<br />
- Theological Sdnary, Lbuisville, Ky. ; Southvestern Baptist- Theological Sdnary, Farrt War th,<br />
Texas, and Southeastern Baptist' Thedogical Seminary, Wake Farest, N.C., but they had refused.<br />
All three men have been outspkm in their owsition to Patterson's goals.
Patterson Discusses<br />
'Conservative Resurgence'<br />
Page 2<br />
"I'm willing to lay the evidence on the table," he said. "Why aren't they?"<br />
Patterson also criticized the "topheavy bureawracy" in the conwintion whi& he said was<br />
bccming mcare hierarchial in str~lcture.<br />
Ele cited pmf the "evolving of certain titles far denominatioml servants."<br />
"We used to have 'associatiornl missiomries, ' " he said. "But in sane associations they<br />
may soon beccme the director of missions, and in other associations it has cpne even farther,<br />
and he is mw the executive director of the association."<br />
Asked what he and those who share his concern will do if SBC President Charles F. Stanley<br />
of Atlanta, who is widely s u ~ t e by d furrdamgltalists in the convention, is defeated,<br />
Patterson said he hoped "conservatives" muld Fay fa the new ~esident, but "would see the<br />
seriousness UI the prohlen and decide whether ar rot we want our hurches in the tradition of<br />
Gearge- Truett and R.G. L&. . .and cane back at subsequent convention and finish the business. "<br />
"I very well understand the possibility of m h mcre serious things hawing, " he added.<br />
--30--<br />
(~ilday is associate editor of-The Christian Idex, newsjournal uf the Geccrgia Baptist<br />
Convgltion. )
Jbecutive C d ttee mses Vatican Envoy; Tax Penalty<br />
AWANSE BACKGRDJND STOW<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/20/85 I<br />
By Stan Hastey<br />
WHV1LZ;E;Tmn. (BP)-1n separate actions the Southern Baptist Convention ESEecutive<br />
Camittee endarsed a legal brief opsing President Reagan's apintmat last year of an<br />
ambassadca: to the Vatican and micad o-sition to a feature in Reagan's tax refurm package<br />
whi& would reduce tax dducticm for dharitable mntributiom.<br />
In objecting to Reagan's proposal to elimimte income tax deductions far contributions to<br />
dmrity belaw tm percent of a tapyer's adjusted gross iname, the Executive Cunmittee<br />
declared its rejection of what it called "the dmracterization of tax deduztibility of gifts to<br />
&ur&es as the equivaleslt of government subsidy."<br />
Acknowledging what it described as "the fiscal urgency whi& the nation31 deficit creates<br />
far the United States Congress, I' the mmi ttee nevertheless asked lawmakers to follaw "the<br />
wisdom of the years" in ansidering hanges in tax policy "which will hinder &ur&es frcm<br />
doing their work."<br />
- The Executive Ccmmi ttee approved without discussion mdcrsement of a f riend-o£-themurt<br />
brief at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pmnsylvania filed by the<br />
Washington-based Baptist Joint Camni ttee on Public A£ f airs.<br />
- That Iwief , filed in suwt of a lawsuit bxaught by hricans Uni td far Separation of<br />
Chura and State ad several majar religious denominations, &allenged Reagan' s appointment of<br />
William A. Wilson as ambassador to the Vatican. The move follmed congressiol~al action sowht<br />
by the White House removing an 1867 ban on diplunatic relations with the Holy See.<br />
DeBte over U.S.-Vatican diplanatic ties dates to 1939 and Presidmt Franklin D.<br />
Raasevelt's decision to smd Myron Taylm as his persoml represmtative to the Holy See with<br />
the rank of ambssadcr. In 1951 President Harry S Trmmn sought to upgrade th~ relationship<br />
by Mming Gm. Mark Clark ambassadm but, after an enormous pLiblic outcry by fellaw Baptists<br />
ad others, the retired ge~leral witldrew his name and- Trman let the matter rest.<br />
Althoqh Presidents Dwight D. Eisenwer, Jdhn F. Kemedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had m<br />
official diplanatic ties with the Vatican, President Richard M. Nimn resumed the practice of<br />
sending a persoml re~esentative, a device subequmtly used by Presidents Gerald R. Fmd,<br />
Jimny Carter and Reagan.<br />
'The Baptist Joint Caranittee brief, writtm and filed by its late general counsel John W.<br />
Baker, objected to the new arrangement as a violation of the First Anmdment' s ban on an<br />
establis-mt o£ religion. 'Exchanging ambassadms with a churd~, the brief argued further,<br />
shcrws preference faa: one religion over all others. In a mvel argument, Baker told the<br />
district court the pxactice poses potential danger to overseas missimsies of all<br />
denomimtians by clouding their idmtity as religious repnresentatives, espcially iri Third<br />
World countries .
Executive C d ttee Owses<br />
Vatican Envoy, Tax Peslelty<br />
Although the Executive Cdttee endarsed the Baptist Joint Cdttee brief and urged the<br />
agmcy to fight the matter through the federal appellate process, it stopped shmt of entering<br />
the case as a ceplaintif f , the other opt ion available. LBslt Septembr the M y declind any<br />
involvement in the case in spite of a Southern Baptist Convention resolution last June<br />
corddng U.S.-Vatican relations and a separate motion asking the Executive Camittee to join<br />
any legal eff cart challenging the new arrangement.<br />
A£ ter a handf ul of m r s voiced concern that swh action might be interpreted as an<br />
effart to embarrass President Reagan duringhis bid £car reelection, the matter died last<br />
Se#mhr. -The decision m t to act resulted, hawever, in resolutiom by several Baptist state<br />
conventions in November urging SBC involvement.<br />
Executive Cdttee Ceneral Counsel James P. Guenther of Nashville, told Baptist Press the<br />
new action reflects the Southern Ehptist Cormtion's "historic support far the First<br />
Amendment's separation of &ur& and state." He said Southern Bapkists "stand united" in<br />
oppsition to U.S.-Vatican relations, not as "a matter of being anti-Catholic, " but because "we<br />
blieve the Vatican apintment is bad public policy and a dangerous and unwarranted<br />
entanglement of government and one &ur& body. "<br />
--3o--
SBC Executive Cornnittee<br />
Approves Statement On BP<br />
By Jim Newton<br />
AWANCE WKGROUND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/20/85<br />
NASIWIILEI Tm. (El?)-After almost three hours of testimony and discussion, the Southern<br />
Baptist Conmtion Executive Camnittee mncluded tm Baptist Press news stories last September<br />
"when taken together" gave a balanced presentation of the news.<br />
- The fiml vote was t a with almost m discmsion, although the stories had stirred<br />
heated debate in tm preliminary meetings.<br />
- The stories were released Sept. 17 and 18, 1984. The first article reprted that a<br />
semimry student, J. Staffmd Durham, had filed a "farmal canplaint" with the Federal<br />
C~mmunications C d ssion alleging Houston judq Paul Pressler had secretly tape reccrrded a<br />
telemne anversation "in violation of his civil rights. "- The seoond story gave Pressler' s<br />
response to the charges.<br />
' The Executive Camittee said it was "untimly" and "un£urtunate" the first story appared<br />
seprately without an apprqriate rebuttal frm Pressler.<br />
The ccmmittee also ex~aressed support fat: the Baptist Press staff far "their strong<br />
reccrrrmitmnt to timely, accurate, and well-balanced news repxting:" reaffirmed "its<br />
longstanding policy of W e s s in its deliberations a d actions," and "its supt far a<br />
respnsible and free press as an essential element fm an infarmed Southern Baptist<br />
oonsti twcy . "<br />
The onrmittee also was told a "Baptist Press -rating policy" is being fmmulated by the<br />
Ekecutive Cdttee staff.<br />
While the recanmendations were awed by the 69-mmker d ttee virtually without<br />
comment, tw prelimimry meetings featured heated debate. Both meetings took place urmder<br />
"backgroutd rules" whi& prevent direct quotations f ran individuals during debate.<br />
The &airman of the public relations workgroup, Jim Jackson of Huntsville, Ala., ruled<br />
during the workgroup' s meeting on Feb. 18 that discussion on the matter would be lid t d only<br />
to the procedure in -ling the tm stories, mt whether anyone was right cx wrong; and that<br />
only members of the workgroup muld be allwed to discuss the matter.<br />
Pressler, who kought into the room a suitcase full of printed materials, objected<br />
strongly to the ruling whi& pevented him fran pesenting four kwws of testimony he said he<br />
had prepared.<br />
In interviews after the meeting, Pressler ccmplained the ruling was grossly unfair. "I<br />
don' t Wow why these people are sugpressing the truth. I had 35 greviences against E3aptist<br />
Press I wanted to ~esent, but they muldn't let me speak."<br />
Instead of hearing testimonyby Pressler and Baptist Press Director Wilmer C. Fields, the<br />
public relations mrkgroup discussed warding of the reccmmgldation which finally was adopted by<br />
the full Executive C d ttee.<br />
-me--
Page 2<br />
QI the second day of the meeting, the administrative and conventions arrangements<br />
subcanrmittee voted 156 to allm a full a d canplete discussion of the issue, including<br />
testimony by any who wanted to speak. Pressler, a l edr in the movement sane claim is trying<br />
to gain mntrol of the SEE, is a member of the subcanmittee.<br />
Frank Ingraham, a Nashville attmney and hairman of the subccmmi ttee, ruled the mnmi ttee<br />
would allm Pressler and Fields 45 minutes each to pzresmt their argumats.<br />
Pressler passed out a seven-pint, 65-page stack of docunents detailing his canplaints<br />
against Baptist Press.<br />
In his written presentation, Pressler altrnitted tap recarding the telephone mnversation<br />
with Durham on Sept. 1, but denied he had done anything unethical ar illegal. "I took the<br />
precaution of taping the mnversation for several reasons," he said. He claimed "certain<br />
idividuals an the liberal side in the aonvention have umpletely and totally misre~esented<br />
conversations I had with them" . . . .<br />
He added he recorded the aonversation "fa self-protection ... to have a read of the<br />
telephone aonversat ion. . . . "<br />
Pressler listed 35 objections to the story, including a dzarge D~ham, in his canplaint,<br />
had given "a bogus citation to the Fm: cde which has m relevance to the matters involved."<br />
He suggested saneone must have advised and manipulated Durham to contact the EY3C.<br />
Pressler also &arm Baptist Press gives "liberals" in the onvention "full and<br />
ample oppartunity to resprd" to accusations, but "conservatives are mt always affrrded that<br />
privilege." He further canplain4 about use of writers "with fixed prejudices."<br />
"The question is whether the present anplqees a€ the Baptist Press are so f imly directed<br />
in their m i d set that they are unwilling or mble to look at what is occwing in the SBC fran<br />
an alternate viewpoint £ran their own, m whether they are incapable of separating their<br />
persoml ~ejudices f run their reprting of the evmts that are occurring within the<br />
convention," Pressler concluded.<br />
He asked the anmitt- to examine the tm stories and determine if "li'bel" was<br />
mnmitted, and argued he was defamed by the articles whi& shckJ "an intent to harm or malice."<br />
In respnse to Pressler's dzarges, Fields made a brief statement and passed out copies of<br />
the related Baptist Press articles. He said Baptist Press carried 1,118 stories last year, and<br />
only 22 of those stories (1.9 percent) could be aowidered "negative stories" about<br />
controversial issues to whi& saneone might dbject. Of the 1,118 stories carried, Baptist<br />
Press received canplaints only about three articles, including the Pressler -plaint,<br />
accarding to Fields.<br />
Fields said he regretted very much that time and space limitations caused the mailing of<br />
the secord story to bz delayed one day. He said that if the incident could ke done over again,<br />
the tm stories muld have been mailed the same day.<br />
Mwh of ~aptist Press' response to Pressler's &ar~s was devoted to a presentation by<br />
Southern Baptist Press ~ssociation President Bobby S: Terry, editor of Ward and Way,<br />
news journal of the Missouri Baptist Cornrention, who summarized a six-page "Rept of Spcial<br />
Incpziry" ccmmissiond and paid far by the press association.<br />
'- The six-page rept was vepared by journalism praf~scrs<br />
John Merrill of Lbuisiana State<br />
University, Cliffard Christians uf the University of Illinois and John DeMott of Memphis State<br />
University. All three are members of the ethics s uttee of the Association far Education<br />
in ~ournalism's d t t e e on prcxEessiom1 freedom ad responsibility.<br />
--lmre--
SBC Executive Cmittee<br />
Approves Statement On EP<br />
Page 3<br />
- The journalism professas said they f omd m "evidence of ill will taward Pressler, " and<br />
rn evidence the BP staff was "motivated by un~ofessioml intentions to &ma- the reputations<br />
of the principls involved. "<br />
"Release of the reprt of Sept . 17, without the respnse of Pressler, was mt unfair under<br />
the peculiar circumstances existing, and therefare did mt consitute p r journalism," the<br />
prafessars said. They described BPI s dilemma this way: "Should a reprter repart the news<br />
imediately, even though the response to sane accusation contained in it c m t be included in<br />
the first rep t . . . , or should he suppress the news temporarily while getting the response?"<br />
"...It is difficult to fault BP £car the decision it made, and few news editors wuld do<br />
so, " the professms said. "The decision made by BP is one made every day by many news<br />
organizations pacticing the highest standards in ow profession.<br />
The professors said the BP stories in question "shcw exemplary restraint and discretion in<br />
what is admittedly a potentially sensatioml event. They are both news accounts which refrain<br />
£ran editorializing. They do rot speculate regarding motives, editorialize almut the ethics<br />
involvd, or entertain reflections f ran unattributed sources."<br />
"The news releases," they continued, "appear to us to slxxl the mendable vigor of<br />
effective journalism caribined with the restraint that is demonstrated amonq the most<br />
respnsible in the news profession today."<br />
Pressler was mt satisf id with their study, hmever, saying in an interview a£ terwards it<br />
was done by "hired guns" wkbo were "paid" to say what they did.<br />
After the hearing, Pressler said he was pleased the mnmittee had heard his canplaint, and<br />
that his side of the story had been told.<br />
Fields observed the Executive Carmi ttee members and staff had talked thenselves together<br />
on the pr-r role of Baptist Press. "It is highly significant that the anmi ttee voted to<br />
reaff inn its suppt fm a responsible and free press as an essential elemmt fm an infarmed<br />
Southern Baptist constituency, " he said.<br />
-3s-
AWAKE BACKGRDLIND 'STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/21/85<br />
ACrs Fund Campaign<br />
Okayd; Lban Delayed By Dan Martin<br />
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)-A three-year, $6-million fund raising campaign to finance the ACTS<br />
television netmrk has been apprwed by the Southern Baptist Convention Executive C& ttee,<br />
but approval to brrw up to $10 mi llion fm 10 years has been delayed.<br />
The action was taken during the Fehruary meeting of the Executive C d ttee, which is<br />
required by the SBC Business and Financial Plan to approve fwd raising campaigns by nation31<br />
agencies, and to give mnsent far "incunbrances which cannot be repaid out of anticipated<br />
receipts far current operations within a period of three years."<br />
The Radio ard Television C d ssion, whi& operates the Amrican Christian Television<br />
System netmrk, had asked to be allwed to coduct a special solicitation drive to raise $12.5<br />
million to fwd ACTS through fiscal 1986, and fa autharity to borrm up to $10 million with a<br />
l&year maturity.<br />
The recamn~ndationto delay aprwal of the total solicitation and the loan while<br />
approving the sharter term fund raising effart was made by the Wlsiness and Finance<br />
s m i ttee a£ ter an all-day session with Jimny R. Allen, RlW president, and other<br />
revesentatives of the Faart Warth, Texas-based agency.<br />
"We have looked long and hard at these tm requests," said Harmon Bcnrn of Atlanta,<br />
chairman of the subcamnittee. "We believe we have m e up with best possible solution."<br />
Born added the Executive Ccmunittee "is mt trying to substitute our judgement far that of<br />
the trustees of the Radio and Television Canmission. Wlt we are required by the (business and )<br />
f imncial plan to study this. We must have all of the data we can gather. "<br />
Born said representatives of the smttee will go to Fart Worth to study the matter as<br />
soon as the fimncial audit fm fiscal 1984 is ccmpleted at the dssion. The audit,<br />
repxtdly will be mpleted within 30 days.<br />
Allen told Baptist Press he is "pleased" with the action of the Fxecutive C d t t e e in<br />
approving the solicitation campaiq. "They did rnt turn dam anything we asked, " he said.<br />
"The key far us is the right-ar the privilege-to conduct a public campaign."<br />
He said the only question to be resolved about the campaign is "whether it will be three<br />
or five years. We wanted it to be five years because it gives us mme latitude to negotiate<br />
with groups. We can function with three years, but we would rather have had five years."<br />
Allen added the omnittee "did rot turn dawn" the request to borrw up to $10 million, hut<br />
postponed it "because they need more infmmation. We have invited them to m e here to Fat<br />
Warth to study it and they will reprt back (to the Executive C d ttee) in June. "<br />
--me-
ACTS Fund Campaign<br />
Okayed; Lban Delayed<br />
Page 2<br />
John Roberts of Greenville, S.C., chairman of trustees and editor of the Baptist Courier,<br />
said the loan and the campaign are linked. "M& are after the loan and the mllateral. We are<br />
going to laund.1 a fund campaign and then bzrm against that. We need money faster tbn we can<br />
raise it. We need to go to the bank right away (to brw the money) and thaz hve a canpi9<br />
to p y it back."<br />
Roberts added: "Tim is both our enmy and our friend right row. We think that in 24 to<br />
30 months we will have suf f icievlt revenues caning in to meet most of our obligations. But f ran<br />
mw until thm, we are going to be operating at a loss...."<br />
Allm said the FKWC "has to raise something like $7 million alnove the Cooperative Program"<br />
budget allocation to fund the opration of ACTS, a Christian television netmrk operating 24<br />
hours a day through cable television outlets ad lcrw ad full pmer TV stations.<br />
Far 1984-85, the RlVC will receive $4.9 million through the Cooperative Program (the<br />
denomimtion's d f i d plan of collecting and distributing fuzlds). -ding to the<br />
c~ssion's fimcial statement, the 1984-85 budget is $13.1 million, of which nearly $6<br />
million will be used to fund ACTS.<br />
Allm said the olmmission "has a cash flm poblem now. We need $1.1 million and that is<br />
part of the bridge the $10 million loan muld take care of."<br />
RTVC trustees, during their January meeting, gave approval fa a $1.4 million shmt term<br />
line of credit to pay current oprating expenses of the netwxk. Agmcy executives have<br />
authmity to mrcw that amount without Fxecutive ~cmuni ttee awoval.<br />
Alla described the situation as being like "starting a new business. Wha you begin you<br />
need money right then. We ned the money up front. -The capital cmpaign is the solution, but<br />
we need a line of interim fimcing available. In 30 months, we will have sufficient revenue,<br />
but we need to get through the startup phase until the money flcw starts."<br />
He added the $10 rrci llion loan request also muld retire about $4 million previously<br />
borrwed to fund the ACE opration, leaving $5 or $6 rnillion to fwd the netwk through<br />
fiscal 1986, at whia time it is hoped ACTS will be generating enough inme to pay its way.<br />
Representatives of both the RTVC and the Executive Cdttee say the financial situation<br />
is mplicated because a national TV netwxk is a new area fa Southern Baptists.<br />
Tim A. Heaquist, directar of financial planning fm the Executive Ccdttee, said part of<br />
the five hour meeting was spmt trying to "understand new termimlogy and techmlogy. The RTVC<br />
is talking in new terms. This is ground we have never plmd befme."<br />
Hdquist added if the $10 mi llion had requested "to build a new dmmi tory at one of<br />
the s dmries, we probably would have mpleted the discussion in 15 cn: 20 minutes. But this<br />
(funding of ACTS) is scmething we have never done befare. "<br />
]Both Hedquist and FBrn said there is a & tmmt to helping ACTS susceed, but there also<br />
is a detedmtionto pactice fiscal responsibility.<br />
"One of the reasons the loan was rn t a-wed was that the audit was rn t available, "<br />
Hdquist added. "We have many of the projections on hmd, but to hve validity there must be<br />
an audit rept ."<br />
He added the Executive C dttee "bs ken warking with the FtWC fcn: several weeks to<br />
ascertain where they are ( fimcially) . "<br />
A time far the study session between repesentatives of the Executive C d t t e e ad<br />
trustees of the RTVC has mt been set. The rrrVC trustees' executive mannittee will meet Mar&<br />
5, and a full meeting of the board is sdzeduled April 15-16.<br />
- 30--
Executive C m i ttee Backs<br />
Revisions In SBC Budget By Craig Bird<br />
AIXTANCE BACKGRCUND STORY<br />
Baflist Press<br />
2/21 /85<br />
NASEWILLE, Tgm. (BP)-Southern Baptist agency heads have stressed the "cooprative" in<br />
the Cooperative Program while adjusting the mnmtion' s rntio-1 unified budget to current<br />
emmmic realities.<br />
What one observer described as "pssibly the bst spirit of teanwk we have ever had in<br />
the budget planning process" was evident in the 1.%5-86 budget pl af $130 million which was<br />
aprovd hy the Southern Baptist Convention Executive C d t t e e at its February meeting.<br />
Also approved was a plan to extend previously approved capital expenditures far 19534-88<br />
throqh the 1%590 fiscal year.<br />
- The proposals will he presented to messengers at the annual meting of the Southern<br />
Baptist convention in Dallas next June fm f iml aprwal .<br />
The 1935-86 figure is the same as the 1%4-85 budget PI., an attempt to bring budget<br />
expectations and receipts into harmony.<br />
Natioml Cooperative Prqram inme has continued to post healthy increases in terms of<br />
"real. dollars" over the past several years but the rapid drop in inflation put the long term<br />
budget planning process used by the SBC in a hind.<br />
Ehdgets are a-oved tm years in advance by messmgers to the annual meting. The 1%3-<br />
84 budget goal assmed in£ latian of eight prmt but the actual rate was abut three percent<br />
aid contributions-thqh up approximately $10 million mpred to 1%32-83--totalled just over<br />
$108.8 million.<br />
Projections for 1934-85 indicate inme should bz arom-d $118 million.<br />
Capital needs are mt funded until the basic operating budget ($114.5 million in 1%3-R4<br />
and $118 mi llim in 1984-85) is met. Therefcare $3.4 million in capital needs f run 1%3-84 and<br />
$6.87 million in 1934-85 were carried over into the 1%5-86 planning process.<br />
The 1%5-86 provides $120.6 million fcsr the hasic operating budget. Funding priarity far<br />
income above that will go to the 1983-84 capital neds and 1%4-85 capital needs will b~ funded<br />
next. - The remaining $1.56 million of the $130 million is last on the priority list ad will 'Ise<br />
distributed on the same percentage basis as the basic oprating budwt.<br />
-1 of the 19 SBC agencies whi& receive furding through the natioml Cooperative Program<br />
(whidh is based on voluntariy contributions £ran the 36 state oonventions affiliated with the<br />
SBC) present budget requests to the Executive Camnittee whi& has the respnsibility of<br />
recamending the budget to messengers to the mnvention.<br />
--me--
ESEecutive Committee Backs<br />
Revisions in SBC Budget<br />
Page 2<br />
"Each of the agencies are well aware of the aanging ecommic climate and exhibited<br />
Christian spirit of cooperation and understanding in the whole process," Reginald McDomugh,<br />
associate executive secretarytreasurer of the SBC Executive Canmi ttee, explained.<br />
"Obviously eadh agency heads feels strongly ahout the tasks they have been called to do to<br />
help share the message of Jesus Christ to the world and each has financial nds to finance<br />
their evangelistic and educatioml programs.<br />
"Yet the pervading sense in the entire process was 'Let's face financial reality, be fair<br />
to everyone involved and trust God to continue to bless om effarts' ... Things get mmh mme<br />
cmpetitive when there are mme discretiomry funds available," kDomugh said.<br />
Ncarmally the SBC budget prameters are set during the September meeting of the ~xecutive<br />
Cdttee but the belt-tightening process was extended five months this time until February.<br />
In the <strong>1985</strong>-86 basic oprating budget the Faareiq Mission h rd will receive .W percent;<br />
the Hane Mission Ebrd w ill receive 19.72 percmt and the six SBC seminaries w ill share 20.56<br />
percent, divided according to a mplex formula has& partially on enrollment.<br />
The other agenices included in the disbursment are: Annuity Board, Southern Baptist<br />
Foudation, C d ssion on American Baptist Sdmry, Brother- C m i ssion, Christian Life<br />
C d ssion, Wcation Cornmi ssian, mecut ive Ccmnni ttee , Histm ical C m i ss ion, Radio-Television<br />
C& ssion, Stewardship C d ssion and the Puhlic Affairs C M ttee.<br />
-- 30--
Stanley Willing<br />
To Serve Again By Dan Martin<br />
AW- BACKGRXJND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/22 /8 5<br />
A m (Ell?)-Southern Baptist Convention President Charles F. Stanley said he is<br />
willing to serve a secord term at the helm of the 14.3-million m~mber &omination.<br />
Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Churd? of Atlanta, said: "I have been praying about the<br />
matter fm same time. God has given me perfect f redm in my heart to serve again if someone<br />
feels 1d to mminate me and I am reelectd."<br />
The anrrouncement ended several weeks of speculation as to whether Stanley would serve<br />
amther term as ~esident of the SBC. He was elected on the first ballot against two oppnents<br />
during the 1984 Southern Baptist Convention in Kansas City.<br />
Urder SBC rules, a president is elected to a oneyear term, but is eligible to serve a<br />
secord term, if he chooses. Until recent times, an incunbent president was usually reelected<br />
without challenge if he wished to serve. -ever, in the politicized climate of the aonvention<br />
during the past five years, two incunbent pesidmts have been &allenged fm election to a<br />
seaod term. Both, hmver, were reelected.<br />
Stanley did mt decide to allw his Mme to he placed in mmination in Kansas City, Mo.,<br />
until hours befare mmimtions were to begin. He said earlier the decision to allow the<br />
mmination came only a£ ter a p erf ul experience with God.<br />
Since being elected, Stanley says he has "mt spent one minute of my time talking<br />
plitics. I did mt do one thing last time (to be elected) and I w lll not do one single thing<br />
this time. Anypliticking will have to be done by others on lmth sides."<br />
He said while he is "willing" to serve as presidmt again, he has "plmty to do. But if I<br />
am honest with C d and with myself, I have to he willing to serve. If I am elected again, that<br />
will be fine; if I am mt elected, that is still fine."<br />
The amuncaent was made only a few days a£ ter Stanley exhated Southern Baptists to<br />
measure their perf mmance in mprison to the potential rather than past a&ievements. He<br />
said that while the denomination baptizes about 400,000 persons per year, that £ igwe should be<br />
"in the millions if we live up to our ptential."<br />
In the sermon, he urged Southern Baptists to "do what we are capble of doing," and<br />
point&! to a simultaneous revival crusade planned far 1986, Good News America-God mves You,<br />
spnsared by the Southern Baptist Hme Mission Board.<br />
"What a great opprtunity to shout to the nation, 'You are loved, just as you axel' I do<br />
mt blieve we muld have mne up with a theme m e fitting than that fm the day in whid?, we<br />
live," he said, adding, in his opinion, rn other homimtion ha ever had the opptunity<br />
facing Southern Baptists "if we &sy God."<br />
--me--
Stanley Willing<br />
To Serve Again<br />
Page 2<br />
In the interview with Baptist Press, Stanley said he would like to use a seaord term to<br />
help "Southern Baptists mobilize to make an impact on this nation in Gad News America. %t<br />
is my primary concern, where I muld spend my time, energies ad ef f m ts . I believe if we<br />
carry out that, there should be a healing. We canr~t do that if there is ill will, resentment<br />
ad bi ttemess .<br />
"(To do that) we must be right with Gd, and we are going to get right with God sm&cw."<br />
Stanley said "healing" has started in the SBC, which has h rocked by controversy during<br />
the past six years. "It is like healing of the body: it starts m the inside hefare it<br />
manifests itself on the outside. I am very enmuragel by what I see. I have not let the<br />
supposed opsition to me mncem my m i d because my goal is mt to win sanething, but to do<br />
sanething I believe God has called us to do."<br />
"In spite of aJ-1 of the mn£lict we have seen, we have agreed there are sane problems. We<br />
have denied that befcre. We have to face those problems and I see sane evidence of people wlm<br />
are row able to sit dam and talk throwh the disagreemants," he said.<br />
Stanley added that "in sane areas there must be give and take. I think there will be<br />
issues on whi& we canmt give and we must learn to live with ea& other in diversity. Sane<br />
people will probably decide they can't live with that and have to do something else."<br />
' The pastor said he "still believes our view of the Scripture is the hasic issue.. .the<br />
vital issue. I blieve our attitude toward the Scripture w ill determine hm God blesses us.<br />
When other deslominatians have departed f ran the authentic word of God, there has been a<br />
diminishing of God's blessings on them."<br />
"I cannot ccmpmnise my faith in the authenticity of the ward of God under any<br />
corditions, " he said, adding the leaders af the SBC agencies he has met do mt appear to differ<br />
significantly fwm his view. "I have mt met all of them, though," he said.<br />
He added he "hws there is mt ping to be whol&eartd agreement" on issues within the<br />
conmtion, but reiterated the "authenticity of the Scriptures is sanething we m t give on.<br />
If smeone is totally cdtted to a liberal viewpint, he may be hwier sanewhere else."<br />
Stanley commented that in the midst of the controversy "the angrier sane people get the<br />
mcre intense the verbiage bemnes. That is part of it (the mntroversy)."<br />
He mted he "is the same (theologically) as wha? I graduatd £ran Southwestern (Eaptist<br />
Theological) Seminary. But (since the SBC controversy has intmsif ied) I have moved £ran being<br />
(being described as ) ' conservative ' to ' ultraconservative' to ' fundamentalist ' to<br />
' irdependent ' . Yet I haven ' t changed a bit . "<br />
"When diverse issues rise to the surface, m a of real haracter will be able to resprd in<br />
the spirit of love and b nst discussion. Wlt when there is bitterness and anger ad<br />
resentment, ill w ill and jealousy, that says something about the haracter of the men involved.<br />
When that hams, they lose their usefulness before God. God can use a man who may be in<br />
errar , but whose spirit is right, but a man who is right in his theology but wrong in his<br />
spirit is a hirderance to God," he said.<br />
-- 30~-
htterson Predicts<br />
SBC Skwdcmn, Not Split By Terry Barone<br />
mAm3 RAC- STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/22 /85<br />
D m (BP)-~aige Patterson, president of the Cwiswell Center far Biblical Studies,<br />
predicted a shwdm, but not a split, when the Southern Baptist Convention meets June 11-13.<br />
Patterson's ccmments came during a farm on SBC issues at the fiveday moo1 of the<br />
Prrnets sponsmed by First Baptist Churh, Dallas. Mae than 200 prsons prticipated in the<br />
farm, whi& dealt with the six-year battle bet- wnservatives and moderates.<br />
Patterson said, "We have a nmbr of problems in the SBC, but we are rot close to<br />
'splittin this critter' up. I believe we may be on the verqe of a great revival.<br />
"I don't see the necessity fcrr dividing up the convention. The fly in that ointment is<br />
who' s going to get the Annuity Board?"<br />
He said the talk of division is "much, mmh ~emature" and said the situation is "only as<br />
serious as conservatives take the mnvmtion this year."<br />
Patterson urged those attending the farm to be sure m e than just the pastor and his<br />
wife attad the convention as messengers £ran their church. ~ailure to do so, he said, could<br />
be a sad situation if "Charles Stanley, the only intematiomlly-kmwn television preacher<br />
Southern Baptists have ever had, is humi liated (by being defeated) . "<br />
Ri&ard Land, vice~esidglt far academic affairs at CBI, e&d Patterson's sentiments<br />
ad said, "I can' t imagine any meeting of t& SBC where you could muster a majai ty wte fa a<br />
division of the Southern Baptist Convention.<br />
"Even if we were to lose a presidential vote ar sane other vote," Lad said, "we have a<br />
lot of practice at losing. We lost a lot befare 1979 and we didn't leave even when our views<br />
were Wing ridiculed in class. "<br />
Patterson said khe chances of unseating Stanley depmds on who shms up at the convention.<br />
'"There is the possibility, but I do not think they (Southern Baptists who plan to suppmt<br />
amther cardidate they say will be mme predmomination aid m e healing) will be successful<br />
(in defeating Stanley), " he said.<br />
Whm asked if sane large &ur&es would leave the denomination if the moderates win in<br />
Dallas, Patterson said, "There is m dispsition on the part of many of the men of leading<br />
&ur&es to continue funding that whi& is unconscio~ble.<br />
"There is a sense of accountability among these men that they will have to stad befare<br />
the judgement seat of Christ and will have to give an account of their lives, time and even<br />
money. "<br />
Patterson again said he thought a split was unlikely.<br />
-mcpe--
Patterson Predicts<br />
Shmdcwn, Not Split<br />
Page 2<br />
He said the best thing to do would be to ow up the oonvention and let everyone b w<br />
where each faction stands and then let the anvention messengers ask denomimtioml leaders to<br />
lx accountable.<br />
Patterson asked Bailey Smith, former SBC president, and pastor of First Southern Baptist<br />
Churh, Del City, Okla., to give an account a£ himself, of what he and his &ur& believe and<br />
teach and of what the SBC should be doing.<br />
Smith said, "I believe a man who dces mt believe all the Bible is the Ward of God ought<br />
to go sell aluminum siding.<br />
"I don't m w why we are debating the issue," he said, "if you don't believe in the<br />
accuracy of the Scripture, the prdblen is you are dead wrong. We should mt have people of<br />
smh erroneous, shallm beliefs standing in pulpits ar college lecterns."<br />
Smith wmt on to say he did rot m i d being idmtified with Paige Patterson and said, "I am<br />
gratefd to st& with men who are a little extreme to the right and extremely c dttd to<br />
Jesus Christ. "<br />
--3o--
BJCPA Affirmed; New SBC<br />
Washington Office Nixed By Dan Martin<br />
ADVANCE WKGROUND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
2/25/85<br />
NASHVILLE, Tan. (BP)--The establisFanent of a Southern Baptist Convention Public Affairs<br />
Off ice in Washington "does mt appear practicable, " accmding to a study corducted by the SBC<br />
Executive C m i ttee .<br />
During its February meeting, the Executive Cammittee adopted a recommendation affirming<br />
the SBC's "historic relationship to the Baptist Joint Camnittee on Public Affairs" and rept<br />
to the SBC annual nveeting in June that establis~ent of an office "exclusively related to the<br />
SBC does mt apar practicable."<br />
The study was sparked by a motion presentd at the 1984 annual meting in Kansas City,<br />
Mo., to "move to establish a Southern Baptist pesence in Washington to address public and<br />
governmental affairs...."- The motion was referred to the Executive Camittee, whi& is required<br />
to study the matter and rept to the <strong>1985</strong> annual mting.<br />
In presenting the recamendation to affirm the continuation of SBC involvement with the<br />
WCPA, Malcolm Jones a€ Baltimme, said establislnnmt of a SBC office in Washington "mad he<br />
very costly, both in startup and operation."<br />
Jones, Chairman of the mrmissions mrkgroup of the Executive C d ttee, said the SBC was<br />
instrumental in fourding RJCPA, adding the "canbind eff carts af the SBC and the E!JCPA has ken<br />
very effective in matters o£ separation of aura and state and religious likrty."<br />
The action to affirm EUCPA and to rept etabliskrment of an SBiC office was "mt<br />
practicable," was opposed by FB Drake, an attmney frcm Ddllas. Drake, although a membr of<br />
the Executive Cmmi.ttee, popsed defurding RJCPA during the 1984 annual meeting.<br />
While affirming aSCPA in its First Amendment effcsrts, Drake said there are a "great host"<br />
of other issues "such as hamosexuali ty and abwtion" mt covered by the BJCPA purpse. He said<br />
the SBC is the only majaar religious group rot to have its an presence in the nation's capitol.<br />
Drake mplaind "mt" of the other eight Baptist groups affiliated with the joint<br />
cauni ttee "are members of the Natioml Counci 1 of Churdhes . . .whi& mardzes to a different bat<br />
frcm Southern Baptists." Representatives of MCPA, hwever, reprt only tho of the eight<br />
member bodies-the hrican Baptist Churhes and the Prcgesssive Natioral Baptist Conventio-<br />
are N E mmbrs. The other six are mt.<br />
Drake also criticized James M. Dunn, executive directar of EJCPA, claiming D m " is m<br />
longer effective" in representing Southern Baptists.<br />
After Drake ' s apposition, the Executive C m i ttee adopted the recamnendation on a mice<br />
vote. Sane observers said it carried by at least a 3-to-1 mrgin.<br />
During its February meeting, the Executive C d<br />
ttee:<br />
--me-
BJBA Affirmed; New SBC<br />
Washington Of £ice Nixed<br />
Page 2<br />
-Declined to reccnnnad a change in the nlrmber of trustees serving on the 20 nation31<br />
agencies of the Southern Baptist Convation:<br />
--Reprted a study has determined trustees of the six SBC seminaries are elect& by the<br />
SBC exclusively;<br />
--Accepted Atlanta as the site far the 1991 annual meting, even thoqh the dates of June<br />
4-6 are earlier than usual;<br />
--Determined tm f mmer SBCroperated hospi tals--Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonvi lle,<br />
Fla., ad Southern Baptist Hospital in New Orleans--are "continuing to operate as Baptist<br />
aria?td...institutions consistent with the divestiture action" in 1970.<br />
--Elected Mrs. O.D. Lambirth, a member of First Baptist Chur&, Elida, N.M., to the <strong>1985</strong><br />
SBC mnmittee on lmards, replacing Rebcca Jean Wolfe, who 'became ineligible after accepting<br />
chur&-related emplqment .<br />
--3o--
Attanp to Fire Pro£<br />
Fails At Soutlwestern Bj Toby Druin<br />
R W m EACIGRCUND STOHY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
3/22/<strong>1985</strong><br />
FORT WFVH, Texas (BP)--Amid &arges a€ plitical implications and allegations a<br />
"pafane" man was being returned to the dassroan, Soutkwestern Eb#ist lbolcgical ~aninary<br />
trmtees Mar& 20 rejected a remendation frm the adninistration and their am acadmic<br />
affairs ommi ttee to fire a pafessor .<br />
The wte by secret lwllot was 19-12 to fire Farrar Patterson, associate ~ofesscar of<br />
amanmication and peadhing sin- 1969, but it fell tm mtes slmrt of the twthirds majority<br />
rewired by the seminary bylaws.<br />
It was 'believed to k the first time a motion to fire a profescur has been -ought to the<br />
Southestern trmtees since the institution was fomded in 1908, altbugh ~residmt Rwsell H.<br />
Dilday Jr . said sane hve resigned bzf ore their cases muld ccme to the bard.<br />
-. TTxi? Southern Baptist Convention plitical wntxoversy was puninat in the debate on the<br />
reacmmdtion to fire Patterson with several trmtees charging Dilday's involvement in the<br />
mntroersy ~aneed the reoanmendation. Dilday, in turn, contaded at least sane of the 12<br />
against the popsal were politically motivated. Farrar Patterson is rot related to Paige<br />
Patterson, president uE Criswell Center for Biblical Studies, wlm has been a leader uf one<br />
faction in the SBC mntrowrsy.<br />
" The balloting fallawed several burs a€ hearing3 by the academic affairs omnittee, which<br />
mted 8-1 for Patterson's dismissal, and discwsion by the full lPard on the reacmmendation<br />
that Patterson, w b recently was suspnded frcm his teeing duties, b dismissed.<br />
Dilday and the academic affairs ornmittee, chaired ly Drew Gunnells, pastor a€ spring ill<br />
-Gist Chur&, Mobile, Ma., brought a six-pint charge against Patterson, questioning:<br />
1) Lifestyle arad behavior, including prufanity and vulgar language, including cursing the<br />
dean of theology, critical a d negative drorrtations;<br />
2) Pmr example uf dhuxd-rmanship, includincj no record of active &urdananship, and<br />
marginal stewardship;<br />
3) Poor ~ality of work, including poor student evdluatiolg and apgraisals over the pars<br />
and no "scholarly apFeroach;<br />
4) Imubordi nat ion, including interference in D ilday' s accession to the pesidency and<br />
inter£ erene in the hi ring of others in the adninistration;<br />
5) Intentioral distcxtion aE the truth, including reprts of classes taken at North Texas<br />
State University in 1976; and a report @ven to an Arkansas pstor abut the facdty meeting in<br />
Nowmber 1984 in whi& Dilday' s right to spak out on the SBC mntroversy was a££ irmd by the<br />
faculty: 1<br />
6) Laek of respnse to significant warninq and attm@s to rim. Dilday said he had<br />
attempted to discuss the barges with Btterson, wlm lad refused.<br />
--more
Attern*.' To Fire Prcd<br />
Fails At Southestern<br />
page 2<br />
Dilday said he had attemged to discuss the barges with Fatterson, who hd ref~lsed and<br />
had told Dilday in a tele@one mn~rsation that the pesident was qing "to die" if he pursued<br />
the matter. Rtterson' s wife, Edwina, spke f ran the gallery that Dilday' s statement was mt<br />
trm, that she had overheard the mnwrsation.<br />
Dilday explained salary increases had denied to Patterson four times in the last few<br />
years because uf what was mrisidered an inadeqate performance and that he twice had ben given<br />
leaves witbut p y o m by former SWBTS President Rokrt E. Naylcar--to get his affairs in<br />
order.<br />
Dilday aclmowledged the incident fallanling the Novmber f acd ty meeting in which mtterson<br />
gave what Dilday called an erroneous reprt of the meeting to W .O. Vaught , pastor emeritus cd<br />
I rrmm~~l Ba@i st Chur* in LPttle Rock, was the " cdminat i ng" incident .<br />
Fatterson, who did not attend the faculty meeting, reprtedly called Vaught and reprted<br />
the faculty was divided on support of the president's right to spak out. Hawever the<br />
disagreement in the f acaty actually was on h the action in support uf the ~esident was to<br />
be desaibd, sources said.<br />
mtterson' s report to Vaught was reprted to Dilday by a ~lmida pstor, Dilday said.<br />
Fatterson was stmmoraed to Dilday's cdfice on Jan. 14. Dilday said he had represted the<br />
discussion bE! oonf ident ial , according to the faculty manual pocedures, but said mtterson had<br />
reprted it to others. Rtterson subsequently was suspended fran his teaching duties and the<br />
remendat ion ma& for hi s di smi ssal .<br />
Had it mt ben for the incident invlolving the xeprt to Vaught, Dilday said the matter<br />
likly would rot haw m e w. He added it was the final straw in a longten matter which<br />
slmuld have been dealt with peviously. He said had he &en ~esident at the time Patterson<br />
received tenure (it was granted while Robert E. Naylor was gresident) he would rot have mted<br />
to appow it.<br />
The pli tical mrtones *re repated in armnents fawring and opping the recxnrmmdation<br />
to fire Patterson.<br />
Ralg2-1 Pulley, atturney and member o£ First Chur&, Dallas, and wlm ma& the motion in the<br />
October 1984 meeting to curtai 1 Dilday' s onanents on SBC pol i ti c=s , was the m cst md., at one<br />
pint saying emmatically he would be heard m tbugh a call to cut off discmsion had been<br />
ma&.<br />
Fiilley cpestioned if Patterson hd been given due Fsrocess in the matter and moved early in<br />
the pooeeding to open the matter for disc~sion to hear fran sane a€ Patterson's studmts and<br />
others, including retired pofessor Cal Guy.<br />
Emrd Chairman Davis Cooper, pasta of University Hills ~alJtist Char&, Denwr, restricted<br />
prticiption in the discussion to trustees and adniAstration.- FUlley's motion to open it up<br />
f ai'led .<br />
It was mtd mast uf the trustees had heard the full discussion of the charges, including<br />
testimorry by Rtterson, at the meeting o£ the academic affairs mmnittee the evening befcare.<br />
-. The meeting had pne on mtil 12:45 a.m.<br />
Eblley and others questioned the ~msdure f ollmed in hinging the reaamnendation and the<br />
Dallas attorney mted many of the amplaints were mt of a recent nature and that the mast<br />
recent student evaluation, which f dlmed Rtterson' s first semester af teaching f ollwing<br />
sabhtical in 1982-83, had been good.<br />
Dean of-Theology William Tolar, while acknowledging the gwleml student evaluation of<br />
Patterson had been good, said Btterson' s perf arman- was rated by the students at 50 percent<br />
of that cb other facdty mmhrs, and that he had disclssed with Ritterson the aarges that he<br />
often came to dlass "totally un~epred" and had med "alxlsive, vulgar langmge."<br />
--me--
Attern@- To Fire Prcd<br />
Fails At Soutlwwtern<br />
page 3<br />
Other westions were raised by Job MdCay, music evangelist and member of Gleslview Baptist<br />
Churd.1, Hurst, Texas, w b arnpred the treatment a€ Patterson to the "inquisition" of Jesus;<br />
Bill Grubbs, member of First Baptist Churd.1, Dallas, WID wiced mnoern over the systm of<br />
review, the lack of what he saw as " formal docunentatiod1 of the &arge and the incident with<br />
Vaught; Jim Bolton, also a mmbr of First Church, Dallas, who said he had called Vaught, who<br />
he said was his farmer pstm and had a letter frm him about the incident;<br />
James T. Draper Jr., pastor of First Ba@ist Church, Ness, Texas, wlm said he had talked<br />
to Patterson's pstor and was told he had not intmded for his report on Patterson's<br />
churdmmnship to be wed to fire him: Hugo LPdqist, pastor of Bethel Baptist Churd~, Oklma<br />
City, who cited "the political overtones" af the matter and told of positive reports fran<br />
Patterson' s f mer students:<br />
Dr. Kenneth L$lly, mgnber of First Baptist Church, Faurt Smith, Ark., wko qestioned when<br />
Patterson' s salary had been wi thbld, when kK had hen granted tenure and what " redemflive<br />
acts" had been initiated sin- the inquiry by Dilday;<br />
Billy Tolbzrt, pastor of El Tmo Baptist Churd~, El Tcrro, Calif., w b said he had ~ayed<br />
atout the matter and had talked with a student w b attri'lxrted his ability to share the qspel<br />
with having been in Patterson's dass. Tolkrt said in light cd that he muld mt support the<br />
remendation to fire Patterson.<br />
Others spoke in famr a£ the reocrmnendation, including the mnmi ttee &airman, Gunnells,<br />
w b answered Draper' s marks smut churchmanship, saying the other charges alone would justify<br />
Patterson' s dismissal .<br />
Stanley Hand, member of First E?a@ist Churd~, Orlando, Fla. , f amred the recommendation,<br />
saying while the action was "mfortunate," a "prdessar is mt doing his job, so President<br />
Dilday is doing his." He mted the orranittee was reacrrrmending mtterson bz- given a par's<br />
salary and fringe Mnefits. A person dismissed in secular 'trusiness would be lucky to get tm<br />
wee-' salary, he said.<br />
Milton Cunnincjham, pastor of Westby Baptist Churd~, Howton, cited the political nature<br />
of the discussion, and barged it had shifted f ran dealing with Patterson to "dealing with our<br />
wesident (Dilday) ." He arMed, "It is rn secret where this acmes f ran. It canes cut of one<br />
churh," an amrent referenoe to First Churd~, Dallas, where Pulley, Gr- and Blton are<br />
mmbrs; which bmes the Criswell Center fox Biblical Studies headed by mige Patterson, and<br />
wbse pastor, W.A. ~riswell, has criticiz~d the outspokenness of seminary pesidents in the SBC<br />
aontrowrsy. Cumin- said the seminary trustee meeting had a "hidden agenda."<br />
-. The Houston pastor moved to dose the disc~sion, pm+ing Pulley to insist he was "going<br />
to haw time to resprfl," regardless of the action.<br />
Others spaking for the remendation included Stephen Hyde, pastor af First Baptist<br />
Chur*, Silver Spring, Md., wM said he hd hen mnvinaed by Patterson's testimorry at the<br />
academic affairs cwmittee hearing, whi& he said seened to him to oontain "half truths,<br />
innuendoes and real anten* for the adninistration.''<br />
The mte by secret ballot askd the trustees to wte "Yes" or "No" to the remendation<br />
f cur dismissal. Mtyone mtes wuld have been required of the 31 Fesent to sustain the<br />
xemmmendation. Cooper at first cast a ballot and then witmew it when he was told he auld<br />
mte only in case uf a tie. Currently, there are 34 trustees. One recently has moved and is<br />
no lo-r eligible to serve and amther was ill and unable to attend the meeting.<br />
McKay opposed the secret Mlot and also asked they be siqd in case of legal action.<br />
Uter, rather than risk amther split mte, the trustees by conaensus askd the academic<br />
a£ f airs manmi ttee to review the wble evalmtion procedure and mtterson' s future perfmance.<br />
--me
Atten* Ta Fire Prof<br />
Fails At SoutWestern<br />
page 4<br />
Dilday said htterson muld bs returned to the classroan but the seminary would maintain<br />
the "highest expectation3 aE Christian behavia, quality churdmanship, quality academic and<br />
scholarship work, a qality spirit of relatiomhip and cooperatiow-the kind that rn exists,<br />
the harmony and unity the faculty row has ."<br />
While achledging sane do~lessly had me to their decision to oppse the dismissal<br />
recamendat ion out cb sincere mnviction, Dilday blamed pli tical ansiderat iorrs f car others.<br />
He said he muld not belie= the wte m t to sustain the a t t e e reammendation was an<br />
endmsenent af Patterson's record, and added, "I don't think anpne afl pu would want to be.. .<br />
responsible far answering to Southem Baptists why pu would endoxse saneone in this kind of<br />
key position in this seminary to the detriment a€ all the other faculty wlm std so firm in<br />
their psition."<br />
-' Though he said he would mt sqgest there b d been any mdinated e£ f cart by the 12 wlm<br />
mted against the reaarrmmdation, "I think behid your votes and decision3 made here are the<br />
other ccxnplicatiom d the plitical involvement cd our convention, my m psition in it, and<br />
in spite of sewral denials to the cpntrary, that is my only way of understanding ar<br />
ratiomizing hm any one of the 12 could pssihly have mted (the way pu did)."<br />
Pulley noted he had smt a memo to all the trmtees follwing last October's meeting<br />
regarding Dilday' s plitical involvement. He asked them to review that memo and mcouram<br />
them to write to Dilday.<br />
Dilday said following the meeting he would review his political inmlvrment.<br />
' The pesident told the Bagkist Stardard, nws journal cb the Baptist General Convention of<br />
' Texas, that in spite cb the mte he did mt corsider it an illdimtion of lack of mnfidence in<br />
his ~esidency and that he k d given absolutely rus mmideration to resigning.<br />
Dilday said March 22 he and Vicepresident J h N-rt and Tolar had met the previom day<br />
with mtterson about a " remgagement plan" to return him to the dassrmn . - Tky sat dam<br />
responses and aorditiors, Dilday said, under whi& the p~Eessm will return to his duties.<br />
The mte a€ the trustees was mt to fire Patterson, Dilday said, ht it is the duty of<br />
the adninistxation to follaw thraagh on his return to teming.<br />
After the mte rejecting his dismissal, Btterson told the Stardard he was @eased with<br />
the action. He declined to say whether plans legal action. Late Friday, after the<br />
meeting with Dilday, Newpxt and Tdar, Fbtterson issued a brief statenat: "I deeply regret<br />
all this cane up. Nm I want to get hck to m k and do the best job I can with the students.<br />
I an grateful far those who supported me."<br />
-3s-<br />
(Druin, associate editor of the mflist Standard, newsjournal a€ the Baptist General Corntion<br />
o£ Texas, wovided news mverage af the trustees meeting at the rewest d E3a@ist Press. )
92ripture , Mission Action<br />
Explmed At WMU Callas Meeting<br />
AWANCE WERrnD STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
3/26/<strong>1985</strong><br />
WUAS (BP)--The accanplishnents of Southern Ba*ist mission effcrrts-ad sane a€ the<br />
met needs--will be outlined apinst scriptural guidelines Jme %10 at the annual natioraL<br />
meeting aE the Wanan' s Missiomry Union.<br />
- The tmday meeting, held in the Dallas Comention Center arena inmediately pior to the<br />
annual Southern Bagkist Comtion, has been built a r d a thane taken £ran Revelation 2:4--<br />
"I have sanething against thee. . .thou hast left thy first low."<br />
Mission speakers frm Harlem, New Yark; Vermont; Texas; Kentucky; Whington, D.C. ; New<br />
Haphire, Maine, and Maryland will focus on h e mission efforts while missioraries to<br />
Lebansn, Gmtemala, Eastern Europe, Bo&uthatswarm and natiorals f ran China and Mexiao will<br />
look at what Southern &Gists are doing to evangelize t he outside the United States.<br />
A highli@t will I=e the Morday evening "rally aromd M.A.P. S.-Missiorr; and Prayer,<br />
Eeople, Places and Priorities." It will be sponsored jointly with the Wmen's Missiomry Union<br />
by the Hane Mission Ebard, the ~oreiy Mission Bwrd, the Baptist Sunday School bard, and the<br />
Brotherhood C d ssion in moperat ion with the m@i st General Comtion of Texas and the<br />
Directors of Missions Corderme.<br />
The ni&t will include the premiere of poduc?tion mmic £ran the new Bold Mission l'hrmt<br />
dramatic musical, "2000 A.D." and a missions news sunmary ~esented by R. Keith Parks,<br />
president of the Faceiq Mission ]bard, and Willian G. Tanner, pesident UE the Hane Mission<br />
bard whid.1 will look at four statss in the USA and five geografic areas arand the world.<br />
Bill Pinson, executive director of the Baptist General Comtion of. Texas, will give the<br />
closing address.<br />
--30--
800 Students Sign<br />
Petition Far Dilday<br />
AWzwz, BACrGRCUND STORY<br />
Ba$ist Press<br />
3/29/85<br />
FOHT WTcTH, - Texas (BP)-convicted the March 20 action of Soutlwestern mptist Theological<br />
Seminary tr~tees to retain a wufessar was "political" and "pu can k right in what p u<br />
believe Iwt wrong in what pu pactice," at least one student is circdating a petition in<br />
support of President Rwsell H. Dilday Jr. and the trvstees aE the academic affairs cxrranittee.<br />
Jiv Ebckett , religiom education student and a missions volunteer, told the Ehptist<br />
Standard, Eh*ist General Convention ul Tews n&lrsjournal, he has more than !30 signatures on<br />
the petition and bps to ham at least 1,000 be£ me pesenting it to Dilday next week. He<br />
said he has heard other similar petitions are being circulated among the 3,615 students at the<br />
seminary this sgring.<br />
Fucktt said he qt the idea for the petition follming the action of the trustees who<br />
mted 19-12 (tw votes sbrt of the tm-thirds majrmrity required) to fire Farrar Patterson,<br />
associate pofessar of ccmmunication and peaching. Dilday and the academic affairs cxrmni ttee,<br />
which mted &1 for dismissal, had reatrnmended mtterson be fired.<br />
Pucbtt said he attended the trustee meeting and did mt lih what he saw. "I just felt<br />
lih it (the trustee action) was political," he said. They were attacking Dr. Dilday and the<br />
methods they were using were just mt ri@t ."<br />
Puchtt, a mylar University graduate wbse father, James Puckett, is pstm uf First<br />
Ba$ist Church, Msinney, Texas, said, "I am comermtive and I have had bsically the same<br />
aonaerns that Paige Patterson and Ebul Pressler hw had and I have supported them hsically in<br />
their gods up until the board meeting.<br />
"Wlt what I saw ping on in the tr~tee bard meeting greatly alarmed me. I jmt at that<br />
point felt pu can be right in what you believe but wrong in what 4;ou ~actice."<br />
The petition idea was o~npletely his, he said. - The only inflmce was the bard meeting.<br />
"When I saw what was going on, I reali~d then that maybe sane a€ om comervatiw<br />
kothers haw qne too far . I hew then that I needed to do sanething to maybe mmter this<br />
extreme action. I really blieve that Dr. Dilday is a mllservatiw and wanted to enmurage<br />
him. So I jmt started on my own to bgin this petition and haw talked to so many students<br />
w b felt the same way."<br />
-TIE petition states: "We the students d Southvestern ... wish to e-ess our support and<br />
aweciation of the leabrship of President Rmsell H. Dilday Jr. and we wish to achledge<br />
and affirm our mnfidence in lmth President Dilday and the academic affairs arranittee."<br />
Most students have been "really anxiom" to siq and have told h im they think it is a good<br />
idea, Fuckett said. Several--"mt many1--haw told h im they disagree with him.<br />
"Quite a few told me they would like to siy the ptition ht were afraid--fearful. for<br />
their future-it m ight affect: their job dawn the road or their seminary career," he said.<br />
Askd wlmn m y were afraid of, he answered, -"This pli tical faction led by Pressler and<br />
Patterson. Quite a few said they were afraid. "<br />
Pucbtt said the petition mainly jmt has been circuated bet- dasses became the<br />
seminary allows rn petitions to b placed on camp^.<br />
-30-
100 Soutkanrest ern Faca ty<br />
Support President Dilday Ey Toby Dsuin<br />
AWANCE BFU3EROWD STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
3/29/85<br />
F W WHTH, Texas (BP)-Responding to the charge that recent action of the trustees d<br />
Southwestern Ehflist Theological Seminary impired the leadership of President Rmsell H.<br />
Dilday Jr., 100 out of 101 mhrs cb the seminary faculty have siwd "an open letter to<br />
f ellw Southern Ba@istsW affirming the ~esident<br />
Cnly Farrar Patterson, associate ~ofessor af aommmication and peaching, w-se dismissal<br />
was reammended kry Dilday but rejected by the tr~lstees Mar& 20 w h it failed to get a ttmthirds<br />
majcrity mte, failed to siw the letter.<br />
There currmtly are 101 wting manbers of the faculty. Dilday and two vicepesidents,<br />
Jokrn Neqort and Jeter Basden, wb are faculty members were mt asked to siy. ' Tvm other<br />
facaty members, Marvin L ee, visiting prafessar of missiors and L; Jack Gray, wM is retired<br />
lxlt still t ees, also sigd the letters.<br />
Earl R. Martin, ~ofessar of missiorrs and world religions, praposd the letter to a<br />
meeting af the facuty March 22, fallawing the trustee action and news reprts aonaerning it.<br />
- The apen letter states:<br />
"W, the mdersiyed mmbers of the faccilty af Southwestern Ba@ist Theological Seminary,<br />
Fart Worth, Texas, in the li#t af recent developnents and Fess reprts, wish to affirm our<br />
wesident, -sell Dilday. He stands tall in the line uf illmtriow pesidents d this<br />
institution. His adninistration fm the past six years has been distinguished by a<br />
thedlqically consermtiw stanae. He has led this saninary to significant grmth at every<br />
lewl . Urder his ~esidency Soutwestern hs mntinued its ri& heritage of achmncing the<br />
Kingdm of God through evangelism and world missions . We a££ irm, contrary to the suggestion<br />
that the recent trwteesl action has impired his leadership, that, indeed, he enjoys our full<br />
aordidene .<br />
"This letter bas mme about spntaneomly. It is ocmpletely idepndent a€ the<br />
adhistration. By this, we mdersmre our solidarity in support a€ our ~esident."<br />
Martin said 56 of the faculty members imediately siwd the letter at the faculty meeting<br />
ad the other 44 did so in the few days following. Sane, on sabhtical, or out of town, were<br />
aontacted by tdeghone ad indicated by telegrm arr tele@one mnversations that they wanted<br />
their names affix~d to the letter.<br />
Martin, w b joind the seninary faculty in 1982 after more than 25 years as a Southern<br />
Ba#ist missiomry in east Africa, em@asid in an interview with the Baptist Standard,<br />
newsjourndl. a€ the Baptist General Comtion cd Texas, the letter was mpletel-y irdependent<br />
of Dilday and the seninary adninistration.<br />
Neither Dilday mr any manber of the sdnarry adtninistration hew of the letter mtil it<br />
was read in the Mar& 22 faculty meeting, Martin said.<br />
Martin said he is M "campigner ol: crusader," lxlt falladng the trustee action on the<br />
Patterson matter and a nws story in the Fart Worth Star- Telegran about it, he said he felt<br />
sane exgression needed to be made to shm suppwt for Dilday.<br />
-mcare--<br />
.
100 Soutlwestem Facdty<br />
Sumr t President Dilday<br />
m9e 2<br />
In the Star Telegram story, reporter Jim Jones quoted Houston Judge Paul Pressler as<br />
saying in regard to Dilday's reormmendation of the dismissal a€ Patterson: "I don't know Dr.<br />
Patterson. mt I think this (firing incident) is mther example of the inept altninistration<br />
which has caused Russell Dilday to lose respect and confidenoe of many at the seminary and many<br />
on the lxMrd of trustees."<br />
Martin said he discussed the trmtee action and Pressler's mat infarmally with other<br />
faculty rnmkrs and then asked tm of than "wb axe @ with wardsw--Scott Tatun aryd Harold<br />
Freeman, both pdessms d preadhing-to help him draft the letter.<br />
"We did our best to Fepre a letter that we £el t reflected the general tenor of the<br />
f acuty," EJBrtin said.<br />
He said sane had mted the letter apl~cach was a " risk" which auld bacMire if only a<br />
small peraentage siwed. Martin said he told then it was time to take a risk.<br />
The 100 out of 101 resprse is "overwhelming--bprd my wildest drem," he said.<br />
He denied any pessure was exlerted on any faculty manber to sign the letter--that the 56<br />
had done so spntaneously at the faculty meeting and many siyed afterward, not knowing what<br />
their mlleaps had done.<br />
Pressler, apised of the facdty action by the Stanlard, contended it was instigated by<br />
Dilday.<br />
"I am aware af the fact that Dr. Dilday is trying to bolster his psition by nuneras<br />
ways," Pressler said in a tele&one interview. "One, a petition among students, whi& I heard<br />
f ran ~e Fmt Worth Star Telegram, had been able to garner less than 300 siqatures among the<br />
over 5,000 students (sic) at Southestem. I had mt heard of the (faculty) letter &It I an<br />
not sur~ised at all."<br />
(-ding to semimy records, there actmly are 3,516 students enralled at the s&ml<br />
fm the 1-5 sping semester.)<br />
- Told of the 100 siqatures , Pressler said he beliews it is "obvious to anybody with any<br />
intelligsnce at all," that such an action by the faculty would be instigated by Dilday.<br />
"I think Russell Dilday w ill do ewrything he can to blster his position and put gressure<br />
on those in the s&ml to give him credenue," Pressler said.<br />
"I think e vemy knows the pl i tical activity uf Rlssell Dilday has caused a<br />
polarization among the students, among the faculty, amoq the lsoard and that the smimry has<br />
sLdfered greatly under the adninistration of Rwsell Dilday," Pressler added.<br />
Martin dismissed the tkrought uf Wessure by Dilday.<br />
"I think this kind of talk is prniciow and comtexpodLEctive and prsors who persist in<br />
such a thing as mqiwcal as this slm their true alars, " he said. "This kind of pernicious<br />
innuendo and casting of smpiciom has to stop. I m not saying we are qing to stop it, lxrt<br />
this is an effart to stop it."<br />
--36.-
Live Co~rage Anmmced<br />
Of Annual Convention<br />
AWAKF, BXFGROLND STORY<br />
Ba@ist Press<br />
3/1/85<br />
NASHVILLE (BP)-The <strong>1985</strong> Southern Baptist Comtion will be transmitted live £ran Dallas<br />
on the Baptist Telwwnmdcation N etmk Jme 11-13.<br />
The gavel-to-gawl coverage of the mnvmtion will begiri Tuesday, Jme 11, at 8:30 a .m.<br />
(CUP.), and conclude with adjourrnnent Thursday, Jme 13, at 4:30 p.m. acaxdling to officials uf<br />
the Ba@ist Sunday School Board.<br />
An&ors f m the average will be Ganer LBsch, anchor of SBC Newscene and senior BZN<br />
mmultant at the Sunday Sd-1001 Wrd, and Dick McLlartney, editor of the Oklha Baptist<br />
Messenger.<br />
"The Southern heist Comtion in Dallas will be like a vast tawn hall meeting and<br />
should b of keen interest to Ba@ists all across the Comtion, 'I said Lloyd Elder, president<br />
of the bard which opxates BRJ.<br />
"We are pleased to wing this siyificant mt to Southern Baptists via BTN. I u r ~<br />
informed and grayerful prticiption in this most significant time in Southern Baptist life."<br />
Joe Denney, manager of the teleccmmunicatiorrs deprtmmt , said coverage will include hrief<br />
weviews and wrapups d ea& session as well as every action af the mnmtion, induding<br />
Ixlsiness, the pesidmt's address, the annual oonvention sermon and agency reports. Special<br />
events such as the news mnferenoe uf the newly elected pesident also will be aovlered live.<br />
Denney urged all BZN sukcrihrs-&ur&es, associatiors, state aonmtiom and SBC<br />
amciee-to open their facilities and enmurage persom in the area to wat& sessions aE the<br />
conwntion. All BmJ subcribers will receive an "SBC '85 Sukcriber Particiption Guide,"<br />
outlining ways to Fanote viewing of corntion sessions, Denney said.<br />
As d Jan. 31, a total a€ 4,433 churd~es hve access to BTN through &ur& or association<br />
subcripiom, Dmey said.<br />
--30--
Draper Warns Stanley<br />
Defeat May Collapse CP By Craig Bird<br />
AWANCE BACrnUND STORY<br />
Ba#ist Press<br />
3/2 9/8 5<br />
RICHmD, Va. (BP)- he Coaperative Prqram muld collape and tlmusands cb dhurches micjht<br />
withdraw financial support if Charles Stanley is defeated for a semrd Far as president a€ the<br />
Southern &Fist Convention, Jmes T. Draper Jr. has warned.<br />
Draper, president af the SBC 1982-84, told the Baeist Public Relations Association annual<br />
meeting in Ricknnord, Va., heads d Southern Baptist institutiors are leading a "massive<br />
attan*. . .financed with Cooprative Prqatn funds" to deny Stanley a semrd Far as SBC<br />
president .<br />
Stanley, pastor of First E?a&ist Churd~ of Atlanta, already has mmmd he will aLlcrw<br />
his name to be presented for a seco1-d on+Far ten as ~esident cd the 14.3-million member<br />
denomination. Under SBC bplaws, a psident may ser* tkl~ mrse~utive oneyear terms.<br />
-- Tradi tiornlly, a pesident who wishes to serve a semd tern has keen mopposed . However,<br />
in the pst five years, incunbent pesidmts haw hen &allen@ fcr the s ad term.<br />
Already, ef f acts are underway to momt a campi- challenging Stanley at the 1W5 annual<br />
meeting, s&eduled for Jme 11-13 in Dallas.<br />
Draper said if Stanley is defeated, "kY3W can we expect his churd-~ to aontin~le to give<br />
$500,000 to the Southern mptist Convention.. .and tlmusands cb &urd.les muld ~obl5Ly fdlw<br />
that lead in refusing to swrt the convention any lopr."<br />
In an interview fallwing his presentation, Draper was asked what the &ur& where he is<br />
pstor muld do if Stanley is defeated. He replied the d~urch, First Elaptist Churd-~ of Euless,<br />
- Tews, mi@t escranl its denominational gifts (apyxdmately $400,000 this par) if Stanley is<br />
defeated, "to force people to sit Cbm and adopt a strategy to resolve our ~mems."<br />
Drapr, also a trwtee uf Southvestern Baptist- Theological Seminary in Fart Wolrth, Texas,<br />
said he would "be speaking in eery chur& I can beteen mw and June" to pcmote Stanley's<br />
reelect ion.<br />
EIe told more than 150 BPRA mbers £ran Southern &@st rntioml and state institutions<br />
he had attended a recent meeting with leaders of the effart to turn the mnmtion into a mare<br />
conservative direction. "We said sin- we haw already been accused (of being highly organized<br />
politically), tried and wnvicted, we might as well go ahead ad amnit the crime. We will be<br />
there in Dallas and we will be mganimd."<br />
He said the "organizatiodl earlier h d ben rn mcre than "600 names on (Houston judge)<br />
Bul Pxessler's persoml mprter, with a mntact pexson in ea& state they (Pressler and Bige<br />
Patterson, associate pastor uf First Baptist Church of Dallas) smd material to."<br />
Hmewr, he charged an mnamed SBC institution with using its mputers and a 46,000 name<br />
mailing list fur ~olitical prpses. Draper declined to name the institution, but referred to<br />
Baylor University and Southwestern Baflist magical Seninary and mted "bth of them .have<br />
about that nunber on their mailing lists."<br />
"I am not accusing than of sending out clardestine letters, ht they are using their<br />
mailing lists to make sane accusatiors, to cmganiz~ a partisan agmda and to create hysteria.<br />
All you haw to do is look at the Baylor ~fne, other Baylor micatiom and to read<br />
Soutkwestern News f cw the last nine months to b able to see that, " he said.<br />
--me-
Draper Warns Stanley<br />
Defeat May Collapse CP<br />
page 2<br />
The Baylm ~ine and Soutlwestern News are alunni publicatiors uf the insti tutiom .<br />
"Where is the mnaern for (Russell) Dilday's artisan involvement in mnmtion<br />
politics?" he asked. He also referred to Southern Baptist- Thedl@cal Seminary President Roy<br />
C. Honeycat and chastised him far "declaring Holy War against his Christian kothexs."<br />
Later he said Dilday, president a€ Soutlwestern seminary, is "reportedly using 50 percent<br />
of his time trying to defeat Stanley. ..ad he is mt qing off salary fur that time so he is<br />
using Cooprative Prqram funds."<br />
"You may disagree with me," he told his audience. "But I m your Christian brother."<br />
Drapr said there are times he leans against the wall car pts his head on his desk and<br />
weep m r the anger and lmstility being expressed in the SBC, but insisted that tirednsss<br />
muld rot came him to stop.<br />
"It daesn' t matter wb 'wins' in Dallas if it is a hostile convention," he said. "Becawe<br />
if it is bstile we all lose. I'd bp Charles Stanley would be reelected witbut opposition."<br />
Despite his &arges a€ institutional leership opposing Stanley, Drapr said he believes,<br />
"in the integrity of ea5h of tlmse mm (institutioml headts), I don't want anyboay fired. EUt<br />
I do wish we could hear in public what sane a€ than say in pxivatethat we do hve problems."<br />
While agreeing it is inaccurate to call any group in the SBC "lihral" ad dedlaring his<br />
distaste for all terms currently hing used (liberal, moderate, consenmti~, ultraaonservatim<br />
and fundamentalist- terms he &led "weasel wmds because they mem different<br />
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<br />
SBC, are -wing all the ~aroblans.<br />
"There is a third group-the institutioml group-whi& is p hbly the most dan-rom. I<br />
think it is dhanging, ht &ten sinaere inquiry is treated with sustpicion and institutions feel<br />
they must grotect themselves. That is why it has ' appeared' that institutions have me dawn<br />
on the 'roderate' side."<br />
"We have had enough gripe sessiowwhat we need is to sit dam and talk abut solutiom<br />
to our ~roblems."<br />
Draper said the convention muld h better served if all SBC institutions qned their<br />
trustee meetings to reprters. "We all filter things through grid of our experienaes. There<br />
will be less distoxtiow-arrd I man uf our pre$ions-if we see sanething ourselves instead<br />
of having saneone tell us what happened. "<br />
He said SBC journalists are in a key position to deal with the SBC situation.<br />
"Please help us," he said. "This anvention muld die.. .if kvsstilities mntinue to build<br />
there will be a great @ling away f ran the Coaperative Prcqram. Thm what are we going to &<br />
-mil pstcards to all our missionaries arand the world and ask them which side they are on,<br />
ask them wM they want to p y their salaries?<br />
'We may b living in the days a€ the death of this denanination ar in the day of the<br />
f orerumer af the greatest revival in the histmy of the denanination. You shap public<br />
opinion.. .be Chxistians first and journalists secord."<br />
When asked if he were trying to influence "~IMYE~<br />
icial" SBC news publicatiorrs , Draper<br />
said he was trying, but mt very successfully. "I ha= read things in sane publicatiors that<br />
are mklievahle, " he said. "But Rws Kaemmerling (editor cb the Southern Ba@ist Admeate) is<br />
the only one that will talk to me. I have wri ttm to the editm of The Call: 85 abut an<br />
incorrect story, but have mt heard f ran him, and the latest issue a£ SBC Today is full of<br />
misinformation. Wlt I do spend a lot a€ time trying to get Russell Kaemmerling not to be what<br />
is his nature-sarcastic."<br />
--3s-
Cooperative Program<br />
Beccmes Battlegromd By Dan Martin<br />
AWAKE BACIQGRmD S'IWY<br />
%&tist Press<br />
4/4/85<br />
NASMIILU, Tenn. (BP)- he Coaperative Prqam, Southern Baptists' mified plan af<br />
supporting missiors and education, could be seriomly damaged ly the mntinuing controversy<br />
in the 14.3-million member &mmimtion, key leaders believe.<br />
Fcarmer SBC President James T. Draper Jr. warned the Cooperative Prcgam auld collape if<br />
current pesident Charles Stanley is defeated during the <strong>1985</strong> annual meeting in Dallas.<br />
Draper, pastor of First Baptist Chur* of Euless, Terns, said "thowads uf churches"<br />
could witlfkw supprt if a "massive attat@. . .finand by Coaperative Program funds" ad led<br />
by demninatioml executives is sucmssf ul in denying Stanley a semrd oneyear ten.<br />
Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church of Atlanta, said: "I think Jimmy (Draper) is<br />
trying to get people's attention. He is trying to get them to adnit we have poblms and to te<br />
willing to sit fhm and talk almut then. If godly men will sit dGcrwn a d talk about these<br />
~oblms like qdly men, we can me to agreement. If we don' t and aontin~ to call ea& other<br />
names, we have major groblems," Stanley said.<br />
Stanley said First Baptist Chwdh, Atlanta, has doubled Cooperative Program giving to<br />
$250,000 fm <strong>1985</strong>, and has "ma* m pwision to do anything, whether I win or lose."<br />
He mated the way Southern BaFists "go m ut facing our poblems" auld affect the<br />
denomination' s witness. ,"The worst thing that oould h a p is that our witness muld p dmn<br />
the drain. It auld hurt cry church and every pstor if we act in an Mhrist-like manner.<br />
We can either Monstrate a beautiful example af hm Christians can settle their differences,<br />
or we can demollstxate an attitude that muld destroy our witness for generatiom to me."<br />
Baptist Press antacted b y leaders for respme to Draper' s amnents, including pastors<br />
of the f iw churhes which gave the largest anomts to the Cmpsxative Program, and twr, pastors<br />
frcm ea5h of the -sing wings af the denmination.<br />
The pstor: of the top Cooperative Prqram &ur&, Dan Vestal of ~irst Baptist Church of<br />
Midland, Texas, said: "The wMle Cooperative Prqran and mission enterprise uf Southern<br />
heists is based on txmt. My greate~it fear since the kginning.. .is that our txmt whi&<br />
holds m to~ther is being e r a , " said Vestal, wbse &ur& pve $944,512 thrcugh the<br />
Coaperativle Pxcgram last year. "It will inevitably aff ect our giving."<br />
Vestal said the aura is "arnrmitted to the mperative way of missions and theolcgical<br />
education." He added: "The distr~lst in the damtination is graving, and I grieve aid lment<br />
Wut that. The f i$t in the convention is dessing LB. Winning people to ~hrist ad<br />
hilding up churches is taking semd @ace. The mntrwlersy is possessing ad obsessing us."<br />
John Sullivan, pastor of Brm&om Baptist Chur& of Shrewprt , La., said: I doubt the<br />
Cooperative Program is so fragile it w ill allape, but there is m doubt it will b hurt."<br />
Bra!dmor Ba@ist Churd~, which last year gave $588,858 as the fifth flace CP church, "has<br />
no intention af doing anything other than supporting the C-rative Program," Sullivan said.<br />
He said the basic issue in the di spte is " m e @los@cal than theological. " The<br />
question is: 'Will I support significantly that whi& I m t weciably control?' I think<br />
we m s t get a mttee together and kgin negotiating our differences. I me 'negotiation'<br />
advisedly, because in a negotiation, no one gets everything he wants."<br />
--me-
Coaperative Program<br />
Beccmes Battleground<br />
mge 2<br />
Jim Henry, pastor of First Baptist Church of Orlando, Fla., said he blieves the<br />
Cooperative Program "is king used by bth sides and I hate to see that happn. I haw a<br />
ao~oern that saw would grade spirituality by hckJ much they give. I also do mt think it is<br />
fair to use it (the CP) as a tool to hdger others to take aertain psitiom."<br />
Henry, wbse &ur& was mked third with gifts a€ $626,532, said the cnngregation "has rn<br />
plans to anything other than what we are doing. Of course, if we see a deteriaration (in<br />
the theological stance af natioml agencies ) we would have to aorrsider hanqs. "<br />
Ri&ard Jackson, pastor of Nmth *mix (Ariz. ) Baptist Church, where the cpngregation<br />
placed second with $687,500 in gifts last year, said it is his hope mntrilxtiors will re&<br />
the $1 million lewl smn.<br />
"Several years agD I was mminatd for president (of the SEC)," Jackson said. "I didn't<br />
get elected. The next year the doubled its giving. I don't think the laypeople in this<br />
amtion want to see missiors giving used to hold anything over an-' s head. I think a<br />
lot af pstors will be surpised if they try (to withbld CP giving).<br />
Winfred Mome, pastor af First Baptist Church of Amarillo,. Texas, and widely touted as the<br />
man w b will run against Stanley at the <strong>1985</strong> a nnu meeting, said the Texas congregation " will<br />
keep right on giving jmt lib it has been" regardless a€ wlm is elected. ' The church, whi&<br />
last year placed fourth with $591,428, will do so, said Moare, "bcause we are giving to the<br />
LWd to his mrk."<br />
Adrian Rogers, pstor of Bellevue Baptist Chur* of Memphis, and pesident OE the SBC for<br />
one term (1980), said he is "acnrmitted to the Southern BaIjist Convention and to mprative<br />
missions . But I have a higher ccmuni tment and that is to the Word of God. "<br />
He said if he leaws Dallas feeling the "aomtion has taken a direction away £ran the<br />
Wmd of W, then we would have to make a decision smut hckJ we muld place our money so as to<br />
be as cooprative as possible w itbut ocmpanise. We have sane deep theological mnvictiorr;<br />
a d I will mt crmify tbse mnvictions on the altar of cooperation."<br />
William L. Self, pastor of Wiema Road Baptist Churc5 in Atlanta, and a leader o£ the<br />
moderate faction, said the &ur& "did not witmaw funds whm the 'fundamentalists' took over<br />
in 1979. 1 am a Southern Baptist by conviction, not by comenienae."<br />
He referred to the effart to witwld funding as "manipilation and intimidation. We are a<br />
family a d families don't do that to one mther."<br />
l'm other representatives are pessimistic about the future.<br />
"I know of mkody w b can king m tqther kmwe the issues are so deep and strong,"<br />
said miley E. Smith, president af the SBC 1980-81, and pstor af First Southern Ebptist Church<br />
of Dd City, Okla. "We have tm denminations row; we should jmt adnit it and move on."<br />
Snri th said the OMahcPna Citysuhrban &ur& cut CP giving fran $175,000 in 1984 to<br />
$125,000 this year as a protest against a "seminary ~esident w b is wing armd the amtry<br />
on Ccmprative Program money trying to defeat Charles Stanley. My deamrs said they weren't<br />
going to py for that. I had to mrk to kep than £run c&ting it more."<br />
Cecil Sherman, ~stor af Brcadway Baptist Chur& in Fort Worth, Texas, said he has "given<br />
uphope" af a reconciliation. He called the threat to witWro1d or witl-draw funds<br />
"intimidation, bullying ad pkting a gun to the head of the denoanination."<br />
"These 'fmdamentalistsl have a medieval frame d mid: they are right and everpne else<br />
is wrong. I am not willing to create an autharitative arrangement where they how the ' mind of<br />
the Lard' ad all the rest at us beme senrile and fdlm. I would giw upmy mptist<br />
birthriglnt if I listened to that kind of piom bullying," he said.<br />
-3s-
FOC Refers Durham Canplaint<br />
To Department Of ~ustice By Wry Chesser<br />
A W m BAmmmm STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
4/4/85<br />
WASlWGlXN (BP)-W Federal ~anmdcatiom Camnission has concluded its investigation of<br />
a canplaint alleging Houston apals court judge Paul Pressler taped and released to the press<br />
ptions a€ a telerjhme anversation with a Southern Baptist seminary student and has referred<br />
the matter to the Deprtment of Justice.<br />
J. Staffmd Durham, a stude~t at Southern Baptist Thealqical Seminary, LauisviLle, Ky.,<br />
f ild an infarmal canplaint with the Sept . 14, 1W4 alleging Presslex taped their S@. 1,<br />
1984 telephone mnversation w itbut his @or consent m lumwledge and later released pnctiom<br />
of the taped conversation whidh appeared in a Houston newspapr.<br />
The FC follwed its mrmal processes in asking ATsrT ChmLnzications and Southwestern Bell<br />
to investigate the taping camplaint, In their reprts to KX3, both canpanis said they<br />
communicated to Pressler that taping phone 03nversations witbut picar consent violates tariff<br />
provisions uder whi& they operate, but that the Texas appeals murt judge ref used to answer<br />
questims abut the matter.<br />
A spokesperson fclrr FC said Durham's canplaint was forwarded to the Jmtice Departmmt<br />
because o£ its allegaticm that partiom ob the tap were released to the press.<br />
"If we receive a -plaint here at thg-Comnission and it is mt sanething within our<br />
jurisdiction, we routinely refer the matter to the federal m state agency ar agencies that<br />
would have jurisdiction over the issues raised," said Kathi Kneff , a public utilities<br />
specidlist with m.<br />
"In this particular canplaint the release o£ the infoerrnation of the alleged tape would be<br />
a civil matter mt within our jurisdiction," she added.<br />
A Juatiee Departmmt spkesman told Baptist Press the question in such cases is whether<br />
information released frm the taps is "wed far injurious means."<br />
Acccrrding to Kneff, the taping of a conversation without prior consent m bwledge of the<br />
parties involved violates tariff regulatiom. After substantiating suzh violations, a warning<br />
£ran local *one a~npanies is mrmally issued and a loss aE service muld result if violations<br />
cant inue .<br />
AltMrgh neither AT&T mr Southestern Bell irrdicated in reports to the F X they had<br />
substantiated Durham's allegations, Kneff wrote Durham the -pies were "adewately<br />
responsive" to the crmplaint mtice,<br />
"The phone asmpanies were responsive to our -plaint mtice e m though it is mt clear<br />
the cdlls were placed in their territory," beff told Baptist Press.<br />
--me--.
FOC Refers Durham Canplaint<br />
-To Deprtmmt Of Justice<br />
Pap 2<br />
In its reprt to the FQC, Soutlwestern Bell stated a ampmy official contacted Durham w M<br />
describd the circumstances cb the mnversation he alleged was taped and released to the<br />
Houston Chronicle.<br />
Later, the Soutlwestem Bell official cont~ted Pressler "tm advise him of Mr. Durham's<br />
allegation to the ?XX .It<br />
TIE reprt said "Judge Pressler declined to camtent on the accwation" and the Bell<br />
representative "verified that Jud- Pressler is aware tMt such an action wuld be a violation<br />
of the tariff ." The repxt concluded that the mmny was "unable to sukstantiate Mr. Durham's<br />
allegation. "<br />
In its repwt, ATGT mted it was " iqible" to determine whether it cr sane other<br />
interexmange carrier provide3 the service to the calling party. Hmever, its afficials<br />
contacted Durham and Pressler in mspnse to F0(3's anplaint mtice.<br />
' The AT&T report said a ampany official contarcted Pressler in March "to determine if he<br />
had used ATr;T Clcnanunications service to call Mr. Durham of Stamping Grcrund, Kentucky, and<br />
recorded the convzrsatim without prim consent and to infarm Judge Pressler that had he done<br />
so, he would have been in violation of the AT&T Ccrronunicatiom F.C.C.-Tariff NO. 1. Jud-<br />
Pressler refused to answer any questions regarding this canplaint."<br />
- The FCC has farwarm the repxts to Durham along with a c w of its letter to the Jwtice<br />
Deprtment . Kneff said this action aoncludes FCC' s handling of the matter unless Dmham elects<br />
to file a fmmal canplaint with the agency. -3G-
Drapr, Smith, Rogers<br />
Discuss SBC On CBN By Craig Bird<br />
AWANCE EWKGROUND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
4/4/85<br />
NASHVIUE, Tan. (BP)-The graving unrest in the Southern Baptist Convention mntinues to<br />
attract attention f ran outside the 14.3-mi llion member denomination.<br />
During the last week in Mar& the three innnediate past presidents of the SBC appeared on<br />
the 700 Club, hosted by Pat Robertson, to explain their perspective of the mntroversy and to<br />
underline the imprtance of the current vesident, Charles Stanley, being reelected next June.<br />
James T. Drapr Jr. (president 1%2-84), Bailey Snri th (1%0-82) and Adrian Rogers<br />
(1979-80) appeared on the natioml talk shckJ ad gave examples (without mes) of what they see<br />
as a pulling-away £ran abelief in the inerrancy of the Bible.<br />
The program also included filmed camments £ran the presideslts of tm Southern Baptist<br />
semimries u us sell Dilday of Soutl-westem Baptist Theological Seminary in Fcrt Worth, Texas,<br />
ad Roy C . Honeycutt of Southern Baptist Theolqdcal Seminary in L&uisville, Ky. ) who hve been<br />
outspoken in their defmse of the theological ad evangelical integreity of their schmls.<br />
Also interviewed on film was Peg Witts, an ahin& minister who co-pastas a Southern<br />
h@ist churdl in Durham, N.C., with her husband, and F?,d Young, pstor of Secod Baptist Church<br />
of Houston.<br />
Rogers, whose election in 1979 signaled the public outbeak of the struggle between so-<br />
called "cx)nservatives" and "derates, " said semimry professors, "believe the Bible is<br />
inspired" and contains the revelation of spiritual truth, "but they do mt think it can 'm<br />
depded on historically w scientifically." One example, he said, is same Old Testamglt<br />
passages almut the nature of God, are damplayed as reflecting an inadequate or liini td<br />
'mwledge o£ the true nature af God.<br />
Drapr said the "only hope" of continuing the turning of the SE3C to a more mnservative<br />
stance is the reelection of Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Chu11d-1, Atlanta.<br />
He ad Robertson, wbse "idepmdmt" ministries include a university, television<br />
netwrk, missions a d evangelism effarts financed in part by on-air solicitations over the 700<br />
Club, explained hw the reelection of Stanley could be advand by Southern Baptist viewers.<br />
Robrtson urged churches to respord to the "crisis" in the SBC and send properly elected<br />
messengers to Dallas next June to supprt Stanley.<br />
- The three SBC ptms raper f ran First Baptist Church, Ness ,- Texas; mi th f ran ~irst<br />
Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla., and Rogers, £ran Bllewe Baptist Chur&, Mmphis,<br />
- Tenn.) joined hands as Rabertson prayed far the SBC ard asked that God's spirit prodme a<br />
"unity-rot aT ccmplranise but unity on the authcsrity of pur ward."<br />
Robertson is the secod praninent, mwSouthem Baptist to go public in s u p t of the<br />
reelection of Stanley in recmt months. Earlier this year, Jerry Falwell pedicted a split of<br />
the denomimtion if Stanley is mt reelected. - 30--
SBC Fmun Returns<br />
Far Secord Year<br />
A W m BAaGRaJND STORY<br />
Ba@ist Press<br />
4/11/85<br />
DALIdS ( BP)-The s a d annual meeting af the SBC Form dl1 be Morday, Jme 10, f ran<br />
1:30-5 :00 p.m. in the West Hall ct€ 'the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
Begun last year in Kansas City, Mo., the Form cdfers in its second Far an e-ed<br />
program a d dbuhled seating capcity. Organi~rs expected last year's attendanoe UE over<br />
2,000 to increase si~pificantly this year.<br />
Featured speakers and their messages include Janes Flamming, pastor of First Baptist<br />
Chur*, Ridmord, Va., - "Ortdoxy of Love;" R-11 Lolley, ~esident a€ Southeastern Baptist<br />
' Theological Seminary, Wake Fcaest, N.C. - "Integrity in proclaiming the Gospel:" Catherine<br />
Allen, associate executive director of Wanan's Missionary Union - 'The Doctrine cb First<br />
Thing; " Cecil Sherman, pastor of Brmdway Baptist Churd~, Fart Worth, Texas - "To Twt<br />
Again, " and Willian Self, pistor of Wieucla Road Baptist Church, Atlanta - 'What They Don' t<br />
' Tea& You at a E?a@ist Preacher's School."<br />
CBSI Television news analyst Bill Eaoyers also is d t t e d to speak if mt called away on<br />
spcial assignment. presiding far the sand time is Gene Garrison, pastor of First Baptist<br />
Chur*, Oklahcma City.<br />
Featured musicians include Christian artists Cynthia Clawson, Ken Medema, Darrell Adams,<br />
an3 Bob Bailey, and Fareim Mission hrd Exec~ive Vice-President William O'Brien. Bill<br />
Jarmes, minister of mmic, Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, will direct the a£tenu>onls mwic.<br />
Organi zrs cb the meeting are aontinuing the Morday nigM Tellcwship for SBc messengers<br />
begm in Kansas City. ' This y~ar's reception w ill be in the Remion Pallram of the H ~ t t<br />
Regency Hotel f ran 7 to 10 p.m.<br />
--3G-
Ministers Wives Called<br />
- To Prayer F a SBC<br />
AWzwm 5?mm(3CND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
4/12/85<br />
ATLANIR (BP)-Ministers' wives acrcss the Southern Baptist Corntion hzPw Men dled to<br />
"join together in fervent grayer" for "mity, harmony and God's love to pevail in the hearts<br />
of all w b am" to the mml SBC meting in Dallas Jme 11-13.<br />
' The appeal was issued by Mrs. Ellm (Willian G. )7 Tanner of Atlanta, wife a€ the ~esidlent<br />
of Southern Baptist Hane Mission Board. Mrs ." Tanner was asked by officers cb SBC Ministers'<br />
Wives' Coderen- to be natioral prayer &aiman fa the <strong>1985</strong> SBC.<br />
Mrs.' Tanner wrote last week: "It is my heartfelt desire for men o£ our Southern Baptist<br />
Convention to pray for harmony, fm low and fa real mity in our aomtion. Surely, our<br />
Led is mt going to stad and w ait for IS to settle our differenes while tlmwands are dying<br />
witMut -ledge uf him eat& day."<br />
She added: "It is my conviction that if we will earnestly p y the price in prayer on our<br />
knees, he will hear and answer our payer and heal our convention. L& w pray that Christ our<br />
Lwd a d Saviour will be the victar; that his wnrk of winning alaa ministering to the world may<br />
be wried on; and that we will still be usable in his kingdcm vmk."<br />
Mrs. Tanner ks enlisted at least tm persons in e& state mnvention to be e<br />
&airprsom f a payer. Fa& ministers' wife will be enmuraged to Fay with their Iusbands,<br />
with a yJrayer prtner, with wives of other staff mbes ad at the mmtion in Dallas.<br />
Mrs. Earl Kelley of Jackson, Miss., is ~esident af SBC Ministers' Wives Conference. In<br />
February, officers a€ the mnferene issued a statanent =king wives acrms the nation to pray<br />
for " forgiveness, f oor bnility, far mity of purpose ad f ca: renewed pwer to fallm the Wd' s<br />
to go into all the world and pea the qspl . "<br />
' Tickts to SBC Ministers' Wives' Corderme lun& Jule 11 at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas<br />
are available for $12.50 £ran Mrs. Martha Garrison, 432 NW 17th, Oklakrana City 73103.<br />
--30--
Childcare, Bus Routes,<br />
Set Fa SBC Sessiors<br />
AWANCE EwaGRrnD STORY<br />
Ba*ist Prss<br />
4/12/85<br />
DALJAS (E3P)-Free shuttle kus rcutes and cbildcare infamation far messen~rs to the<br />
annual meeking af the Southern Ba@ist Convention,, Jme 11-13 in Dallas has been released.<br />
Shuttle buses will connect all the majca: btels mt within walking distanoe and a majar<br />
prking area with the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
Preschool childcare w ill be bmed at First Baptist Chur& in Dallas while the<br />
Bratherl-md Canmission will host a missiom day camp for &ildrm in grades one thrcugh six at<br />
a local. park.<br />
Far $7 per thy ($20 for all three days ) , elementary s-1 &ildren will be provided<br />
supervised activities whi& include mission studies, games, crafts, nature study and sports.<br />
Children will taken to a city prk by Ixts , leaving the mmtion mter e& day, Tuesday<br />
thrqh Thursday, at 8:30 a.m. ' !they w ill return to the mrmention mter at 5 p.m. on Jme 11,<br />
12:30 p.m. on Jme 12 ad 4:30 p.m. Jme 13.<br />
Registration and additiod idcamation will be availahle beginning Jme 10 at the<br />
Brother- Ccmmission both in the amtion display area. ' There is rn p-e-registration ht<br />
interested parents are maouraged to sicpup on Jme 10.<br />
Pres-1 &ildcare fm messengers wkP live outside the Dallas-Fact Worth area will be<br />
provided at First Baptist Church in Dallas far $5 a session. The May 24 preregistration<br />
deadline is important:. Planning will be based on the nunbzr si~d up by the deadline.<br />
"Messengers w b shcrw up needing preschool childcare wi-ut peregistering than are mt<br />
guaranteed anything," Tim Hedqist, director of financial planning for the SBC Executiw<br />
Canmittee ad mnwntion manager, said. "We will certainly do everything we can to help than<br />
lxlC we can't stress azough the import- of contacting the people at First Baptist in Dallas<br />
in advance." Messengers £ran -the Dallas-Fmt Worth area w ill mt be included in the program.<br />
K. Adele Suddath, director of pres-1 ministries at the church, is heading up the<br />
progran. She may be contacted by mail at First Baptist Church, 1707 San Jacinto, Dallas,<br />
' Tem, 75201 or by phone at 214-969-0111. A armplete information sheet and registration form<br />
will be sent to anpne requesting than.<br />
Fa the awts, of course, parking a d transportation is always a majar amern. A& this<br />
year there are several hits cd good news. First there are, "a couple d thosard" prking<br />
spces in the anvention enter amplex, acaording to Hedest . Swofiy, the shuttle bus<br />
system is mt only extensive-it will be free.<br />
The shuttle service won't oxt users in 1%5 became cd the generasity af the Dallas<br />
Baptist Association aid the Baptist General Comtion cb Texas. ' The natioral amtion<br />
Ixldget always heavily sdsidims the bus service to leep the axt lw. ' This year the natioml<br />
hdget will aontritute $25,000 but the Dallas association and the F3QX have agreed to make up<br />
the differen- riders usually haw to pay.<br />
' Their shared mrrtrilxltion will be a~oldmtely<br />
$10,000, Hedwist aid.<br />
--me-
Child Care, Bus Routes,<br />
Set Fcx SBC Session<br />
page 2<br />
; The shuttles w ill begin ntvling at 7:30 a.m. each day of the mnmtion. ' They will xun<br />
until 9:30 p.m. on Jule 11 and 12 and ultil 5:30 p.m. on Jme 13.<br />
Buses will mt stop at ea& Mtel individmlly Imt will stop at a central pint at<br />
clwt rs o£ btels. FCC schedule information messengers s bld heck with the mrmntion<br />
infamation lmth in the Convention Center Whm they register ar at their idvidual hotels.<br />
Fbute hotels are: Best Western, Quality Inn, Holiday Inn Market Center, Raalkay Inn<br />
Market Center, Sheraton Mockin@ird, mt Hotel, Rcsikay Inn, m n t a Central,' Twin Sixties,<br />
Mac Hotel, Sheraton Downtawn, Pla of the Americas, Fairmont , L ews hatole, Marriott,<br />
LWuinta Inn Re@ Raw, Hdliday Inn Regal Rm, Ranada Inn, Ward Jdrson, Tbm3m-e Hotel,<br />
Vismmt, EKecLAive Inn, Ntxth Park Inn, Dozlbletree Inn, Trcpicaxla Inn and Expaessway Inn.<br />
' There will be rn service to the idiate dawntawn btels: Hilton, Adol@w, Wtt ,<br />
BracEord atd the Holiday Inn Dclwntawn.<br />
* The shuttle also w ill run fran the Remion Arena prking lot at the corner of Memorial<br />
Drive ad Hotel Street. - This is the lot where Wes are suppoaed to pxk.<br />
Autancbile parking in the Convention Center will be $4 and $3 in the Remion Arena prarking<br />
areas (no in ad out privledges ) . Bus prking w ill I=e $6.<br />
This year special ~uvisiom have heen made fon: Wcappd, Special prking passes will<br />
be available at the anvention infmnation booth in the Comtion Center. Perso= mmt have<br />
bth the special pass and a handicapped lime tag on their ve&ide ar state idmtification<br />
as a handicappd dxiver.<br />
' The infomation mth also will haw map d the Corntion Ceslter indicating elevator<br />
acoess fa wheeldrs, ramp and restrmns and eating facilities whi& are accessible to<br />
the hadicapped. I<br />
Wne planning to attmd the convention wm kras mt wt made a hotel reservation may<br />
call Hedcplist's aEfice (615-244-2355) during regular =king hours fcar the natnes a€ btels<br />
whid.1 still ha= wcancies and whid.1 may be contacted directly by individuals.<br />
-3s-
State Comtion LBabrs<br />
Discuss SBC Contrmrsy By Bob Terry<br />
AWAKX EwmRamD STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
4/12/85<br />
ST. UUIS (EP)--mmrn about the mntrmrsies engulfing the Southern Ba*ist Convention<br />
brqht a together the ~esillenta cb 23 state Baptist 03nventiom foa: Fayer and disctssion.<br />
' The meeting took place April 11-12, ad was the first time in the history at the 14.3<br />
million mber &nomination that state ~esidmts have met at their am initiative to discws<br />
issues facing the natiod my.<br />
Proording to mnvlenor Charles Pickering af Mississippi., the ~esidents agreed that the<br />
volatile rhetoric of the mrhrmries " j-rdize the opprtmity Sarthern Baptists hate to<br />
reach the world with the low a€ Jestls Christ."<br />
Pickering, an attorney f ran Laurel, Miss., was one a€ nine state mmtion psidents<br />
serving on a steering amittee for the meeting. ' The state m mtion leaders met ~ivately<br />
- Tkaursdsy ni@t and Friday mmning prim to inviting the press in for a bsiefing.<br />
- The ~esidents rele~ed a statement rmd a nwsrelease mrulerning their meeting ad spent<br />
abmt an bur answering cpestiom.<br />
In the ~ epred statanent , the ~esidents declared: -'The nranner in whi& the present<br />
mntrmreies are bing disccssed anong Southern Ba@ists, in many instances, diminishes ax<br />
ability to reflect Christ's lo= to the world, limits arr ability to cawry out the Great<br />
Camnission arrd diverts our attention fran the respmibilities cod has given w."<br />
Pickring said the ~esidents are mnoerned that Southern Baptists micjht mt be able to<br />
sieae the opportunities d Good News Anrerim, Bold Mission Thrmt ad other ewplistic<br />
opportmities if conmtion rhetoric is mt toned durn.<br />
"We believe we reflect: the vast majmity of Southern Ba@ists wha fear we lave been<br />
diverted fran our majar task. We want to gst on w ith our missions and evangelism efforts,"<br />
Pickexing told a Friday maning news mnference.<br />
* The pesidents called the persoralities involved in the wntrersy "sinere pe@e<br />
seeking to serve the cause cd Christ" Zxrt: urged all partiuanta to "reflect the character af<br />
Christ in their disc~siom, articles a d statments."<br />
'"The tr= evidence that the came a€ Christ is being served is in reflecting love," the<br />
statement contin-.<br />
In an d m n s action, the ~esidents called on Southern Baptists to set aside May 19 as<br />
a day of Fapr for the annual meting of the Southern Bqkist Comtion in Dallas and offered<br />
three sqgestiorrs to relie- mting political pessuree .<br />
During the day uE Fayer, the pesidats asked Southern Ba*ists to pay that revid. and<br />
spiritual awakening will break out within the denmination, that under the leadership of the<br />
Hdly Spirit healing and reaonciliation w ill tale place and that Southern Baptists might<br />
effectively ada aim the Gospel arand the world to the glary of God.<br />
--m*
State Comtion Leaders<br />
Discms SBC Controwwsy<br />
page 2<br />
Convention resolutiom was one sort UE political pressure cited by the presidents. In the<br />
offiddl statenmt, messengers were urged to "exercise restraint in filing resolution3 ."<br />
Pickering said the group was mt attenfling to stifle discmsion. "We only want the<br />
messengers to b mirdful uf the impct their resolutiors miw have on the mmtion." While<br />
declining to cite examples, the presidents agreed -st aomtion resolutions haw been a<br />
souroe UE convmtion differenaes.<br />
' The ~esidents also dled on "tbse.. .wb male appointments" ad "those w b carry out<br />
prqrams. . .to be mid£ ul cb involving people f rcm a braad range a€ our mmti tmcy."<br />
Pickering said the ~esidents believe that in the past plitical pessures have ben<br />
hoqht to bar on tbse wkro mah appointments and those wlm adninister ~ q m n s - . The<br />
political Fessures had to do with mrrtrd d the mmtion, he cbemed.<br />
Other presidents said people on all sides of the ~esent wntrarersy feel left out. "We<br />
are jwt asking the respnsible parties to b as inclmive as possible," picbring am. "If<br />
we are midf ul uf halancing our appintmmts and prcgrans, that will help relieve the political<br />
pressures. "<br />
' The presidents also asked Southern Baptists to remember the aonvention was created to<br />
Fanote missiors, education, benewlent emteqrises and other social services. A mrrect view<br />
of the anvention w ill help alleviate f dse expaztatiom, one pres idmt told Word and Way.<br />
Repeatedly, the ~esidents denied they came together as a political group. "'This group<br />
rewesmts men of dif femt perspectives," one prticipnt mtd. "We agreed to sublimate mr<br />
di fferenaes and ooane together where mi ty can b f omd. "<br />
Pickering denied any di sctssion alPut candidates had taken places. "That was never on the<br />
agenda and we ham' t discwised the first mrd mut it. We came tqther to pay and discms<br />
the problems, We didn' t *fend or attack anyone."<br />
When askd mut the serio~lsness cd the SBC mntrmrsies, ~ickering said the fact that<br />
the presidents took the mprecedmted action a€ meeting together ideates they belie- the<br />
problen is sexio~. "I hope there won't be a split. We m e together to pcmote healing so vie<br />
can get about our task a€ missiom and evangelism."<br />
While agreeing the cantrmries are wi-pread, the pesidents mtd the emotiolvr Sean to<br />
rul higher in sane prts cb the country than in others.<br />
Fhrticipting in the twday meeting were:<br />
Wdlam Hdey, Alabama: Neil' Tkunpson, Alaslca; JonM. Stubblefield, Arkansas: Narman<br />
Taylm, District af Columbia; Bill Hickem, Flmida: mvid Sapp, vice~esident, Gecrrgia:<br />
Charles Chardler, Illimis, RoBrt Lathan, Idam:<br />
Ed Gregory, Iwa: Mahlon Morley, Kansas-Nebraska ; Jim LW~ s , Kentucky; Raymord ~oswell<br />
Lmisiana; Ralph men, MarylhDelaware; Frank Hemby, Minnesot+Wismmin; picbring: ~ohn<br />
Gilbrt , Missouri : Ed Hewlett , New Ymk:<br />
Ncrnan wiggim, Narth Cardlina: John Miller, Northern Plains; Well Estep, Okl-a;<br />
Earl Crunpler , South Cardina; Job May," Tennessee, Earl Scott, Virginia.<br />
-30-<br />
(~oki.Terry is editox of Word and Way, newsjournal cd the Missouri Ba@ist Comtion.)<br />
,
Canmi ttee On bards<br />
Reprt Released Early By Dan Martin<br />
AWW BAcNaalND s m<br />
Ba#i st Press<br />
4/16/8 5<br />
NASINlUJ3,- Tenn. (BP)-The <strong>1985</strong> report cd the Cdttee on Boards, Cdssiom and<br />
Stanling Cdttee was relezsed April 16, tevl days kfore the required release date.<br />
^ The report, whi& mmt be released 45 days in advane a€ the annual meting, was released<br />
early became of runars ad plblic statements comrning the mntents cf the reprt, acatrrding<br />
to Chairman Ebb Eklmd of Dallas.<br />
Eklmd, urban emn~lism assmiate in the e~ngeliam division uE the mptist General<br />
Convention of Texas, said aontents aE the reprt were to k kept confidential until the<br />
s&eduled release dateApril 26-b.at the release was accelerated in order tn wdde more<br />
accurate infarmation mncerning mntrmrsial aspects d the reprt .<br />
The 5>mmber Cdttee on bards dnates persons to serve as trustees cb the 20<br />
natioml agwncies af the 14.3-million member Southern Baptist Corntion. ' The dttee is<br />
amposed of tm person+-one a layprson and one in &ur& or ~ n a t i o ~ related l y wcrkf<br />
rcm e& of the 26 state comtiom which have in excess a€ the 25,000 manbers necessary to<br />
qualify for re~esmtation.<br />
!.Th <strong>1985</strong> report includes 243 nominatiom, including 114 new trmtees and 129<br />
rdnatiom. Currently, there are 950 persors holding trusteeship.<br />
Messengers to the 1995 annual meeting of the SBC rrust adopt the report d elect the<br />
rumcinees to the wriom mar&. In recent years, portiorm aE the dttee reprt haw been<br />
Mlenged fran *e £1- of the cpnvmtion.<br />
Eklmd said the decision was made to releae the reprt early because "we wanted Southern<br />
Ba#ists to have the information. "As chairman, I have been asked many cyestiors . I ha=<br />
decided to mak sane statanents in the top it w ill settle sane issues that pople are<br />
discussing wi tbut laming all the facts ."<br />
- The Temn haracteriaed the report as "very tpd" ad added: "I feel we haw a F R ~<br />
strong m e of people being dmted this war."<br />
He said: "It is my grayer our wmk will mntrifxrte to a healing in our mmtion.<br />
We tried to rise almw the ~oblans and mt bemne a part a€ the ~oblem. - The people on the<br />
reprt I know persorally are Bihle-believing, cooperating Southern Eh#ists with hearts f car<br />
missioxls. Fran the reports I had on the pople whn I do mt lolow personally, they, too, are<br />
strong, cmperating Soerthern Baptists."<br />
While saying he believes the majocrity of the reprt is @, almd said he is "well aware<br />
that we have one ar tm spts that likely will be &al.lenged."<br />
One dzallmge may cane over Jerry GiLmoae, a Dallas attorney, wlm was mt rerv~minatd to<br />
the Hone Mission Board, altbrgh, he was eligihle for a sword four-year tern.<br />
Gilmcare, a mmkr of Cliff Temple Baptist Church, "ap~arently has served well as a<br />
trllstee," Eklmd said. "Amding to Dr. ~illizm G.' Tanner (presidmt a€ the HM) he has hen<br />
an outstanding trmtee and for the pst tw years a most dfectitne chairman."<br />
--me--
Cornni ttee On Ebards<br />
Report Released Early<br />
Page 2<br />
2 Baptist press<br />
Eklmd said the tw Terns ~p%saltati~eS reammended Gilmme for remination, f allwing<br />
a acPlrmi ttee guideline whit% specifies a person eligible f m a seaord term be renaninated<br />
"mless w d and sufficient reason is given.. . ."<br />
Wsti0r-s arcse, hme=r, Eklmd said, concerning Gilmcxels wife, Martha, an c~rdained<br />
M e t W s t minister.<br />
"I defended Mr. Gilmre's rerrwnillation on the bsis he is an outstarding layman," Eklmd<br />
said. "On the issue uf men's ardination, I persorally am mt mnfm~e: lmwewr, this is a<br />
local &ILK& matter ard sin- Mr. Gilmosre is a member of a churd.1 that is mfcartaliLe with sudh<br />
ad at the same time a strong -prating Southern Baptist churd~, their members, in my<br />
opinion, slmuld be eligible to sem on SBC bards."<br />
Ekld said the d ttee mted 25 to 22 against renminating Gilmme.<br />
"It is one a€ tlmse situatiors where there w ill be criticism vdatever we do," he said.<br />
Gilmwe was the only person eligible for renoaninat ion wlm desired remnirmt ion wlm was<br />
"b.nnped" fran a trustee pst. Four other person3 were eligible, ht declined reranination.<br />
Eklmd said the only other challenged m ine was Willian D. DelhNe, assistant U.S.<br />
attorney for the Eastern District cb Nmth Caralina, Raleigh, WID was mimted as a trustee at<br />
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C.<br />
Eklmd said it was pintd out- if Ddabyle is elected, he would k the third person £ran<br />
the U.S. attorney's cffice in Raleigh to sene as a trustee aE one uf the SBC institutiom.<br />
Currently, the U.S. attorney, Samuel' T. Currin, is an the SBC Pu5Lic ~ffairs Canmittee,<br />
ad is its chairman; amther assistant, J.T. Kmtt 111, is a trwtee of the Baptist Sunday<br />
khwl Board. Currin WEIS elected in 1983; Wtt in 1984.<br />
"There did not seem tn b3 any thdogical westion involved," Eklmd said. "The pirtlary<br />
question was whether three men out cb the same uff ice slmuld haw majar respnsilxilities on<br />
Southern Ba@ist bards and awcies when Narth Carolina has so many yali fied people who ought<br />
to sene."<br />
He said Deldmfle was nrninated on a 32-17 vote.<br />
Amther possible pint of mntrmrsy mncems a person w b was nd ther rrominated mr<br />
remmmended for dnation.<br />
Eklmd said he is asloed "why J.T. Luther, an outstarding Southern Baptist layman, and<br />
10-time friend of Soutkwestern Fh@ist* Theological Seminary will mt bz a minee fm the<br />
op~3ning fram Texas on Sout'ktJesternl s board."<br />
The Laher matter hs been an issue since one ddnatioral leahr daimed L ~her was mt<br />
ncmirnted became "fundamentalists" mduely inflmced the millation ~oaess.<br />
Yt"'t is not so," Eklmd said. ,"This is an issue which never should have beme an issue.<br />
It is mt an instanae cb arqkody trying to block anykody. It was simply that Bill (W.O.) Watts<br />
(the Texas lay re~esentative) and I auld mt agree on a dnee."<br />
Eklmd said, "There were efforts to influence this psition frun #e movers d shakers<br />
of all sides. It wasn't just one side, or e m tm; there were effcarts f ran all sides .I1<br />
He pinted out he a d Watts, fran Woodbwo, agreed "harmomowly" on six of the seven<br />
persoxs they d mted. When they could not agree on the SMTS minee, they ccmpanised ernd<br />
named Wayne Allen, a -term Texas pstor .<br />
mlund told lh$ist Press amther potential aontrmrsy was elimimted when Jmes T.<br />
Draper Jr., pastor af ~irst ~aptist Church of Euless; Texas, and imdate pt ~esident cb<br />
the SBC, withdrew his rnmi~tion as SBC repesentative to the Baptist World Alliance.<br />
-me--
Ccmrni ttee On Ebards<br />
Report Released Early<br />
bge 3<br />
Page 3 Bptist Press<br />
In a letter ta Eklmd, Draper reqested his m e be withlrawn and Caralyn Weatherfcard,<br />
executive directw of the Wanan' s Missiomry UniomSBC, be subtituted. Draper said he<br />
klieves the execaive uE the WMJ s-ad sew the E#i '%y virtue aE her cdf ice."<br />
Weatherf ad, wb currently is an SBC re~esentative to the EBh, was rnt rencuninated<br />
became of a change which names the current SBC ~esidmt ad the wesidmt d the Sunday<br />
School Board to the E3bA by virtue of their offices, elirnimting tm at-large psitiom.<br />
"I do mt think Miss Weatherfmd was eliminated intentiorally. I think it was jmt an<br />
-rsi$t. I apeciate Jiq (Draper) taking this action," Eklmd said.<br />
Executive Canmi ttee,<br />
Ebards Naninated<br />
NASWILZE,'Tenn. (BP)-Nanine for the Executive C dttee and the four lmards d the<br />
Southern E?a@ist Convention ham &en released ly the SBC aamrj ttee on m ds, Comnissiors and<br />
Starding Canmi ttees .<br />
Naninees are clergy ar dmmimtioml related, unless specified.<br />
EXECUTIVE CCMWTEE (69 members): 17 nominations mmidered; fiw new members, 12<br />
renoaninatiom.<br />
New makers replacing rnabrs indigible for reqpintment indude Benny King, First<br />
Southern church, Ncrth Glenn, Cdo., replacing O tis B.' Teterman uf Grad Jmction; C. Ray<br />
Fuller, director of missions, Joliet , Ill., repXacing Wesldell Garrison a€ Fairview Heights;<br />
Jmes Yates, First &urch, Yazm City, Miss., replacing Clark W. M&urray, Pascagoula; Ri&<br />
Lher, First &w&, ~ersonville,<br />
N.C., replacing Jdm M. -is a€ Ralei*.<br />
Nanimted to a term W expire in 1986 is Jmes M. Mmton Jr., of Trinity Church,<br />
Liwrmare, Calif., replacing J.' Word Gear-, of Gilroy, w b mwd.<br />
Rencmimtd to 8-d terms are Jiq E. Jackson Huntsville, Ma.; Mrs. a s H. Wager,<br />
Orlado, Fla. ; Hmnon M, B=rrn, F&x, Ga. : bmld I. Gent, IWan~~ille, Id. : -don D. mian,<br />
Wi&ita, Kan. ; Jdm R. Cknistian, Hqkinsville, Ky. ;<br />
G. Nelson Duke, Jefferson City, Mo.; Qmad Bost, Sdliskrury, N.C.; Frank C=<br />
Franklin,' Tam. ; Willian F. Collins Jr., MemMs; Tenn. ; W. LeRay Fowler, HoISton, and G-9<br />
M, Kissinger, N-rt News, Va.<br />
FOREIGN MISSIm B- (84 members): 22 dnatiom mrrsidered: nine new members, 13<br />
renominations.<br />
New members include Leo E. Eisert, a businessman and member of ~irst &m&, ~anblia,<br />
Ill., replacing Mrs. William D, Ri&ardson of Trqr, Ill., wlm &cline3 to sene.<br />
New members replacing persom ineligible far reappointment include Mrs. Elizabth (Betty)<br />
Swadley, housewife and member of South Ham &ur&, @ringfield, Mo., replacing Mrs. Carter<br />
Reed of St. Jokns: Horace A. Hmm of Fuquay Varina church, F'uquay Varina, N.C., replacing W.<br />
Henry Cw& of Charlotte;<br />
William H. Cook of First chur*, Bartlesville, replacing Jerry H. Fielder af Oklahzma<br />
City: mris H. Mills, a semi-retired milder and dewlaper ad member o£ Bellevue church,<br />
Memfis,' Tenn., replacing Wendell G. MClinton uf Donelson, Tenn.;<br />
Bonnie B. WestWaok Jr., a medical e a r and member of Calmry dhurd.1, &aunork,' Texas,<br />
replacing Riclhard M. Cobb of Dallas, and Jchn M. Sinrarrs, an attorney ad member of First &ur&,<br />
Roamk, Va, , reflacing W. Curtis English of Altavista, Va.<br />
Naninatd fa a four-par term as a local rmnber is Charles H. Jon= of Kanpdll churd?,<br />
Virginia Beach, Va., replacing B. R. Yarkcugh of Manassas, w b resigned.<br />
--me
Camnittee On bards<br />
Report Released Early<br />
mge 4<br />
Renominate3 for seoord terms are G-ge Gaskim, fiakewxd, Cdo. : Lewis A. Miller,<br />
' Tecyesta, Fla. : Fblert (Bob) Marsh, Atlanta: Harald E. (Eddy) Halloek, Linmln, Neb. : ~udith C .<br />
Fit*, Paducah, Ky. : Mn Herrod, Kenner, La, ; Richard Smae, Flint, Mi&. :<br />
Henderson elk, Charlotte, N.C.; Harry L. I.Iarmah, Puyallup, Wash.; W@ G.<br />
Memphis,- Tenn. : R.C. (bb) Callan, Atllarillo, Tern; Ward A. Ealdwin Jr., Ridmod, Va.<br />
(local), ad Jmes Harwood Cochrane, Ridmod, Va. (local ) .<br />
HlB MISSIm BQARD (a mere): 24 nomination3 mnsidered: 11 nw members, 13 persons<br />
rmmirrated.<br />
Ral* Smith, pastor of Hyde Park churd? of Awtin; Texas, was minated, replacing Jerry<br />
C. Gilmae, an attorney a d member of Cliff Temple &a&, Dallas, w b was eligible far a<br />
secod fom-year tern but was mt rammimted.<br />
New members replacing members ineligible fm renomination include Willim Tanner, a<br />
professor of geology and member of Fellmship church; Tallahassee, replacing A an C.' Ta£t of<br />
Cardl Gables; Mrs. Alice Wahl Sanders, a lmmwife a d member of First &ma, Barnberg, S.C.,<br />
replacing Bobby L. Hquley of Colunbia;<br />
Ron Phillip d Central &m&, Hi~on, Tenn., replacing Bill Skaennan of Nashville; Gecsge<br />
Harton Harris a€ Castle Hills &urdn, San Antonio, replacing Billy <strong>Web</strong>r of Dallas; Rudy<br />
Hemadez, an evangelist and manber of Gethsemane &urch, Carrim Spring3 ,' Texas, replacing<br />
O m H. Pachecano of El Paso, and Frank Wells a€ ~riarcliff d.1urd.1, Atlanta, replacing J.<br />
Enanett Henderson QE Norcrcss .<br />
Named to fill unexpired terms are Brad Allen cb ~irst &mch, Dmcan, Okla., replacing<br />
C.B. Hoguz- d Tulsa, wb moved (1986); Mrs. Joe L; Ingran, wife d the execlltive directar of<br />
the Baptist General Corntion uf Oklahcma and mgnbex af N i h l s Hill &urch, OWha City,<br />
replacing Mary Lee Gmsett a€ Norman, who resiqed (1987 ) ; Claude Hmplenan d First &ur&,<br />
Ellcville, Ill., replacing John Hessel d West Frankfat, win move3 (1988), and Rodd B. Long<br />
of Glenmod Hills &m&, LlWnia, Ga., replacing Janes Charles Elder Ss., of Corprs, wlm<br />
resiged (local term to expire in 1987).<br />
Mmted to seaord terms are Jmes F. Walters aE Clanton, Ma. ; Rm D. Sattemhite d<br />
Fart ~cnllim, Cdo. ; O.S. Hawkins a€ Fart Lauderdale, Fla. ; Nelson L;- price af Marietta, Ga. ;<br />
Willim J. V i a Jr . , of Essex, Md. ; Willim W. Durr of Clinton, Miss. ; Mrs. ~aulina M . Bram<br />
of sM~~M, Mo. : M.O. Owens Jr., of Gastoma, N.C. ; Billy Sellers UE Matthews, N.C. :<br />
Mrs. Willian D. Walker of Bea~rton, Ore. ;- Travis E. wiginton of Norman, Okla. ; Wrshel R.<br />
Chevallier of Kmxville, Tenn., and Mrs. Robert D. Larders d Jonesboro, Ga., (local member).<br />
SCHOO&-BOARD (84 menbers): 23 drBtion3 mrrsidered; 11 new members, 12<br />
rennmiratiom.<br />
New members replacing members ineligible fm dmtion include ~ichard E. ranc cis d<br />
First church, Trussville, Ma., replacing James A. Amkrmuty Jr., of Birmingham; ~eff S.<br />
Wers, an insmane executive ad mankr of First southern &m&, Cmga Park, Calif.,<br />
replacing Jrmes C. Metcalf of Riverside;<br />
Bill Arrderson cb Calvary church, Clearwater, Fla., replacing Rokrt M. McMillan cd<br />
' Talldhassee; S. Craig Tally of First chur&, Japlin, Mo., replacing Charles D. Butler of<br />
Jefferson City; Brme C. Little, an insurance exlec&ive ard menber of Bethesda &ur&, Durhaan,<br />
N.C., replacing T. Marshall Collim Jr., of High Point:<br />
Flayd Williams, a lxsineesman ad member of Brcladnoa &ur&, Memphis," Tenn., replacing<br />
Rokert A. Saders aE Kmmille, ad William G. Wilson uf B m t d churd~, Brentwwd, Tenn.,<br />
repZacing Alhrt Sidney Waits d Manms (local mhr).<br />
W. Gene Hmderson a€ First &ur&, Greenville, Miss., replaced William E. Hardy Jr., of<br />
Colunlxls, wb kcane indigible for a s a d term vihm he irmred frcm the state.<br />
-11132-
Caranittee On Ebards<br />
Reprt Released Early<br />
EQLge 5<br />
Named to fill unexpired terms are Raymord Lmrence, ~esident cd Midaontinmt Baptist<br />
College, Mayfield, Ky., replacing Gary Watkins a£ Flarenae, wb moved (1986); Greg IBamann, a<br />
&mist wb lives in Edvardsville, Ill., lxlt is a membr of Sumban &a&, Granite City,<br />
Ill., replacing Will D. Selman af Skokie, wlm resi~d (1987), and Billie Friel d First<br />
d1urd.1, Mant Jaiet ,' Tenn., replacing Ral* Stone a€ Nashville, w b moTFed (local ten tn<br />
expire in 1987) .<br />
Raxmirnted to secord terms are Ferrell D. Mcrrgan, Fat Smith, Ark. ; Jeff McBeth, Colara*<br />
Spinq, Colo.; Rabert W. bel.1, Merritt Islard, Fla.:. TDmy Jon=, Macon, Ga.; B. Hugh ~fttle<br />
Jr., of Marietta, Ga.; Jdkrn C. Wilson a€ Paris, Ky.; Jerry S. LRe af Jackson, ~iss.: Ibbert<br />
-' Tan- of Wganton, N.C.; Samuel Gearge Lmll uf Corway, S.C.: Bo Baker of 1rving,- Terns;<br />
Jase B. Flcrwers d Hampton, Va. ;<br />
Lbcal rmnbers rer#lmimted to seaord terms are J h David Laida of Clarksville, Tam. ;<br />
William Lynn Moench of Nashville,' Tenn. : Fbbert H. ~ible d Mmristown,' Tenn., and Pat L;<br />
L&drun of Brighton,' Tenn.<br />
ANNUITY BaARD (54 mcmbrs, being reduced to 48) : 11 dnatiom mmidered; four new<br />
mmbrs, tm remminations, five pitiom eliminated.<br />
Ncmirmted to replace nmbers v h are ineligiljle for rea-intment are Jon M. Stubhlefield<br />
of Central church, Maqmlia, Ark., replacing Cline D. Ellis of Kirq1a.d: Ehrdd A. Stephens, a<br />
telephone mpny manager ad m e r of First churd~, Fat Tlmas, Ky., replacing David A.<br />
Nelson uf Owensbro, and W. Gordon H O W Jr., a banker ad member af First church,<br />
Richardson, Terns, replacing Everett G. Brcwn Jr., of Dallas.<br />
Nonimted to fill an mered term is Carl B. Allen, a retired denanimtioml mkr and<br />
member of Third &ur&, Murf reestoro,- Tenn. , to replace Alden Wilson of Jackson, wb mved<br />
(1988).<br />
Ibcmimtel to semrd terms are Clevzlard R. Hrarne Jr. of O'Fallon, Mo., and William C.<br />
Clark of Smmerville, S.C.<br />
mitiom eliminated include t he held by LUther N. Davis Jr. of Mobile, Ala.; Ray C.<br />
Melton of Jachon~lle, Fla. :- T.L. Caskwell Jr., of Raleigh, N.C.: B. J. Martin af Pasadena,<br />
' Tems, ad H.E, Kmx of New Braulfels,' Texas.<br />
-30-
Boards Sukami ttee<br />
For Dallas Nmed<br />
AWANCE EwzmRowD STORY<br />
Ba#ist Press<br />
4/17/85<br />
NASWILZIE, Tenn. (BP)-A sdxamdttee to mnsider vacancies a d other &anges in the<br />
repxt aE the Cdttee on Boards, Cdssiom and Starding Ccmmittees has &en aminted by<br />
Chairman Ebb Eklmd.<br />
: The seven-mbr sdxmmi ttee will meet in advance cd the <strong>1985</strong> annual meting of the<br />
Southern Baptist Corntion, seheduld Jme 11-13, at Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
Urrder SBC aperating plicies, the subcaranittee c~an cnrsider vacancis h qht aWut by a<br />
ndnee refwing to serve, mdng ca: dying bet- the meeting of the Curunittee on Ebards and<br />
the tine the report is pesented to the mmention.<br />
Eklund said several psitiom were left vacant ad will be filled at the Dallas meeting.<br />
He add, hawewr, the subccmmittee is mt autlnrisd to make sulxtitutiors ~CD: pmom<br />
already appointed, uril-s the raninee is, far sane reason, wble rn unwilling to sew.<br />
' To sene on the s* ttee will be Eklmd, urbn ewplism associate with the Ehptist<br />
Gmeral Comtion uf Terns, Dallas; John Maddox, pastor of ~irst ~aptist Wynne, Ark. ;<br />
J.T. Kmtt Jr., a hsineesman fran Raleigh, N.C.; Lynn Clayton, editor of The mflist MessaW,<br />
newsjournal cb the ~ouisiarvn Ba$ist Corntion, Alexlardria, La.:<br />
Ken Sn'tith, pastor of Fell-ship Baptist Chur&, Tallahassee, Fla. : Jay Chance, v ie<br />
pesident fm plhlic affairs at C alifda Ba#ist College, Riverside, Calif., and Martin King,<br />
a layman frcm Arderson, Ird.<br />
--3s-
AW= EwERaJND STOKY<br />
Baei st Press<br />
4/17/8 5<br />
NASWU,' Tmn. (BP)-Trwtees to sem the six Southern m@ist Comentio~affiliated<br />
saninaries ha= been mminatd by the SBC m ttee on Boards, Canmissiom and Standing<br />
Camni ttees .<br />
The mminatiors are includd in the Camnittee on Boards reprt, released to Baptist Press<br />
April 16, by Bob mid, urban ewmqlism associate with the Baptist Weral Cornention d<br />
Texas, Dallas, and d t t e e &aiman.<br />
Under convention bylaws, seminary trustees serw fieyear terms and are eligible fm<br />
tm full terms on the bard.<br />
' Trzlstees are clergy or &nominatiomlly related, unless specified.<br />
m R N =MINARY (63 trmtees): 14 nominations considered; 10 new trmtees, four<br />
reappointed.<br />
Nanimted to replace mmkers ineligible fm a semrd term are John T. Wallace of Parkway<br />
churd.1, Uxington, Ky., replacing Wayne Dehoney, Louisville; W. Ray Frye, a lard developex ad<br />
member of Calvary &w&, Alexsdria, La., reflacing ~illim P. Grealee, Lake Charles: William<br />
Watkim Causey af Parlway &w&, Jackson, Miss., replacing David R. Grant, Jackson:<br />
Gerald C . prim cd Eller Memaial churd.1, Greensbro, N.C . , replacing W. ~inville Roach of<br />
Greenslmro; Kenneth E. Hall, a ontractor ard member of Cresmt Hill churclh, Louisville,<br />
replacing Joe- Smpher of ~ouisville (local mhr) ; Joe D. Crass, an auto &aler and membr<br />
of Walnut Street d.lurd.1, ~ouisville, replacing Frank ~llis d ~ouisville (local member), and<br />
R q Sa~ge, Hillside chur13-1, Greeley, Cdo, replacing Jam- Latimr, Denver (at-lar~ member).<br />
Naninees to fill unexpired terms are Sm H. Mmahon Jr. of ~irst church, Charlotte, N.C.,<br />
r placing John L. Ryberg, Smithfield, who died (1986), and R-rt D. Beddingfield of First<br />
&m&, South Lpns, Mi*., replacing Gary W. S%witz, N d , who resiqed (1987).<br />
Bob L. Wager of Seaorrd &w&, Marion, Ill., regaces Jim W. Fbbinson Sr., Belleville,<br />
w b declined a semrd term.<br />
Reappointed to a seaord tern are ~illian H. McBeath, Washington, D.C. ; Romld D. Stwart,<br />
Letamn, Ohio: Ridzard T. Hoppsr, Arhme, Okla. , and Vemn 0. ELmcae , Carpus Christi ,' Texas.<br />
-STERN SMINAKY (36 trmt-): 8 persors ao~idered; 6 new trustees, 2<br />
reappointed.<br />
New truetees replacing m a k r s ineligible for seaord terms are Jim V. Dice, a businessman<br />
ard member of First church, Salem, Ill., replacing George H. Kunce, Herring: Trunan B. Smith of<br />
First churd~, Clio, Mi&., replacing Michael M. Nardin, Detrait; F&e&in L. South, execaive<br />
directar of the Missouri Ba@ist Convention and member of First &urch, Jefferson City,<br />
replacing Domld V. Wideman, Ncrth Kansas City, and Ron S. Lads, a &ur& qakh specidist<br />
arrd mmber of Clearvi ew church, Brent &, ' Tenn. , replacing Melvin G . Faulher of Seymour.<br />
Wayne Lee Allen of First churd~, Carrdtnn; Teas, was dnated fm a full tern,<br />
replacing Kenneth Chaf in d Houston, wko resi-ed (at- large menber) .<br />
---me-
Seminary Trustees<br />
Ndnees Named<br />
we 2<br />
Acie Charles Bawtt cb First church, Haysville, Kan., fills the mexpired term of Earl<br />
E. (Gene) Hawldns,' Topeka, wko resiyed (term expiring 1989) .<br />
-inat& fm s-nd terms are Drew J. Gmels Jr., Mdle, Ma., ad J* P.<br />
McNaughton, Fort Wath,' Texas (at- large member) .<br />
&EW ORLEANS SEMINARY (36 trustees): 7 mmimtiom mnsidered; 3 new trustees, 4<br />
reappointed.<br />
Naninated to replace trustees ineligible for reappintment are Charles L. Wmd of<br />
University churd?, Widxi ta, Kan. , replacing Kenneth D . Emerson cb Wihita: Far rest Jacbon cb<br />
First c9urd.1, Pqar, Okla., replacing Robert Post,' Tulsa, ad Gene Brock, a dentist and member<br />
of First dhur& Wichita Falls,' Tellas, replacing Wayne 0. Watts, Wi&ita Falls.<br />
Fknminated for secord terms are David B. Ray, Pontiac, Mi&. ; Ernest L; Carswell Jr.,<br />
. Taylcps, S.C. ; B. Conrad Jdhnston, Wen, Va., and Adrew C. Nolin Jr., Morkgcmery, Ala. (local )<br />
XUIWEMEIW SEMINARY (30 trustees): 7 mmirntions oomidered; 5 new trustees, 2<br />
reappointed.<br />
Ndnatd to replace trwtees ineligible far reappointment are R-rt D. Crawley of<br />
Montrcse &w&, Rmkville, Md., replacing J h E. Roberts, Baltimre, and ~rlie L. Mdlaniel<br />
Sr . , director of missiors menber of Trinity church, maow, Idaho (re~esmting Nrntl-~est<br />
Cormention), replacing W.E. Speed, msm, Wash.<br />
Jmes Warren Herron af First &w&, Rock Hill, S.C . , replaces Hmry Finch Jr . , of Rock<br />
Hill, wko resiyed; William Dial Delahoyle, assistant U.S. attorney and member of ~rddmce<br />
&ur&, Weigh, N.C., replacing Charles D. Page, Charlotte, who mwed, and Ralph E. Halt Jr. ,<br />
of Lake Fareet &w&, Wilmington, N.C., replacing J& G. Hicks, Asheville, who died.<br />
Renomixlated to semrd terms are Bill G. Brtster , Knnxville,' Tenn. , a d Jesse P . Chapan<br />
Jr., Asheville, N.C.<br />
MIlXESERN SE- (35 trwtees): 8 mminations mmidered, 5 new trustees, 3<br />
reappointed.<br />
Naninated to =@ace members indigihle for renomillation are Robert' T. Baggott Jr., first<br />
&u&, Dothan, Ma., replacing Willian A. Hartley, ~irmir@am: Wvin M. Hill Sr., direct= of<br />
missions anA member of First cburd?, t rand view, Mo,, reflacing Dan ~aimlt, Independme<br />
(loclal), ad Rohzrt L. Ferry, directm af missiom ard mmhr of Nashua &w&, Karrsas City,<br />
Mo., replacing K. David Stone uf Idependenae (local).<br />
David Sinpon, editor of the Indiana Baptist ad mb2r of Calvary church, ree end,<br />
Id., fills the mexpired term of Rodell L. Stoval1 ,' Terre Haute (expiring 1987), and -ell<br />
E. Somldsky, a mllege ~cbessar ad member of Westside &urch, Omha, Neb,, fills the<br />
mexpixed term of William H. Cap, Cdunbia, Mo. (expiring 1986).<br />
Rmomimtd to secord terms are Marvin R-h, Hyattsville, Md. (DC ~bmtion); Philip<br />
Lykes, Lalclelarrt, Fla., arrd J.- mtt Gmn, Sbne Moultain, Ga.<br />
GCLIEN S m<br />
reappointments .<br />
(35 members): 8 rrominatiors ansidered; 3 new txustees, 5<br />
Ebrmi G. Metcalf, assistant prcdessar at Califcrnia Sagtist Callege, ad member of Palm<br />
&m&, Riverside, Calif,, was med to replaze Gearge Musacchio, Riverside, w b was ineligible<br />
for reappintrent (at-large member).<br />
Naned to fill unexpired terms axe Ncxman H.' Wlor af First &ur&, Silver Spring, Md. (DC<br />
Corntion) replacing Jdm W. Baker, wlm died (term edring 1986), and Robert Few11<br />
~asemont &ur&, Montro~ie, Calo., replacing Murray Boyd, Amma, wlm resiyd-<br />
Reappointed to seaod terms are Mrs. Willian L. Self, Atlanta; 0.8. Quick, Baton<br />
Rqe, La. ; Mal U t l q , Lexington Park, Md. ; James H. Slatton, Ridxnord, Va., and Janes W.<br />
Rives Jr., Van Nuys, Calif. (at-large mber).
- -tee Nunine<br />
Reprt Released<br />
m9= 3<br />
NASWIUE, Tenn. (BP)-Trwtee dnatiom for Southern E!a$ist dssiors and amnittees<br />
have beesl relesed by the SBC Clnanittee on Ehrcb, Cdssions and standing C dtteas.<br />
' 'Ihe Camnittee on Boards report was rele~ed April 16 by Chairman Bob Eklmd, urban<br />
evanqlism associate with the Bagist General Corntion aE Texas.<br />
Nanin- are clergy ar dencmimtiomlly related, unless specified.<br />
WJIFERN BAPTIST FWNl&TICYN ( 35 mmbers) : 10 nominations aomidered; 4 repzsmtatives<br />
uf SBC agendes and 1 at-large menber to md when the Carnni ttee on bards s u k d ttee<br />
meets in Dallas ~ i b m the annual meting.<br />
Reappinted are 0. Q. Quick of Baton Rouge, La., re~esenting Golden Gate seminary ad<br />
Narxi s E. Smith of Menws, revesenting the Historical Canmission.<br />
At-larp members reappointed are Gilbert E. South, ~Ikhe~lle, Md.: illy M. C q ,<br />
Hmtinqlon,' Tm., ad R-rt F. w, Foley, ZUa.<br />
k~esentatives to be named later are £ran the Fareiq Mission Board, replacing W. Curtis<br />
English, Alta Vista, Va. ; m e Mission, Ibard, replacing Bill Sherman, NasW lle,' Tm. : Annuity<br />
m d , replacing Alden Wilson, Jacbon,' Tenn,, ard Brother- Canmission, replacing R-rt A.<br />
Alexader , Murf reesboro,- Tenn,<br />
' The at-large nenber to be med later w ill replace Morris Early, Nashville, Tm.<br />
MERICAN mSSICkJ (16 menbers): 3 nominees aollsidered: 2 new members, 1<br />
reappinted .<br />
New members are Gecrge W. Impkin, an edmatar arwl member of First church, Nmfolk, Va.,<br />
replacing Janes M. Griffin, Han@on, Va., w b resiqed, and Stephen R: Taylor, First church,<br />
Gmdlettsville, Tam., replacing Fred E.A. J-on, ~ashville,' Tenn., w b is ineligible for<br />
reappointrrrent .<br />
Reapinted to a sword term is Roy D. Raddin, Greenville, Miss.<br />
-TION mSSION ( 21 menbrs): 6 rroanimtiorrs comidered; 1 new memar, 5 reeinted.<br />
New mgnber is Bob R. Agee, ~esident OE Oklahoma ~aflist university ad member of ~irst<br />
&m&, Shawnee, Okla., replacing Lmn S. Hill a€ ~nid, Okla. (indgihle).<br />
Reappointed are Leslie Wright, Birmintjhm, Ala.; D. Jack ~icbla8, Walnut Ridge, Ark.;<br />
Williepn R. Hann, Westminster, Calif.: bbrt E, Umbsrt, Castle Rock, Cdo. (at-large) and<br />
Bill W. Stacy, Cape Girardeau, Mo, (at large).<br />
BFUEERtDOD mSSION ( 36 manbers) : 10 ndnatiore clorsidered; 4 new members, 6<br />
reamirked .<br />
New members are Willim Tim Brm, an dwatar and member of Riwrlard Hills d1urd.1,<br />
Cdlunbia, S.C., replacing L;W. Brasington, Calunbia, S.C. :' T)lanas W. Daniels, retired military<br />
ad current realtor ad membsr of Gemantown chur&, Gemantown, Tam. , replacing Wendell W.<br />
Crews, Athens, Tm.;<br />
New at-large members are Joel E, Waddell, minister of mmic at ~tamnerville chur&,<br />
Smunerville, S.C , , replacing W, Lee Prince, Merson, S.C . ; ard Jm T. won, a bankr ad<br />
member of Travis Avenue church, Fcat Warth, Terns.<br />
Reappointed are B.G. Byrd, Sanlsa Zma, Calif.; Gregory W. Brachan, Littleton, Calo.; Tbn<br />
L. McGuire, Wth Fart Mprs, Fla. ; James M, Hensley, Spokane, Wash. : Henry ~drion 111, Fcrrt<br />
Wmth, Terns, ad Fred W. Graham Jr., Asheb3r0, N.C. (at-largs) .<br />
CHRISTIAN LIFE mSSION ( 30 menbers): 8 nominatiors mrsidered; 2 new members, 6<br />
reappointments.<br />
I
Saninary Trustee8<br />
Nunines Released<br />
mge 4<br />
I New<br />
members are R. Llqd Crawfad, a businessman and member of Apple& &urdh,<br />
Wheatridge, Colo., replacing Mrs. Edith Hargis, Narthglenn, Cdo., indigible far<br />
reappintment, ard m a s E. Bold, a banker ad mmbr of ~irst &m&, Chmblee, Ga.,<br />
replacing Lon L. Day Jr., Atlanta, who declind a sea& term.<br />
I<br />
&appointed<br />
I<br />
are Fred Lackey, Athens, Ala.; J.W. Atchison, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Larry Caton<br />
Noia, Fomtain Valley, Calif. ; b y T. -sf Tallahassee, Fla. ; C. David Matthews , ~reenville,<br />
S.C., ad Mrs. Virginia H. Hendricks, Glcarieta, N.M. (at-large).<br />
HISrORICAZI mSSIm (34membexs): 9 mnirntiors oonsidered: 4 new mmhrs, 5<br />
reamintmmts .<br />
I<br />
New<br />
members are Mrs. Marlena Rikard, assdate ~cbessar uf histmy at Smfurd university<br />
ard mgnber of Shades Crest &ur&, Birminm, Ala. : &s. Gaylon Cothem, a freelance writer<br />
ard member of Starliat &urch, Phoenix, Ariz., arrd F%il Langley of Cram Peak chur&,<br />
Brachute, Cdo.<br />
I<br />
Named<br />
to fill an mexpired tern is Mrs. Miles L. Dawson, a hanemakr and member of<br />
Hoffmantown &urch, Alkuqmque, N.M., replacing Mrs. Ebrmie B. O'Brim o£ Altxlcpercpe, w b<br />
moved (term ta expire 1986).<br />
I Reappinted<br />
are Mrs. Helen Y. M&ee, Washington: James R. Beasley, DeLatld, Fla. ; Mdo P.<br />
Harris 111, Washington, Ga. ; Richard T. McCartney, Okl- City, ad Narris E. Smith,<br />
Mm@"ds, Tenn. (local mhr).<br />
I<br />
RRDIO AND TELEVISION mSSION (26 menbers): 7 mminatiom mnsidered; 2 new members, 5<br />
reappintea .<br />
I<br />
New membrs are Richard L: Wakefield, First a&, Calml, Mo., replacing Jolm E. Hwhes,<br />
Indepndenae, w b was ineligible for rea-intment, and Michael S. HEmlet, New Pisgah dnurch,<br />
Wrtanbxg, S.C., replacing Jchn E. Robsrts d Greenville, wlm declind a semd full term.<br />
(Roberts, canmission chairman, served a threeyear mexpired term d a f ul1 term. He was<br />
eligible far a seaord four-par term, but: declind).<br />
Reawinted are Jack B. Jdmson, Ebdx, Ariz.; LdVerne Butler, Louisville, Ky.; T.W.<br />
Terral, Baton Rouge, La. : W. John Peper Sr. Glen Buzrnie, Md., and Richard L. C*ane, mbn,<br />
I<br />
-P mSSION ( 26 manbers ) : 11 rrminees ansidered: 4 new members, 1 new maker<br />
to be appointed later, ard 6 reappointmts.<br />
I<br />
New mmbrs include B. Lee Black, f mdation secretary f a the BaFtist Convention uf New<br />
Mexi-, Allxlqerque, regacing Bernard W. Wharty, Alanaqrdo, and Joe E. Burton, First<br />
&m&, RadEord, Va., replacing Jchn C. Ivins, Ridmod, Va.<br />
New members filling rnexpired terms are Levi Parrish Jr., Eastgate &m&, Burton, Mich.,<br />
replacing Domld Cmp'bell, Flint, Mi&. , w b moved (term tn expire in 1987), and Jim Rich,<br />
stewardship secretary for the Calmado Baptist General Convention, Englewood, replacing Daniel<br />
Pena, Cdolrado Springs, wlm resiyd (term b expire in 1988) .<br />
I m a d .<br />
I<br />
A new menbzr will be m ed in Dallas to replace Larry Taylor, Jefferson City, Tm., w b<br />
Reappint& are Jams C. mriety, Blakely, Ga.; Lqd R. Wil~on, Nape~lle, Ill.: Mrs.<br />
Tkromas A. Dm-, Alexardria, La.; Tan A. Gratton, Suitland, Md.; Willian D. Ledbetter, ~ing's<br />
Moultain, N.C., and Ben Green, Wenatchee, Wash.<br />
I FUZIC AFFAIRS C@MllEE (15 members, eight a€ whm serve by virtue d office as SBC<br />
adoinistratora ) : 2 persolri amidered, 2 new manbrs. The Canmi ttee on -ds also ncminstes<br />
the chairman d the PAC.<br />
1
I<br />
Sdnary Trwtw -<br />
?!aQirKiw Rd-d<br />
hgr 5<br />
\<br />
. -<br />
Nm are Bill Gmter, secretary af insurance for the state cd ~lcwida and member of<br />
First &urch,> Tallahassee, replacing Dorald R. Brewer, ~hlatine, Ill. ; a d Lardrun P. maw11<br />
11, wesidmt uf New Orleans semimy and member of First &m&, New Orleans, replacing<br />
Russell H. Dilday Jr., Fat Wurth,' Texas.<br />
Sand T. Currin, current chairman and U .S. attorney far the Eastern District of Norrth<br />
Cardim, Raleigh, was remnmended as chairman.<br />
DENOMINAT1~'CAIENDAR C@MTEE (6 members): 2 dnatiors allsidered, 2 n w members.<br />
' The Camnittee on Boards also rrsminates the &airman.<br />
New manbrs awe Mrs. A.D. Farenan, a Iwrmemaker and member of ~ixst &m&, Monroe, La.,<br />
replacing Mrs. Don Wmhan, L&lmck," Texas, ad Jdmny Roger Jo;hnson, Trinity chmh,<br />
wring£ield, 'Ore., replacing Wayne V. Maill, Wtlard, Ore.<br />
I Fred Pawell, senior assdate -tor at First chur&, Atlanta, was mninated as &airman.<br />
CMTlEE OFUER QF BUSINES (6 manbers plus the current presidglt of the SBC): 2<br />
naminatiors mmidered, 2 new members. ' The Cumnittee on IBards also dmtes the &airman.<br />
Nw members are Willxlr A. (mt) mtterson, baMr and membr of Emmanel churd.1, Oerld<br />
hrk, Kan., replacing J. Nimn Daniel 111, Pensamla, Fla., and Reed Larson, hnker and<br />
~esidmt of the Natioml Ri*t to Wcark Cdttee, Annadale, Va., arvd mmbr of First dnurch,<br />
Falls Church, Va., replacing Larry C , Craw£md, Burlington, N.C.<br />
- The Camnittee recamended Fred H. Wdfe, Cotta~ Hill dwrch, Mohile, Ala., as &&man.<br />
BAPTISl? WKLD (11 merribers, including 5 by virtue aE SBC crEfice, whi& includes<br />
bylm dhanges stipilating the current ~esidmt of the SBC--Charles F. Stanley, First aura,<br />
Atlant-ad the psident a€ the E?a#ist Sunday School ~&LIoyd Elder--sene by virtue a€<br />
office. The move eliminated tm at-large psitiom.)<br />
Other persors serving by virtue cb a€£ ice are Harold C. mett, execaive secretary<br />
treasurer, Ekecutive Camnittee, Nashville, Tm.; R Keith Farlcs, president, ~oreiq Mission<br />
Ebard, Ridmord, Va., ad William G. Tanner, wesident, m e Mission Ebard, Atlanta.<br />
I<br />
The camittee ansidered six other rrrminatiors. Three new members were dnated: three<br />
were rennmimted.<br />
I<br />
New m-xs are C.B. EEogLle, executive direct- of the Southern Baflist General Comtion<br />
of California, Fresm, replacing Warren C. Hultgren, Tulsa, Okla.; T. Truett Ott, appellate<br />
judge and member of First &utrch, Tap, Fla., replacing John D. Ratliff, Allxcpercpe, N.M.,<br />
ard S. Tmtt Cathy, businessman ad member of First am&, Jomsboro, Ga., replacing Frrter<br />
W. Routh, Nashville, Tenn.<br />
Rmanirrated were Owen Cooper, Yaaoo City, Miss., and Jack R. Jones, Arlington, Va.<br />
I<br />
The amnittee mninated Jaes T. Draper Jr., imnediate pst pesidmt af the SBC ard<br />
pstor of First &ur&, Ness, Texas, far a fiveyear term. Draper, hawever, declind the<br />
nomiration, remending instead that Carolyn Weatherf ad, exectti* director of the Wanan' s<br />
Missiorawy UniomSBC, Birmincjham, Ala, , be rdnated.<br />
I<br />
Fbsts held by J-se Fletcher, Z4bilene, Te-, ad Lee Satterfield, Alta Vista, Va., were<br />
eliminated.<br />
I<br />
NURlW AM3RICAN BAPTIST -P (15 menbers, seven of whm serve by virtue of dfice).<br />
Eight minations mmidered; 4 new -rs, 4 remmimtiom.<br />
I<br />
New m-rs are Hon V. Lao, a building wmultant and marker of Bethel church, Conrad,<br />
Calif., replacing Kell C . Williems, St. Peterslmrg, Fla. : Brian Harmur, First &urd~,<br />
Peneacola, Fla. , replacing Glen Braswell, Denver, Cdo. ; ~il1 W r , First dm&, Ef fingbm,<br />
Ill., replacing Stafley 0. White, LaHalxa, Calif., aW J&m B. Brashear, Brmlside church,<br />
ReynoldsWg, Ohio, replacing Mrs. Huis Cay me, Cmsicam, Tems.<br />
I Reappinted are O m Cvr, Yazm City, Miss. ; Floyd W. Harris, FWt, Va. ; Ted Coldirm,<br />
Md, Okla., and William E. Hull, Shr mprt , La.
Stanley mints<br />
SBC amnittee3 By Dan Martin<br />
AWANa BAaGRrnD STORY<br />
Ba$i st Press<br />
4/2 6/8 5<br />
NASEWILLE, Tem. (BP)-The C d ttee on C d ttees arrd the Resalutiom C d ttee f m the<br />
<strong>1985</strong> annW meting a€ the Southern Baptist Corntion 'have teen announ& by Charles F .<br />
Stanley, convention ~esident<br />
.<br />
The amnittees were anrpmoed April 26, in -ping with bylaw ~ovisions uf the SBC<br />
Corstitution, whi& rewire the release a£ the tw ky camnittees 45 days in admnce a€ the<br />
annual meting, adeduled Jme 11-13 in the Dallas Convention Center.<br />
- The tm d ttees are appointed by the corntion president, ad do mt re@ re<br />
ratification by mcssenwrs. Stanley also appoints the Credentials ad Tellers Ccnrmittees,<br />
whi& will be released later.<br />
T b key respmihility af the Cdttee on Carunittees is to rrsaninate the Cdttee on<br />
Eoards, Canmissiors ad Starding Canmissions, whi*, in turn, nominates txustew fm fie 20<br />
natioml SBC agencies. The Camnittee on Cdttee~i also is &are with nominating "all<br />
special dtteas autlnriaed during the session aE the Convention mt otherwise pwided far."<br />
The ~esdluti0r-e Canmi ttee remives , prcaesses ad repxts hck to the anvention any<br />
resolutiom ~ esentd during the thr-day convention session.<br />
The Canmittee on Camnittees is made up of 52 persore, tm £ran ear=h state whi& qualifies<br />
fcrr representation on SBC boards by having more than 25,000 members. The Resnllltiom C d t t e e<br />
is made up of 10 persom, three a€ wlmn mmt b members d the SBC Exec*ive Camnittee.<br />
Stanley told Bafiist Press he receid mare than 500 nanimtiom far the 62 posts.<br />
"The appintment ~wedure is an momolzs task, " he said. "There are so many worded ul<br />
people out there to serve, it is hard sanetime to make a &ice. Stanley added he " telepbond<br />
each of the people appointed prsomlly to talk with than mut their respomibilities ."<br />
He said in early Fall, 1984, he solicited namee frcm state anvention executive directors,<br />
presidents, as well as receiving dmtiors frcm individuals. The 500 names were put into a<br />
aanputer and the winmdng ~ oaess started.<br />
"We asked mry state convention if there was any reason any person sbuld rot sene. Any<br />
person they mention&, we did not ap@nttl' Stanley said. "Any mes subnitted by persors<br />
viewed in their state as extreme, hostile rn re~esentatiw cd a political malition were rot<br />
mnsidexed. We tried to choose pople w b could make a aontrilxtion, w b did mt have any axe<br />
to grid."<br />
'IS<br />
He said one potential minee "said he did mt think he ought to serve because a€ his<br />
persod feeling3 ab& the convention right row. He wi-ew his &nation."<br />
Stanley said: "In the mse cb the Texas appointments, where there is enotioml<br />
involvement on bth sides, the prsom selected were re~ammdd f ran out a€ state."<br />
Stanley said ea& state mmnention &£ice was called a d mkd mut Coaperative Progran<br />
mr&rihtiorrs £ran ~e &urcAes cE whi& ptgltial rminees were members. "With only tvm<br />
elace$iom, the 03nwmtior-s provided the infamation we reqested," he said.<br />
--rare--
Stanley mints<br />
SBC mttees<br />
B9e 2<br />
"I sought to appint people who are, in my opinion, lcryal, rooprating, Bihlebdieving,<br />
evanMistic, mission minded servants of God. ' The &ur&es they re~esmt are fran a wide<br />
spectrun in siae, giving ad involvement," he said.<br />
Stanlq said he ~ovided the lists to vice-pesidmts Zig Ziglar of Dallas and Don Wideman<br />
of Kansas City, Mo., for swstiom and in*. "We did rot sit &MI and discllss the wble<br />
thing, but I told then m provide me with suggestions d I muld coreider then," he said.<br />
He adaed that while le did receive suggestiors, the final selectiolls were his.<br />
Stanley said he does mt believe the Cdttee on Cdttees will have musual<br />
respnsikilities, such 9s dmting persons to serve on a "bleribbn" amnittee to study the<br />
crisis in the denomination. Runc~s are circaating a motion will be introduced calling f oa: the<br />
creation uE a mmittee to study the situation and suggest means to resol= it.<br />
"Frm what I haw heard, any motion will include remmmmdatiors aonnerning the mbxship<br />
of ma& a oommittee," Stanley said.<br />
He added the Resolutiom C d ttee "wi 11 ha= to k very, very careful. I think we don' t<br />
need to mntrihte any mcare mnfmion cr volatile subjects than neessary."<br />
He said, however, he klieves the prsom he has appointed "are exy wise people. I think<br />
they w ill serw well arrd ma)oe wise decisiom . I think they w ill oorsider resdlutiom in the<br />
context aE the tension (currently in the anvention.)"<br />
Stanley named Geurge Schrder, a fiysician and a mkr of Little Rock (Ark.) First<br />
Baeist C'lnuch, chairman aE the Cdttee on Cdttees.<br />
Larry Lewis, mesident of Hannihl-LzGrange Callege in Hannihl , Mo., was named &airman<br />
of the ~esdlutiom Camittee. HarmiM-LGsange College is a four-par sdxlol affiliated with<br />
the Missouri Ba#ist Comtion.<br />
kec&ive Camnittee h r s are: Gary Yomg, pastor of First Southern E!a#ist Churd~,<br />
Phoenix, M z . ; Cardlyn Miller, a housewife ad member of First Ba@ist Church, Hmtsville,<br />
Ala., ad Tanmy Himon, pastor of First Baeist Church, West Menrjhis, Ark.<br />
Other members are:<br />
k v Marew, a layman frm Circle Drive churd.1, Colonrab Spring>, Cdlo.: Billy Cline,<br />
-tor of Merximn Avenue &urch, Asheville, N.C.: Cecil Sins, execlai~ directm af the<br />
Narth-t Baptist Comtion, Patlard, Ore. : Alma R&h Morgan, a church staff mn-r f ran<br />
First church, ~rtlesville, Okla.; Larry Halley, a &ysiuan d member of North Ed &a&,<br />
Beaunont ,' Texas: Ebb Dlgan, pstor of Colunbia aura, Falls Chur&, Va., and Lewis, chairman.<br />
A1;ABZM: A1 Jackson, pastor al Lakeview &ur&, Aukurn; Larry Sellers, member of<br />
Thtrmasvi lle &mch, TkPsnasville,<br />
-AS: James Bqant, pastor of Grand Avenue d~urch, Fmt Smith: Schroeder, chairman.<br />
ARIZCNA: Bill Store, pastor uf First church, LitMield krk; R.G. Whitehead, director of<br />
associatiod dssiom , Estrella association, Phoenix.<br />
CALIFORNIA: Jim Goodman, a chirqractcn: a d member of First &ma, Tbmd Oab; Roger<br />
Spradlin, pastor of Oildale First Church, Bakersfield.<br />
COLORAID: Art Graws, pastor of Bioentdal~c=hurch, kzbta; ~lri Grebenik, howwife ad member of Black Faest First churd~, Cdloaracb Spring.<br />
-me--
Stanley mints<br />
SBC alnmittees<br />
page 3<br />
DI5TRICF CF CIDL~IA: Joe Ed~onds, pastar uf ~ r i d church, y Frimdly, Md.: Sa~n Hodges,<br />
a tpwrranent enplayee and menber of Hillcrest church, Washington.<br />
FWRIDi: man Hwkins, housewife aru3. member of First &ur&, Fat LauderdaLe; Hmer<br />
Lidsay Jr . , mpstor of First church, Jacksonville.<br />
GEORGIA: Andy Frahler , educator ad member of First &w&, Atlanta: Ike Reighard, pastor<br />
o£ New Hope church, Fa~tte~ille.<br />
ILLINOIS: hkrk Mi=, layman d member of Gateway church, Millstadt: hmy O'Guin, pastor<br />
of Tabernacle Decatur.<br />
BlDIlFA: H. S. (Hqh) Bargew, lapan and rnemwr of Calmry chur&, Evansville; bvid<br />
Sirpon, edibr of the Irdiam Baflist, news journal cb the State Comtion a€ Baptists in<br />
Irdiana.<br />
MAS-NEBIWSKA: Dean Denington, layman ad member of First Sakhern Churd~," Tapela;<br />
Charles E. Mmonald, pastor of First dux&, Belle Plaine, Kan.<br />
KENTUCKY: Richard Deer, pastor of Hall Street &mdI, Oweslmro: James E. Wheeley,<br />
laman ad member of St. Matthews churd.1, Lmisville.<br />
mSIANA: Mile Gil&rist, evangelist d rnenber of Willow Point &ur&, Shreveport:<br />
Carrdll Karkalits, educatm and member of Trinity chuxd.1, Lab Charles.<br />
MAKYL?WD-IELXWE: Carma Hartsfield, pastor of Ladowr church, Lando-r Hills; William<br />
Taaffe, journalist and membsr of Montrase church, bntrase.<br />
MICHI-: Floyd Key, layman and mernkr of Westside &ur& in Flwhing: -ge Seelad,<br />
pastor of Dix Amue church, Lincoln Park,<br />
MISSUIRI: Rich Mme, attorney and member of First &m&, West Plains: John Gilbert,<br />
pastor of First &ur&, Po@ar BluEf ad ~esident<br />
af the Missouri Baptist Comtion.<br />
MISSISSIPPI: Doris Evans, housewife ad meubr of Colonial Heights chur&, Jacbon;<br />
Will ian Green, pastor of Edmrds &ur&, War&.<br />
NOmH ~WBIINA: Harace Hall, pstor of Freedan &r&, Wilmington: Ibn Taylor, layman and<br />
member of Beverly Hills church, Asheville.<br />
NW MEXIQ3: Jim Prock, pastor uf First churd.1, Carlsbd; Lillian Green, howwife and<br />
mmbr of First church, Jal.<br />
NOKTHWST: Danny Dichon, -star of East Side churdn, &rin#ield, Ore.; Ridnard Eurson,<br />
layperson and menber of Vine Street d~urd~, Raseburg, Ore.<br />
OHIO: r ill Barner, director of missiom, Greater Colunhm association. Jerry Lankfad,<br />
layman and member of Greater Ccilunhs &m&, Cdlunhs.<br />
: Stew Boehning, pstor of Immmuel &ma, Shawnee; Tan Hdld, layman and<br />
member of ~icjhlard hwk churd~, Bartlewille.<br />
-3NA: James L. Oliver, pastor of Central church, Darlington: Gearge Sdth,<br />
layman arrd makr of First &m&, CdlunMa.<br />
TENNESSEE: Bob Bur&, pastor of Calvary dhurd.1, Kmmille; Joe Rwell, layan & mm&r<br />
of Briarcrest &urch, Mmfis.<br />
. TEXAS : DPmon Skrsok, pastor uf Champion Fmest chur&, Houston; Wk Fuller, layan and<br />
m-r of San Jacrinto hurd.1, Amarillo.<br />
VIRGINIA: Ann Davis, layperson ard member of BetM church, Ymktawn; Bob Estes , pastor<br />
of Ooean View aura, Virginia Beah.<br />
--30--
SBC Vi-President<br />
Objects To Omission By Ebb S. Terry<br />
A W m Brau2lR-D STORY<br />
Bafiist Press<br />
4/2 6/85<br />
W A S CITY, Mo. (BP)-SBC Vice-President Dodd V. Wideman says he was "not given<br />
opprtmity ar asked to give inplt to the list of names frcm &i& Presidglt Charles Stanley<br />
made his appointments" to ley amnittees fm the <strong>1985</strong> annual meting of the SBC.<br />
Widman's reaction came falldng a Thursday morning tele-ne d l frcm Stanley in which<br />
the SBC pesident said the appintmmts had been released to ~a@ist Press Wednesay<br />
a£ temn. Widman, pstm of First Baptist Church, Nmth Kamas City, Mo., said his only input was<br />
to suggest a person to serve on the amittee an resalutiors £ran a list cb individuals<br />
~ovided by Stanley's dfice.<br />
"I asked him (Stanley) why he didn't include me ad the reason I.le gave foe: dtting me was<br />
that he was so htsy a d that the appointments were such a tremendous job," Widernan recalled.<br />
"I find that incredible. He was too bay to mmult me )sut I h ow for a fact that he did call<br />
ad ask other pople f car suggestions. ' That has &en annoma4 in pthl ic meetings.<br />
"I cnnsider what he has done to h mt only a vialation af the bylaws, ht also a<br />
violation af Christian ethics and murtesy am3 the spirit a d fairness and right," he said.<br />
Bylaws aE the SBC re@ re the ~esident appoint the C d<br />
Resal&iors Canmi ttee " in mmultation with" the vice~esidmts<br />
.<br />
ttee on C a d<br />
ttees a d the<br />
Widanan said he believes he was "plrpsefully mi tted" £ran the appintmt pmss and<br />
called his anission, "a persoml insult and an &front to the m e than 7,000 Southern BaGists<br />
wko elected me as vice~esident a~isuning I mud be included in the vwess."<br />
I<br />
He &led Stanley ' s " irdepmdent , arli trary style OE leadership" a sharp contrast to that<br />
of Jmes T. Draper Js. when he wae ~esident (1982-83) . Draper reportedly initiated and<br />
maintain& cammication with his vimpresidents , Se~ral. meetin- beetween the SBC uf f icers ,<br />
were reprted ad all appointments were made jointly.<br />
Widanan said he has initiate3 every contact with Stanley sine being elected in Jme.<br />
&but three weeks ago, after receiving m respmers, Wid- said he sent a personal lett r<br />
offering to meet anytime, anywhere, in light: a€ the pessing time sasdule.<br />
The respnse was a telephone dl £ran Fred Pcwell, a membr of Stanley's staff, wideman<br />
said, adding he remembered Well as mdinatar of the ~atterson/~ressler cxmmmications<br />
netwrk whm Pwell was a Missouri pastor. Wideman said he wm told a list aE name vauld be<br />
foararded to him d he was to a€£ er suggestions £ran W list. Also, an appintmt was made<br />
faa a phone anversation with Stanley.<br />
When the tw men did make tele@one antact, Stanley did rot ha= his list a€ mes in<br />
frmt d him, Wideman said. "He asm me to make swwstiom lxt all I was e=r allwed to do<br />
was to react to nam- vhich Stanley's dfioe ~ovided, I was nwr able to initiate any<br />
stqgestiom," Wideman added.<br />
"I fird it certainly -setting to reali~<br />
that the first tine I will b ow W Charles has<br />
appointed w ill be when I mad it in Baptist Press," he said.<br />
--3s-<br />
'(Terry is editor of Vbrd and Wqr, newsjournal of the Missouri Baptist Convention. )<br />
I
S8C 'Peace Initiati~'<br />
Fails: Said 'Too Late' By Dan Martin<br />
AWANa EwraaND STORY<br />
Baljist Press<br />
4/2 6/8 5<br />
0- CITY (=)--A "peace initiative, " desicpd to amid a "wblesale blodhthl' at the<br />
annw meeting uf the Scruthern Baptist Comtion in Dallas apprently has failed.<br />
Gene Garrison, pastor o£ ~irst Ba#ist Chur* of 0klal.roma City, ad famer secprd vice<br />
wesident uf the SBC, told Ba@ist Press he proposed a meeting of key leaders frrm mrious<br />
faction3 in the dmanimtion in an effclpt to "kep this thing (the SBC) £ran &ng aprt ."<br />
L aders aE the ricjht-wing aa inerrancy faction, he said, t urnad dmn the plan. hey said<br />
it was too late.. .that the missiles are already in the air," Garrison said.<br />
Garrison, seen as a "moderate", said the overture was made "entirely on my awn & cane<br />
about kcawe I have really been trdiled by what is happening. I have praised God an3<br />
every3x)dy that I an mt wing to be part cb the slarder a d divisiveness that is going on hat<br />
that I w ill try to do what I can to king peace.<br />
"I haw been in at least three meetings where attempts were made to discuss anr<br />
differenaes. I left ea& f &ling more alienated. What I ~q-~osed was that we ~IE- a meeting<br />
where w muld mt talk abut our di f f erenaes txlt about ways to amid division, " Garrison said.<br />
Garrison said he Md "at least three long telemne comersations with Adrian Rogers,"<br />
former ~esident cb the SBC ad ptm of Bellevue Baptist Church of -phis, Tenn., smut ways<br />
to king abut s& a meeting and a detailed agenda f m any smh meeting.<br />
"We started out talking about binding arbitration, " Garrison said. "But that idea was<br />
draEped kcawe we knew there would b ~obl~zns getting a panel acdeptible to both sides. I<br />
sqgested that we jmt haw a meeting of the pe-e wko haw hen leaders on both sides to see<br />
if we muld head off ~oblems in Dallas .I1<br />
Garrison said he suggested a four pint agada and R q r s suggested a fifth.<br />
First-"We would urcp that Charles Stanley (current SBC ~esident) be umpposed. In<br />
@*an@, he would ocmmit himself to a Fwees a€ dnatiom ad appointments a& wuld<br />
assure fairness cn all sides .I1<br />
Seaond-"All of tkPEie w b are row involved in trawlling acrass the a mtion and<br />
speaking in rallies wuld stop speaking, or, at lest, turn their attention taward pace .I1<br />
' Third--"During the d n g ~ a r we , would make sane soart cb arrangement whereby the nam<br />
articles concerning the mntrmrsy could be screened by sane froc~ess to have the anotioml<br />
factors remowd. In efiange, plblicatiors such as the Southern Ba@ist Adwcate stop<br />
wishing entirely."<br />
FourtklThe Reolutiorrs Cdttee (at the <strong>1985</strong> meeting) would either i-e cr decline to<br />
hardle divisive iss~s whid.1 haw W spoken to during the last five ar 10 years."<br />
The fifth, which Garrison said Rogers pqpsd, would negotiate "negativle desiwtion" of<br />
Cqrative Prqm mntrilxltiom, allawing churd~es to decline to support certain mrk sLldh BE^<br />
the six semiraries, whi* they fid objectiomhle.<br />
lbgzrs was antacted by Bqkist Press ad aordirmed Garrison' s ~opsal.<br />
-me
S3C 'Peace Initiative'<br />
Fails: Said 'Too Late'<br />
Page 2<br />
"I really apeciated the &fat Gme made," Rogers said. "I think his reasoning is<br />
pobsbly sod. I don't think that what protends far Dallas is good. I an grieved becawe I<br />
knm the Father (~cd) is displeased whm his hildrcm can't get along. I appmiated the<br />
effort Gene made: I appreciated him calling."<br />
Rogers added he believes such a meeting is "still mt an impossibility. It may still<br />
transpire, but the ~diltim is that m many things have &m set in mtion that we don't knw<br />
whether m mt mething like this can be done."<br />
The Men@-is -tor said he talked to Stanley abotlt the propsal during a meeting.<br />
"Basically Charles (Stanley) felt he dozsn't I.la= anything to hrqiin with except gxd will.<br />
He said he has cpne aulermd to make the appintments good, solid Scuthern Ba#ists."<br />
Al-ugh Rogers did mt elmrate on the meeking in which the popsal was discussed,<br />
Ba@ist Press has learned Stariley and Rogers met in Dallas in the Amfac Hotel April 17. ' The<br />
meeting also includd farrier SBC pesidmts Smith ad Draper; Paul Pressler; ~aiq Patterson;<br />
Rmsell Kaemerling, editar of the Sahern Baptist A&cate, and Fred Pawell, smim assdate<br />
pastor at First Baeist Church, Atlanta.<br />
Rogers added the first four points "are ideas Gene (Garrison) had ad I hsically would<br />
agree with those. On the matter of negative designation, I want to be wry careful. I think<br />
the best thing fa us (the SBC) would be for LS all to Irtlieve as mwh dlih as we can. I zm<br />
mt far the demise d wperative missions, I em for moperative missiors.<br />
"The only reason negative designation is mentioned is to m p people f ran feeling they<br />
have to crucify their convidtiom to support all we are doing. This is a way of seeinghow we<br />
can continw to cmprate," Rogers said.<br />
He added he belie-s the SBC came into being to "do missions. Nm, by ad large, all we<br />
do is called missions. Themf ae whm we give to ' missions ' we also give to the Historical<br />
Canmission, the Christian Life Canmission, theological edwation a d all a€ that. Sone a€ it<br />
is missiors, sane is quasi-miesiom and sane is mt missiors at all ,"<br />
Garrison said garticipnts aould inclwde semimy ~esidents Roy Lee Honeycat cb<br />
Southem, -sell H. Dilday Jr, of SmtWestern, and Randall Lolley of Southeastern, Cecil<br />
Sherman, pastor of Brcadway E?a#ist Church, Fclrt Wcath, Texas, ad Kmeth Chafin, ~dessar at<br />
Southern seminary.<br />
On the other side cb the table, he said, regresentatives muld be Paige Patterson a d<br />
%ul Pressler, leaders d the inerrancy movement: Stanley a d former SBC pesidents Rogers,<br />
Jmes T. Draper Jr. a d Bailey E, Smith.<br />
"If we add ~t a group lih this together, tbe w b are actually lead spokesmen fa the<br />
tm sidee, a d eac3-1 side would make sane mnaessions, I think we could head this thing off in<br />
Dallas. If things keepon like they are qing, it doesn't make any differen- whether Charles<br />
Stanley wirrs a lases the election; the real loser will be the Southern omt ti on."<br />
Garrison said he asked Rogers to discuse the possibilities d such a meeting with Stanley.<br />
" ~ told e me he would be meeting with Stanley to gray a d -murage him, ad that the popsal<br />
wuld be disclssed. He (Rogers) told me there was Imp+-rot big-hrt Imp .I'<br />
The 0kl8homa City pstor said he dled Rogers far an answer. "He told me he had met with<br />
Stanley a d 'the kethren' and they felt they had mthing to negotiate with ad that su& an<br />
effmt was Itroo late."'<br />
Rogers said he is "in f am of +dy ptting together be£ are cr after or anytinre to<br />
talk ard to pay and to be open arvd loving," Hadever, he added: '2 think the possibility af it<br />
(a meeting sw31 as Garrison ~ aposed) is a little remote.<br />
"I think it is p5bZily a little late for that. I an doing what I can to sqprt the<br />
ministry and presidency of Charles Stanley, lnrt at the same time I m trying to do what I can<br />
to be loving and positive in s@ri t tcrward tbse wfio may disagree ."<br />
--me--
SgC 'Peace Initiative'<br />
Fails: Said 'Too Late'<br />
Page 3<br />
He added he does mt believe Stanley sbuld ocme "hat in had and say, 'Please don't<br />
oppos me. ' I think the ball is in the murt a€ the wlm will appose Charles. Either they<br />
will cer will mt. That is almast a decision they haw to make milaterally," Rogers said.<br />
Rogers added he "certainly expects Charles Stanley to be reelected. But in all bnesty,<br />
I think hethren owht to negotiate whether Ehey win ar lose if there are pints where they can<br />
nqtiate. I don't think the ' wmervatives' ought to fail to nwtiate because they think<br />
they have a psition a€ strength.<br />
"The pint is that I don' t b ow that we have anything really to neptiate with other than<br />
matters d conscience. Ad that cmmt be neptiated."<br />
-30-
Wuthern Baptist Evangelists<br />
Set lB5 &&ing, Prqm<br />
AWANCE BXIGRCCND STORY<br />
BaFist Press<br />
5/6/8 5<br />
DALLAS (BP)-Different aspects d the work of Southem Bagist mqlists will be<br />
repesented by the thee f eakured speers at the Corderen- cd Southern Baptist Evangelists,<br />
Jme l(F12 in Dallas.<br />
The meeting, held in mnjm&ion with the mud session af the Southern Baptist<br />
Comtion, will hold its ~imary meeting at First Ba@ist Church in Dallas, Jme 12. The<br />
lxlainess session and three f ellawship functions will b at the H ~ tRegency t Hotel in Dallas.<br />
mrt HEmblin, vicecpresident fa -ism at the Southern Ba#ist Hane Mission Board,<br />
Bill Sta£f ad, an ewgslist fran Chattarrsoga, Tenn, , and Jerry Vines, ~pstm UE First<br />
Baptist Chur&, Jacksonville, Fla., will gre& to the gathering.<br />
Also Charles Stanley, -star a€ First Baptist Churd.1, Atlanta, will deliver greeting3 to<br />
the evangelists as ~esident<br />
uf the Smthern Baptist Comtion.<br />
The Hane Mission Board will bst a reception far all Southern Bqkist mngelists d<br />
state directors a€ e~ngelism<br />
1(F11:30 p .m . at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.<br />
Then T~lesday and Wednesday nims, after the SBC sessions have adjourned, the C.O.S.B.E.<br />
will bst a Fastid a€ Praise featuring 15 individuals cr gr- each night wb are music<br />
evangelists fran 1(Fll:30. The public is invited.<br />
The annual meeting, acaxding to M i k Gildrist uf Shreveprt, La., vesident fulfill8<br />
several af the purposes a€ C.O.S.B.E. sudh 8s "~ariding deep spiritual fdlawship among<br />
Swthern kiptist evangelists, wariding greater visibility for ~iliLical emngelism, ard<br />
grdding evangalistic inspiration and infamation to messenFrs attmding the Southern Baptist<br />
Convention meeting."<br />
-3s-
Integrity, Ruls<br />
Key To R qi stration E3y Dan Martin<br />
AWmm BPIZIGRrnD STORY<br />
E3a@ist Press<br />
5/7 185<br />
DALLAS (EP)--'"I% integrity of the registration ard blloting process at the <strong>1985</strong> annual<br />
meeting o£ the Scuthern Baptist Corntion depends m the integrity uf the local church," said<br />
Lee Pcrter, mC registration secretary.<br />
Porter noted the registration ~oaess has been "tightmed up'' acrcss the pst sevsral<br />
years, particdarly as mntrmrsy in the 14.3-million member Mmtion kas intmifid.<br />
"Became feelings are so intense on lmth sides, it is abolutely essential the registration and<br />
Uloting ~ooess be witmut yestion," he said.<br />
As in the past, he added, the local churd.1 is the ley. "It is the respmibility of ea&<br />
locaL church to see they fallm the eovisiom d the convention constitution in seleing<br />
their messenFrs ard in making sure the messengers are paperly certified, " he said.<br />
Wter added the "messenger' s mmcienae a d the local chur&' s integrity are the main<br />
imuranae the systm mks. Mawever, he said, check will be made to make sure churd~es and<br />
irdividuals b mt vialate the registration ~ovisiom in the SBC mmtitution arrd Bylws.<br />
"At the anvention we want to mrtify ewry mssenger £run every church wlm fdlms<br />
Foper ~oaedure. Churd-~es need to mdezstard the importan- cb electing 'messeng2rs'. In<br />
Southern Ba#ist life, we elect 'messengers' a d mt 'delegates'. They come to the convention,<br />
hear the disctssiom ad, as best they how, follm the ledrship of the Lord in ewry mte."<br />
Pcarter said ewry churd~ "a& is in friendly cooperation with this aonmtion and is<br />
synpthetic with its ppes ad vmrk and has during the fiscal par peceeding been a<br />
bonaf ide antributor to the Comtion' s mK' is entitled to one massenger .<br />
Ckle additioml messenger is allawed f a ewry 250 memhrs cr fca: each $250 paid to the<br />
mrk of the mnwmtion. "No &ur& is enti Ud to mare than 10 messengers, " Pcarter said,<br />
pointing out scme &ur&es 'beme tmnfmed kcause they are allwed mare messengers to the<br />
stat mnmtion m 9ssociatioml annual meting.<br />
Pcater pointed out tm additional fadoors which haw mused sane mnfmion in the past:<br />
--There is m pwision for alternates, and alternates sbtild not register. The<br />
oonstitution provides mly fa a maximun a€ 10 messengers.<br />
--'lChr&es which haw crganiaed sine Jan. 1, <strong>1985</strong>, are mt digible fur representation.<br />
We mmt the povision in the mmtitution mnerning mntihtion to mean the ~eceeding<br />
calendar par. Themf care, chur&es crganized sine Jan. 1, <strong>1985</strong>, wpuld ham been mission<br />
&ur&es ad are contrilmtiom were comted through their mother &urch."<br />
Poarter add&: '!No one is autcrnatidly a mesenger. Messengers mmt be elected by the<br />
d.1urd-1~~. EBstors, ddmtioral anployees a: missiorarias are rnt messengers by virtue cb<br />
their position. They, too, mmt le elected by the mngregstion."<br />
He said &ur&cs slnuld secure registration card3 either frcm state mnmtion oa:<br />
associatioral df ims. Thy s bdd be properly filled out an3 simed.<br />
"The messenger sbuld king that card to the registration mth at the Dallas Comtion<br />
Center. I muld suggest messengers register as soon as pssiue after arriving," Pcrt r said.<br />
"If persom are mable to secure aurds, they sbuld king a letter frm their &ur& certifying<br />
they are messengers. If they do mt Ira= a card or letter, they will have to tel-ne the<br />
&w& ad haw the church send a telegram la the credentials d t t e e at the Dallas<br />
Corrt~ntion Center."<br />
Pmter addd: "If msmgers me with paper credentials, simd ad totally filled out,<br />
they can register fairly yicldy. Ad, we will haw to do that sin- we axe anticipting<br />
bet- 26,000 and 27,000 messmFrs, the largest mnvention we have eter had."<br />
-30--
19435 SBC Pastors' Qrderene<br />
To Trace 'Raimw Through The Rain'<br />
Awm l3KmROWD STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
517 /8 5<br />
DUAS (IF)--The annlial Southern Bagtist Pastms' Corderme, held pior trD the yearly<br />
Southern Bagtist Comtion, will met at the Dallas Corntion Center, Jme (510. The 1W5<br />
theme is "Tracing the Rainlmw Tknrou~h the Rain."<br />
The program includes 15 sermor~, including tw by fanner pesidents d the SBC. Tbqh<br />
mast speakers will be Southern Ba@ists, a minister frcm Englard (educated at Southern Bapkist<br />
Theological Semimry, Lmisville, Ky., and a fonner pstm of SBC &ur&es in Flctrida) and a<br />
Preslyterian pstor are also on the ~ogram.<br />
"This is the 50th anniversary af the Pastars' Qrdereae ad we felt it was a @ time to<br />
focus cm God' s panises," O.S. Hiwkins, pastor cb First ~a@ist Chur&, Ft. Lauderdale, Fh.,<br />
ad gresideslt a€ the mnfexenae this yar, exglained.<br />
"Ever sine God set the rairibw in the sky far Noah, rai-ws lmvs ma* people think of<br />
panis=. Each of our speakers will facls on one af God' s pdses . The pmgrarm ref 1-s an<br />
effort to gather a crcss section fran acrcss the Southern Ba#ist Comtion. Sevxal speakers<br />
have newr spa- at the an£ewenae befme and, of aomse, others haw Men on the ~ q r a r m ,<br />
su5h as Dr. (w.R) CriEiweLl dA&ianRogers.<br />
"This mad be the pirmtal meting in the histcry af the Sarthern Convention and<br />
we bpe, by preaching the peciow granises d God d centering on the psitim, the Pastors'<br />
Corderence am set the tone f on: the conwntion to tse Christ-bmring."<br />
The Sunday eming program Jme 9 begins at 6:30 p.m. and will feature Bill <strong>Web</strong>er, pastor<br />
of Prestommod Eh#ist Church in Dallas; Ro'bert ~mkilin, vice~esidat for emngelism at the<br />
Southern Ba#ist Hone Mission bard in Atlanta; D. Jmes K-crdy, $mion: minister at Ccgal<br />
Rid* presbyterian Church, Ft. Lauder&le, Fla., and Adrian Rogers, -stor of Bellevue &gist<br />
Ch& in Manphis, Tenn. (ad pesident cd the SBC in 1980) .<br />
The first session Jme 10 starts at 9 a.m. ad features David Walker, pastor of First<br />
Ba@ist Church, San Antonio, Texas; Jack Grdmm, pastor cd First Baeist Churd.1, West Palm<br />
&a&, Fla.; Tan Elliff, pasta a€ *l& Baeist Chur&, Denver and ArtW Blerssitt,<br />
evangelist f rcm Holl~OOd, Calif,<br />
The aftemn session Jme 10 begins at 1:15 ad will include the election cb officers as<br />
well as sennorm by Marris Chapan, pastor of First Baptist Churd.1, W i d t a Falls, Texas; Edkin<br />
Ymg, pastor uf S-rrd Baptist Cknxrclh, Elmston: Job Wood, pastar of First Ba@ist CM&,<br />
Waco, Tams, ad Jzk Taylur, head of Dimmiom in Christian Living, Fcrt Wcrth, Texas.<br />
The 1B5 conference will mnclude with a session bginning at 6:30 p.m. Featured speakers<br />
will include Rihard Jackson, pastor of Narth Finmix (Ariasm ) Baeist Churd~: R.T. Kendall,<br />
senior minister £ran Westminister Chapel in Lo~n, Ekqlarrd, and W.A. Ckaiwell, paatm of<br />
First Ba@ist Ckwch, Dallas (and pesident a€ the SBC for 1%9 ad 1970) .<br />
- 30--
Camps Ministers<br />
Set 1%5 meting<br />
WAN03 B?CEROWD STORY<br />
Baeist Press<br />
5/8 18 5<br />
IlALLM (BP)-The Association uf Southern Bartist Canp Ministers will bld its annml<br />
meeting Jme 9-10 at the R e Bird Inn Best Western in Dallas, imdiately ~ i oto r the Southern<br />
&I*ist Comtion.<br />
There will b five sessiom spread over omar+a-half days examining the theme,<br />
"Heritage, Dewlapnent and Update: Our Cormntion.. .Om ~aith.. .Our Wark."<br />
Session I on Sunday eming will feature Phil Briw, prafsssar at Southvetern Ehsist<br />
Thealcqical Saninary in Fart Warth, Terns, speaking on "Faith Demlapnent in ini is try." Walter<br />
Shurden, ~dessoa: at Southem Bagkist Mqical Seminary in ~dsville, Ky., will address<br />
"Roots af Our Diversity' in the Sunday nicjht session.<br />
Morday mdng will include tw session3 : Jesse C . Fletder , pesident & Hardin-Sirmom<br />
University in Abilene, Texas, on "Care and Maintenme cb the Canp Minister' s Life," ad mul<br />
Jon=, exec&iw directs-treasurer o£ the Christian Aaion Cdssion d the Mississi*<br />
Ba#ist Comtion, on "Ethical Issues Whic3-1 Danard Attention."<br />
The Morday af temn f ocm will be on "History and Developnent uf Student Warkt' by W .F.<br />
Hcward, retired state director of studmt mrk f m the Ba$ist General Comtion a€ Teras .<br />
The final session, Moday evening, will feature the yearly awarcb hnquet, music by<br />
rearding artist Gaxy Rard of Chicaq and an address by J& Tadlock, Baptist Student Union<br />
director at Clanson University in South Cardim.<br />
-3s-
State Leadership Disregarded<br />
In Pifflointments, Presidents Say E9y Dan Martin<br />
AWANCE BElGROLND S W<br />
BaFist Press<br />
5/8/85<br />
D W (w)-southern E3afiis-t Convention President Charles F. Stanley largely disregsrdd<br />
sggestiors by state mnntion leadership when kuj made appointments to tm by cad ttess ,<br />
acaarding to an elected SBC dficial ad a surwy uf state cnmtion ~esidents.<br />
Stanley, pastor of ~irst Baptist Church of Atlanta, reaently appinted the 52mber<br />
C d ttee on Ccrmni ttees ad the l&menker Reedlutiom Canmi ttee to sene at the <strong>1985</strong> SBC,<br />
scheduled in Dallas June 11-13.<br />
In mmmcing the appointments, he said the 62 were selected f ran a list nore than 500<br />
names subnitted by "state amtion exec&iw directas, gresidents.. .ad iradividuals."<br />
Don Wideman, pastor of First Baptist Wch of Nmth Kansas City, Mo., and secx>d Vice<br />
~esident a€ the mnwntion, said acaoxding to his recards state exec&ives suhnitted "Wut<br />
300 names" to Stanley fm mmideration. "Only three a€ the mes shed up on the Cdttee<br />
on Cumnittees ard one on the Resolutions C d tte," Widenan said.<br />
Fdllming Wideman's ~nrmcnts on the disprity bet- recanmendations by state leaders and<br />
appointment, Baptist Press mrrtacted the ~esidente d 21 of the 26 stat- eligible fa<br />
regresentat ion on SBC cnrrani tt-.<br />
With only one exce$iow-Al&me-e& o£ the ~esidents reported mne a€ the persons they<br />
d m t d £car the tw dttees were named.<br />
"It was a nice, friendly gesture far Dr. Stanley to invite us to hve input," said Raymord<br />
bewell, a Shrewport insuranoe escaiw wko is pesidmt d the Ldsiana Baptist Cornention.<br />
"But in the end, it didn't mean anything."<br />
"We qt a letter inviting our re-mdatiorrs. Dr. Lee (Rdkrt L. Lee, exr;c&ie director<br />
of the LBC) ard I b th sulmitted rvlmes cb p ee w b are actidy inmlved in the life and wark<br />
of their local chux&, association, state and mti0m.l wnwntiom," Boswell said.<br />
"None cb the people we reamanended were appointed. I haw to say I an wry disappointed,"<br />
Boswell said. "Frcrn dmt I haw hard, that seas to be tw* acrass the amtion. I an very<br />
wnaernd that out Cd all a€ the mes suhdtted 5 all of the state convention presidents and<br />
=cutire directors, there was an apprent disregard Ear the mimtiors ."<br />
"I appeciated his letter =king IB to gi= input , ht the action was witlmut mezming. It<br />
had absolutely no siq~ificance," -well a*.<br />
m y one state mnwntion ~esidmt, Wallace Hailey, pstor af Malwain Bafiist Church in<br />
Bidngham, and ~esidmt a€ the Alabeuna Pagkist Comtion, said he had dmtd a person w b<br />
ultimately appointed. T<br />
"I prt together a list of names txlt I pol~liLy owrdid it. I suhnitted three pgs aE<br />
names to him (Stanley) ," H d e y said, adding he dmted A1 Jackson, pstm aE Labview<br />
Ba@ist Church in Amtawn, wlm was appointed to the Canmi ttee on C d ttees .<br />
-ding to Wideman' 8 recar&, only in Alahma, Arkmas, North Cardim and Missmi<br />
were re~cmmendatiom followed.<br />
Widman said only Ja#rkson; Jan- Bryant, pastor of Grad Amu? &gist Church in Fmt<br />
Smith, Ark.: ad Jdm Gilbert, ptor of First Bagkist Church of P@ar Bluff, Mo., ard<br />
~esidmt a€ the Missmi Baptist Comtion, were remanmended by state leadership ard<br />
appointed to the dttee on ammittees.<br />
--me-<br />
*I
State Leadership Disregarded<br />
In eintments, Presidmts Say<br />
2<br />
Only Billy Cline, pastor af Merrimn AWE Eaflist Churh in Ashwille, N.C., was<br />
r e m e d by state leadership a d dtimtely appointed to the Rssolutions Cdttee.<br />
' The Ba#ist Press surwy revealed the pesidents d the 21 state mnwntiors did not<br />
rwimte tbse dtimatdy appointed.<br />
' They are Arkmas, Califarnia, Calcnradb, District uf ~olunbia, ~lmida, ~ecargia, ~llimis,<br />
Kansas-Nebraska, Kentlrcky, Louisiana, MarylaribDelaware, Missouri, Mississippi, Nmth Cardim,<br />
New Mexim, Oklahcxna, South Caxolina,' Tennassee, Terns and Virginia.<br />
Presidents d Arimm, Irdiana, Miclhigan, WtWest and Ohio were mt mntactd.<br />
'he execttiw director uf the Kmtucky Baptist Cornention, Willian Marshall, confirmed<br />
none of the suggestiors he made were appointed. Marshd.1 aamnented the psident cd the KBC,<br />
Jam- Lewis, pastor af Westprt Rmd Baeist Chur&, Louisville, Ky., made se~ral suggestiom,<br />
none cd whid.1 were acae#ed.<br />
"The only condusion I can draw is that the pe@e suggested by m were mt acceptalde to<br />
Mr. Stanley," Marshall a-.<br />
Winfred Moare, pastor aT First Ba#ist Church of Amarillo, ad pesident cB the hptist<br />
General Convention a€ Terns, said "mt one single name I suggested skwed up on the<br />
appintmmts cB the tva dttees."<br />
Mmce took exrregion to Stanley's mished ocmment tht the SBC ~eaident wed<br />
swgestions "fran out a€" Texas because "there is emotioml involvement on bth sides."<br />
"If there is any turmoil in aur state mrnention, I an mt ware aE it. TheCoaperatiw<br />
Prqrm is up $1 million m r last par, Mission Terns is rim on schedule arrd we are moving<br />
ri@t alorq," he said.<br />
"What sbcM me was that his dfice wrote ad asbd us far in@. I assuned they at<br />
least wanted them; thm I f id out they never mrrjidered than te-me there was so much<br />
' turmoil. ' I would haw rather b had rot even asked for my re~endatiors," m e said.<br />
Momre added: 'My mnclwion is that he really didn' t want our sugestiors.. . ."<br />
Widman, w b was elected sea3r-d vice-president at the 1984 annual meeting in Kansas City,<br />
said he wrote to state cnnwntion exsc&ives two montls after his electio-on Aug. 16, 1984--<br />
asking their reocmmmdatiom.<br />
"I told them I bpd Charles (Stanley) would ask than far sudh a list," Widenan said. "I<br />
askd them to provide me with names became I was trying to get zcqainted with people frcm all<br />
mer the convention. I asked the execaives to suggest peaple wlm muld re~esent their<br />
aonvmtiors well ."<br />
Widenan said all cd the execaives, with the exception uf leers in ~ichigan and ~dana,<br />
resprded with names. When Widanan amfiled his list there were 294 names on it.<br />
Later, Stanley compiled a list a€ 500 nam- £ran vhich he said he ww ping to make<br />
selectiorrs. Widman said "mt" ul the mes on his list appeared on Stanley' 8 list, as well.<br />
" 1 know of nearly 300 names an my list, only three were named to the Cclwni ttee on<br />
Canmitt- and one to the Camnittee on Bards. Also, 12 persom were app~inted w b did not<br />
ehrw up on any list ~eviom to the appointment, " he added.<br />
Widenan, w b said he learned the actual aqintees by reading a Ih@ist Press release,<br />
said Stanley "did mt inwlve" him in the appointment prwess. Stanley also, he said, did mt<br />
reaeive his suggestiom on the list a€ persons wkr, hd been dnated.<br />
"I suggested po@e wlm are solid, corsertkltive Southern heists, wlm do mt have an ax<br />
to grid ad wl.lo haw not identified with any group in the mnwntion," Widman said. "He<br />
(~tanley) did not e i n t any uf them."<br />
Widanan added: "I think @wry state sbuld look at their ckjn rqresentatiws ard see if<br />
they really do regresent the state."<br />
--3s-
Chrch Mclsic Coderenae<br />
Set A t FBC Dallas<br />
AWlwa EWmRrnD STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
5/9 /8 5<br />
DALLAS (=)--The rale d mmic in missiom ad m@ism will receive mrrsiderable<br />
attention during the 1965 meeting aE the Southern Ba@ist Chmch Mmic ConEerenae, Jme 9-10 at<br />
First Ba@ist Church, Dallas.<br />
. The cpnfermae meets each par pica to the Southern Bagkist Comtion whi& is set fcc<br />
Jme 11-13 at the Dallas Comtion Center.<br />
. There will be two sessions Sunday, Jme 9, and three sassiors Jme 10.<br />
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<br />
Nashville, Tmn. ; mnaerts the Southvestern Seninary Singers ad Nei lson a d Yomg (concert<br />
artists fran Dallas), ad a lecture/denomtration on "ClmraX Tmiqaes for tbe Churd.1," by<br />
Htqh Saders, ~ dessrn at Baylor University, Warn, Texas.<br />
Sunday night will include worship at First Baptist, including music by the church birs<br />
and or&estxa a d a sermon by Fastor W.A. Criswell. Other pcrgran activiti- include an argan<br />
recital by Jqce Jones, pruferssor at Baylcor; a ancert by the Southern Sdmry Cbir fran<br />
Louisville, Ky., and pesentation uf a crxrrmissiond anthem, "Lard Thy CMr& on Earth is<br />
Seeking," by David S&wo&el, mmic assistant at First Baptist Chur&, Montfpnery, Ala.<br />
The evening will close with a receFion hxted by the chur& mmic *prtment u€ the<br />
Baptist General Comtion cb Tems .<br />
Morday morning will &gin with warship lead by Joel Gregory, prcdessm at Southvestem<br />
seminary, followed by a aonoert by the Sunset Serenaders aE Cliff Temple Baeist Church in<br />
Dallm, and a pnel discmsion on "The Rde a€ the Music EVanwlist."<br />
Tire session also will include ~esmtation a€ brorary menbership and a mnert by R.L.<br />
ad Beth Sigrest , mmic evangelists f ran Yam City, Miss.<br />
Morday aftemn will center on "Flusidan on Missiom.. .in Adion" with looh at pison<br />
ministry, wuth &oil: mission tours and "Adopt a Miesiorary." There also will be mnoerts by<br />
Carol McClure Hahn, a harpist frcm Atlanta and the Singing Churdmen af O k l h ad amther<br />
l&ure/danorstration by Sarders cn "Choral T-icpes in the Chur*.<br />
The daing session, Morday evening, includes arrother sermon by Gregory ad tw mxwerts:<br />
one by the dmir ad orch~tra f ran First Bagist Chur&, Rmmlae, Va., and amther by the<br />
~3mhined wioes d the 1%5 Tems Baptist All-State Youth Cbir ad the Singing Men a€ Texas.<br />
-3s-
Directors d Missions<br />
To Meet Jule %10<br />
AWANCE BAWGRCUND STORY<br />
Baflist Press<br />
5/9 /8 5<br />
IXLiLM (BP)-The Southern Bagist Corferencle a€ Directarrs d Missiom will met Jme 9-10<br />
at the Cmtral Expressway Inn, Dallas, i dately viar tm the Southern Ba#ist Corntion.<br />
Th three-sssion pogra~n, under ~e theme, "The Director d Mission+- Wh? IXM," will<br />
look at basic information far the job.<br />
During the opening session S~day aftemn: J. Wodrclku Fuller, retired directar of<br />
missions in Tems and Flcarida, will discws " W h is a Director of Missiors and What Does He<br />
Do?," while his wife, Jme Fuller, will talk abtk the role af a wife of a director of<br />
missiorrs; -ton Rme, viepesident at the Ba@ist Sunday moo1 Board in ~ash.lle, Tenn.<br />
will disclss, "Haw Does a Director of Missiom Maintain Excellenae in Proypms?," ard ~illian<br />
Pimon, executiw director of the m@i& General Cornention of Terns, will speak on "HUM DCES<br />
a Directoa: of Missiolls Drean?"<br />
Sunday eming Gene Daniel, senica vicepesident for marloeting at the Annuity Board, will<br />
explare the relatiorship bet- the Annuity Emrd ad the director of missions.<br />
During the clcsing session Morday mmning, Darm C. McCarty, prcdessar at Golden Gate<br />
Bagtist Theological Sminary, Mill Valley, Calif., will speak on "What Does the Fame Hold?, "<br />
a d W .E. Wrne, retired president a€ Dallas Bagist university, will disctrss, "Haw Does a<br />
Director of Missions Plan f m a d Enjoy Retirement? "<br />
-30--
Tellers, Credentials<br />
Camnittees minted<br />
WAN03 l3ACERCUND STORY<br />
Bagist Press<br />
5/15/85<br />
DALWllS (=)-The tellers ad credentials clcmmittees ha= been apinted for the <strong>1985</strong><br />
annml meting of the Solltkaern Ba$ist Corntion, Jme 11-13, in the Dallas Corntion Center.<br />
91C President Charles Stanley anmmaed the appintment aE the credentials cxmrmittee,<br />
while SBC ~egistration Secretary Lee Pcater released the name af the tellers camnittee.<br />
Stariley, as pesident, appoints both mmnittees. ^ Ths medentids ananitte is apinted<br />
by the mnwnt: ~esident " in mnsul tation with the vice-~esidents ," while the talers Wdy<br />
is med by tk ~esident , " in aomdtation with the registration secretary."<br />
Parter wks with 'Lath amnittees during the three-day annual meting.<br />
The credentials amnittee, acmrding to the SBC bylaws, "shall review and rule upon any<br />
qeetiom wxdh may arise in registration mnaerning the credentials a€ messengers ." The 26-<br />
menber group also considers "any aontcintion arising on the f locar (of the mnmtion) conc=erning<br />
seating of messengers.<br />
The tellers camittee, made up of 13 m enbrs, is responsible for talxllating any mte tam<br />
by Irallot during the mnrmtion.<br />
Acmrang to Porter, both amittees wxk to maintain the integrity of the registration<br />
and Wloting pass at the annual, meeting. EWever, the bnstyard integrityof the local<br />
&ur& ard of the individual messengr are the main safeguard of the balloting a d registration<br />
~OaeSS.<br />
Wter said safeguards haw keen Wlt into tb s~tan.<br />
"Msssengers wko lrirmg their a=m@eted and signed registration car& am wegister in less<br />
than fiw minutes," Porter said. "Persons wW haw letters ar mllst rely on telqrams will have<br />
to appear in prson &fore the credentials dttee," he added. "~nydisplted ar mnteated<br />
matter also will be referred to the amittee."<br />
Ral* M. Smith, pastor of Hfle Park Eh@ist Chur& in Amtin, Tems, will be &airman a€<br />
th credentials camittee. A. Earl Potts, executiw directar cd the Alabma Eh$ist State<br />
Convmtion, Montgmery, is chairman cd the tellers.<br />
Charles Waltan, pastcm af ~irst Ba@ist Ckanrd~, Bridge City; Texas, will be seretary of<br />
the medentids orranittee.<br />
Other members d the credentials cnmmittee are: E. R EP3bott, pistor, First &urch,<br />
Smyrna, Ga. ; Gwy W . Brink, pastor, Innrenuel church, Rcmeo, Mi&. : -9 Clerihew , director a€<br />
missiom, Denton (Texas ) ~apist Assodation: Harrell R. Cmhirq, pastor, First &m&,<br />
Gadsdm, Ala,; W. Leroy Daniel, layperson ard menbsr d First churdh, Wid.lita Falls, Terns;<br />
David R. Dean, pastor, First church, S.~dbxy, Mass. ; San ~riend, petas, First church,<br />
Bothll, Wash. ; V. Allen Gaknes, pastor, Ebrkuiew dhurd-~, Newport News, Va. : W.C. Garlard Jr.,<br />
pastor, S d d1urd.1, Hot Springs, Ark.;<br />
Eddie L. Hamilton, pastor, First &urd-~, Carthage, Miss.: lhx D. Hester, Fast=, Calvary<br />
chur&, I~ne, Ky.: ms. Mse Hdtzinger, layperson frcm L e d , Kan., wkP attends Swp<br />
Park church, Kmas City, Mo.; B. Conrad Jdrmston, pgstoar d S d a *~d.1, Salem, Va-: Thmas<br />
M. Kmtts, director ct€ missions, AiM Association, ~raniteville, S.C.;<br />
--rmr-
" Tellers, Credentials<br />
Catmittwe minted<br />
2<br />
Je T. Letanon, layperson ad member of ~ravis Awmw &ma, Fact Worth, Tern: C. LEmar<br />
Lifer, pstor cd Olitnet chur&, Little Rock, Ark. ; Fred Lawery, pastor, ~ixst chur&, bssier<br />
City, La. ; Jmes Merritt, pastor, Himad &m&, Laurel, Miss. ;<br />
Jack Nicjhtingde, pastor, Nmtbide &urch, D d d , Fla. ; Edward E. Piky, pastor, First<br />
&ur&, Waterloo, Ill.; Mrs. Currin Ann Seely, layperson fran Park Tcwer d~urrh, Plam, Tern;<br />
Jae Simns, layperson fran Sa-ont &ur&, -ton; Jim Wells, pstor, OWood chw*, Kansas<br />
City, Mo., and Marvin T. Yak Jr., layperson f run Park Cities &urch, Dallas.<br />
Tellers are: Rodd D. Allen, pastor, First d~urch, Rapme, Mo. ; Mrs. Myra B ts,<br />
lawrson f rcm Hoarse Sbe, N.C., and member uf First &m&, ~endersonville; Charles D. Btts,<br />
pastor, First dhurcb, ~andalia, Ohio; Well Estep, pastor, Comcil Road churd~, Bethany,<br />
Okla. :<br />
Billy T. Hargrom, di rectoor uf stewardship pranotion fa the Missouri Ba@ist Corntion,<br />
Jefferson City Ernest J. Kelley, regioml mdinatar fa the Hane Mission Board, Atlanta;<br />
Charles S. WN, pastor, First &ur&, Marietta, Ga.;<br />
Kenneth Mahaneas , pastor, Far H ills &urch, Dayton, Ohio; Jmers M. pCp& Jr., pastor,<br />
First &mch, Tulldxma, 'IQnn. : J h Lee Taylcr, pastar, First &ur&, Jackson, %inn. : Ms.<br />
bnnie White, layperson f rm Louisville, Ky., ad memher of First church, Prcspect; ad Daniel<br />
G. Vestal, pastor, First church, Midlard, Tk-.<br />
-30--
m e Will Allw<br />
Presidential Nanimtion Bf Toby Dhn AW- BPI=EQ;RrnD STmY<br />
Ba@ist Press<br />
5/15/85<br />
AE.RIUWO, Terns (EP)-With the urging of " several hmdred letters" ard the anviction " it<br />
is time to turn our mnmtion kack to the maimtrean and its main onrmitment to missiom,<br />
Christian education and service," W. Winfred Mocre anrw>maed May 10 he will allw his<br />
dmtion for ~esident a€ the Southern Ba@ist Comtion.<br />
. The ammm~ent, he said, cane after log deliberatiom and pawr and with the full<br />
support a€ his wife ad the deamns d First Baptist Church, Amarillo, where he has been pstor<br />
far the last 25 years.<br />
Mome, 65, tkruEl ended month d spclilation smut whether k would oppose current SBC<br />
President Charles Stanley wka ~eviously ammd he will permit his ncmimtion far a s<br />
term.<br />
a d<br />
Moare, who is in his seaorrd year as president a€ the Ba@ist General Comtion uf Terns,<br />
said after his sea3d straiw election withxk apposition last fall, he did mt think he ar<br />
Stanley were the man to lead the SBC.<br />
He has &an+ his mid, he said, "Because mlmdy else has me faward to say they are<br />
willing to db it ."<br />
"I have keg b@ng smeMy would emer- that aermdy codd agree is the person to lead<br />
IB, but: it hasn't kappmed," he said. Instead, he has received hundreds of letters fran<br />
mstors and lawen fran ewry area a€ the SBC imisting that he is the man, he said.<br />
Newrtheless, he does so relmtantly, he said.<br />
"I haw fomd myself in the middle of this throqh the millation I ma& last par," he<br />
said, referring to his U~EILE~SS~~~ miration cb Dallas ptm Bruce M&=r to replace that a€<br />
Paul Pressler of Hollston fur the SBC Executive Cc-ttee.<br />
"Nobdy asked me to m& that ranination and I did so witMut any animosity tward<br />
anpne," he said. "I jmt didn't Mnk it (Pressler's ranination) revesentd mairstream Tems<br />
Ba@i st -where we are."<br />
He said, "as the par has pne by and I haw tried to look at what we are doing as<br />
Sahm &Gists, I ha= been mnvicted we h~ to 9 hck ad suppxt om imtittltiom anld<br />
agencies and get on with Ebld Mission Thrtmt .I'<br />
He newx 't-raEi qim credenae to the &arge d "liberal drift" in the mnvwltion, he said,<br />
"Became I het~ where I stood ad where the page I an assdated with star&-as 09memtiw<br />
as anybody auld k ."<br />
"In fact, I haw been IddM ad laughed at mut king sdh an ar& mmerwtiw. ' Tb<br />
p e e I know are pwe w b &lie= the Bible.<br />
"As I have said many times, I don't agree with all a€ them Jxt it Wn't occw to me,<br />
jllst kecame I disagree with than mt they don't helie- the Bible. ' There may be sane w b<br />
¬, but I don't lasow than."<br />
Of his am tkrealogy, Moare said, "I Wiew the Bible jmt like it's written. I ace* it<br />
as God's m d to me. I have m pablan acce@ing any of it, original mmcri$e a€ the BiHe<br />
we hw today."<br />
--me+-
W e Will All-<br />
Presidential Ndmtion<br />
Pa* 2<br />
"I don1 t mderstand a lot af it," he added, "bt I ace* that which I do mderstand and<br />
that which I don't-e~ry bit uf it fran beginning to end."<br />
m e o s &ur& was for many ~ ars the SBC leader in mntrilxtiom through the Cqratiw<br />
Prqran ad this par will give $827,000--19.5 peraent cb its mdesi~pated receiFs.<br />
"The chw& wted in 1981 to increme its Coopmati= Prqm supprt by 10 permt per<br />
year throqh the 1%OsIqo bbcxe said, "ad thw far we are ahead of schedule."<br />
If he is mt dected SBC pesident, he said, it will haw m effect on the churd.1'~ 8<br />
support. "We are wing to keep on giving jtlst exactly lik we have W giving, no matter wlm<br />
is elected," he said.<br />
Sane fmdamentalist leaders ham irdicated they might lead their &ur&es to "escraw"<br />
their Cocpewative Progran gifts if Stanley is mt dected. Others have asked they be allmd<br />
to exlude sane SBC agencies £ran M r gifts and still have then mmidered Cooperati=<br />
Prcgran gifts.<br />
In the late 19603 Moare's &urch asked the Christian Life Cdssion b excluded £wan<br />
reeiving its share a€ the &urch1s 8 gifts because a€ the spnsmship of a seminar in Atlanta<br />
whi d~ feat wed an address by a Playboy magazine edi tcor .<br />
"That was a mistab," Pbme said. "I still disagree as ampletelywith them as I did<br />
tM, 'but if I were doing it ImdayI muld certainlydo it differently. I muTd 9 sit dckJn<br />
with Fay Valmtine (CLC exsc&iw direct=) ad discms it. I muld use the pmss."<br />
"I think now that what I did was worse than what they had ibne. My reaction was bd, "<br />
m e<br />
said.<br />
F& decries the emergmae cf politia3 in the denanination, he said, ad doesno t like any<br />
prt cb it-on any side.<br />
If elected, he said, he w ill supprt a d ttee to try to fird a sol&ion to the<br />
ddnatioral mntrmrsy.<br />
."The My way we can arrive at reanciliation is to look spcifically at areas where<br />
people think there are polilens, whether in the seminaries cr agencies," he said, "to look at<br />
them realistically, ~aprfully, with a view to making whatewr cwrrectiors need to be made<br />
wi-ut accming anybody ad everybody."<br />
Such a dttee, he said, would ha= to represent mry s-1 af tlmqht- "to sit daJn<br />
together and work through this so m can all do the mission m k God has given B to da."<br />
Mocrre is a mtiw uf Tamessee. He receivled his education at Lmbth Cdlege, Union<br />
Uniwrsity a d Gecrrge Peabdy Cdlege. He has been awarded Mmrary doctwates by Waylad<br />
Eheist University and Baylor University. He did rot attmd semimy.<br />
He has a low histmy of involwnent in the Amarillo association and Tems mnmtion. He<br />
was chairman a€ the dttee to reorgani~ the execaive bxrd staff a few pars am and was a<br />
member af the sear& &ttee which reammended Willian M. Pirson Jr. as emecutiw directcx of<br />
the Tems anvention in 1982.<br />
First ~a#ist a€ Amarillo, has mare than 10,000 members and is me ul the largest churches<br />
in the SBC. Last year it reoorded 234 baptisrrrs and $591,428 in gifts to the Coopzrative<br />
Prcgran.<br />
Its total gi fts to mi ssim were $1,266, XI4 out of total receip s aE $4.8 million.<br />
Moare aame to the Amarillo am& in 1959. He also has ben pstor of 0liw Bran*<br />
Ba$ist Church, Olive Bran&, Miss. ; Ehrrishrg Ba#ist Church, Tupelo, Miss. ; First Baptist<br />
Clwrd~, Ebrger, Te-, and Central Park Ba$ist Church, Binnin-, Ala.<br />
Moare married his wife, ElizaMth, when they were senicxs in college. Tky haw three<br />
children, a son ard daughter wlm live in Dallas and a daughter in mil lo ad four<br />
~ ~ i l d r e n .<br />
~ 3 0 ~ -
Winfred Mocere, -'Tool1<br />
Of Liberals, Ehtterson Says<br />
AWmm BzXKRCUND STORY<br />
Bagist Press<br />
5/17/85<br />
LU-Bm, Terns (BP)--Inerrantist ledr Paige Patterson hs called Anrawillo, Telas<br />
pstm Winfred Mome a "toal" a€ lihrals, acmrding to ~ssociatd<br />
Press.<br />
Moare will he mminated far ~esident a€ the 14.3-million mmbr Southern &Fist<br />
Comtion next Jme at the annml meeting of the SBC. Ratterson, assdate -tar cd the<br />
25,000-mmbr First Bagtist Church of Dallas, is supprting the reelection of the incurtbent,<br />
Charles Stanley, pastor uf First Baptist Churd.1 in Atlanta.<br />
" The Asdated Press story wted Fhtterson as describing Mocsre, pastor a€ the First<br />
Bagtist Churd.1 of Amarillo and ~esident a€ the 2.4~llion member Bagist General. Comtion<br />
of Terns, as a "tool1' ~ "liberals" sdh as Russell Dilday, president d Southwe&ern Baptist<br />
Tkreolcgical Seminary in Fart Worth.<br />
"I don't think he's a libral, but b's being used by them," Patterson reportedly told the<br />
mngregation at Flet&er Eman~l Baptist Church in the southeast Tems town uf Lunberton.<br />
During the May 12 meeting, Ebtterson also askd the peoge to ~ a for y the Southern &Fist<br />
Camtion whi& blds its annual meeting Jme 11-13 in Dallas.<br />
Mocnre, in a telephone intervim with ~ssociated<br />
Press, defended his credentials. "The<br />
people in Amarillo h 'w known me fa the p t 25 years md.d tell you that I wuld mt he<br />
wed by anybdy and I don't intend to b?," he said.<br />
- 30--
To Study S3C Crisis<br />
State Presidmts<br />
Prqse Camnittee & Dan Martin<br />
AWZWU3 BEFGRCWD STaWY<br />
Ba#ist Press<br />
5/17/85<br />
MEhPHXS, Tenn. (EIP)-A~ eight-pint @an to oreate a special cvmrmittee to study m ans d<br />
resalving the aisis in the Sdhern &gist Corntian will be p~oposed presidents d state<br />
&gist aonventiom at the <strong>1985</strong> annual meeting of the SBC .<br />
The ~aposal, drafted by a sewn-mbr task £me during a meeting at a Maws btel May<br />
14, will be ~esented to other state convention pesidents at a called meeting Jme 10 in<br />
Dallas, on the eve a€ the annual meeting.<br />
The @an dls far appclintment cb a acPmrdttee to "seek to determine the sour- af the<br />
mntrmrsy in our mnvention axd make firdiw and reacrrrmendatiom regarding these<br />
mntxmrsi es . . . . "<br />
Bill Hickem, ~esident aE the Flcrrida Ehptist Convention and &aiman d the task £care,<br />
said the motion will specify the persons WID will Serve on the dttee. "The arrrmi ttee will<br />
bz made up of 15 persons re~esmting bth sides aE the crmntrmrsy as well as those we<br />
mmider bridcplmilders ad middle-d-the-rmd po@e," he said.<br />
"We are mt ready to name them yet, bawe they must k pnresented to the (Jme 11)<br />
meeting fa the appowl a€ the ather presidmts," Hicbm said.<br />
The plan is the first detailed ppsal to k revealed, altbqh manentun is gathering fa<br />
the establishnent aE a ammi ttee to st* the dsis in the ddmtion. Faner SBC pesidmt<br />
H. ~ranklin Paschal1 af Nashville, Tm, , last fall pmp3sed a dttee appra%& to resolving<br />
the conflict rocking the 14.3 million manber denanimtion, (see sewrate story).<br />
Ebth of the key candidates far SBC ~esident- incunbent Charles Stanley of Atlanta and<br />
Winfred Mome a€ Amarillo-haw said they support creation cd a mmni ttee to resdw the<br />
mnflid, ad amther farmer pesidmt-W.A. Criswel.1 a€ Dallas--also supports the idea.<br />
Hidm said the ~oposal will be ~esentd during a regular binas session Tuesday<br />
aftemn (Jme 11). Ihmms haw almunded an effcrrt will be made to go into special lmsinsss<br />
session as the mnwmtion apens. The runas idmte a prt af any @an wuld be to eliminate<br />
a &allenge to incunhnt pesident Stanley.<br />
The Flcerih pesident said the " incunent pesident , w h ~ IE r miat be ,I1 will be an ee<br />
cdfido member of the cannaittee. He insisted the popsal "does mt deal with current<br />
pesidential politics."<br />
TIE starte pesidents' p-al qew out ciE a meeting -il 11-12 in St. Louis, called by<br />
Charles Picloering, president af the Mississippi Baptist Comtion, ad attended by ~esidents<br />
d 23 of the 37 SBC-aff iliatd state mnwmtiom,<br />
"This (the pxopal ) was a spimff d the St. Lds me&ing. We met fm Faps and<br />
sharing d mutual mncems aut the ~oblans d the anvention. Ollt aE our discwsion cresne a<br />
thoqht that we neded to awirrt a task f cvrae to mne up with a clear motion, " Hickem said.<br />
ALtbqh the idea of a amnci ttee was disclssd at the St. Luuis meeting, it was mt<br />
mentioned when the yxesidents met with the press at the condmion aE the dosed meeting. 'RE<br />
pxsibility of a motion was ~vsded several weeks later in a news releae ~epred by Wallace<br />
Henley, president a€ the Alalruna Ea@ist Comtion, ad a f mer newsppeman.<br />
-rmr*
State Presidents<br />
Prapose C& ttee<br />
hg; 2<br />
Picbring told m$ist Press the 'I idea m e up toward the latter prt a€ the meeting. We<br />
did not haw time to give it as mu5h amideration as it deservzd. Comqently, a task for-<br />
was appointed to mrk in that area and report hack to us ."<br />
HicM said the state ~esidents "were mt trying to em@ anmy. If saneone hs a<br />
better plan, we would be more than ham to ttisc~~s it. We jmt felt in the absence a€<br />
anything else, we had to arme up with sanething." He aaed he was mt ware Paschal1 had made a<br />
similar propal last fall.<br />
"The p pse cf this d ttee will mt ke to have a witdihunt. We need to give a<br />
aommittee time to wrk. It is our kope that the arnmittee am help us examine ourselves and<br />
c=ame up with what is best fa^: our convention, " he added.<br />
The "task face" whi& drafted the propeal indudes Hickm, Picbring, Hmley, Jch<br />
Gilbert, Missouri; Jack May, Tamessee; Neil Thpon, Alas-, ad Nunnan Wiggirrs, Narth<br />
Cardim. The group also met with SBC President Charles Stanley in Dallas April 17 "to idcam<br />
him uf om meeting in St. Louis and to get his inprt," acmding to Henley, -stor of McEldn<br />
Baptist Churd.1 in Birmim, Ala.<br />
Stanley told Ba@i st Press he talked with the pesidents and added: 'They are wing about<br />
this in the rim way. I think they are thinking ad talking wisely alP~ their am&. I<br />
muld fa- such an ap~roach and think they (the Fesidents ) are right on tar@.<br />
The SBC ~esident mted, hcmewr, he has mt seen the fiml draft.<br />
"I think it is abmlutely essential we have a httee. W b they (the presidents) put on<br />
it will be the ultimate test cb whether it psses a mt," Stanley said.<br />
The draft motion mntairrs eim sectiom and a peanue whi& says: 'Feeling that<br />
Southern Bagists haw mprallded optmities to serve God, but reaogidng that if<br />
differenaes in our mnwntion are mt resdved we amrat fullfil these cpfmtmities, and<br />
feeling a heavy burden fm our rnnwntian, the f~residents d the state mnmtions, after<br />
~apwfully seeking ways to fird mity in our Lmd and Savicx Jess Christ, reamnmend the<br />
fdlwing motion."<br />
The first section creates the special mnmi ttee ard mes the 15 menbers .<br />
The s e d specifies the acPrrmi ttee "shall seek to determine the souraes d the cnntrowrsy<br />
in om mnmtion and male f irdirags and reoamnendatim regarding these mntxoversie so<br />
Southem Bs@ists might df ectiwy dis&arge their respnsibilities to God by cooperating<br />
togetkrex to acmmplish evaneism, missiom, Christian edmation ad other cnwa autkmized by<br />
our mnsti tution, all to the Glcrry ob God."<br />
The third section sped fiea the 15rmnber 4 ttee " shall seek to m k with and thrqh<br />
appro~iate lmards, canmissions d agencies," ad says the "trmtees, boards and<br />
agncies.. .shall fully -prate with this dttee to acaom@ishl' its plrpses.<br />
The dttee shall report m "the Fogress d its h ~ to ~ ea& k meeting of the Executive<br />
Cumnittee," the propesed motion says, ard staffing "shall be the respomihility af the<br />
Exehive Camnittee, whi& may include ~cdeesiaal assist-."<br />
The fourth section spci fies f d n g "shall be ~ovided thragh the SBC Operating EUdget ."<br />
The fifth says the dttee aan m k in apen session, hold pblic win*, "htt.. Jnay<br />
also bld execlai= (clased) sessions to ac03mflish its mk."<br />
The sixth section says any vacancy on the artanittee "shall be filled at the next meeting<br />
of the Executiw Camnittee," lxlt specifies "hlanos shall be maintain&."<br />
The sevmth notes the amittee "my make its final rept to the 1986 amml meting," or<br />
that it may make "a pelinrimy report to the 1986 conventiod' ard lz aontinwd fm an<br />
additioml year. In any case, the d ttee "shall make a final report to the 1987 Sahhern<br />
Baptist Corntion."<br />
The eighth section urges all Scuthern Basists to "exercise restraint, to refrain fran<br />
divisiw action a d aomments ad to reflect: Christian 1- while the anmi ttee is doing its<br />
wrk."<br />
****
Secret Taping Called<br />
' Unethical, Disbnest '<br />
By Dan Martin<br />
AWANCE EtAcrGRrnD STORY<br />
Ba$ist Press<br />
5/17/8 5<br />
FOKT mKl?H, Texis (BP)--The secret tapring of a "mnfidmtial a d persoml mnferene<br />
witlout my bowledge crr permission is mther siq of behavia that is methical, disbnest and<br />
Whristian," said Rllssell H. Dilday Jr.<br />
Dilday, president a€ Southestern Bapltist Tkdcgical S dmy in Fat Worth, Texas,<br />
canmented to Ba@ist Press after newsstories rewaled Farrar Patterson, a px?fessor of<br />
ummuinicatiors and ~ea&ing, had secretly taped a mnferenae with Dilday and released<br />
transcrifls to the pess .<br />
Th secret tap is the latest dewlopent in mntsowrsy surromding an e£f art by Dilday<br />
to fire Patterson, a ~ufesscr sin- 1969, whi& failed when SoutWatern trtlstees mted 19-12<br />
to dismiss, falling tw mtes skPrt cd the tmthirds mte nded to dismiss a f acuty member.<br />
The secret tap initially was releas& to Louis Moore, reli4on editor of the Howton<br />
Chronide, by Patterson's attorney, Walt Carpenter crf Homton, w b said he did so to mmter<br />
amnents made by ~ilday as to why he attempted to fire Patterson. The stay subseplently<br />
appared in other Telas newsppers .<br />
Dilday told Ba@ist Preas May 17 he "has mt heard the tape," mr 'b he heard £ran<br />
Patterson ar Carpenter sine the rearding was released to the pess .<br />
The seminary pesidmt said he has attem@ed to mntact Patterson sine the release a€ the<br />
transcrifls, "ht I have been told he will mt speak to me wept through his attmney. It is<br />
~ r difficdt y to wry on an am-ic ~ q a witkput n being ahle to mmicate with the<br />
f acdty memkr;r."<br />
Dilday said the reaxding was af a wnferems Jan. 14, which was cb a "personaX ad<br />
aordidential nature" regarding Ebtterson' s performance. "It is part of the redemptive mture of<br />
tkre sanimry that we try to lleal first on a personal and very anfidential @$is.. .to mme to<br />
resdution (with faculty members) in sudh a way that will not mduely emhrrass the irdividual<br />
or his fanily."<br />
Dilday said there were six "wry seriw dmrges" acpinst Patterson, including one that he<br />
had "yxesented an mtrw repxt a€ action cd the seminary faculty" to W .O. Vaught , pastm<br />
merit- a€ Immanml Ba@ist C h& of Little Rock, Ark.<br />
- The barges, Dilday said, include lifestyle ad behavim (such as ming ~ofanity and<br />
vulgar language, indhng cursing the dean a€ the s-1 a€ thedogy): poor example cb<br />
churdmanslip; poor qmlity UE mrk; insubordination, intmtiod distmtion uf the truth, and<br />
lack of xespnse to si~lificant warning3 and atttenss to redeem."<br />
"This (the release a€ the transcri*) would seem b me to be neither bililical ror<br />
Chistian. It wuld seem la me to lz mcst mntrary to the Christian a=-&. ..not to speak<br />
directly to the person invalved, lmt to releae it first to the ~ Uic and to the secular<br />
mess, " Dilday said.<br />
"The wry ,fact h (Ebtterson) came to the oonferenoe armed with a secret tape remrder is<br />
to me an aaission a€ guilt," he added.<br />
Dilday said: "The fact he Irqht a recorder and secretly taped what was to be a<br />
aonfidential and prsoml aonfexene, accnrding to the (semimy) bylaws, witbut my permission<br />
CM hmledw is mther sign of behavim that is methical, dishmest ad Wlaristian.<br />
"Had I laown b did that, that also wdd have hen prt a€ the &arges koqht acpimt<br />
him for dismissal. It represents an action aqiletely contrary to the wwnant relationship we<br />
have here at Southwestern."<br />
--me
wet Ta$ng Called<br />
'Unethical, Disbmt'<br />
2<br />
Fallwing the failure aE the attempt to fire Patterson, Dilday said "the vice-~esidmt<br />
(Jdrm Nwprt),the dean a€ the school a€ theology (William Tdax) ad I set up what is called a<br />
ranedial mengagement &an. Sim we were within a few w e b UE the end ok the sanester, we<br />
did not fed it wise to pt him (Fbtterson) back into the dassracm."<br />
"We asked him b use the time to improw his classraan prfonnanae, to wrk on a<br />
scholarbxk not mmgeted even tbugh he has had several sabbtiaals to do so, a d to i m ~ w<br />
his &ur& prticiption. He was asked to report back, an3 the report ideates a a3ntinM<br />
lack of local, &ur& inwvement," Dilday said.<br />
He added Fhtterson "had hen assi~ped to te&ing in the sunmer term, but thxe plans are<br />
mw micertain kcawe aE this dewlopnmt ."<br />
AltkPrgh EBtterson, tknroqh his attorney, has askd Dilday to subnit to arlitration,<br />
Dilday has declind.<br />
-"This matter is mt persod, but an acaddc a d institutiornl anern. ' Therefme, it is<br />
not a matter af persoml arbitration," Dilday said. "It is a dear pooess by whi& the<br />
institution has dealt with a facdty menber wbe behavice: and prfomance has led to a<br />
reammendation a€ dismissal.<br />
"It is mt jmt the presidmt reammeding to dismiss lxlt was kroght by the academic<br />
affairs vice ~esidmt , the dean aE the sdxlol cb theology and reartmended to the Ward by the<br />
academic affairs camittee which mted 8 to 1 for his dismissal," Dilday said.<br />
He said the "mtrm and imrect report uf the action of his facdty oolleagues is only<br />
one a€ six very seriom charges. None d them lms hen answered in any way. These (the six<br />
chargas) re~esent the kird of perfamance which cmmt h tolerated in a s-1 that is<br />
eyipping and training ministers."<br />
Dilday said the dismissal ~ocess "has ben kardled pecisely the way the Wlws<br />
recmrmd' ad a-: "A mimrityaf the bxrd did mt deal with the &ages cr the<br />
dacunmtation. ' They dealt with the matter as a way of expessing di sagrement with the<br />
wesident. Their mte idicated they had mt dealt with the &arges agaimt the ~dasar."<br />
***********<br />
htterson Meno<br />
Sent To Faculty<br />
FORT WKTH, Wms (@)-A memararu3un frcm ~afessar Farrar Patterson Ins been distrihtd<br />
to the f acuty at Southestern &gist TWa$cal Seminary in Fort Wcath, Telcls .<br />
In the memmardun, dated May 14, ad a&-sad to "the facdty ad trmtees of<br />
Southvestern b#ist Sanimry, mtterson disc~sd his " lping puljlic in my defense cd the<br />
accusatiors by Dr. (Rmsell H.) Dilday Jr. (SWBTS president.)<br />
"I haw done so as I see it as the ofly way to b able to resprfi to mfmded &arges he<br />
(~ilday) has made pblicly agaimt me. I wry mudh want all a€ this a t cd the puhlic faun<br />
ad will cease talking to the pss if Dr. Dilday will do the same and will 9 into Christian<br />
arbitration," the memo says.<br />
Ehtterson, tkoqh his attorney, Walt Carpnter of Houston, has recpsted Dilday s a t m<br />
ar~tration throqh the Christian Reaonuliation Service a€ Dallas-Fat Worth.<br />
In the meno, Patterson wrote: "I =ry mu& regret it if any cmments tab out a€ context<br />
mayapar to be derogatory to any of wu as idividuals a as a group. My ~ouen is withDr.<br />
Dilday, persoyally, not any of pu and I bp it stays that way." He a& he suprts the<br />
etatemmts made by Carpenter b the press, "I have aamflete tape tsanscrigs aE what he said<br />
and will furnish any of pu a cnw if pu desire. If p u hear then, you will mderstard my<br />
position better and see that the above statenents are tru?."<br />
He says he "remrded the Jan, 14, <strong>1985</strong>, meeting with a small pocket sized remrder as Dr.<br />
D ilday advised me by phone that my job was at stab and daanded an imd ate meeting. As I<br />
p3raeiW this as a threat (with good reason as it turned out), I elected to reard it pely<br />
as a defense. I had rn intmtion aE releasing it to the Fess at that time."<br />
He adds: "I relezsed it to the ~ e s s as it was the orily way to skvvw Dr. Dilday's true<br />
motive in constant attach on me in the ~ e s s<br />
.I1 Patterson df ers to furnish a copy of the tap<br />
to f ellw faclilty menbers ad trustees. Ehptist Press mntacted Ebtterson May 17, but he<br />
declinsd to mmt "at this time." --3o--
Amther Tap Fuels<br />
Fi@t Amng Baptists<br />
A W m EwrGRrnD STORY<br />
Ba$ist Press<br />
5/17/8 5<br />
HOIISTCN (w)-Amt-r s-et tape has emerged in the struggle betwsen the moderate and<br />
f mdamentalist mnp3 in the Soclthem Baflist Comtion.<br />
A T e ~ Southern s Ba#ist seminary pafeesoar secxetly taped a mnersation in whi& Rwasell<br />
H. Dilday Jr., president a€ Soutkwastem Bagkist Tkrealogical Sdmry in Fort Warth, Texas,<br />
told the pxfessor k was lping to omt him frcm the factilty fa talking ~ivately with a<br />
leahr in the fmdamentalist wing.<br />
The secret tap, made with a microme mnealed on the ~ufesscr, was released to the<br />
Houston Chronicle May 9 by the pmfessar' s attorney, Walt Carpnter uf Howton. Carpenter said<br />
he released the tape to amter ments Dilday has made Wut why he is trying to fire the<br />
pruf essm , Farrar Patterson.<br />
Dilday has energsd as the key leader in the moderate wing of the convention, whi& is<br />
trying to turn tack the convation' s f mdamentalists, wlm in 1979 lamched a 10-year @an to<br />
mntrd the Southern Baeist Comtion. Dilday said he did mt bow Patterson kad taped the<br />
meeting. He added, "I haw rw> polilem with the mnwrsation king bwn, but it was a wry<br />
aon£idmtial meeting."<br />
Tkre attemged firing of the pufessca, whi& failed when Dilday did mt receiw t e thi rds<br />
support frm his bxrd of trustees, has bcrme a majm issm in the battle fca mntrol d the<br />
Southern Baptist Comtion.<br />
Dilday has charged Eatterson gaw illaccurate infarmation to W .O. Vaqht , an Arlensas<br />
Baptist gastor and fmdmentalist, about the seninary faculty's support fm Dilday's stad in<br />
the mnwation fi*t. TIE disagreement revolves wand a mte d facdty mankrs in suplprt cb<br />
Dilday' s stad. Dilday said fatterson told Vaqht the mte was mt ~~. Eatterson told<br />
Dilday he told Vaught the s d nary' s f acd ty does mt w x t him 100 peroent . He told Dilday<br />
the facdty mte did not involve the wlmle f acdty and sane f acaty manlsers Wtaind.<br />
the tap, Fhtterson told Dilday that facdty suppDrt fc~r him was mt manimam. "I<br />
that impression,"<br />
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.<br />
"The newspper (apprently the Fcrt Warth Star-Tdegrm ) presents tk f acd ty as being<br />
&mollsly behid Jpu, and they're mt, Dr. Dilday," Patterson said.<br />
Ih his eff arts to try to fire Patterson. Dilday also &aged Wtterson b s rsed p.cbanity<br />
and has mt been the kind of ~ofesscrr h wants CPI his faculty. Tbse charges are discwsed on<br />
the tap, but in a mudh 1-s momt af time than discu3sion also* Patterson's talk with<br />
Vaqht .<br />
Carpenter said Eattenon secretly taped the mnvzrsation kcawe he swpected Dilday was<br />
after him. Carpenter said the pdani ty harp, which has bemme the f ocm a€ the argunmt<br />
agsinst Patterson in the Baeist news media and in letters to the editor of the Tern Baeist<br />
Stardard, has exaggerated greatly and has lsearne a cmnadla~ f ca: the real reason Dilday<br />
has tried to fire Pattereon.<br />
EEe says Dilday is trying to fire Patterson 13eca-e Dilday c-t stand to ha= anyDne on<br />
his faculty who evesses an opinion di f femt f run Dilday' s. "The real isse here is that<br />
Rllssell Dilday wants the ri*t to speak out himself, but lm wants to deny that ri@t to others<br />
mr wbm kre has lewrage ," said Carpenter.<br />
--m-
Amtkrer Tape Fuels<br />
Ficjht Amng E?a#ists<br />
2<br />
Dilday denied Car~ter' s charges. "I mad mt lid t our facdty speaking their<br />
mnvictiom to peo@etW k said. "That' s mt within my power or anything I muld want to do.<br />
I ' w keen =king to potect our f acd ty f ran any kid of w-sie mntral lik that, ' Wt<br />
wuld mt be a reason far kinging action against a faculty menber."<br />
On the tap, Dilday spends much of the time di scwsing what Patterson told Vaught md only<br />
a Wid time discussing wofanity.<br />
mtterson adnits on the tap to using "Ml and &no' a few times lxlt said he has repented<br />
ad does mt use tkPse wards regdarly and bps to n-1: me than agsin. Fhtterson denies on<br />
the tap Dilday' s accmatiors that he and Dilday had an earlier mnfw-ation in 1978 in whid.1<br />
Fbtterson ~sed pofanity in front af him.<br />
Ibtterson tells Dilday on the tape that if he is ping to fire him far sing "hell and<br />
damn" that he must a1 so " fire a third of the f acd ty." Dilday respxds, "I wish I had the<br />
evidenae. If I did, I'd dD it."<br />
Carpnter says ~ilday'newr m d to fire Patterson over the Lse uf "hell ad damnt8 mtil<br />
Dilday di smwred Ehtterson had talk& to V a w , comidered a key leader f ca the<br />
f mdamentalists in Arbmas.<br />
Vaught l-as said ewrything Eatterson told him in the mnwrsatian aincides with what he<br />
has heard and read elsewhere, ad that W rot mnsider the infamation to hne secret<br />
ar imccurate. mtterson said on the tap the mnversation with Vaqht was incidental,<br />
un$annd ad nothing more than dmtter kt- friends. He said he never realized it muld<br />
Elm up into a majar &rmnimtioral issue.<br />
Carpenter said he is trying to use "bililiml ways" to fare Dilday to apologize to<br />
Patterson for "ruining his reptation." He said he has asked the Christian Reamciliation<br />
Service UE DalleFcwt Worth to try to arhitrate the situation. - That service arbitrates<br />
disptss betwen Ckistiat-s wko do not want to go to dvil mmt.<br />
&cause a€ all the strife in the Scuthern Baeist Comtion today, Carpnter said he is<br />
popsing the arbitrators arne fran Presbyterian, Ltrtheran, Met'lPdist a d other mwBagtist<br />
&urches. Dilday said he sees m reason faa s& arbitration.<br />
Carpenter said if all else fails and there is rn satisf actmy arlxitration, he may turn to<br />
the civil oourts. Hweww, he added, "No &cision has been ma&'' to sue Dilday.<br />
Carpenter said he bps by making the tap public arrd Irj going puhlic with his defense cd<br />
Patterson that Dilday will ceage attacking mtterson in speed.les across the mmtry. He<br />
declined to let Patterson be interviewed, saying he is waiting fa a maore opprtme manent.<br />
Meanwhile, a seminary trwtee, attorney Ral* W. -ley Jr. of Dallas has written a<br />
statement mi tiad a€ Dilday. He wrote, "The ~esident (Dililay) a-rently feds he
mylar President Refutes<br />
Ziglar Attack On University By Craig Bird<br />
mANm EmGRouND STORY<br />
Baptist Press<br />
6/25/85<br />
WACO, " Texas (BP)-Zig Ziglar's election as first vice president of the Southern Baptist<br />
Convention doesn' t make him knowledgeable abaut Baylor University, according to Herbert<br />
Reynolds, pxesident of the Baptist sdhool.<br />
'- The June 17 issue of the Dallas- Times Herald carried an intwview with Ziglar in which the<br />
motivatioml speaker critized tw Baylar ~~rofessors: a Monon teaching in the Spanisk<br />
Portuguese department and a religion professor who, he said, believes emlution played a part<br />
in the creation of the world.<br />
Reynolds, in a formal statement released by the Baylor public relations affice, answered<br />
the charges while discounting Ziglar's qmlificatiom as critic.<br />
Ziglar has "never ken on the Baylor camp to my hmledge," Reynolds said, but is part<br />
of a "pxiestly and self-anointed group" which "is smart amugh to know that if they can oontrol<br />
the educatioml system of Baptists and our piblishing houses, they can be effective in<br />
producing the kind of clones whidh will make willing followers of demaqxpes who seek to h g e<br />
the essential characterists of the Southrn Baptist llenominatim."<br />
Ziglar, who says he believes the Bible, "fran Genesis to map" has rat been a voting<br />
messenger to a national, state or association Southern Baptist convention prior to this year,<br />
according to the'Times-Herald, but said he decided to beacane involved recently after learning<br />
abxt the Bayla professors.<br />
He said he was asked to run for vice president af the SBC four to five months ago by a<br />
m&z of the inerrancy group within the anvention led by hige Patterson of Dallas and Fhul<br />
Pressler of Houston. Not long afterwards, he said, he was told, "I was the first &ice of Dr.<br />
Stanley" as a running mate.<br />
Wries Stanley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta, was elected president of the<br />
SBC on the first Wllot . Patterson is an associate pastor at First Baptist Chm& in Dallas<br />
where Ziglar is an active lay member.<br />
Ziglar urged that Rillip Johnson, a Mormon who has taught at Baylor since 1977, be<br />
removed frtm teaching duties. "I think since they've ma& the colossal mistake of putting him<br />
on tenure, he needs to be put in a caretaker psition or in the registration office, away from<br />
students," Ziglar said in the interview.<br />
Reynalds defended both Jdhnsm and the mnamed religion ~ofesscc, saying Ziglar "is a<br />
plitical candidate in terms of wr convention" whose ooncem is "to identify issues to attempt<br />
to discredit not only Baylor but our Baptist-related agencies."<br />
A Baylor policy against hiring Mormons went into effect in 1982 after the Southern Baptist<br />
Convention Fareign Mission Board den& Mormonim a "cult, " Reynolds said.<br />
--more--
Eaylcrr President Refutes<br />
ZigLar Attack On University<br />
"We are not ping to treat this individual to be the totality of Mormonim," he mntinued.<br />
"He has never in anyway tried to share his belief with anyone and he possesses a letter of<br />
instruction fran me that any such action would result in action being taken against him.<br />
"The best witness we can be is to treat him in a Christian fashion. He doesn't have a<br />
thing to do with religion. No Southern Baptists applied for the position."<br />
Reynolds also said Jcihnson, a Phi Beta Kapp s&olar, is very much respected by his<br />
students and faculty colleagues.<br />
"If Baylcr, as a 14Syear-old institution with 60,000 alumni, 10,000 students, 1,500<br />
faculty and staff and the mdergirding of three millioriTexas Southern Baptists is mt strong<br />
enough to prevail in the face af one single individual whose activities have been<br />
circlanscribd, we are not as strong as I fully believe ~ts to be," he added.<br />
- !Ibe religion ~ofessar, "who ks spoken of emlution in relation to God's revelation of<br />
His creation, has been a deeply ccmmitted Christian since he was a by, " Reynolds said. "He<br />
has never stated or alluded to the fact that there is any creation apart £ran Eod and makes it<br />
very clear he is ccrmmitted to 'the Bible as God's Holy Scripture given to us by<br />
revelation and inspired by the Holy wirit . ' 'I<br />
He and all rrresribers of the Baylor religion department voluntarily signed the Baptist Faith<br />
and Message in October 1979, Reynolds said.<br />
Ziglar told the Times-Herald he is convinced he has an important role to play in he 14-<br />
million member SBC. "Mostly I see myself as the individual who will reach the lay people, " he<br />
said. "I think God has put me in this psition for this purpose."<br />
Reynolds said, "I don't think he (Ziglar) is going to hve an impact on Baylor. He's a<br />
Jchnyccme-lately on the Baptist scene," but if the "group" of whi& he is a part is<br />
smessful, Reynolds warned, "our (bptists') historical camitment to the priest- of the<br />
believer would be replaced by the belief that we need a priestly group of inerrant interpreters<br />
because the rest of us are mt considered sufficiently capable of reading the Word of God far<br />
ourselves and responsible for our ck~n souls on that day of judgment when each of us must stand<br />
alone be£ ore Him. "<br />
--3%-