N.C. Baptists to decide on unified giving plan
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--While the incorporation of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina will be one of the main items on the agenda at next week’s state convention in Winston-Salem, there could be much discussion on a motion to change four giving plans to one.
Stone seeks to restore traditional Cooperative Program in N.C.
DURHAM, N.C.(BP)--Ted Stone, president of Durham, N.C.-based Ted Stone Ministries, announced Oct. 28 that he will introduce a motion to restore the single giving plan of the traditional Cooperative Program as the sole method of funding missions outreach by Baptists in North Carolina. Stone said he plans to push for passage of his initiative during the upcoming annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.
Lewis Drummond’s heart for God & His people remembered
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (BP)--One by one, they came to speak about Lewis A. (Louie) Drummond in the chapel at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove. And each person said the same thing about the scholar, evangelist and fourth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary: He was an encourager whose support for his students, laymen and theologians reached the highest level.
NEW BIRTH: From hockey to hope, home & heaven
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--As the 2003-04 National Hockey League season opened in early October, I sat down in front of my television with keen interest.
SBC leaders agree Akin is great choice for Southeastern
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--The sentiment among Southern Baptist Convention leaders is clear: Daniel L. Akin would be an excellent choice as the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Akin is committee’s nominee as Southeastern’s sixth president
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| Daniel Akin |
The board will meet in special session on Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. at the school's Wake Forest, N.C., campus to vote on Akin.
"Dr. Akin is a man with great vision, keen insight and spiritual understanding," said Timothy D. Lewis, chairman of the search committee as well as the head of Southeastern's board of trustees. "His enthusiasm is contagious and genuine. We do not feel any other man in Southern Baptist life could better follow [former President] Dr. [Paige] Patterson than Dr. Daniel Akin."
N.C. Baptists tap conservatives to lead for 9th consecutive year
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (BP)--For the ninth straight year, North Carolina Baptists elected a conservative as president at their annual meeting, Nov. 10-12 at Winston-Salem's Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
N.C. convention president remembered as peacemaker
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| Jerry Pereira, 1953-2003 |
The Nov. 10-12 annual meeting, however, also has been a celebration of Pereira's life. The overriding description of Pereira among attendees is that he was a man of God who could bring both sides of convention debate together.
Committee begins search for next Southeastern president
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--The search for a new president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary to replace Paige Patterson began July 22 with the first meeting of a nine-member search committee.
Awards, new campus center to carry Pattersons’ name
WAKE FOREST, N.C. (BP)--The Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's board of trustees honored outgoing President Paige Patterson and his wife, Dorothy, the evening of July 21 by naming two honors after them, as well as putting their family name on a planned campus center.
