N.M. Baptists emphasize ‘Building the Family’
BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (BP)--Baptists from throughout New Mexico rallied around the theme “Building the Family” during the 94th annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico.
FIRST-PERSON: From personal experience
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| John Loudat |
N.M. convention thanks Cone for 20 years as executive director
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (BP)--New Mexico Baptists showered the state convention's executive director with their expressions of love, appreciation and support during their Oct. 26-27 annual meeting in Alamogordo.
At 20-year mark, Claude Cone to retire as N.M. executive
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| Claude Cone |
Cone, 68, announced his retirement during the quarterly meeting of the convention’s executive board, July 12 in Albuquerque.
His tenure is the second-longest in the 93-year history of the convention, after Harry P. Stagg, who was BCNM corresponding secretary-treasurer from 1938-68.
N.M. attorney general derails petitions against ‘gay-rights law’
ALBUQUERQUE (BP)--New Mexico’s attorney general, in a reversal, has declared that the state’s “gay-rights law” cannot be challenged by voters during this year’s general election.
FIRST-PERSON: Same-Sex ‘marriage’ isn’t marriage
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP)--This week I've been collecting my thoughts and information on three topics I wanted to address in this column in coming weeks.
FIRST-PERSON: Same-Sex ‘marriage’ isn’t marriage
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (BP)--This week I've been collecting my thoughts and information on three topics I wanted to address in this column in coming weeks.
N.M. Baptists hope to send more than 350 to Bangkok
ROSWELL, N.M. (BP)--Their attention was 10 time zones away, in Thailand, when messengers gathered for the 91st annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico Oct. 28-29 in Roswell, N.M.
Pioneering Albuquerque church celebrates its 150th birthday
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| Celebrating the 150th PFrom left, Steve Taylor, pastor of First Baptist Church in Albuquerque, church administrator Keith Weathersby and members Susan Weathersby and Frank Gilmer dressed in period attire for the 150th anniversary of the New Mexico church's founding. Taylor and Weathersby also grew beards, akin to the beard the church's founding pastor had. Photo courtesy of the Baptist New Mexican |
Pastor Steve Taylor's words were reminiscent of those of the church's first pastor, Hiram Walter Read, who said, "Deo Volente (God willing), it is here to stay so long as the Rio Grande flows and the adjacent mountains abide."
