Pastor with Unification Church ties asks forgiveness from those ‘offended’
FRESNO, Calif. (BP)--A California pastor has asked for forgiveness for causing other Southern Baptists to be "offended or confused" by his involvement with an interfaith group sponsored by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.
FIRST PERSON: School violence should remind people that God is not mocked
FRESNO, Calif. (BP)--The first I heard of the shootings at Granite Hills High School in El Cajon was a phone call I received while putting the finishing touches on the current issue of the California Southern Baptist. It was the day before our printing deadline.
Calif. association pioneers intentional interim DOM process
WILLITS, Calif. (BP)–When California’s Mendo Lake Baptist Association asked James Morton to serve as director of missions, everyone involved agreed it would be a temporary situation. What no one realized was that in calling Morton, the association became the first in the Southern Baptist Convention to place an “intentional interim” in its top leadership post. […]
Calif. retains ‘Southern’ in name, affirms SBC statement of beliefs
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (BP)–The largest evangelical body in the nation’s most populous state will continue to be known as the California Southern Baptist Convention after a vote on whether to remove the word “Southern” failed for a second consecutive year. Messengers, meeting Nov. 14-15 in Riverside, also voted overwhelmingly to affirm the Baptist Faith and Message […]
Golden Gate prepares for possible staff layoffs in wake of defunding
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Facing the prospect of drastically reduced Cooperative Program support from Texas Baptists, officials at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary are eyeing staff layoffs and other cost-cutting steps before the end of 2000.
California Baptist Foundation reaches out to Ariz. Baptists
FRESNO, Calif. (BP)--Directors of the California Baptist Foundation agreed April 7 to assist the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention with some of the financial services formerly provided by the now-defunct Baptist Foundation of Arizona. The action came in response to a request from ASBC leaders, according to California foundation officials.
Golden Gate trustees elect VP, look to avoid year-end deficit
MILL VALLEY, Calif. (BP)--Financial concerns dominated the regular spring meeting of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary trustees May 1-2 in Mill Valley, Calif., with trustees hiring a vice president for institutional advancement and approving a $7.6 million budget for the 2000-01 fiscal year.
Church-sponsored conference urges Christians to ‘reclaim California’
HIGHLAND, Calif. (BP)--Churches share the blame for "the greatest moral issue in America" and must work harder to eliminate abortion, a Texas pastor said at a "Reclaiming California Conference" Feb. 5 organized by Immanuel Southern Baptist Church in Highland.
Future hinges on Prop. 22, California pastor warns
HIGHLAND, Calif. (BP)--The pastor of the host church for a "Reclaiming California Conference" said the Feb. 5 gathering was designed to raise churches' awareness about important issues on next month's California primary election ballot.
California Baptist name change falls short of two-thirds majority
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--The largest Baptist state convention in the West will keep the word "Southern" in its name for at least one more year, after messengers rejected a bid to remove it at the 1999 annual meeting of the California Southern Baptist Convention.
