2004 SBC Annual Meeting News

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--During the business session of the WMU Missions Celebration and Annual Meeting June 13-14 in Indianapolis, Kathy Robinson Hillman of Waco, Texas, was elected recording secretary for national WMU, succeeding Yolanda Calderon of Modesto, Calif., who served as recording secretary for the past four years.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Alpha Goombi was 27 years old when she became a Christian. It would not have happened, she said, if a missionary had not been sent to her region with Annie Armstrong and Cooperative Program funds to lead her to Christ.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Caroline Jones, multicultural ministry consultant for the national Woman's Missionary Union, was elected to serve as secretary for the executive committee of the National Fellowship of Hispanic Southern Baptist Churches during their annual meeting June 13.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Bill Crews, chancellor of Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, introduced the seminary’s president-elect, Jeff Iorg, to messengers during the GGBTS report at the Southern Baptist Convention June 15-16 in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--The life of every Christian should be characterized by a desire to share the message of Jesus Christ with lost men and women, said Franklin Graham, the closing speaker at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Indianapolis.
      The Gaither Vocal Band, the four-member vocal group led by Gospel music legend Bill Gaither, preceded the message by Graham, who is president and CEO of both Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
      The main task of believers, Graham said in preaching from Acts 1:8 and Galatians 1-2, is telling people about the truth of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Morris H. Chapman, president of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, used the themes of conviction, cooperation and character, June 15, to celebrate the success of the conservative resurgence and to call for broadening the tent of participation in the convention.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary President Chuck Kelley told alumni June 16 that seminary trustees plan on giving Southern Baptist Convention messengers two options on sole membership next year.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--"God is doing amazing things on the campus of your seminary in New Orleans," Chuck Kelley told messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention during the evening session June 15. "Living on the campus is something like living inside a miracle."

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary's commitment to missions and world evangelism is perhaps best exemplified by Southeastern graduate Larry Elliott, his wife Jean and the other two Southern Baptist missionaries martyred in Iraq on March 15, Daniel Akin said in his report to the Southern Baptist Convention.

INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary will continue to wed the heart, head and hands of students to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth, Daniel Akin said in his first address as SEBTS president to the seminary’s annual alumni and friends luncheon.