2010 SBC Annual Meeting News

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Dorothy Kelley Patterson was honored with the 2010 Willie Turner Dawson Award during the Ministers’ Wives Conference June 15 at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Orlando, Fla. Patterson, professor of theology in women’s studies at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, has been training ministry wives for years as she has […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Bobbye Rankin offered the Pastors’ Wives Conference of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Pastors’ Conference the same source of help she’s shared for the past 17 years to encourage missionaries on international fields: strength from the Word of God. Quoting from memory the entire 84th Psalm, Rankin affirmed the writer’s desire to dwell in […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Fellowship and campus updates highlighted the alumni luncheons hosted by Southern Baptist Convention seminaries June 16 during the SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Following are reports from the luncheons. GOLDEN GATE — Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary honored Floyd Michael Story and Benny Wong with Distinguished Alumni Awards at the seminary’s annual […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Mary Lou Serratt of Amarillo, Texas, received the Dellanna West O’Brien Award and Joy Cranford of Fort Mill, S.C., received the Martha Myers GA Alumna of Distinction Award June 14 during the annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Union in Orlando, Fla. In receiving the Dellanna West O’Brien Award for Women’s Leadership Development, […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–God has not turned His back on the Jewish people, Bruce Mills told members of the Southern Baptist Messianic Fellowship June 12 in Orlando, Fla. Explaining that the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) “came from a Jew to Jews,” Mills said that God still loves the Jewish people and that “all Israel will be […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Interest in the Great Commission Resurgence helped fuel a great attendance resurgence at the 2010 annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention June 15-16 in Orlando, Fla. This year’s unofficial messenger count was 11,070, compared to last year’s 8,790, SBC registration secretary Jim Wells told Baptist Press. Wells said a family friendly convention […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--Preachers today are like Richard the Lionheart, who in 1191 could not win a victory of his own, but instead compromised with his enemy, according to Florida pastor Mac Brunson in his convention sermon June 16 to messengers at the SBC annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.       Brunson, pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, recounted that Richard the Lionheart, king of England, could not re-take Jerusalem from his Muslim counterpart, Saladin, during the Third Crusade after he angered all his allies over differences in how to display his flag. Left to fight alone, Richard eventually negotiated with the enemy to open the city for every faith, disguised himself and fled to Austria.       "I'm afraid that in our convention and across the ministry today we are far better preachers at battling one another than at battling our enemy," Brunson said.       Describing a biblical confrontation in John 3 when two disciples were baptizing in the Jordan River and a "debate" arose, Brunson noted that even the disciples had competition and dissension.       Brunson cited a study by Kenneth Chafin, a late seminary professor and pastor, who said he discovered pastors "tend toward the negative, they are highly competitive, and they don't like preachers."

ORLANDO, Fla., (BP)--Evangelist Tony Nolan told messengers that salvation in Jesus Christ took him "from being a sinking ship to being a workmanship" during the closing sermon at the Southern Baptist Convention ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--After months of debate, Southern Baptist Convention messengers meeting June 15-16 easily adopted an amended version of the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report and also elected a new president, Bryant Wright.

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Wanda S. Lee, executive director/treasurer of Woman’s Missionary Union, introduced Debby Akerman as the newly elected president of national WMU during her report at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention June 16 in Orlando, Fla. Lee also announced changes in missions curriculum for preschoolers and teen girls. Akerman, a member of […]