2011 State Annual Meeting Roundup

O’FALLON, Ill. (BP) — “Churches Cooperating” was the theme of the Illinois Baptist State Association’s 105th annual meeting, Nov. 2-3 at First Baptist Church in O’Fallon, Ill. Throughout the two-day meeting, IBSA Executive Director Nate Adams interviewed seven pastors about their commitments to the Cooperative Program. During the Wednesday evening worship celebration, churches were challenged […]

WARREN, Mich. (BP) — Messengers to the 54th annual meeting of the Baptist State Convention of Michigan approved a new strategic plan for refocusing and restructuring the convention for greater effectiveness in the future. A total of 223 messengers and 48 guests from 13 of 15 of the state’s associations and 91 of 293 congregations […]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (BP) — Messengers to the 158th annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention retained a $21.5 million budget for 2012 and celebrated the theme “GO! Across the Street, Across Arkansas, Across the World.” Messengers approved a 2012 budget of $21,496,500, which includes $9,194,053 (42.77 percent) for Southern Baptist Convention causes and […]

JACKSON, Miss. (BP) — Messengers to the Mississippi Baptist Convention unanimously passed a resolution supporting a constitutional amendment that would have defined human life as beginning at conception. The resolution, passed during the 176th annual meeting Nov. 1-2 at First Baptist Church in Jackson, called on Mississippi Baptists to vote yes on the Personhood Amendment […]

RICHMOND, Va. (BP) — Messengers to the Baptist General Association of Virginia elected the state association’s first black president, Mark Croston, during its Nov. 8-9 annual meeting in Richmond, Va. They also restored ties with Averett University in Danville, Va., and adopted a reduced budget for 2012. Croston, pastor of East End Baptist Church in […]

DENVER (BP) — The Colorado Baptist General Convention focused on unreached people groups, church planting and a desire to move toward a 50/50 split of Cooperative Program receipts during its 56th annual meeting in Denver. With the theme “Engage: North America, the Ends of the Earth, Colorado,” 176 messengers from 81 Colorado Baptist churches gathered […]

MONTICELLO, Ind. (BP) -- The State Convention of Baptists in Indiana marked two key events in less than a month -- convening their 53rd annual meeting and welcoming Cecil Seagle as the SBCI's sixth executive director.

WATERTOWN, N.Y. (BP) — Messengers to the annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New York adopted a pared-down 2012 budget, though it increases contributions to national and international mission causes, and approved a motion to establish a “Vision Task Force” charged with strengthening the BCNY and maximizing its support for church and associations. The […]

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (BP) — John Yeats, in his first address as executive director to messengers of the Missouri Baptist Convention, identified seven core functions of a state convention. Yeats said he had come to seek good, referencing Amos 5:14 (“Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord, the God […]

OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (BP) — Messengers to the 177th annual meeting of the Missouri Baptist Convention installed a new executive director, approved a $14.5 million budget and passed resolutions praising the Missouri General Assembly for passing several pro-life, pro-family bills in 2011. John Yeats, who was elected with 92 percent of the vote by the […]