2011 State Annual Meeting Roundup

New Mexico Baptists were urged repeatedly to get on God's "Highway to Holiness" during the annual meeting of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Farmington Oct. 25-26.

FREMONT, Calif. (BP) — Messengers to the California Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting celebrated church starting and referred the Focus 21 Task Force report to the CSBC Executive Board. Messengers also approved a lower budget and Cooperative Program objective for the second consecutive year during the Oct. 25-26 sessions at held at New Life Church […]

AMARILLO, Texas (BP) -- Messengers to the Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting, Oct. 24-26 at the Amarillo Civic Center, approved a new agreement that gives Baylor University more influence on who the convention nominates to serve on the university's board of regents.

NORTH POLE, Alaska (BP) — Messengers to the 66th annual meeting of the Alaska Baptist Convention reduced their 2012 budget by 14.6 percent. The convention approved a $1.8 million budget for next year with an anticipated $720,322 in Cooperative Program receipts from the 100 churches in the state. Thirty-nine percent of the budget will come […]

BILLINGS, MONT. (BP) — Nearly 100 messengers from 65 of Montana’s 135 Southern Baptist churches and missions voted at their annual meeting for the 2020 Vision developed over the summer by pastors and leaders from across the state. The annual meeting, with “Whatever it takes” as its theme, also celebrated the fellowship within the Montana […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (BP) — The last of the disaster relief volunteers who responded to this summer’s massive flooding in Minot, N.D., ended their work on the first day of the Dakota Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. The DBC’s opening session included a time of appreciation for the hundreds of DR-trained feeding, mud-out, shower/laundry and chaplain […]