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TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 15, 2021 8:00 Worship // Branden Williams, Convention Music Director; Worship Leader, the Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina 2021 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION DAILY BULLETIN 97TH VOLUME | MUSIC CITY CENTER, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE | JUNE 15–16, 2021 WELCOME TO PROPOSED ORDER OF BUSINESS TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 15, 2021 8:00 Worship // Branden Williams, Convention music director; worship leader, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina 8:20 Prayer // Randy Davis, executive director, Tennessee Welcome to the 2021 Annual Meeting of Great Commission Baptist Mission Board, Franklin, Tennessee Baptists! These two days have, for years, represented one of my favorite events of the year because of what our cooperation 8:25 Welcome and Call to Order // J. D. Greear, SBC president; accomplishes. At our largest Annual Meeting in over a decade, pastor, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina we have the opportunity not just to do business together, but to further our cooperative efforts to reach the world with the 8:40 Registration Report and Constitution of Convention // gospel. Don Currence, acting SBC registration secretary; administrative pastor, First Baptist Church, Ozark, This moment is particularly sweet to me because of what we’ve endured over the past year. Last March kicked off the most Missouri challenging seasons of ministry I’ve ever gone through. I know 8:45 Committee on Order of Business Report (First) // I’m not alone in that. God has been faithful over the past year, Adam W. Greenway, chair; president, The Southwestern but it has been faithfulness in the midst of difficulty, confusion, Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas and pain. J. D. Greear; Chaplain Major As disorienting as the last year has been, however, it has reminded 8:50 Celebrating Freedom // me that what matters most hasn’t changed at all. Whether in a General Doug Carver, US Army retired, executive director time of plague or of prosperity, what our neighbors need most of chaplaincy, North American Mission Board, Alpharetta, is the message of the gospel. What we, as a Convention, need Georgia most is unity around the gospel. COVID-19 might have turned 9:00 Recognition of Past Presidents our world upside-down, but the gospel is still our true north. It always has been. It always will be. 9:10 GuideStone Financial Resources Report // Would you join me in asking God to bless our time this week? O. S. Hawkins, president and CEO, GuideStone Financial Pray that God would drive the gospel deeper into our hearts, Resources, Dallas, Texas drive us into a new level of unity unexplainable except through 9:28 Introduction of New Motions (First) // J. D. Greear the work of the Holy Spirit, and that through us, He would spread the gospel wider into the world! 9:48 Executive Committee Report (Part 1) // Ronnie W. Floyd, J. D. Greear president and CEO, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee President, Great Commission Baptists (schedule continues on page 2) INSIDE THIS BULLETIN 2021 SBC Officers and Committees .............................................29 General Announcements ...............................................................31 Committee on Committees Report ................................................20 General Information ........................................................................5 Committee on Nominations Report 2020 .....................................21 Messenger Information ...................................................................4 Committee on Nominations Report 2021 .....................................24 Proposed Order of Business ............................................................1 Events Calendar ............................................................................32 Resolutions ......................................................................................6 176TH YEAR OF EXISTENCE | SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION | 163RD ANNUAL MEETING Page 2 SBC BULLETIN Tuesday, June 15, 2021 TUESDAY MORNING JUNE 15, 2021 (CONTINUED) 10:33 North American Mission Board Crossover Report & Presentation // Kevin Ezell, president, North American Mission Board, Alpharetta, Georgia; Johnny Hunt, senior vice president for evangelism and leadership, North American Mission Board, Alpharetta, Georgia 10:45 North American Mission Board Report // Kevin Ezell 11:03 Worship // Branden Williams 11:20 President’s Address // J. D. Greear 12:00 Closing Prayer // Morris Chapman, president emeritus, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee TUESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 15, 2021 2:00 Worship // Branden Williams, Convention music director; worship pastor, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina 2:12 Prayer // Michael Catt, retired senior pastor, Sherwood Baptist Church, Albany, Georgia; Derrick DeLain, lead pastor, Proclamation Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2:15 Election of Officers (First) 2:30 Executive Committee Report (Part 2) // Ronnie W. Floyd, president and CEO, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee 3:30 Committee on Resolutions Report (Part 1) // James Merritt, chair; pastor, Cross Pointe Church, Duluth, Georgia 4:00 Election of Officers (Second) 4:10 Introduction of New Motions (Second) 4:30 International Mission Board Report // Paul Chitwood, president, International Mission Board, Richmond, Virginia 4:48 IMB Global Highlights // Paul Chitwood 5:03 Election of Officers (Third) 5:20 Committee on Resolutions Report (Part 2) // James Merritt 5:50 Miscellaneous Business 6:00 Election of Officers (Fourth) 6:10 Committee on Order of Business Report (Second) // Adam W. Greenway, chair; president, The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas 6:25 Election of Officers (Fifth) 6:30 Closing Prayer // Lilly H. Park, associate professor of biblical counseling, The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas (schedule continues on next page) Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers. All music and words used by permission. CCLI License No. 645251; Artwork courtesy of Vecteezy.com Tuesday, June 15, 2021 SBC BULLETIN Page 3 WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 16, 2021 8:00 Worship // Branden Williams, Convention music director; 9:15 Joint Seminary Reports // worship pastor, The Summit Church, Durham, North Jeff Iorg, president, Gateway Seminary of the Southern Carolina Baptist Convention, Ontario, California; Jason K. Allen, president, Midwestern Baptist Theological 8:15 Prayer // Sarah Farley, student mobilization associate, Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri; International Mission Board, Richmond, Virginia James K. Dew Jr., president, New Orleans Baptist 8:20 Send Relief Theological Seminary, New Orleans, Louisiana; Daniel L. Akin, president, Southeastern Baptist Theological 8:30 Committee on Order of Business Report (Third) // Seminary, Wake Forest, North Carolina; Adam W. Greenway, chair; president, The Southwestern R. Albert Mohler Jr., president, The Southern Baptist Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; 8:40 Previously Scheduled Business Adam W. Greenway, president, The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas 8:50 Committee on Committees Report // Meredith Cook, chair, Neartown Church, Houston, Texas 11:03 Worship // Branden Williams 9:00 Committee on Nominations Report // Andrew Hopper, 11:15 Convention Sermon // Willy Rice, senior pastor, Calvary chair; lead pastor, Mercy Hill Church, Greensboro, North Church, Clearwater, Florida Carolina 11:55 Prayer // Rebeca Garayalde, La Iglesia Bautista Misionera, Ponce, Puerto Rico WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 16, 2021 2:30 Worship // Branden Williams, Convention music director; worship pastor, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina 2:55 Prayer // Kason Branch, lead pastor, Creekstone Church, Keller, Texas 3:00 Panel // Go2 Panel 3:30 Previously Scheduled Business 3:50 Committee on Order of Business Report (Fourth) // Adam W. Greenway, chair; president, The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas Election of 2022 Convention Preacher, Alternate Preacher, and Music Director 4:00 The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission Report // Daniel Patterson, acting president, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Nashville, Tennessee 4:18 Lifeway Christian Resources Report // Ben Mandrell, president and CEO, Lifeway Christian Resources, Nashville, Tennessee 4:36 Woman’s Missionary Union Report // Sandra Wisdom-Martin, executive director-treasurer, Woman’s Missionary Union, Birmingham, Alabama 4:48 Presentation of Officers // Ronnie W. Floyd, president and CEO, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee 4:55 Hand off to Anaheim 5:00 Closing Prayer // James Westbrook, lead pastor, Realm Church, Oakland, California Page 4 SBC BULLETIN Tuesday, June 15, 2021 MESSENGER INFORMATION TO MAKE A MOTION HELPFUL TERMINOLOGY 1. Write your motion legibly. (If the motion is spontaneous MOTION – A motion calls for specific action by the Southern and you do not have time to write it before presenting it to the Baptist Convention or requests specific action by one or more Convention at a hall microphone, write the motion, as you stated of its entities. A motion normally begins with “I move that. ” it, before leaving the microphone area). See column to left for instructions on how to make a motion. 2. Go to a floor microphone at a time when motions are being POINT OF ORDER – A point of order calls the attention of the considered. chair to a violation of the Convention’s rules and
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