SBC CONVENTION STORIES

St. Louis 1980

Anders Theme Interpretation -- 62 Election of First VP -- 100 Election -- 85 Baptist Runs Arch -- 32 Emergency Notification System -- 95 Bates, Carl Address -- 72 Evangelism/Sun. School Sec. Meeting -- 116 BFMF Flap -- 70 Evangelists Wrapup -- 28 BP for June 11 -- 81 Executive Committee -- 126 BP for June 10 -- 73 Executive Comm. Report, Part 1 -- 108 BP for June 10 -- 75 Executive Committee Officers -- 30 BP for June 11 -- 79 Executive Comm./Stewardship Comm. Reports -- 105 BP for June 8 - - 78 BP for June 9 -- 76 Federal Pension Laws -- 57 BP for June 12 -- 80 First VP Nominations -- 89 BP for June 9 -- 77 First Resolutions -- 106 BPRA Awards -- 34 Foreign Mission Reception -- 29 Brooks, Webster Feature -- 26 Foreign Mission/Serninary Reports -- 97 Business, Miscellaneous -- 88 Former Presidents and Theme Interp. -- 47 Fort Presentation -- 96 Campus Ministers Monday -- 125 Four-month extension on tax -- 101 Campus Ministers, Sunday -- 4 Freebies Feature -- 114 Campus Ministers Wrapup -- 146 Tuesday Opening Session -- 117 Golden Gate Alumni Meet -- 22 Committee on Committees Changes -- 148 Committee on Committees/Boards -- 13 Home Missionary Reception -- 27 Convention Sermon -- 21 HMB/Sunday School Board Reports -- 49 Correction -- 55 Correction -- 60 Kaemmerling Resignation -- 46 Correction -- 82 Kid's Eye View of the SBC -- 51 Correction -- 83 Correction -- 92 Latest Communication Advances -- 143 Correction -- 113 Lindsell Press Conference -- 12 Correction -- 124 Lottie Moon Feature -- 112 Correction -- 147 Cutlines -- 14 Martin, Dan Appointed News Editor -- 119 Cutlines -- 20 Messengers disqualified -- 68 Cutlines -- 56 Midwestern Seminary Luncheon -- 24 Cutlines -- 58 Miscellaneous Business Session -- 8 Cutlines -- 74 Moon descendents feature -- 109 Cutlines -- 93 Music Conf. Roundup -- 137 Cutlines -- 98 Music Evangelists -- 18 Cutlines -- 122 Music Conference, Sunday -- 7 Cutlines -- 145 Music Conf., Monday am -- 130 Directors of Missions Roundup -- 129 National Deacons' Rally -- 5 Disqualification, More on -- 71 New Agency Heads Feature -- 16 Draper/Parterson Messages -- 39 Note to Editors and Reporters -- 52

Olford Sermon -- 50 Parks, Keith Speaks to W Monday Night -- 138 Pastors' Conf. Election -- 132 Pastors' Conference, Sunday Night -- 43 Pastorst Conf., Monday -- 135 Pastors' Conf., Sunday Night -- 149 Pastors' Conf. Roundup -- 139 Pastors' Conf., Monday afternoon -- 127 Pastorst Wives' Conference -- 87 Pastors' Conf., Final Session -- 141 Patterson/Draper Messages -- 39 SBC Day Camp - - 23 Photo Caption -- 2 Second VP Election -- 25 Photo Schedule -- 61 Second VP decries "Liberals" -- 41 Presidential Nomination -- 91 Second VP Nonimations -- 15 Press Kit Insert -- 53 Seminary Course Feature -- 103 Putting A Convention Together -- 35 Smith Press Conference -- 19 Smith, Bailey Bio Sketch -- 94 Radio/TV, Brotherhood Reports -- 11 Smith, Sandra Interview -- 104 Religious Education, Monday night -- 140 Southeastern Seminary Luncheon -- 36 Religious Education, Monday -- 134 Southern Seminary Luncheon -- 48 Religious Education, Sunday -- 6 Southwestern Alunmi Luncheon -- 37 Religious Education Roundup -- 136 Southwestern Trustees Meeting -- 31 search Fellowship -- 40 Speech Writer Feature -- 121 solution from Editors -- 144 State Evangelists -- 3 Resolutions, Thursday morning -- 66 Stewardship Comm./Executive Comm. Reports -- 105 Resolutions, Thursday Afternoon -- 86 Resolutions Rationale -- 64 Thursday Afternoon Agency Reports - - 65 Resolutions/Misc. Business -- 102 Thursday Morning Reports -- 54 Resolutions, Thursday afternoon -- 67 Thursday AM Theme 1nterp.-Drumwright -- 59 Resolutions, First Report -- 9 Tuesday AM Miscellaneous Business -- 111 Rogers, Joyce Feature -- 115 Tuesday Night Session -- 99 Rogers' Address -- 107 Tuesday Opening Session, Morris Chapman -- 117 Round up for Wednesday AMS -- 118 Tuesday PM Theme Intrepretation -- 90 Roundup for Monday AM -- 42 Roundup for Tuesday AMS -- 120 Update on Pension Legislation -- 63 Roundup for Friday AMS -- 14 I Roundup for Wednesday AMS -- 110 Walsh Response -- 131 Roundup for Thrusday PMS -- 33 Wednesday AM Theme Interpretation -- 17 Roundup for Thursday AM - - 10 WMU, Monday morning -- 133 Roundup for Tuesday PMS -- 128 WMU Opening Session -- 1 Roundup for Monday PMS -- 38 fJMU Monday Afternoon -- 123 WMU Change -- 45 WKU Wrapup - - 142 WMU Executive Board Meeting -- 84 Wrap-up -- 69 8- - 1-1 . . I - Ce~antesConvention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" WYU Opening Session For Imediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June &The director of family and special moral concerns for the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission described as b1 ind seerssunday afternoon those who say the famfly is doomed.

Harry H. Hollis Jr. of tashville replaced Varvard theologian Iiarvey Cox as the feature speaker at the opening sessian of !!oman's I!issionay Union after Cox reportedly suffered a serious back injury. Follis, associate executive director of the Baptist social action agency, told a crowd of about 15'70 in Kiel Audi toriur the faaily is not poino to die despite the predictions of some writers.

"It will continue to survive because the family is a part of God's providence for ordering human 1ife," said t:oll is. Then he rapped the "pied pipers of irrsr,oralit.y who trade marriage for adultery and then seek to draw a1 1 of us into their misery."

He cautioned his listeners not to be seduceci by "talk show qurus who propose novel a1 ternatives to the family as an attention-petting device in order to sell the1r latest books."

IJoting that many families are in serious trouble, Hollis said society is suffer- ing from a "battered family syndrome." He said the church is the best friend the family has in society because "the family is God's idea . . . part of his plan for enrichment of our lives." Rollfs said churches are requlred to respond to the family as God's institution and quoted 1 Timothy 5:8: "If any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is yorse than an infidel ." "It makes heretics of those who !*#rap tkemselves In doctrinal correctness and deny their families," said Hollis. Then, in an apparent reference to the inerrancy controversy that grabbed head1ines at the last South~rnZaptist Conventior! and threatens to be an issue this year, Wcllis said, "It's not difficult to debate the Rible. I*fhat's touah is livinc the Pible."

Hollis said churches should help famflies in dealina wf th economic problems, violence In society, problems at home and abroad and sex miseducation on television. "Yhat television is doing to the family sometimes is a prime time crime." Hollis recalled that nobody seemed to have time to "reach out to help a quiet youncster from a troubled famfly in iiollls' hometown of itlev Orleans. One day in Callas the same young man, Lee Harvey Osrald, assassinated the President of the United States. "Iffamilies in his home town had reached out to Oswald," said Hot1 is, "~ulciit have chanqed the course of history?" The women's organization was one of eipht Paptist croups meeting here in advance of the Southern Eaptist Convention rlhich starts a three-day conference Tuesday at Cervantes Con- vention Center. -30- ey 3rville Scott--5:55 p.m. Sunday * I Photo Captjon 1 For Your Information

PHOTO 1 -- Rogers and Family Highlight HMO Program -- Southsrn Baptist Convention President Adrian Rogers (left), wife, Joyce (center), and daughter, Janice, were among four families featured on the program of the '.!omen's Missionary Union annual meeting. Rogers is pastor of the Be1 levue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn. Janice attends Mid-South Bible College in Memphis. Photo by Hark Sandlin.

PHOTO 2 -- Life Changing Commitments -- 1500 women reglstercd for the national annual meetina of the Yomen's Missionary Union, June 8-9 at Kiel Auditorium in St, Louis. The meeting, which preceded the Southern Baptist Convention, featured the theme, Life Changing Commit- t:: ments. Pictured from left are, Evelyn Blount, assistant to Education Division Director,

!JtlU, and the Barron Family, son Stephen, Mr. and Mrs. James Earron, Mrs. Mozelle Pierson, mother of Mrs. Barron, and daughter Angela. The Barrons serve as foreign missionaries in Accra, Ghana, Nest Africa. Photo by Nark Sandlin. -30- &antes convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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''That We May Boldly Say"

State Evangelists For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 9--The Association of State Evangelism Directors (Southern Baptist) pledged their support to Bold Mission Thrust in its first annual meeting Sunday niqht at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel.

Leonard Sanderson of Alexandria, La., president of the 32-member group, said the evangelists will give strong, aggressive leadership in their states to the plan to make tho gospel avai I able to everyone in the world by the year 2000. The evangelists adopted the following statement: "Because of our unique position as evangelists and elected leaders in evangelism in Southern Baptist life, we wish to make bold our convictions about the Southern Baptist plan to get the gospel to every person in the wrld in the next 20 years. "In addition to giving strong ;.aggressive .leadersh!p: to .Bold Mis$.ioas in our:,respec- tive states, we agree to affirm C. 0. Hogue, our national leader in evangel ism, and assure him of our support,

"We affirm each other in our desire to see people come to Christ in other states as much as in our own. Ye affirm the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention with all the boards and agencfes as they give leadership to Bold Mission Thrust and pledge our willingness to go beyond the routine call of duty, first in regular intercessory prayer for Bold Mission Thrust, and second, to offer our service in whatever strategy or plan of action God leads us to." The session included an address on "Bold Mission Is of God" by James H. Smith, execu- tive diractor of the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Commission, Memphis.

By Roy Jennings--10:30 a.m. Monday - VE-- . .-..-. *t .. Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography' St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Sunday Campus Hinis ters For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 8--All people everywhere deserve the right to food, because God places value on every human life, social action speclalist James Dunn of Dallas told Southern Eaptist Campus ministers Sunday at the opening session of their fourth annual meeting at Stouffer's Riverfront Inn,

"The sacredness of 1 ife is basic," said Dunn, executive director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Comission. "God's love for a1 1 mankind is the starting place" for elimi na ting hunger.

"!4ore people are hungry today than ever before," Dunn reported. lie said that more than half the world's hungry are children under five years of age, that 800 million people live in "absolute poverty ,I' and that at least one-eighth of the world's population suffers "debil itating malnutrition."

Dunn cited the Presidential Cormission on !brld Hunrer who said there were no physical or natural reasons why a11 the men, women and cSildrer, in the world cannot have enough food to eat.

"Starvation of humans clearly is a moral and ethical issue," Dunn said, "because its solution 1 ies well within the capability of nations ?lorkin! alone and together."

Yet most Americans are powerless to rectify the situation because they are "massively ignorant" fn renard to world hunoer, Ounn added. "Of those questioned about foreion aid and respondinn neyatively to the very idea, 98 percent do not have the slightest idea what is non heing spent or hol:! it is being spent," Dunn contended.

"Seventy percent of kericans prefer development assistance in favor of military aid, and 80 percent of Americans favor maintaining our food aid level or increasing it," he added. "The same bunch of folks.,,want us to spend more on the fiilitary, but do rare development aid." Besides political ignorance, Dunn sairi Americans contribute to world hunqer by practic- in? theological immaturity. "A careful examination of our operating theology--not what re say, but what we do--1s frightenin?," he claimed. "It is revealing to test what we think we believe about God by the way we spend our time, money an:! energy." He also said excessive arms spendinfr contributes to the hunger problem,

"Today, defense spendins of the United States alone exceeds the total annual income of the pgorest billion people on earth," he said. Ounn claimed poverty is a prime ele~entin wrld hunger, notfnq that even iffood was made available, many people could not afford to buy it.

He also said tradition and political history at tires "reinforced class and ethnic advantagesu which result in hunfer for the disadvantaged.

Dunn noted that some people see the hunger problem as a race betveen food availability and population growth. gut he explained that excessive papul ation arowth is a syrrptom and a result of poverty and powerlessness and should be handled aceordinaly. Other factors he cited which increasa the problem are inequitable trade policies, mishandled power of mu1 tinational coroorations, disparities of food distribution, abuse and underuse of natural resobrces, worldwide government corruption and inefficiency and economic overconsumption on the part of developed countrias.

But he laid the'problem at the feet of all Christians when he charged that world hunger also is due to "ethical insensitivity.

"Because human society could, if it would, see that no child goes to bed hungry, our failure to do so is morally outrageous," he said. "Our dedication to see that innocent children eat is a basic test of our Christian ethic."

The campus ministers was one of seven Baptist uroups meetinq in advance of the 123rd Southern Baptist Convention which convenes Tuesday at Cervantes Convention Center.

By Narv Knox--9:26 a.m. I'londay --- - Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Lds, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" National Deacon's Rally For Innnediate Release ST. LOUIS, June &-!lore than 600 deacons from 17 states were exhorted Sunday to "prcach Jesus" and be humble, ministering partners with pastors. Mobile [fayor Lambert lalims, a deacon at Riverside Baptist Church there, received a round of hearty amens at the first national deacons rally at Tower Grove Baptist Church when he told the deacons, "Preach Jesus, deacon, preach Jesus." Noting that he had known some deacons "with backbones like cooked spaghetti ." Mims challenged the deacons to have courage to "open your mouth and preach Jesus. "If we leave out Jesus," he said of the deacon ministry, "lde might as no11 stay home. A vfsSt without mentioning Jesus is nothing more than a social call ." Mims, one of several speakers known to Southern Baptists because of contributions to the development of deacon ministries, called on the deacons to be "more than managers of material things," to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to be committed to ministering with a "love that takes us beyond the four walls of the church to the multitudes who need Christ." Jesting that he had been "filled with the Holy Spirit and leaked down a fe!.! times," Mims told the men to let the Holy Spirit taks over their lives and warned, "Satan's out there with his fiery little darts just waiting to puncture your balloon." A, Morgan Brian Jr., New Orleans attorney and deacon at First Baptist Church there, outlined how deacons and pastors should become partners in ministering. "The more humble we are, the more dynamic our ministry will he. There has to be an endearment if deacons and pastors are to minister and work toaether. !?!e have to be true yokefellows." Brian suggested that pastors and deacons should remember that they are called by God to lead the rest of the church to minister, not do everything themselves. "The balance of the church is not to be spectators watching the deacons and pastor perform ministry. The goal should be for every barn again believer to be a mjnister." "Our real value is when we can help a person with his spiritual problems, Physical, economic, emotional problems a1 1 are easier to handle when you've taken care of the spf ritual problems first." Brien urged the deacons to learn to know the condition of the persons to whom they minister and develop a personal involvement in the lives of church members and to save some of their energies for strengthening their pastors. Deacons strengthening their pastors was the theme of another rally speaker. Charles Chandler, pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church, Urbana, Ill., reminded the deacons that everybody needs ministering to, even the pastor's family. Robert Naylor, whose book, The Ba tist Deacon, was called a high watermark in the energins deacon ministry, remind~tho-t they are "aluayr on God's active deacon body. Serve gladly and freely ," said Faylor, retired president of Southwestern Baptist Theologi cal Seminary, Fort Yorth. -more- 5 Page 2--Deacon's Ral ly Howard Foshee, author of the book, The kiinistry of the Deacon, and director of the Christian Development Division of the ?amst Sunday School !Jashville, called deacons and pastors partners in ministry and told the deacons to be enablers. Russell Tuck, deacon at Kirkwood aaptist Church in Kirkrood, ik., and his wDfe shared how they considered the deacon ministry a family ministry. Russell said he had seen the deacon ministry in his church chanje from administration of the church programs to a rnjnistry to the members.

Representatives of the pastoral ministries section of the Sunday School Soard, sponsor of the rally, said they were pleased that the rally had accomplished its purpose of celebrating what God is doinn in c!iurches throuak the deacon ninistry and to inspire deacons to greater service and ministry.

By i'fike Oavis--ll:40 p.~.Sunday Cervantes Convention Center SBC press News ~oom rnorograpnyf St. Lhuis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Sunday Re1 igious Education For Inimedi ate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS. June &-It takes more than "great preaching and attractive music;' to grow Southern gaptist churches, keener Pharr, director of the Education Division of the Florida Captist Convention, Jacksonville, said here Sunday.

*".Ihether intentional or not, there is an increasinn number of pastors in our churches trying to grow a church through great preaching and attractive music programs only," Pharr said.

"V!hile these are both essential functions ic a growins church; they will not alone result in ?roving churches. ;

Pharr keynoted the dpeniny session of the two-day 25th ~eetingof the Religious Edu- cation Association in the Sheraton St. Louis Hotel. The meeting precedes the 123ri Southern Saptist Convention which opens a three-day run Tuesday in Cervantes Convention Center.

The opening session also included a speech by Joe iiinkle, secretary of the Family ;!inistry Department of the daptist Sunday School 3oard, rlashville, and a look at the history of Southern Saptist re1igious education by a five- an panel. In his speech Pharr called on Southern Baptist educators to rede?icatz themselves to the role of the Sunday School in ?rorliny churches.

He also encouraged educators to base future prograrrminq decisions on seven guide1 ines which he described as the "foundations of our proqran of religious education during the past quarter of a century ." Pharr identified the guidelfnes as a comitment to the leadership of the Holy Spirit, a cmmitinent to biblical priorities in the ministry, a conmitm-tt to the work of the local church, a commitment to an all-age educational ministry, a cormitrnent to basic principles of church prowth and development, a commitment to the role of the laity in Southern 3aptist ~vorkand a comitment to a theolony of !h!ork.

Discussing "Christian Education: the Rere and I.lov in Fanily .:inistry ," tiinkl e said the focus of the concern of Christian educators shoul5 be on "two basic institutions which in fact determine the nature and quality of life withia society--nalnely, the church and family.

"These two institutions so profoundly affect the quality of life now ani in the future that I believe it is worth giving our life's enercy to labor together with Christ in helpin2 both to become a1 1 they are meant to be:' Eecause of his belief that the family and church should be focal points of interest for educators, Hinkle said he 5s "absolutely unwilling to settle for survival strategies for church and fatnily.

"Iam committed with militant, unrniticated ,audacity to lead Southern Baptists to strengt'ien and enrich the total Christian experience in family and church 1ife." raye r --3unm ~el~gl-on

As d member of the five-man panel, Joe Davis Heacock, dean emeritus of the School of Re1 igious Education at Southwestern Baptist Theolopical Seminary, Fort Korth, traced the early days of Christian education at the SBC's six seminaries.

He said the first lecture on improving educational techniques in-~undayschool was . given by Dr. 8. H, Dement at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., in 1902.

Others on the pane1 were Mark Short, program consultant of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, Alexandria, La. ; Ernest Loessner, professor emeritus of re1 igious education at Southern Seminary; Allen Graves, dean of the school of religious education at Southern Semi nary, and Bi 11 Souther, secretary of music/church trai ni ng for the Utah- Idaho Baptist Convention, Salt Lake City, Utah.

By Larry Crisman--lO:51 p.m. Sunday - -. Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Snnday Music Conference For Imnediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June &-Setween oifted ~usicaldisplays, Southern laptist church musicians ,;e.:c chalt enged here Sunday to accept and develop their. own gifts. The challenge to 1,309 at the 24th Annual Southern 3aptist Church Vusic Conference ::me from Kenneth Chafin, pastor of South hain Gaptist Church, Houston, Tex., and de- cctional speaker for the two-day conference at Third Saptist Church. The conference was one of several preccdinc the annual meetinp of the Southern Faptist Convention which opens a three-day run Tuesday at Cerventes Convention Center. Chafin told the group that one of the keys to personal fulfillment is "understanding tilat each of us has some contribution to n?ake to the kinqdon of God and if we do not nilke St the kingdom will be the less for it and r!e will be less fulfilled persons." The Houston pastor urged the musicians to accept vhere they are and more importantly, who they are as ministers. The initial session, which featured two mini-concerts with music ran~ingfrom traditional to contemporary, was opened by conference president Thad Roberts Jr., minister of music at South Wain. Roberts rlsed a gavel crafted from a cedar tree from the front yzrc! of the Heflin, La., birthplace of E. 9. IlcKi~ney,Southern Eaptists' first church mgsic secretary. During one of the mini-concerts, the sanctuary choir and orchestra of First Zaptist Church, i4emphis, Tenn., under the dlrectipn of Earl Hoiloway, premieredithe first of " .: three pieces corranissioned for the conference. The anthem. 'He is C-od--The King of Glory," !:as written by !+!wren W. Angell, music dean emeritus at Cklahora Baptist University, Shlwnee.

A second mini-concert was presented \y the Singin? I1 linoisians under the direction of Carl Sheppard, director of music for the fffinois Paptfst State P.ssocfatfan. The program began with an organ recital by Jo Deen Elaine, organist and music fissgciate at !!estbury Baptist Church, Houston, Tex.

!:'illian J. Reynolds of the School of Sacred %sic, Southwestern Baptist Theological Sea'inary, Fort I.!orth, Tex., directed a period of congre?ational worship. Reynolds and his wife Here honored at a reception folloering the session. -30- By Larry Chesser--10:06 p.m. Sunday Lervanles Lonven'ilon enter- -- SBC; rress ~ews~~om rnorograpny~ St. Louis, Missouri (314)342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Niscel laneous Business Session For Immediate Release ST. LOO1S, June 11--A proposed constitutional amendment which would have denied mes- senger status to most employees of Southern Baptist agencies, institutions and state con- ventions was defeated dur{i,g a klednesday morning business session of the 123rd Southern Bap- tist Ccnvention here.

Kenneth Barnett, an Alamagordo, V.V., pastor who submitted the proposed constitutional chcnge, was the only person in the meeting hall of the Cervantes Convention Center to speak in favor of the amendment.

Barnctt argued the amendment would el imina te conflicts of interest by placina denomina- tional workers outside the arenas of politics.

The proposal was defaated overryhelminql y after Herbert Sen~ettof Columbus, Ohio, uraed nessengers to vote against the amendment. Sennett stressed the importance of Raptists' belief in "the autonomy of the local church" and asked the messengers, "Are you qoina to deny us the riqht to choose the mes- sengers we want to serve as representatives from our church?" A second constitutional amendment which would have chansed the meetinqs of the Southern Baptist Convention from an annual sess;on to a quadrennia1 (every four years) meetina was also rejected by the messengers, The amendment lost cfter only 13ayne Stevens of Lineville. Ala., spoke in favor of the amendment he submitted. Stevens expressed "concern about the enormous amount of money spent at our annual con- ventions."

8ut Herschel Hobbs, pastor emeritus of First Baptist Church, Oklahoma City and past pi-esident of the SBC, spoke aqainst the amendment because "the business of this convention is too big and too much to have a ouadrennial meetinq."

By David '?it kinson--1 :55 p.m. !.!ednesday St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager ' ' News

"That We May Boldly Say" First Resolutions Report For Imnediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 11--!.Jith little discussion and virtually no debate, messengers to the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention here approved resolutions Wednesday on rnrld hunger, Cambodia, overseas earned income tax, marriaye tax, prayer for the nation, 2nd American Bible Society.

The statements disposed of a handful of noncontroversial matters proposed Tuesday to the convention. Others expected to provoke extended discussion are scheduled for action Thursday morning. Addressing what their resolutions corntittee called the plight of "suffering multitudes" Y!IO will die this year due to hunger and malnutrition, messengers resolved to "continue to emphasize a lifestyle of sharing" by observing a denominational world hunger day August 6. A. so commended and encourazed was re~ulargiving to the denomination's Foreign Hission Z~ard'shunger re1ief fund and the Home kiissicn Board's domestic hunger ministries.

Hunger and disease in the troubled nation of Cambodis (Karpuchea) was spoken to in anather resolution adopted without opposf tion. It mentioned prevail ing pol itical tensions in Southeast Asia end increased attention on the part of the American people "to the critical plight of the Cambodians." The statement on overseas earned income tax addressed leaislation currently pendSng in Congress which would reinstate a $20,000 and under tax exemption for missionaries and enpl oyees of other chari tab1e groups working abroad.

ffessengers ovep!helmingly disagreed with one objection to the statement that "it is wrong that they haven't been paying it" after another niessenger pointed out that many such foreign workers will have to pay income tsxes to both the U.S. and the country where they reslde unless Conpess passes the proposed leaislatlon. The marriage tax resolution asked the President and Conqress to act on what the con- vention termed the "inequity" of the tax code whic:i "encourages people to cohabit rather than marry." Current laws enable couples to choose "to cohabit rather than marry," the statement asserted. Takfng note of the upcomlng sumer national political conventions and fall elections, nassengers encouraoed S2C churches to set aside services for special prayer for the nation. The resolution also requested President Carter to set a day of prayer and fasting to the end that God "look with divine favor and grace and intervention in all the affairs of our nation and the world."

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"That We May Boldty Say" .;aundup for Thursday AN For Imdiate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--Southern Baptists were challenqed here lvlednesday night to become Christian witnesses in their daily traffic patterns of life.

Speaking on "Boldness in Reaching the Hmel and ,I' Stan Coffey, pastor of First Baptist (:ilurch, A1 buquerrque, N. ?;., sdid Southern Baptf sts must ao where the sinners are. "Ve must go.. .into the housing devetopments, into the apartment buildincrs, into the shop~ingcenters, into the ball parks, " Coffey said. "1Je must change our 'welcome' mat t~ a 'rill qa' mat."

In amplifying the session theme at the l23rd annual meetina of the Southern Baptist Csnvantion, Coffey said Southern Baptists need to stop criticizing the unconverted person far not coming to the church and to start criticizino the church for not pofna to the lost. "...Just as Jesus Christ did not sit in the ivory towers of heaven fulfillino his ~issionfrom afar, neither can Southern Baptists fulfill their mission from within the four wdl ls of their churches. It

T3 reach America with the qospel, Southern Raptists must be motivated by a hold love t::at crosses social, racial, and religious barriers ," the pastor said. "Southern Baptlsts, through the Bald Mission Thrust, could save this nation's moral 3:d spiritual deterioriation," predicted Coffey. "1 see no other group on the horizon vho could posslbly do it. Ye have the financial resources; we have the educatianal institutk-s. Ica have tl;a;revangetical background; and we have thousands of people in our churches who \;ant to do it ifwe will lead them to do it. "But if this generation of Southern Baptists does not tell this generation of sinners 'iil A~eticaabout Cbrist, then forever they will rmln untold." The messen ers also heard challenuina praaress reparts fram their Home Yission Eoard ic Atlanta and qunday Sehml Board in Narhvllle. Wing that almost 3,000 home rnissianaries were on the field at the end af 1979, the ?...,nzmlssfans report indicated another 33,382 volunteers took part In s~ecialhornce m5ssior; :,.inistrics.

Conzerning a matter of reference about the appointment of ordained women as mfssfonarias: ?i!e mission board report said the aoeney does not require ordination for appointment an.d i: taking no action on the matter. The Sunday School Board, qiant education and pub1 ishina arm of the denomination, :sported 176,000 persons taking part in its new hame Bible study proartlm on radio and tel~. :.;sicn.

The report a1so disclosed plans to increase trainino awareness of Southern Rapti sts thro~!cS750 conferences across the nation.

The agancy, which operates a chain of 65 bwk stores, has a budget of almtt $96 millian. At a busfrress session the messengers elected Jack Taylor, a Fort uorth, Texas, emh- x;;st ajld author, asmfipst vic6'pr&sident of ttie Sac.' ' Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News noom rnorograpriyr St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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"That We May Boldly Say" Radio and Television/Brotherhood Conmission Reports For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--Introducing three 30-second television pub1 ic service announcements for nationwide distribution, Southern Baptist Radio and Television Commission President Jimmy R. Allen of Fort klortk ldednesday proclaimed 1981 8s launch yaar "to put electronic cormnunication to the heartbeat of evangel ism, nurture, ministry, and nitness of our churches." Allen, who assumed the electronic media aaency presidency nine months ago, said the commis- sion is "tooling up" this year to "fashion a strategy for the Battle of the :,lind and Soul of America."

In a second agency report at the 123rd meeting of thz Southern Baptist Convention, Brotherhood Commission executive director James Smith of ;,fernphis called for one million men and boys to be involved in missions by 1990.

Smith said the key to achieving the ooal will be for "every Southern Baptist pastor to be one of those men. I!e want our pastors to teach us how to pray, study the Eible and Show us how to win lost souls to Jesus Christ," said Smith, who became head of the Brotherhood agency last September.

Narning of the urgency that Southern Eaptists enter the electronic media age in strong force, Allen said "militant Islamic evangelism is marchin9 into every corner of the earth through the technology which allows it to be beamed into your neighborhood," Allen said he agrees with convention president Adrian Rogers of Yemphis that God will ~1timately win the battle. However, "the great anxiety in my spirit is whether the folk called Southern Baptists are going to be in on it," he said. Allen said his agency is doinq a "fantastic job" in producing and placing radio programs but "we're dreadfully late in television,

"The new technology of tapes, discs, cable and satellitas is altering the picture rapidly. We can help fashion the future if we will but we're late, terribly late.'' In urging greater involvement of men and boys in missions, Smith said, "F!ever before have we said our objective is to evangelize the world in one single peneration. But if the world is to be evangelized, it must be done in one generation."

In the next few months Smith said his acency will release new materials "to help pas- tors extend your own effectiveness in the liver of those layen."

He said he Is optimistic about the future. "!Jetre beginning to see some of the foregleams of a great spiritual awakenin? in America."

By Linda Lawson--l:26 p.m. Yednesday -- - . Cervantes Convention Center St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Lindsell Press Conference For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June I1 --Glel 1 -known conservative Harold Lindsel 1 , former editor of Christianit Toda magazine, reiterated Yednesday there will ul timatcly be a sp1 it in the dtdonvention if some "1 iberal 'I professors in the seminaries aren ' t curbed. Lindsell is a former president of the Saptist Falth and Kessage Fellowship rhose menbers are leadSng the attack on what they cocsider "1 iberal" teaching, Ce characterized as .liberal seminary professors who use the historical critical retho2 of teaching. Hoer- ever Lindsell seemed incl ined to disassociate himself from invo1ven;ent with the group when he explained he hasn't seen two of tile leading spokesmen, Paige Patterson of Dallas and Paul Pressler of Houston, since last year's Southern baptist Convention.

In a- EMS conference, Lindsell said Southern Baptists are in a stage of "attack and counterattack" and have yet to reach the climax of the battle over inerrancy of the 3ible. "If they follor! the traditioil of most other major denominations," said Lindscll, "Southern Baptists will lose that which constitutes their genlus. Gnce you lose the Bikle, You lose evangel ism and missions outreach." Kindsell said United !iethodists, for example, have lost a million members and have only 4G per cent as many missionaries as they had 20 years ago.

By Orville Scott--1 :ll p.m. !-iednesday News

"That We May Boldly Say" Committee on Colmi tteeltoards For Imediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--An unfl icked switch headed off a mild controversy !a1ednesday morning on th? report of a Cornittee on Comittees at the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Eaptist Convention in Cervantes Convention Center. i.;essencer Calvin Capps of Southside Zaptist Church, Greensboro, S.C., who was recoanfzed after E votf was taken on the report, said he had tried to be recognized before the vote but a microphone switch was not turned on and he couldn't get SGC President Adrian Racers' attention.

Capps objected to the removal of Jimy A. ilillikin of kiarion, Ark., from the list of ra:ormendations to next year's comnittee on boards. His motion to reinstate Killikin #as ruled out of order by Rogers who said he thoufht it would be a mistake to bin? up the matter artcr a vote had alreajy been taken on the comittee's revised report. ;4i!likin, a professor of !!ev Testament theology at Kid-kerica aaptist Theological Seminary, a conservative 3aptist school in Kenphis, Tenn. which Rogers' Bellevue Saptist Church helps support, had been listed in the comittee's printed report as the comittee's ncminee for chaiman of the comittee on boards, which selects members to Pill vacancies and name ne!J nerzbers for the boards of Southern Baptist aaencies. Jerry Glission, a Cienlphis pastor and chairman of the Comitt~eon Corsnittees, to16 messengers Wfllikin had been removed from considaratior, becagse of what his comnittee understood as a long standing tradition that no seminary professors should be named to the comittee on boards.

Questioned after the ruling by Rogers, Capps szid he disagreed with the tradition.

"I think anybody ought to be eligible (to serve)," he said. "This seem like an unusual procedure to me."

Capps said he had heart; Tuesday night that iiill ikin was going to be removed. 3y saying that Niltikin pas in~ligiblebecause of his affiliat,ion with iiid-America Seminary, Capps said, "they are saying Kid-kerica is a Southern Captist Seminary. They've never recognized then before. " i.iid-W.erica, which has a student body of about 300, is not supported by S3C Convention Prooram funds, Glisson said the matter of replacing i

Glisson said Harold Sennett, executive secretary of the Southern =a~tistExecutive Comittee, had informed him that the committee should not recommend the state papers cmi:tee,

The present comnittee named last year will continue until Dr. Eennett and the Executfve Comittee can study the matter and bring a recw~endation, the comittee chairman explained. Pag~2--Cornmi ttee On Commi tkaslboards During the called meeting, one of the members of the committee on cormittees raised the question of whether the committae was supposed to rzcomnend a chairman for the cornittee on boards Glisson recounted. The committee decided it did not have such a resoonsibility even though Elill ikin's name had already been 1 isted as chairman. Asked whether the committee felt that recommendin? Pillikin would create controversy because of i:ii11 i kin's relationship with the conservative seminary, Gl isson said, "Ele don't want to do anything that breaks the harmony. !!e want to stay with the Constitution end what it says ke'ra supposed to do," Glisson said he had received no instructions from Rogers about the theological stance of persons they were to nominate for the committee on boards. He said he did not set any criteria for persons who would be recommendgd except that each stata convention was to be represented by tvr3 persons, one ordained and the other a layman. Reccrmendstions are made by the committee members from each state who make up the Comittee on Committees. Joe Atchinson, pastor of South Side Baytist Church in Pine Bluff, Arek., and chairmzn of the Arkansas Executive Comittee, was added to the membe;ship of the committe~on boards, replzcing ?,lillikin. In a ref -:ted mattzr, the 1979-80 committee on boards' report drev a challenpe from John Carty, Purseyvf 11E, Va.

Carty objected to only North Carol.i**-.s being named to southeaster;^ E-ptist's Th-.olac~ical Seminary's local board members. Carty said he had asked last year that some Yirainfans be named to the sminary's local board, claimina many qualified Yiroinians lived within the requirzd 300-mile radius of the seininary.

Carty qu~stionedwhy they had not chosen a Virginian to tha local board, but made no motion relating to the matter. He said he would communicate his concern to the comittfe . on bozrds next year. PHOTO #13 -- Lake Placid Ministry -- John David Book, Southern Baptist Home Itftission

Board missionary and director of Lake Placid ministries. at. the 1980 Winter Olympics, told members of the Woman's Missionary Union thosa ministries resulted in a new ehapal in Lake Placid. The !IFfU held fts annual meeting June 8-9 in St. Louis, prior to the

123rd Southern Baptist Convention. Photo by $lark Sand1 in -30-

PHOTO #24 -- Foreign !lissionaries Give Tzstimony -- The Fort family, sons David, left, and Gordon, right, and parznts 1.1. Giles and FIana Ann, urged messengers to the 123rd

annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in St.. Louis to support foreign missionaries. Wr. and Yrs. Fort are medical missfonaries to Zimbabwe, Rhodesia. David

is a doctor in Dallas, Texas, and Gordon is a student at Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas. Photo by Steve Medford -3c-

PHOTC #33 -- Mews Room Workers -- Members of the news room at the Southern Baptist Convention seek to provide accurate, up-to-date information for the news media. Pictured (row one) are Libby Fields, Darlene Clark, Jane Medaris , Frankie Hayes, Laura

Fite, Marye Jenninqs;(row two) 14. C. Fields, Bob I)' Brien, Dan Yartin, Florman Jameson, Roy Jennings, Catherine Allen; (row three) Emma Hutchens, Gaye Eichler, Jennifer Br.yon Owen, Cot leen. MartinnTerry Barone, Renita Duncan, aoni ta Sparrow; (row four) Theresa Parker,

Faye Russell, Leland Allen, Tim Fields, Warren Johnson, David Smith, Orville Scott,

Mike Davis, Bob Stanley, Renee '!ash, David !,!ilkinson, Buddy Bagwell ; (row five) Shirley

O'Brien, Bobbye Hill, Kent nathews, Doug Tonks, Stan Hastey, Craig Bird, Steve Yedford,

Ben Sherman, Larry Crisman. Photo bv Van'Payns; Cetvantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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"That We May Boldly Say" r!ominaticils for Second Vicc President For lii~iiediatgRelesse

ST. LOUIS, June 11--Twelve persons were ncmieate? for sccond vice president of tR2 Southern Zaptist Convention at the !ieiilesrlcy aorninc session at Cervzntes Cocventio~Centsr. They are Kenneth Story, pastor of the Eerrcantowi Pe~tistChurck, Gemantown, Tmn.: E. Harmon 5hcrz, executive secretar! of the State Convention of "aytists in Indiana, Indianapolis; 9111 Sherrr,sn, pastor of 7:'oodmont raptist Church, :'ashvilfe, Tenn. : ant hkr. Iioll inpuorth, pastor of Lount Calvary 5aptist Ci~urcb,timinphaa, Ala.

And Fred Po!*!ell, sastor of Pisca Laptist Church, Excelsla- Sprinfs, i-lo. ; Pussel 1 :iewpcrt, taman an6 melrher of First "iptist Church, Sprlnpfielii, iio. : Gecrge ?acley, executive secre- tary of the ftlabar,~Baptist Stale Convention, !iontrcmery; and C. 'lade Freeraan, retired ~irectorof evancel ism of the Sa~tistGeneral Convention of Taxas, Callas.

Also J. 3. Rush Jr., gastor of Sainaria "?tist Church, 'Ilatsshurr., E.C. ; Gorton 9orian of \!ichita. Kaii.; Tori Cleyton Jr., pastor of the First 5eptist Cburc:;, I;okbs, fi.::.: an.? Robert '!alksr of Lulls Gap, Tcnn. Suriac irslker's nocii?ati;ly speech, Z.Y. Cullun cf ;:zoxv:llf-, Tsnn., said '.:a1 l:er is a "grass roots' pastor who has Rever servad on ccz:ittezs and has no cre~er,tials,except for being a pastor. Cu1lui1's spe~cnlms received gith orat an~laustand a partial staildiag ovation.

2y Terry ?arcno--11 :22 p.m. !.ednesdzy Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Feature on New Agency Head For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Reporting to 13,000 bosses at one time is awesome enouqh, but four Southern Baptist agency heads faced the massed messenqers of the Southern Baptist Convention for the first time this week.

Harold Bennett of the Executive Comi ttee, n!ashville, R. Keith Parks of the Foreian Mission Board, Rich~ond,Jimny Ailen of: the Radio-Television Commission, Ft, North, and James Smith of the Brotherhood Commission, hemphis, have been in their jobs for less than a year--but all have established plans to relate their auencles to the needs of the churches of the convention to best fulfill the Great Cornissfon. Allen reported he hit the oround runnina at the Radio-Television Commission earlier this year. Running also characterized early efforts of the other leaders. Most of the qroup's runnino is to the beat of Bold eission Thrust. Excitement about Southern Saptist effort to tell the entire world of Christ by the year 2000 flows in and out of the1r conversations. "The most exciting task of the Executive Comittee is the coordination of Bold Flission Thrust," Bennett claimed. "Ye don't have tafk assipnments like the other agencies but the basic recornendations of qoals and proarams for Bold Vissfon Thrust have come and will continue to come from the Executive Committee. we are the enablers."

Parks sees the acid test for Bold Mission Thrust looming in the near future ("are we willina to pay for the proarams we've out1 ined?") hut is confident that the individual Baptist is goinq to respcild. Smith

Allen practically glows at the opportunities for his agency to reach the America during the 1980's rri th media programs. "The mind and soul of America is being fashioned throuah the media--that is d fact of a crowded, technological society," he pointed out. "And with the emernence af cable system and home video units it is so close to beina a new ball aame that we have a real opportunity to fashion the mind and soul of America in a yay the would be pleasine to God, " "Pleasin@ God" and "Bold ?lissiorr Thrust" sew to be interchannable terms with the four men. "The uniqueness of Baotist Men has to he its emphasis on missions," Smith said. "There is no way we can call out, train and send out enouah professionals--we have to depend on the lay movement." It is also the laymen who must pay the bills, Sennett and Parks aareed. "Our crisis will come over budget," Sennett said. "We have to help the individual Baptist to understand the whole proqram. Twenty years aao churches were averaoinp giving 10-1 2 per cent of their budget to the Cooperative Prooram. Last year It was down to eiqht per cent. If we could recover that percentaqe we wuld have more than enough money to fund all b~daetrequests." All four men are moving in apparent faith that response will fund their proarams-- proqrams that will bear the personal stamp of each of the directors.

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Both Smith and Allen have spent their first months studying and planning the directions their agencies will take, whili? Rennett and Parks are modifying programs well established. "The Brotherhood Cmission has had problems staying on its track, " Smith explained. "When it bagan in 1907 it was a lay mission movement. In the 192r)'s it shifted to a deacon . ' ministry, and in the 1970's nobody took the decade?^ mood of 'flexihility' more literally than the Brotherhood Commission.

"?qlhatwe wound up with was Baptist men who didn't know they were Baptist Elen--doing lay renewal work and disaster relief and jail ministry, unaware that those proqrams are what Baptist !fen is all about."

Smith intends for the direction to remain clear from nolq on--involve men and boys in missions. And he has no doubt who the foremost Baptist man should be in each church.

"21ths past, it seems we dividsd the church into men, women and the preacher--he was a third aenfer. But the p.:ztor should be the number one Baptist man in his church--and 1 wilt present my pastor the first membership card for our church's Baptist Fen (unit) in front of the entire convention !dednesday." Smith's pastor is Adrian Rogers, current president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Smith also sees a \villingness of laymen to take up the task of missions. He held 10 "listening ssssions" around the country and, "in every one the number one thought communi- cated to us by Baptist men was 'tell the pastors to become equippers of the saints--train us to do the work of missions.'"

Allen has desiqnated his first year as "tooling up" time, the second year for "launch" afid the third year for "acceleration."

"Isee the opportunity for the media to become the catalyst for a real spiritual awaken- ing," he s-.i !. But while the chanaina world of media is compzllinq Allen to chart new techniques and programs, he shares with Bsnnett and Parks the advantaqes of followino a lonqtime agency head--all threa were prece.'ed by men who served 25 years or lonqer. "The qrsat advantage of follovinq Baker Cauthen at the Foreign ??ission Board is the confidence that Southern Baptists had in him as an individual and in the FYS he headed,'' Parks explained. "8nd he had built up a tremandous staff to do the work. b!e have a group of people with real camaradzrie and a sense of oneness and commitment that makes it fun to IJZF~tcsather." Parks, despite 25 years with the Board, is aware he doesn't have "the history, prcstige or sense of awareness of Baker Cauthen so I've tried to bring a broader based counsel to augment thosz thinps I lack. !.then I throw out my ideas and answers they are there to be shot down if they aren't the best ideas and answers."

Bennett followed Porter Routh at the Executive Committee and found many of tha benefits Parks described,

"The stability and confidence in his leadershio was a great benefit and most of the routine and details of the Executive Committee are don2 the way he set them up," Bennett said. "The thing I do is ask the question 'why' about the way thinss are done...and if I don't get solid ans!.rers then we consider chanaing our methods." A1 len, of course, succeeded Paul Stevens who resigned under fire. "The tasks of carving out a place for electronic cosmunication in the mindset of Southern Saptists, producing the leadino religious radio shows in the country and putting toqether an outstanding facility were all beautf fully done by Paul Stevens ," Allen pointed out. A tiegative legacy from the public spat over Steven's retirement plan, caught Allen when critical stories broke a?xt an intarest-free loan being considerad to help Allen buy 'a home.

"Iwas unprepared for the erosion of trust factor between our public and the agency," Allen admitted, "In my years as pastor I always operated with a oreat deal of trust and 1 learned that we have to rabuild tha trust for the Radio and Television Commission and pay close attention to the needs of the churches we serve." Page 3--Feature on Nen Agency Heads

Parks also was embrbBled in controv2rsy when the FYB expressed public dissatisfaction with the Executive Committee's recormendation on distribution of Cooperative Program money in 1980-81, The resulting news coverage created tension across the convention to the extent that Parks discouraged attempts to amend the budaet from the floor of the St. Louis meetina.

"If it (the dispute) had to happen at all, I'm glad it happened early," Parks said. "Ilearned a great deal about how to interact with the other agenci2s--it's not the way you want to learn but it certainly is a quick way to learn."

It is doubtful if any of the 1980 "rookies" can put toaeth~ra 25-30 year tenure as agency heads, but all share a conviction that God wanted them to accept the jobs they now hold.

"Ihad every intention of spending the rest of my life as executive secretary for the Illinois Baptist State Association," Smith said. Allen said he passed through "all the classical stages of grief," after he left the pastorate in San Antonio after more than 12 years. "Istill consider it on2 of the most exciting churches in Amzrica and Ieaging was one of the most difficult times of my life--yet there is not a doubt that it is God's will." Parks is even more positive.

"There has been more of a rightness and confident feel in the role than any transition I've ever made. On one hand I'm amazed by that rinhtness-but on the other hand I know I shouldn't be because of all of the prayers that went into acceptinp this task." Parks also expressed a common feeling of the new executives toward the lfkely length of their tenure.

"I'm comfortable with the time before me (before retirement). It1$enough time to do the things I feel 1 need to do but short enouuh, to a1 low a new vie1:lpoint to come in later to deal with changing realities."

By Craig Bird--10:50 p.m. Tuesday Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Phorograpnyl St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Wednesday AV Theme Interpretation For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--A veteran Southern Baptist executive challenged messengers at the 123rd annual Southern Baptist Convention here Wednesday to pursue the difficult task of mintaining boldness in a changinq world marked by despair, A1 bert McCl el lan, associate executive secretary and program planning secretary of the SBC Executive Committee, hashville, urged Baptists to look beyond the "bad news" to a hope grounded in the resurrection .of Jesus.

McClel lan said modern newscasts leave people "feel ino that the world has lost its order, that the world has lost its dream, that the world has lost its humanity and that the world has lost its spirit." McClellan, who will be retirina from the Executive Committee he has served since 1949, pointed to the empty tomb as the Christian answer to boldness in this kind of world. "If God has riven us anything at all in Jesus, he has given us the promise that in him, all things are made alive," YcClellan said.

McClellan's remarks set the theme for the lllednesday morninq session of the three- day convention of the 13.4 mil 1 ion member denomination.

The session opened with a period of inspirational music by the adult and youth choirs of Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, featurinq soloist Cynthia Cl awson. The choir was directed by Charles kller.

A devotional period was led by Paul Mieto of Spanish Calvary Baptist Church, Roswell , N.M., and H. K. Sorrel1 of Brownsville Baptist Church, Rrownsville, Tenn.

By Larry Chesser--10: 52 a.m. Yednesday News

mmm "That We May Boldly Say" i.usic Evangelists For Imediate Releasc

ST. LOUIS, June 11--The setting is a hotel ballroom and it appears to be the "nightclub" of the Southern Baptist Convention. Sing in; evangel istic hopefuls are scurryin? around the scarcely lighted room in which some of them !$!illsoon make their debut in the Christian entertainment world, An elegantly dressed man, Ed Stalnecker, is obviously coordinator of the event. iie keeps a strict list of who performs and who doesn't, sonietimes allowins a last minute entry to join th Ittalsnt show" line-up. Attitude and mode of dress is noticeably tiifferefit at the $talnecker Open House, held after the night sessions of the SEC for t!vo hours, at the Uarriott ;lotel.

At no other convention activity could a wanail dress similar to an old-time saloan girl an" pet by with it.

Cther gatherings that surrocnd t?e SGC are all sicilar in nature, but the showy parade of eusical Southern 3aptists presents a promotion campai~nthat is even more obvious than that of the S3C presicency. For 17 years, the singin: Stalnecker family of Jacksonville, Fla., has hosted the cpen housz, giving Southern Zaptist ~usiciansa chance to display their talents in front of pastors and other church leaders attending th~convention. They come to thc open house for exposure, and it evidently serves that purpose. "lle come a lot for the entertainment," said Sam Porter, pastor of First faptist Church, Eakly, Okla. 'aut we also core ner~to find new talent."

Porter explained that many ti~esan evenpelist will serve his church in revivnl and not brir\? a srusician to serve with hir. Porter keeps in mind perfomances he vie!$ at the Stalnecker Cpen House and later considers using them fcr revival purposes. : ;iowever, Porter and other church leaders disclosed that they are scouting for the individual musician, not the "expensive" group.

; Groups such as Truth, Joyson~, anc 3ridqe take part in the open housz for exposure, but according to Stalnecker, they are also there for entertainment curposes.

The transient 1ifestyles and eccentric dress of these qroups reflect Cefini ts involvement in the entertajnhient world. !!hy is their dress so different? Ia!hy do they have to "$211 their wares?"

Steve Taylor, director of Joysonp from John 2ronn University in Siloam Sprin?s, Ark., exp:ains that "Christians should t,e the ones that shoulb set the trends--3ut not fn a shov!y VJ~"he added. He said ministry is the priority of his group, an< that calls for appeal ir.? to the non-Christian through dress and style of nusic.

The bass guitar player for Truth looks at the open house as a time of fel1ob:ship .!it;i other groups that are nomaliy also on the road. Ron Freed says it gives him the opportunity to "make nevi friends and neet neb! peeapie." I;opf?fully, some of tbese ne!q friends !!ill invite Tmt? and the other not-so-vell kn0~9 groups and individuals to visit their churches. Page 2--;iusic Evan~elists

!!aye ad Lrenda i-!cClain cf Lindenwood Saptist Church, St. Locis, could Se two of those new friends.

"!.e cone to listen to some of the styles, song types, moods, etc.," sai.d F'cClain. "':e see whether or not they would work in a cangregational-type meeting."

1.icC1ain considers the grou;'s loudness and whether or not the crowd is enjoying them. i.cClain is a staff evangelist at Lindenwood cad kee?s an eye out for travelin: companions.

i.;cClain doesn't have to r.!orril about "talent sho~~!';participants not heir;? Scuthern Baptist, because Stalneckf r recuires that each perfomer be Southern Saptist cr at 1east be part of a croup lad by a Southern Baptist. Stalnecker co~iiplet~l~lfunds tt?e cpec house through his "Strength for Livins" organization.

The SZC "ni?htcfuD" is conducted for only three nights of each convention gath~ring, hut by that time perhips encu~ktalsilt, shol:r,v rfress, alijums and litr?rature has beeii display;: to fet little knakjn ~usicianswell on their !day to success.

EY Laura Fite--10:22 a.m. ',iednesday Cervantes Convention Center SBG press ~ewsnoom rnorograpny~ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Smith Press Conference For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--The charactei'istics which have made the Southern Baptist Conven- tion great will coqtinue to keep it great, newly-elected SSC President Bailey Smith said here I.lednesday.

Smith, elected In a first ballot victory Tuesday, listed those characteristics as "respect for the Bible, love for evangelisx and a commitment to missions." In i:;~ first meeting with the nerds media since heinn elected, Smith took his stand on the inerrancy of the scriptures and said his a~pointmentsto key Southern Baptist posts will "lean toward those who be7:~ve the Bible is the inerrant word of God." He defin~dinerrancy as meaninq that in the oriainal autoqraphs of the Bible there are no errors. Inerrancy, he sa ;:I, "means that in the oriqinal autosraphs God breathed the words he wanted us to have," and said those first documents are "without fault or blemish."

"I believe Jo~~ahwas a lfteral person swallowed by a literal fish, spit out of a literill sto:-.~ch and in a literal ' mess," he sa!d, adding he can understand "somebody believinq ti12 days wei-c lcnger" than solar days in the crection account. "Ibelieve they were 24-hour dajls, but can respect those i~hobelieve differently." Smith, however, said he cald not respect thcse who say Jonah was a parable rather than a literal even:."

!!hen it wec pointed out Christians today do not have the oriainal autoqraphs of the Bible, Smith said: "Ibeliese v2 havc vina t Got: Facts us to have. If God can sive it perfectly, he can keep ft perfsct?;.." !.!hen asked which translation is psrfect, Smith reiterm:ted: "Ibelieve !.re have exactly what God wants us to have." He noted that "every denmination which has oone liberal has qone down, but that mmn 't happen to South~rnBaptist; because we are peoale of the book." Smith said he sees no nezd fcr reform in the SBC, because the "areat majority of Southern Baptists be1ie:;e in th? inerrant word of God. The 1 iherals we have are few compared to the' great maj0rit.y of our people."

Of those wt:o disaqree, Saith said: "l?e ouqht not have anybody who disaarees with the Baptist Fa :th nnd Message statement. .: be1 ieve anyone who doesn't be1 ieve in the inerrancy of the word ouqht to question themsel~es.'~

Ye also noted he believes the Bagtist Faith and Ressaqe statement is adeauate: "It miqht need to be enfarced more, but it is clear enough," he said.

Smith sajd he is part of no major effort to'take control of the denomination, nor does he know of any 10-year plan to make the convention more conservative.

"Ihave friends in Every mea. Scmc seminarv professors told me they voted for me. Idon't know where the votes came from. I am not goins to be the president of any proup. Iam president of the Southern Saptist Conventi:n." -30- By Dan Martin--10:20 a.m. '.!ednesday Photo Captions For Your Information

PHOTO 37--Presiding Officers Fulfill Duties--1979-80 Southern Baptist Convention officers perfom the duties demanded by their offices for the last tine during the 1980 Southeril Baptist Convention. Pictured, from left, are Don Touchton, pastor, Central Baptist Church, arandon, Fla., second vice-president; Abner !,!cCall, president, Daylor University, !mJaco, Texas, first vice president; and Adrian Rogers, pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Hemphis, president. The national officers were elected at the 1575 convention in Houston and will relinquish their positions at this convention. Photo by iiorman Jameson -more-

PHOT3 38--Jennifer Malone and her father fiyron tlalone, right, pastor of Daniel Memorial Saptist Church, Jackson, .liss., stopped at the Stewardship Comission booth to receive one of many free gifts being given to messengers in the exhibit hall of the 123rd annual Southern Baptist Convention, June 10-12, at Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis. Helping the -!ialones collect convention souvenirs is K. Kip Owen, assistant director of captial funding for the Annuity Board, Dallas, Texas. Photo by David Clanton

PHOTO 7--:lusical Officers--Officers of the Southern Baptist Church ,lusic Coilference, which kt June 8-9 in St. Louis, are, bottom row, from left to right, A1 lashburn, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Sminary, ?.lill Val ley, Cal if., president-elect; Thad Roberts, South '!lain Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, president; lary June Tabor, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, secretary-treasurer; and Gerald Brown, Richardson Heights Ea~tist Church, Richardson, Texas, vice president-local church division. Pictured on the top row, from left to right, are Louis Ball, Carson-Neman College, Jefferson City, Tenn., vice president-educators; and Carl Sheppard, Illinois Baptist State Association, Sprinqfield, Ill., vice president-denominational division. Photo by Steve iiedford

PHOTO 16--Reli$ious Educators Elect Officers--'imbers of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association elected officers during their 25th annual session held preceding the Southern Baptist Convention in St. Louis. Pictured, left to right, are: i.larvin "lyers, Church Administration Department, Baptist Sunday School Board, secretary-treasurer; Charles Pol ston, director of church training and church music, 14ew 'lexico 3aptist Convention, third kice president; :lets Stewart, dean of women, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Vorth, Texas, second vice president; Roger Skelton, professor of religious education, Golden Gate Theological Seminary, .lil1 Valley, Calif., president; Charles Gwa1 tney, minister of education, First Baptist Church, Baton Rouge, La., president-elect. Photo by Tim Fields Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room-' Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Edwi n Young Convention Sermon For Inmediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--"It breaks my heart to say so, but Southern Baptists are on far, far too many side streets, " Edwin Youno told messengers in the Iqlednesday morning at the 123rd annual meetin? of ths ,Southern Baptist' Convent-ion at 'Cervantes' Conv2ntion Center. Young, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Houston, Texas said the danger of pfacinv major emphasis on marginal matters or side streets is to neolect the significant things.

"We need to look at ourselves, put down the guns and aet back to fishing," Young challenged the messengers. "Easically, we have stopped b2ing an evanpelical body. "Every great denomination in America has qone down the same trail, or side street," Young said. ,

The Baptist preacher recounted a conversation with a Wethodis$ pastor in Houston who said the Hethodist church is dying because of mediocre 1eadershi p who cornpromi sed the01 ogy and di.d not exhibit concern for winning peopls to Jesus Christ, Bible study, stewardship or prayer,

"Last year in the Southern Baptist Convention, stewardship was at an all time high, with 52.8 billion given, but only $76 million budgeted for foreign missions ," he lamented. "This year foreign missionaries will win 90,OCO people on the mission fields for Jesus Christ," he continued. "With the remainder of the more than $2 billion, South~rnBaptists in America baptizzd 386,000 fewer than we did 10 years ago, and the membership is higher now.

"A business friend of mine, when told of the increased dollars, lower baptisms and decreased Sunday School enrollment over the past few years, likened the Southern Baptist Convention to the Chrysler Elotor Corporation ,'I Younq said.

"Ihave looked for evidences of boldness in the Southern Baptist Convention, and they are scarce as hen's teeth."

"Iam convinced that the laity is ready to do some of this bold thinking, bold servinq, bold giving and bold witnessina," hz said, " The hiohest tribunal of the Southern Baptist Convention is not in Nashville, or Richmond or Atlanta. It's in the local churches. "Our denominational people are the equippers," Younq said. "Therefore, the burden for our failure is not in our denomination, because the truth is we have not been bold. I am convinced that in the new leadership breathina through the seminaries and other denomination agencies, we have elected some soirit-filled men who need our prayers and sup7ort.

"Ipray that we will go beforz Jesus as a congregation and say, 'Lord Jesus Christ, teach us to pray. ' That is what we have got to give first priority in our ministry ," Young emphasized.

"Second is to preach, to introduce Jesus Christ biblically," he added. "Preachina is the toughest job 1 know anythin? about if it's dona bihlical'ly, but rre who are callad to preach can't resist its a1 lure.

"When we In our churches qet our priorities right and give first priority to prayer and preaching, no longer will there be mild mannered sermons delivered by mild mannered preacher to mild mannered congregations on how tc be mild mannered," Youno charged. "Hhen priority is given to prayer and preachin?, we will come hlive, and no longer 1411 the Southern Baptf st Convention have to 1f ve on side streets." - 30- By Jim Lowry--2:29 p.m. Vednesday Rv Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News uoom ~notograpnyr . I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager . Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" A REVISION OF FIRST 6,WP;I G'. lden Gate Alumni Meet For Imtdlate Release ST. LOUIS, June 11--Jerry L. Harris, missionary to Barbados, windward Islands, was boxred LkdneSday as alumnus of the year at the annual neetlns of the Golden. Gate Seminary Alczni Associatqon at the Sheraton-St. Louis Hotel. i!rr?rfs, a Soutlwrn Bap'.l$t rnis3onary to Barbados, Wf ndward f sland~,recef ved a plaque ". ttl;:: icrxhe~i:. ha is a 1960 graduate of Golden Gate, where he earned the bachelor of i,::.i3*:tydsgras. lie also holds the bachelor of arts degree frm Howard Payne University, Ci-cnr;rzod , Tax~s. I.. ?.~th~,rrNunn Jr. of Sacremento, Calif., was elected president of the assacistion for .,gs~-fll,-- .1 3rd Cigde B. Skidmore af Bakersfield, Cat If., president-elect. James E. Morton Jr. c P Lfvrz~:~r?, CET If. , t s the current president,

'I 'I IC: as :ciatian voted to adopt the blilliam A. Carleton Chair of Church History as a ~roj~c",sad approved the selection of one person per year as alumnus of the year. I~Ii11i?,?1M. Pinson Jr., seminary president, reported on Galden Gate's progress and prcrjectn-u prcarams fcr the future. A1 Mashburn of the seminary music faculty provided the music.

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SBC Day Camp For Imdiatr Release ST. LOUIS, June 11--!.'hat do sassafras tea, volleyball and the Bible have in common? I All three were part of the day camp for children of messenaers to the 3-day Southern Baptist Conventfan endl ng Thursday at Cervan tes Convent ton Center. The day camp for the 140 children was held at Flissourf Baptist College here with 12 of the college's students, in addition to missionaries and volunteer teachers, providing the instruct0on. Charles Bobbi tt , director of admissions for the col tege, coordinated the camp sponsored by the Southern Baptist Brotherhood Comnission. During the 3-day camp, the chlldreti averaged six hours of classes daily. Crafts, nature, walks, Bible study, story telling, cook-outs, and missions were part of the cur- riculum. In nature classes, the children fixed and drank sassafras tea, felt skin from dif- ferent tws of animals and observed God's creation, reported Da1~klanax, supervisor of grounds for Hlssauri Baptist Collese and nature teacher. In Bfhle study the children learned by playinq Sible question-answer garneo and 1istenirtg to Bible stories. Recreation included vo1 leyball and kickball, anonq other games, The children also visited with t?rs. Vetma Varlar, a homc missionary in St, Louis, and Hrs. Ann Ziegmmlet, a mfssionary to Japan. Some of the students involved in the camp were taking a day camp course at the col- lege, 0obbi tt explained. In addition to hosting, planning and carryino out the day camp, SCC provided housina for 32 Cor~ignmissionaries, 7 home missionaries, 40 members of the choir of Nmphis' Betlevw Baptist Church, 35 Oklahoma Baptist Husic Yen, and 40 Mission Service Carps vol u**s. The college also provided transportaticn for the guests to and from the convention.

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"ThatWe May Boldly Say" b~idwestern Luncheon For Imnediate- Release ST. LOUIS, June 11--The national alun~ni luncheon of Flidwesterr, Saptist Theological Semi nary was hqghl ighted here !.lednesday by a mu1 ti-media presentation, the election of new officers, and the announcement of the successful completion of the institution's first fund-raising effort. Tile fund-raising effort rill provide additional funds needed to complete a Chjld Developnent Center, a facility designed to provide day care for preschoolers of seminary students. The center not: stands structurally complete and !*'I1 be ready for use In the fall. John Goadwin, past~rof Broadmoor Baptist Church, Baton Rou~e,La., was chosen president- elect of the alumni. Other 1980-01 officers are Duane Triinble, pastor of Sharwood Captist Church, tiebskr Grove, f'ro., past-president, and Robert #ie.ieade, pastor of the First Baptist Church, tee's Smit, Ib., president.

The alumni also approved proposed guide1 ints to establish an alumnus of the year award, to recognfze and honor alumni for significant contributions to the Christian ministry.

Entertainment was provided by mime 3rian Humphrey and religious $inter 8ev Ccndray of St. Lwfs. The luncheon, which attracted almost 3012, was held at the Sel Air tlilton in conjunction with the Southern Baptist Convention. In closing the alumni luncheon, seminary president iiil ton Ferguson chat lenged tha alumni to c=.ntlme sacking new horizons in ministry. ~ervanleswnvenaon lventer SUL rress News nwrn rrioroyrdprlyl I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 R presentative Manager Features Manager News

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Election of Second Vice President For Imdiate Release

ST. LOUIS, dune 11-C. Wade Freeman of Dallas, retired director of evangelism of the Baptlst General Convention of Texas, Iiednesday defeated Robert Hal ker, a pastor from Bulls Gap, Tenn., f n a second run-off election for second vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Freeman received 2,258 votes, for 65.60 percent of the 3,593 votes cast. In an oarller run-off, Freeman received 2,761 votes anrl b!a1 ker, 2,065. Sussell Fen- port, a layman and member of First Baptist Church of Springfield, %., was third among 12 nominees for the office. Freeman lost Tuesday to Jack Taylor in a run-off election far first vice president. Freeman was nominated by Clyde Fant, pastor of First Baptfst Church of RSehardson, Texas. Others nominated for second vice president were Kenneth Story, pastor of the German- town Baptist Church, krmantwn , Tenn. ; E. Harmon tloore , executive secretary of the Stat? Convention of Baptists In Indiana, Indianapolis i Bill Sherman, pastor of ldoodmant Baptist Church, Nashvi 1le, Tenn. ; and John Hoi 1inqsworth, pastor of ?lount Calvary Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. And Fred Powell, Rastor of Pispah Saptist Church, Excelsier Snrings, go. ; George Bagley, exrcutf ve secretary of the Alabama Baptist Convention, fdbntpomry; J. 0. Rush Jr., pastor of Samaria Baptist Church, Oatesburo, S.C. ; Gordon Dorian of Withi ta, ban. ,; and Tom Clayton Jr., pastor of the First Baptis: Church of Hobbs, N.V. Freeman, who succeeds Alfrzd Donaid Touchton of Srandon, Fla, , will serve with SBC president Batley Smfth, pastor of First Southern Saptist Church of De1 City. Qkla., and first vice president, Jack Taylor, author and evanaelist of Fort Horth, Texas. Other officers elected were recordira secretary i4artin Btadl+y, manager of the research services department of the Rapti st Sunday Schcol Board, Pashvi lle, f enn. ; regis- tration secretary Lee Pcrtzr, design editor of the Sunday School department of the Baptist Sunday Sskool Board, Nashville; and treasurer Harold C. Bennett, exacutive secpetary of the SBC Executive Comnittce, Nashvi 1le. All officers except Freeman were elected Tuesday by messengers to the 123rd annual SBC in Cervantes Convention Canter. 3-lu .\lSYU4. IYL.,. C( Cetvantes Convention C( SBC Press News Room Photography1 St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Brooks !!ester Feature For Imediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--"'!hen smebody talks tc 'e about i~depei~ddentZ~~ptists, I tell thsn I'K a member of an independent Saptist churc!~," announce,! the outfoinc chairman of the Southern baptist Convention's C6-iliwbber ExecutSve Cmittee. Gut then arooks Yisster, pastor of First Captist Churc:~. Hattiesburo, ;:iss., qualifies that statrment. "Let re tell yw, there's nothinl; nore ir.de:sn

"It's the only advice my preacher father Fave i??!!;\en I tolt! hin Iwas goins intc the pastorate,': !!ester said. "ii~told me, 'Scn, if you rtant to rean the aost yau can for the cause of Christ, just love t9e brethrea and attend the meetSnrs. ' I never had better advice and that's what I'in tellin? pec~3e." In his nine yews or, the cmittec- (he !q&s appoiiltai to servc an unexpiret: ten, then served V.m foiir-year terns) "ester has szer! much of the leatership cf the denmination's agencies change. l,!hile he had no role in individual asency search cornittee activities, he was nane" chainnan of the saarch ccmittee that nominstd Harol! 6eitnett to place the retlrfn~: Porter Routh, cexccr;tive secretary of the SZC Executive Cmittee. "Then I:.as elected chairmfi~of Executive Cornittea itself," he salJ. "1'11 toll "vou, there hasn't been a day, espaeially i:~tho last tvo years, when I haven't prayer' for tile members of the Exscutivs Cmmittee by name ai?d !.#hen I haven't spent soa:e portion of w time involved In Executive Cmittee ':ark, " He said his church, a thriving, 2,qOG member conpregation in kfs stete's third lar~est City, has been particularly understanding of his denmination's respansibit ities, "Since I've been ii~volvedvitli the Executive Cornittee, our church !ifts to the Cooperative P~ogrxihave clcre than dcubled. I've 5eec there 13 years an3 our church gffts to rissions alone last year \:!ere rare tl;ar, the total kudoel ~he3I mnt there Jn '1967." Other things r.l(tster had reinforced during his tilne on the Executive Cmittee include the sure krtowledji~that "Southern laptists are a people !vka work best vitr4 th~total li~ht on any 9iven problem or subject.. Tell 5aptlsts "Le trutl. and ?aptist;s #illcone ta the rloht conclusfons, because this whole denmication is based on trcst azb ccefi6ence in each other. Page 2- -3roolrs !!ester Feature "Ihave also learned there are ultimate talents anonq the laity--hth men and women-- and the pastors of the Southern Saptist Convention. '.!@ have some of the finest people, who at r~alsacrifice servd an the Executlvt! Ckittee. -- Vh!hjle he can recount high mments from his Executive Consnittee caxperieace, !.Iester a1 so describes some heartaches.

Iil an apparant reference to the inerrancy controversy, he said, "One of the hsartaches Ihave at this particular tine is the attempts that have been made to discredit people within the Ssptfst fanity. The erosion of trust is goinc tc backfire on any who sovs seeds bf mistrust. Idester wishes there were sme things the Executive Cmittee could change. 'Iwi sh the Executive Cmittee could jo more to inspire Southern Zagtists to even more dedicated support of the wrk of all our agencies in achieving oor qcal of Bold Hission Thrust." !te also is concerned about thfngs that fractionalize 3aptists. "Ithink such thlncls as the inerrancy issuc, last year's messenger repistration, and such things that come up from year to year have attracted our attention but have not, as yet, detracted us fiwn our main goal of missions. I ! ''But we must be constantly on the alert not to have our attention directel away frm missions. I know 39 and 41.103 percent of our Southern Saptists ara solid Sible-believing, Bible-preaching, ilible-liviag people. !!e are el1 imperfect, yes, but that goal of missions is still before us." ~ika$es'~oGentioncenter SBC Press News Room Photogrgphy,' St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Hme jrlissionary Receptfon For ImrredisW Release ST. LOUIS, Juiz:! 1lm-Hme missionaries and raak-and-f ile Southern Baptists met face to face Nednesday afternoon during an informal reception In Cervantes Convention Center. Moot of the 153 .Home i.iission Board missionaries who earlier..rigned in with the board were on hand to visit with Saptists who sho~edup to meet them. I Although tkre was not a formal agenda for the meeting, much af the conversation at the get-together centered on explaining tasks and comnitments.

A Wority of the missionaries said becoming missionaries was a logical step in their ministries. I "Inas a laman and worked in Dallas for 23 years before Ientered the ministry," said A. H. Sampley, pastor of Flrst Baptist Church of Bradford, Ohio. I "Then Iwas an associate pastor before I became a home missionary in 1977," he said. "Thrwgh all these years, my ministry really has not changed--knocking on doors and binning rauls to Christ is what it's all about. You don't have to be a afssionary to do -. - that, Rafael delian, who came to the United States as a Cubail refugee in 1962 and began I working 4n harae missions later that year, sa!d his work as a language missionary in Louisiaaa today is geared more toward Engl ish-speaking Baptists than to ethnics. "1 see myself more as a missionary to Anglos--to help their churches open their eyes to the naeds of 'foreign missions' in thefr homeland,'' he explained. I tiowever, he added that the same work which he started as a pastor in Cuba in 1954 continues today. nllve ken working with . . . people all my life," he sald. "I love it." Some miss3maries emphasized that while their work has not changed since tby accepted their #I0 jOa,$, their scope of emphasis has shffted. "More than ever before, I realize the importance of mission work," sald Harold Daniels, who becam ArissCon pastor of Village Seven Saptist Chapel in Colorado Springs, Colo., shortly after he was graduated from dew Orleans i3aptist Theological Seminary in 1979.

"The potential of our work is awesome," addd his wife, Carol. "Ye are located fn an area with 43,600 people, and there only is one other church." "There Ss a world view of missions which I did not have before I became a missionary," added Evefdtt Anthony, director of missions for tlre Chicago iiletmpolitan Baptist Associatian.

"ily concept of mfssims has becune broader in the two ywrs that f have bean a mfssfon- ary," he said. "Now, I'm responsible for missions of the whola city--a literal microcosm of the world. "There is a great burden to learn to relate" to the pcople on the mission field in an effort to mach them far Christ, he sald. - 30- By Raw tCno~m~7:15p.m. LJednesday . ", w " .%. L'-u .I#!: iu- I Y. -Y.. +-,. 5"- - Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press NWS own ~hVotogaphy/ I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Conference of Evangel ists I:lrap Up For Imdfate Release ST. LOUIS, June 11--"Amens" rang through the historic Third Baptist Church here Wednesday aftemoon as abut 500 participants in the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangel lsts heard rousing singing and sermons from eight of their colleagues. Meeting in conjunction with the 123rd session of the Southern Baptist Convention, the pastors and swnge1Ssts were challenged to "stop asking God to raise up a Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers or James Robinson" to help straighten out the world. "He might be wanting to use some of us peons," joked Henry Linginfel ter, evangelist from Alcaa , ienn. 7k sernrons of Linginfelter and three other preachers were punctunated by the songs of a stiawcase of music evangelists during the four-hour meeting. "God has a deadline for America," Linginfel ter told the conference partfcipants. Mhile the country has "more good preaching, more Eibles, mre c;urches and more gospel tracts" than any country in history, there is still no revival, he lamented. ArPericarshould stop "putting trust in treaties and alliances" and start "repenting and grtting right with 60d," Linginfel ter advised.

In another sermon, evangelist Ed Stalnecker of Jacksonville, Fla., appealed to his colleagues to "not just talk about Jesus, but be like Jesus." Stalnecker chided those in the SBC who are "shoutinq about biblical inerrancy" but not having the "active loven which the Bible teaches. furntng his good-natured needling to the "lack of humillty" aman9 she preachers, he joked that sme of his fellow evangelists "believe their own publicity." "Be sure it's not you that you are 1i fting up (in your preaching) but him (God) ," he said. "I've heard people brag about Jesus when they were really braggfng about them- $el ves ." Evangelist Rick Ingle of Denton, Texas, urged the conference participants to "never let the hand o-f 60d depart from your 1ife."

He also chal lfbn ed the evangel ists to "be personal with your soulwinnf no. I know I get mm joy out o? sitting down with one lost sinner and leading hhn to Christ than seeing 20 people mlking dmthe isle." Hmn Applmn of Kansas City, b., an evangelist for 46 years and president of the conference, altswersrd critics of "full -time" praPessiona1 wangel ists. "Irefuse to do anythjng other than what God has called me to do," the Russian Imi- grant proclafraed to loud applause. €&rlf*~W1185day during a business meting, the confenwe elected MI officers. They were Clyde Chiles of St. Louis, Mo., presldent; Leon Ijcrterhouse of Blrraingha~~,Ala.; vice przsidcttt; Bill Sky-Eagl e of Dallas, music director; Chuck Kennedy of St, Lguis , a$sistrnt msic director; Lonnie Parsons of San Antonio, Texas, parliamentarian; and Jim WJlliams of Tulsa, Okla., pastor-advisor. Don Mckof ,Hemphis, tenn., sewes as df rectar of the conference. -30- *r .I.U bl -1" * .1 I q.1 1 W'W . Y. " d..' I* Y. . w *. . . Cervantes Convention Center SBC press News Room ~h*otography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

'That We May Boldly Say" Foreign Missfgn Reception For Imdirta Release ST. LOUIS, dune 11--In a day of sophisticated communications techniques, the Southern Baptist Foreign Hission 2oard turned to nore than 100 "cmunications specialists" 'lednesday to tell lts story to the Southern Eaptist Convention. They're known as missionaries, and they were there at the board's reception--demonstrat- in9 the importance at the personal presence in a colorful and excited way. Dressed in the national dress of countries nherc they serve, the missianaries drew a steady flow of convention visStors kho came to renew friendshfps, learn mre about how their dfld n~iasionoffe?dn~s are being used overseas, or perhaps just to shake hands pith a "real missionary. '' host of the missionaries had arrived in I.Sissour.i last week to attend a four-day Furloughing i-iissionaries Conference el: Camp klinbemere near Springfield . . Eut they came on to St. Lauis to participate In the convention and be a visible reminder to S~uth@maaptists that t.4eir work not? ext~nd5to 94 countries or territories throughout tk wrld. The board uses medfa experts, literature specialists, and the latest in conmunications gear to share the Gospel, but it is the persona1 presence of the career missfanary that enables every other kind of approacS to be used more effectively, said \.Iillian R, O'Bricn, executive Vice president of the board. Same, 1 ike dtminutive missionary surceon Rebekzh i?aylor of Bangalore, India, \*!ere just back from their fields. Dr. iEayloris parents, Dr. and Mrs. Rotert rlaylor, were anon5 the hundreds attendiaq the reception. He Is the president emeritus of Soct!x!cstern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort I!orth, Texas. In the last seven years, the ~issfonarydoctar szid 15 churches have been started In the area surrounding the hospital as a direct result of its ministry.

"Ye've had a great response out in the villaqes," she said. "It's an example of hop! medical nisalon~can work.:' In laJddtfon to medical care at the hospital, the staff has pioneered in preventive health progrants, education, nutrition and cmnity devslapment projects. James and Leola Upland flew in from aeirut, Lehanon, last Saturclzy and came directly to St. LOUIS, Ragland, a veter~nof Soutkern Saptist nissian wrk in the F{T.f,dle East country, directs the Beirut Eaptist School, a 715-student institution, Located on the kiusli& side of hirut, the school has gained a reputation for academic excellence and has been unable to accept all tho apply, Because of tensions ic the city, Friusljss err no longer a1lorJed to cross over into the "Christian" section to attend school, he said, ad mre want tb enroll at the Baptist school. Recmtly, tro bbswere found and defused at the headquarters of a private amy located adjacent to the Beirut Baptist Sc3oo1, Raglan4 said. Only an alley separates t;lp six-story headquartem,from the school grounds. About 15 such private amias exist in Leba~oil,he said, -3c- Sy Bob Stanley--7:OC p.m. "ednesday Cervantes Cbnventldn Center SBC Press News Room mitograpny/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Executive Committee Off iccrs For Imnedf ate Re1east! ST. LOUIS, Junz! 11--J. Howard cobble, pastor of Avondale Estates Baptist Church, Atlanta, I!ednesday rras elected chaimn of the 66-amber Executive tomnittee of the Southern Saptist Convention for one year. He succeeds 9ruce !-!ester, pastor of First Eaptist Church, :lattieshur?, Wiss . ',!ester, who is rotating off the Executive Cmittee, lbles concluding the second year of a two-year stint as chaimn.

John T. Dunaway, pastor of First 6aptist Church, Cori;in, Ky., \?as named vice chairman, Don Gent of Evansville, Ind;, a layman, was elected recording secretary. Cobble, ?!ha was nominated by Rodney R. Landes, a layman from El Corado, Ark., said he was looking fontarcl to working with the Executive Cornittee to accmplish the inmediate and long-range goals of the denonination's Bald i iission Thrust effort, "I-.. .Y..V . .IV.,. Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Southwestern Trustees Heeting For Imedfate Release ST, LWIS, June 11--Lawrence R. Klernpnauer of Fort Vorth was elected vice president for student affairs at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary during a meeting Wed- nesday of the seminary's board of trustees. The appointment is effective August 15, Klmpnauer currently serves as minister of education and administration for Travis Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Itlorth. The board also elected Jerry A, Privette of illashville, Tenn,, as associate professor of cducatf~nadminiatration, and Robert Phillips of Abilene, Kan., as assistant llbrarjan for public sewlces.

Privette is a consultant in the church architecture department of tht Baptist Sunday School bard. He will assume his teaching duties this fall.

Phillips is associate director of libraries and an instructor of New Testament at Hardin-Simns Unfversity. He assumes his new position August I, replacing Cecil R. tihlte, who joined Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary as 1i braries director. Tha trustees authorized the seminary pksident and officers to work with the bwk store dfvision of the Baptjst Sunday School hard in preparing drawings and sol ic4 ting bids for a new 10,000 square foot Baptist book store on the campus at Sunday School ' Board expmre. Three distlnguizhed professors, each with more than 25 years of service, Here cjted. They were John Drbkeford, professor of psychology and counseling; S. Cal Guy, &ottms Professw of MlsCions; and iloyd Hunt, professor of theology. -30-

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Baptist Runs Amh For Imaediate Release Sf. LOOIS, June 11--A multitude ~f Southern Saptistr toured the world famous arch on the i4irsirsippi River here this week. But fm realized that their enjoyment ?!as being cared for under the watchful eye of another Southern Baptist-Jerry Schober, a Sunday School teacher at Concord Zaptist Church, St. Louis. IlQr wife Kathy worked in the infomiation szctfon of the Satfthern Baptist Convention in tervantes Cmwtion Center, St. Louis. The couple ha$ three teenaged daughters--all profassfng Christians and all active with Concord Church. The arch is officially knom as Jefferson Flational Expansfon ;;iemorial, named .fn honor of Thomas Jeff-.-son and commratifig the Louisiana Purchase under hls administratioil.

St. Louis was the SluTiQing off place for the nevly acquired purchase. The areh -yhboli~@sthose &Q pioneered In the territory and broke new ;round and tralls. The iliusemi of :!@stward Expansion, for which Schobsr alsc is the superintendent, &raws-- as does the arch--$cane 215 ~hilllonvisitor$ annually. Schuber a!ro has rasponsibility far St. Louis' old Courthouse--site of the fmws Oped Scott frSg3 back in trje cid-1850s. The old courthouse, arch, and museun: are part of SO aGws along the RIvarfront area noti under clevelopment by the iIatiana1 Park Service, which emplays Schober to run the park and farilities. The areh, know worldwide, is so farnus that one Arab nation wanted to build jts own-- but a 1lttlk larger. The arch is 63G feet high, 14th its foundation sunk 6C feet into the ground in bedrock, -30- - - - - . - . .- - .. . Cewantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

'That We May BoMly Say" Roundup for Thursday PJS For Imediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 12--Messenpers to the 123rd annual meetina of the Southern Baptist Convention received glordi ng proqress reports from six national aqenciss and woman's auxiliary Thursday morning at Cervantes Convention Center. The Annuity Board Sn Dallas reported total assets held in trust for annuity partit.lp%ntfl reached $667,521,000 at the end of 1979, up more than $97 million from the previous year, At the same time, another 602 churches joined the Southern ilaptist Retirement Program along with 2,464 pastow and church employees, the report said. The agency paid almost $20 million in retirement benefits during the year while in- surance benefits amounted to more than 51 3 mil1 ion, The BaptIst Joint Cmittee on Public Affafrs, the agency looking after Baptist in- terests fn Washington, warned in its report of growing government intrusion into religious affairs. St labeled the action the dominant single issue facing churches in the public arena, Amcy leaders reported they had shared SSC concerns expressed in resolutions with appropriate governmental offitihls. The concerns included opposition to a proposed Internal Revenue Service procedure on the tax exempt status of private schools, support of the Salt I1 treaty with the Soviet Union, and support of postal regulations to hold posta~eincreases for second class pub- 1ications to cost-of-1 ivinp gufdelines.

The Historical Cmisslon in Hashville reported It conducted 16 workshops in five states and provided certificates for churches celebrating anniversaries, Hollis E. Johnson 111, executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foundation, the 8aptlst Investment and estate planning services aoency in aashville, said assets of the foundation Oenerated $1,733,862 ir! income durin~the year, an increase of $358,653 over the prcvlous year. Arthur !fa1 ker Jr., executive secretary of the Education Conmission in iu'ashvill e, which works an behulf of 72 seminaries, eolleger and schools related to t5e S8C and state Bap- tist conventions, reported that f inancia1 support to state convent4 on-supported schools rose to almost $50 million, an increase of more than $3 million. The repart said 22,791 students In Baptist related schools are studying for church- related and missions vocations. hlk~r@loo gave the report of the Southern Baptist Comnission on the American Baptist Semi nary. The Wn's Ulsslanary Unim f n Birmingham reported men and girls groups 3n 23,737 Southem Bapti$t churches wfth plans for cantactinp wwnen in the remafnfng 21,869 churches in the dtminstlon about starting missions groups.

Special afftrings promoted by 1:IIIU totaled more than $50 million durinq the year, the report said. ------Y -7 I-. I l - -- w- -T?wVY,-l . .""...w. r-.,.rrw.. Cervarr&s Convention Center SBC Press New$ Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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BPRA Awards For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 11--Educatianal institutions swept all awards in the annual Baptist Public Relations Association-sponsored exhibft empetition at the annual meeting of the Southern Eaptist Convent1on Hednesday at Cervantes Convention Center. Heading the winners' list were the six SBC theological seminaries in the $2000 and above catwry. Tho circular exhibit high1ightad the denomfnation's current Bold ldission th, a plan to share the gospel with every person in the world by the end of the ceh- tury. The six sminaries are Southern, Louisville, Ky.; Southwestern. Fort North, Texas; Mew Orleans; Golden Gate, Nil1 Valley, Calif. ; i-lidwestern, Kansas City, Ho.; and South- eastern, Hake Forest, N. C. First place winners in the $1000-$2000 category were the Radio S Television Com- mission, Fort Yorth, and Baylor University, yaco, Texas. The RadSo-TV Comnission exhibit also called attenth to the Bold Hission emphasis, with special attentton to services through the agency to local churches, associations, and state conventions. The Baylor booth had the them of "Excellence--A Tradition, A Practice, A Promise." In the $500-$1000 category, honors went to Palm Beach Atlantic College, West Palm Beach, Fla., with a motif an the school Is growth, Among those entries spending $1-$500, the winner was Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Ariz.. with the theme "Your Place in the Sun." The contpetition recognized excallence in exhibits' attention command, fmagination in design, applicatfon of theme, educational value, and achievement of purpose.

By Stan Hastry--4: 53 p.m. klednesday News

That We May Boldly Say" Tutting a Convention Together For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 11--The convknience of the nessenger is the most important considera- tion for planners of the znnual meting of the Southern Baptist Ccnvention. ThJs takes time, coordination, planning, the cooperat:on OF hundrads of people, and money. "k!e look out for the comfort of the messenger," cxplainzd Tim Hedquist, director cf financial planning for the SCC Executive Ccmmi ttee, Nashvil?2, and the person responsi by e for coordinatfng convention planning. "We wrnt them to feel goad about their meeting."

The SBC, in annual sesslon, votes on rneetf~csit& five years in advance. The inv't3- tion to a city usually cones from soseone in thskity or th2 state. A city must meet certain convention guide? ines to be considered. It must have 6500 hotel roul~~savailable within a 10 minute bus rid2 from the meet!ng hall and a 16,000 re3t 311cliLur'iunl with exhibit spare in the proximity.

"With these restrictioi~s, there are oo1>1 only IT! citizs capabl? of hand1 ins the South- ern Baptist Convention," said Hedquist. They are Hew Orleans, Atlanta, Dzllas, Kansas City, Los Angel~s, Pittsburg, F'zw York, Detroit, Roseincnt, Ill. (GIHare Airport), and St. Louis.

An Executive Cornittee wrk group visits thrj cities to check flcilities in detail and brings a retomendation to the Exsc~t?veCo:wiittze. Th? sitc !s voted 03 in the next annual meeting of the Convzntion.

"The cities love to see us cc;ne:" said Hcdquist. "It's qsoc! for their iil!ages to have Southern Baptists neeting with then. knd we s?end rrroney." A1 though liquor saies--usuzl!y a big source of incoze durfng conventions--decline when the SBC is in town, it is stil! vrelcome.

"Baptists don't drink, but they eat," said Hedquist. "!!e eat about as much as other people drink. And, too, we don't bring the problems that usual;y go with drinkino."

The Chamber of' ~omerceestimated that Southern Bapti,cts v.auld spend $4 million to $5 million during their 3-day stay in St. Louis. The standard estimate of a dally expenditure for a person attending such a meetinj is $6:.

"The Southern Baptist Convention is an excellent convention for a cfty to have," said John North, a Chamber of Cormncrce representative. "fnej don't brinp many problems. eaptists are clean ana orderly. You know, cities correspond wit:^ each other about con- ventions and this is a very good meeting to have."

The SBC Execctive Committee also corresponds with other conventions who have met in the recommended city to find out about their trehtnefi: there.

Fifteen months prior to the meeting, the local a;-rangements cornittee is formed and begins to function. Hedquist says his own office does not spend "that much time" planning the Southern nap- tist Convention. He attributed that to the mlny pesple involved at every level.

"The chairman of our local arrangements ecrrmi ttee is the key," said Hadquist. "Lie h~ve been very fortunate to have super chairmen. Thfs takes a trmin;endous amount of time." Page 2--Putting a Convention Together

Local arrangements are responsible for such things as repistration, transportation, information, medical services, decorations, the post office, housing in homes, and the ushers. . .

"The sub-committee chairmen and the 200 or so volunteers are the ones who've done the work," said Mallace Jones, chair~anof local arrangements in St. Louis and pastor of Fee Fee Baptist Church. "Also the guidance from our excellent convention staff has made this an easy task."

He went on to say the hardest part is en1 isting volunteers, especially during the day- time hours when many people are working. "Some people are even taking vacatSon time to help this year. They appreciate the role the Convention plays. For nany, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Con- vention at work," Jones explained. A lot of behindxthe-scenes work enables the SET, to fuilction. dinety-three staff people put together a news room which is used by approximately 250 news people. This operation, in addition to supplying news coverage of the proceedings and activities, handles sales of speeches, pictures and sl ides.

Also, food, medical services and security must be provided for the messengers. According to Hedquist, the overriding factor in putting together an annual meeting for Southern Baptists is the cost. He believes it will cause many chanoes in the ccming years. "Just this year we were unable to offer the shuttle bus service because the buses cost $100,000," he pointed out. "Our total budget is only $126,000."

Citing the per day cost of attending this convention, Hedquist raid this will cause changes in the way the annual meetings are held if it begins to affect the number of people who can attend.

"Cost is also making changes in the technoloqical side of our meetina," he said. "For instance, next year we will not be able to have the imape magnification. The bid in Los Angeles was $85,000. Of course, our olaln Radio and Television Cormission pioneered in this system, and we may just have to come up with something else."

Hedquist be1 Jeves any channes mnde !?illnot affect the opportunity for messengers to fellowship with one another at the annual meetino.

"There is no way the fellowship can be underestimated," he said. "!*!hat goes on in the halls--the fellowship--is just as important 2s !*!hat qoes on inside the meeting hall ." ;,!essenners to the meeting in St. Louis seemed to anree that ttle convention is v~orth the cost. On the second day of the 123rd annual meetina, they defeated a motion that the convention meet every four years.

By Jennifer 9. Owen--4:4G p.m. Uednesday. Cervantes C;onvention Center btl~mess nourn rrmugmp~y/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Southeastern Seminary Alumni Lunch For Inmediate Re1 ease ST. LOCIS, June 11 --Rlu~ni of Southeastern "ptist Theolocical Seninary elected national officers for 1SCO-81, recoqnized contributions to the seminary of the late 'Theodore F. Adams and retirin:;.; business ma;;ager 0. L. Cross, azd h~arda state of the seminary report frm: President 1.'. Randal 1 Lo1 1ey. James A, Auchmuty, pastor of Shades Crest Captist Church, GirnJnqhan, Ala., was elected president of the 4,150-member alunni associatioil. Other officers elected wera Paul J. Craven* pastor of First Captist Church, Charleston, S .C., president-elect; Calvin S. iletcalf, pastor of Central Captist Church, Fountain City, Tei~n., secretary: 2nd C. !.tray Ivey, pastor of First Saptist Church, ;iacon, Ga., director. In resolutions, the alumni recosnized the contributions of Adanrs who tausht preachlnn at Southeastern for ten years following his retirement as pastor of First aaprist Church, Richmond, Va. Crass, who retires on July 31, was honored for his 11 years as business manager. Lolley said that although all of Southeasteri?'~faculty vacancies have now been filled, the continuing increase in enrollment places a burdeil on the facuf ty teaching load as well as on housing and classroom facilities. I-le said that even with the openfiir and filling of 100 ne!.~ townhouse apartments this f~ll,there are still 60 families on the waiting list for housing. Of the special events during the past year, Lolley pointed to the seninary's Conference on Siblical Authority and a career assessment workshop for nev stcdents as outstanding. lolley reported that Southeastern's $3 $5 mil 1ion "Equipping for Rold Nisslon" canpaiqn is approaching the $2 mill ion mark with 19 ~onthsre~aining. Other action by the alunni include:! rcnec:al cf support of the capital an2 endowment funds campaicn and expression of appreciztion for outnoing alunni president Janes aaucom of I.iartinsville, Va. -30- 21, Rod 9yard--5:23 p.m. !!,'ednesday Cewantes Convention Center YUL rress luews nuorri rrlutuyrapl~y~ St. Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Southwestern Alumni Luncheon For Imnediate Reteas2

ST. LOUIS, June 11--Presentation of the 1980 distinauished alunni to three personali- ties highlighted the national Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni luncheon here tlediresday. Receiving the awards were Jimrny R. Allen, president of the Southern Baptist Radio and Televfsion Commission, Fort Worth; S. M. Lockridge, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Labt~sa, Cali.?.; and R. Keith Parks, president of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, A.1 chmond. The three were recoonized for distinguished denominations1 service and loyai ty to the seminary ~t Fort Worth. D. L. Lowrie, pastor of First aaptist Church, Texarkana, Texas, was elected president of the 36,000-member national alumni association for 1980-81. 0the:- officers are Charles Fuller, p~storof First Baptist Church, Roanoke, Va. : oresident-elect, and John Seelig , vice president of pub1 ic affairs at Southwestern, secretary-treasurer.

Seminary president Russell H. Oilday, Jr. described the "return cn investaent" of theoloalcal education at the seminary for 950 persons at the alumni lun-hc, em. "!Je have the investment of our faculty, who are dedicated to their task and sho~ excellence in their preparation ,I' rlilday said. "They have invested their 1ives f n the cause of theological education. " Oilday noted the investment of the seminary through Southern Baptist Cooperative Program funds. Thz Cogperative Progrcm annually provides about 50 percent of the semi- nary's total operating budget.

By Philip Poole---5:45 p.m. j*fednesday LelvanN?sLonven'ibon Genter -- St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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ST. LOUIS, June 9--Southern Baptist pastors were rncouraqed .,ionday to turn to prayer -when their faithfulness to 604 causzs problems in their lives. Joe1 C. Gregory, pzstor of Gambrel1 Street Oaptist Church, Fort l.brth, Texas, told the clergmn they can expect problem because the secular wrld does not recognize their God nor God's egznda of faith. Taking a text frtci Exrjdss 5, the Texcs Baptist preacher usd the Egyptian Pharaoh as the nods1 fa;* th? $eculcr world, adding that ''modern secular man looks at the man of faith with the sase in:imedibic stars. "Conscmxl vrl th buf ldinq the image of his own e~o--notwith pyramids, but with associa- tion with the right pzaplr, living in the right neighborhood, belonging to the iqght club, knowing the ;reapie t+at really matter--iriodern hmanistic man is incredulous *ken the church interrupt5 him with a Wi'd frm J~hovah,"Gregory sail. "!.!e $hntrld not bs sui-prjscd when modern pharaohs reject our message. They knot? the gods tryat ntqi;tar, they ars act Iiiipressecl by the people who belong to Sod, and they consider audacious tile very rlrg~r.~t:onthat they should take him seriously." 6rego~yr.,isf p:i:ra,-h alsz is reflected in the businessnan who senses his mw mortality and beccm: n !+a-kcholi;: to bafcn his heart that is always oae beat closer to its last.

Gregory n:s c:,e G? izur clergynzn who addr~ssedthe Saptist pastors at the mor64gg session of the4 r ho-d?y sonfsrence at Cewantes Convention Center. Others wer.2 Ralph La:ryley, pastor of First Baptist Church, Huntsville, Ala.; George H. Harrf s, pastor of Castle Hills Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas, and Richard Jackson, pastor of iJorth Phceilix Sapti st Church, Pheenix , Ari z. The minister; ce'i'e 2nc:;g scxn Soutiern 3aptist groups meeting in advance of the 123rd knntral c~al'erenceof the Southern Baptist Convention, which starts Tuesday at the convention ccctcr. !&men att~nding tba anncal meting of !!omants ''ii ssionary Union at Riel Auditorium heard tw addresses cnd a series of interviews on the theme, "The Church in Life-Changing Comnitments." Diwztors of missicns at at Fee Fee aaptist Church, church musicians at fbddebptist Church, religiirus educators et the Sheraton-St, Louis Hotel and campus ministers at Stouffers Rfverfront Hotel. Deacons met Sunday at Tower Grove Saptist Church. The annual meting of the 13.4 mill ion member denominatian Is expected to attract 13,000 messengers from thrcdghout :he nation for its three-day meeting. Progrim featur~sir,tlude thz election of a successor to President Adrf ail Rogers of Ikmphis, Tenn., approval of a budget of $30 million, presentation of reports from 20 agencies, examination of tightcr rcsistration and voting proowals , and consideration of a vide range of propose3 resalutions. -33- By Roy Jenni ngs --5 :45 p .a. 51;nd*y -St. Louis, ~issouri(314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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PattersonIDraper !4essages For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June &-One of the chief leaders of the movement in the Southern Baptist Convention promoting bib1jcal inerrancy said here Sunday that he will stop fighting his battle for the Bible when others "stop attacking it:'

Paige Patterson, president cf Criswell Ceriter for Biblical Studies, Dall as, Texas, declared further that !lorld Var 111 can be avoided only if the United States experiences spiritual revival, which Tn turn hinges on acceptance of the Zible as inerrant (without error). "That alone can stave off" global conflict, he said. Speaking less than an hour later from the same pulpit, the president of the Southern aaptist Pastors ' conference urqed Southern Baptists to avoid fighting amonq thensel ves. Jimmy Draper, pastor of First Captist Church, Euless, Texas, reminded the capacity crowd at the morning worship service at Tower Grovc Zaptist Church that because the mcst bitter of fights occur in families, Southern daptists must not jeopardize their influence with internal battles. "Southern 3aptists will never be what we might be and what m could be until . . . we are devoted to each other," he said. Preaching the mornin9 semon imediately after Patterson had addressed a joint adult- youth Sunday School assernbly in the Tower G:-ove sanctuary, Draper identified what ile called the "basic distinc>iveri' of first ceiltury Christians enabl ina them to become -,a revolutionary church. " The Texas pastor said early Christians had a sonse of their destiny, had made a firm decision to begin a new way of life, had Jesus as their director, and were possessed by the dy:amic of the Holy Spirit.

Bilt the distinctive !qhich made the !.rorl: take notice, he concluded, was their devotioil to one another. The church must be the place where people know they are needed and loved, he sail. Then he wmt on to apply the principle to the denomination. Patterson had told the crowd earlier that Tolater Srove pastor Larry Lewis had specifically asked him to address the subject of inerrancy. Levis, who has idei~tifiedhimself with the group 1fd by Patterson, called the Texas educator one of the "nost brilliant and articulat~" of Southern Baptists. Patterson decried the position of those Southern Gaptists who claim Jesus Christ rather than the Eible as their "ultimate authority.:' Patterson contenderl that Jesus himself be- 1ieved and proclaimed an inerrant Sibl e. Citing various quotations of Jesus in the Gospels, he said that Jesus bsl ievea in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the aible and in both its infallibility and inerrancy.

Patterson labeled a "tragedy" the practicc of many lay people of leaving the question of biblical interpretation to preachers and pastors. :+e has held throuahout the current Sac controversy over the Bible that most lay people believe in laerrancy but have in many cases been led astray by pastors tainted with 1i beral teachizg in tile denoninatioli's setsinaries. "Ye are suffering today in our cmunion fror a bad case of fear;' he declared. -more- Page 2--Patterson/Draper Messagzs Patterson said that whil2 ha belicves that evangel ism and missions should be at ths heart of Southern Baptist cooperative effdrts, all such endeavors are impossible without be1ief In inerrancy.

Speaking to the danger of world war impressed upon him during a recent three-week visit to Israel, Patterson said that the Israelis have "at least 12 atomic warheads" at their enemies. He predicted that because of what he called Israel 's. "i-lasadan comp f'Oi:tedex "when they go, they will take the world with them." "We are poised on the brink" of nuclear destruction, he warned, concluding that Christians' "only weapon" Is comnitm~ntto an inerrant Bible.

Also participating in the service was SBC president Adrian Rogers, who led the invoca- tion, and the sanctuary choir and orchestra from First Church, Dallas.

By Stan Hastey--4:19 p.m. Sunday Cervantes Convention Center SBI; rress ~ews~oom morograpnyl.- +? St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Rzsearch Fel lcxship For Imcdiate Xel cc-e ST, 13111S. June f--ihp Arcricsn i2n;ily czn expect tough sledding if the latest fore- casts about divcxe hold We, Grctiy Cothen, president of the Southern Baptist Sunday School - .--.J.. U, iddshville, toid rb?l lgiocs researchai.; Saturday nfght at Third Baptfst Church here. The latest trends identified by Yankelovich iioni tcr, a national research service, Indi- c.?t~1one out of every tt.0 mar!-iagcs in 1960 will end In divorce, Cothen said, 2erks-ci1 ciss sh2ws the pr;L:en ~f ths absa~teefather, long prevalent in black families, !s hcc~:,fcga grswing prcrblw. Por whf te famil*;es, too, the Southern ijaptist executive seid. Cothm u:as t'.CIz pri~clpalspc?%er sttho third annual meeting of the Soutl.lern Baptist P:x>reh Fcll;tr!:>ip, : :: crpanitst.io:i of Scr~thcri,Dapti st; with research respansibil ities. l'hs rcresrs'l f~?!c;r;h:',j !+.IS caz ;.P almost a dozefi Southern gaptist groups meeting in :bv;ar,r,e cP tt,~Icrutk:!:r8n 8zp.;;isL Csr.v:ntior, rshich opens a three-day conference Tuesday at Ccr:!aiZs Cte*:c.ntf on C:r.ic.r.

In G L2s$~ezr,CZSS~CI'I, .I. 1'. T*;mtn,, ci~trrchextension consultant for the Baptist General C?n*iac%.ior,of Texas, 9:l?a;, :.raa e?e:tcd president, of the fello!eship for a twolo-year term. I.;-? ~:i~~eqd~dL?OPR~U~ :win, a :a::ion dirzctor :' the Hone fifssion Board, Atlanta. Other zcw ~Fficrsrsiri:lcda ;;srtin Bi- ad:^:, or' ;!ashville, program vice president, Don 14::~. j df dIcx.+.ii~i*i.;::.L(. , ~BT!~?P:~ISF v;ix p~%s:den:; J. C. Bradley of Atlanta, nwbulletin c+ift3r; Ch-ctcr D~~fd~cnc.: I,:u:t-n, secratnry-tre- ;urer, and !!ill is Bennett of Louisville, Y.. , twlrciz cna:rd&n.

In a r;eslal ze?km,;.y, Ai h31-t 'icC: c?7 an, ;-ati ring program pt anni rig secretary for the SSC Exacutivr? Comi ttee, ;?tskvil! r , rrceired an honci-a1.y 1ife mmberahip in the fa1 lowship. In ress2-cii prz;ans,;itiar,: 7zsd:ng u:> to Cothen's address, research s~@?g59al/st~at the Eund?y Szhcc; 6ozrd and "--*,I..,.,.. ik;!ss'cr, Gowd described pr*ojects just camplatcd, in progress, sa.2 an ths dr:w:BJ:ng bi;a?d. CoPF4,-n, t::1(? tie::^ S3utilzWn3apt:stz1 largest education and publishing agency, identified r-. szrice of imp1icat:ons for Ssuttler: Baptisi;~fron the trends in American sceiety,the :-ezearch ska~hd. "She redemptive !w!c of God is msre needful now than ever before," Cothen said. 'kcicty t;nzct 52 ppl:cchxl ap by moc:oto~fc~ltinkerins. Scnreth!nq must happen to the i cGi vi Juzl . "'Je n?cd Ln a#?reness of the issues to be able to minister an6 witness," the Baptist cx~rcirtivr?added. !If just v!int us to take a hard look at t!te world we live in." Cotk+r, said he plans to she;-2 the latest trends in Amertcan society with the 300 editors end consr?*ntr 011 his staff and tc publish portfons of them. Yankelwich knitor was descrfbec! as a secular study of a hlchly secular socfety, tnclud- !zg msral cn.f &neat changes and ways Americans perceive their lives. Cust~%&rsof th2 neticnal rcssarch sarvicc, in addi tfon to the Sunday School Board, :,iclud2 LOQ majsr carporat!ons who use tha research data to develop products and mnrketfng campaign:, Cothen $zid. The fellm+ship agreed tc me+. in 139 in Los Anveles, Ce~antesGonvent~on enter 3t)b rress IY~;W~nwwlrr I I IULU~~~~, St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May 2nP%%%';?, "Liberal s" For Immediate Release NASHVILLE, Tenn.--Don Touchton, second vice president of ths Southern Baptist Conven- tion, stoked tha smoldering coals of the biblical inerrancy debate with the mass mailing of a letter decrying "creeping 1 iberal ism, in our convention organizations and institutions." With a covw latter on Southern Baptist Convention stationery, Touchton mailed an zight-page "Cry of Concern" to about 8,500 pastors, state Baptist newspaper editors and supposedly to all trustees and executives of Southern Baptist aqencies. In it, he defined liberalism as "ths denial of the inerrancy of the Scripture." Touchton, a pastor from Brandon, Fla., mailed the lettiir just days before the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, after which time his term as second vice przsfdent will end. He makes no apologies for usino the office to gain attentjon for the letter, and says most persons would have discarded it without reading if it hafitSt been from a convention officar.

Touchton used a church services company in Texas to facilitate the mailing to South- ern Baptist pastors in 20 southern states who had churches with 301) to 1,000 members. HE said he undertook the effort at his own expense, which cost him nearly $2,000. The venture was not an attempt to lay groundwork for a presidential bid, according to Touchton, who said he was not going to be involved in the presidential politics of the convention. He did not say who he would support for president. Though he is a member of the Baptist Faith and rlessaqe Ek-llonshfp, organized to expose "1 iberal s ," and his church contributes "nominally" to the group, Touchton said he has never attended one of 5ts meetings. The letter contained Touchton's observations of what he called "destructive patterns" in the convention. He said they are caused by liberalism which affects every organiza- tion, "particularly the seminaries and cot leqes ." He said moral decay is the natural result of liberalism. "Some of our Baptist colleges.:and seminaries allow drugs, sex, drinkina, and dancing to be a daily fare of sin's smorgasbord on campus ,"he said. Abner HcCal 1 , first vice president of the convention, and president of Baylor Unfver- sity, responded by saying, "I know of no Baptist college where drugs, szx, drinking and dancinq are bad at all on campus." "Our students are the sons and daughters of people from Baptist churches. They are no better or no worse than they were at home," said HcCall, who did not receive a copy of the letter. kcall gained wide media attention in a recent confrontation in which he threatened to expel1 any Baylor female student who posed nude for a Playboy photogra~her. .. Arthur Ha1 ker, director of the SBC Education Cmisslon, supports the idea that Baptist colleges mirror Baptist churches and points out that every seminary student must be recomnended by a local Baptist church before he or she can attend seminary. Touchton also cited the writing of Joseph F. Green, retired Broadman book editor, as an example of "moral deficencies (that) are a clear product of liberalism." He said that "Green teaches that mutual sexual stimulation between unmarried coup1 es f s acceptable. " Page 2--2nd VP Decries "Liberals" Said Green, who is familiar with controversy over his book, "The Bible's Secret of Full Happiness," published in 1970, "Some kinds of premarital sexual expression are almost inevitable." !dhile he does not condone "heavy petting" before marriage, he said the book tried to point out there is a difference between that kind of expression and sexual inter- course and to affirm the validity of a Christian sexual ethic in a secular culture. The chapter on szx was one of 12 chapters in the book. In it, he said he "set out a ChHstian sexual ethic based on decision and commitment rather than doqmatic legalism that was characteristic of Southern Baptists 30 or 40 years aao." He said thouqh it was con- trary to his intention that his chapter be seen as approval for mutual sexual stimulation between unmarried couples, "Ican't say a readar wouldn't reach that conclusion. But a reader who reached that conclusion missed the point of the book," he said.

In his explanation of liberalism, Touchton said most Southern Baptist liberals are employees of the convention, thouph he did not say most employees are liberals. He feels the difficulty in gaining hearing for his conservative views is because liberals control the apparatus of the convention.

He referred to Jinmy Allen's S3C presidential speech in Houston where Allen said "There are some who would change our aaenda from missions to orthodoxy," and Touchton said that was "an attempted distortion of our priorities in order to protect the liberal element in our midst." "It is an attempt to get Southern Baptists to endorse a sanctuary in our convention for those who do not hold to the historic Baptist position reparding.,the fnerrancy of S~rlptore," the letter said. "Me must never allow orthodoxy to be szt in opposition to missions. The priority for unity must be orthodoxy; the priority for ministry must be missions."

Allen said there was no attempt on his part to distort the priorities of the conven- tion in his Houston speech. "The priorities all along have been missions and evangelism," he said. He called Touchton's effort and that of the element formerly led by Paige Patterson, president of the Crisvell Center for Biblical Studies, Dallas, "an artificial effort to create controversy around the authority of the Sible when the vast majority, the overl~~heln- ing majority, of Southern Baptists accept the authority of the Bible without question.''

Harold C. Bennett, executive secretary-treasurer of the SBC Executive Committee, ~ho has been a denominational employee in two Baptist state conventions, the Baptist Sunday School Board, and the Home biission Board since 1960, said, "In my experience, I just haven't known any 1iberal s in the denominational structure." Touchton said in a telephone interview, "The convention still has the greatest poten- tial of any evangelical body on the face of the earth to accomplish the Bold 1-fission Thrust goals of giving every person a chance to hear the qospel." "But that doer not eliminate the fact we are going to have to address this issue (in- errancy) in the next year or two in order to preserve even the appearance of unity among us," he said. "There are large numbers of pastors amona us, from my sampling, who are on the verge of despair over this thing. They're very concerned over what's happeninq in our schools and over what they perceive to be happening in our seminaries."

He said the question of what to do about denominational employees will also have to be answered. "Are we going to require them to adhere to stated goals (Baptist Faith and blessage statement) or aren't we?" he asked. "!!e'll lose some people if we require it, and we'll lose some if we don't require it." Duke tJcCall, president of Southern Baptist Thealogical Seminary, rose to defend seminaries and denominational employees. "It would have been better if Don Touchton had seminary e*perience or had visited a campus before posinr! as a judge of the seminaries on issues that from my rather extensive experience, I have never seen," irlcCall said. "The typical Southern Baptist employee is exactly in the theological center of the Southern Baptist Convention, wherever that is," said i5cCall. "By its very nature, the average board member represents Southern Baptists and he elects employees who typify Southern Baptists. The Southern Baptist Convention elects people who employ the workers. Wherever the Southern Baptist Convention is, is where employees come out." Page 3--2nd VP Decries "liberals"

+lcCa11 said he would like to see which inerrant copy of the Scripture the inerrancy element reads from. "Pretending they have access to an inerrant copy when they are depen- dent like all of us on theological scholars to give us the instrument from which we read, is an unethical misleading of the public," he said. Touchton's letter also quoted remarks of Dale Roody, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, as an example of doctrinal deviation that 1i beral ism produces. The letter said: "Dale Moody.. ,in a recent report by the Historic (sic) Commission in which he attempted to point out errors in historic Baptist theology, said that writers of the Baptist Faith and blessage, '. ..failed to see that regeneration is as progressive as sanctification. ' This was accompanied by remarks about Baptist polity being in error and suggested that Baptist polity would be more bibl ical when associational ism became Presbyterianism." !.!OOdy took immediate offense to the quotations, and said Touchton did not mention the biblical references Hoody listed to back up his statements, I4oody also objected to a "dis- tortion" of his intent when Touchton capitalized "Presbyterianism" in the letter, when*Moody was in fact referring to the New Testament qroup of elders known as a presbytery to whlch there are numerous bib1ical references. I,loody cited specifically Acts 14:23 whf ch says, "And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting, they committed them to the Lord in whom they be1 ieved." (RSV) Hoody cited also Acts 11 :30, James 5:14, I Timothy 5:17-22, among others. ''There are far morz references to elders than to deacons in the Flew Testament," E.ioody said. "Southern Baptists could strengthen their associational connections by goJng to more emphasis on elders. '' Concerning progressive regeneration, Moody said: "klhen we are born asain, we're not born full grown, We're born 35 babes in Christ and we should grow in grace until we're mature Christians.'' He quoted, among other verses of support, I Peter 2:l-2 which says, "So put away all malice and a11 guile and Insincerity and envy and all slander. Like new- born babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation." He also cited I Corinthians 3:l-3 and Hebrews 5:ll and 6:8. "It'twwtd;ttot.'burt Dcn TouLht~17;~do that, to obey those verses,'' Moody said.

idoody suggested a banner be placed over tho pgdium at the Southern Baptist Convention that quotes Hebrews 6:1, "Therefore let us lcava the elementary doctrines of Christ and go on to maturity.''

Others were mentioned in the lztt2r but had already answercd Touchton's charycs throuqh other pub1 ic statements.

Touchton also talked about autonorily and said only the chlrrchc-s are autonomous. Hz said, "?!ot only ara the boards, aazncias, commissions and institutions not autcnomous by design, they ara also not autonomous by definition." He ancouragad Southern Baptists to "stop being so timid" in directing their agencies. HE said extr~med~nominational loyalty is idolatry . 'IT he denominational amp1 oyse who labols a pastor disloyal because he did not choosa to be educated by Southern fiaptist Con- vention schools is treading on thin ice," said Touchton, a graduat~of Houston Raptist University.

Touchton said he wrota thk trcatis? out of frustration over his viewpoints nevcr qet- tin! heard and ovw similar viewpoints of othsrs being "shunted" aside at annual meetinps. HE said resolutions from the "consarvative" element are killed in committfs and attempts to bring them to tha floor arr shut off.

And, he said many conservativ~sarc simply not informed about thz inerrancy issue. "?lost, if not all, of thi: state denominational papers are cormittfd to raporting in such a !vay as to minimizz, obscurs or distort the ~SSUE," the l~ttarsaid. James Lce Young, editor of th2 Rocky Mountain Baptist, said, "In Colorado, wz cover all ths wws. It's sad when a conv~ntionofficial will spend so much timf and znergy running down the denomination instead of up1 ifting it." Young, who was furious ovsr the Icttzr, sajd "Hr. Touchton owes tha whole denomination an apoloqy. I think he's gone overboard and impugned all of us." Touchton, who said he did not intsnd his 1~tt~rto b~ antagonistic, reiterated his con- c2rn ovkr the issu~of inerrancy. "If wc fail to discuss it," he said, "it's goinp to be the biggest blundzr we've evcr madc." -30- CervanGsConvention Cehter - SSG Press News noom rr ~uluyrdp~ IYI St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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Roundup for donday A. W. For Imedi ate Release ST. L3U IS, June 3--Seven Southern Baptist groups opened speci a1 i zed conferences here Sunday as a prelude to the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention which starts three days of activities Tuesday at Cervantes Convention Center. The Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, cmpri sing the larqest group with attendance sometimes running as high as 20,099, was keynoted by John Bisagno, pastor of First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, with an address on "The Second Coming." Sharing the podium with Bisagno at the convention center was Jack Taylor of Fort Yorth, Te~as,who focused on "prayer and awakening." Taylor operates a consulting firm, Dimensions In Christian Living.

Also attracting a large crowd was the annual meeting at Kiel Auditorium of Yoman's iiissionary Union, the women's auxiliary of the SBC, which featured an interviev of SBC President .42rian Rogers of ;*lenphfs and his family. Other persons interviewd at the women's ineeting !!ere three missionary families, the Ted Samples who serve among the Shoshone Indians in Ft. Yashakie, !#!yo., the James aarrons, who serve in Ghana, and the Gilbert Butlers of Guin, Ala., volunteer *mrkers in missions. An address by Harry Hollis, asscziate executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Commission, capped the opening session of the women's meeting. He was a last minute rzplacernent for theologian Harvey Cox, professor in the Haward Universf ty Divinity School.

Directors of missions met at Fee Fee Baptist Church, church musicians at Third Bap- tist Church, religious educators at the Shsraton-St, Louis Hotel, descons at Tower Grove Baptist Church, and campus ministers at Stouffers Riverfront Hotel, The annual meeting of the 13.4 million member evangelical body, expected to attract about 18,000 messengers from throughout the nation, will feature the election of a new president, adoption of a budget of $90 million, reports by 2C) agencies, examination of tighter registration and balloting proposals, and consideration of a wide range of proposed resolutions.

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"That We May Boldly Say" Sunday Wight Pastors ' Conference For Immediate Ralease ST. LOUIS, June 8--Th2 Southern Baptist,,Pastors' Conference opened her2 Sundsy night :, with a call for danominational unity and for prayar, not politicking." Jack Taylor, director of Dimensions in Christian Living, Fort klorth, Texas, told a near-capaci ty crowd at Cervantzs Convention Centzr here that being disagreeable amons Baptists is "inexcusable." "!ale can disagrae and still love each other," tae former Southern Saptist pastor began. He said that on2 of his reasons for being a Baptist is that Saptists can go to conven- tlons, disagree, and still love one another. Clearly alluding to pre-convention speculation that the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention nay be marked by heated debate over bib1ical disagreements, Taylor warned, "Thss~are not days to draw our daggers and run them through.' Thf three-day meeting which starts Tuesday is expected to attract 18,000 messengars. Assfgned to spezk on "Prayer and Awakening," Taylor declared, "Iam absolutely con- vinced . . . that if r!e decide to pray, we will see a spiritual awakening." Prayer is needed first in tho lives of ministers, he said, because "~e'refollovring our Baals." He declared that pastors 40measure their succass by the vorld's standards are "out of business."

Taylor told the assembled ministers, many accompanied by their wives, that "preachers are going to have to lay down their e7os" and "get over talkin9 about each other."

He v'ent on to say that preachers ought to he doing more than "comfortin? the troubled." In addition, "you ought to be troubling the comfortable." Earlier in tho openin? session, John Sisagno, pastor of First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, declared that the second coming of Jesus is the event "to which a11 history is moving and without which history makes no sense."

Bisagno admitted to having adoptad a premillenial view of the end of time over the past year during an intensive study of the book of Revelation. He said he has been preach- ing through the last book of the Bible "verse-by-verse and word-by-word" for nearly a year and has concluded that it "is not a closed book."

Premilleniallsm is the view that Jesus !.rill come back to rule on earth for a thousand- year period after the rise of the antichrist, Bisagno explained. The latter will be "a smooth-tal kinp dude ." he przdicted. "Thin+ arz ripe for the antichrist," the Houston pastor said, pointing to what he called a "one-world" system of government, languaae, measures, and mili tary force, among others. He alsc assailed U. S. foreign policy as contributing to international instability which will histen the end of time. He cited what he called harica's "forsaking" of Taiwan and "arming" of Communist China, as well as increasing support for Arab nations at Israel's expense. Bisaano predicted that armies from all over the world rill eventually converqe on Israel to settle "Satan's orfginal proposition, 't.lho's goinq to rule the world? "' But when that cataclysmic event occurs, he concluded, the world will see that "Jesus hasn't given up on the church." -30- By Stan Hastey--9:54 p.m. Sunday - ~ervanresbUIlverlllul I \J~IIL~I VVV , I --I ..--.-. St. Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager featuk '~anager News

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ST. LOUIS, June 12--A college sociology professor called on Southern Baptists Thursday afternoon to demonstrate boldness in critical times by evaluating their attitudes toward fellow motorists, their criticism of the president, and the way they treat their family. Sarah Frances Anders, chairman of the department of sociology of Louisiana Colleqe, Pineville, developed the theme of boldness at the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Conventjon at Cervantes Convention Center. "I cannot speak of loving my neighbor better than 1ife and rail at the driver ahead of me," Anders confessed. "Icannot boldly proclaim America, one nation under God, and rail against any president who drives cautiously through an International crisis rather than declare sudden Imnediate holy nuclear war. "Icannot proclaim love for a God in heaven and live in a family of hell." The Southern Baptist leader urged the messengers to emulate Christ who cleansed a temple with vigor and righteousness without harming a moneychanger, lamb, ~r'dove. "Even secular behavioral scientists are calling for a return to boldness, boldness that attacks corruption and violence in the temple, the family, ever, the television tube," Anders pointed out.

The prescriptions of these scientists Include reexamining the extreme physlcal punish- ment permitted in same schools, reduction of "macho" themes on television, sales of war- games for children's playtime, and elimination of the exploitation of those born unequal, Anders explained.

The sociology professor said a crisis exists in the shape of the family today in which 23 percent have no children, almost two million are cohabiting, and 17 million lived in interrupted fami 1ies . Wany families live in boldness of action that is not spiritual boldness; it is weapon war an a domesttc scene."

In other actlon, the messengers received the report of the Christian Life Commission, the denomination's social action agency in i!ashville. The report said the agency worked to help Southern Baptists strengthen family life, work as Christian cltizens and deal redernptively with race relations, the economic crisis and with such moral concerns as alcohol and other drugs, pornography and television programnjng .

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WMU Change For Imnediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 7--Harry N. Holl is Jr. will replace theologian Harvey Cox on the prooram of the national annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union Sunday afternoon at Kiel Auditorium. Cox notified WMU leaders that he will be unable tc appear because of a serious back injury. Hol 1is, associate executive director of the Southern Baptist Christian Life Com- mission, will speak on "The Family in Life-Chanjing Commitments." Hot1 is, who directs family and special moral concerns for the r!ashvil le-based'.Christian Life Commission, is a member of the National Advl'sory Committee for the I.lhiLe House Conference on Fami 1i es .

"!!a caught Dr. Holl is just as he returned from the Sal timore meetinp of the k!hlte House conference," said Carolyn Yeatherford, executive director of !*!MU. "!Jhile we deeply regret that Dr. Cox is unable to fulfill his engagement on our Drouram, we're pleased that Dr. Hof lis can brino us a apptist view of the family in the context of current events. " Hollis participated In the Baltinor~conferenc~ as an advisor and committee qernber. He has taken a leadership rote in saekina to maks certain thht tha Nhite House conference activities are directed toward str~ngtheningfamilies. "The hops for familSes is not to be found in government actions, but in nonqovernmental institutions," Hollis said. "The church is the best friend families have in society. Christianity has good news for families." He said he expscts to comment on the "areat vacuum in society now related to tha role of women," in his ',!MU speech. The lJTiU meeting, one of ssvsral meetiilqs precc-dinp the annual meeting of the Southern aapti st Convention, b+gins at 3;3g p.m., Sunday, June 8 and concludes after three sessfons on Monday at Kiel Auditorium,

The SBC begins at 9 a.m., Juna 1G and concludes on Thursdcy eveninq, JU~R12 at the Corvantes Convention Center.

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Kaemnerl ing Resignation For Immediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 11--Russell Kammerling, pastor of First aaptist Church, '!@st Columbia, S. C., said here t!ednesday night he has resigned as editor of the conserva- tive Southern Baptist Journal and from mmbership in the sponsoring Saptist Faith and i~essage Fel lo~.vship. Kaemerling, 31, said: "After three months as editor, I have removed myself frcm assGciation with the Eaptist Faith and blessaqe Fello!~ts:iip and Southern 3aptist Journal .!I He cited "editorial differencesN and said he quit effective Tuesday, June 10. The former editor added: "I feel conservatives have somethin9 to say and should have some kind of voice, but for my own individual credibility and integrity I could not partici- pate in character assassination and spurious issues, which seemed to me to be the way they wanted to go.''

Kaemrnerl ing specifically sin91 ed Vill ian A,. Po~ell, executive vice president of BFibIF and former eGi tor of the Journal, as leading the opposition to Kaemerl in?'s views as to the future and content of the publication, identified on the masthead as "Southern Baptists' First i~!ational i!ewsmaaazine."

Kaemmcrl ing assumed editorship in December of 1979, and prepared the Apri 1 , Hay and June issues of the publ ication. Me said he had "total editorial control1' over the publ ication. An editorial committee composed of five persons also have resicned frcm the ultra- conservative group, Kaemerl in? claimed.

The pastor said Powel 1 ~adethe motion to name tin editor ~yhen the board of di- rectors met in December.

Of the meeting with Powell Tuesday, Kaermerlin~said it was not bitter or hostile, but "an expression of difference of phflosophy of dealin? with the issues." Kaemmerllng said he does not believe the "conservative cause is helped by having a Kational Enquirer type of publ ication ," but preferred to ?eal with trends and issues rather than personalities.

"They did not see it that way. They did not think the battle should be !!aged on that level. They !.soulti rather go after ssminary professors.. . ,:' Kaemnerling said. tle added he believes Southern Saptist Journal s;iould deal with issues other than inerrancy, and mentioned "others equally destructive bfhich should be dealt with."

Among them is the lack of emphasis on Sunday Schools as an outreach am, the need to promote positive church growth, and a gre:ter emphasis 0:: rnissions and evangelism.

"These are issues of interest to conservative thinkers."

Kamerling said it was his "intention to upgrade the Smaqe of Journal so people could hear what the conservatives are saying. They are speakinn, that was shown by the election of two SGC presidents on the first ballot." Page 2--Kaemmerl ing Resignation

Of the pub1 ication, he said he was striving for excellence, "trying to improve the wrapping, but not backing up from the issues."

He charged some members of the group "wanted radical, immediate surgery," and, led by Powell, wanted to return to radical journalism. He also noted that under his editorship, the publication appeared in April, Kay and June of 1980, but under Ponell, it appeared only three times in 1979.

"i4y feeling is that if you are going to have a voice, it should be a consistent voice," he said.

Circulation of the publication, he said, is "just over 9,000" per month, but said the June issue, which featured editorials and articles criticizino the Baptist state papers, had a press-run of 42,000 and was mailed to "every church in the Southern Bap- tist Convention."

Of the future of Southern Eaptist Journal, Kaemerl ing said: "If they continue to print, they probably will go back to attacks on seminaries. I don't know what they are going to do." He added several "little state papers'' have started to sound the conservative call in opposition to the establishment. "That might be the way to go," he safd. For himself, Kaemerling said he is the pastor of a church, and t- ill continue to do that. "The pastorate is where my heart is," he said. The 31-year-old Texan is a graduate of Laaar University in Oeaumont and of South- western Captist Theological Semiiiary in Fort !forth. He has been pastor of the South Carolina church for three years. It has 800 to 900 members and averages about 250 in attendance.

He is the brother-in-law of Paige Patterson, identified as a leader of the in- errancy group. He disputed the concept thero is an "organized effort" on the part of conservatives. "There is no formal organization. You can say it until the Lord comes back, but there is no formal organization."

"All that has ever existed is a bunch of guys who met for prayer and were con- cerned about the convention," he added. The question, he said, is not how many 1 iberals there are in the Southern Baptist Convention, "but that we have them at all. It is not how much cancer you have, but that it is there at a1 1 ,'I he added. Powell could not be reached for comment.

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Facer Prqsllf~nt~:;n.i 'ih3.x Interpretation for E@m&diete R~lcasc ST, tOU?S,,&rnri l!--A blend of humor and seriousness ws indected into the Southern Bzptiat Cenventl~;;We Hednesday nfght as nine fanner presidents took turns entertairting and chdllmnging Kassai?ge:*s during the evening session.

J. i). Grey, SEC p:*eslde;;t during 1952-53, led the parade and threatened to use 14 sf th3 13 mi nu+:.^ all.?tsd for what, has becone ar: annual period of levity during annual Ce5tings of "La 13.1 mf 11lon-me~ber denmination.

Grey was fclloted by Brooks Hays, 1958-59; Herschel H. Hobbs, 1962163; H. Yayne Dehoney, 15615-66; H, Frankiin Pascsall, 1967-68; Cart E. Bates, 1971-72; Owen Cooper, 1977-74; Jaroy !4eber, 1375-76; and Jinnny Allen, 1378-79. I'1:lre ms ea eiensnt cf friendly competition as the past prestdents tried to outdo c~thott:2r ct tell: 13 kumorous stories, with most recent presidents admitting they had h3i.d ~cts0c t~?i&~. I "I ~3:trib'',qi,: ts eatculate hen long it will take me to be first,' said Owen Cooper, a 'ir:m;a frsn ~czos9ty, HISS. I *Can yorl ':.:qgize the agoiry af being iast after J. 0. PIrey and Brooks Hays,' safd the nicst rvcan2 past prasident, Jimy Alieri, president of the 58C Radio and Televfsion Cc~~~issfon, ' ;tar, :4lit:i~lf ng axpcrie?cc. " I WT'we t%".?htvh!c: k~for~,'Allen qufpped, ''but I've never enjoyed it much." I Th farinsr i;.*.?c.:?'m'ssa1 so added sail: s~ri~uselements to their brief statements. I Bates calla4 c!~.rrz~tpresident kdr;nn Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Churrh, Xmphis, Tenn., to ",.: ?~aalr;~'sstand ::.G r~fli:~dhfm that he would ba a part o-f the group next ys? :nd '3 axyross apprec'iation for qogers' lecdershlp this year. The xssengers )*QS~;O:I%~ ~injtR a standing ovaticn. bbbs d~clareiitht Southern Baptists are a unfque people who are held together by unity 4ir. dluvslty ti~dpredicted, *iC will go our separate ways tanorrw nfght to make Bold ilirsicn Th:.~st,iiilch star;cd out ~s a noble dream, a reality. " Dehon~y!ychoeed !!obis' concern, stating that "Gad put Southern Baptists in th'fs world to win Oh% world tc Jzsu; Christ." Earlier, Stan Cuffey, pastor of First Baatist Church, Albuquerque, H.H., focused the theme of the weniqg session sayinfi, "Our country ir one of the greatest rnfssion fields in the worid." Supprtiag this statement, Coffsy pointsd out that three out of four American fmitSe~ re 2% fnr3lved in wtship cn a mgular basis. The Atbuquerqt~~a;*,orsaid the only way to reach America for Chrfst is for the mi~si'oncffo~t t;a bxm u "personal priority," a "preminent passion." and a hpersistent process;, " - 30- 47 By Lawy Chseer -- 9:JO p.n. gednesday Cervantes Convention Center SBC Pr ss News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager New

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Southern Seminary Alumni Luncheon For Inmediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11--?We than 1,000 alumni of the Southern Baptist Convention's oldest seminary honored three of their colleagues with "Alumni of the Yeartlawards at their annual luncheon Wednesday during the Southern Baptist Convention. Receiving the award from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary's alumni association were C.R. Oaley of hiddletown, editor of ',!@stern Recorder, Kentucky state Baptist paper; Sara Ann Hobbs of Raleigh, director of missions, b!orth Carolina Baptist Convention; and Dotson PIe1 son, pastor of Yountain Brook Captist Church, Sirininaham, Ala.

Altus Newell, pastor of St. i4atthews Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., and first vice president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, was chosen national president-elect of the alumni association. F.lwel1 will succeed R. Gene Puckett, executive director of Americans United, next June.

Wesley 14. Pattillo, vfce president for development at the seninary, was reelected national secretary of the association.

James Cox, professor of preachinq at the seminary, presented awards to seven Southern Seminary alumni who had written sermcns for a book of 15 award winning sermons In closing remarks, Southern Seminary President Duke I:. McCall encouraged considera- tion of viewpoints of others. "Even though sany in the SBC have different viewpoints, our .'" ' goals and value systems are the same. . :. .. -. :- .L .L 4.. "!Jetre going' to hzvc to 1~arnto bridoc: tl?~q~r: in our perception of what is true, right, ahd the v!ill of God." ._. . . *, ...... Charles Ashcraft, of ~ittleRock, recently retired executive secretary of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, presided at the luncheon.

By David Smith--lO:4(1 p.m. Yednesday Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photograpnyl St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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Home ilission Board/Sunday School Board Report For Imnediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 11"-A challenge to reach the nation's cities and a call to boost Sun- day School enrollment were issued to messengers here Hednesday night by the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board and Sunday School Board.

Listing some of the moral and human problems in America's cities, Hill0 Executive Oir- ector Yilliam Tanner of Atlanta encouraged messengers to "go to the cities where the action is. "Let us be drawn to the cities by a new birth compassion," he added, pointing out that as Christians, Southern Baptists are required to be evangelistic. Harry Piland, director of the Sunday School department of the Sunday School Board, Nashville, called on Southern Baptists to have 8.5 million persons enrolled in Sunday Schc?' by 1985, an increase of one mill ion persons. Piland said Sunday School enrollment had doubled in each 2r-year period since 1900 except the period of 1958-78. Enrollment in 1958 was 7.9 million. The 1978 enrollment was 7.3 million. Joshua S. Vang, national ethnic consultant on Laotians for the mission board, thanked Southern Bapttsts for their help in resettlement of Laotian refugees and for the evangelfsrn efforts among Laotians.

"The foreign mission field is here in your midst," he told the messengers, referring to the 70 languages which Southern Baptjsts speak every Sunday. Grady Cothen, president of the Sunday School Soard, reported on a resolution referred to the board from last year's convention concerning the need for materials supporting family worship tn homes. Cothen listed several of the board's publications which have special emphasis on family worship and told of plans for workshops, special materials on family worship to be produced by the board's church training and family ministries departments, and a three-year project to enlist families in daily Bible study and worship at home.

Qy Mike Davis--10:35 p.m. Wednesday News

"That We May Boldly Say" Olford Sermon For Irmediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 11 --"The most important work on earth tonight is being done in the local church," evangelist Stephen Olford told Southern Baptist Convention messengers Nednesday night in Cervantes Convention Center. "You may not have electric churches and vast auditoriums, but if you have a flock, that is where the action is," the Yheaton, Ill., preacher said. "The most wonderful picture we have of God is the church," he continued. "Pastor friends, the church is still his body and the consuminq passion of the heart of God, " Olford, who was born in Yest Africa to missionary parents, said he saw might,y warriors flee from the church because Sod was dealing with them, and a warrior never crys in public. "I long to see that conviction fall orl the membership of Southern Baptist churches, calling sin, sin and exposing the corruption of the human heart," he said. "The nessage that we need to preach is to repent, first in the church and then for the world. I think the reason for much of the misunderstandinq of the Holy Soirit is the failure to preach the full Gospel. ""Jy biggest burden for Sguthern Baptist churches is a return to biblical preaching. It's the word of God that speaks." Olford said that for churches to experience revival, they also need to continue the gatherfng of the saints. "I find as I travel across this country people listeninq to the Gospel on radio and television, but there is no substitute for the congregation of the church. "People share, and something haapens tn a congregation gathered around a preacher," he continued, "The church is a supernatural organism, and supernatural things should be happening every single week. "That calls for daring action," Olford said, "seeing beyond structures and programs of the church to take opportunities to move into the unsaved world. There also must be caring action and sharinq action.

"Evangelism is the gift of 60d to the church and nitnessinq is a lffestyle unto the Holy Spirit," he suggested. "!*!itncssing 4s the whole work of the whole church for the whole age.

"1 want men to 40 fram the convention committed to expository preaching," Olford said. "They need to get back to the Vorcl and let the \!ord speak. "The ministry of the church in revival is the ministry of daily action," he added. "8ur problem with inerrancy is the humanistic problem. "And, inerrancy is irrelevant ,if Jesus Christ isnlt Lord. I 'm concerned*:about inerrancy in terms of behavior and lifestyles," Olford said. "The lordship of Christ f s the message of the Bible," he concluded. Jesus Christ is Lord of all and lord forever."

By Jim Lowry--8:45 a.m. Thursday - - C V IIII.I I*Y8888 -. . Cerdantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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A Kid's Eye View of the SBC For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 12--Amid the confusion and clamor of the 123rd Southern Baptist Con- vention lies the quiet innocence of a child. Children see things from a slichtly different perspective'than their adult counterpaits, closer to the ground.

For example, the main attraction of those Southern Saptists here under four and a half feet is "the golden arch."

eruce Ingle of Penton, Texas, said he 1i ked the arch because of its size. "I'm from Texas, and I guess that people from Texas are supposed to like things biguer," hc said. Bruce was supposed to ride into the arch except he had misplaced his father. For David and Dale Collier of Canton, Mo., the main attractions were the St. Louis Cardinal s baseball team and SBC President Adrian Roqers ' preaching. The Cardinal s were not in town this week, but David said it didn't matter, he still sat:! Busch Stadium. Some enjoyed the convention just for the convention's sake.

Dennis Cooper of Port Boone, La., is attending his fourth annual pathering.

"This is my first year as a messenger, but my fourth convention," he said. The 14-year- old saqe said that the biblical inerrancy question that is dominatinc the convention probably won't amount to much.

"Things like this come and GO a11 the time," he advised. "I%ouldnlt get too worried about it."

The youngsters have an equally unique outlook on bib1ical inerrancy itself. They donl.t know what it is. Young Cooper admitted he did not have any idea what inerrancy means. "I've never heard of it,"

Young Collier, however, was adamant about the issue. "The Bible talks about Jesus as the only begotten Son. God inspired the people ~howrote it. Everyone knows that. You find that out in movies."

Della Rivera, nine-year-old Hispanic, said that she just hadn't had enough time to study the question. "I'm only nine and a half years old. How could I have studied enouoh. to decide some- thing like that, I'm not old enough. I'm not sure anyone else is either,"

Nine-year-old David Bryant of Forsyth, Ill.,explained inerrancy of the Bible this way:

"Ithink that it is true froa cover to covef. ?:ly dad told me so, and I be1 ieve in my dad. "

Young Inqle stated that he didn't think the Sible had any mistakes. "Iread it," he said. "It tells how God told them to write it, like James, and John, and all those guys." Page 2--Kid's Eye View of SBC Steve Smith, 11-year-old son of ner!ly-elected SBC President Bafley Smith of Del City, Okla., Sumed it all up in this fashion: "Ienjoy cominq to these conventions because of the people I qet to meet, like Adrian Roqers, and V.A. Criswell (former SBC president). "Sometimes we get out and do things as a family when we can," he said. "ble were supposed to go up into the arch today. I hope we'll have time now that dad is the president. On the bibti cal inerrancy question he declared: "Idon't think that it is worth watchinq or worrying about. I'm not really sure what it is and I've heard a lot of different people say a lot of different things about it. I don't think they are sure about it either. I'm not sure anybody does."

By Randy Wyrick--9:20 a.m. Thursday uer w8an,es~onvenaon ~etx r aa~r ress w I r1lo~oyrapiy/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Bill Phelps, lieutenant governor for Yissauri , will hold a news conference in the lounqe area of the SBC ?lews. Roam at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday. ' - Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Pnotograpny/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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"That We May NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICES Boldly Say" AND FACILITIES FOR THE SBC

WELCOME to the 123rd annual national sesslon (135th year) of the Southern Baptist Conventlon. The news and lnfonnatlon senrlces at the convention are designed to make your job as easy as possible.

THE NEWS ROOM is located in Room 263, second level, The Centantes Convention Center in St. ~ouis-yourhome away from home. You wlll find typewriters, Eefephones , news stories covering the conventlon and a closed clrcuit television system to enable you to cover the sessions from the News Room. Tables in front of the stage are also reserved for working reporters, edltors and photographers. The News Room wlll open at 2:00 p.m. , Sunday, June 8, and at 9:00 each morning durlng the convention. It wlll close at about 10:OO each night.

THE NEWS STAFF Is headed by Wllmer C. Flelds, press rapresentatlve for the SBC; Robert OIBrien, News Room manager; and Norman Tameson, photography/features manager. A full list of the News Room and photography staffs and thelr assignments is in this packet, A receptionist will be on duty at the kont desk at all times. She will have a paging system to announce telephone calls and vlsltors. The News Room 1s off-limits to all except authorized news parsonnel. Please do not invite vlsltors into the News Room, except for interviews .

NEWS ROOM SERVICES lnclude~whatwe hope is comprehensive news coverage of the convention. Releases, texts of resolutlons and motions and other information wlll be placed in an lndlvldual box assigned to you as quickly as gosslble. A team of news reporters on our staff will wrlte the stories. Roy Jennlngs is our "clty editor" handling the copy.

Reporters may cover the conventlon via the closed clrcult TV system with LndivLdual earphones Ln the News Room, .or from press tables located near the podium.

Elght telephones are provlded for use of reporters and editors in the SBC News Room this year--four in the work room area where the typewriters are and four In the lounge area. Please do not charge long dlstance calls to News Room phones.

Incomlng calls for reporters and editors should come on the maln listed News Room number (314) 342-5357. The telephone at Norman Jameson's desk in the News Room is the main telephone for incoming calls to reporters and edltors. The receptionlst wtll page persons receiving telephone calls. Special "hot line" umbers for news feeds for cadlo n8wscas:s a&.3l4&.231-6976, 231-6977, and 231-6978. Fm 3-M telecopiers wLll be provided for use by reporters to transmit copy via telephone lines. To use this equipment, your publication must have compatible equlpm~ntat tha recelving end. If you have ques tlons on the use of telecopters, see the News Room manager.

No Western Unlon Telex servlce will be provided from the News Room. However, you , may make special arrangements on your own wlth Western Unlon if you desire that servlca.

Special recording and Radio-TV senrlces are also avallable. See lnfonnatlon sheat in the News Klt. Page 2--News and Information Senrices

THIS NEWS AND INFORMATION KIT 1s deslgned to answet your major questions about the conventlon. We hope it is helpful. News stories, produced prior to the convention, are on buff-colored paper. News storles produced during the convention are on yellow gaper. General infomation (not In news story form) , texts of resolutions and motions, schedules, photo cutllnes, and other background material are on gre;n paper.

PHOTOGRAPHS--News photos of the convention wlll be taken, developed and printed by a photography staff. The photos may be obtalned at $3.00 each through the conventlon photo service. Photos will be posted on the bulletin board in the lounge area of the News Room. Envelopes for ordering photographs are on the table by the bulletin board. Placa your order wlth the receptionist.

REFRESHMENTS--Free coffee and soft drlnks are avallable In the News Room, courtesy of the convention. If the supply of refreshments is exhausted, please notify the rscep- tlonfst or News Room manager lmmedlately.

AGAIPJ, WELCOME--If we can help you In any way, please call on us.

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M Lscelhneous Informat Lon on the SBC

SCOPE OF THE CONVENTION--The Southern Baptlst Conventlon Is both an annual national rneetlng and a fellowship of 13,3 79,073 members (1979 figures) In 35,605 churches In 50 states which cooperate wlth the denominatlon. As an annual rneetlng, the St. Louis convention 1s the 123rd In the convention's 135-year history. As a denomination, the SaC 1s ths largest Protestant denominatlon In Amerlca. The SBC 1s both a denominatlon comprised of a fellowship of churches and an autonomous annual meetlng of elected "messengars" whose actlons are not binding on, but advisory to, the SBC's churches. The actions are blndlng only on natlonal SBC agencles.

As an annual meetlng, the SBC meets In a different part of the country each June to conduct Its business. The 1980 meetlng marks the seventh time the SBC has met In St. Louls (others In 1871, 1913, 1936, 1947, 1961 and 1971) and the 12th time In Mlssourl, lncludtng vlsits to Kansas City (1905, 1923, 1956, 1963 and 1977). The SBC was organized In Augusta, Ga, In 1845. Attendance at the conventlon usually runs 18,000 to 25,000, although the actual number of registered "messengers" In modern times has ranged from 8,871 when the conventlon met in 1973 In Portland--its flrst tIme ever in the Northwest--to an all-the record of 22,872 at the conventlon in Atlanta ln 1978. About 18,000 messengers are expected to reglster thls year.

The SBC wlll meet next Ln Los Angales, June 9-11, 1981; New Orleans, June 15-17, 1982; Pittsburgh, June 14-16, 1983; Kansas Clty, June 12-14, 1984; and Dallas, June 11-13, 1985.

SBC TERMINOLOGY--Baptists, because of thelr hlstorlc bellef Ln the free rellglous cholce of each person and In the autonomy of each Bagtlst church, use terms and approaches whlch may dlffer &om those used by other denomlnatlons,

Here are some examples:

1. It ts never "The Baptist Church," unless referrlng to an tndlvldual congregation of worshippers, then it 1s "the Baptist church."

2. The exact and proper tLtle of the conventlon 1s the "Southern Baptlst Conventlon." It is never "the Southern Baptlst Church."

3. Churches "cooperate wlth," or ate "affllhted wlth," the Southern Baptist Convention. These churches have not delegated authorlty lo llmessengersl' they elect to attsnd the SBC. A certain church's messengers may vote for a partlcular convention policy, but the church 1s not bound to obse~eit.

4. Thlrty-four "state Baptist conventions" or #'general associations1' have work In all 50 states,. Each state organlzatlon 1s independent of but cooperates In the work of the Southern Baptlst Conventlon. These state organlzatlons have agencies of thelr own, wlth many operating colleges, hospitals and children's homes, The Southern Baptlst Conventlon has no jurlsdlctlon over agencles and gollcles of a state Baptlst convention. It also has no jurlsdlction over dlstrlct-level associations of Baptist churches. Page 2--MisceUansous Infomatlon on the SBC

5. However, actions of the natlonal SBC meetlng are binding on natlonal SBC agencies.

6. No one can "speak for" the Southern Baptist Convention, not even Lts presldent.

The autonomy of each Baptlst church 1s a major factor in the Southern Baptlst Convention, which Is not part or" the National or World Council of Churches. The conventlon has always rafused to commit its' cooperating churches.

Several other tsrrns, wlth variations , crop up at sessions of the Southern Baptist Convention which may not be famllbr. The tltle "executlve secrstary" or "executive secretary-treasurer" means that indlvldual is the top staff executive for a particular SBC agency, Some SBC agencies use " executlve director" or " executive dlrector- treasurer" as tha title of thelr chlef executive. (In the case of agencles with executlva secretaries and directors as the chlef executive, the elected head of the agsncy's board ' of trusteas will be elther "chalrman" or "presldent.") St111 other SBC agencies-- specifically the slx seminaries, the Foreign Mlsslon Board, the Sunday School Board, the Radio and Televislon Comnlssion and the Annuity Board--call thelr chlef executive officer " pres ident" and thelr trustee head "chalrman. "

Another tenn to ldentify Is "Cooperative Program." This descrlbes the S13C1s financial channel somewhat slmUar to the unified budget of such community organizations as the United Glvers' Fund. Through ti-ie Cooperatlve Program, Southern Baptls t churches support miss!ons and benevolent work of thelr state Baptlst conventlons and the Southern Baptist Conventlon. In 1975, Southern Baptlsts celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Cooperatlve Program, whlch has flnanced the 135-year-old convention's work throuqhout the United States and 95 foreign misslon fields. The Coopera tlve Program national goal for 1980-81 is a record $90 millbn, 7 mlllion over the 1979-80 figure. Cornblned goal for the state conventlons for 1980-81 1s about three tlmes the national Cooperativ* Program f lgura .

WHO ATTENDS THE ANNUAL CONVENTION?--Voting on convention business Is done by "messengers" elected by the churches. Each "cooperutlng church" 1s entltled to at least one messenger. It 1s entitled to one additional messenger for each $250 In con- trlbutlons to the work of the conventlon =each 250 members. The llmlt Is 10 messengers.

Attendance, however, is not lhlted to messengers. Many people attend who do not have messenger status. They cannot vote on business presented to the conventlon. Messengers usually comgrlse about two-thirds of the attendance. "Fraternal messengers" come to the convention naarly every year to brlng greetings from other Baptlst conventlons In the world, but they do not have voting status. A fraternal messenger Is naarly always on hand from the American Baptlst Churches In the USA (formerly Amerlcan Baptlst Convention).

WORKING TOOLS OF MESSENGERS--Messengers to the Southern Baptlst Conventlon flnd a number of items of printed material necessary. The Book of Reports contalns the annual reports of committses and agencles of the conventlon and Includes any rzcommendations they may rneke that requlre a vote. Another working tool is the Convention Bulletin, a newspaper published dally during the conventlon, whlch contalns announcements of bus lness, times and places of speclal meetings , and other Items of vltal interest. Following the annual sasslon, the contents of the Book of Reports and the proceedings of the convsntlon are compiled into the Southern Baptlst Convention Annual. It also contalns a directory of pastors and denomlnatlonal workers by statss. The Qzarterlv Rzvlew, Annual, Book of Reports, and dally bulletins are available In the News Room to reporters and editors coverlng the SBC. -BAPTIST BELIEFS--Southern Baptists hlstorloally do not have a creed, but look instead to the Bible as thelr gulde to falth and practice. Baptlsts accept the Scrlptures as the source of doctrine. Statements of falth are occasionally adopted by Bagtis t groups, but they are not blndlng on members and are not lntended to be used to hamper freedom of thought or the hvestigation of truth. There is a wide diversity of Baptlst bellsfs , Page 3--Miscellaneous Information on the SBC

Two printed pleces, included In the News Kit, give statements concerning Baptlst beliefs. One is "The Baptist Falth and Message," a statement adopted by the Southern Baptlst Conventlon Ln 1963 in Kansas City, Mo. It was adapted from a slmllar statement adopted by the SBC in 1925. The other printed plece 1s "Meet Southern Baptists," wrltten by Dr. Harold C. Bennett, executlve secretary-treasurer of the SBC Executlve Commlttee. Thls pamphlet also glves general lnfomatlon on convention statistics, agencies, associated organizations , etc.

RELATED MEETINGS--Besides the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, Tuesday through Thursday, June 10-12, a number of related annual meetlngs wlll be held throushout the week. The SBC will meet at tha Celvantas Convention Center.

Other meetings Include:

Southern Baptist Research Fellowship, Saturday, June 7, Thlrd Baptls t Church Natlonal Deacont s Rally (first) , Sunday afternoon through Sunday nlght, Juna 8 , Tower Grove Baptlst Church Southern Baptlst Church Muslc Conference, Sunday Afternoon, June 8, through Mondzy evening, June 9, ThIrd Baptlst Church Southern Baptlst Conference of Directors of Mlssions, Fee Fee Baptlst Church, 11330 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, Sunday afternoon, June 8, through Monday, June 9 Southern Baptts t Pastors' Conference, Sunday evening, June 8, through Monday evening, June 9 , t,he Cenrantes Convention Center Southern Baptist Womants Mlsslonary Union annual meeting, Sunday afternoon, June 8, through Monday evenlng, June 9, Klel Auditorium Southern Baptlst Religious Education Assoclatlon, Sunday evenlng, June 9, through Monday evening, June 9, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel AssocIatlon of Southern Baptist Campus Mlnlsters , Sunday afternoon, June 8, through Monday evenlng, June 9, Thlrd Baptlst Church SBC Executive Committea meetings: regular meetlns: Monday, June 9, 2:30 p.m., MlssIss lgpl Room, Stouffer's Rlverfront Hotel; organizational meetinq: Wednesday, June 11, 4 p.m., Eugene Field Room, Stouffer's Riverfront Hotal Southern Baptlst Minis tersl Wives Luncheon, Tuesday, June 10, Sheraton St. Louls Hotel Conference of Southern Baptlst Evangelists, Wednesday breekfas t bus lness session (8:30 a.m.) Sheraton Downtown, June 11, and regular meeting Third Baptist Church, 12:30 p.m. MONDAY, Tune 9, 19 80 (cont lnued)

Southern Baptlst Conference of Dhctors of Mlsslons, Fee Fee Baptlst Church, 11330 St. Charles Rock Road, Brldgeton, buslness sesslon 9 a.m. Luncheon 12:15 p,m. hosted by Foreign Mlsslon Board. Assoclatlon of Southern Baptls t Campus Mlnls ters , Stouffer's Rlverfront Hotel, sessLon 9 a.m., lunch 12 noon, sessbn 1:30 p.m., banquet 6:30 p.m. at Thlrd Baptlst Church Southern Baptlst Woman's Mlsslonary Union annual meetlng, Klel Audltorlum, sesslons 9:30 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Southern Semlnary Woman's Commlttee Lunch, Klel Audltorlum, 12:30 p.m., $5.00.

SBC Executive Committee Pre-conventlon meetlng, StoufferJ s Rlverfront Hotel, Mlsslsslpgl Room, 2:30 p.m.

Chrlstlan Llfe Commlsslon Fellowshlp Dlnner, Eugene Fleld Room, S touffer's Rlverfront Towers Hotel, 5 p.m., guests by lnvltatlon.

TUESDAY, Tune 10, 1980

SBC Joggers Jubllee (seventh), North Parking Lot, The Gateway Arch, 6:30 a.m.

Southern Baptlst Press Assoclatlon Breakfast, Danlel Boone Room, Stouffer's Rlverfront Hotel, 7 a.m., $7.00 Golden Gate Seminary Alumnl Assoclatlon Off lcers' Breakfast, Sheraton-St. Louls , Eugene Fleld Room, 8 a.m.

Mlss Lon Day Camp, a three-day camp for chlldren ages 6-1 1, at Mlssourl Baptls t College. Regls tratlon fee of $5 .OO per day covers trip Insurance, day camp s ypplles , lunch (Tuesday and Thursday, no afternmn sesslon Wednesday) and transgor- ta tlon between the Center and the College (leave at 8:30 a.m. and re turn at 4:30 p.m., return at noon on Wednesday). Parents may reglster chlldren for the camp at the Day Camp Booth, Cervantes Conventlon Center. Sponsored by the Brotherhood Commission wlth the Brotherhood, St, Louls Baptist AssocLatlon.

Southern Baptlst Conventlon Pre-school ChUd Care, Cervantes Conventlon Center, for chlldren born In 1974 or later, out-of-town messengers only (no session Ln . afternoon, Wednesday). $7 per sesslon per chIld.

Southern Bagtlst Conventlon annual meetlng, Cervantes Conventlon Center, sesslons 9 a.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m.

Baptlst Foundatlon Executives Luncheon, Best Western-St. Loulslan Hotel, 12 noon, $7.95.

Southern Baptlst MLnls ters' Wlves Luncheon, Sheraton St, Louls Hotel, 12 noon, $8. SO.

Unlon Unlversity Friends and Alumnl Dlnner, Thlrd Baptlst Church, 620 North Grand Blvd., 5:30 p.m., $4.00

Gsorgetown College Open House, Grant Room, Sheraton-St. Louls , 9:30 p.m. No charge, Informal fellowship for alumnl and friends.

Loutslana College Receptlon, Be1 Air Hllton, Gallery Room, 9:30 p.m.

Oklahoma Baptlst Unlversity Recegtlon, Sheraton Hotel, Robert E. heRoom, 9:30 p.m.

Hardin-Shmons Unlverslty Alumnl Dessert Party, Stouffer's Rlveifront Hotel, Lewls 6; Clark Room, 9:45 p.m., $2 "00

Baylor Alumnl Assoctatian Dessert Party, Marrlott Pavlllon Hotel, 10 p.m. Page 3-Schedule of Events

WEDNESDAY, Tune 11, 1980

SBC Joggers Jubllee, North ParkLng Lot, The Gateway Arch, 6:30 a.m.

Baptls t Publlc Relatlons Assoclatlon Breakfast, Daniel Boone Room, Stouffer' s Rlverfront Hotel, 7 a.m., $7.

Mlsslsslppl College Alumnl Breakfast, Lennox Hotel, 7:30 a.m.

Clear Creek Baptls t School Alumnl Breakfast, Tower Grove Baptlst Church, 8 a,m. Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists annual mestlng, breakfast/buslness sesslon 8:30 a.m. at Sheraton Downtown, sesslon 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. at ThM Baptlst Church.

Mlss lon Day Camp, three-day camp for chlldren ages 6-11, Missouri Baptls t College. Morning sesslon only.

SBC Pre-School Child Care, Cervantes Conventlon Center (see de ta ils under Tuesday) Mornlng and evening ses sions . Southern Baptlst Conventlon annual meetlng, Cewantes Conventlon Center, sesslon 9 a.m. No sesslon In afternoon. Session 7 p.m. Baptlst Blble Institute Natlonal Alumni Assoclatlon Luncheon, Lennox Hotel, 9th and Washington, 12 Noon. Apgrox. $8,

National Southwestern Luncheon, Sheraton-St. Louls, 12 noon, $10.

Golden Gate Semlnary A1 umnl Association Luncheon, Sheraton-St. Louls, Boulevard Room, 12:30 p.m., $7.50

New Orleans Semlnary Luncheon, Marrlott's Pavlllon Hotel Grand Ballroom, 12 :45 p.m. , $10.

Southern Sernlnary Luncheon, Stouffer's Rlverfront Hotel, 12:45 p.m., $10.

Southeastern Semlnary Alumnl Luncheon, Marriott's Pavlllon Hotel, 1 p.m., $7.

Midwestern Semliaary Alumnl Luncheon, Be1 Alr Hllton, ~dults-Sa,children-$2.

Foreign Mlssion Board Receptlon, Cewantes Conventlon Center, Room 260-264, 3:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m.

Home Mlsslon Board Receptlon, Cewantes, Room 274, 3:30 :5:lS p.m.

SBC Executive Committee organization rneetlng, Stouffer's Rlverfront Hotel, Eugene Fleld Room, 4 p.m.

THURSDAY. Tune 12, 1980

SBC Joggers Jubllee. North Parklng Lot, The Gateway Arch, 6:30 a.m.

Annuitants' Breakfast, Be1 Air Hllton Hotel, 7:30 a.m.

Grand Canyon College Alumni/Frlends Breakfast, StouffeP s Riverfront Hotel, 7:30 a.m., $7,

Howard Payne University Alumnl Meetlng-Luncheon, Sheraton-St. Louls Hotel, 7:30 a.m. , $5.

Mlsslon Day Camp, the-day camp for chlldren ages 6-11, MLssourL Baptlst College.

SBC Pre-School ChUd Care, Cenrantes (see detalls under Tuesday).

Southern Baptlst Conventlon annual meetlng, Cewantes Conventlon Center, sesslons 9 a.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m., benediction. -30- News

SBC NEWS ROOM STAFF

"ThatWe May Boldly Say" MANAGEMENT

Wllmer C. Flelds SBC Press Representative. Dr. Flelds 1s asslstant to the executlve secretary, director of publlc relatlons and director of Baptlst Press (SBC news senrlce), SBC Execukive Commlttce, Nashvllle, Tenn. As SBC press representative, he 1s responslble for the overall SBC press operatlon. He has a desk in the News Room receptlon area and at the press tables in the main conventlon hall. He edited the Baptlst Racord, Mfsslsslppl state Baptlst paper, before joinlng the Executive Commlttee Ln 1959.

Robert O'Brlen SBC News Room Manauer. Mr. O'Brlen is news edltor of Baptls t Press, Nashvllle. He makes advance conventlon news contacts, sets up the News Room facllittes , oversees the News Room operatlon and production, and produces Baptlst Press from the News Room separate from News Room releasas during conventlon week. He 1s a former reporter and rellglon edltor for metropolitan dally newspapers, former asslstant magazlne edltor at the SBC Bmtherhcod Cornmlsslon, and former press dlrector for Texas Bagtlsts, In July, he wlll join the SBC Forelgn Mlssion Board as overseas news coordinator to pilot a program of overseas news coverage.

Norman Jameson SBC Photosraphy/Features Manaser. Mr, Jameson 1s feature edltor for Baptlst Press, Nashvllle. He has the responsibFTity for overseeing the news photography servlce to the News Room and for coordlnating asslgnments for feature wrlters during the convention week. He 1s a former reporter and religlon edltor for a dally newspaper and formerly sewed as a journalist In the mllltary and as a staff wrltar for a Eaptlst unlverstty.

Roy Jennlngs SBC CODYChlef. Mr. Jennlngs 1s communications divlsion dlrector at the SBC Brotherhood Commlsslon, Mernphls , Tenn. , and chlef of the Baptist Press Memphls Bureau. A former night clty edltor of the Memphls Commerchl Appeal, he has respon- slblllty for coordlnatlng the assignments and edltlng copy of the News Room reporting staff. Ha wlll write wrapugs for the a.m. s and p.m. s each day, summing up the convention news to that moment.

REPORTERS AND FEATURE WRITERS

Catherlne Allen Reporter. Mrs. Allen 1s assistant to the executive director and dfrects employee and public relatlons at the Woman's Mlss lonary Unlon, BLrmLngham, Ala, She will handle general asslgnments durlng the Conventlon. She is a former newspaper reporter. I .- Page 2--SBC News Room Staff Terry Barone Feature Writer and Reporter. Mr. Barone Is Information consultant for the Baptls t General Conventlon of Texas, Dallas, and a staff wrlter In the Dallas bureau of Baptlst Press. He wLll write features and cover general asslgnments durlng convention week. He is a fonner n wsgnper reporter and former publlc relatlons dlrector for a Baptlst hospltal.

Craig Btrd Feature Wrlter. Mr. BM 1s news dlrector at Hardln-Slmmons Unlverslty, Abllene, Texas. He wlll wrlte features durlng conventlon week. Be is a former newspaper reporter and edltor.

Larry Chesser Rewrter. Mr. Chesser 1s lnformatlon senrlces assistant at the Baptls t Joint Commlttee on Publlc Affairs, Was hlngton, and congressional correspondent for the Washington bureau of Baptist Press. He wlll cover the Church Muslc Conference and handle gsneral asslgnments durlng conventlon week. He Is a former newspaper reporter and former news dlrector for Southern Baptlst Theologlcal Semlnary, Loulsvllle.

Larry Crlsman Re orter. Mr. Crlsman is associate dlrector of public relatlons +at t e SBC Annuity Board, Dallas. He will covar the Rallgious Educatlon Assoclatlon and handle general assignments durlng convention week. He 1s a former newspaper reporter and former publlc relations staffer at a Baptlst unlverslty.

Mike Davls Reporter. Mr. Davls 1s dlrector of the editorial services department at the SBC Brotherhood Commlss Lon, Memphis, and reports for the Memphls bureau of Baptlst Press. He will cover the Natlonal Deacons Rally and handle general asslgnrnents durlng conventlon week. He 1s former edltor of a magazine at the Brotherhood Commlsslon and a former newspaper reporter.

Laura Flta Feature Writer. Ms. Flte 1s a newswrlter for the Word and Wav, stare Baptls t newspaper for Mlssourt , Jefferson Ctty . She will wrlte features during conventlon week. She 1s a former newspaper reporter.

Rex Hammock Reporter. Mr. Hammock 1s dlrector of comnunlcations for tha SBC Educatlon Commlsslon, NashvUle. He will cover the Evangelists Conference and handle general asslgnments during conventlon week. He 1s a fonner news dlrector, publicatton edltor and photographer for Southern Baptist Theolaglcal Seminary.

Stan Hastey Reporter. Dr. Hastey 1s associate dltector ln charge of lnformatlon selvlces for the Baptlst Jolnt Commlttee on Publlc Affalrs, Washlngton. He 1s also chief of the Baptlst Press Washlngton bureau and Supreme Court correspondent for the bureau. He wlll cover the Pastors' Conference and SBC rssolutlons and handle general ass Lgnments durlng convant ton week.

Maw Knox Reporter and Feature Writer, Mr. Knox 1s asslstant news editor at the SBC Home Misslon Board, Atlanta and reports,for the Atlanta bureau of Baptist Press, He wlll cover the Campus Mlnlsters meeting and wrlte features and cover general asslgnments durlng conventlon week. He 1s a fomer newspaper reporter.

Linda Lawson Reaorter. Ms. Lawson 1s sugentlsor of news and lnfomatlon at th SBC Sunday School Board, Nashvllle , and coordinates news coverage for the board's Baptlst ~res;bureau. She will ass 1st In covemge of the Rellglous Education Assoclatlon and handle I general ass lgnments durlng conventlon week, She formerly edited p Sunday School Board magazlne . Page 3--SBC News Room Staff

Barbara Little Photo Informatlon. Ms. Llttle 1s news dlrector for Midwestern Baptlst Theologlcal Semlnary, Kansas City. She wlll wrltz cutllnss for news photos provlded through the SBC Naws F,c.om durlng conventlon week. She 1s a former staff wrltar at South- western Baptlst Theologlcal Semlnary.

James Low Rmorte~,Mr. Lowry is program interpretation speclalis t ,office of comrnunlcations ,Sunday School Board, and reports for the bseid' s Baptlst Press bureau. He wlll cover the DLrectors of Mlsslons Conference and handle general asslgnments durlng conv~nrion week.

Dan Martln New Room Backup. Mr. Martln 1s edltor of the news servlze at the SBC Home Mlsslon Board, Atlanta, and coordinates news covemge for the Atlanta bureau of Baptlst Press. We will provlde backup assistance to both the News Room manager and copy chlef and handle spot asslgnments durlng conventton week. He 1s a former veteran daily newspaper reporter and edit~rand former press dlrector for Texas Baptlsts.

Teresa Shlelds Parker Feature Wrlter. Ms. Parker 1s communlcatlons speclellst for the Mlssourl Baptlst Conventlon, Jefferson City. She will write features durlng conventlon week. She is a foner news- paper reporter and former staff wrlter for the SBC Foreign Miss!on Board.

Orvllle Scott Reoorter. Mr. Scott 1s dlrector of news and public lniormat!on for the Baptlst General Conventlon of Texas, Dallas, and coordinates news for the Dallas bureau of Baptist Press, He wlll cover the Woman's Mlssbnary Union and handle gecsral asslgnments durlng the week. He 1s a former public relatlons dlrector and former newspaper and magazlne editor and reporter.

Davld Smlth Reporter, Mr. Smlth 1s news dlrector and managlng edltor of The Tle at the Southern Baptlst Theologlcal Semlnary, Loulsvllle. He handle spot asslgnments durlng conventlon week. Hs reported for a newspaper while Ln college,

Bon lta Sparrow Rewrter. Mrs. Sparrow 1s manager of promotlon at the SBC Radio and Televlsion Commlsslon, Fort Worth. She wU1 cover meetings of the SBC Executive Commlttee and handle general asslgnments durhg conventlon week. She Is a former newspaper reporter.

Robert L. Stanley Rewrter. Mr, Stanley 1s dlrector of news and lnforrnatbn sentlces at the SBC Forelgn Mlss bn Board, Rlchmond, Va ., and chlef of the Rlchmond bureau of Baptlst Press. He wlll nsslst In coverage of Woman's Mlsslonary Unlon and covsr general asslgnments durlng conventlon week. Ha 1s a fom,sr newspaper reporter and editor, former journalism profr?ssor, and former SBC forelgn mlss tonary.

~enieWash Photo Cutllnes and Reporter. Ms. Wash 1s news coordinator for Ehe SBC Radlo and Televlslon Commlsslon, Fort Worth, Texas. She wlll cover the Mlnlstersl Wlves Conference, and wlll wrlte photo cutllnes for the news photos provlded through the SBC News Room during Conventlon week, Davld Wllklnson Reporter. Mr. Wllklnson 1s assochte edltor of World M ission ournal SBC Brotherhood Commlsslon, Memphls, and reports f?;-or t e Memphls bureau of Baptlst Press. He wlll asslst In coverage of the SBC Pastors' Conference and handle general asslgnments durlng conventlon week. He 1s fomer dlractor of news and lnformatlon renrlces for the SBC Chrlstlan Life Commlss Lon, former eornmunlcatlona speclalls t for the SBC Sunday School Board, and former newspaper staffer, .. .. -mom * -.--- -..-+. - .. . -, * I. ,.,.' .. . . . Page 4--SBC News Room Staff

PHOTO STAFF

Bobbye Hlll Dark Room Supenrlsor.Mrs, (Jerry)Hill is a freelance dark room technlclan and photographer from El Paso, Texas. Thls Is the second year Mrs. Hill, former staff member of the Bagtls t General Conventlon of Texas, has managed the dark room. She wU1 work wlth Norman Tameson, photography/features manaper.

Doug Tonks Assistant Dark Room Supervisor. Mr, Tonks, a junior hlstory major at Baylor Unlverslty, Waco, Texas, has asslstsd in the conventlon photo operatlon for skyears. He wlll share resgonslblllty wlth Bobbye HU1 In the dark room.

Davld Clanton Photographer. Mr. Clanton 1s audlovls~ldirector for the Baptist General Conventlon of Texas, Dallas. He wlll do news photography.

Tlm Flelds Photographer. Mr. Flelds 1s dlrector of communlcatlons for the SBC Christian Llfe Commlsslon, Nashville. He wlll do news photography.

Warren Johnson Photoorapher. Mr. Johnson Is manager of photo productLon for the SBC Foreign Mlssbn Board, Rlchmond, Va. He wlll do news photography.

Kent Matthews Dark Room Ass 1s tant, Mr. Ma tthews , a hlgh school senior from Edmond, Okla. , wlll ass 1s t Ln the dark room.

Steve Medford Photo ra her, Mr. Medford 1s a member of the Mlsslon geeenrlce Corps reportlag team whlch has traveled the United States coverlng mlsslons volunteers. He wlll do news photography.

Don Rutledge Photoora~her. Mr. RuLledge 1s speclal ass lgnment photo- grapher for the SBC Foreign Mlsslon Board, Rlchmond, Va. He wlll do news and feature photography.

Mark Sandlln Photocrrapher. Mr. Sandlln Is a photo-journalist In the offlce of communlca tlons , SBC Sunday School Board, Nashv tlle . He wlll do news photography.

PHOTO SALES

Renlta Duncan Photo Sales. Mrs. (Clarence) Duncan of Fort Worth, Texas, wlll work at one of the photo sales tables,

Llbby Flelds Photo Sales. Mrs. (W,C .) Fields, a school teacher In Nash- vllle, Tenn, , wlll do photo order fulfillment.

Frankle Hayes Photo Sales. Mrs. (Carlyle B.) Hayes of Fort Worth, Texas, wU1 work st one of the photo sales tables.

Marye Jsnnlngs Photo Sales. Mrs. (Roy) Jennlngs of Memphls, Tenn., wlll work at one of the photo sales tables. Page 5--SBC News Room Staff

Bob Russell Closed CLrcult Televls Lon. Mr. Russell 1s technical director for the Baptls t General Convention of Texas, Dallas. He wlll work with the SBC Radb and Televlslon Commlsslon Ln provldlng closed clrcult televtslon In color from tho conventlon floor to the News Room.

Gaye Elchler Press Tables Attendant. Ms. Eichler 1s a secretary for the Texas Baptls t Chris tlan Llfe Commlsslon, Dallas. She wlll endeavor to see that the press tables Ln the conventlon hall are resewed for news medla personnel only.

Pat S tarke y News Room Receptlonlst. Mrs. (BU1) Starkey 1s secretary to W. C. Fields in the publlc relations office of the SBC Executive Cornmlttee, Nashville. She wlll be at the reception desk In the News Room, backed up by Shlrley OIBrLen.

Robert Blackburn Jr. News Room Assistant. Mr. Blackburn 1s a high school student from Martinez, Ga. He wlll provlde assistance as needed in the News Rcrom during the conventlon.

Thorn House holder News Room Assistant. Mr. Householder 1s a student at North- side Tunlor Hlgh,Nashville.He will provide assistance as needed in the News Roam during convention week.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Vern Myers Productlon Room SupewLsor. Mrs. (Marvin) Myers Is news editorial assistant for Baptist Press, Nashville. She wlll work wlth Robert OIBrien, News Room manager, in supervlslng the grocesslng of copy produced by News Room staff reporters for dlstrlbution to the news medla. She will also do typlng and mlmeographlng .

Faye Russell Baptlst Press Malllnq Suwentlsor. Ms. Russell 1s feature edltorbl asslstant for Baptlst Press, Nashville, She wlll work with Robert O'Brlen ln dally rnalllng of the Baptlst Pressnews service from the News Rmm.She will also do typing and mimeographingI Darlene Clark ProductLon Ass is tant. Mrs , (Tom) Clark of Nas hvllle has had wide experience as a secretary. She wlll do typing and I mlmeographlng . I Emma Hutehens Productlon Asslstant. Ms. Hutchens 1s admlnlstratlve assistant to the Woman's Mlsslonary Union, Baptls t Ganerul Association of VLrginla, Rlehmond. She wlll do typing and m lmeopraphlng . Doris Kelley Product Lon Ass is tant . Mrs. (Bernard) Kelley 1s secretarial supervisor ln the news and lnformatlon department of the SBC Forelgn Mlsslon Board, Richmond, Va. She wlll do typlng and mlmeogmphing.

Coleen Martln Productlon Asslstant. Mrs. (Dan) Martin of Atlanta has had wide experience as a writer and secretary. She will do typing and mlmeographlng:

Jane Medarls Production Ass is tant, Mrs. (Gene) Medarls 1s an admlnls eta tlve asslstant in Indlanapolls, Ind. She wlll do typlng and mlmeo- graphing Page 6--SBC News Room Staff

Productlon Assistant and Backup Receptlonls t. Mrs. (Robert) OIBrlen 1s edltorlal senrlces cwrdlnator for the SBC Semlnary Extentlon Department, Nashville. She wlll do typlnp and mlmeographlng and backup Pat Starkey at the News Room reception desk.

Susan Wlthlngton Productlon Assls tant. Ms. Wlthlngton is secretary to the publlc relations dlrector, Mlssourl Baptls t College, St. Louls . She wlll do typing and mlmeographlng,

SPEECH SALES

Leonard Hlll Coordlna tor. Dr, Htll 1s managlng edltor of The Eaptls t Program magazlne , SBC Executlve Commlttee , Nashvllle . He has responslbilltles for speech sales and assists with convention arrangements.

Lorene Woodall Sales Booth. Mrs. (John) Wwdall 1s secretary to Tim Hedquis t, SBC Executive Commlttee. She wlll work In sales and ass Lst ln speech .sales coordlnatlon.

Karen Sue HLll Sales Booth. MLss Hill, from Nashvllle, will be a junior at Auburn Unlverslty thls fall. She wlll work In a speech salas booth.

Katle Lou Hlll Sales Booth. Mrs. (Leonard) Hlll teaches first grade at Tusculum Elementary School, Nashville, She wlll work In a speech sales booth.

Sherra Lowry Sales Booth. Miss Lowry, a student at Hlllsboro High School, NashvUle, will work in a speech sales booth.

Joan McDonough sales Booth. Mrs. (Reginald) McDonough is rnuslc secretary at FLtst Baptlst Church, NashvUle, She wU1 work In a sales booth.

Henrietta Powell Sales Booth. Mrs, (Tlm) Powell dlrects a kindergarten In NashvUle. She wlll work Ln a sales booth.

Melanie Wllklnson Sales Booth. Mrs. (Davld) Wllklnson of Memphls, Tenn. wlll work ln a sales booth.

Jlmmy R. Allen hlef Executlve Dr. Allen 1s presldent of the Radio and +e evlsion Commlsslon and oversees all of Lts actlvltles. Luke Wllllams Assistant Chlef Executlve. Mr. Wllllams 1s exocutlve vlce president. He wlll asslst Jlmmy Allen Ln overseeing lts actlvltles.

Robert Taylor Radlo-TV Coordlnator. Mr. Taylor Is dlrector of the broadcast divlslon. He wU1 coordinate all radio and televls Lon operatlons durlng the conventlon,

Edw ln S . Malone Recordlnu and News Peed Coonilnator. Mr. Malone 1s manager of the radlo department. He wlll supenrlse all recording actlvltles and news feeds to radlo statlons durlng the conventlon. Page 7--SBC News Room Staff

Paul Bock Tel vlsi~p-Coveracre. Mr. Bock, a productlon ass is tant, will asslst In televls lon coverage for the closed clrcuit color TV lmage magnlflcatlon system whloh will be operated In the auditorlurn for the benefit of messengers.

Buddy Brown Technlclan. Mr. Brown, audlo technlclan, wlll lns tell and maintain technical equipment to assist radio and talevlsion news reporters.

Paul Brown Enqineerlnq SuDentlsor. Mr. Brown is manager of engineering services. He will supenrlse all engineerlng activltbs at the convention.

Roy Cherryhomes Audio Mlxins. Mr. Cherryhomes, an audio englneer, will coordinate audio mklng during the convention.

Claude COX News Feeds. Mr. Cox Is manager of marketing. He will write and direct mdlo news feeds from the convention.

Lyn Downlng Closed Ckcu it Image Magnlfica tion. Mrs. Downing wlll operate the vidifont for the closed clrcuit TV image magnifi- cation system. Clarence Duncan Exhibit and Tapes. Mr. Duncan Is manager of personnel. He wlll asslst in the commlsslon's convention exhiblt acd tape sales, Pat Gutlerriez Televlslon Coveraue . Mr. Gutlerriez, a production ass is tant , wlll work as a televls Lon camerman for closed circult TV lmage magnlficatlon.

Chuck Hall Consultant. Mr. Hall 1s manager, broadcast services. He will provide consultation from the commlss ion's convent Ion exhlbit. Bernie Rargls Televls ion Coverage. Mr. Hargis , a production assis tank, wU1 work as a TV cameraman for closed clrcult TV lmage magnlflcatlon.

Carlyle B. Hayes Commission Exhibit. Mr. Hayes, a commission development officer, wlll asslst In the commlsslon's convention exhibit.

I Mlke Head Televlslon Coveraae , Mr. Head, a video techniclan, will assist In televlslon coverage for closed circult TV image . magnlficatlon.

Andy Howlngton Televls lon Coverage. Mr. Howington , technical s upemisor, will supenrise operation of the commiss lon' s mobile cruiser.

Jim Hughes Consultant, Statlon Relations. Mr. Hughes 1s a producer and consultant. He will work wlth Robert O'Brlen, News Room manager, in making advance medla conmcts at radlo and television sta tions. He wlU also provide cons ultatlon from khe commlss ion's convention exhibit.

Paul Jenklns Televls Lon Coverage. Mr. Jenklns , a productlon ass 1s tant , wlll ass 1s t ln televls lon coverage for closed circuit TV image magn Lfica tlon . Debbie Jones Slosed CLrcult Image Maqnlflcatlan. Miss Jones, an engineer- secretary, wlll operate the vidlfont for the color TV image magnlficatlon system. Page 8--SBC News Room Staff

Mlckey McCormack Televis ion .Co,nreraqe. Mr. McConnack, a production assistant wlll work as a !CV cameraman for closed circult TV hags magnification.

Glenn McEowen Technlctan. Mr. McEowen, a video techniclan, wlll ins tall and maintain technical equipment to assist radio and television news reporters.

Jerry P Illow Comrnisslon Exhlblt. Mr. Pillow Is acting dlrector of audlence programs. He willasslst in the commisslon's convent ion exhlblt . Dwight Roberts Televls ion Coverage. Mr. Roberts, a video technlclao, will assist in television coverage for the closed clrcuit TV hage magnification systern.

Charles Roden Commlss ion Exhlbit. Mr. Roden, a cornmiss ion admln1strat:ve officer, wlll ass 1s t in the commisslon exhibit.

Aldo Rulz Recordin Mr. Rulz, a radio program producer, will do dandduplicating of convention taper.

Jim Rupe News Feeds and Recordlna. Mr. Rupe is production super- visor for radlo. He will produce news faeds and convention recordings . John Cobb Smith Television Coverage. Mr. Smith, producer and consultant, wlll provide consulta tion from the commlss ion's conventlon exhibit.

Eldon K. Sparrow Consultatlon. Mr. Sparrow 1s manager of broadcast engineer- ing. He will provlde consultatlon Ln broadcast engineering from the commission exhlblt.

Don Stockford Closed Ckcult Image Maonlflcatlon, Mr. Stockford Is tele- vlslon operations manager. He wlll produce the closed clrcuit TV image magniflca t ion coverage.

KLrk Teegarden Recordlna , Mr. Teegarden, radio program producer, will direct the recording and editing of conventlon proceedings.

Gordon Whiteley Consultant. Mr. Whiteley, a producer and consultant, wlll provide consultatlon from the commisslon's conventlon exhlblt. W. C. Woody Closed Ckcult Image Magnlficatlon. Mr. Woody is super- visor of special projects. He wlll coordinate the closed clrcuit TV image mgnlflcation sys tern.

OTHER SBC RESOURCE PEOPLE AROUND THE NEWS ROOM

Harold C. Bennett Admlnls tra tlon. Dr. Bennett is executlve s'ecre tnry-treasurer of the SBC Executlve Cornmlttes, Nashville, He has the overall staff responslblllty for convention planning and ogerat Lon.

Albert McClellan Conventlon Bulletin and Commlttees. Dr. McClellan is aasoclate executive secretary and director of progmm planning, SBC Executlve Committee, Nashville. He edits the dally Convention Bulletln and works wlth the Committee on Resolutions and the Comlttee an Commlttees, Page 9--SBC News Room Staff

Tim Hedqulst Facllltles, Mr. Hedqulst 1s assistant to the treasurer and dlrector of financial planning, SBC Executlve Commlttee, NashvUle. He has responslbillty for the physlcal facLllEles and arrangements for the annual conventlon.

Martha Gaddls Admlnls tratlon. Mrs. (Robert) Gadd 1s 1s admlnls tratlve ass lstant tc Dr. Bennett. She wlll work In his offlce located In Room 254 tn the Cervantes Conventlon Center.

Ada Ruth Kelly Finance. Mrs. (Bryan) Kelly is chlef bookkeeper for the SBC Executlve Commlttee, Nashvllle. She has resgonslblllty for financial transactlons and banking Ln connection wlth the annual meetlng, She wlll also asslst Dr. McClellan In groduclng the Conventlon Bulle tln.

Becky Jackson Resolutlons. Mrs. (Forrest) Jackson 1s . secretary to Dr. McClellan, SBC Executlve Committee, Nashvllle. She wlll work wlth hlm ln asslstlng the SBC resolutlons committee. She wlll also work In the conventlon off Ice located ln Room 2 55 Ln the Cerwantes Convention Center.

Gerry Dearman ConventLon Bulletln. Mrs. (Ernest) Deaman Is secretary to Dr. McClellan. She will asslst hlm In producing the Convention Bulletln and work Ln the conventlon offlce.

Rita Hedqulst Conventlon Information. Mrs. (Tim) Hedqulst, a secretary at Flrst Baptist Church, Nashvllle, wlll assls t local lnformatlon and reglstratlon committees and work In the conventlon office.

Royal ~mbassadorPages Several RAs, provided by the SBC Brotherhood Commlsslon, wU1 sente as News Room nsslstants. i-I lUW'Wrrg/ bt:rvdm ~un-elllw am4 frehs St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

1980 SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION DECTORY OF PARTICIPANTS M THE FOLLOWING:

Southern Baptist Research Fellowship, Saturday, June 7 National Deacon's Rally, Sunday, June 8 Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Southern Baptist Conference of Directors of Missions, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Southern Baptist Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Southern Baptist Religious Education Association, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Association of Southern Baptist Campus Ministers, Sunday and Monday, June 8-9 Southern Baptist Ministers' Wives Conference, Tuesday, June 10 Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists, Wednesday, June 11 The Southern Baptist Convention, June 10-12

BIRMINGHAM I ALLEN, Catherine, assistant to executive director and director of public and employee relations, Woman's Missionary Union, will assist in presenting the new book, The New Lottie Moon Stow, at the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Kiel Auditorium.

BLOUNT , Evelyn, assistant to the education division director, Woman's Missionary Union will interview four families at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting on Sunday afternoon, June 8.

CHURCHILL, Sheryl , Baptist Young Women consultant, Woman's Missionary Union, will give a monologue on the theme, "Life-Changing Commitments, at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting in Kiel Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, June 8, Monday morning and evening, June 9.

PERKINS, Mrs. Margaret, Woman's Missionary Union consultant for cooperative ministries with National Baptists, will address the Woman's Missionary Unionannual meeting on Monday morning, June 9.

SAEGER, Lane11 (Mrs. Paul), full-time homemaker and leader of refugee ministry and WMU director, Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, will be interviewed by Evelyn Blount at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting on Monday morning, June 9.

WEATHERFORD, Carolyn, executive director, Woman's Missionary Union, will give the WMU executive board report, "GreatWomen of Woman's Misslonary Union Today, " in Kfel Auditorium at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting on Monday afternoon, June 9, and Woman's Missionary Union report at the Southern Baptist Convention, Cervantes, on Thursday morning, June 12. WHO'S WHO--Page 2

ALABAMA (continued) cdmx BUTLER, Gilbert and Marguerite and family, will be interviewed by Evelyn Blount at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting on Sunday afternoon, June 8. Gilbert is an agri- business teacher, Marion Go. (Ala.) High School; Marguerite is a special education teacher at Winfield Elementary, Three children: son, Jed; two daughters, Lsanna and Ronice .

HUNTSVILLE LANGLEY, Ralph H., pastor, First Baptist Church, will givea message, "On Being Priested Well with Christ My Priest, " at the Monday morning, June 9, sassion of the Pastors' Conference.

PHOENIX JACKSON, Richard, pastor, North Phoenix Baptist Church, will give a message, "In the Meantime, " Monaay morning, June 9, at the Pastors' Conference.

ARKANSAS

ARKADELPHIA CHU, Jane, student, Ouachita Baptist University, will be the concert pianist during the official presentation of the new book, The New Lottie Moon Stow, on Monday afternoon, June 9,, at the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting. 5- 5- KEATHLEY, Ervin director of church music, Arkansas Baptist State Convention, will coor- dinate the opening session of the Church Music Conference, Sunday evening, June 8.

PARKER, Robert, director, Christian Life Council (Arkansas), will read the Scripture at the Tuesday evening, June 10, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

FRESNO BROWN, Edd, director, men's ministries department, Southern Baptist General Convention of California, will read the Scripture Thursday afternoon, June 12, at the Souther2 Baptist Convention.

LEMON GROVE KLEINSCNMIDT, Robert E., pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the b nediction mursday morning, June 12, at the Southern Baptist Convention.

LOS ALTQS HALL, Warren, pastor, Foothill Baptist Church, will give the benediction at the Tuesday afternoon, June 10, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

MILL VALLEY PINSON, William M, , president, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, will speak at the banquet Monday night, June 9, for the Association of Southern Baptist Campus Ministers, Third Baptist Church.

SIZLTON, J. Roger, professor of religious education, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, and president-elect, Religious Education Conference, will preside Monday evening, June 9, at the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel. WHO'S WHO--Page 3 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

WASHINGTON DENNY, Robert S., general secretary, Baptist World Alliance, will give the Baptist World Alliance report Thursday morning, Jun 12, at the Southern Baptist Convention.

ROUTH, Porter W., interim executive director-treasurer of the Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, will give the Baptist Joint Committee on Fublic Affairs report Thursday afternoon, June 12, at the Southern Baptist Convention.

FLORIDA

JACKSONVILLE PEURR, Keener, director, education division, Florida Baptist Convention, will give an address, "The Foundations of Rieligious Education for Southern Baptists, " at the Sunday even- ing session, June 8, of the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

MERRITT ISLAND TURNER, Len, pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the benediction at noon on Tuesday June 10, at the Southern Baptist Convention.

STUART DRAPER, Charles, pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the benediction Sunday night, June 8, at the Pa storsl Conference.

GEORGIA

ATHENS HALE, William H ., associate director, Georgia Center for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia will address the Religious Education Conference on "Communicating Christian Values Today" on Monday morning , June 9.

ATWTA BINGHAM , Robert, director, services section, Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, will lead in prayer on Monday evening, June 9, at the Religious Education Conference,

MOWS, Orrin, director, research division, Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, will describe the SBC Uniform Church Letter indices for planning at the Southern Baptist Research Fellowship meeting on Saturday, June 7, Third Baptist Church. TANNER, William G ., executive director-treasurer of the Home Mission Board, will give the Home Mission Board repott at the Wednesday evening, June 11, session of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a message, "Honorable Vessels," at the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Pastors1 Conference.

MARIETTA STARKEY, Posey, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will preside over the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Cheh. -ROME STONE Brothers will give the special music during the Monday afternoon session, June 9, of the Pastors' Conference, Cumantes Convention Center.

ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD SHEPPARD , Carl, music director, Illinois Bantist State Association. will direct The Singing Illinoisans aid the Illinois ~aptistState ~ssociatfonOrchestra at the Wednesday evening, June 11, session of the Southern Baptist Convention; will direct the Illinois Church Musicians in the evening session, June 8, of the Pastors' Conference; and will direct a mini-concert on Sunday evening, Tune 8, dufng the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church. -more- WHO'S WHO--Page 4

ILLINOIS (continued)

WHEATON OLFORD, Stephen, evangelist, will give the message at the Wednesday evening, June 11, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

KANSAS WICHITA LINEBERGER, Phillip, Pastor, Metropolitan Baptist Church, will give the benediction at the Wednesday evening, June 11, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE EDGE, Findley B ., professor of religious education, Southern Baptist Theological Serninaq will give the summary and dialogue with Willia m H. Hale, at the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St, Louis Hotel.

GRAVES, Allen W., senior professor and retiring dean, School of Religious Education, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, will serve on the panel--"Reflections from the Past" --at the Sunday evening, June 8, session of the Religious Education Association.

HUFF, Henry B., attorney, will give the report of the Denominational Calendar Committee in the business session on Thursday afternoon, June 12 of the SBC,

I LOESSNER, Ernest, emeritus professor of religious education, Southern Baptist Theologies Seminary, will serve on a panel--"Reflections from the Past"--during the Sunday evening, June 8, session of the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

NUTT, Grady and Eleanor, humorists, will give the theme interpretation on Thursday night, June 12, at the SBC.

SIMMONS, Paul, professor of Christian ethics, Southern Seminary, will speak on medical ethics at the Association of So.uthern Baptist Campus Ministers, Stouffer's Riverfront Hotel, which meets June 8-9.

STASSEN, Glen, professor of Christian ethics, Southern Seminary, will speak on the ethics of nuclear power at the Southern Baptist Campus Ministers association, which meets June 8-9 at Stouffer's Rive&ont Hotel.

W- W- WHITWORTH, Albin, musician, will serve as organist for the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, June 8-9, Ktel Auditorium.

LOUISIANA ALEXANDRIA SHORT, Mark, program consultant for the Louisiana Baptist Convention, will serve on the panel--"Reflections fcom the Past "--Sunday evening, June 8, Religious Education Associa- tion, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

MONROE OGG , T. Earl, pastor, College Place Baptist Church, will read the Scripture at the Thursday evening, June 12, session of the SBC.

N?ZW ORLEANS LEAVELL 11, Landrum P. , president, New drleans Baptist Theological Seminary, will give the theme interpretation, "Boldness. in Reaching a Lost World, " at the Tuesday night, June 10, session of the SBC. WHO'S WHO--Page 5 LOUISIANA (continued) PINEVILLE ANDERS , Sarah Frances, professor and chairperson of the department of sociology, Louisiana Collage, will give the theme interpretation, "Boldness in Critical Times, " at the Thursday afternoon, June 12, session of the SBC.

SHREVEPORT SISEMORE, John, minister of education, First Baptist Church, will give a message entitled "Dynamics of Religious Education Today'' at the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association, Sherston St. Louis Hotel. WISNER LAMKIN, James, pastor, First Baptist Church, will lead in prayer at the Thursday night, June 12, session of the SBC, Cervantes Ceriter.

MASSACHUSETTS

CAMBRIDGE COX, Harvey, professor, Haward University Divinity School, and author, will address the Sunday afternoon, June 8, session of the Woman's Missionary Union annual meeting, Kiel Auditorium.

MICHIGAN SWART2 CREEK FRENCH, David, pastor, First Baptist Church, will read Scripture and lead in prsyar, Monday afternoon, June 9, at the Pastors' Conference.

MISSISSIPPI

JACKSON BLACK, Larry, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will direct the church's choir in pre-session and special music on Monday morning, June 9, at the Pastors' Conference,

MISSOURI

FERGUSON WILLIAMSON, Thelma, director, childhood education, First Baptist Church, will preside over the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association.

HANNIBAL PSALMONDS , Marjorie, director, Missouri Baptist College Singers, will direct the premiere of the anthem, "He Is God-The Ktng of Glory, " Sunday evening, June 9, Church Music Conference; a mini-concert, Monday afternoon, June 9, at Third Baptist Church; and inspirational music on Thursday morning, June 12, at the SBC . JEFFERSON CITY BOYD, Linda, director, Missouri Singing Women and First Baptist Church chotr, will give special music, Sunday afternoon, June 8, at the WMU annual neeting; direct a mini-concert Monday morning, June 9, Church Music Ccnference; direct music on Monday evening, June 9, for the SBC; and direct the Missouri Music Women, Tuesday evening, June 10, at the SBC.

SOUTH, Rheubin , executive secretary, Missouri Baptist Convention, will give the welcome Sunday evening, June 8, at the Pastors' Conference,

SOUTHER, Harold, director, church development division, Missouri Baptist Convention, will give the welcome Sunday evening, June 8, Religious Education Association.

WOOLLEY, Bob, music secretary, Missouri Baptist Convention, will direct congregational singing Tuesday afternoon, June 10, SBC; and direct the Missouri Music Men on Tuesday night, June 10, SBC. -more- WHO'S WHO--Page 6 MISSOURI (continued)

KANSAS GITY MURPHY, Mrs. Larene (Donald), president, WMU, Missoliri Baptist Convention, will lead in prayer at the Tuesday evening, Juns 10, session of the SBC. LIBERTY RIDDLE, Polly, assistant professor of music and vice president, William Je*.vell College, will presideover the music educators division at the ond day morning, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church.

ST. LOUIS CHAPMAN, Ian M. , pastcr, Third Eaptist Church, will giva the welcome and invocation at the Sunday evening session, June 8, of the Church ~usicConference.

CONWAY, James, mayor, St. Louis, will give the welcome at the opening session, Tuesday morning, Jcne 10, of the SBC.

LMS,Larry, pastor, T~werGrove Baptist Church, and Pastors' Confere~cevise presl- dent, will preside over the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Pastors' Conference; and read the Scripture at the Tuesday aeerncon, June 10, session cF L!e SBC.

McNZIL, Jim, musis etm~gelist,will lead the c~i?~rdgationalsinging a: the Thtrrsday afternoon, June 12, session cf the SBC.

REESE , Anita, college student and Acteens ac?ivstcr, wii! be interviewed by Evelyn Blount at the Monday mor~ing,J~ne 9, sessicr, of the WhIU annual meeting.

SLAUGHTER, Susan, principal trumpsteer , St. Lollis Symphony Orchestra, will solo and give Christian testimony at the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church.

SPRINGFIELD NEWPORT, Rcssell , layman and evan~elisticmusician, will give the special music at the Monday afternoon, June 9, sesslan of the Pastors' Conference.

NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE BATES, Carl, pastor, Flcst Baptist Church, and former SBC president, will give the message at the Thursday evening, June 12, session of the SEC.

BURNETTE, Joe, minister crf education, First Baptist Church, will lead in prayer at the Sunday evening, June 8, session of the Religious Education Association.

MOORE, Virginia (Mrs. Gene), former WMU director, Mecklenburg Associ~tion, will present Scripture at the Tuesday morning, June 10, session of the SBC.

HIGH POINT DAVIDSON , James, minister of music, Grace Baptist Church, wi 11 cocrdinate the Monda~ afternoan session, June 9, of the Church Music Conference.

RALEIGH GATWOOD, Charles, director of church music, Baptist State Convantion of North Caro- lina, will preside over the denominational divlsicn nieeting of the Church bfusic Conference on Monday morning, June 9, at Third Baptist Church.

HOBBS, Sara Ann, director, missions division, Bapt. State Convention of North Carolina will lead in prayer at the Wednesday evening,' June 11, session of the SBC.

WINGATE BOSTIC , Ron, chairman, division of fine arts, Wingate C ollege , will coordinate the Monday morning, June 9, session of thz Church Music Canference, Third Baptlst Church. WHO'S WHO--Page 7

DEL CITY McSWAIN, Aubie, directcr, First Southern Baptist Church choir, will direct the pre- session and special mosic on Monday afternoon, June 3, at the Pastors' Conference.

SMITH, Bailey E., pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, will give a message, "Stand Firm in Jordan, " at the Monday evening session, June 9, of the Pz?stors' Conference.

NORMAN BROWN, Norms rznnzdy (Mrs. Lavonn), will !ead in grayer at the Thursday morni~g, June 12, sesiion of the SBC;

OKLAHOMA CITY BARTLETT, Gene, retired music sec:atan-- , Bwtist- General 'Convetition of Oklahoma, will receive an honorary life membership in Southern Baptist Chwch lrrlusic Conference on Monday morning, :une 9, at the Church Musk Canfercnce, Third Baptist Church.

PROSSER, Ira, retired rr.uslc secretary, Eaptisi General Convention of Okinhcma, will receive an honorary lifa membership in Southern Eaptist Church Music Confersnce, Monday morning, June 9, et Third Baptist Church dqxingthe Cnurch Music Confer2oce.

ROBERTS, Lawanna , st~tsdirector, Actsens, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, will give the benedicticr, a; the Wednesday ~ornir.g,June 11, session cf the SBC.

IVOODWARD, James, director, 0k:ahoma Sinsing Churchmen, will direct the music for inspiration st the Thursday night, luile i2, ssssion of the SEC.

SHAWNEE WEDMAN, Charlotts Perkins (Mrs. j .T .) , will lead !n prayer at the Thursday aftzrnoon, June 12, session of the SBC. -TULSA DAVIS, Jim, will presant special nusi; at the Mcnday evening, Juns 9, sassion of the Pastors' Conference, Cervantes Convention Center.

SAWYER, John C., director of The Heart Throbs, senior adult choir of Immanual Baptist Church, will direct a mini-concert on Monday afternoon, June 9; and will speak on "Organiz- ing a Senior Choir in Your Chwch" at ths afternoon session, June 9, at the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church.

SOUTH CAROLINA S PARTANBURG WALK R, Alastair Cameron, pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the message, "The Church in Life-Changing Commitments, " on Monday morning, June 9, at the WMU annual rneetira, Kiel Aud1:crium.

, TENNESSEE

BROWNSVILLE SORRELL, H. K. , pastor, Brotvnsitille aaptist Church, will lesd in prayer, Tuesday morning, June 10, at the SBC . MEMPHIS FORD, Acie, pastor, Boulevard Baptist Church, will lead in prayer at the Tuesday morn- ing, June 10, session of the SBC.

HOLLOWAY, Earl, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will lead a mini-concert by the adult choir on Sucday evening, June 8, at the Church Music Confersnce, Thlrd Baptist Church; and will also direct the brass ensemble In the prcniere of the anthem, "He Is God-- The King of Glory. " WHO'S WHO--Page 8 TENNESSEE (continued)

MEMPHIS (continued) LANE, Thomas P ., minister of music, Bellevue Baptist Church, will direct the sanctuary and youth choirs for the music for inspiration on Tuesday mornlng, June 10, at the SBC.

LOVE, Henry, minister of church administration, First Baptist Church, will lead in prayer st the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association.

ROGERS, ADRIAN P., pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, will be interviewed with his wife and family at the WMU annual meeting, Sunday afternoon, June 8; will give the welcome and lead in prayer at the Sunday evening, 1 June 8, session of the Pastors' Conference; will preside at sessions of the S9C, June 10- 12; give the SBC president's address at the Tuesday morning, June 10, session; and will give the SBC benediction on Thursday night, June 12.

ROGERS, Joyce (Mrs. Adrian), will solo with choirs at the Tuesdajr morning session, June 10, of the SBC; and will be interviewed with her family at the WMU annual meeting, Sunday afternoon, June 8.

WHITMIRE, James D. , associate minister of music, Bellevue'Baptist Chuck,, will direct the senior high-college choir at the Tuesday afternoon, June 10, session of the SBC.

PASHVILLE BENNETT, Harold C ., executive secretary-treasurer of the Executive Committee, will give Part 1 of the Executive Committee report at the..Tuesday morning, June 10, session; palt 2 at the Tuesday afternoon, June 10, session; the theme interpratation, "Boldness in Convention Advance, " during the Tuesday afternoon, June 10, session; and the Bold Miss~on Thmst Goal report during the Tuesday evening, June 10, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

BRADLEY, Martin B., director, research services department, Baptist Sunday School Board, and SBC recording secretary, will discuss the Uniform Church Letter and general research in progress at the Southern Baptist Research Fellowship meeting on Saturday, Tune 7. GATES, Bill and Linda, recording artists, will lead in worship at the Sunday evening, June 8, session and the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Associs tion, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

COTEN, Grady C., president, Baptist Sunday School Board, will make a presentation at the Southern Baptist Research Fellowship, Saturday, June 7; will give a message, "Victory ! Is Ours, " during the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the Pastors' Conference; and I will give the Baptist Sunday School Board report during the Wednesday evening, June 11, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

FAEAN, A. R., executive director, Stewardship Commission, will give the Stewardship Commission report, during the Tuesday afternoon, June 10, session of the SBC.

HINKLE , Joe, secretary, family ministry department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will give a feature, "Religious Education: The Here and Now-Family Ministry, 'I during the Sunday evening, June 8, session of the Religious Education Association, meeting at Sheraton St. Louis Hotel. HOLLIS Js. , Harry N ., associate executive secretary, Christian Life Commission, will speak on family life at the Association of Southern Baptist Campus Ministers meeting June 8-9 at the Stauffer's Riverfront Hotel.

HOWELL, Crawford, manager, Broadman sales department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will speak on "Resources for Religious Education" at the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association meeting, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel. WHO'S WHO--Page 9 TENNESSEE (continued) NASHVILLE (continued) JOHNSON 111, Hollis E. , executive secretary-treasurer, Southern Baptist Foundation, will give the Southern Baptist Foundation report during the Thursday morning, June 12, session of the SBC.

MkCLELLAN , Albert, associate executive secretary, Executive Committee, will give the theme interpretation, "Boldness in a Changing World," on Tuesday morning, June 10, of the SBC . McDONOUGB , Reginald, secretary, church administration department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will give a feature-"Religious Education: The Here and Now-Church Adminls- tration "--during the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association.

MAY Jr ., Lynn E. , executive director, Historical Commission, will give the Historical Commission report during the Thursday afternoon, June 12, session of the SBC. .. MYERS. F . Marvin, consultant, church administration department, Sunday School Board, will present raports and recognitions during the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

PASCEALL, H. Franklin, pastor, First Baptist Church, and former SBC president, will give the report of the Committee on Baptist State Papers during the Thursday afternoon, June 12, session of the SBC.

PORTER, Lee, design editor, adult Life and Work curriculum, Sunday School Board, and SBC registration secretary, will give the Registration and Constitution of Convention report during the Tuesday morning, June 10, session of the SBC.

ROSELLE, Charles, secretary, national student ministries department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will give a feature, "Religious Education: The Here and Now-Trends in Student

' Ministry, " during the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association

VALENTINE, Foy, executive secretary-treasurer, Christian Life Commission, will give the Christian Life Commission report on Thursday afternoon, June 12, at the SBC. WALKER Jr ., Arthur L. , executive director-treasurer , Education Commission, will give the Education Commission report and the Southern Baptist Commission on the American Baptist Seminary report on Thursday morning, June 12, of the SBC.

WILLIS Jr., Avety T., supervisor, adult section, church ttainEng department, Baptist Sunday School Board, will give a message, "Discipling for Tomorrow," during the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Religious Education Association.

CONROE FLOYD, Gary, will give the special music during the Sunday evening, June 8, session of the Pastors' Cbnference.

DALLAS COFFMAN, Wesley, chairman, department of the arts, Dallas Baptist College, will speak on "Understanding and Working with the Boy's Changing Voice," and demonstrate with a boys' choir during the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference, and later "More on the Boy's Changing Voice. I'

CRISWELL, W. A., pastor,First Baptist Chyrch, and former SBC president, will give a message entitled "Heartfelt Religion" during the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Pastors' Conference. DUNN , James M ., executive director, Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, will speak on economics and world hunger at the Association of Southern Baptist Campus Ministers. meeting June 8-9, WHO'S WBO--Page 10

TEXAS (continued) DALLAS (continued) FORT, David, M ,D. , will give a message during the Tuesday evening session, June 10, of the SBC.

MOORE, Gary, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will direct the church's choir pre-session and twice during the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Pastors' Conference MORGAN, Darold N ., president, Annuity Board, will give the Annuity Board report during the Thursday morning, June 12, session of the SBC.

PLEITZ, James L , pastor , Park Cities Baptist Church, will give the Committee on Order of Business report on Tuesday morning, June 10, of the SBC.

SENA, Bob, pastor, First Mexican Baptist Church, will read Scripture and lead in prayer during the Monday evening, June 9, sessfon of the Pastors' Conference.

TERqELL, Mrs. Beverly, musician and lecturer, will direct music and solo at the Woman's I Missionary Union annual meeting, June 8-9. --EULESS .- DR3?EK, James T. , pastor, First Baptist Church, and president, Pastors' Conference, will preside at the Pastors' Conference on Sunday evening, Monday afternoon and Monday evening, June 8-9.

WILKINS , Don, minister of music, First Baptist Church, will present special muslc a t the Monday morning, June 9, session of the Pastors' Conference.

FORT WORTH ALLEN, Jimmy R., president, Radio ad Television Commission, and former SBC president, will give the Radio and Television Commission report on Tuesday, June 10, at the SBC.

DRUMWHIGHT, Huber L., dean, School of Theology, and professor of New Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, will give the theme interpretation on Thursday morning, June 12, at the SBC.

FISH, Roy, professor of evangelism, Southwestern Baptist Semlnary, will speak on "The High Cost of Effective Evangelismn on Monday evening, June 9, at the Pastors' Conference.

GREGORY, Joel C., pastor, Gambrel1 Street Baptist Church, will speak on "When Faithful- ness Brings Problems" on Monday morning, June 9,at the Pastors' Conference.

HEACOCK, Joe Davis, dean emeritus, school of religious education, Southwestern Seminary, will serve on the panel, '?Reflections from the Past, " Sunday evening, June 8, during the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Lou1s Hotel.

HOLCOMB , Tim, minister of education, Polytechnic Baptist Church, will recognize new members during the Monday morning, June 9, session, Religious Education Association.

KLEMPNAUER, Lawrence, minister of education and administration, Travis Avenue Baptist Church, and president of the Religious Education Association, will preside over the Sunday evening, lune 8, session of the Religious Education Association.

MXLLER, James, pastor, Ridglea Baptist Church and secretary of the Pastors' Confer nce, will give the benediction during the Monday morning, June 9 , session of the Pastors' Conferell

PEARSON, Bill J., minister of music, Travis Avenue Baptist Church, and vice president of the Church Music Conference, will preside over the "Local Church Division, " Monday morning, June 9, at the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church. WHO'S WHO--Page 11 5EXAS (continued)

FORT WORTH (continued) REYNOLDS, 'JVilliam I., visiting professor, School of Sacred Music , Southwestern Baptist Seminary, will lead in creative worship, Sunday evening, June 8, at the Church Music Conference, direct the evening sessions in congregational singing for the SBC, June 10-12; and will receive an honorary life membership in the Church Music Conference, on Monday morning, June 9, at the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church

TAYLOR, Jack; Bible conference speaker and director of Dimensions in Christian Living, will give a message ,"Prayer and Awakening " during the Sunday evening, June 8, sessior! of the Pastors1 Conference. GARLAND PRICE,- -Jack, evanaelistic- musician and music coordinator, Pastors' Conferecce, will direct the congregational singing on Sunday evening, June 8; present special music on Monday, morning, June 9; and lead special music on Monday evening, June 9, pastors ' Conference.

HOUSTOIG BARNER, Ronnv, minister of music, West University Baptist Church, will preside at the Monday morning, fuke 9, session of the Church Music conference, Third Baptist Church. ,BISAGNO, John, pastor, Fkst Baptist Church, will give a'message, "The Second Corning ,, during the Sunday evening, june .8, session of-the Pastors' Conference.

BLAINE, Joe Deen, organist and music associate, Westbury Baptist Church, will give a mini-organ recital on Sunday evening, June 8, at the Church Music Conference.

BORUM , Mark, minister of music, .Willow Meadows Baptist Church, will coordinate the Monday evening, June 9, sssion of the Church Music Conference.

CHAFIN, Kenneth, pastor, South Main Baptist Church, will give words of inspiration on Sunday evening, June 8, at the Church Music Conference; and words of inspiration on Monday morning, June 9, at the SBC.

CLAWSON, Cynthia, musician, will present special music Sunday evening, June 8, at the Pastors' Conference; and will solo on Wednesday morning, June 11, at the SBC.

MULLER, Charles, minister of music, Second Baptist Church, will direct the adult and youth choirs during inspirational music on Wednesday morning, June 11, of the SBC. ROBERTS Jr., Thad, minister of music, South Main Baptist Church, and president, Church Music Conference, will preside at the opening Session, Sunday, June 8; give the president's address on Monday afternoon, June 9; preside over the Monday evening, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference. He will also direct congregational sing- ing on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, June 10-1 1, of the SBC . VALLIAMS, Roy Lee, director, church services, Union Baptist Association, and vice president of the Religious Education Association, will preside over the multimedia presenta- tion celebrating 25 years of Southern Baptist religious education work at the Monday noon session, June 9, of the Religious Education Association.

YOUNG, H. Edwin, pastor, Second Baptist Church, will give the convention sermon entitled "Side Streets" on Wednesday morning, June 11, of the SBC.

ODESSA STONE, H. Bailey, pastor, First Baptist Church, will speak on "A New Testament Strategy for Reaching People, " Monday af ternwn, June 9, at the Pastors' Conference.

SAN ANTONIO HARRIS, George H. , pastor, Castle Hills First Baptist Church, will present a message, "What God Wants in Us, " Monday morning, June 9 , at the Pastors' Conference.

PARSONS, bnnie, will present the special music at the Monday. mctning , June 9, session of the Pastoys ' -CoKference. TMAS (continued)

WAC0 LINAM, Gall (Mrs. Dennis), minister of childhood education, Calvary Baptist Church, will be interviewed by Evelyn Blount at the WMU annual meeting on Monday morning, June 9.

WICHITA FALLS CHAPMAN, Morris, pastor, First Baptist Church, will give the msponse at the Tuesday morning, June 10, session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

SALT LAKE CW SOUTHER, William H., secretary, music/church training, Utah-Idaho Southern Baptist Convention, will give the welcome at the Sunday evening , June 8, session of the Religious Education Association, Sheraton St. Louis Hotel.

VIRGINLA

ALEXANDRIA RUFFIN, C. Bernard, Lutheran, will speak on "Fanny Crosby--A Great American Writer/SpeakerW during the Mmdaymorrring, June 9, session of the Church Music Conference, Third Baptist Church.

CREWE CHURCHILL, Mrs. R. C., great-great niece of Lottie Moon, will be presented the new book, neNew Moon Stam, during the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the WMU annual meeting. Rf CHMOND HARMON, Mrs. William Barry, great-great niece of Lottie Moon and WMU member, River Road Baptist Church, will be presented the new book, The Now Lotti Moon Stow, during the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the WMU annual meeting.

PARKS, R. Keith, president, Foreign Mission Board, will testify at the WMU annual meeting, Monday evening, June 9; and will give the Foreign Mission Board report during the Tuesday evening, June 10, session of the SBC.

WYOMING

FORT WASHAKIE SAMPLES, Mr. and Mrs. Ted and family, missionaries among the Indians, will be interviewed by Evelyn Blount during the Sunday morning, June 8, session of the WMU annual meeting.

BOPHUTHATSWANA Beighle, Dr. and Mrs. Dale E. , foreign missionaries, will testify on Monday evening, June 9, at the WMU annual meeting, Kiel Auditorium.

GHANA Barron, Mr. and Mrs. James and family, foreign missionaries, will be interviewed by Evelyn Blount at the Sunday afternoon, June 8, session of the WMU annual meeting.

~ONGKONG Barrett, Dr. and Mrs. Jerry, foreign missionaries, will speak during the presentation of The New Lottie Moon Story, at the Monday afternoon, June 9, session of the WMU annual meeting, Ktel Auditorium. Dr. Barrettls address will be "The Anatomy of One Call Experi- ence "; Mrs. Lynn Barrett's address will be "The Lengthening Shadow of Lottie Moon. " He is a teacher at Hong Kong Baptist College. She is a home and church worker. WHO'S WHO--Page 13

Ichter, Bill H., music missionary, will direct the congregational singing on Thursday morning, June 12, of the Southern Baptist Convention: and will receive the Hines Sims Award on Monday afternoon, June 9, at the Church Music Conference. ~MBABWE Fort, Glles and Wana Ann, medical missionaries, will give a message during the Tuesday morning, June 10, session of the Southern Baptist Convention. News

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The Audlo News Center and closed clrcult TV In the Newsroom are basic parts of the com- plete news services operated by the Southern Baptist Conventlon. News coverage by a staff of tralned journallsts wlll flow through the Newsroom, located in Room 263 in the Cervantes Conventton Center. In the Newsroom there wlll be a news release pickup box asslgned to each station and each publication, News summarles, texts of motlons and resolutlons wlll be placed In each box hourly, Telephone number for the Newsroom (as grlnted on the Newsroom letterhead) 1s (314) 342-5357. Call thls number lf you have questions about busbess actlons, lssues or news developments. W.C. Flelds 1s the officlal press representative of the conventlon. Robert O'Brien 1s Newsroom manager and Norman Jameson is photogtaphy/featufes manager. Roy Jennlngs 1s the Newsroom copy chlef, Ed Malone wU1 coordinate ogeratlon of the Audlo News Center and W .C. Woody wlll caordlnate the closed circult color TY system and Lmage magnlf lcation of the conventlon proceedlngs . - * UV U tdz Jl .. .,a uu Y L +." J V- 1- c r u rcl-l . St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Thursday F.lornina Re~orts For Immediate Re1 2ase

ST. LOUIS, June 12--Southern Baptist Annuity Board President Darold Morgan of Dallas Thursday descried a "growins anticlericalism in our country" evidenced by a "flood of fed- eral government reaul ations ." f,lorgan cited a recent Internal Revenue Service irulino that the Annuit.y 9oard is classified as other than I' a church, an integrated auxiliary of a church or a convention or association of churches" because "it does not provide spiritually-oriented or morally- oriented instruction directly to the people it is set up to serve." On the contrary, Morgan said, "For the federal government to say we're not yours is a violation of church and state.'' He warned that if the IRS question is not settled iv the favor of the Annuity Board, "next will come the executive comittee, the foundations and boards."

In other matters, Worgan reported that the board's assets arev by a record $19? million for the year ending May 31. However, he noted "we still have an extraordinarily lona way to go before pastors, church staff members and denominational workers have adequate annuities. " The Annuity Soard was one of six aoency reoortino to messenqers durino the Thursday morning session of the 123rd Southern Baptist Convention. Leaders of I.Joman's flissionary Union, Baptist I!orld A1 1iance, Education Commission, Southern Baptist Commission on the Awerican Baptist Seminary and the Southern Raptist Foundation a1 so reoorted on the status of their orsanizations.

Carolyn Veatherford of Rirminqham, executive director of WfU, said 11,000 of the denomination's 35,000 churches sti11 do not have oraanized missions orsanizations for women. "To have Yoman's Missionary Union ornanized in every church is our aoal for the next few years," she said.

Arthur L. Yal ker, Jr. of Nashville, executive director-treasurer of the Southern Bap- tist Education Commission, said that educatlno students for vocational and missions careers is a current commission priority. He said a total of 22,791 volunteers for church- related and misf ions vocaf ions are currently enrolled in SoClthern Bapti St col leqes, urii- versities and seminaries.

"lde do not need to fear a future when so many Christian youno people are committed to Christ and his service," said b!al ker. Ode11 McGlothian, Sr., newly elected president of American Baptist Seminary in Mash- ville where 129 black Baptist are currently enrol led, said "Iam comnftted to challenge National Baptists. to give an equal. share .of. support to .this :in$ti tutlon."

By Linda Lawson--11 :57 a.m. Thursday CORRECTION Committee on Coimittee/Boards Sfory Moved 11:45 a.m. k!ednesday Graph 2--North Carolina, not". South Carolina Graph 4-- It's Glisson, not Glission Graph 15--It's Atchison, not Atchf nson

Background ! for graph 4 is that recommendations from comnittee on boards must be approved b.y SBC messengers before they are official.

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PHOTO 25--Belief in Bible by To Greatness--Bailey Snith, sew president of the Southern Baptist Convention, told reporters at his first ne'is cc33ference as SBC president that "respect far the Bible, love for evangelisn and a ccmnitment tc missions" wilt continue to maintain the convention's greatness. SmitA, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla., also stressed his belief in the inerrancy of the Bible. Photo by idark Sand1 in

PHOTO 28--Young Lagents Coildi ti on of Southerii 3aptists--Rebuking Southern Baptists for stressing marginal issues and neglecting significant nratters sucS as evangelism, I-!. Edwin Young implored conventisa messengers to "put down the guns and get back tc fish- ing." Young, pastor of the Second 3aptist Church. Houston, Texas, delivered the annual sermon during the 123rd anma1 meeting of the Sout+ern Saptist Convention in St. Louis. Phots by Steve i4edfot-d Photo Cs;tJon F:;. F:;. Your Information

PHOTO 25--Presiding Evangel ists--Off ieCrs at the annual meetinq of Southern Baptist Evangelists are (bottom row, from left to right): Chuck .!::nnedy of St. Louis, assistant music director; and Lonnie Parsons of San Antonio, ~arlicrnentarian. Standins, from left to riaht, are Leon Mesterhouse of Birminqham, Ala., vice president: Clyde Chiles of St. Louis, president; Bill Sky-Eaqle of Dallas, Texas, music director; and Don Vomack of Memphis, Tenn., executive director. Not shown is Jim Hilliams of Tulsa, Okla., pastor advisor. Phctr; Lg .3avid- Clanton

PHOTO 34--Former P,lissionary Tells of Lottie--Vrs. Je1.lrell Daniel of Dallas, a 95-year-01 d former missionary who served with Lottie Yoon in P'inatu, China, tells tlm participants in the VW national annual meetino, of her experiences with Miss Yoon. Ilrs. Daniel left her nursing home in Oallas to share her memories durinq the 'zibute to Yiss Moon, Photo by Mark f :::dl in

PHOTO 39--"That \ale Yay Rol dly Say"--fi!earl.v 14,000 messenaers to the 123rd annual meetinq of the Southern Saptist Convention gathered at Cervantes Convention Center in St. Louis June 10-12. Total resistrants for this year's meetinq numbered 13,SEr) as of ~~adn~sday, June 11. Photo by F!orman Jameson

PHOTO 29--Southern Yaptist President and Mife--Notinq that she is her husbands' bioqest fan, Sandra Smith intends to support her husband, Bailey Smith, durinq his presidency through prayers. Smith is the pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church of De1 City, Okla., and was elected president of the Southern Raptist Conv:.:tion on tho first ba:lot during proceedings in St. Louis. The Smiths have three sons, Scott, 15, Steven, 13, 2nd Josh, 5. Photo by Van Payne

PHOTO 30--1980-81 Officers of the Southern Raptist Convention--Three men will lead the 13.4 million member Southern Paptist Convention in 108')-81. They are, left to riaht, Jack Taylor, authr- and evanqel ist, Fort '.Jorth, Texas, first vice president: Railey Smith, pastor, First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla., president and C. wade Freeman, retired director of evangelism, Baptist General Convention of Texas, Dallas, second vice president. Photo by David Clanton

PHOTO 30--Executive Comittee Has Few Officers--Yew officers of the Southern Baptist Executive Commi ttee, elected at the annual Southern eaptist Convention in St. Louis, 'i..*, fram left to right, Harold C. Bennett of Nashville, Tenn., treasurer; J. Howard Cobble, pas':rr of Avondale Esta%s Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga., chairman; John T. Dunaway, pastor-. of First Baptist Church, Corbin, Ky., vice-chairman; and Donald' I.".7.?nt ,-if'?:-ns-:r<; ir:, , :d recording secretary. Photo by IJarren Johnson LSI Vdlllk$S bUl IVCI lllvli k'ZIllU1 VYV I I UIU . .--.-,.--... -- -, .. St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Federal PensSon Law, et a1 FC;: Irnediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--The federal pension la!.!, an endolment drive intended to benefit retired ministers and denominational personnel and qrowinq assets characterized a speech Thursday by Darolci 9. Morgan of Dallas, Southern Eaptist Annuity Board president, during a breakfast aeetSng for retirees. "The 'Talnadge church plan a~endments' are scheduled for 'mark up' by the Senate Finance Committee today (June 12) ,I! idorgan declared. The chief executive officer far the denominational retirement and Insurance programin: institution spoke at the breakfast in Be1 Air Hilton !-lotel. About 250 retirees attended the annual meeting, a pert of the 123rd Southern Zaptist Convention scheduled to close Thursday niqht in Cervantes Convention Center. In the speech tiorgan said legislation sponsored by Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., is beSn9 considered by both houses of Con~ress. The Senate lepislation is known as the "Talnadge church plan amendments," [{organ said. The legfslation, Gior~ansaid, is sponsored by the Church Alliance for Clarification of ERISA--an organi zatic n composed of representatives of 27 main1 ine re1 igious denominations in the U.S. He said the legislation is designed to "clarify" and amen:! the Employee Retirerent Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974. "Yithout the ciarification of the pension la!!," i:organ noted, "many Southern qaptist denominational employees will not be permitted to continue participation in the Annuity Board's church retirement program after Cecember 31, 1382." Lorgan urged annui tants (Southern Gaptist retirees who benefit fro^ P.nnuity Poard retjrement plans) and other Southern ijaptists to support church plan lecislation to amend ERISA. 3111s are no! pending in both hous~sof Congress. He advised Southern Baptists to write or call their senators or representatives and express support of the le~islation. Descri bing a $25 mill ion endonent drive recently launched hy the AilnuSty loard, riorcan also called on annuitants to influence others to support Project Partnership or to support the drive themselves. Project Partnership, he said, identifies the endoment drive,schcduled to run throu~h1 Fioney raised during the drive will be used in part to establish a reserve fund. Earn- ings from the fund are to go to supplement benefits of annuitants durin@retirecent. !iorgan said assets held in trust at the Annuity 3oar4 increased by $100 nillior! in the last 12 months. The year's growth represents the lsrgest increase in assets for a 12-month period in the 6tyear history of the Dallas-based board. Total assets currently amount to about $680 nil1 ion. During the breakfast, t:a annuitants were recopnized as the oldest present. Bertha Smith, former missionary to China and Tai:.!an, !.!as declared oldest mnen. 1's Smi of Cowpens, S .C. , is 91 . il. 0. Taylor, SOp of iiielbocrne, Ark., ms the oldest mzn, CAPTIOF! CORRECTION No. 36 CORRECTIVE DISCUSSION--Southem Baptfst pastors Herb Prince, middle, and Ken Freenlyer , right, try to persuade perpetual Presbyterian protestor Me1 Perry from Nashvi 11e, Tenn., the Southern Baptist Convention is not liberal as Perry pickets the annual SBC meeting. Prince is pastor of First Baptist Church. Hickman, Ky., and Freemyer is pastor of Paradise Baptist Church in Casper, Wyomfnq, the newest Baptist church in the Northern Plains Baptist Convention (photo by Norman Jameson) St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager I News

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Thursday Aii Theme Interpretation--Drumright For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 12--A Southern Raptist educator issued another call for unity here Thursday while focusing the theme of the morning session of the denomination's 123rd annual meeting--"Boldness in Equipping the Saints." Huber Drumwright, former dean of Southwestern Baptist i:~aologicalSeminary and newly-elected executive secretary-treasurer of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, told the messengers that the "formation of parties within the body oT Christ who war against one another does not build up the body of Christ."

The nation's largest protestant denomination has bzzn embroiled in a controtferry over the Bible in Its last two conventions.

Drumwright to1d the group that the de:;-:,ination's emphasis on boldness in mission; and witness means embracing the thincs that lead to unity.

On the morning theme, he said, "God himself has provided for the equipping of tho saints through two media, the gifts of the spirit and rcripturc.

"The people that God can use must be yielded to ihis spirft," he said. "A task is never given us by God but what he gives us the power to acccc?lish it." Drumwright said that the Bible is "indispensable" in equipping the saints. "God's people will never be equipped apart from his wcr '," he said. "Southern Baptists will be bold in equipping the saints only through thsfr zckn3nledg?n~ntof and dependence on the word of God. " Drumwright declared that boldness in equipptng the safnts required a bold address to the Christian lifestyle, saying, "ll'e must live ri9ht if we are equipped well ." . He added that service to the "poor, the oppressed, the hunary and all who stand in need" must be encouraged.

Music for the morning session was provided by the Collage Siagers of Hfssouri Baptist College, St. Louis, under the direction of Ilajorie Psalmcnds. A devotional period was led by Kenneth Stohner of Calvary Saptist Church, Roswell , t!.M., and )!orma Kennedy Brown of Norman, Okla. Congregational singing was directed by Fill H. Ichter, music missionary froo Brazil.

By Larry Chcsser--IO:56 A.bi. Thursday CORRECTION

The Photo cutline slugged 1980-81 Officers of the Southern Baptist Convention should be labeled photo 123 instead of X30 -30- St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features ~anager News

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For Your Information:

Photographs will be available to all news personnel for $3 each (8 x 10s only). They will be posted on display boards in the newsroom. Order by number and quantity on envelopes available in the newsroom, Orders will be filled very shortly after receipt from pre-printed supply. Unanticipated photo opportunltlss will be added to the list during the week,

s to be shot Sundav. Tune c&

1. 3:30 p.m. Adrian Rogers with family at WMU meeting, Ktel Auditorium.

2. WMU backdrop with crowd (also in color)

3. Hantey Cox address st WMU

Photos to be shot Monday, Tune 9

4. 9:45 a,m. Alistair Walker speech and passing out rice bowls at WMU.

5. 10:15 a.m. Directors of Missions officers, Fee Fee Baptist Church, 11330 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton

6. 11:35 a.m. Richard Jackson, James Pleitz, Frank Pollard at Pastors' Conference.

7, 11:45 a.m. Church music conference officers. Third Baptist Church, Thad Roberts, president.

8. 12:45 p.m. Banquet with multt-media presentation celebrating 25 years of 8BC religious education work. East Ballroom, Sheraton St. Louls (also In color)

9. 2:00 p.m. WMU officers, same as last year. Mts. A. Harrlson Gregory, preddent, Klel Auditorium (also in color)

10. 2:30 p .m . Campus ministers officers. Spirit of St. Louis Room, Stouffer's Riverfront. Ron Brown, president

11. 3:45 p ,m. Pastors' conference officers. Jimmy Draper, president. Group to be introduced at 9 p. m, for alternative picture (also in color)

12. 4:00 p.m. Catherine Allen with reiatives of Lottie Moon with new book on Lottfe amid Luttie memorabilia. Kiel Auditorium. (also in color)

13. 7:45 p.m. David Book at WMU to illurtrate feature

14. 8:00 p.m. Keith Parks at WMU (also in color) -more- Monday. Tune 9 (continued)

15. 8:15 p.m. Bailey Smith at Pastors' Conference (if candid shot not abtained earlier)

16. 9:OOp.m. Officers of Southern Baptist Religious Education Association; 910 N. 7th St., Sheraton St. Louis. Roger Skelton photos to be shot Tuesdav. Tune 10

17. 9:45 a.m. Lee Porter, registration and constitution report.

18. 10:20 a.m. convention photo (also in color)

19. 11:35 a.m. Adrian Rogers' president's address (also in color)

20. Noon Ministers' wives officers. Sheraton St. Louis. New officers: Mrs. James Graves, St, Petersburg, Fla.: Mrs. Don Ktm, L.A.; Mrs, Floyd Roebuck, Ga,: Mrs. John Wright, Little Rock

21. Noon At close of morning session. Mass of messengers leaving arena. SBC marquee in background (also in color)

22. Morning Pre-school child care for 6-under at Centantes Center, to i llustrate feature

23. 5:00 p.m. New SBC officers (also in color)

24. 9:15 p.m. Giles and Wana Ann Fort, missionary doctors in Zimbabwe (also in color)

25. 7:30 a.m. Evangelists officers

26. 9:00 a.m. . Press conference with new SBC president (also in color)

27. 9:45 a.m. Albert McClellan, to illustrate feature

28. 11 a.m. Convention sermon, Ed Young (also in color) New SBC president and his wife (also in color)

29. 4 p.m. SBC Executive committee officers. Eugene Field Room, Stouffer's Riverfront

Photos to be shot Thursdav. Tune 12

30. 7:45 p.m. Grady and Eleanor Nutt (also in color) News

"That We May Boldly Say" Anders Theme Interpretation For Inmediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--The "theology of boldness" has nothing to do with being a "1Iberal or conservative Southern Baptist,'' Sarah Frances Anders told messengers Thursday afternoon at the 123rd meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention here. Anders, chairperson of the sociology department of Louisiana Col lege, Pinevil le, ex- plained that the theology of boldness is "no more or no less than daring to be all we are meant to be; to do a11 we are meant to do in any crisis. "You and I and America are in critical times," she said. Southern Baptists will be judged by "how we perceive (these crises) and cope with them." Interpreting the session's theme, "Boldness in Critical Times," Anders said that there is an "inextricable meeting of world crises with family crisis." She urged the messengers to learn from the lessons of early Hebrew Christians who said "The world is my home and my family is my world," Anders acknowledged that "never has the fami ty seemed to know more critical tlmes ." Changing family patterns and family violence were specifically lamented. "Violence breeds violence," she said. "Ue cannot separate (violence in the) bedroom and kitchen, the street, an Iranian embassy the penitentiary at Angola, the battlefront in Yiami." She told the messengers to learn a theology of boldness from the example of Jesus. Paraphrasing Paul, she said, "God has not given us a cowardly, cringing nature, but rather a spirit of bold persuasion, great love and well-balanced mind." -30- By Rex Hamock--4:08 p.m. Thursday -,L-VSIUII.UII"V ...-. .- a-a . -- . . I- News

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Update on Pension Leg is1ation For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12 -- A crucfal "church plan" amendment to pension-related legislation in the U. S. Senate Thursday cleared the congressional body's Finance Committee. Darold H. Yorgan, president of the Southern Baptist Annuity Board, said he learned from Board General Counsel Gary P. Nash, who was in !!ashington D. C., that the amendment.- called the "Talmadge church plan amendments" - has been "marked ua" by. the committee and wilt now be ke referred to the Senate floor for futher action. "This action of the Senate Finance Committee marks a significant moment for all Southern Baptists," safd tdorgan, chief executive officer of the denominational retirement and insurance planning institution in Dall as, "It is a victory in our attempts to get the federal governcent to understand the basic reason for the need to amend the federal pension law." The law would drastically affect church pension plans by Jan. 1, 1983, unless "correc- tive legislation such as the 'Talmadge church plan amendment' is passed by Congress," Worgan explained. The "Talmadge church plan amendment" - an addendum to "multiemployer" pension bill S.1076 - encornpasses the objectives of the Annuity Board and the Church Alliance for Clari- fication of ERISA. The Alliance Is a coalition of persons acting on behalf of the pension programs of 27 re1 igious denominations in the U.S. Chaired by illorgan, the Alliance represents member pension boards from the entire religious spectrum, including Protestant, Catholic and Jewish bodies. Accordfng to idorgan, legislation sponsored by the Alliance and pending in both houses of Congress would insure that church agency employees may contjnue to be included in church annuity plans after the critical January 1, 1983 deadline. Among those who could lose the right to continued participation in church retirment plans are employees of Southern Baptist agencies, hospl tal s, schools, children's homes and practically all other denominational workers outside local church ministries, Idorgan said. -30- By Larry Crisnan -- 2:2S p.m. Thursday Resolutions Rationale For Imedfate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--r)espite the fact that Southern Rantist Convention President Adrian Rogers ruled a controversial resolution on Christian participation in the ~oliticalarena out of Crder Tuesday night, major portions of the statement appeared in the resolutions cmittee proposal adopted Thursday by mssenqars attendina the annual $PC meetins here. Another controversial resolution on women put tht convention on record as o~poscdto the Equal Rinhts Amndment despite the ahsence of such a ~rooosalin the version of the statement printed in the convention's daily bulletin. The anti-ERA addition was made after intanse lohhyina by messenrlers between the Thursday mornins and afternoon sessions, accorrlino to resolutions comi ttee member Larry Lewis, pastor of Tower Grove Raotist Church, St. Louis, A number of persons, includinrl a "delegation" of women, ex~ressadthe view that the resolution on women printed In the daily bulletin imolied suooort for ERA, Lewis said. Lewis added that the committee concurrerl and decided to prooose the addition "for the sake of clarity." On the politicaJiparticipation proposal, Lewis said the cornittee decided to use laroa chunks of conservative political activist Ed I1cn.teer1s lansuaoe because the cmittee "has the riaht to initiate any resolution it t.rrishes." McAteer's earli~rresolution was ruled out of order because he was not a raqisterect messznoer. McAteer, national field director for the nation's larqest riaht-winq political orqani- tation, Conservative Caucus, is presently enqaoed in a nationvide effort to en1 ist ministers into conservative pol 1tical caucuses throuoh his Re1 isious Roundtable.

By Stan Hastey--8:58 p.m. Thursday St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357r Representative Manager ~eatures'~anag er News

"That We May Boldly Say" Thursday Afternoon Agency Raport For Immedf ate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 12--Report of inadequate funding for a TY rating system and explana- tions of naptist efforts in historical collection and qovernment affairs were among iterns reported to the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention by three SBC agencies Thursday. In reference to a matter referred to the SEC Christian Life Commission from last year's annual meeting, CLC executive director Foy Valentine, reported the commission planned to set up a TV rating system that wuld alert Saptists to TV programs containing offensive content, but added that adequate funding for the project has not been received. Valentine added that the commission's Help For Television Viewers program and mate- rials would continue to help Baptists evaluate television programming until he sot money for the rating program. "Involvem~rit in public affairs is an inescapable responsibility of the church,'' Jams Food, former executive director of the Paptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, told the messengers. Yood warned of t'le dangers of an increasing involvement of churches in the political right movement, but encouraged churches to become active in efforts that are true to the "authentic mission of the church.''

Helping Baptists keep in touch with their spiritual roots is a major function of the convention's Historical Cmission, messengers learned. The commission's efforts in collecting Southern Eaptist historical documents and oral histories of S9C leaders were explained.

By Hike Davis---4:50 p.m. Thursday News- , ,"

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Thursday gorning Resolutions For Imnediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--Demonstratin? a strongly conservative bent, messenners to the Southern Raptist Convention here Thursday dramatically altered the 13.4 million member denomination's posltion on abortion and tightened up its definition of "doctrinal inteqri ty ." At the same time, however, the convention refused to alter Its supnort of the 'J.S. ..Suprme Court's 1962 and la63 decisions forkiddina state witten and sponsored prayer in pub1 ic schools. The convention also adopted resolutions affinninr! the 1:;hite ~ouseConference on the , Family, Christian citizenship";nnd taxation of church-o~ned businesses that coopete with the prlvate sector, vessenclers also condemned a Time-Life Publications book, Early Xan, which asserts that most people today dismiss the 1 iteral teachinqs of the Eible an cremon, heaven, and hell. The morning's most emotional and protracted dehate cane on the explosive question of abortion. Eot in the end, a larae majority of messenners decisively beat back all efforts to weaken the statement brrruqht to the floor by their resolutions conanittee b!! calling for lenislation and/or a constitutional a~cndnentforhiddinn abortion except "to save the life of the motheral' - - AI thouoh anti-abortion forces vi thin the denonl na tlon have rematedl v souaht the con- stitutional amendment stance, the,y bad always failed before. Since 137F; the SgC position, ;vhile stronnly conrlemnin~"sel fish" non-therapeutic abortions, had reco~nizedwren's privacy rirhts in seekinq "the full ranfle of medical services" in the ahortfon rlecision. An effort led by physician !:lilliam D. Hillis, a prrlfesscr in Johns Vo~kinsUniversity's medical school, to reaffirm the previous rnsftion was decisively defeated. hng those favorinc! Hill is' substitute motion was a Colunhus, Ga. minister's wife, Linda ilar~ulre,who declared she would be unwill ins to carry throur? ~itha preonancy re- sul tina from rape. She al so mentioned prmnancy followinn incest as another arrument for a more general statment. C. !.!elton Saddy, a Fort !brth, Texas, pastor, also failed in an effort to have messengers strike the paraaraph call inc? for a constitutional amendment or other lenislation forbiddina abortion. As adopted, the statment also condemns the use of ~ublicfunds for ron-therapeutic abortion, thereby puttina the convention on record as favorlny the controversial Hyde Amendment is expected to be decided by the U.S. Suprme Court hefore its current ten adjourns . The resolution on doctrinal inteority df ffers fro^ the denonination's 1W3 Paptist Faith and Hessaac statement by urnin? seminary boards of trustees to emnloy and continue in mployment only faculty mmbers subscri5in!! to the in411 i4fl ity and inerrancy of the pi bl e. A drarnatfe ment durin9 the debate came when Herschel H. Hobbs. chairman of the corn- mfttee which drafted the 1W3 statement, asked defeat of the net. call to "exhort" trustees of seminaries "and other institutlons affiliated with or supported by" the SClC "to faithfully cage Ly-fieso rU'CqiOnS discharge thr;ir responsi bi1 i ty to carefully preserve the doctrinal integrity of our in- stitutions."

Hobbs also objected to what he saw as a threat to Baptists' traditional support for freedom in its prologue, he emphasized, warning that if it is ignored, "then the rest be- comes a creed which Southern Baptists never had and I'm sure never will ." hessenger Willard Brown, pastor of Yake Forcst, N.C. Baptist Church, also objected to the resolution, saying it evidenced a "spirit of creeping creedal ism" in Southern Baptist life." Somewhat surprisingly, an effort to reverse the convention ' s position on prayer in public schools falled overwhelmingly. Twice previously, in 1364 and 1971, the convention ex- pressed support for the Supreme Court's views on the subject. This year's annual meeting was expected by many as offering the best chan:z in recent yews to condemn the high court's decisions.

But the resolutions committee, dominated by conservative appointees of outgoing SBC president Adrian Rogers, recommended the convention "record 5 ts opposition to attempts, either by law or other means, to circumvent the Supreme Court's decisions forbidding government-authored or sponsored re1igious exercises in pub1 :c schools. "

A move by Claud Asbury, a pastor from Baltimore, :Id., to express opposition to the de- cisions and support efforts such as those of U.S. Senator Jesse {!elas, R., N.C., to remove the issuz from federal courts, received scant suppcrt as mcssangcr; up:i~ldthe resolutions commf ttee statement.

The resolution on the Hhite House Conference on the Family +~silysurvived floor alle- gations that the troubled series of three meetings this scmsr is dominated by t:omosexcals and pro-abortionists. The statement noted approvingly that the first of tha three, hzld last week in Baltimore. iqd., "made some posi tivz reccmendations ,I' including suppsrt fcr programs fighting alcohol and drug abuse.

At the same time, the resolution declared that ''the only adequate definitisn" of th~ family is that provided in the Bible and asked the denoninatSon's Christ'an Life Com;R'ssion to keep Southern Baptfsts informed about "movements" such as the !!hi te House conference "and equip us with the tools with which to deal with tkse kinds of movements." On the subject of Christian citizenship, messengers ovcrtur~edz call by the resolutions committee to define separation of church and state as "re1 iance 0:: a sovereign, righteous, loving and wise God in the affairs of state as may be dictated by individual conscience." The convention adopted instead an amendment recognizing that churc;\-state separation "should not be interpreted to mean . . . the separation of Gad from government." The convention also adopted a statement condeanina ta:: exemption for businesses owned by churches. Although the Tax Reform Act of 1969 forbzde the practice, act~allyimplemented by the Internal Revenue Service seven years later, thz resolution asserted that "some churches and religious organizations still en:ige in unrelatsd busines; enterprises , . . in compe- tition with private commercial businesses" and ought to be taxed.

Other resolutions commended Baylor University presidmt Abner V. PlcCall for his ' ' . highly-publicized stance against Baylor women students' posing nude for Jayboy magazine and expressed concern fcr the wife of murdered Liberian president and former Baptist Horld Alliance president #illiam 0. To1 bert. Additional resolutions urged increased giving by ck~rchesto denominati~nalmissions agencies and establishment of new churches and missions.

By Stan Hastey--3:10 p.m. Thursday be1 Val ILC3 VUI Ivel ILlWl I -GI IlGl VYW 1 I -UV m.w..w. ."*..* - ..---a.-P. ., . St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative . Manager Features Manager News

"~t~atwe May ~huePd@%&noon Rerol ut ions For Imnediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--Southern Baptists attending their denomination's annual meeting here continued a trend begun earlier in the day by adopting a battery of conservative resolutions Thursday afternoon. The convention went on record as opposed to the Equal Rights Amendment currently lan- guishing in 15 state legislatures which so far have refused to ratify ERA as the 27th Amend- ment to the U.S. Constitution. Two years ago, the SBC protested an extension of time on ERA giving f ts proponents until mid-1982 to push it through the required two-thirds of the state legislatures. While 35 states have ratified the measure, 38 are required. The anti-ERA language was added orally to the printed version of a much broader state- ment on women by resolutions conunittee chairman Wayne Allen, a Memphis, Tenn., pastor. 8y making the additfon, the committee transformed what had appeared to be a pro-women's rights statement into an explicit denunciation of the primary goal of the women's movement, ERA ratification. Another portion of the resolution declares that women who work outside the home ought to be treated fairly in "compensation, advancement, and opportunities for improvement." A resolution on permissiveness and family planning condemned the practIce of providing contraceptives to minors without parental consent. The statement went on to decry denial of funding to local govermental units refusfng to comply with federal government regulations a1 legedly requiring the practice. Hessengers also gave overwhelming approval to a denunciation of what another resolution cat led the "children's rights movement," declaring that children are incapable of coping with "judgrnec".~ and far-reaching decisions which are difficult for even the most mature adult." Specifically attacked was a resolution pending in Congress (H. Con. Res. 109) calling for state and federal laws implementing children's rights "equivalent to the rights now possessed by adults ." Also coming under attack were homosexuality, gay activists, and "1 iberal humanistic pol i tici ans" seeking local ordinances to protect civil ri~htsof homosexuals. Such laws, the convention declared, "have the effect of giving pub1 ic approval to the homosexual 1 ifa- style, making it equally acceptable to the bib1 ical heterosexual family 1 ifestyle." Pornography was also assailed as destructive of "the moral fiber of man" and the de- nomination's Christian Life Commission was asked to prepare materials on the subject for distribution to churches. Only two resolutions presented for approval Thursday afternoon provided some solace to modera tely-i ncl ined messengers, After brief discussion, the convention adopted a statement urging Southern Baptists "to wage peace in the world." Despite denouncing the Sovfet invasion of Afghanistan an4 Iranian terrorism, the statement went on to encourage Christians to llfollowafter the things which make for peace." The convention also approved a statement calling on "Christian Americans" to mfnister to Cuban refugees and assist in their resettlement. (more) One other resolution, asking prayer for the American hostages in Iran, also passed. Another dozen proposals failed to make it through the camittee floor, includinq one which condemned "political bias" by editors of state Baptist newspapers. The com- mittee told messengers it declined to present the statement "because it would be in- appropriate" for the SBG "to pass judgment on state convention editors."

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"That We May Boldly Say" Messengers Disqual ified For Inmediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 12--Two messenqers from Louisville. Ky., were disqualified Thursday afternoon as messenoers to the annual meetins of the Southern Baptist Convention at Cervantes Convention Center here. Tom and Claudia Riner, members of Loqos Baptist Church, Louisvi 1le, were 41 squall fied unanimously after an equally unanimous credentials committee recommended the action. The credentials committee determined that the Riners did not qua1 1fy as messenqers because their church does not cooperate with the SRC. Claudia Riner introduced a resolution earlier this week urging the convrrntion to support posting the Ten Comnandments in every pub1ic school classroom. The practice, recently upheld by a Kentucky court, has drawn criticism as a violation of church-state separation and is still under leaal challenne. After the convention disqualification, resolutions committee chairman Iqayne Allen of kmphis told messengers that Riner's resolution, which the panel had approved for pre- sentation to the convention, was be ina disallowed.

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SBC !Jrapup For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--Messengers to the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention continued their march toward the theological right in three days of singing, preaching, fel lowship, business and inspiration. Along the route, they approved a $90 million budget to fund worldwide missions enter- prises, elected Bailey Smith, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Del City. Okla., as president of the 13.4 million member denominat-ion, and proposed an unprecedented 35 resolutions which ranged from prayer to pornography, world hunger to homosexual i ty and abortion to doctrfnal integrity. Only 13,808 messengers registered for the meeting in Cervantes Convention Center, an unexpectedly light turnout, compared with the record 22,872 messengers at the 1978 con- vention in Atlanta.

The strong conservative bent of the messengers was demonstrated in their first ballot election of Smith, an avowed believer in the inerrancy without error of the scriptures, the dramatic alteration of the denomination's position on abortion, rejection of the Equal Rights Amendment and tightening the practice of doctrinal: integrity. The matter of doctrinal integrity -- or the inerrancy of the scriptures -- was a constant presence at the convention, seldom mentioned but always apparent. Smith's election marked the second time in as many years a conservative supporter of inerrancy was elected on the first ballot. Smith, 41, swamped five opponents in his sweep to victory. In his first meeting with the news media, Smith took a strong stand on inerrancy and said his appointments to key Southern Baptist posts will "lean toward those who believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God."

He also said he believes the 1963 Baptist Faith and Yessage statement is adequate but "mIght need to be enforced more." Named to sewe with Smith were Jack Taylor, a Fort !dorth author and evangelist, as first vice president, and Wade Freeman, of Dallas, retired director of the evangelism de- partment of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, second vice president. A total of 25 persons were nominated for the three elective posts; six for president, seven far first vice president and 12 for second vice president.

The race for the presidency became necessary when Adrian Rogers, pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, unexpectedly announced he would not seek the traditional second term. Rogers, in his annual convention sermon, exhorted Southern Baptists to reach every person on earth with the gospel of Jesus Christ, but said the denomination must continue as "people of the Book," in order to accomplish the task. He also urged unity: "Don't talk to me about your orthodoxy or denominational loyalty if your heart is headquarters for hate. !!hatever problems Southern Baptists have will be settled in a context of love or they will not be settled. The Bible is a good sword, but a poor club." Messengers heard rsports from 20 agencies supported by the Southern Baptist Convention and aicpteG a 15-recommendation report from the SBC Executive Committee. One of the recom- mendztions spells out new rules for how convention messengers are accredited. The nzw rules, which wcra precipitated by charges of voting irregularities at the 1979 Houston convention, call for each mssenger to register in person, and disallows voting by proxy. The Executive Committee also named J. Howard Cobble, pastor of Avondale Estates Bap- tist Church of Atlantr., Ga., as chai;man. Messecgers re jccted twc csnsti tutional amendments overwhelmingly. One waul d have denied messenger status to most employees of SBC agencies, institutions and state con- ventions. The other would have changed the rfieetings of the SBC from an annual basis to a quadrennial (every Sour years) meeting. It was the resolutio;,~debate which generated the most interest. The unprecedented ncnber of resolutions harried the 10-memh~rrtsolutions comni ttec, chaired by Wayne A1 len, a Nernpl~ispastor, whicli reported out 27. The most protiV;cted debate cae or. the question of abortion, but in the end, a large majority of messengers dscisively beat back ali efforts to weaken the statement brought by "Ih5 rzso1r;tions cmittee. It called for legislation and/or constitutional amendment forhidding abcrtion except "to save the life of the mother."

Anti-ZRA languagc w;s added orally to the pri~tedversion of a much broader statement on womer: by Alien, chairman of the resolution^ comnittee. By making the addition, the comitte: trensformed what had appeared to be a pro-!qments rights statement into an explicit decunziatioa of 3 major goal of the woman's movement, the ERA ratification. Thc docti-inal integrity resolution differed from the denomination's 1963 Baptist Faith and F4essagz stategent by urg; ng trustees of seminaries and other institutions to employ and csntinue ir: enployment o~lyfaculty members and professional staff subscribing to the divine 'inspiration of tho whole Sible, the infallibility of the original manuscripts and that the Bible is truth !vithout any errors. The statznent specif:es it is "not an official creed carrying a mandatory authority," The resolution, hwever, says messengers "acknowledge not only the right but the respon- sioi lity of this convcaticn tc gf ve explicit guide1 ines to governing bodies of various instit~it5ons,"and e;.hcrts "trustees of ;emir,zries and other inst'itutions .., to faith- fully dischsrge thzir rcspet!sibli ity to carefully prcserve the doctrinal integrity of our institutims .. ."

Surprisingly, aii effsr*, tr, rxverse the ccnvsation's position on prayer in public schools failed ov~wk~:min~!y.A resolution was adopted in which the convention records "its opposition to attempts, aith~rby la^ or other means, to cf rclanvent the Supreme Court's dscisions fovbiridi ng govera,nent-authored or sponsored re1 igi ous exercises in pub1 ic schools.

ivlessengers condexlned in resolutions the practice of providing contraceptives to minors wf thout parsntzl con ent, thz ch! ldren 's rights movement, homosexuality, porno- graphy, itad i! Tim2-Life Publications book, Earl -, which asserts that most people today dfsniss the lit~ri'lteachings of the Bmf:e Ianon creation, heaven and hell. -. 1k3 -:nvzntion also passed resolutions affirming the !ilhite House Conference on the Fdmily, Ch:-istian ci tizanship, taxation of church-owned businesses, while comnending Baylor University president Abner V. McCall for his highly publicized stance against Baylor men students posing nude for Playboy magazine. The messengers also ut-ged Southern Baptists to "wage peace in the world," expressed conrerr~for the American hostages in Iran, for the wife of murdered Liberian president and former Saptist Yorld Alliance president nilliam 0. Tolbert and called on "Christian her: cans" to minister to Cuban refugees. A (oxen prcposals failed to make It to the convention floor, including one which condemned "politicel bias" on the part of the editors of the state Baptist newspapers. In the final business session, messengers disqualified two messengers from Lou1 svi 1le, Ky, , a state representative and her administrative assistant husband. Claudia Riner and her husband, Tom, members of Logos Baptist Church, were disqualified unanlmously after the credentials comnittee contended their church was not a cooperating Southern Baptist con- gregation. In the area of inspiration and instruction, conventioneers heard at least five ser- mons, seven theme interpretations an3 numerous choirs and soloists, J. Edwin Young told messengers in the convention sermon: "It breaks my heart to say so, but Southern Baptists are on far, far too many side streets. !*!e need to look at our- selves, put down the guns and get back to fisbing. Basically we have stopped being an evangel i cal body." Young, pastor of Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, called on the churches to give first priority to prayer and preaching. "Hen we in our churches get our priorities right .. . no longer will there be mild- mannered sermons delivered by mild-mannered preachers to mild-mannered congregations on how to be mi ld-mannered." Evangel ist Stephen Olford of #heaton, I1 I., told conventioneers "the most important work on earth is being done in the local churches," and called on them to repent and return to biblical preaching. The 1981 convention will be in Los Angeles, Calif., June 9-11. Convention preacher will be James Wonroe, former second vice president of the SBC, and pastor of First Bap- tist Church of Fort Yalton Beach, Fla. Alternate will be William Cumbie, director of associational missions in Alexandria, Va. . U=L ucr...-d u-1. r ,,J,,,,. u-mm St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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BFMF Flap For Inmediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 12--A disagreement over future direction has split the Baptist Faith and Message Fellowship, leaders of the ultraconservative group confirmed Thursday.

The split developed after a 9-7 vote to relieve Russell Kamerling, 31, pastor of First Baptist Church of Hest Columbia, S.C., as editor of the organization!.^ pub1 ication, Southern Baptist Journal, after a six-month tenure. In the fallout from the vote, Kaamnerlina, the presidclt and chairman of the board of BRIF, M.O. Owens Jr., of Gastonia, S.C.. and at least four other directors resiqned. "It is a split," Owens confirmed.

Owens, pastor of Parkwood Baptist Church, was one of the founders of the seven-year- old orqanization, which has in the past said it was dedicated to ferreting out theoloqy liberals within the 13.4-mi11 lop member denomination. The current flap began in December, when William A, (Bill) Powel 1 , of Buchanan, Ga., executive vice president of the organization, was replaced as editor. "Me have had same difficulty in workins with Rill Powell all alonq," Owens said. "He has a martyr complex and sort of seems to welcome attacks to discredit him. ve have had problems all along the way." Owens, however, did say Powell made the motion at the December meeting that Kaemnerl inq be named to the editorship, after the suggestion was raised by Harold Lindsell, of . Yheaton, Ill.,BFMF president and editor emeritus of Christianity Today. The action was taken "because we felt Southern Baptist Journal needed a new image, needed to take s new tack," Owens explained. However, Owens said, trouble became apparent when ths board of directors met in St. Louis Monday night.

"Bill was not happy because he was no longer the voice, the cynosure. I rlalized something was not right with Bill." The North Carolina pastor, however, said the discussion over the future of the pub- lication and the organization was not bitter. "There was no ugliness at all. ?Je discussed the matter back and forth. I realized we were facinq division when the motion was made that Russ (Kaemerlina) was to 5e'rzl:':ved as editor."

The vote was nine to relieve Kaemnerling and seven to retain him. "Phen that happened, Russ said he would not be able to work under the cfrcumstances. Ialso feel that way. I informed them Icould not continue as a h~ardmember qr as a member of BFMF under the circumstances," hens said.

Kaemnerling, in a statement Wednesday night, said his "own individual credibility and Integrityn would not pennit him to "participate In character assassination a::d spurious ISSU~S . Owens said at least four of the directors present for the Yonday meeting indicated Page 2--BFMF Flap

they will resign from the organization. He named Gene Russell, pastor of First Baptist Church of Angleton, Texas; Leroy Cooper, pastor in Cedartonn, Ga., and Laverne Butler, pastor of Ninth and 0 Ba~tistChurch in Louisville, Ky., as indicating their decision to leave the organi tation. "All of us have been dissatfs!fied with Southern Baptist Journal," Owens said. "First, is that in 1979, only three issues of Journal went out. It was supposed to go out every month. " He noted the "primary objective" of the fellows hi^ when it beqan just before the 1973 . SBC in Portland, Ore., was to provide a publication through which conservatives could be informed or encouraged and made aware of the issues," Owens said. He distributed a con- servatfve newsletter at the Portland convention which was the predecessor Of the Journal. Despite the s~lit,Owens said no one involved has changed his conservative stance. There is no intention on the part of any of us to chanae our conservative position," he said. The difference of opinion, he added, was on approach, rather than philosophy. "Ye felt that throuah the Journal we should build credibility. If we did not have credibility, we would not accomplish anythf ng. !Je a1 so be1 ieve you have to be sweet-spiri ted and Christian in attitude if you are to receive any semblance of acceptability. "Ve felt this had not been done, and that is why we asked Russ to become editor. I don't believe in beina part of any effort to destroy anybody. There are times you must call names, but I do not be1 ieve In destroying anyone. He said the difference in BFlF "are in the spirit, more than anythins else." Owens said he does not know what will hapeen to Southern Eaptist Journal or to BFrlF. "I do know Bill (Powell) has an amazinq ability to qenerate support on a short term basis." He added if Powell does continue to publish Journal, "I assume it will follow the pattern he has followed before," and that the pattern probably will include attacks on persons and instf tutions. As for hfmself, and the aroup he is now atlianed with, Owens said "there is no conqeal* 3nq at this moment of those of us still in this thina. I feel fairly confident because of the necessity of it (a publication) that there will be one of some sort." He said he has "doubts about the feasibility" of Southern Baptist Journal continuing, a1 though he "f s sure some effort will be made." Powet 1, who left the convention Wednesday afternoon, was contacted at his home in Buchanan Thursday morning. "This is not a crisis at all," he said, adding he Is "qlad" to be editor auain, Powell at first denied that editorial policy and the editorship were discussed by directors, or that he was amre Kaemnerlina resigned as editor. He did aqree, however, there had been disaqreements about content and format. "I feel that the Bible is still the issue: does it contain errors or does it not. I believe it (Journal) should help expose teachers in schools who deny part of the Blble," Powell said fn the telephone interview. He added he has disagreed with the amount of space qiven the various articles in the Journal, and said: "My position is that this Is the Battle for the Sible. I believe we should help Baptist people be aware of the schools and teachers and individuals in the schools who deny portfons of the Bible and the efforts beina taken to combat this.

"Because of the Baptist Hatergate--the conspiracy by flaptist editors and Baptist Press against conservatives--I think we should use the space we have to keep our readers informed about the battle for the Bible," he added. Powell said he currently is preparing the next issue of the publication, which will Page 3--BFMF Flap shift from a magazine to a tabloid format, a shift he said Kaemmerling also opposed. Pone11 added he has launched a promotion called Partners Program, designed to get the publication to "every deacon, every pastor, every church," in the denomination. It will be printed in facilities owned by evangelist E.J. Daniels or Orlando, Fla., one of the long- time directors of BPIF.

"We can do it much cheaper on tabloid than in ma~azineformat." Powell aaid he has "no unkind words for M.O. (Owens) " and is "thankful to him for the effort he has made in helping with this Battle for the Bible." Powell echoed sentiments made by Kaemerl ing that "little a1 ternative papers" should be established in every state to promote the conservative cause. Powell said he plans to call a meetins of directors "this summer" to elect new directors and officers. In the meantime, he said, Yalt Fowler, pastor of Oak Level Baptist Church in Winter Garden, FLa., will continue as chairman of the BFYF executive committee.

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Hare on Disqualification For Inmediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--Two Louisville, Ky. messengers to the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention here were disqualified Thursday when it was discovered they were "not in friendly cooperation or sympathetic with the purposes" of the denomination as required in the body's by1 aws. The pair's status as messengers !.ras challenged before the convention's credentials cmittee by C. R. Daley, editor of the Kentucky Baptist state newspaper, Western Recorder. Daley said in an interview that Logos Baptist Church, to which Tom and Claudia Riner belong, "has never participated in, asked for membership in, or in any way co- operated" with either the Long Run Baptist Association (greater Louisville) or the Kentucky Baptist Convention. A resolution urginq the convention to support efforts of a grou? she leads to post a copy of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom in the nation was introduced on Tuesday by Claudia Riner. The resolution, a1 though receiving the approval from the resolutions cmittee, was disallowed when messengers unanimously disqualified the Riners as messengers. Daley said that in his appearance before the credentials comnittee to challenge the Riners' credentials, he learned that the couple did not bring registration cards to the Convention, telling registration officials they had forgotten them. On a special application card for such individuals, the Riners indicated their church qualified for the maximum 10-rnessenqer delegation and that Logos Baptist Church had contributed more than $2,301) to convention causes in 1979. The Kentucky Baptist Convention has no record of the a1 leged contribution, Daley said. The credentials comnittee also learned, Daley went on, that six other messengers were regfstered from the church and that all eight cards were signed by Claudia Riner on the line marked "church moderator or clerk." Daley said the credentials cm,ittee a1 so learned that two other Louisville mes- sengers, registered fmthe Christ Is King Baptist Church, also had their messenger cards signed by Claudia Riner. Mrs. Riner did not make a requested appearance before the credentials comi ttee and the panel was unsuccessful In locating efther of the Riners at the hotel where they had indicated on registration cards they were staying while in St. Louis. Hotel personnel said they had checked out. A member of Kentucky's House of Representatives, Claudia Riner lists her husband Tom as her administrative assistant. Her Ten Cmandments resolution was written on state legislature stationery.

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Carl Bates Address For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 12--A "prescription for a predicament" proved strons medicine for Southern Baptist messenqers who stuck it out to the bitter end here Thursday nlaht. Carl Bates--eloquent, convincina, seasoned in the pulpit--served his "prescription for a predicament" to Southern Baptists attendi ncl the last session of their three-day convention in Cervantas Convention Center. "Very few of us ever break out old habits until we get into a tisht place," sa.id Bates, pastor of First Baptist Church, Charlotte, N.C., and former oresident of the SBC. That was the first part of the prescription. The second part,Bates counseled, is to .remember that "when you're in -a tioht place, the only place to look is up.'' Looking up, Bates implied, the person in a predicament sees God.

"And if God is to get the glory (for gettins people out of predicaments), He must do the fighting for us ," Bates said in describing the third part of his "prescription for a predicament ." The sandy-hai red, bespectacled, preacher--descri bed by outgoi nq SBC Presl dent Adrian Rogers as one of the "finast" he's ever known--then capped off the prescription-- and the convention--with a word of encouragement: "In God's time, your flo~ersare goin? to bloom asain."

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*giout Educators Urged To Rededicate Themselves Second of two mai1 ings today By Linda Lawson ST. LOUIS (aP)--Southern Baptist religious educators heard a battery of speakers assess current needs and trends in education while celebrating the 25th anniversary of their organization during a two-day meeting here. In the conference keynote message Keener Pharr of Jacksonville, Fla, , called on the 368 educators to rededicate themselves to the role of the Sunday School in growing churches.

While great preaching and attractive music programs "are essential functions in a grow- ing church, they !~i11not alone result in growing churches," said Pharr, director of the education division of the Florida Baptist Convention. Milllam Hale, associate director of the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens, and Findley Edge, professor of re1igious education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., said Christian educators have majored more on dis- seminating information about the Bible than in meeting personal needs. "Too often we like to start our education in the book of Exodus and not where the questions are," Hale said.

Noted Edge: "Value fonnation is a far more serious and complex undertaking than we have understood. Sometimes people use a study of the Bible to evade the deeper personal needs of people. " Several progran features including a luxheon highlighted the history of the Religious Education Association which was started in 1956 in Kansas City, :do. Discussing the need for increased efforts in family life education, Joe Hinkle, secre- tary of the family ministry department of the Sunday School Board, Nashville, said the focus of concern should be on "two basic institutions which in fact determine the nature and quality of life within society--namely the church and the family.

"These two institutions so profoundly affect the quality of life now and in the future that I believe it is worth giving our life's energy to labor together with Christ in help- ing both to become all they are meant to be." To cope with the statistical reality that the accomplishment of the denomination's Bold Mission Thrust would require each of the 13.4 million Southern Baptists to win 447 people to Christ by the year 2000. Avery Yillis called on the educators to become disciples of Christ and to disciple others.

Hill is, supervisor of the adult section of. the Sunday School Board's church training department, said a true disciple is one who makes Christ Lord of his life. 6/10/80 Page 2 Baptist Press In an address on the dynamics of religious education today, John Sisemore, minister of education at First Baptist Church, Shreveport, La., urged the educators to adopt a facilita- tive leadership sty1 e. "This allows the leader to focus on what is happening or needs to hcppen instead of what he wants to happen," Sisemore said. Charles Roselle, secretary of national Student Ministries, Sunday School Board, called contemporary university campuses "strategic mission fields ," Educators should recognize this and plan accordingly, he sald. The association elected J. Roger Skelton, professor of church administration and religious education at Golden 'Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Vallsy, Calif., as president for 1980-81. Other officers include Charles Gwaltney, first president and president-elect; Neta Stewart, seconc! vice presjdent; Charles Polston, third $ice presjdent; F. Marvin Wyers, secretary-treasurer; and Jerry Brumbelow, assistant secretary-treasurer. A1 1en Graves, retiring dean of the school of re1 Igious education, Southern Seminary, was named the association's first distinguished laader after a constitutional amendment was passed to institute the annual award. -30-

MansBlend Themes in st. Louis By Larry Chessar ST. LOUIS (BP)--Inspirational themes such as acc~ptance,freedom find success, blending with traditional and new music, caught the ears of 1,300 Southern Baptist musicians during a two-day conference at Third Baptist Church her€. These themes were sounded by Kenneth Chafin, pastor of South Hain eaptist Church, Houston, Texas, and devotional speaker for the conference. ~sicalfeatures included the premiering of three Southern Baptist ksic Conference- comnissioned pieces and the first conference performance of a senfor adult choir--the Heart Throbs of Innnanuel Baptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. The 24th annual Southern Baptist Church Husic Conference was one of szven Baptist meetings held here in advance of the thrce-day Southern Baptist Convention, Chafin warned the musicians not to equate a succwsful career with n successful life. "It's possible for you to have what is called by everyon€ a successful career, but to be a failure in your Ilfe," he said. "You need to discover what makes a 1ife, before you 1ic- down to die and it's a great deal more than makes a career." The Houston pastor said to seek and to know and to do the will of God leads to a successful 1ife. In earlier sessions, Chafin urged the musicians to accept whfre they are and who they are as ministers and to learn to become frcc persons. Another chaf lenge came from Thad Roberts, Jr., minister of music at South Zain and president of the conferznee. 6/ 10/80 Page 3 Baptist Press In a presidential address, Robzrts told the participants that they have a unique op- portunity to share the gospel through "the sound of music," and urged them to make the most of that opportunity. In addition to the Snspirational messages, the musicians heard an enlightening account of tha contribution of Fanny Crosby to American hymnology from a leading authority on the prolific 19th century hymn writsr, C. Bernard Ruffin, a Lutheran minister from Alexandria, Va . The conference featured sevcral mini-concerts, including a premier performance of the commissioned anthem, "He Is God--The King of Glory" by the sanctuary choir and orchestra of First Baptist Church, Femphis, Tann., under the direction of Earl Holloway. The piece was written by Warren M, Angel1 , music dean emeritus at Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee. A second commissioned anthem for children's voices was presented by the Sonshine Choir of first Baptist Church, Jaffarson City, Mo., under the direction of Linda Boyd. The piece, "p.1~Heart Is Ready, 0 God,'' was written by Roberta Bitgood, president of the American Guild of Organists. Don Hustad and Ron Boud of tha music faculty at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., arranged a commissioned duet for piano and organ, "Corntl, Ye Thankful People, Come."

The conference also featured the final pub1 ic performance of the A Cappel la Choir from Baylor University under the direction of Euell Porter before his retirement. The musicians honored four of their peers, includinq Bill Ichter, a music missionary to Brazil since 1955, who was presented the third Hines Sims Award given since 1971. Honorary life memberships went to Flilliarn J. Reynolds of the music faculty of South- western Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas; Gene Bartlett, recently retired music director for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma; and Ira Prosser, retired minister of music now living in Lexington, Ky. New councll members elected during the conference arE Harry Cowan, minfster of music. First BaptSst Church, flew Orleans, La.; Ken Ragsdale, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Ellisville, Mo. ; Harold Price of Harrisburg, Pa., church music secretary, Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey; and David Kzith, Southwest~rnSeminary.

Editors Commend Standard's Baptist Press Reporting on I narrancy 6/10/80 ST. LOUIS (BP)--Southzrn Baptist editors expressed "profound respect and gratitude" to the Baptist Standard of Tsxas for its reporting of the biblical inerrancy dispute. The expression, in the form of a resolution, was unanimously adopted durina a break- fast meeting of the Southern Baptist Press Association as the 123rd meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention got underway.

Jack Hamel 1, edl tor of the Christian Index (Gcorqia) , introduced the resolution be- cause he said the Standard, its editor, Presnall Wood, and associate editor, Toby Druin, "have performed a service for all Southern Baptists in openly dealing with a sznsitiva issue, researching it thoroughly and prasenting a full account," Harwell said the Standard took the lead in presenting news accounts of persons and issues involved in the inerrancy dispute which erupted i n the 1979 Houston SSC and has been visible in preliminaries to the 1980 meeting. -- . .. . .

6/10/80 Page 4 Baptist Press The resolution noted Southern Baptists "have alwqys insisted on reliqious liberty, free discussion, open flow of information and priesthood of the believer," and said "certain groups . . . have endangered these inviolate principles with broad charges against other persons within our denomination .I' It commended the Standard and its leaders "for the courage, integrity, expertise and creativity they have displayed in researching and printing articles r~fatedto undocumented chargas of theological liberal ism and organized political activity within the SBC." The prass association, which is formed of sditors of state Baptist newspapers, also reaffirmed "our belief in the necessity of a free press, an open exchanae of opinions and full disclosure of information within the SBC f~mily." Another resolution adopted by the SBPA called on President Jimmy Carter, members of Congress and the Postal Service Commission to provide relief for the publications, which have an aggregate circulation of slightly more than two million. It noted the proposed elimination of Saturday mail delivery and curtailment of sub- sidies for second-class non-profit mailers as problems which confront the papers. However, in a 12 to 11 votz, the editors voted not to participate or to provide funds for lobbying in Congress for the relief after Harw~llpointed out such activities are questionable undcr Southern Baptists' bcl ief in ths separation of church and state.

Exacutive Cmi ttee Hears Baptist Press Bold Mission Thrust Report 6/10/80 By Bonita Sparrow ST. LOUIS (BP)--The Southern Baptist Convention's Executive Committee, mezting in St. Louis, heard a Bold Mission Thrust report designed not only to confront everyone in the world with the Gospel by the year 2000 but to add 1.5 million baptized believers to church roll s by 1984-8s. - - The Bold tiission Thrust report listad suggested qoals for 1982-85. In addition to the 1.5 mil lion new baptisms, the roport called for the organization of 1,500 now churches by 1985, the involvement of 8.5 million p2op16 in Bible study through Sunday School, and lead- ing 30,000 churches tc increase th~ir percentage of budget gf vi ng through the Cooperative Fi-ogram. The suggested goals are designsd to raach psople, develop bcl ievers, and strenqthen families. They also call for 2,554 nawly-appointed missionary personnel and 300,000 short- term mission volunteers, including blission Service Corps volunteers.

The plan to strengthen families also calls for 500,000 family units to be committed to family worship and Bible study in tha home. Every church vf 11 be encouragsd to provfde Christian family enrichm~ntactivities that will strengthen family relationships and moral val uas . The plan also calls for training 1 million church members to witness; training 3.5 mil lion In discipleship and doctrine through the Church Traininp program, and involving 1.9 million in missions through the Vornan's F4issionary Union and the Brotherhood Conmission. It also calls for involving 20,000 churches in an emphasis to develop Christian standards. In other actfon, the cmittee adopted a recommrndation from its finance sub-cornittea that may enable New Orleans Baptist Theological Semiqary to acquirs the 119,090 square foot bison-Blanche department store for rwiovation as a student canter. The building on 6.57 acres adjoins the semi nary. 61 10/80 Paae 5 Baptist Press In other business the Executive Committee approved a request from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary to borrow against future capital needs allocated for the completion of construction of the new 1ibrary facilities. Seminary president !lilliam Pinson said the proposal is designed as a "contingency measure to help assure completion of the building in the event of a shortfall of capital funds in 1980." No shortfall is expected. Pinson indicated, calling the request merely a safety precaution. The Executive Committze honored Albert McClellan, its associate executive secrztary and director of program planning. He will retire in December after more than 31 years with the Executive Comittee staff.

He has spent a total of 50 years in the ministry and wr.5 pastor of 11 Baptist churches in Texas and Oklahoma, editor of the Baptist Messenger, the Cklahoma Eaptist state paper, for 4 years, and author of 14 books and more than 500 articles on denominational life,

The resolution lauded him as a "convention statasman" and cited hJm for "inspirfng pastors, church leaders and denominational workers through his careful scholarship, wise leadership, consecrated ability, and loyalty to Christ, his church and the Southern Bap- tist Convention."

Members of the Executive Cornittee learned their Administrative Sub-cormnittee named Esniel 0. Hartin, Jr., of Atlanta, Ga., to succeed Robert J. OIBrien as news editor for B~~tfstPress, the ScC news service. O'Brien is leaving after seven years to join the Sac's Foreign t.1ission Board cs overseas news coordinator to develop a pilot project for overseas news coverage.

Rartin, an experienced journalist with years in skcular and Southern Baptist journal- ism, is edltor of the news service for the Home Hission Board. He will join the staff August 1. Photo Captions For Your Information

PHOTO 15--f.!aw SCC President--Bailey Smith, pastor, First Southern Saptist Church, Del City, Okla., was elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the denomination's annual meeting in St. Loui s, June 10-12. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist UniversCty, hrkadelphia, Ark., and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort !.forth, Smith, 41, has served as president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahome and of the Southern Daptist Pastors1 Conference.

Photo by David Clanton -more- photo 19--Rogers Proclaims Ciission Thrust--Souther,; saptist Convention President Adrian Rozers challenged convention messenners to continue their efforts to reach every person on earth with the gospel by the year 2000 durinr his presidential address to the convention

Tuesday morning. Rogers, pastor of the 10,500-member Be1 levue Bzptist Church in ieiemphis, withdrew hjs name for re-el ection consideration prior to the convention.

Photo by Van Payne -more-

Photo 20--Serving liinisters and iiinistersl Ffives--Two of the 1981 officers of the Southern Eaptist blinisters' !lives1 Conference are (from left) :irs. James Graves, First Zaptist Church,

St. Petersburg, Fla., president, and i.:rs. Floyd Roebuck, First Captist Church, Rome, Ga., secretary-treasurer. The trco Hornen and the other 1281 officers were introduced at a luncheon, June 10, in St. Louis.

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%tors Conference Urg~s First, of twc mail ings today Unity; Jim Henry Elected By David blilkinsor!

ST. LOUIS (0~)--Aprocession of 13 pul~itecrsfron swen states paradzd to ths can- tamporary glass pulpit at the Csvantzs Convention Center here to proclaim the gospel before their Southern Baptist brcthra. Sandwiched between rousing renditions of $ospe1 music, the preachers filled th~1580 vcrsion of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conferincti with repcatsd exhortstions for unity and a positive spirit within the ranks of the nation's largsst Protestant denominatio3. Tha conference, which ofter; s~tsthe tone for the three-day ~ec-tin?of thk Southern Baptist Convention which follows, was noticeably &void of verbal ~higlashincsof fellorr ministers and attacks on a1 lqzd 1ibcral ism within thc denomination's seminarids and othhr institutions.

Effore the meeting, Pastors' Confcr~ncaprcsidciit James T. Draper of Euless, Texas, predicted that thc sessions wuld provide "a unifying and strsngthanina influencf on Southern Baptists," and the speakzrs appeared to mak~conc~rted efforts to live up to that billing.

After a closing sfnnon by W. A. crisnell, doan of Southern Baptist pastors, Draptr concluded ths conference by expressin; his hope that "the spirit of this ma~tfnr:will bc thd spirit of the Southdm Baptist Convention 1950 in St. Louis."

In the conferencc's brief business ssssion, Jim Henry, pastor of First Zaptist Church, Orlando, Fla., was ~l~ctedpresident def~atingLarry Lcwis, pastor of Tovsr Grove Eaptist Church, St. Louis, and bob Meadil., pastor frm La.; Sumit, fio.

Stan Coffey, pastor of First Eaptist Church, A1 buqcerque, C.i4., was ~1~ctedvim president, and Hayne Fields, pastor of First Baptist Church, Grand Say, Ala., s~cretary- tr~asurzr.

In his mcssagk kionday morning, June 9, Richard Jackson, pastor of Horth P?oecix Gactist Church, Phcznix, Ariz., denouncad disunity ard judgm~ntalism in thc. convention.

"Ididn't say WE shculdn't stand on thc issuzs," he said. "Ididn't say that PIC shouldn't stand up for what w believe. Put God dzliver cs fron ever jud4ing tkz kart of another.

"God's people hold no grudges in thzir hearts toward enybody--~sp~ciallyth~ tn- nointed of God, our brothers and sistc-rs it? Christ," Jackson said. Giorg~Harris, pastor cf Castlc Hills Saptist Church, San Antonio, Tsxas, socndc? a sil:iilar them&, stressing that "ther~is a love that binds us and u~ltedus that is much stronger than thb things which may divide us. (more) 6/ 1O/SO Page 2 Baptist Press

"We need to cone to the place of reconciling the feuding,'' hs added, "so that we might get on with what God has called us to do. " In the conference's openin? session, Jack Taylor, dircctor of Christian Livina, Fort !,forth, Texas, called for "prayer, not politicking," pointing out that "we can disanree and still love each other."

Grady C. Cothen, president of the Southern Ba~tistSunday School Board, Nashvillz, recounted his recent successful battla with stomach cancer, declaring that "posi tinn, prestige and honor arE not important in the fac? of eternity. "As you face the long corridor of eternity, there is no sreztzr thouaht than tc kno:.! you'va done your best to live for Cod." In the closin? message, Criswell also expresszd gratitude for renewed health. Thc 71-year-old pastor of First Saptist Church, Dallas, is still recup~rationgfrom a recant heart attack.

Criswell defended diversity of opinion anonp Southern Baptists, stating that "it is discussion and debate and in thz tension of our Paptist lii~"that faith is foro2d.

Missions IJon't wait Baptist Press On Dawdlers, Parks Says By Eob Stanley 6/ 13/eO ST. LOUIS (BP)--The president of one of the world's largest missionary-sendina organf zations declared that "we da!.rdle and dally as if thc mission opportunity will be therc forever--and God knows it won't." R. Keith Parks, ~hotook aver in January as hcad of the 3,?fl3-missionar.y Sootth::rn 6ap- tist Foreign Mission Board at Richmond, Ya., said that it's taking 85,000 Southern Baptists to find one who will go as a career missionary.

"And the average Southern Baptist gavc only 11 cents a wekk last year for world r~iissicns. That won't even buy a postaa~stamp!" ha exclaimed,

"Unless w~ as Southern Eaptists beoin to oiv5 mora, it won't h? fiyz years before d~cisionswill havc to be made on wherz wa'll cut back," he predicted.

"Shall we quit appointin1 missionariss? 604 forbid!" ! "Hill we cut back on the qissionaries already out there-or 1.~i11re as South=rn Eagtists dscidc that #a will pay tha price of winning th~world to Jzsus Christ?" he asked. "And you will be the ones who decide that," hc said, spcakinq to thosz attendin? thz final scsslon of the I!1ornan1s Missionar.y Union annuzl mac-tino.

"You'll bc the key in deteniniilq whqth~r~lz're will in? tc pay the price or not."

Lifc-changin? decisions, t!~ethms of this ysar's mzetinn of thc kucaen's auxiliary tc the Southern Baptist Conventio2, must not only be wde--th:?.v must he practiced. he said. In a fzrvent conclusion, Parks szid, "Ibelicvz I can hear ths Lord sayin? to Sor!thxn Baptists, 'You camc into bfing as a missionary denomination. You'vz had goo3 tim~sand you've had hard times. Now th~world will be natchine what H* do in our hard timcs.' I bslievr! well 1 say. WE. wi 11 1ive by th: Gospel we've pwachecl. "'4c !4ll be a missionary peoplz. Ilc. will praach the ~ospzlto the whole norld."

Earlier, Parks had pull~dback the curtain on a discour3qing pzriod of his own e?rly missionary experf enc; about 24 years ago. In his first full y2ar of mission wrk aftsr con~letinglanguapf study, tic said, illness and furloughs of othilr mlss.ion~r5csbrought hil?: responsibil ities far beyond the level of his expariencc. *

He said the joy wcnt out of his servicp. KG tri4 harder and harder but finally caw- to o point of dsspcration beyond anything hc'2 tvfr known b~fora. One day, without knowing what led him, hs r~ntto str~tchhimself at mid-day on a rough-hzwn bench on th~hiflsid~ of th~.B~ptist seminary at Scnaranq, Indonesia. Thz Java Sca was b&a~!tifu1, and bo looked through gr;a bznbocl leaves at a bluz sky above. Then he was rcmindcd of Isaiah 40, which prmis~sthat "those who weit upon the Lord shall rcntlw the1r strength, they will soar on wings 1ike eagles, thoy '11 run and not bz. wary, ~ndthey'll w8lk and not f~int."

And he rsrmdc a life-chcnning cmitment he'd nzrk on previous occasions--"the ex- change of my lift; for ChrSst's lifd," 2s exprossad in Galstians 2:20,

"Smthinc miraculour happtntd," P~rksrscalled, "2nd Imade the dccisior, to quit trying to do it on my om."

Then, hi: added: "I vish I cocld scy that I'v; bekn c~nstantcvar siac;. I c2ntt. Hy lifu-changing cmltr;:cnts havc cwi in tbc hczt of dcsp~rationwith a tremendous cmtion31 turmoil--that's who I m."

Such camnitmcnts must b= guid~dby biblical ccnvictions, hs s~id, "It's cot inouch just to d~cid~;~YJ lifi will kc Ziffcrmt. It mcst kc pr~und~din and guided :y Gad's Yard.

Parks said hc believes "God will ha12 us r~sponsfhlefor tl;e nillions who Err last-- dyit?g wiWwt a savia5 kcct.rlcd~~of Christ. "kle sem .to act as If the Gospsl wire peintsd rt4, rhftk end hlu~--and that somshow Cod dccsn't can about cll thl; othcrs in thi: ncrld." 8issioncry tcstimlar,i~sc-.-rl ier in the ~rogrammpbrlsizzd th; individus.1 cmitvents that had led one fmily to a rcsort ministry zt tat klfntcr Olyrpics in Laki- Placid, ?!.Y., and cnethdr to BCPAU~~E~SYCB?,onc of thc neb1 tribtl hornlands ercntcd indipaqd~nccby South Afrlcc. John D%vid Soak, a Hem liission Goerc! nissionery, sail thc yanr-cround work st~rtcd at Lakc Plzcid b=for= tth C'lynpics ncl4' hcs r=sultcb. in a c5npc1 tL,r.t had 46 for wrship s~rvfccs June 8, uith 29 in Sundcy Schcol . "The Bzptists ars tlt~r~to stzy," hi said. During thu pkak of the Olppics in Fcbruzry, 145 vol?rntters FaVi thrz: !!ccks or more to a variety of ministries rr.?$in? from o coffc~s>ap that provided frm coff~c, soup and sandwfch~sto 3,500 pcrsons to tt;?m.ms thct :.ti tnksskd or! thc moll . "At lecst six inciivicuzls v!znt Scck bcn~chv;l~t'cl-dr.st~s Christ h?d trnirsfcrmsc! their livc.s," Book said.

5a1u and Ann ikighlk, who s~rvidfirst in Etbiopi: 2nd Izter trcnsfwrcd to 30~huth~tit!~~ni?i, .?!r~o Kkctucky eouplc;,

"I'm just a plain 016 cotintry Zoctcr," Eeigtrl; s~.id,"nv! thc Lord gzvc F; thc abllity to doctor sick animls--thp.tls why h;'s c.allcc! mi tc Afric? for his clory." iaaw thky'm in a country with twc million tnirn?ls, 2nd until thzy cc.,~~therc wosn't a stngld v&mimry Jcctcr in tkr wholi country. At first, tht. I;ov=rnwnt insist& thpt thoy f@llov J r~qulctcryrole, 9ei$hlk ssbd, 6ut as he 8gonizc;d 2nd es Southern 0aptists prsycd, an Septabcr 12, 1978 (his birthday), h2 sefd that Goti opensd the way for hi~eat only to doctor sic!< cnimals kut ~lsoto trair! othors for thlf work, -3C- Page 4 Baptist Przss

Morthwest Convention Elects Cecil Sims

PORTLAND, OR--As expectzd, Cecil Sims, a tlorthwcst pastor for 24 years, was electad sxecutive diractor- treasurer of the florthwes t Baptist Convzntion fn a special convention session June 6 hers.

Sims, 52, is prasently an associate director of missions with qsographical assignmant in western Canada, He assumss thz convention's chief staff executive post July 1.

With a vote of 209 "yes" and 87 "no" the rnzsrcnqsrs qavz Sims a 71 percsnt affirmative response to the nominee of the convention's axecutivf board. The board ~arlierhad ac- cepted the recommendation of a sp~cialsearch cornittee culminatinq an eight-month search for the vacancy created when Dan C. Strinqsr, Jr. rzsiuned to take a similar post in Florida.

Althouqh thc convention's bylaws apparently required a simple majority to elat th~ new exacutive, Sims told the messzngers follorrinn the election he had a personal soal of 65 percent. He asked those who voted against to work with him, not necessarfly agree !!ith him but working togethcr.

An earlier motion by a masszngcr to provida for a 75 pc-rcant majority for election was ruled out of order by convantion president Roy Flelcher, Kenncwick, !.dash. A motion to set aside th.2 bylaws in order to vote on the 75 percent motion failed to secure ths! needed two-thirds majority , rulcd B~lcher. :Iess~nqars had previously votad to set aside the bylaws to hold a sccrst ballot wh~nBelcher told them he rlould ask for a standing vote. In his acceptance speach, Sims said, "Ihope I \.ronlt draw too much of your attention, because ifI'm doing the work I'm supposod to do you won't no tic^ me. I cherish your prayers ....I'll give it my best." Elessznsers also approved his salary at $2Q,425 which inc1ud.s a housfna allo!~ance. The executiva position is the only staff cmployoe clectzd by the convention. All others are elected by the executive board.

WChallenged To Combat A l;!orld Full Of Troubles By Orvilla Scott

ST. LOUIS (RP)--The challenges of hung~r,missions and troubled famf 1ies were issued to more than 1,500 people at the annual s2ssion of Southern Saotist 'Jaman's rissionary Union in Kiel Auditorium.

The kFW honored Southcrn Baptists' most famous missionary, Lottic Yoon, for vhom thcir forei~nmission offwino is namd, and closed brith a *,yarninn from the prasldent of their Faraign Ilission Eoard.

"Ye dawdle and dally as if thc mission opportunity will be there forevsr--and God knows it won't," said R. Keith Parks, of Richmond, Va., who took over in January as hsad of the 3,000-mf ssionary aprncy. Parks said the average Southern Raptist gave only 11 cents a wek for foreign mis- slons last year and that it's taking 85,0r30 Southern Baptists to flnd ona who'll go as a career missionary. S~ptistPrfss

WChnl enasd- w- to- Combat-- A World Full of ~roubles By Orvillc Scott

Sf. LOUIS (8P)- he chall~~qesof tiunqcr, missions ?nd troubled f?.~ili2swErE issued to more than 1,500 people at the annu" ssesion of Southzrn Bapt'lst 5'ornnn's i?isslonary Union in Kizl Auditorium.

The W:L! honorad Southdrn G~ptists'most fanous missionary, Lottic. %on, for whom their foreign mission offering is ncmed, and closed with a warnins frcm the prcsidsnt of thkfr Foriiign >!lssion Roard.

"i.1~ dawdl~and dally as if the mission opportunity will be tkre fordver--?nd God knows it won't," said R. Keith Parks, of Richmond, Va., who took ovcr in January as head of the 3,000-missionary agency.

Parks said the average Southern Boptist gav-? only 11 c:?nts r*. wcck for forcign missions last yder and that it's tr:kina 85,000 Soutkzrn 9aptists to find onz who'll po as a c;?eer missionary.

"\.!ill wc cut back on thz mission?riss already out th~r::--or will we as Southern Rrptists dacide that w: will pay the pricr of winning thc world to J~susChrist," h~ scid.

Parks was ontr of a serizs of speak-rs responding tc th:: th~rr~,"Lif; Changing Commitmd~ts Followina the cnnouncement thrlt this yilar's Lottie Efoon offcrina for foreign missions h?s reached a record-braking $40.5 pi11 ion, the :.li:l! was tr.!~?tdto En int?rviz\$l!vi th h 35- ysar-old fomm missionsry rrho served with ?iss Xoon in China.

Jwell Deniel of Dallas recalled that Lottic ?ban said God's Holy Spirit en.ztlsd her to do what she dld 2s a pioneer missionary. P, tiny Virainia womzn, Kiss Goon burrisd hersslf out for the cause of Christ and died on Christmas Dry in 1q12. Put !:!is5 Voon's influence continues to be fsl t around the world, s35d Lirs. Oanicl.

Wrs. baniel was Interviewed by Cathirinc 0. A1 la, assistant to tha ~xzcutivzdirkctor of I.rKU, Pirmingham, who wrota The Kew Lottie C:oon St0r.y just publish~dby Eroadman Press of T.!ashville. Zrs. Allen said shs fkared that her resmrch of t'iss 'loon's lift might r~vznl"that somzthing wesn't w!iat we thouaht and would damaqk our confidl~nci." Fut in Lotti; ?peon's case, truth was more inspiring than fiction, shd szid. *._. . . Several of Hiss I.;oonls rzl?tives spok,, onc! the audidncz !!ns truatad to F. displzy of artifncts, including C,!iss Eioon's desk built by 5 Chinas2 workman, her trunk, cook book, foot- stool and other memorabilia,

A missionary coupl~to Hon~Konp, iir. and iirs. J~rryRarrctt, not~dthat the Chiccse Communists hsvc recently pmnitted p. few churchzs to opsn.

Th* quzstion is, "Kou can w? best sh?rk Christ ~vitbout~ndnn~rrinq their neb! found freedom," said P.lrs. 3arrett.

In the closing messwe Parks said thqt in his first full y:ar of missicn ?nrk hu reach~dthc staga whcn he couldn't dccidc whether to rcsiqn or ask for ? transf~r.

In despcration brks str2tck~dhirnszlf on a rouqh b~nch. A Iff:-chenging comitment ho'd made bcfore came flooding bzck, h~ recalled. Yf- quit depending on his own stmnath, he said, and renwal, eil-,le study and meaninqful- przysr took place in his life.

A session on the family was clim3.xe6 by assurancss cf z! Soutbern Baptist family 1ifc sp~cialistthat the fmily is not ping to dii. -mow 6/10/80 Page 6 Baptist Press

Harry $1. Hollis, Jr., director of family and special moral concerns for the Southern Baptist Christiarj'Life C~ission,Nashville, said many faiililies are in serious trouble and that society is suffering from a "battered fanily syndrme." But he predicted the family will continue to survive because f t is part of God's providence for ordering human 1ife. Holl is said churches should help famil ies in dealing with economic problems, violence in society, problems at home and abroad and sex riseducation on television. At one session, each Id;.iU participant was given a rice bowl coin bank to emphasize Southern Baptists1 goal of raising $1 million on biorld Hunger Sunday, Aug. 3. Alastair klalker, past president of South Carolina Baptists, who spearheaded a drive to distribute 148,000 of the banks in his state, said people are more motivated to give when a specific project is placed before them. He had a well-digging rig erected in his church in Spartanburg, S.C., to emphasize a drive for well drilling rigs in war-torn Uganda. As a result, the church tripled its Lottie ::loon offering of the previous year, Yalker reported.

In a business session, Mrs. A. Harrison Gregory of Danville, Va., idas elected to her sixth term as president of VEdlU. -30- Campus klinisters Grapple Baptist Press With :lajor Ethlcal Issues By :larv Knox 6/10/80

ST. LOUIS (BP)--Southern 3aptist canpus ministers grappled with four major ethical prob- lems which will face Americans during the 30s during their fourth annual two-day meeting. "The sacredness of life is basic," James Ounn, executive director of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission, Dallas, told the canpus ininisters in their opening session. Addressing himself to the problem of world hunger, Dunn said all people everywhere deserve the right to food, because God places value on every human 1ife. "Yore people are hungry today than ever before," he reported, noting that half the world's hungry are children under five years of age, that 800 million people live in "absolute poverty" and that at least one-eighth of the world's population suffers "debili- tating aalnutri tion. " "Starvation of humns cl~arlyis a moral and ethical issue, because its solution lies well within the capability of nations working alone and together," Dunn said. "Theological immaturity" an3 "ethical insensitivity" amonq Americans are other prime causes of the hunger crisis, Ounn charged. "Because human society could, if it would, see that no child goes to bad hungry, our failure to do so Is morally outrageous," he said. "Our dedication to see that innocent children eat 1s a basic test of our Christian ethic." Attention shifted from food tc missiles when the student workers heard from Glen Stassen, professor of Christian ethics at Southern Saptist Theoloqical Seminary, Louisville. Ky. Stassen claimed man's faith in nuclear alms is nothinq short of idolatry. "We think of idols as statues, but biblically, idolatry is the concept of forsakiilg Yawh (God) and putti;~gsomething else in its place," he said. St~ssench~rged th: k2y to ha1 ting zrms ~scalztionis to lyncouragc Sovicts and Americans to talk about the problem and addzd that the church should adopt Christ's cx2mple of "sur- prise initiztive" znc! kncour,lge govzrnmcnt leaders to seek to tzlk about arms controls with the Soviet Union. P2ul Simmons, professor of Christian ethics at Southern Seminzry, focus~don thf problsm of rsconciling medical and ethical issu2s in thz '80s for the campus ministkrs. "All of us are touchtd by thesz issufs," he said. "Thcy cqll on us who are committed to th~ministry to bring th2 kst of our moral understanding and reliqious parspectivs to bezr in dealing with these critical problems. "I!ilat .Is .n2elek is fsr c; tc think thrb5:;i tScrk'prnblcms . . . and do aur hoinekork," htl'5aid. "Scientists whc dzily struqglz vith these problfms will rl~lcomedialogue with ministsrs and persons conc2rn2d with moral and religious implic~tionsof this issu~."

Christizns will test the "thcological ad~quacyof our rflioious perspfctives" 8s m~di- cin~introducss "new and fascinating circumst?nccs" into daily lif~,h~ szid. Harry Holl is associst; dircctor of the Southern Septist Christian Lifc Commission, F!ashville, addressed the issue of family lif~in this dccad;:.

Hollis said the Bib12 teachfs two wry significznt fccts about the family. The first is that the family is "very, very i~portant"and th~tthe Bible takes the family and its place seriously. The second is that the family is not the ultimate? value-God is. The key to successful family living combines ths supremacy of God and the importance of the family, he said.

"Campus ministers have a unique opportunity to claim a qfneration for Southarn Baptists . . . at e time when this country n~edsstrong and h~r1thy familics to hecome involved In solving the problems of our day," he said.

Thc final session featured !Jillicm Pi. Pinson, president of Golden Gate Baptist Theologi- cal Seminary, who wrapped up the ethical exzminations with affirmation of the campus ministers' place in the 1ives of col lcgc students.

"You are able to stretch minds and spirits. You zrs abl~to bring people to confront truth," he told thsn.

"If you ever abdicato to the status quo or to thd doinq of business as usual or to the allowing of people to lie comfortzbly in their rut, you will hzve forsakzn thz sp~ci?l ministry to which God has called you.

"Yours primarily is a people-formztion ministry," he said. "!.!clll be praying for you, bccause ifyou affect thz gzneration of studznts coming through, so will what God has put togsther as a Southern 3eptist Convention function in the nsxt 10, 20 and 30 yezrs."

The student workers el rctfd officers for 1980-51. They are Geneva k!.!etzger, Gr~ensboro, N.C., president; Russ Arch, Pucblo, Colo., vics prisident for administration, ?led b!alsh, St. Louis, ho., V~CEprzsid~nt for programs; Joe Cobb, Sooneville, fliss., vice president for membership, 2nd Kzal Schoaley, Stilltvattir, Okla., vice president for pub1icstions. -30- NATIONAL OFFICE SBC Executive Committrc 460 James Robertson Parkway Na#hvlllo. Tonnsame 37219 (015) 24d-23S5 W. C. Fields, Director News SmwiCO of the Southern Baptist C0nv0nlion Robert J. D'Brlen. News Editor Norman Jamrron, hatun Editor

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Time for 'Prayer, not Politicking,' Pastors Told

ST. LOUIS (BP)--The Southern Saptist Pastors' Conference opened here with a call for denominational unity and for Iprayer, not politickinp."

Jack Taylor, director of Dimensions in Christian Living, Fort "lorth, Texas, told a near-capacit,~ccohd at Cervantes Convention Center that beinq disagreeable among Baptists 5s "inexcusable."

"bfe can disapree and still love each other," the former Southern Baptist pastor began. He said that one of his reasons for bein? a Eaptist is that eaptists can go to conventions, disagree, and still love one another. Clearly alluding to pre-convention speculation that the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, which follo!vs the Pastors' Conference, may be marked by heated debate over biblical disagreements, Taylor warned, "These are not days to draw our dapoers and run them through."

P.ssigned to speak on "Prayer and Awakening," Taylor declared, "Iam absolutely con- vinced.. .that if we decide to pray, we will see a spiritual awakening."

Prayer $5 needed first in the 1 ives of ministers, he said, because "we're folloving our Baals'! (heathen gods). He declared that pastors who measure their success by the world's standards are "out of business."

Taylor told the assembled ministers, many accompanied by their ~sives, that "preachers are going to have to lay dawn their egos" and "aet over talkinp about each other." He went on to say that preachers ought to be doir~more than "comfortin? the troubled." In addition, "you ought to be troubl in? the comfortable."

Earlier in the opening session, John Sisaqno, pastor of Ffrst Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, declared that the second coming of Jesus is the event "to which all history is moving and a.!ithout which history makes no sense."

Eisagno adpitted to havim adopted a premillenisl view of the end of time over the past year during an intensive study of the kook of Revelation. l?e said he has been preaching through the last book of the Rible "verse-by-verse and \?lord-by-word" for nearly a year and has concluded that it "is not a closed book."

Premillenial ism is the view that Jesus will come back to rule on earth for a 4 thousand-year period after the rise of the antichrist, Bisaqno ex~lained. The latter will be "a smooth-tal kina dude," he predicted.

"Things are ripe for the antichrist," the Houston pastor said, pintinq to what he cat 1 ed a "one-world" system of povernment, lannuage, measures, and military force, amonf others. 6/9/80 Pace 2 Baptist Press He also assailed U. 5. foreirn policy as contributin? to international instability which will hasten the end of time. He cited what he called .qmerjca's "forsakinp" of Taiwan and "armin$' of Comunist China, as nell as increasinp support for Arab nations at Israel ' s expense.

Bisagno predicted that armies from all over the world will eventually converfe on Israel to settle "Satan's original proposition, 'k!hoas roinn to rule the world?'" But when that cataclysmic event occurs, he concluded, the world will see that "Jesus hasn't given up on the church."

Revival Called Barrier Zaptist Press To World blar I11 by Stan Hastey 6/9/80

ST. LOUIS (aP)--One of the chief leaders of the movement Sn the Southern Baptist Convention promotdng biblical inerrancy said here that he will stop fiphtin? his battle for the Bible when others "stop attackjng it." Paige Patterson, president of Criswell Center for Sib1 ical Studies, Dallas, Texas, declared further that 1,lorld klar I11 can be avoided only if the United States experiences spiritual revival, which in turn hin2cs on acceptance of the Cible as inerrant (without error in the origins1 manuscripts). "That alone can stave off" olobal conflict, he said.

Speaking less than an hour later frorn the same pulpit, the president of the Southern Baptist Pastors' [,onference ur~edSouthern Saptists to avoid fiohting anon0 themselves. Jirrmy Draper, pastor of First raptist Church, Euless, Texas, reminded the capacity crowd at thz murninq worship service at Tower Grove Qaptist Church, Sunday, June 8, that becauce the most bitter of fights occur in families, Southern Faptists sust not jeopardize their influence with internal battles. "Southern Baptists ~i11never be what we might be and what we could be until .. .we are devoted to each other." he said. Preaching the morning sermon immediately after Patterson had addressed a joint adult- youth Scnday School assembly in the Tower Grave sanctuary, Praper Identified \*!hat he called the "basic distinctjves" of first century Christians enablinn them to become "a revolution- ary church," The Texas pastor said early Christians had a sense of their destiny, had made a firm decision to bepin a new way of life, h36 Jesus as their director, and were possessed by the dynamic of the Koly Spirit.

But the distinctive which made the world take notice, he concluded, was their devotion to ona ano':her. The church must be the place where people knov! they are needed and loved, he said. Then he went on Lo apply the principle to the denomination.

Patterson had told the crowd earlier that Tover Grove pastor Larry Levis had specific- ally asked him to address the subject of inerrancy. Lewis, !.ho has identified himself with the group led by Patterson, called tke Texas educator one of the "most brilliant and articulateMof Southern ea~tists. Patterson decried the position of those Southern Baptists who claim Jesus Christ rather than the Bibl:! as their "ultimate authority," Patterson contended that Jesus himself be1 feved and proclaimed an inerrant aible.

Citing various quotations of Jesus in the Gospels, he said that Jesus be1 ieved in the plenary, verbal Inspiration of the 3ible and in, both its infallibil i t.y and inerrancy. 5/9/80 Pace 3 qa~tistFress Patterson labeled a "tragedy" the practice of many lay people of leavin? the question of biblical interpretation to preachers and pastors. t!e has held throu~houtthe current SBC controversy over the Bible that most lay people believe in inerrancy but have in many cases been led astray by pastors tainted with liberal teachincr in the denomination's seminaries: ""'e are sufferinp today in our cornunion fron a bad case of fear," he declared. Patterson said that k!hile he Sel ieves that evanpelisi? anc' missions should be at the heart of Southern Baptist cooperative effforts, 81 1 such endeavors are impossi!lle without be1 ief in inerrancy. Speaking to the danoer of world war impressed upon him during a recent three-week visit to Israel, Patterson said that the Israelis have "at least 12 atomic warheads" pointed at their enemies. tie predicted that because of what he called Israel 's ";iasatiaU complex, "when they go, they !!ill take the world ~it:ithen." "!~feare poised on the brink" of nuclear destruction, he warned, concludin~that Christians' "only weapon" is comi tment to an inerrant Pihle. Also participating in the service was SRC president Atrian Ro~ers,!.lho led the invocation, and the sanctuary choir 2nd orchestra from First Church, 2al las.

Deacons, Pastors Exhorted Fapti st Press To Work as Partners '))I 9.4 ke "vi s 6/9/QO ST. LOUIS (CP)--!;ore than €fl5 cleacons from 17 states were exhcrted here to "preach Jesus" and be humble, ministerinq partners vith pastors. ihbile ?iayor Larcbert aims, a deacon at Riv~rside?aptist Church there, received a round of hearty acens at the first ;.!ational Deacons Rally at Tower Grove Claptist Church when he to1 d the deacons, "Preach Jesus, deaco~, areach Jesus. " F!otinq that he had known sorr;e deacons "~iith 5ackbones 1 i ke cooked spaghetti ," idms challcn~edthe deacons to have courare to "caen your nout'~and preach Jesus." "If vle leave out Jesus," he said of t1?e r'eacoq ministry, PI^ mi$t as ?!ell stay home. A visit nitllout ent ti on in? Jesus is ncthinr more Van a social call ." i:ims, one of several speakers kilov!n to Southern "aptists because of contri5utions to the developaent of deacon ministries, calle:! on tbr deacons to 5e "more than manaoers of materi~lthinns," to be filled witb the L'o1.y Snirit 2nd to be cornitto4 to vinisterinc with a "love that takes us beyond the four ?rails of the church to the nu1 titudes who need Christ." Jestin: that he had been "filled !?it'? t'le Holy Soirit a;r< leaked dovn a few tines," ;.iims tcld the rcen to let tho Holy Spirit t~kcover their lives and warned, "Satan's out there with his fiery little darts just lai it in^ to puncture your balloon.'' A. Aorpan ?rian Jr., attorney an:! deacon at First Captist Church, ;\!el:t Orleans, out- 1ined how deacons and pastors should become partrcrs ir, ~inisterina.

"Tne Kcre humble we are, the more dynanic our r?ir,istrj l+.il; be,'; lie sai;. "There has to '.e an endearment if deacons and pastors are to minister and wrk tonether, "e have to be true yokefell ows ." ijrian suaaested that pastors and deacorrs should remember tl:?,tthey are called by God to leaf the rest of the church to minister, not do everythin0 thmselves. "Our real value is when we can help a person with his spiritual problems. Physical, economic, emotional problems all are easier to handle when you've taken care of the spiritual problems first." -mre- El9/80 Pa?e 4. Fagtf st Press Brian urged the deacons to learn to know1 the condition of the persons to whom they minister and develop a personal involvement in the lives of clrurch members and to save some of their energies for strengthening their pastors. Deacons strengthening their pastors was the them of another rally speaker, Charles Chandler, pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue 3aptist Church, UrSana, Ill., reminded the deacons that everybody needs ministering to, even the pastor's faaily. Robert Paylor, whose book, The eaptist "acon, v!as call@

Howard Foshee, author of the book, The ilinistry of the Ceacon, and director of the Christian development division of the Eaptist Sunday Ehool board, i4ashvil le, called deacons and psstors partners in ministry and told the deacons to be enablers. Russell Tuck, deacon at Kirksloo.! =aptfst Church in Kirkwood, r'lo., and his wife told ho1.v they considered the deacon ministry 8 family ministry. Russcll ssid he has seen the dcacon ministry in his church change fron! administration of the church proarams to a ministry to the members. Representatives of the pastoral ministries section of tPe Sunda;~ School Roard, sponsor of the rally, said they were pleased that the rally had accorpl ishcd its pwpose of celebrating what God is doin? in churches throuyh the deacon rinistry arlld to inspire dsacons to greater service and ministry.

Roaers Fills Yacancles Eaptist Press On Corini ttee On Cornittees 6/9/80 ST. LOUIS (CP)--:dine persons have heen nared to fill vacancies on the Southern Saptist Convention's Comi ttee on Comi ttees. President Adrian Ro9ers named the nine re7lacesents after orininal appointees vere un3ble to serve.

Earlier, 4oqers naazri 52 persons fro^ 21; stztes to the comrittee, which will name the SRC Cornittee on Poards. That cornittee t-!f 11 corpi'le 1 ists of norninses for positions on boards of trustees of SFC agencies, to be vtrted on it) the 1781 annu21 rneetinr in Los Angeles. Jerry El isson, putor of Leawood Baptist Chcrch in ;-!e~p:iis,Tenn., is chairean of the <0;in4 ttc~on Comi ttees. Rogers named the follo!.r.fna substitutes: Dlstrict of Collmbia--ilrs. Dallas Pull ian, lay ~:enber,Greenhel t Faptist Church, Green- belt, iid;, to replace i;rs. l'orth Grant, lay sember, T.,r,.rle Captist Church; Eeoraie--E. ?, Toles, lay member, Second AVPVJZ Churc5, Por:~, Ga., to re~lace:-irs. Crace Kinssr, lay merber, First Chrch, Atlanta, and Lester hice, pastor, Rehobeth Church, Tucker, Fa., to replace A.B. Hatfield, pzstor, A1 preta Church, A1 pharetta; Ga. ; Kansas-"ehrasts--1rrs. Ernest Stewart, 1ay mzmber, Harrison Church, Omaha, i?eh., to raplace &~FSJeffr2y of Over1 and Park, Xan., T3y member, Leawod (Kan.) Church; s:ar land Japes I!ubbard, pastor, ?el Forest Church, ?,el Air, to replace l,!a1 ter Apror, &-of misrionr , Susqoehanna r,altist Association, Aberdeen, id. ; 'ljchin~n Kenneth Stevens, pastor, Faith Church, Durand, i lich., to replace #il ton !!ood, p~bFharnChurch. Jackson, iiicb. : l!ort!:!!ert--John Hatch, pcstor. First Chgrch, Tacoma, Mash., to rep1 ace iron Clark, pastor, 0rc;iarc~sChurcQ, Levtiston, Idaho r and Tcxas--iiorris CobS, lay mmber, First Caurch: Pnaril lo, Texas, to realace Krs, Evelyn Eneberry, lay member, First CRurc3, iiidlaad, Texas, and Eob Eklund, pastor, First Ckurch, Kurst, Texas, to repiace Fred '.tolfe, pastor, First Church, Lubbock. 5/4!25 Pa;e 5 Paptist Press

Other members of the C6nil;ii ttee on Comni ttees announced previously by Roqers are: Alabama--Jimmy Jackson, pastor, !.'hitesbur~?aptist Church, Kuntsville, and James Gunn ofem-, lay member, Vineland Fark Laptist Churc?, Hueytol.!n Arizona--Richard Jackson, pastor, North Phoenix (Ariz. ) Church!, and Marol? Friend, lay emh her, First Southern Faptist Church, Scottsdal e: Arkansas--Tonmy Hinson, Fastor, First Cliurch, '.!@st :?lempl?is, and ti11 1 Bennett, pastor, First -Fort Sni thg Cal ifornia--Glenr paden, pastor, First Church, Sacramento, and Robert tinn, pastor, Inmanuel Church, San ?ernardino: Colorado-- Jim Henderson, pastor, Estes Park (Colo.) C:;urch, and Fob "vford, lay nembzr, Wd Church, !!heat Rid@e: Ristrict of Colunbis--C. !.lade Free~anJr., pastor, Capi to1 Hi1 1 Hetropol itan Cliurch; A1 so, Flori &-Joe Boatr!ri?ht, pastor, Alona Church, '.!inter Park, and Doyle I. Carl ton, lay rr,e!nber,First~hurc~~,Merritt Island; I1 1 inois--Johr! Thomason, pastor, Temp1 e Church, Chaxpaign, and Edmund Hil! , pastar, Bayle Church, Ransey; Indiana--Garland ;lorrison, pastor, Sunnycrest Church, f:iarion, snd Elvf s :,iarcum, pastor, Gracemurch, Ye!.! A1 bany; Kansas- Bebraska--Gene Pa\-lk.fns, pastor, First Church, Topeka, Kan. ; Kentucx John !licks, 1ay member, Cedar Cr~ekChurch, Louisville, and Harold Cathey, pastor, Uq4-- ty urch, Ashlandi A1 so, Louisiana--Ron Harrod, pastor, First Church, !:eerier, and Dick flcick, lay member, First Church,oure: flarylan6-- Daniel A1 1en, pastor, Sea5rook (lid.) Church: :;ichiqan-- ?avid French, pastor, First Cl~urcli, Swartz Creek; lii ssissippi--Dr. Sussell Sush Sr.,, lay nienber, First Church, Columbia; and Joe I'cKeever, pastcr, First Church, Columbus; i issouri-- !!ill iam Copeland, lay member, Kirkwoof! Church, I*'ebster Grove, and Fary 9ol;nett, pastor,7irst Church, Bethany: P!ew i4exico--Tat;; Clayton Jr., pastor, First Church, Hobhs, and Stan Coffey, pastor, First Church, A1 buquerque; ~Jort:?Carol inn--:;ark Corts, pastor, Calvary Church, !Jinston-Salem, and firs. Lave;lia Slackburn, lay renl?cr, ?l easant Vill Church, El kin. Also, Eorthwest--\If11 iam Peters, interie executive secretarv and director of ~issions, ilorthwest S-nvention, Pcrtland, Gre. : w--J. I:. Peardei? Jr., of Cinclnnatl , lay timber, First Church, lit. Heal thy; and '.!a1 ter Davis, pastor, trayton 4venue Church, Xenia:. Oltlahoma--Jerry Don Abernathy, director oi evan~efism for Oklahoma 3aptists, Oklahoma City, and Robert Harris of Edmond, lay me~ber,First Southern raptist Church, ?el City: Soi!th Cai-oi ine--Ira Craft, lay mem5er, First Church, Colur4:5ia, and Alastair ':'a1 ker, pastmirst -spartanburg; A1 so, Tennessee--Rot and tladdox, 1ay vember, :el 1evue Church, :?emp!?is , are! Jerry Elfsson, pastor, Leawoo? Church, idlemphis; Virginia-J'ayne Poplin, pastor, First Church, Suffolk, and Dan Shirkoy, pzztcr, Tab~rnacleChurch, i,:e$;?ort Ptevs. NATIONAL OFFICE SBC Executive Cornmiltwe 4W Jamw Rebarlaon Parkway Nuhville, Tennmsee 37219 (815) 244-2355 W. C. Fields. Director Ncm Sewiu of tho Sautham Baptist tonwntion Robert J. O'Brlen, Ncwa Editor Norman Jameron, Feature Editor

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Dan Ylartin :damned riels Editor ~fi95ptist Press

& ST. NUIS (3P)--Daniel 3. 'iartin Jr., a vetzrsn of 23 yews in secular ant] Soiltiler3 3a~tist journal lsn, ni11 hscme news editor for Sagtist Press, news servi ce of the Southern gaptist Convention, on Au?. 1.

!iartii~,42, editor of the news service at the S3C :(ow'iission 5oar:l. was aanroveil f3r the gosition donalay by tha Aiiainistrative Sub-Smitte., of the 53C Executive C~mittas. ft~ will sgcceed 3obert 3'5rien, who will join tile S3C Foreiqn '-lission 3oarJ in July to gilot a ?ro?rsnn of overseas news coverale. '4arti;l will work alon!siJe ;foman Ja,ncson, feature editsr, who sil?ervSses the Feature coverage an,l photcywaphy for laptist Press.

A native Texan, 'iartin will supervise news coveraya of t+e Jzno~ination'snaqs service, coordinatinq work with six 3P bureaus and otaer nevs solrces aild relations nith secdlar anJ reliqio~rsmedia. Esch year, be?inniril :!ith the 131 57': i;; Lqs ili:?fes, he ~~511be the nnt.fs- rom Iananer at annual S3C ineetings. . . "Q3n Slartin has that rare cmhinatioa of ext5nsivr sx~ariencewith dai 1y ne!~!sosrrers and tdith the denaninstion v!hic:l the Zaptist Press role requir,?~," accor-!in:! to .lilWnsrC. Fields, director of zagtist Press. "lle is well prepreti for this de3an-Ain: task," Ficlls 05serve4.

&?fore joining the iime !ission SoarJ in ltlanta in 1V5, :!artin !+as press rlirector for the Japtist General Coaventim of Texas, 3a11as, 1973-7;. Ir! both Dallas and !Atlanta he c~ordinatednews cgveray for bdnaus of fiaqtist Press.

Eqrlier, !artin spznt 15 years on staffs of ne:5oa?ors in Texas 33-1 Co1ora:la in various capsci tics, inclu~.linqreporter, snorts !vi rter, a li tor a:14 nt~oto?ra?her. :I~oilq papers >a l..~or!csdfor were the Lubbock r1vala~c;ie Journal, tlir; C3?c!q/ !ountain .ICVIS, Fort V~rtiiStar Tel eiraa, Dal las .:lorninq 'Cn an3 gall3s Tixs :lara1.1. '..: His writing has won 12 scc~l3ran: rsligious journalis7 awards. Flc bas alth3rel ' three books. %sides news ex?erience, iartin has been Pastor of c5urc;ies ia Bluewove, Dum+ae, an: %ailah. Texas. i-la is a qraiuate of lidwestera Uiiiversity, 'licfiit~Falls, Texas, anJ has Jon. work to!.!ard a aaster of divinity 4enree froq 5orrt:western .?a?*,ist The~logicalSminary, Fort ':!orth. .. .?artin is married to the fomr Colleen Taylor. They have four chi1lren, Jly Lynn, 24; 9avi.1, 22; 3anie1 111, 17; nn.1 Jill, 11.

(?P) Photos miled to stat2 hptist nenspapers 6/1/Cq Pane P ?*ti st Press Grant! Canyon Retires Coach After Charpionship ?.rive 7:) Leonarf! 1411 1 !%SPVILLE, Te~n.(F?)--The cran.! Canyon !:aseball tea^ that r?issed thc 117'1 "AIF 3as2- ball ''orld Series. stole the show iir! I??.?, and :.on the natirnal champions'lip, Fcr coacb Oave Prazell, the slefeet aro-a of victory ?a*! a bittcr after-taste *hen sckao? cfficials announced after the fir81 core-fro7-behind victor!# t!iat $e would. no lcnner he coach of the Antelopes .

The Erancl Canyon tear, rated t?e nurber me !"a11 tes.*- in tb2 nation last year, YES forced to sit out tke 1-73 national plzyoffs after a \-lir2 s~rviccpictiire ar~e~rerfin ne4+s- papers across tile courltry shovinn rlaynrs pourinn chacp~nn?ntler one another after ?!innin: the Area 2 tltle In their hme city, Phoeqix. President Sill !?.!!ill i~*sof t5e '+rizona 'aptist Convention-ormcr!ne crllcce ~1itMra+ the tear fran further ccvwtiticn fcr violatinn the sc+rl's 589 eminst the rossessicn of a1 coho1 ic teveranes on cavus .

Follo!.ri~p last year's chan~an~eincicient, rr~zell'sr~le ES athletic fiirector was assuncc' by fill Estes v:ho wzs name!: athletic ar'miristr2tor ti:is vzpr, on the day the ~9nte1npesreturned to Phoenix. Estes rel~ase?? stpte~ontin?icatinm that a letter of r?- sicnation sulnitte? t,y rrazell l~st%cc~!~P~ h~1 ~;CEY: U;I~;I~~OUS~~ accepter! tu the school's koarri of trustees c!urinr t0pir ':?rrh ~~etinr,!.if th the ucders tandinr na arnour;cer.~nt ~rr!lc' be made until after thc 9asebal1 seasan.

The announcenent also Snblcated 7raze11, who has i' (:ocfar?te, !:ill contirue as ::ea+ ef the 6eyirtment of health enr: r5ysical e.'ucation. .Scliaol af"icia1s also ir?p:fc?tzr! tkct ii:-s. rrazell, nt!o also has a foctor's rhrree, mu1t contique teachinr st the coll?n~.

Srazcll told his players arrl re?ortcrs taat his rstirema7t vas not volufitarv. 'They (Cran? Canyon al!ninistratnrs! wanted ne to step r'nt::r, I to1 1' the I nantcc' to continue.. . I aF. not retirin?. T:~evare retirinp re," ha sail.!. '.tit!? el1 the turnoil, 2nd ~itkr!a;?y nlayers threat.snin~to t.ransfcr. may sordercri ii Craze11 vmulrl ever. te ?I:?e to fir,ld! a tppr t?is yrzr. rut t~~arscoolsd, an-' t!~In!*- te!!er! coir.ch, wi-old Ll~enat ban:' Canyon since t?c collare start?.' 29 years 570, ?at!:ere: his players as schocl heran last fall and tali+ thart tc Crrrat t!:? ~rst~nd to set net.! -I??::* One qssl war a natlonal c?av:ions*ic.

Fe:y tboueht t5e P,ntelopes had zny hc:c for success. 'rsznll, one of 031 y four !v.seb:?. coaches to ever win Tore that! 772 rams, face? serfcus nroLlc~si~ cdt'ition to tke reil- ~ct.1icizei chacpa~neincilent an;? confl icts 1.4 t!~the v'r?inistraticn.

T5c team ms cissin- fci!r of the fiva startinr ?itct*ers fros the 1972 tea^, :Ion- v~i?;'. tl3rzz others who nredcat,t+. Pnl? t5cre :rag the ?ro!-1 g O" :I@cidinr nbat to c'o ahcut a;! iqfielder w.35~ Fa+ keen fi c;isru~tfveirflcfince t'.~year kafjre.

"I really didn't etapt tbe hole back on tbr? tca?," ?raze11 ccnfi4ef'. -i:is rcoF'ftiess 8.::; t~rperhad a disrr~ptivtsffcct or! 3is ts~v~tes,and OF FPC Occasion I'cl evnn ka?r to su~nan: hir a veek for a rlinor ircracticn. ?ut !~t! call& c.e if? hefore sckn~lSwan last fall an:: asked tc be riven another cba~ce."

~rairallnivcs Go-' cra:ii+ for vbnt Sqrncne.! after that. :n i!o~sthe nlayer ir! oue~'.io,l: reninr third basman ::rim .qnderscs. Last fall "ria!! PZ'E a crlmitr!cnt to Cilrist, an4 ;!is life chanced draraticslly. Instead of disrupter ar:! smller, h"ecare r tcrr" 1naf4sr,scorirr tbz rrinrinfl rup in the tenth incinc of the firrrl tournament nape, and t:in?i~~t9e crlvet$'l Zerry Ilustlr! :lk;ar.'. 6/9/87 Pane 3 Gaptist Press After the final game, the smil in? but weary player praised God for the change in his life. "I actually became a Chrfstian about five years aco," he said, "but nithin a few months I was rebelling apainst God in everything."

Eut when tryins to go a~ainstGob proved as fruitless as runninn the hzses in the wrong direction, Brian rededicated his 1ife to Chri st. "After that, everythin? really chanred for the better," he said. Influencfnq Erfan's turnaround was the battle a teamate !*!as !-!a!aftinq, a battle much biwer than the drive for the national championship. Pitc3er Jeff Fiechtner !$!as fiphtin? juii to stay a1 ive after the disc0ver.y of cancer durin!. a routine physical examination in the fall of 1379.

The E-2, 215-pounder, ~hopot credit for Grand Canyoq's fourth :tin in the tournament, was forced to skip last season and return home for medical treatment. After three operations and the loss of rll) pounds, Fiechtner Is v~inninpboth off the fiell,' as *.fell as on, thanks to continui nq chemotherapy. tlis treatments--durin? which chemicals are flushed throunh his system 24-hours a day for three or four days at a tire every three .leeks--are scheduled to end in Septerber. He skipped his last scheduled cherotherapy session because "I always feel bad for a fell! days after the treatments and there rras no !May I was goino to he toe sick to pitch in this tournanen t .'I

Last year, while Fiechtner was hack in his hone ir, Farfo, i".C., not a Tame vent by thout his teanunates mentioninc him ty nam ii;!their pre-?am prayer. "Those prayer petitions didn't go unnoticed by by Brian, !vho was a close friend of Fiechtner's," said Brazell, "and the prayers had an effect on others on the team, too." Durinq the blorld Series, Grand Canyon became tbe sentimental favorite. 3ut while the players and coach refusec! to &el 1 on 18st year's charpaye incident, it was often a su5ject in the media. One sports writer went so far as to hlzmorously sil~iccstt!lat baseball park employees, delivering after-pame pizzas and beer to the umpires' locker roo?, were instructed to veer vide while passin: the Antelo~e'sdugout. After the fjnal Same, Anderscr! adnitte+that the plcyers coulCn't put last year com- pletely out of their minds. "Eut last year aras over. bad to look ahead," he safd. Jiv Gerlach the one returning pitcher frc~llast year ant rinaer of the most valuable player award in the tournament, said, "It's been a lono war to brait. Rut it was vlorth it. :.!e dedicated ourselves to vin the aational tl tle. P.pd 1::e did. I 'a ?lad I was still here to have a part in it." After his team \Yon the charcpionship, Erzzell , who I:las inducted into the i.!AIR Pall of Fame in 1?74 and was named f'P.II! Dasehall Coach of t$e Year in 1579, told a reporter rho marveled at his calmness, "I may not look happy on the outside, but it's ?ot to be my kip qest thrill ." One reason for his subdued elation had to be the knos.lled$e cf his im~et?din? retirement. P.t a midnioht steak supper, as tired players an2 fans celebrated n5 tb plenty of mi1 k, Pepsi, and coffee, !?razellls speech was short and to tbe point. tle told his players, "You are chanpions. iJever forget it. br.d never forqet to thank cod fcr 9is hel?." The players performed one othw ritual that nioht, entirely In keepin! th Paptist tradition. Takino advantape of a nearby rote1 swimin? pool. tkey celebrate:! by throp.!iny jubilant players and fans into the water, 6/9/80 Page C. Paptist Press Unification Church President Dialogues at Golden Gate By Yark Srritb tiILL VALLEY, Cat if.(3P)--l.!ose Ourst, nevly-elected president of the U~ification Church of Aneric~, stepped before a cordial but skeptical audience of Southern Eapti st seminary students and faculty memhers to carry out what he feels is the pri~zryneed of his church--clarif5catim of its mission.

Despite his explanations, the audience of more thac 400 at Folden Gate Zaptfst Theo- logical Seminary, listening iztently but quietly, decline! to accegt his contentions.

Durst participated in a lialc~uevith !!illism I. Fendricks, professor of theolo2,y 2nd philosophy of religion at Eclden ?ate, vkere he t~ldabcut the Usificatioii Church, its theoloay and practices, while Kendricks offered comparisons to the theology of Christianity and practices of Southerc Ewtists.

The seminary professor, !&o r~futedOurst's position, asked akcct the Unification Church's viers on the divinity of Christ, the Trinity sn:! the azequzcy of Christ as savior. Curst's reol ies t!ere evasive. "Chrf stianity is failin: to ar'dress the issue cf sccial corru7ticn," Ourst char5ed. "You don't need a messiah if the mrld is mature. '!hen Jesus came to earth, unfortunately, ' people did not accept him and today the world is just as rotten as it bras 2,OCq years aco."

"Our idea of salv~tionis the restcratio~of humanity," he declared. "lie believe that God is wrking through Rev. fioon (Sun Yunc :.form, proclai~~dleader ~f the Unification Church) to bring abo~ttkat restwatioa. !.'e bel5eve that he ccmcs as a centrsl dispen- sational figure, and re feel that at th~vsry laast, h: is a prophet. And if he dces fcl- fill the restoration of humanity, tkn wt v~i11also recognize him as tha messiah."

"Me too believe that JESUSwill come aaain," Purst explained, "but we feel he won't necessarily hava to rsturr, as the sand pprsoon. PC can b:! someone eisc."

Hendricks said Christians vi~wsalvation as a matter of Cod's @raw. HE noted that the Unification Church rce=aniz~ssalvation through works. In responsg, Durst said, "Jesus cans to srcvi?.? tk stimulus for the :!?rfict restor- ation of crsatlon." He not& that p~oplediC not sccc~tJssus and bfcauso of it, "we are nov! having to work to hrinq about that perfectioa. On the matter cf lifs aftw dcath, Curst cxflainc~,"k!e hsvz an cternal snlrit--it lives eternally. Believing in Jesus and trustirtr: in hir;. ~ivc-sus a foucdation for our spiritual life. The human body livcs for a number of yLars and thcn aozs back to earth, but the spirit livzs on."

A confnt that spawned a rumblin~from thc zudiencz f~cus:d on a statfmcnt from tha Unification Church doctria? t?at declares "God is th:: nunber three."

Durst said Jesus is divine and the church is diviqc, and that Jcsus is man and ths church Ss his bride. He sai4 this sipr.ifi?s th~tqcn and women arz ccual , b~~causcGod is himself, masculins and alsc failnine. "God is the nunbkr thrce," h~ said.

The Moonie l2adc-r went a step further, ~ddiqrthat "this is why n~ arh r~einqwomen advance so rapidly today in tcrms of their cquality to mcn." Durst's comnmts that funds sol icitsd by mern5e1-s in pub1 ic placas raise ust enon?h mnsy tc class the church aaonp the poor church;^ of ti??world met skeptical !auqhter. 6/4/P3 Faqe 5 baptist Press .-. Durst countered by saying that hc be1 ieved th; Golden Gata Scminary campus and faci- lities..wurc worth-more than thc assets of thf cntir~Unification Church. Hc also said tkat many ccngregations of other church~sprcbably havc tx0r.i monr-y than thz Unification Churc3.

The presidsnt responded to ths auestion of brainwashino tkchniquzs reportedly usrd by the church to convert memhars, sayla! that th:iy navar happcn.

6,500 Fiakt- Decisions In Koriian Crusades Py Anita Eodlin

SEOUL, Korea (f!P)--Plagued by riots at the bi?innin;, t!ic Korzzn-hc,ricsn major city crusade ha$ attracted ovtirflow crods aqd resulted in mre then 6,5ClrI decisions for tbrist.

Korean Baptists and Southern Brptist missicnariss aorzed th; eva~oelistic campaiqn had raisod the raco~nitionIsvkl ~f Baptists in thSs €.:st 4sisn country.

Ths csntral crus2des in S~culavcryzd nightly sttznd~nccof 2,4W in the 2,000-sezt auditorium rhre serviczr nerc h~ld. Church r~vivslsand visit?tion were to continue throuqh thc middlz of Jun? in Seoul.

Thc 1960 crusada, 2 cuimfnztion of threc ys3rs of plznain?, trci~inqE~G pr.:pzretim by florid^ Baptists, Itoren 3aptists and thc Southarn @?~tist Foreign 3ission Board, hnd problems at thc start. Tbe Kvanaju crus~dc, schadul~dfor M8y 18-21, was cance1ed.aftcr stud~ntsrio tud, protkstinq marti21 law 2nd th~govdrnmant's slc:~~ovc toucrb democratic cl

Eut farther south in Pusen, thc ccntrel erus?.de end church revivcls went on 2s planned, strsngthsn.1.d by th~~Addjtion of Florida Pzptists originzlly schtidul;d fcr Kidanrju. Stndiur.: zttsndance avcraq~d5,200 for the four nights in th?t city of 2.5 millior: paoplu. One of the first Koreans to mzk2 :. &cision for Christ bcc:us& of the crusad;: v~ss Yun Kwu JE, the trzval agknt ir! charw of tr~..;\sport~,ticn~,ccmd=tions in Kora fcr the: Florida Bzptists.

Mission~rizsand Florid?. Czptists had witncss:d to ti^ durina thc prag~r~tionp=riods and hz rcctqtkd Christ uhild @ti th.: tr~.lnto Pusm fur tbt first m~tlnnof tha crusadt.

During his first witnsssin~visit in Puscc, :like ven Kant.1, E musician frorl Cincn Baptist Church, Ft. Wal ton Bzzcb, FIE., 1;-d J Kcrz~ndoctcr to Christ. Ths doctor snid nn onc had Ever axplaincd it to him that way b~forc. :ilk:-+ szid, "Ishnred my tcstisony e!i th him and pavz hlm a trect ?nd hc pr3yc-d tk2 Fcccptanc;; prqysr (printc-d in the back of thc trect) b~forcI e~uldsugqast it." The doctor, educ:tcd at Corncll tnd UCLP,, :ltt;n$er! ?lt thc church meting and zrrivzd at th~church Yednrsday morning with 2 1 ist of doctor frit.x!s for th~Florida E~ptisttm to visit. Hissionsrios in Pusan say ha will bs instrumintal i;~openin:? dccrs fcr v!i tncssin? amon? thc mcdicel comunity.

tlik6'~tecm raceivzd 6@ proso~ctsto visit in fiv: &ys. Eot c?v:rycnc: was homz, but term mrnbers tzw 31 pcqpl; pray tc xcc-pt Christ into thcir 1 ivcs. Durinp onc of his visitinc spisslans qikd's intzr~rfti:r l2d thc tam to a pclicc station ~ndintroduce4 tliki: to the man ir charac;. "He iocksd thdoaors, pulled tbd shadas and qct everyon2 tocether," #ik2 szid. "I witnessed to th~mand fivt seir! they accc~tcdChrist." Another tfme as th~tan was aal king down thz strs:t, tht izterpreter bzcan yslling Yi kc sp.id. "Ha went in onc of thh shops* cat z b?nchS told mt: to stant on it and s~id, 'Przch. ' For 45 mjnutes, I prcnchcd. The crowds gnthored so that w~ tcqan interfering with trsffic. Th: police czmr: thcn, but before ths trod dispers~dsevon nisn acccptd Christ." 6/ 9/83 Pap2 6 Paptist Prsss In Tas jon, ~hkr~govfrnmhnt officials cancsl fd the central crusade for fc~rundzsi r- cblus would tcko advantaga of the crowd, mrs thrln 2,000 mad? decislons durinq visit?tion and church revival s, Ibre than 2,300 attended thz central crusadk m~etlngse?ch night in the 1,800-scat auditorium in Taegu. r.ior2 than 300 made professions of fzith durina th;: c~ntrzlcrusrtd~ 5n that city of ono and half million and approximstc-ly 800 rnfidk dtcisions durin? thi revivals znd visitation.

Hrs. Bowdun, stnff writer for the S0C Foreipn f'lission Board, is on ossiqnment in East and Southaast Asia,

(BPI Photos moiled to stata Baptist newspapers by thc Richmond bureau of Gaptist Przss.

Sorruls Flown To Baylor Baptist Press For Further Treatment 6/9/PT)

RICHr?lQb!D, Va. (BP)--Robert !.I. Sorrels, Southcrn Eawtist ?!ission Service Corps volunker paralyzed following zn automobi~~sccident in F!io?ria in mid-April, was flown to th~United States June 6. .. K,? entered Baylor Univcrsi ty iiedical Center, Dallas, T::xns, !?here he wzs to underqo di3gnostic tests and X-rays bsainning Junk 9, scid John R. Yills, who visitcd Sorrols two ddays eftdr his arrival in Di..llas. Wills, sscretery for blest Africa of th~Southern Bnptist Forr.icn i:iission Poard, said Sorrels faced pbssiblc surgery to ramovz bone chip frorr: thk v~rtcbrzwkich ms broken fn th~head-on coll ision. Sorrsls is able to,us:: his left em and to move his rinht ~rmanr! shouldzr and is optimistic and cheerful, szid Hills.

"I'llget good care here, hut Ican't be anyplace where people will do more for me than Eku," Sorrels told Piills, also expressing appreciation to the people who prayed for him and w6te expressing their concern.

The Southern Baptist Foreign rlission Board arranged for ?,ebbie iioss, a volunteer nurse from Birmingham, Ala., and Marie Johnston, a registered nurse and missionary living in Kafanchan, to help provide round-the-clock nursinq care for Sorrels at Eaptist Hospital, Eku, after the accident which claimed the lives of :!iqerian Baptist leader Titus Oluwafmi and Southern Baptist missionary !'illian 9. Bender. The staff of the Eku hospital, however, carried the main responsibility for his care, said ilills. The three doctors attending his counsul ted with another at University of Benin, Senin City, Higeria. Doctor Oavid i!er.man of I1inston-Salem, f'.C., who had just completed a term as a medical receptor at the Eku hospital, accompanied Sorrels to Paylor.

Sorrels had taken a one-year leave of absence from his work with the !!ashington Savings and Loan firm to serve in Yiqeria.

Eapti st Leaders !Ion' t Paptist Press Fire John Walsh By Stan Hastey 6/9/80 ST. LOIJIS (BP)--John T. !:lalsh, one of 10 Americans who attended recent conference in Tehran looking into U.S. policy in Iran durin~the reion of the deposed shah, did so as a prfvate citfzen and *ill not lose his job, officials of the Hone Aission Board of the .- Southern Baptist Convention said here. 6,' 3/80 . -- ?age 7 Baptist Press thlsh, mtpl~yetlby the baptist Convrfition+of New York and supported financially by the Hsme llisrion Eloard, ksnt ta Ifan in what fdr hlnl "was an act of mihistry," said the board's executive dirwtor-treasurer !.!iliiam G, Tanner of Atlanta. !'a1 sh is Baptist campus minister - at Princeton Unlversfty. Tannw, who rcprted he does not knov! l.!al$S personally, said he cannot judge "the right- ness or mgnassn of the !iissotlri native's decision to wake the trf p in defiance of President Carter's. ~L!I on U.S. citizens' travel lng to iran. 'Given the constraints that ha had as on individual ," Tanner said, ''I be1 leve he had to do whit he felt ms right."

1 TannerE$ vle~was backed by that of Jack P . Lowndes, executive secretary of the '1% York coniOontfvn~ntf one of Wa1s;~'s ~upet*vi~ors,'!Jhethef It was right or wrong, I don't know," Lowndes said, bddfng, "I1in not God." Both Lotmdas &nd Cerzlrl Paln;er, director of the Home r+lission Eoard's missions section, said :hey would hava adv:scd Yalsh n3t to go to Tehrar. if he had asked them but refused to q::o;tion his rtght Lt do so. tcwndes $aid that the o~lyr*equirament he makes before trips are made by personnel undw his suptrvi:fan is that he be notified, an actdo? which !.falsh took before learina ths country,

Loand?s sont'imed that I-ialsh's erpenses were not paid by the Home Wission Roard and that h2 took parson31 leave the t; r~tt~kethe trip.

fains;, who strpervSses Rare t3an 2,SOO home missionaries from the Home Mfssfon bard1$ At1 ants hrsadqusrkrs, said th;t the agency's concern 7s that v.falsh's action "not be seen as ~q offic!~1 Hme Nission bard vis52." Tanner aad Lc:.r?.$cs m.$hlsizart that !fa1 sh and fellov Southern Baptist Charles Yimball, a gradcats .jtu&titifi I;~ZE?Cstud-ifc, at Harvbr*, delivered nail to hostaqes at the Arnerican cni'szssy in Tebron. it was b2iia:ued to be the first mail from relatives to reach the host- ~1r~r.atk!! -);~i'kdk~rican r$;~ud missjot? !n April.

Fh1S.k k::? Ki~b~il*s!@:*e XI oil; seen Americans to visit Tehran last Christmas in a dei~aationheaded tjy .fc~"ri:trSX przsfdcnt JSr;pa R. Allen and sanctioned by U.S. govarment officials. The pear :as ii;z'i';

Tanzsr, v~ho !aid ho bas ha;^ advls~d>:I some 4ndividual Southern faptqsts awered by !..lisC's trlp fxi fi;.s hfa, s;i J t9at base? on his present knowledge of the facts he wuld net f:.flw trlz ad'dcc?. "For. 03ptf~t$,Qraedcm of tk,c indivl dual ca~scicsceundar bd is a precious concept ," Tannzr declared.

dn3t3er rrascn Por tt&r refuscl TO take action against Valsh, the three butkern e:ptis4L officfals s~!d,is *,be uxertdinty otter thmwfnse of high US. offfcfals to the ha?lcan delagati~n'sprryence at t?e conference. Secretar$ of S"1.i;~ Eizu~dS. iillskia said on iJEC talevision's program "Meet the Press" th~twwhiirthe! Justice Oeparrnent nil i I rok int~the questfon af whether the delenates viclatd arty lawsw the trzvel ban was 1r11posed to protect American citizens fm possible ,:iclmc@fn Iran, mt out of ;1 desire ta restrict freedom of movement. !?alsh rgturned Sundfy from tho fosr-day Tehrcr, ~ofiferanceand was expected to airive in Et, Louis late Finday for a visit rtith relathes who live here. Paae 8 Baptist Press

Focus on Churches by Jim Lowry ST. LOUIS (BP)--nore than 300 persons learned at ths annual Southern Baptist Conference for Directors of Missions hwe how to szrve local churches and associations as better and . . more efficient mission leaders, administrators and counselors. Denominational leaders, a North Carol lna allergist, and missions directors pr0vid.d the direction at Fee Fze Baptist Church. The two-day meeting was one of seven which preceded the thrze-day annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at Cervantes Convention Csnter.

Foreign :4ission Board presidant R. Keith Parks of Richmond, Va., delivered the closing address, challenging missions directors to pray for at toast one missionary preachzr cou~le from each association by 1985. "If that happens, it will just about be a 10-fold increase in the number of preachers going into missions," Parks said. "If we send one couple from each association, then we will also have to support them financially, by increasinq qiving throuah the Cooperative Program," the denomination's unrfied givjng plan, Parks added.

IJ. Randal 1 Lo1 ley, pr~sidentof Southeastern Raptist Th~olopicalSeminary, !.lake Forest, H.C., led three Bible study s~ssions,focusing on Joshua, Habakkuk and I Peter. "Per square inch, Southern Ba~tistsowe more ant receive more fros directors of missions than any other group in the denomination," Lolley said. - > .. The directors of missions and their vfves sclected from several special interest conferences. For wives, "l.lhero Do I 60 To Scream" identified common problems and frustrations and offered possi51e soli.~tions. In addition to their role as missionary leader, many of the directors expressed hopa that they could affectively serve as "pastor to the pastor," particularly in times of special need, either personally or professional 1.v. One of the sessions dealt with beinq pastor to pastors, while others rzlated to administration in the association, workinq with bi-vocational pastors and financial support for the association.

Dr. Claude A. Frazier, an r\shevllle, i!.C., allergist, told about his personal project Of putting Sibles in taxi cabs. Frazier said taxi cabs in Itlanta, Ga., and Bristol City, Tenn., are currently carr.ying Bible portions. Several of the missionaries expressed interest in the project and Sndicated they would consider it in their cities. dev officers elected to lead the conference in 1981 !.#ere Larry Rose, Iqlaco Saptist Association, Texas, president; Cline Borders, Kinas l.iou~tainGssociation, Porth Cam1 ina, president-elect; J.O. Passmore, Current-Gaines ,7ssociation, Arkansas, secretary; !!ayne Eurich, San Oiego Association, California, treasurer; and Harold Blackburn, Baldwfn .\ssociation, Alabama, editor. Edward Gilstrap, ,Atlanta Baptist Association, fieorqia, is the outgoing president. NATIONAL OFFICE 8BC Enacutiv. Commiltw 4.60 Jmrr Robemon Parkwal Naahvllla, Tennegsaa 97211 --ST PRESS (615) 244-235: - W. C. Ralda, Directo~ c-Nem Senrlu of the Southern 8aptl.t ConveNtiMI Robert J, O'arlen. Nwe Edlto, Norman Jamrson. Fsahrm Edlt01

AWNTA Wmlkrr L. Knight, Chitl, 1350 Spdng St.. N.W.. Atlantr, Oa. 3030% frlephonm (~MJ8734041 oAldA8 , Chief, lap ,9aptlsl Building. Dallas. Trx. 75201, Tolephone (214) 741-1098 MEMPHIS Roy JInnlngr Chier lW3 Poolar Av*. Msmohis. Ttnn. 38104. teloohone 1001) 272-2461 NASHVILLE.-. . -. .. .-- - IBadtiJt sinday ~ehoolBoard) lloyd 7. Householder, Chief, I27 Ninth Ave.. N., Nashville, Tenn. 37134. telephone (615) 251.2788 RICHMOND kobrrl 1. ~tanl;~,Chiel, 3- Monument Avo.. Richmond, Va. 23230. ftiephont (804) 3539151 WASHINGTON Stan 1. Hertty. Chief. 200 Marylmnd Awe.. N.E., Washington. D.C. 20002. Tortphone 1202) 544-4226 June 8, 1980 80-91 State Transportation Afd Survives High Court Test

9y Stan Hastey WASHINGTON (BP)--Over the objection of only one justice, the 1J.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Pennsylvania law providing free transportation to nonpublic school children.

By dismissing an appeal by the !,lcKeesport Area School Qistrict against the eisht-year- old law, the high court let stand tSe principle that providing transportation to and from parochial schools does not violate the no establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment. The suit against the Pennsylvania Oepertment of Education by local McKeesport school officials marked the second unsuccessful challenge to the statute, the other coming just a year ago. The Pennsylvania lael also provfcles for transporting parochial pupils on field trips, a practice declared unconstitutional in a 1977 Ohio case. That provision was not struck down in the Pennsylvania ease, the court explained, because it had not been challenged in 1wer court proceedings.

Two justices, Harry A. Blackmun and l!illia!n J. Prennan Jr., while concurring it! the action not to hear the case, stated nevertheless that they found the field trip provision unacceptable based on the earlier action. One justice, John Paul Stevens, who in recent cases has taken an increasinaly hard line against any form of state a4d to nsnpublic schools, indicated that he voted to schedule the case for oral arqument and a full decision.

Ernest Hosley iJamed Baptist Press 1llinois Chief Executive 6/8/80 SPSINGFIELD, I11. (3P)--Ernest E. Yiosley has be~nelzcted executive director of the 111 inois Baptist State Association, effactive Auaust 1. Moslzy, pastoral section supervisor in the Baptist Sunday School Board's cburch admini - stration departwent, has bezn at the 5oard for 13 ycars.

In Illinois, he will succead James Smith, who resignzr! in Auqust, 1979 to becomo rxecutive director of the Southern saptist Brothzrhood Comni ssion.

Mosley. 52, a native of Arkansas, qraduatecl from Ouacbi ta Baptist itniversity, 4rkadel- phis, Ark., and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Yorth, Texas. Ha began serving churches as pastor while still in high school and has been pastor of churches in Hawaii, Arkansas and Louisiana.

He is the author cf six books, includin? "Priorities in flinistry,' which details his phi1 osophy about how persons in church-re1 ated vocations should order their prioriti*$, -more- 6/2/92 Pagc 2 - Baptist Press

iviosley's $35,780 salary includes housina, plus normal health benefits and a 10 percant retir~mentannuity. The I11 inois Baptist State Association has 966 churches and missions with mzmbership of 219,000. -31)- (9P) photo mailed to state Baptist newspapers by the Illinois Baptist.

Yest Virginia, North Carolina Baptist Press Ba7tists Enter Partnership 6/8/80

ST. ALBANS, b!, Va. (BP)--Ths Baptist conventions of Yest Virginia and North Carolina have awed to enter into ~artnerskipto help West Virginia doublz its number of churches by 1965,

Mest Virginia executive szcrztary- treasurer Tomy Hal s~l1requasted tha he1!, of ?!orth Carolina Baptists to bsgin 130 Southern Baptist conqresations in West Viroinia by 1995. The North Carolina General Board aarazd to hzlp at its May meting.

Cetails of tha partnership arrangewnt are not yst workad out. Spsclfic projscts and Involvement of Yorth Carolina Baptists in Vest Virginiz will be largely deterrninc.! by the needs and goals ~xpressadby West Virginia churchzs and associations.

Texas Baptist Offices Baptist Przss !!ill Hova in 1981 6/8/00

DALLAS, Texas (a?)--The executiva board officas of thc Raptist Ganeral Convention of Texas wit 1 move across thz street from their downtuwn Oallas location about Jan. 1, 1381, to th5 building which houses the Southern Baptist Convention's Annuity Board.

The move to 511 N. Akard St. from 703 W. Eway St. will increase thz amount of office spacc for the executive board from 30,090 souarE feet to 35,214 square feet. It ~i11leaso ths space for $8 par square faot annually. The agreement also includes the option of allowing the exzcutive board to lease 10,400 square feet of additional space after Dec, 31, 1983. Thc lease agreevant is for five years, with four, five-year lease options. Also included in the agreement is a five-year option that would allo!~the gaptist Gsneral Convention of Texas to purchass an intsrest in thz An~uity Board building. Th+: Annuity Board hcs given the Baptist convention the optfcn of purchasing for $675,000--th~ appraised value--a pi~ceof land in downtown Dallas on tha corner of North Ak~rdand Wew San Jacinto streets.

fh~move will allow tha executiv; bozrd to s21l the present Baptist buildin? on the corner of North Ervay and San Jacinto.

F3mi 1y Fscss Touch Sleddinq, Cothcn Says By Roy Jcnninys

Sf. LOUIS (6P)--The Arncriczn family can ~xp~cttouqS sleddinc! if the latast forecasts zbou* divorce hold trw, C-r+?dyCothcn, przsldsnt of tk:? Soutbrrn hptist Sunday School Board, 3ashvi 1 le, told re1iqious r~szarchcrshcrc.

Ths latsst trends identified by Yankelovich Yoni tor, a national resecrch s~rvicc, indicatt on2 out of zvzry two mrlrrlages in 1580 rail1 end in divorcs, Cothen said. Rescarch also shot.vs the pro5lam of thc ahsentee father, lonq pravalcnt in blcck falili;~, is becoeirg .z grolvinq probl,?m for white f~nrilizs,too, the Southern %?.;ltfst ex;cuti\if s~id. Cothen !qas tha prfficipal spe~kerat the third annual meeting of thtl Southern Baptist ksaarch Felloaship, an oraanizstion of Southern Baptists with research responsibilitiss. Th2 rcs=arch f~llowshipwas one of almost n doz~nSouthern Bnotist groups mdeting in advencz of ths Southern Bzptist Conv~ntion. June 10-12 at tha Cervmtes Convmtion Centar.

In 3 business s~ssion,J. Y. Thomas, church extension consul trnt for thc- Baptist General Convention of Texas, D:llzs, was elacted president of thz f.llo14iship for a two-y?ar tam, He succ~hdedLeonard Irwin, a section director of the Homd 3Sssior1 Ooerd, Atlanta. Othzr n1;j.l officzrs include iiartir! Bradlsy of ?:nshvi 1tc, nroqrilrn vicc ~r~rsidant,Don Rabry of illexandria, La., membership vics presid~nt,J. C. 6rndl;:y of Atlanta, news hullii- tin editor, Chustar Davidson of Houston, secretary-traasurer, and 'ti? 14s eennett of Louis- ville, Ky., awards chairman. In a sp~ci~lceremony, Albert :icC1~1lzn, ratirino associate executive director for tha SDC Exacutivs Comittce, Nashvilll, recalved an honorary life menhership in the fzl lowship. In res2erch prasentatfons lending up to Cothen's addrsss, rdsaarch sp~cialistsfrom the Sundsy School aoard and Haa ilission Board described projects just com~l~ted,in prog- ress, and on th? drauing board. Cothen, who heads Southzrn Rcptists' largest educ3tion and pub1 ishinq aqmcy, id~nti- fled a series of implications for Southern Baptists from thtl trends in Amrricm sociaty, the research showed. "Tha r~demptivework of Cod is more nc-edful now than cwr before," Cothen safd. "Society cannot be patched up by sociolog~caltinkering. Something must happen to the Sndividual .

"iid need an awarznass of the issues to be able to ministar and vitness," thz Baptist executive addsd. "I just want us to take a hard look at thc world !qe live in." Cothen said he plans to share the latest trends 'in !herican sociaty with tha 300 editors and consultants on his staff and to publish portions of them.

Yankelovich ;?onitor w3s described as 2 secular study of a hiqhly socular society, including moral ~ndethical changes and ways .heric~nsperceive their 1 ives. Customers of th~national r~searchservice, in addition to thz Sunday School Bozrd, include 100 major corporations who usa thi? research data to dzvaloo products and marketing eampri pns , Cothen said. -30-

Dallas Baptists Killed, Injured B~ptistPress In Arkansas Bus Accident 6/8/83 DALLAS (BP)--Two Dallas Baptist churches mourned their daad or prayed for their in- jured members after a tour bus for senior citizens skidded off a twisting mountain road in Arkansas in the early morning of June 5, killing 20 and injurinp 14, H~mptonPlace Church in Dallas suffered the most casualties in the accident. Ten of its members were on the tour and three of them were killed, Ycda Bull, 62; Eva Crosby, 75; and Gladys Gray, 50. Another woman, Il~rjorieStinson, 52, a cousin of Gladys Gray, was also killed. Injured Hampton Place members and their conditions are Etva Johnson, 67; serious; Nedra Highfield, 57, fa1r; Ruth Garrett, 60, good; Ima Smith, 60, sarious; and her husband James R. Smith, 61, fair. Elmer Durr, a coworker with Ruth Garrett, .was also killed. 6/8/80 Page 4 Baptist Press One member of First Baptist Church, Irving, Texas, was injured. Ilrs. D. S. Covey, 76, was listad in serious condition with a brokzn back and leg. b!any of the 10 Hampton Placs members involved in the crash, thz worst in Arkansas history, were members of the church's sincle adult class. They had a goincl awzy party fn I ths home of single adult ministry director Jessie Humphrizs hefor? th~trip, which hsd been planned to last thr~adeys. 1 Hsmpton Place P~storRobart J~nkinsdrove to Arkansas to ministar to the injured and ralativas of tha victims. "They and their families have tha prayer support of the entire congregation," Jenkins said. "They know about Heaven and life aftar death and hope in tbr; Lord. They are ell Christians." The bus bras not chartered by any church, but was a ~rivat~tour, though most of the pzssengers were church members. Besidas the Baptists, at lsast six of the dead wsre mem- bers of First Christian Church In Irvfne.

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June 11 , 19b0 80-96 Baptists Fqust Cling To the book, Rogers Says First of two mail inns today by Cii ke Davis

ST. LOUIS (#)--Can Southern Eaptists reach every person on earth with the gospel in just 20 years? Adrian Rogers, president of the Southern Saptist Convention, posed that questfon to messengers et the Southern Baptist Convention here, then emphatically answered it. ' "Unequivocably, unnistakeakly, definitely, yes ," he declared, but warned that God will require several things of Southern Captists if the oospel is to be shared with every person cn earth by the year 2000. Zi;jei.z, pastor of the 10,500-member Be1 lvue Eaptist Church, i.remphis, Tenn., said Southern deptjsts must first allow themselves to be God's "claan and holy" tools. The "burning question" for Southern Saptists, he said, is not "Shall the kinpdom be F;r;sich?d ax3ng all nations? Jesus said it shall be done. That's not up for debate.

"Tha burnins question for us as Southern Saptists is will !tie be the tool that a ri~hteous and holy Qd can use."

Another requirement for the fullfillirent of Eold iiission Thrust, the denomination's effort ta share the gos:el, nust be a dependenc2 on the "ord of God, Rogers added. . The Sac president drew louG applause ?:hen he said, "Southern Faptfsts must Ever he a beople of the Book. Ee have no need of a creed because we have tht: 7ible. :Jho can improve on thst? B?rt withcut an infallible word from God we have nothing but a holy hunch."

Rogers went on to affirn his belief in the inerrancy of the Sible. I'e agreed k!ith a statemsnt by fomer Southern Baptist Convention Presi6ent l lerschef Robbs of Pklahma City kho said, "Soi~therndaptists may differ as to God's method of inspiration of those who wrote the ZiLle, but all are in agreement as to the product. It is the divinely inspired word of Gbi."

S~uthernaaptists must continua as "people of the Zook," in order to accomplish ;old i.iisslon Thrust, Rogers said.

":le will believe it, claim it, love it, preach it and pour it forth as white-hot lava. An3 when we do, the doors .!ill sving open."

>old iiiissfon Thrust wn't succeed unless Southern 5aptists remain dedicated to Jesus, Ro~erstold the messengers.

":!e should not primarily preach theology," he said, "Ye should use theoloey to preach Jesus. 6/11/80 Pays 2 3apti st Press "Ye cannot turn a deaf ear to the staggering needs in the area of hunger and massive starvation," Rogers added, "l+!e must respond with wi sdo;~, compassion and sacrifice. But at the same time we must prsach Jesus. "What an eternal tragedy for millions who are well-fed to die inftheir sins and rise in the judgment to meet a God they do not know," Rogers continued, "Jesus is the only answer to the world's real hunger. He is the bread of life. He is r,ot a good way to heaven or even the best. He is the only nay." Accomplishing 3old ;iip'icil Thimustrequires also that Southern aaptists be "saturated with the love of God," Rogers said. "Don't talk to me about your orthcdsxy or denominational loyalty if your heart is headquarters for hate. Whatever problems Southern Baptists have will be settled in a con- text of love or they will not be sattled. The Bible is a good sword, but a poor club." Rogers called on Southern Bcptists to have a Christian spirit toward each other, "i'here is never an excuse for an unchristian spirit," he said. "Hold to your con- victions but be loving." Rogers pointed out several other obstacles Southern Baptists will face in what he called a "Decade of De:isionM that for Southern B~ptistsw:ll hold "Doors of Destiny." Amng them were cul tisx, mil itant par:an!sm, hmanisn, and 1iberal ism, material ism, communism, and moral ~ollution. ":lost Ainsricans worship at a shrine whose God is ccld, whose creed is greed and whose chief end is pleasure," Zogors sajd, decrying aaterialism. "Llhile colnmunists oppase thr Lord, cults deny the Lord, liberals betray the Lo:d, many Americans sinply ignore him." In the face of those obstscl-cs, though, and in 1:fht of the things God will require of Southern Baptists, Rogers dzclarcd thct Bold i4ission Thrust will succeed, "Yet when God moves, these adversaries wfll bs like s crate of eggs in the face of a red hot cannon ball. It is possible that every perscn cn the globe can be given an opportunity to respond to the Tasp?: by the yaai- 29011. Bari8iers of language, law, culture, custom, sin and indifference will be broken dcwn as God opens doors."

IXS Grants Extension Baptist Press On Hissionary Income Tax 611 1/89 ST. LWIS (BP)--Interns1 Revenue Cccmissioner Jerome Kurtz has granted a four-month extension for the filing and pay!ilg of eore than $JJ0,1]00 in 1979 federal income taxes for Southern Baptist foreign mission~ries. Sidney C. Rebet*, vice president for management services of the Southern Baptist Foreign irlission Board, sa;d hare that he had rece.ived word from Yashington, 0. C., of the extension. The extension had bezn sought to give timc fci- Congress to act upon House Resolution 1319, the bfll which would restore tkc $20,000 exemgtion on income earned by qualified cin-,.loyees of public charities and re1 igious organf zations 1iving overseas. The bill does not cover missionaries and other such workers living in the more devalo?erl countries, and Rebeis said inco~etaxes already have be23 filed for missionaries who live in 11 such countries. 8ut these regresent oniy a smll part of the estimated :' ' million a year which the Foreign i.iission Board nil1 have to pay for its 3,000 missionaries unless tax relizi Ss granted. 6/11/80 Page 3 Baptist Press The current law, the Foreign Earned Income Act of 1978, had eliminated the $20,090 exclusion for all countries,

HR1319 has been approved by the Senate Finance Comnittee, but still must be broug:lt to the U.S. Senate for approval. Its Senate sponsor, Sen. Russell Long of Louisiana, has delayed bringing the bill up for a vote because of fears that other tax-cutting amend- ments would be tacked onto it that might result in a veto by President Carter.

Rogers Rules $lcAteer Baptist Press Resolution Out of Order 611 1/80 ST. LOUIS (BP)--A potentially divisive resolution Introduced to Southern Baptist Convention messengers here :':3. ruled out of order by SBC President Adrian Rogers. Rogers said that Resolution #I, introduced earlier in the day by Ed :lcAteer, ~lemphis, Tenn., was disallowed because FArlcAteer is not a messenger to the denomination's 123rd annual meeting at Cervantes Convention Center this week. Rogers said iicAteer, one of his members at Bellevue Baptist Church, ikqphis, is not registered as a messenger and is thereby Ineligible either to vote or introduce matters of business. The resolution, which voiced concern over a number of volatile political issues, asked the convention to go on record supporting the election of "men and women who subscribe to and will govern by moral principles based on biblical authority." l-IcAteer, a political activist and national field director of the nation's largest net%! right political organization, Conservative Caucus, has over the past year been organizing ministers across the nation to become involved in conservative politics. Several hundred have thus far been en1 i sted in HcAteer 's own organi zatlon, Re1 igious Roundtable. In other action, a motion naming program personnel for next year's convention in Los Angeles ias unanimously adopted by messengers. James L. lionroe, pastor of First Baptist Church, Fort Yalton Beach, Fla., was selected to deliver the 1981 convention sermon. Others selected and the roles they will fill in Los Angeles include !Jilliam Cumbee of Alexandria, Va., a1 ternate to del iver the 1931 sermon, and !li 11 iam J. Reynolds of Fort Worth, director of music.

Cauthens' Return to China daptist Press 6/11 /a0 Unforgettable Encounter by Iiartha Skelton RICH4OWD, Ya. (3P)--Returning after 31 years to the country of her birth and their joint mission service was for Baker J. and Eloise Cauthen a vivid, unforgettable encounter with both past and present. Cauthen, former executive director of the Southern Baptist Foreign !4i ssion qoard, and his wife Eloise don't need snapshots, tourist brochures, and mementos to recall their recent Journey to the land where firs. Cauthrr, was born and where they both served as missionaries. The Cauthens celebratad their 46th wedding anniversary in Kweilin, their home for several years. They saw both Peking, where they. had lived during language study in the 19305, and the Great Wall of China north of Peking. Other stops in China were Canton and C hang s ha. 611 1/80 Page 4 Baptist Press They worshiped

"Thz Chins. we knew (1939-49) was a :and in qreat sorrow and tribulation. dow we see peopie at ::~rk,inflation halted. Taiwan has also had a period of peace and stability and a stror,~eccnomiz resurgeece, " Cauthen noted. A: 1 wzas of 1ife--educat-ion, wlplo,vnient, agriculture, manufacturing, business--are operated by government in the People's Republ ic. "?Ie are grateful for every advantage that comes to e people w:~ichmakes life a little less grinding. At the same time,we keep iil mind that they pay the price of persona1 liberties," Cauthen said. He ccmpared the situation ts a horse on a long rope staked out to graze--free within definit. iimits. Through public worship in Peking and Canton and in visits with Christian friends, the Cauthens !*ere able to observe firsthand the unfolding of officially authorized worship within the colintry. !!h?'le they did not visit or see any of the network of unsanctioned house churches, these units of worstlip are "quite extensive," Cauthen stated after talking to others in pr.:ition; to know. The open ch*:rc,:-.PSare a paimtof the Three Self iliovement, a government committee which works as a li~.icr,t~- !.~itl: the Religfous Affairs 3ureau. Pastors are selected aad paid by the governrr.er.t.. I~Ensm c:: thd movment refers to a three-pronged effort to contain and control Pi-otestrot Christizni.ty ir! China--self-government, self-support, and self-propagation. In Canton, iiatthe!:~ Teng is one of four preachers at Tung Shan (East Wountain) Baptist Church. Up to 1.,45!3 pc-rscns havo begn in their services, held jointly by fower Protestants. Both Cauthws rejoiced witl~Tang in his present capacity as a preacher in Canton. Tang was pastor of the Xw?i!in Baptr'st Church while the Cauthens were there as missionaries, ''He Is a ner, in whom I I:atte great, confidence," Caut:!m said. In Kweilin, descendants of Chinese Christians met and talked with the Cauthens and ?,iiss Lovegren. You~gadults are flockins to the open services, according to the Cauthens. The Cauthens enjoyed opportunities to share personal statements of faith and to share Scripture. ''!;re didil't take extra Scriptures because !w anted to be cautious and helpful, not aurtful ," Cauthen cemented. But ha did give a copy of Gogd News for Yodern :tar? to one pastor and asked if it should be wrapoed. The man fe!t safe in carrying the Bible out in the open. At another stop in the trip Cauthen and another tour member, Robert 5. Denny, general secretai-y for the Baptist World AllSance, '.lashington, D. C., shared in a discussion of the Gospel of John on a hctel ..tranda, After a young Chinese man asked if they were Christians, he pulled out his ob,? cnpy of the Gospel. 6/11/80 Page 5 Baptist Press

!dhile western Christians cannot directly support their Chinese brethren with funds or missionaries, thzy are not without important avenues of support. ''He can send our love. Pothing can keep that out," Cauthen said, end "we can walk by faith and trust in God, pray, love our Chinese friends, have confidsnce in them, and wish that ifwe were in their cl~cumstances, we could do as well."

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Bennett Urges 801 d Baptist Press Mission Thrust Support 6/11/80

ST, LOUIS (0P)--Dbclaring that Southern Baptists are corrmitted to an ''almost impossible" task, a leading executive of the 13.4-mil 1ion-member denomf nation ca1led here for increased support of Bold #ission Thrust.

Opening the first afternoon session of the threz-day Southern Baptist Convention at Carvantes Convention Centzr, Harold C. Bennett, executive secr3tary of the SSC Exec:.tive Cormittee, Nashville, urpd more than 13,000 reafstered messenqers to be bold in their colrrnitment to the denomination's aoal of wi tnessing to every person in the world by the year T3C0.

"We have co~nittei:ourselves to a task almost unbelievable," Bennett said of the Eold klission challenge adcpted at the 1975 meeting of the SOC at l!orfolk, Va. Bennett said tha tnly zilsa-rer for this goal is "the fact that our lives will have been touched by Christ and when others see us they will take knowledge of the fact that we haw been with Jesus."

Bennett reminded the messanssrs of the Bold i%lissionThrust aoals targeted for 1982 such as growth in Bible study enrollment, baptisms, number of churches and missions, missionary forces and financial support. Then he reminded them that increased efforts are needed to achieve these goals.

\.!bile rscognizing the loftiness of the #old 3ission ooal s, Bennett sounded an optimfstic note.

"S!hen we love Jesus Christ and are committed tc him and his church, the people of the wofd will kiiow that vre have beel? with Jesus," he said. 611 1/80 Page 6 Bap:ist Press

Smith Mants to Keep SBC Great Baptist Press 611 1/80

ST. LOUIS (8P)--The characteristics which have made the Southern Baptist Convention great will continua to keep it great, newly-elected SRC President Bailey Smith said.

Smith, elacted in a first ballot victory, listed those characteristics as "respect for ' the Bible, love for evangelism and a commitment to missions." In his first meeting with the news media, Smith took his stand on the inerrancy of the Scriptures and said his appointments to key Southern Baptist posts wi11 "lean toward those who believe the Bible is the inerrant word of God."

He defined inerrancy as meaning that in the orfqinal autographs of the Bible there are no errors. Inerrancy, he said. "means that in the original autographs God breathed the words he wanted us to have, " and said those first documents alce "without faults or blemish." "Ibelieve Jonah was a literal person swallowed by a 1 iteral fish, spit out of a literal Sbmach and in a literal mess," he said, adding he can understand "somebody believing the days were longer" than solar days in the creation account. "Ibelieve they were 24-hour days, but can respect those who be1ieve differently." Smith, however, said he could not respect those who say Jonah was a parable rather than a literal event."

When it was pointed out Christians today do not have the oriqinal autographs of the Bible, Smith said: "Ibe1 ieve we have what God wants us to have. If God can give it Per- fectly, he can keep it perfectly."

When asked which translation is perfect, Smith reiterated: . "ISelleve we have exactly what God wants us to have." He noted that "every denomination which has gone liberal has gone down, but that won't happen to Southern Baptists because we are people of the Book," Smith sald he sees no need for reform in the SBC, because the "great majority of Southern Baptists believe in the inerrant word of God. The liberals we have are few compared to the great majority of our people." Of those who disagree, Smith said: "We ought not have anybody who disagrees with the Baptist Faith and Message statement. I believe anyone who doesn't believe in the inerrancy of the word ought to question themselves." He also noted he believes the Baptist Faith and t,?essag: statement is adequate: "It might need to be enforced more, but it is clear enough," he said. He added he is "not big on witchunts," and that he wants his administration "to be heal ing ." The new .president said af his plan for unifyina the denomination: "I'd say that we need to preach the Bible as the forceful, inerrant word of God." Smith, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, also said: "Iwas made a better Christian and cartainly a better preacher by attending the seminary.'' He said he is not part of any major effort to take control of the denomination, nor does he know of any 10-year plan to make the convention more conservative. He said he has . never had pol itleal meetings about control of the convention, althoueh he says he is a friend of Paige Patterson, identified as leader of a group s~idto be seeking control af the SBC for inerrancy supporters. 611 1/80 Page 7 Baptist Press

"Ihave friends in every area. Some seminary professors told me they voted for me. I don't know where the votes came from. Iam not going to be president of any group. I am president of the Southern BaptSst Convention."

Messenger Oisagrees With Baptist Press Removal of Millikin 6/11/80

ST. LOUIS (BP)--An unflicked s~itchheaded off a mild controversy on the report of a Committee on Committees at the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Cervantes Convention Center.

Messenger Calvin Capps of Southside Baptist Church, Greensboro, S.C., who was rfcognized after a vote was taken on the report, said he had tried to be reconnizcd before the vote but a microphone switch was not turned on and he couldn't get S3C President Adrian Rogers' attention. Capps objected to the removal of Jimmy A. ttlillikin of iaarion, Ark., from the list of recomnendations to next year's Committee on Poards. His motion to reinstate &;illikin wts ruled out of order by Fioners who sai:! he thought it would be a mistake to bring up the matter after a vote had already been taken on the committee's revised report.

Milli kin, a professor of New Testament t:leology at ?iid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, a conservative Eaptlst school in f.lemphis, Ttnn., which Rogers1 Sellevue Baptist Church helps support, had been 1 isted in the committee's printed report as the corrmi ttee's nominee for chairman of the Committee on Boards. That committee selects slates of trustees fcr Southern Raptist agencf es subject to approval by S9C messengers. Jerry Glisson! a r'lemphis pastor and chairman of the Committee on Corrmittees, told messengers Willikin had been removed from consideration because of what his corrmittee understood as a long standing tradition that no seminary professors sbould be named to the comni ttee on boards.

Questioned after the ruling by Roaers, Capps said he disaareed with the tradition. "Ithink anybody ought to be eligible (to serve) ," he said, "This seems 1 ike an unusual procedure to me."

Capps said he had heard the night before that 'lillikin was coing to be:-~emoved. Ry Sayina that i4illikin was ineligible because of his affiliation with 'lid-America Seminary, Capps said, "They are saying Mid-America is a Southern Baptist Seminary. They've never rccogni zed them before. " Mid-America, whlch has a student body of about 300, is a private school not supported by SBC Cooperative Program funds. GI isson said the matter of replacing ;,!illikin came up at a special called meeting of the Committee on Committees to inform its members that it not carry through %itb its plans to nominate a five-person committee to study state Baptist papers.

Glisson said Harold Bennett, executive secretary of the Southern Oa?ti st Executive Committee, had informed him that the committee should not recommend the state papers cordttse.

The present comittee named last year will continue until Cr. Pennett and the Executive Committee can study the matter and bring a recommendation, the comittee c!!airman explained.

During the called meeting, one of the members of the Committee on Cmittees raised the question of whether the committee was supposed to reconimend a chairman for the Committee on Boards Glisson recounted. The committee decided it did not have such a responsibility, even though Flillfkinls name had already been listed as chairman. Asked whether the comittee felt that recommendinc Hi11 ikir vould create controversy because of Hillikin's relationship with the conservative seminary, Glisson said, "I!@don't want to Go anything that breaks the hamon. !.!e want to stay with the constitution and what it says we're supposed to do." I Glisson said he had received no instructions from Rogers about the theological stance of persons thcy verse to nominate for the Comittee on 3oards. He said he did not set any criteria for persons who would be recorrmended except that each state convention has to be represented by t.vo ;;$rsons, one ordainc-d and the other a layman. Recomrfiendations are made by the co~~unitteemembers from each state who ~akeup tl:e Comittce on Comifttees.

Joe Atchinsoil, pastor of South Side Baptist Church in Pine Dluff, Ark., and chalrman of the Arkansas Executive Comnittea, was added to the menbership of the committee on boards, replacing tiill ikin.

In a related Rattzr, the 1979-80 Ccmittee on Boards' report drew a challenpc from John Carty, Purseyville, Va. Carty objected to only i!orth Carolinians ioeing named to Southeastern Gaptist Theo- logical Seminary's local board members. Carty said he had asked lest year that sone Virginians be named to the seminary's local board, c'laining many qua1 ified Yirpinians lived within th2 required 300-rile radius of the seminsry. Carty questioned why they had not chosen a Virginian to the local board,. but made no notion reiating to the mattar. Ile said he would comurica~hb Wfiern % %he "comit'tee on Boards next year. I

SDC Ay;rcm;es $90 Xi 11 ion Gaptist Press Cooperative Pro~ramEuaget Sy Zonita Sparroe! 6/11/30 ST. LOUIS (3~)--Southern Zaptist Convention messengers approved a* $90 million Co- operative Prosram budget after a warning thct meeting such e sum rlould require "bold faith and bold giving." I The budget is the primary source of funding for the denomination's 1980-81 mission enterprise of 18 agencies, It was adopted during the first of several reports from the denomination's Executive Committee.

J. !loward Cobble cf Atlanta, nhc presentee the report, said the budpet can be reached "ifyour church, and mine, will increase its gifts to the Cooperative Program." I The budpet passed ~itl:very 1Fttle discussion. The Foreign riission 3oard, whose trustees had protested that agancy's percentace of the budqet, ha? declined to ask for changes from the convention floor.

However, Robert LaFavre, pastor of Union Hall Saptist Church, Qneonta, !.la., presented a motion to aaiend the budget. he asked that the Executiv~Comittee and its budget com- mittee be required to do sll vithin its po!*ler to rcstor~the Foreian i4ission aoard al- location in the 1981-82 budset ~extyear "to- at least the percentage reflected in the 1979-8G-budget. " S6C President Adrian Rogers ruled LaFavre's afiendment a resolution, but not before George Ea~ley,a messenser from the Palm bale Baptist Church, iiiontoomery had, in effect spoken to it.

Bagley, executive secretary of the Alabama General Convention, said the Foreigil ijission Coard needs to "bite the bullet and make do with its increase." 6/11/80 Page S Baptist Press

"The problem is not with the Executfve Commi tteets budoet recommendations ,'I Bagley declared. "It 1ies with church contributions to the Cooperative Program. When churches increase the percent of their collection plate offerings to the Cooperative Program, there will be more noney." Bag1 ey eal led res~riting the budget on the convention floor "dangerous" and reminded, "This is a challenge budget. The state associations cannot send what we don't have. The money must come from the churches."

bney for the budget will come from the voluntary iifts of 13.4 million members of 35,605 churches affil iated r~ith the SBC.

Cobble told messengers the Executive Conmittee finance sub-cornittee recormendations were not determined by a fixed finance formula or set percentage "but by the committee members seeking the leadership of God's spirit."

He said the sub-cornlittee members had five considerations as they worked on budget recomendations--that the Southern Baptist Convention was responsible for a1 1 of the agencies, that the agencies are hard pressed by inflation, that their reouested needs-- which vary from y.:.:.r to year--added up to an $8 million short fall between projected receipts and requests, that church support to the Coo~erativeProqram is down compared to 20 years ago, and that it would be impossible to please everyone. The $90 million budget will be divided into three sections--an operating budget of $74,500,000, a capital needs figure of $2,500,000 previously voted by the Convention, and a Bold Mission Thrust challenge budget of $13,00C,000.

The first phase of the Bold Plission Thrust challenge budget calls for $79,000 to bring the smaller agencies to an overall seven per cent increase above the 1979-80 level with the rest to be divided among the aqencies heavfest involved in Rold Elission Thrust. These include the Foreign and Home Yission Eoards, the denomination's six seminaries, the Radio and Television Comnission and the Brotherhood Commission,

If the challenge budget is met, the Foreign 2ission Board would receive 43 per cent, the Home Hission Board 32 per cent, the sminaries 15 per cent, the Radio and Television Cornissfon 10 per cent and the Brotherhood Commission 3 per cent.

Harold C. Bennett, executive secretary-treasurer of the Executive Committee, Nashvill e, noted that Southern Baptists have "enthusiastically accepted the challenges and goals of Bo?d ibif ssion Thrust." Baptists were involved in special missions offerings over and above the church's Cooperative Program gifts. They amounted to $36,109,731 for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for Foreign Missions and 613,068,531) for the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for Home Missions. An additional $2,141,937 was received by the Home and Foreign I*lission Boards for Yorld Hunger Relief.

Bailey Smith Elected Gaptist Press To SBC Presidency 611 1/80 ST. LOUIS (BP)--Bailey Smith, 41, pastor of the 14,300-member First Southern Baptist Church of Del City Okla., was elected president cf the 13.4-million-member Southern Saptist 'Convention on the first ballot, swamping five opponents.

Smith, who is also president of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, received 5,739 of the 11,106 votes cast, giving him 51.07 per cent of the total. Frank Pol lard, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jackson, Miss., was second with 2,382 votes and James Pleitz, pastor of Park Cities BaptistqChurch in Dallas, was third with 1,516 votes. 611 1/80 Page 10 Baptist Press Others were Richard Jackson, pastor of North Phoenix Baptist Church, Phoenix, 1,089 votes; Dr. Ha1 8oone of Houston, 2i3 rotes:. snd Jilrcny Stroud, pastor of Third Creek Baptist Church, Knoxvi! le, Tenn., 157 votes. Smith was wmfnatc-d by Jams iit.sper, outping president of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference aqd Smith's predecessor at the Del City church in the suburbs of Cklahoma City.

Smith's chu.rch has led the 35,6tlS churches in the S3C in baptisms five of the last six years. He has 5apt:zed nwre than 1 ,COO persons in each of the iast six years.

The messengers r+el ected unanimously Harold C, Bennett of bashvil le, Tenn., as treasurer; Martin Sradiey of Fashville, Tenn., c:: recording secretary; and Lee Porter of Brcntwood, Tenn. , as regic tratfon secretsry . Brooks H. Wester, chairman of the SGC executive committee, said that through the el action procedures bsing ~bservcdthis par, "Lee Porter has reaffirmed the integrity cf the Southern Bzptist Conventisn."

Pastors ' !.Jives View Baptlst Press 3uppo:tive Xcl es 3y Renee !.Jash 6/11 /80 ST. LOUIS (6P)--Pastc?rsl viv~shave msi1;l opportunities to support their husbands' ministries by pi*ov!dfng counsei in;, guidance and fri~ndrkipto church members, women atxendiilg the 25th annual Pas:orls !:rives' Conference said here.

Although most pastors' wi\~ccarc not professional couns~llors, people look to then for help and advice, said woinen from various parts of the Southern Baptist Convention,

"E@S:g there wh~n7eqple need ;Q:I is one cf the greatest joys of be:ng a pastor's wife." said Doris :!::.r?ll of Kanzas C! ty, 1.h.

"Ycu can't be a?; t;)!ngs to overycne, but yod c3n use thz opportunities and joys of S?ing a pastor's wife to min'ster along pith y.'li' hgsband," seid a group of women from A1 abam . Otaers cited zke opportunities 3f mcet5nr~many different kinds of people and of raising their ch!ldra i;l?Dilg "sm?cf th2 nos: wonderful people in the world,"

Threz Scot:.ern 5-?tist e:nistz:-i vil; h?.~been in the ainistry for a combined total 3: 120 YC31': u%ed tkr! acol;:.?n t~ sup?ov"lk:,ir hu~b311dsir; the sinistry by getting involved in every facet cf thcfr ch~rch.

J.G. Grey, pc.ttor. c:~c,~?'tus5f t!ic Fir.:: Baptist Ci;urth, ifel.! Orleans; Herschel H. Hobbs, pcstor ~:nzrituscf First Bc~tis: Church, i)l:faha;.z City, both former Southern Eaptist Con- vention presidents, i-nd Robcct €. f:hy?o:*, i-et'r~dpresident of Southwestern Baptist Theo- logical Seminary, Fort !!crtil, praised the Jzvotion hnd strength of their own wives as cxampl es for othrs. New conferenc: offism- w%ri togk o??icc? vret-e Ars. James Graves, St. Petersburq, Fla. , pi-esidcnt; Wrs. Don Ki7, Los Anyelei, vice president; firs. Floyd Roebuck, Rome, Ga., secretary-ti-easurer; and Nrs. Jchn '.!ri?kt, Ljtt'le Rcck, Ark., corresponding secretary. Elected to serve :n 1982 csra i,lrs. Jerry !:irkpatrick, Phoenix, Ariz., president; Wrs. Russel1 bicIntire, E!ew Orlz.:ns, vice president, Firs. Clyde Latham, Little Rock, Ark., corresponding secretary; Wrs. J. 1. Ada%, Macnol ia, Ark., secretary-treasurer. NATIONAL OFFICE SBC Executive Comrnlttn 460 Jam- Roborbon Parby Nadvlllo. Tmnnaraaa 37219 BAPTIST PRESS (815) 244-2355 - W. C. Fields. Director D-News Sewice ot the Southern Baptist Convention Robon J. O'Brlsn. NM ~ditor Norman Jamewn. Peatun Editor

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June 12, 1980 80-98 Most Important Work First of two mailings today Is In Church, Olford Said By Jim Lowry ST. LOUIS (BP)--"The most important work on earth tonight is being done in the local church," evangel ist Stephen 01 ford told Southern Baptist Convention messengers in Cervantes Convention Center. "You may not have electric churches and vast auditoriums, but if you have a flock, that is where the action is," the Wheaton, Ill., preacher said. "The most wonderful picture we have of God 5s the church," he continued. "Pastor friends, the church is still his body and the consuming passion of the heart of God." Olford, who was barn in Yest Africa to missionary parents, said he saw mighty warriors flee from the church because God was dealing with them, and a warrior never crys in public. "I long to see that conviction fall on the membership of Southern Baptist churches, calling sin, sin and exposing the corruption of the human heart," he said. "The message that we need to preach is to repent, first in the church and then for the world. I think the reason for much of the misunderstanding of the Holy Spirit is the failure to preach the full Gospel.

"Hy biggest burden for Southern Baptist churches is a return to bib1 ical preaching. It's the word of God that speaks." Olford said that for churches to experience revival, they also need to continue the gathering of the saints. "I find as I travel across this country people listening to the Gospel on radio and television, but there is no substitute for the congregation of the church. "People share, and something happens fn a congregation gathered around a preacher," he continued. "The church is a supernatural organism, and supernatural things should be happen{ ng every sing1 e week. "That calls for daring action," Olford said, "seeing beyond structures and programs of the church to take opportunities to move into the unsaved world. There also must be caring action and sharing action. "Evangel ism is the gift of God to the church and witnessing is a lifestyle unto the Holy Spirft," he suggested. "Glitnessing is the whole work of the whole church for the who1 e age. "I want men to go from the convention comnitted to expository preaching," Olford said. "They need to get back to the Mord and let the Word speak. "The ministry of the .church fn revival is the ministry of daily action," he added. "Our problem wf th biblical inerrancy is the humanistic problem. -more- 6/12/80 Page 2 Baptist Press "And, inerrancy is irrelevant if Jesus Christ isn't Lord. I'm concerned about inerrancy in terms of behavior and 1ifestyl es," Olford said. "The lordship of Christ is the message of the Bible,'' he concluded. Jesus Christ is Lord of all and Lord forever." -30- E.!::::sI2;:r Hold Rousing Baptist Press Session in St. Louis By Rex Hamock 6/12/80 ST. LWIS (BP)--"Amens" rang through the historic Third Baptist: Church here as about 500 participants in the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists heard rousing singing and sermons frm eight of their colleagues. Heeting in conjunction with the 123rd session of the Southern Baptist Convention, the pastors and evangelists were challenged to "stop askinq God to raise up a Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers or James Robison" to help straighten out the world. "He might be wanting to use some of us peons," joked Henry Linginfelter, evangelist from Alcoa, Tenn. The sermons of Linginfelter and three other preachers were punctuated by the songs of a showcase of music evangelists during the four-hour meeting. "God has a dead1 ine for America," Linginfel ter told the conference participants, Hhile the country has "more good preaching, more Sibles, more churches and more gospel tracts" than any country in history, there is still no revival," he lamented. America should stop "putting trust in treaties and alliances" and start "repenting and gettinq right with God ,I1 Linginfel ter advised.

In another sermon, evangelist Ed Stalnecker of Jacksonville, Fla., appealed to his colleegues to "not just talk about Jesus, but be like Jesus." Stalnecker chided those in the SBC who are "shouting about biblical inerrancy" but n3t having the "active love" which the Bible teaches. Turning his good-natured needling to the "1 ack of humi 1 ity" among some preachers, he joked that some of h5s fellow evangelists "believe their own publicity." "Be sure it's not you that you are lifting up (in your preaching) but him (God)," he said. "I've heard people brag about Jesus when they were really bragging about them- selves. " Evangel ist Rick Ingle of Denton, Texas, urged the conference particjpants to "never let the hand of God depart frcm your life."

He also challenged the evangelists to "be persona1 with your soul winning. I knot4 I get nore joy out of sitting down with one lost sinner and leadinq him to Christ than seeing 20 people walkina down the isle." Hyman Applemen of Kansas City, :.lo. , an evanget ist for 46 years and president of the conference, answered critics of "full-time" professional evangelists. "I refuse to do anything other than what God has called me to do," the Russian imi- grant prcclaimed to loud applause. Earlier during a business meeting, the conference elected ne!.r officers. They were Clyde Chiles of St. Louis, iao., president; Leon Yeesterhouse of Birmingham, Ala.; vice president; Bill Sky-Eagle of Dallas, music director; Chuck Kennedy of St. Louis, assistant music director; Lonnie Parsons of San Antonio,.Texas, parliamentarian; and Jim 9illiams of Tulsa, Okla., pastor-advisor. Don !Jomack of !.fmphis, Tenn., serves as director of the conference. 6/12/80 Page 3 Baptist Press Yester Emphasizes Baptist Cooperation By Oonita Sparrow

ST. LOUIS (0P)--I1l:rhen somebody talks to me about independent Baptists, I tell them I'm a member of an independent Baptist church," announced the outgoing chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention's 66-member Executive Committee. But then Brooks !!ester, pastor of First Saptist Church, Hattiesburg, FQiss., qualifies that statement.

"Let me tell you, there's nothing more independent than a Southern Baptist. I tell people I'm a member of an independent Baptist church, voluntarily cooperating with other independent Baptist churches to do the nork of Christ around the world." Nester has seen a lot of cooperation in his term on the Executive Committee, has learned a lot of things about his fellow Baptists, and is in a good position to give advice to J. Howard Cobble, pastor of Avondale Estates Baptist Church, Atlanta, the conanittee's new chai mian. Cobble was elected !!ester's successor, Cther new officers include John T. Dunaway , pastor of First Baptist Church, Corbin, Ky., vice chairman, and Don Gent of Evansville, Ind., a hospital administrator, recordin? secretary. And even that advice is second-band.

"It's the only advice my preacher father gave me when I told him I was goinq into the pastorate," Nester said. "He told me, 'Son, if you want to mean the most you can for the cause of Christ, just love the brethren and attend the meetings.' I never had better advice and that's what I'm telling people."

In his nine years on the comnittee (he was appointed to serve an unexpired term, then served two four-year terms) 'tester has seen much of the leadership of the denomination's agencles change. While he had no role in individual agency search committee activities, he was named chairman of the search comnittee that nominated tlarolc! Rennett to replace the retirinz Porter Routh, executive secretary of the SBC Executive Comi ttee.

"Then Iwas elected chairman of the Executive Comittee itself," he said. "I'lltell you, there hasn't been a day, especially in the last trm years, when I haven't prayed for the members of the Executive Comnittee by name and when I haven't spent some portion of my time involved in Executive Comnittee work.'' He said his church, a thriving 2,r)OC-merber confrecjatiorr in his state's third largest city, has been particularly understanding of his denomination's responsibilities. "Since I've been involved ~iththe Executive Committee, our church gifts to the Cooperative Program have more than doubled. I've been there 13 years and our church gifts to missions alone last year were more than the total budget when I rlent there in 1967." Other things !+tester had reinforced durinc his time on the Executive Cmittee include the sure knowledge that "Southern aaptists are a people vho nork best with the total light on any given problen or subject. Tell fiaptists the truth and 3avtists will come to the right conclusions, because this whole denomination is based on trust and confidence in each other.

"Ihave also learned there are ultimate talents among the laity--both men and women-- and the pastors of the Southern Baptist Convention. !'e have some of the finest people, who at real sacrifice serve on the Executive Comittee. Sfhile he can recount high moments from his Executive Comittee experience, !.Jester a1 so describes some heartaches. -more- 6/12/80 Page Four Baptist Press

In an apparent reference to the inerrancy controversy, he said, "One of the heartaches I have at this particular time is the attempts that have been made to discredit people within the Baptist family. The erosion of trust is going to backfire on any who sow seeds of mis- trust ." Wester wishes there were some things the Executive Cormittee could change. "Iwish the Executive Committee could do more to inspire Southern Baptists to even more dedicated support Of the work of all our agencies in achieving our goal of Bold Mission Thrust." He also is concerned about things that fractionalize Baptists. "Ithink such things as the inerrancy issue, last year's messenger registration, and such things that come up from year to year have attracted our attention but have not, as yet, detracted us from our main goal of missions.

"But we must be constantly on the alert not to have our attention directed away from missions. I know 99 and 441100 percent of our Southern Baptists are solid Bible-believing, Bible-preaching, Bible-1 iving people, tle are all imperfect, yes, but that goal of missions is still before us." -30-

Semi nary Students Baptist Press Study .the SBC By Rex Hammock 6/12/80

ST. LOUIS (BP)--The vast 17,000-seat meeting hall of the Cervantes Convention Center here may not be an intfmate classroom, but a dozen seminarians found it a perfect setting for a course in church polity. The students are enrolled in the course "The Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting" being offered for the first time by the Southern Baptist Theologfcal Seminary, Louisville, Ky. As part of the three-week course, the students are attending each session of the SEC meeting this week.

Attending the convention is a "way to look at how Southern Ba~tistsmake decisions; do their work," explained Daniel A1 eshire, assistant professor of church and denominational ministry.

Aleshire and church history professor Nal ter Shurden are leadinq the students in discus- sions after each of the sessions. The students also attended pre-convention meetings of the Southern Baptist Pastors ' Conference and the SBC Executive Comni ttee. "I've really enjoyed the class so far," third year student Rickey Lee White, a messenqer from the First Southern Baptist Church, Freetown, Ind., said.

Attending his first S6C meeting, brhite said it was especially helpful having a "group to discuss what's going on." Most of the other students are church pastors who are servina as convention messengers.

"The students are slowly learning how the SEC really functiofis by seeing the nitty gritty of how it is set up," said Aleshire. After the students return to Louisville, they will spend twa more weeks in the three-hour credit June-term course, The course was set up to introduce the students to how the denomination works "not only in theory but in practice," Shurden said. I As other messengers emptied from the hall after an afternoon session during which Bailey Smith of De1 City, Okla., was elected president, the seminary students moved toward floor microphone nine where their class meets. There they took notes as Shurden spokc. "You could see that it's not only Important who is nominated but also who does the nomi- nating," he said, Shurden explained that a dynamic nomination speech insures more votes for a candidate. Smith was nominated by Jimny Craper, outgoing president of the Pastors' Confer- . ence.

-no re- 6/12/80 Page 5 Baptist Press Shurden also pointed out that the students had seen "something new with the nomination speech for Jimy Stroud made by David Lay, both of Knoxville, Tenn. He said the speech was used to surface underlying issues concerninq convention politics.

"So remember, if you want three minutes before the convention, just find someone who will let you nominate them for president," he joked.

Turning to the resolutions introduced durfnp the session, Shurden told the students that they had fallen into "four categories: ethical issues, theoloaical issues, denomi- national issues and convention constitutional issues." Rodding their heads, the students directed questions to the professor concernino the resolution process. "There has been a heightened sense of denominational awareness among seminary students which came out of (last year's mseting of the SBC in) Houston," Shurden said later. At that meeting the Baptist seminaries came under criticism by a qroup which campaigned for the election of a president commi ttfd to bib1ical inerrancy.

SBC Flessengers Urged Baptist Press To Reach Nation's Cities 6/12/80

ST, LOUIS (BP)--A challenge to reach thz nation's citias and a call to boost Sunday School enrollment were issued to messengers here by the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Mission Board and Sunday School Board.

Listins soae of the moral and human problems in Pmerica's cities, W15 Executive Director Yilliam Tanner of Atlanta encouraqed messensers to "go to the cities where the action is. "Let us be drawn to the cities by a new birth compassion," he added, pointing out that as Christians, Southern Baptists are required to be evanqel istic. Harry Piland, director of the Sunday Zchool department of the Sunday School Board, Nashville, called on Southern Baptists to have 8.5 million persons enrolled in Sunday School by 1985, an increase of one million persons. Piland said Sunday School enrollment had doubled in each 2Cl-year period since 1900 except the period of 1958-78. Enrollment in 1958 was 7.S million. The 1978 enrollment was 7.3 million.

Joshua S. Vang, national ethnic consultant on Laotians for the mission board, thanked Southern Baptists for their help in resettlement of Laotian refugees and for the evangelism efforts amonq Laotians.

"The foreign mission field is here in your midst,'' he told the messenaers, referrina to the 70 languages which Southern Baptists speak every Sunday. Grady Cothen, president of the Sunday School Board, reported on a resolution referred to the board from last year's convention concernina the need for materials supporting family worship in homes. Cothen listed several of the board's publications which have special emphasis on family worship and told of plans for workshops, special materials on family worship to be produced by the board's church training and family ministries departments, and a three- year project to enlist families in daily Bible study and worship at home. NATIONAL OFFICE 8BC Ex~uUvaCornmittem 489 Junw Robertson Parkway Nashville. Tennassoa 372IQ I @is) 2~235s W. C. Fields. Director New Sbwlw of the Southern Bnptlrt Convmlion ~obartJ. O'Brlen. NM Edlbr Norman Jamwon. Faalum Editor

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June 11, 1980 80-97 SBC Refuses to Limit Messengers Second of two mailings today ST. LOUIS (BP)--A proposed constitutional amendment which would have denled messenger status to most employees of Southern Baptist agencies, institutions and state conventions was defeated during a Hednesday morning business session of the 123rd Southern Baptist Con- vention here.

Kenneth Barnett, an Alamagordo, i>!.W., pastor who subni tted the proposed constitutional change, was the only person in the meeting hall of the Cervantes Convention Center to speak in favor of the amendment. Barnett argued the amendment would el iminate confl icts of interest by placing denomina- tional workers outside the arenas of politics. The proposal was defeated overwhelmingly after Herbert Sennett of Columbus, Ohio, urged messengers to vote against the amendment.

Sennett stressed the importance of Baptists' belief in "the autonomy of the local church" and asked the messengers, "Are you going to deny us the right to choose the messengers we want to serve as representatives from our church?" A second constitutional amendment which would have changed the meetings of the Southern Saptist Convention from an annual session to a quadrennia1 (every fourn years) meeting was a1 so rejected by the messengers.

The amendment lost after only !!ayne Stevens of Lineville, Ala., spoke in favor of the amendment he submitted . Stevens expressed "concern about the enormous amount of money spent at our annual conventions. " Cut Herschel Hobbs, pastor emeritus of First 3aptist Church, Oklahoma City and past presfdent of the SBC, spoke against the amendment because "the business of this convention 5s too big and too much to have a quadrennial meeting."

Sac on 'too Many Side Baptist Press Streets ' Young Said Gy Jim Lo8'ry 6/11 I80 ST. LOUIS (BP)--'#It breaks my heart to say so, but Southern Baptists are on far, far tco many side streets," Edwin Young told messengers at the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at Cervantes Convention Center.

Young, pastor of the Second Baptist Church. Houston, Texas, said the danger of placing major emphasis on marginal matters or side streets is to neglect the significant things.

"iJe need to look at ourselves, put down the guns and get back to fishing," Young (more) 6/11/80 Page 2 Baptist Press chal lenqed the messengers. "Basically, we have stopped beins an evanael ical body. "Every great denomination in America has qone down the same trail, or side street ," Young said.

The Saptist preacher recounted a conversation with a Pdlethodist pastor in Houston who said the Methodist church is dying because of mediocre leadership who compromised theoloay and did not exhibit concern for winning people to Jesus Christ, Bible study, stewardship or prayer.

"Last year in the Southern Baptist Convention, stewardship was at an all time high, with $2.8 billion given, but only $76 million budgeted for foreiqn missions," he lamented. "This year foreign missionaries will win 90,000 people on the mission fields for Jesus Christ,'' he continued. "IJith the remainder of the more than $2 billion, Southern Baptists in America baptized 386,000 fewer than we did 10 years ano, and the membership is hipher now.

"A business friend of mine, when told of the increased dollars, lower baptisms and de- creased Sunday School enrollment over the past few years, 1ikened the Southern Baptist Con- vention to the Chrysler Motor Corporation," Youna said.

"Ihave looked for evidences of boldness in the Southern Baptist Convention, and they are scarce as hen's teeth."

"Iam convinced that the laity is ready to do some of this hold thinkina, bold servina, bold giving and bold witnessing," he said. "The hiahest tribunal of the Southern Baptist Convention is not in Nashville, or Richmond or Atlanta. It's in the local churches. "Our denominational people are the equippers ," Youna said. "Therefore, the burden for our failure is not in our denomination, because the truth is we have not been bold. I am convinced that in the new 1eadership breathinq throuah the seminaries and other denominational agencies, we have elected some spirit-fil led men who need our prayers and support.

"Ipray that we will go before Jesus as a congregation and say, 'Lord Jesus Christ, teach us to pray. ' That is what we have oot to give first priority in our ministry," Youna eniphasized.

'"Second is to preach, to introduce Jesus Christ biblically," he added. "Preachin? is the toughest job I know anything about if it's done biblically, but we who are called to preach can't resist f ts a1 lure. When we in our churches get our priorities rioht and oive first priority to prayer and preachinq , no longer nil1 there be mild-mannered sermoos del ivered hy mild-mannered preachers to mi ld-mannered congregations on hovr to be mild-mannered ," Youn~charned. "!!hen prjority is aiven to prayer and preachinp, !qe will come a1 ive, and no longer will the Southern Baptist Convention have to live on side streets."

Kl empnauer Elected Raptist Press Seminary Vice President 6111lRT) ST. LOUIS (i3P)--Lawrence R. Klempnauer of Fort !.forth was elected vice president for student affairs at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort tlorth, Texas, effective August 15. Klempnauer current1y serves as minister of education and administration for the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort worth. His election culminated a two-year search by seminary trustees and administratton. 6/11/80 Page 3 Baptist Press . In his new position, Klempnauer will serve as chief administrative officer for all areas of student affairs, including financial aid, placement, student activities, student services, research, proqram plannin~,budget control , student orientation and counsel inq. He also will be responsible for the semtnary chaplain, dean of men and dean of women. Klempnauer has served during the 1979-80 academic year as an adjunct instructor in re1igious education at Southr.lrestern. Prior to assuming his present post, he was minister of education for the Second- Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga. He also served in a similar capacf ty for the Sasamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Vorth. Klempnauer has been active in denominational affairs on all levels. He recently com- pleted a term as president of the Southern Ba~tistReliclious Education Assocfation. A native of Kansas, Klempnauer is a graduate of Kansas University and Southwestern Seminary.

Southern Baptists Glve 6/11/80 $2 Billion to Causes Baptist Press

ST. LOUIS (BP)--Inflation may be rampant but it hasn't kept Southern Baptists from sivinn more than $2 billion to church-related causes this past year. A.R. Fagan of flashvi 1le, executive director-treasurer of the Southern Raptist Con- vention's Stewardship Conission, told 13,000 messengers to the 123rd meetina of the de- nomfnation that $lE4,000,000 has been shared for local efforts and $64,164,480 has been received by the Executive Cornittee for the Coooerative Proaram durina the last 12 months. The Cooperative Proqram is the unified program of qivlns that suDports the denomina- tion's work in the United States and 94 countries. Fapan said the $2 billton plus figure represents a 13.9 percent increase in Cooperative Proaram qifts over last year. "Ifwe maintain this standard of aivinq, our receipts at the end of the year should be close to $73,000,000, just over $1 milllon less than the basic operatino budget the convention just adopted for next year," he said.

"Ifall members of our Southern Saptist churches tithed, we could double our budaet and multiply Cooperative Program causes 50 times over the present level ," he said. "Ye must do this ifBold Hission Thrust is to succeed." Fagan said Baptists should give because "when God's peo~lehave God's money in their pockets there is no way God can use us as he intended." He said his agency plans to encouraqe every Baptist to tithe by urqinq each church to give its Vacation BSble School offerinq throwh the Coo~erativeProaram, bv rorklns with state conventSons to make available a Cooperative Froqrarn.presentation for annual associa- tional meetin~s,and to provide necessary promotional materials to states where pioneer efforts are located. The stewardship agency also plans to stage special conferences vith state convention leadershf p to train church and associational 1eaders in Cooaerative Prooram understandi no and promotion. 6/11/80 Paqe 4 Baptist Press Foreign Board, Sminaries Report to Messengers By Linda Lawson

ST. iOUiS (BP)--A call to stop tal;;:;,g about Bold Mission Thrust and start doinq it was ss~iidecl5y Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board President R, Keith Parks of Richmond, V3., in his report to messengers of the denomination's 123rd annual convention. Foilowing the Foreian Mission Board presentation, presidents of the six Southern Bapt:st se~ilinaries cited the worldwide missions impact of their 50,000 oraduates and pledg~dto continue providinq the training needed to reach the Bold Wssion Thrust soal of sharing the gospel with every person by the year 2000.

"These rix seminaries rest their case in the worldwide mission of these graduate^,^^ sald Russell Dilday, president of Southwestern Baptist Theoloaical Seminary, Fort Worth,Texa Tile other five presidents are Duke K. McCall , Southern Raptist Theoloaical Seminary, ?ou:svi I? ., Ky. ; ?-I.Randal 1 Lo1 iey, Southeastern Baptist Theoloaical Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C.; Lazdrum P. LealVe?l11, New Orleans Sa~tistTheoloqical Seminary, New Orleans, La.; and Milton i'crguson, Nidwsstern Baptizt Theoloaical Seminary, Kansas City, Ma. In hi: first convention report since assuming the reins of Southern Baptists' foreign missicns enterprise, Parks issued a call for 1,200 "preacher couples" to volunteer for fol-eiqn missions by 1985. That number would averaqe one couple for each association in the coiivrntion. "if theze respcnd, we will have 10 times as many preachers aoinq out as we have trrrisy," ca:d Parks. h? praised the increasing number of evangel istic crusades where Baptist ministers and 1a~:~ilt:*tve; to ioreigc countries to share their faith, Pzrk; rssorted that more thgn 6,500 Koreans had become Christians as of June 6 throunh the efTorts cf 516 Southern Saptists ; primarily from Florida, participatinq in a crusade this mtnth with 139 Korean churches.

"Gad trusts us ta cormit ourselves to the task he has aiven us;" said Parks. "It is not just a divine trust, it is a denominational trust."

?arks t+aiai*iledthat Sold Miss fan T:.:.ust could be endanaered b,v "benign nealect, bored indifference, the de'iusfon that to talk about it is to do it or hecomins diverted h.y other i!isues. "

Hn pred:cted that Baptists will continue to "fight and feud and haaale amonq ourselves, Hcwever, 112 szifl, "This causc is too great to allow anythinrl to divert us. Vhen forces froa wfth6u.t or n.;.~hin threaten our basic purpose, we can be trusted."

Ir! thar;kSr& the ccssengcrs for their concern, confidence and contributions to the seciinaries, Lesvell said, "A;1 of our needs have not been met. But the six seminaries would not exist if it were not For the Cooperative Pronram." Ferguson r~affirmedthe seminaries' proqram statement "to provide theological educa- tion wSth the Bib12 at the center of the curri~ulurn.'~

Lolley said the seminaries exist to do something about the awful reality that people are dy:'ng without Christ. "He are mandated by you to be life changers," he said. -30- Schoo; s Sweep Baptist Press Exhiblt Awards 6/11/80 Si. iOU;S (0P)--Educational institutions sre~tthe awards in the annual Baptist Pub1ic Rci at?sns Association-sponsored exhibit competition at the annual meetina of the Soi~thornBaptist Converition here. 6/ 11/80 Page 5 Baptist Press Heading the winners' list were the six SPC theological seminaries in the $2,000 and above category. The circular exhibit hiahliqhted the denomination's current Sold Mission theme, a plan to share the gosoel with every person in the world by the end of the century. The six seminaries are Southern, Louisville, K.v. ; Southwestern, Fort Vorth, Texas; New 0r:eans; Golden Gate, Hi11 Valley, Calif .; Midwestern, Kansas City, Mo.; and Southeastern, Make Forest, N.C. First place wlnners in the $1,000-$2,000 catesory were the Radio b Televisfon Com- mission, Fort !elorth, and Baylor University, Waco, Texas. The Radio-TV Commission exhibit also called attention tcr the Bold Mission cnphasis, with special attention to services through the agency to local churches, associations, and state conventions. The Baylor booth had the theme of "Excel lence--A Tradition, A Practice, A Promise.'' In the $500-$1,000 category, honors went to Palm Beach Atlantic Colleae, Yest Palm Beach, Fla., with a motif on the school's growth. Among those entries spendf ng $1-$500, the winner was Grand Canyon College, Phoenix, Ariz. ,with the theme "Your Place in the Sun."

The competition recognized exce:lence in exhibits' attention command, imagination in design, application of themc, educstional value, and achievement of purpose,

Executive Cummi ttee Baptf st Press Elects Cobble 6/11/80

ST. LOUIS (BP)--J. Howard Cobble, pastor of Avondale Estates Raptist Church in Atlanta was elected chairman of the 66-member Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Conventio

He succeeds Br-i..; Vester, pasto:' of First Raptist Church, Hattiesburo, f.Vss. IJester

Cobble, who was nominated by Rodney R. LanGes, a layman from El Dorado, Ark., said he looks forward to working with the Executive Committee to accom~tishthe immediate and long-range goals of the denomination's Sold Vission Thrust effort.

Messenger Accreditation Baptist Press By-Laws Approved 6/11/80 ST. LOUIS (BP)--Flew by-laws which spell out how convention messengers are accredited were adopted here by messengers to the 123rd annual meetina of the Southern Baptist Convention. The new accrediting rules were part of a 15-recommendation report from the SBC Executive Committee. The comnittea also asked messengers to aoprove a $1,335,000 operatino budged and to revise the charters for the Annuity Board and Education Commission. Rodney R. Landes of El Dorado, Ark., vice chairsan of the committee, presented the resolution calling for amending By-?an 8 of the SBC by-laws on reoistration procedure.

The amended by-law calls for the convention's resistration secretary to be at the site of the annual meetina one day early to enroll messengers with proper credentials from churches cooperating with the S9C. The by-law amendment further calls for each messenaer to repister In person. Another by-law change rewires each aessenaer to be present to cast his own vote. Votina by proxy wlll cot be permitted. -more- Pace 6 Baptist Press Landes praised the work of Lee Porter, SBC reaistration secretary. He said the study by Porter and the committee, in response to rumors and an investigation of registration and votinq activities at last year's SBC meetinp in Houston, indicat2d the denomination's confidence in the integrity of its leadership and in its churches and members was "justified." "And the irregularities. which did not affect the elections last year, could be re- solved by the suggested by-law change," he added.

Other recommendatfons approved by the messenqers called for a provision in the Home Mission Board program statement to correl ate cooperative ministries between members of National Baptist churches and organizations that waul d he1p Southern Baptists in the1r ministries with blacks.

In other action involvi nq the Home Mission Board, messenoers approved a recornendation to enlaroe the borrowing authority of the Church Loans Division from its present ratio of one to one to a ratio of three to one, Comrni ttee member Conrad R. !.!illard of !.qiami, who presented the recommendation, said it ''grew out of a special study and needs for additional money to underslrd and build churches in pioneer areas. " The messen ers also approved resolutions callina for imnediate soals to supDort Bold Mission Thrust !the denomination's plan to confront everyone in the world with the gospel by the year 2000). They included a call for a 12 percent increase in Sunday School enrollment, an in- creased number of churches, better missions understandina, and additional career and short-term missionaries.

It also called for a plan $3 involve 8.5 million people in Bible study through Sunday School , organize 1,500 new churches, and have 30,000 churches increase their percentape of budget giving through the Cooperative Program.

I~lessengers-?proved a plan for the formation of a Bold ~'lisslonThrust inter-program leadership group to promote and monitor the progress of Sold Mission Thrust and adopted a resolution of apprecjation for A1 bert PkClellan of Nashville. McClell an, the commi ttce's associate executive secretary and director of proqram plannins, is retiring December 31 after 31 years on the staff. McClellan, who has 50 years in the ministry, was called a "convention states~an"and cited for "inspirinp pastors, church leaders, and denominational workers throu~hhis careful scholarship, wise leader- ship, consecrated ability, and loyalty to Christ, his church and the Southern Baptist Convention. " -30- * Sapti s t Press Planning Is Essential 6/11/80 For Annual Convention By Jennifer 8. hen ST. LOUIS (BP)--The convenience of the messenqer is the most important consideration for planners of the annual rneet5nq of the Southern Raptist CcSvention. This takes time, coordination, planni nq, the cooperation of hundreds of people, and money. "Ye look out for the comfort of the messenaer," explained Tim Hedquist, director of financial plannin~ for the S!3C Executive Committee, Flashville, and the person responsible for coordinating convention planning. "1.k want them to feel aood about their meetinq."

The SBC, in annual session, votes on meetinq sites five years in advance. The invita- tion to a city usually comes from someone in that city or the state.

A city must meet certain convention quidelines to be considered. It must have 6,500 hotel rooms available within a 10-minute bus ride from the meetins hall and a 16,000-seat auditorium hli th exhibit space in the proximity. 6/11/80 Paoe 7 Baptist Press "Idith these restrictions, there are now only 10 cities capable of handlina the South- ern Baptist Convention," said Hedquist. They are Few Orleans, Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Pittsburg, Few York, Detroit, Rosemont, Ill. (O'Hare Airport), and St. Louis. An Executive Committee work group visitssthk cities to check facilities in detail and brings a recommendation to the Executive Committee. The site is voted on in the next annual meeting of the Convention. "The cities love to see us come," said Hedquist. "It's qood for their imaaes to have Southern Baptists meeting with them. And we spend money." Although liquor sales--usually a big source of income during conventions--decline when the SBC is in town, it is still welcome. "Baptists don't drink, but they eat," said Hedquist. "':re eat about as much as other people drink. And, too, we don't bring the problems that usually qo with drinkinq." The Chamber of Commerce estimated that Southern Baptists ~ouldspend $4 million to $5 million durinq their 3-day stay in St. Louis. The standard estimate of a daily expenditure for a person attending such a meeting is $68.

"The Southern Baptist Convention is an excellent convention for a city to have," said John North, a Chamber of Comerce representative. "They don ' t brins many~prbblems. BpptJsfs are clean and orderly. You know, cities correspond with each other about conventions and this is a very good meeting to have." The SBC Executive Committee also corresponds with other conventions who have met in the recommended city to find out about their treatment there.

Fifteen months prior to the meeting, the local arranaements committee is formed and beqins to function, Hedquist says his own office does not soend "that much time" planning the Southern Baptist Convention. He attributed that to the many people involved at every level. "The chairman of our local arrangements comittee is the key," said Hedquist. "!?e bave been veryrfortunate to have super chairmen. This takes a tremendous amount of time." Local arrangements are responsible for such thinas as reoistration, transportation, Information, medical services, decorations, the post office, housins in homes, and ushers.

"The sub-camnittee chairmen and the 200 or so volunteers are the ones wbo've done the work," said Nallace Jones, chairman of local arranoments in St. Louis and pastor of Fee Fee Baptist Church. "Also the guidance from our excellent convention staff has made this an easy task."

He went on to say the hardest part is enlistina volunteers, especially durinq the daytime hours when many people are working. "Some people are even takin? vacation time to help this year. They appreciate the role the Convention plays. For many, it may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the Convention at work," Jones explained. A lot of behind-the-scenes work enables the SFlC to function. Ninety-three staff people put toqether a newsroom which is used by approximately 250 news people. This opera- tion, in addition to supplying news coveraqe of the proceedinas and activities, handles sales of speeches, pictures and slides. A1 so, food, medical services and security must be provided for the messengers. Accordina to Hedquist, the overridina factor in puttina tooether an annual meeting for Southern Baptists is the cost. He believes it nil1 cause many changes in the cominp years. 61 11/80 Page 8 Baptist Press

"Just this year we were unable to offer the shuttle bus service because the buses cost $100,000," he pointed out. "Our total budset is only $126,000.'' Citing the per day cost of attendins this convention, Hedquist said this will cause changes in the way the annual meetings are held if it beqins to affect the number of people who can attend. "Cost is also making changes in the technological side of our meetinq," he said. "For instance, next year we will not be able to have the imaoe maqnffication. The bid in Los Angeles was $86,000. Of course, our own Radio and Television Commission pioneered in this system, and we may-just have to come up with somethfno else."

Hedquist believes any changes made will not affect the opportunity for messenaers to fellowship with one another at the annual meetins. "There is no way the fellowship can be underestimated," he said. "l*!hat aoes on in the halls--the fellowship--is just as important as what aoes on inside the meetina hall ." Messengers to the meetinq in St. Louis seemed to agree that the convention is worth the cost. On the second day of the 123rd annual meetin?, they defeated a motion that the convention meet every four years.

Taylor, Freeman Baptist Press Are Vice Presidents 611 1/80

ST. LOUIS (BP)--Jack Taylor, a Fort !.lorth evanoelist and author, has been elected first vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention. Taylor defeated C. Hade Freeman of Dallas, retired evangelism director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, for the first vice presidency, but Freeman came back to be elected second vice president. In the runoff for first vice president, Taylor received 3,746 votes to ree ern an% 1,915.

In the electlon for second vice president, Freeman defeated Robert Ualker, a pastor from Bulls Gap, Tcnn., in a second runoff, garnerinp 2,298 votes to lala1 ker's 1,205. Earlier in the convention, Bailey Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church of Del Cfty, Okla., was elected president in a first ballot victory, the second tfme in two years a nominee has won the presidency wi thout a runoff. The other cqntenders for first vice president were Ralph Lanr~ley, pastor of First Baptist Church, huntsvi1 le, Ala., 1,390 votes; Sam Cathqy, Hot Sorims, Ark., evancel ist, ' 1,145 votes; kielson Duke, pastor of First Baotist Church, Jefferson City, KO., 816 votes; Sryan Harbor, pastor of First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Fla., 130 votes; and Dennis L. Ireland of Birmingham, Ala., 189 votes.

Taylor is president of Dimensions in Christian Livina and conducts Christian 1ife seminars and famSly 1if e conferences. In a3cearlier runoff, in the election for second vice oresideat, Freeman recefved 2,761 votes and Ma1 ker, 2,065. Russel1 yewport, a layman and member of First Raptist Church of Springfield, Mo., was third among 12 nominees for the office.

Others nominated for second vice president were Kenneth Story, pastor of the German- town Baptist Church, Germantown, Tenn.; E. Harmon Yoore, executive secretary of the State Convention of Baptists in Indiana, Indianapolis; gill Sherman, pastor of Woodmont Saptist Church, Nashville, Tenn. ; and John Hollinqsworth, pastor of Mount Calvary Ra~tict Church, Birmingham, Ala. CORRECTIOW

RE: Executive Committee Officers Story i'ioved at 6:53 p.m. Nednesday

Second Graph should read Brooks (not Sruce) b!ester......

The ilews Room llalsh Response Story Moved at 5:lZ p.m. ilonday RE: 1-lalsh, Saptist campus minister, graph 3, line 2: should read 34, not 45-year-old, etc . . . , . . . . Sorry! ,.. - The l!ews Room Staff News

'That We May Boldly Say"

M?U Executive Board\ Qeeti ng For Irnmedlate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--The Executive Board of !!oman's Yissionary Union approved a budget of $5,185,000 for 1980-81 for the auxilf ary to the Southern Baptist Convention.

The board also set the goal of the 1981 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for F~reign Missions at $'50,000,300, almost $ 10,000,000 above gifts to the 1979 offartng. The goal for the 1982 Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for Rome Missfons is $19,500,900.

By Catherine Allen/Roy Jennings---7:06 p.m. Tuesday New

"That We May Boldly Say" Tuesday Mternodn Resolutions For Imnediatc Releas3 ST. LOUIS, Juns 131-0ia~ctrically opposin~r~solutions on prapr in pub1 ic schools were presentad tn the Southern Saptist Convention at Cervanies Convention Center her: Tuesday afternoon, pi-3misiny z full -scal E debate on the controversial subjact !lednesday or Thursday. Either of to resolutions iatroduc~d,if adopted, tm.~lrlput ths nation's larcest non- Catholic denonination on record as opposed tc the Supremz Ceurt's historic 1962 and 1963 decision: bznning state rritten and sponsored przyar and Zi'ole reading in pubiic schccls. Tv:icu befora, in 1554 and iS71, the SEC forttally ~xpressedsupport for those rufinps. A third statement presented Tuesday aftermoon v!ould rsal'fim thzt position. On ancthe? church-st?te Ssrue, Ressenger DOUG Dodson, Hugo, Ckla., zsked the convention to instruc: rhe Captist Jn*JritConnittee or, Publfc Wffzirs to continuc its legal battle a~ainstthn state of California's seizure of Herbert I:, Amstrony's I:orld!.lide Church of God. On anothar conti.ovei*sial t3pic, a resolution z~parcntlyaimei at counteracting one Introduced Tuesday morning v!c:lccld affirm the troubled "hit@ House Conf~r=.nceon Families as "an cpportunity to st5reng"l:len famlly 1ife." A pair cf ~*esolutionson 'the role of gomen :n ~hurchlife clashed: s!ith messenger Lynne Gurney, Cr,lor~cioSpriags, Col., urging frcelic:,~of &:nice by ncmon csn2idates for the ministry and other church offices, vhile Paul Rose, Fo~:;s~c~,Gc., dfr,~unc&the ordinetioil of women as nfnfsters znd dcecoes. Robert J. :iastir;ps, clditc;;. of the Illfnofs Zapttst, asked Fellow aasssngers to urge the gove~nmntof IfSerii: tc free the F!- the n~tion'slate president !-!ill iam 0. Tolbert, assassfncted ea;.':ier this year in a ccup, In a family rz?lcted r!sttzr, A1 Engelmann, i:iader;l, Calff., slla?inu that the federal governmafit is requirin~states and euiiicipai governments to provide birth control and abortion in.l"omation to young peopla, ~skedthe ccnvei?tion to "consider the rights of parsnts." tiornosexuality came under attzck in a separate propassd statement hy Los Altos, Calif., pastor l'arren tiall.

TW other California pastors, Rcnald A. Ful:~:.ton 0-7 El Sobrante and @on f?. Tsylor of A1 amenda, asked tile convention to comend Tjaylor Univarzi t:f president Abner iicCal1 for his bcn an !!omen students' posinc nude for Playboy nagazine. On other social issues, messengers were asked to support fzllow Americans held hosta~c in Iran, step up the dencmicztion's sfforts to fi~htworld hunger ant! ssek international peace, and comend host city St. Louis for closing dokcn mst of its businesses on Sundays. Resolutions ?!ere also introduced on several "in-house" matters, Includiil? a condwna- tion of stah Eapti st ney!s,.!spnper editors' ct leged "biasu toward el ecte4 S2C officers, a re- quest for equal voting privileges for sxall SEC churchas at th~annual meeticg, an exhorta- tion to seminary trustees "to enploy only faculty xerberr wino are doctrincl ly consistent with our Statement of Faith," and a daclaratior, t!lat nessonoers reaffirm their support of the Bible as "the inerrant, infallr'ahle, plenery v~rbsllyifispired ':arc! of God."

8y Stan Hastey--6:0S p.m. Tuesday ~@n/anresbonvenrlon ~enrer 30b ri caa luG~vqIluvlII I t~v.vy~uyrrjr St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Pcstors' !lives' Conference For Immediate Re1 aase

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Pastors1 wives hav~many opportunf ties to support their husbands ' ministries by providing counsel ing , guidance and frimdship to church menbers, tionen attending the 25th annual Piistor's f!ivest Conferencz said here Tuesday. A1 though most pastors' +lives ar2 not professional counsallors, people took to them for help and advice, said wonlen from verious parts of th~Southern 9aptist Convention. "Benin there when people naed you is one of the oraatsst joys cf tcing a pcstor's rrifre," said Doris Howell of Kansas City, t:,c. "You can't be all things to everyona, but you car, use the opportunities and joys of beinp 8 pastor's wife to minister alons with your kus:)and," said a croup of vomen from At abann . Others cited tha opportunities of mcatinc many diff~re~tkinds of people and of raising th~irchildren amonc "sorr.e of the rrost !*rondcrful peoplt- it? tho \r!orld."

Three Southern Raptist cinisters who hcv~been In the ministry for 2 combined total of 150 years urged the women to support their husbaads in thi- ministry by '~~ttincinvolved in every facet of their church. J. D. Grey, ~2storemeritus of thc First Zaptist Church, ;ie!v Orleans, Herschel H. ;,lobbs, pastor aneri tus of First Zaptist Church, bk1 ai.,cma City, both fomwr So~!thern Paptist Convention presidents, and Robsrt E. i?aylor, retf red president of Southvesterr: "aptjst Theological Sen~inary,Fort !.!orth, praiseti the devotion and strength cf their own wives as @x~siples for others. ife!.r conference officers ryho took off ice t.cerc iirs . James Grav~s, St. Poters!?urg, Fla . , prasicient; Sks. 3on Kim, tos hpeles, vic~president: 'ks. Floyd Roebuck, Roms, fia., secretary-treasurer; and ?:rs, John !'right, Lfttle Rock, Ark., correspondinc secretary. Zl~ct~ito swve ir; 1SC2 wzrE ; rs. Jbrr,v !

"That We May Boldly Say" iuiiscel1 aneous Business For Inmediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10-4 rtotion ~skingthe Southern Baptist Convention to develop 2 symbol related to alleviation of world huncer was made by a Texas pastor in the denomination's 123rd annual meeting here Tuesday. Richard E. Creech, pastor of First Baptist Church, iitiridian, TEXPS, moved during an afternoon session in Cervantes Conventton Center that the Sac Instruct the Saptist Sunday School Board to "develop and use a symbol (logo) for v.~rldhunger." Outgoing SBC President Adrian P. Rogers referred the ~iotionto the i!ashvi 11e-based boErd for further study.

Creech said th~symbol could be used in all "periodicals and magazines publish~dby the Convention agencies to promota and keep us aware of \a~orldhunger."

Ey Larry Crisman--5:17 p.m. Tuesday News

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1st Vice President i!orninations For Immediate Re1 ~ase ST. LOUIS, June 10--Six persons \?ere nominated for first vice president of the Southern Saptist Convention at the Tuesday afternoon session at Cervantes Conference Center.

They were Dennis L. Ir~landof Sirmingharn, Ala., ifelson Duke, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jeffersoil City, fiio.; Jack Taylor, author and evangelist of Fort !'orth, Texas; C. Yade Freeman, Dallas, retired evanoelism director of the Raptist General Ccnvention of Texas; Rat ph Langley, pastor of First Baptist Church, iluntsville, Ala: 3ryan Harbor, pastor of First Baptist Church, Pensacola, FIE.; and Sam Cathey, Hot Sprinps, Ark., evangelist.

By Orville Scott--5:45 p.m. Tuesday Cervantes Gonvent~on~enrer 30~rr ess IVGV~J I luulI I I I *vrvrn .,, St. Louis, Missouri (314)342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Tuesday Pi4 Themi Interpretation For ImmedI ate Re1 eese ST. LOUIS, June 10--Declaring that Southern Baptists are committed to an "almost impossible" task, a leading executive of the 13.4-million-~~nberdenonination cslled h~re Tuesday for increased support of Bold Nission Thrust. Opening th~first afternoon session of the three-dzy Southern Bzptist Convention at Cervantes Convention Center. Harold C. Eennett, executive sscretary of the S3C Exscutiva Comfttee, Elashville, urged more thzn 13,OCIO reaistered messengers to hz bold in their corrmitment to the denomination's goal of witnesssing to every pcrson in the woi-ld by the yc8r 2000.

'?!2 have committed ourselves to a task almost unbelievable," Remett said of tha Bold iviissqon challenge adopted at the 1976 meeting of the SSC at F!orfoll:, Va. Bennett said the only answer for this goal is "the fectthat a.:r 1Svfs will have b~an touchsd by Christ and when others see us they ill trrkz knc~ledoeof the fact that kt2 havs been with Jesus." Bennett rminded the mcssengers of the Rold Mission Thr:!st gels targeted for 1982 such as growth in Bible study enrollment, baptisms, number of churches and missions, missionary forces and financial support, and then r~mindedthein that incr~asadefforts are needed to achieve these goals. t'hile recognizing the loftiness of the 601d Iiission go?ls, Sennatt sounded an optimistic no tf . "t!hen we love Jesus Christ and are comitted to him and his church, the people of ths world will know that we have ba~nwith Jesus," he slid. Prjor to Bennett's challenge, the messangers heard a half-hcur of inspirational and patriotic musical pieces fro^ the senior high-collrce choir of Eeil~vuiEaptlst Church, i.iemphIs Tenn. 9ressed in spark1 in? red, white and blue uniforms, thc choir was directed by James D. I.lhitmf re. Leading the mcssengers in a devotional pcriod before Bc-nnatt spoke were Larry Leuis, Pastor of Tower Grove Baptist Church here, and hry Cook, a chaplain at Raylor University, L!aco , Tex~s. -30- By Larry Chesser--5:03 p.m. fussday ~ervan~es~onvenaon ~enrer DDL rresa IY~WSnuul I I r I IVLW~~apr IYI St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

''That We May Boldly Say" Presidential Momination For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS. June 10--Six persons were nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday afternoon at the 123rd meetinq of the 13.4 million member body at Cervantes Convention Center. They include:

Frank Pollard, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jacksan, Miss. ; nominated by Milton Cunni ngham, pastor of !iestbury Baptist Church, Houston.

Jimmy Stroud, pastor of Third Street Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn., nominated by David Lay, also of Knoxville. Dr. Ha1 Boone, former medical missionary to East Africa and minister of miss4ons at Sagemont Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, nominated by Ed Perry, layman of Tarrytown Baptist Church, Austin. James 1. Pteitz, pastor of Park Cfties Baptist Church, Dallas, nominated by Ralph Langl ey, pastor of Willow Meadows Baptist Church, Houston. Baf ley Smith, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla.. nominated by James T. Draper, Jr., pastor of First Baptist Church, Euless, Texas. Richard Jackson, pastor of Fiorth Phoenix Baptist Church, Phoenix, Ariz., nominated by John Su11 Ivan, pastor of Broadmoor Baptist Church, Shreveport, La.

The winner will succeed Adrian Ropers, pastor of Bellevue Raptist Church, F?emphis, Tenn., who has declined to run for the traditional second one-year term.

One of the nominees, Stroud, had announced that he was plannina to seek the office ooenly rather than follow the traditional pattern of beinp drafted by his friends.

In the nominating speech, Lay said Stroud "does not see inerrancy as the only issue, does not presume to be a spokesman for Southern Baptists and is not tryins to run the seminaries:'

By Orville Scott--4 p.m. Tuesday CORRECTION

Change Balley Smith's birth date on the biographical data to January 30, 1939. He is 41 years old. His church, First Southern Baptlst Church, De1 City, Okla., one of the top 10 churches in sire In the Southern Baptist Convention, has 14,237 members. For Your Information

FHOTO 17 -- Porter Presents Registration Report--Lee Porter, Southern Baptist Convention registration secretary, gives the registration report which officially constituted the Convention at the opening session of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Tuesday, June 10, in St. Louis. At that time Porter noted that 10,537 aessungers had registered. Fhcto by Tim Fields

P%OTO 35 -- 1;E$ZU Competes with Wrestling -- Although the k!omanls i4issionary Union :hared billing with a championship wrest1 ing spectacular, the Kiel Auditorium marquee bi35 n9 baronater of the maeting inside, which w~inedtypically misslon-spirited, Photo by Uarren Johnson Pastor First Southern flaptist Chercir gel City, Okl a. (7 ,~?lir3 r:ef;.Sers) Lorn : Education: L.fi. Scutl:vesterti Gapti st Theolcaical Seninar:~ Pas tor^ tes : First I'ctctist Ckurcf-;,"arren, Park. First rantist Churck, IlnDt,s, ":..i'. First 5ont?cm haptist C!?urch, Pel City, Pkla. !.:iFe, Sa9i;ra C11 iff 2;1iti; Sons ,. ;Scott: Steve, JQS:~

State an{: deilor:f national Presiriert , Zaptist fererz.1 Convertior of rkl a2or.la service: ."rp;rq?riat ions Cov l ttce Presiiert, Zouthtrr. ::a~tist @astcrs1Cnnfcrence, 1S7C-7R -- Cervantes Convention Lenter Bl3CTEm- ~wmmmnI I I IW~Idp~ IYI St. Louis, Missouri (314)342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Emergency Plotification System For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10-"Hundreds of people are learning the difference between "emergency" and "anxiety" during the three-day 123rd annual Southern Baptf st Convention. They are persons who call the SBC information booth in Cervantes Convention Center, seeking to relay information to messengers at the convention.

If the infonnation is about an actual emergency, the name of the person being contacted is printed on twin video screens in the main conference room in view of 13,000 messengers. Ifnot, the note Is tacked to one of two large bulletin boards in the center's lobby. "!q!e get hundreds of calls a day (but) only 20 to 34 of them are bona fide emergencies," said Ooug Thomas of St. Louis, director of the booth. Volunteers staffing the booth claimed they get "all kinds" of messages, with callers requesting notification on the big screens. "A lady wanted us to notify her minister about an 'urgent emergency,"' reported Evelyn Westfall of St, Louis. "Her car broke down, and she wanted his help. He's a mechanic."

"Then there was the church secretary (who) wanted us to tell her pastor that he accidentally wrote a hot check and had a local man mad at him," added Thomas. "Another guy called four times ibnday night, wanting to pass along a 'hot nel.ts tip which could change the conventfan,"' he recalled.

"None of these messages made it to the big screens," he safd. When wrkers in the booth get calls about actual emergencies--mostly illnesses and deaths--they pass them to Lee Porter, reg1stration secretary for the convention. If Porter agrees that the emergency is genuine, he forwards the name of tiale one to receive the message to persons running the screen broadcast equipment. They put a message on the big boards which instructs the messenger to contact the infomation booth for full details.

But if the message doesn't gat that far, it sticks on the bulletin boards in the lobby, where messengers must search for their messages themselves.

By ;+law Knox--7: 44 p.m. Tuesday News

"That We May Boldly Say" Fort Presentation For Immediate :el ease

ST. LOUIS, June 10--In an emotional appeal, medical missionary ir. Giles Fort urced Southern Baptists Tuesday night not to "let anything take your eyes off the task" of vlorld- wide missions. Speaking to messengers attendisg the 123rd annuzl meeting of the Southern Taptist Conve~tion, Fort and his wife, Ilena Ann Fort, me6ical missionaries to Zinbabre, askei!. for continued support of 301ci H-ission Thrust, the denomination's plan to present a Christian witness to everyone in the world.

The Fcrts, physicians at Sanyati Baptist Hospital since 1953, have tfen on furlounh from Zimbabwe since iiay, 197C and are expecting to return to the Afrlcan country this summer. "Biany people are sayin9 to us 'why go back?'" Pirs. Fart told the cessenrers. ''They ask 'Isn't 25 years enouch?'"

Fort said, however, "6od's call is as clear as in 1543 when he first said to VE 'Go.' l-ie has never said 'Stay.'"

Acknowledging that there are still danrers in the war-torn country, E%!rs. Fort saici that the couple was returnino "because of peoplc? like you (messenaers), ?:any have shared with us as partners" Tn the "Lord's work." Uescribing Zold i4ission Thrust as a "family concern," Fort called on his sons Oavid, a medical resident in Dallas and Gordon, a student at Southwestern Eaptist The01 ogical Seininary, Ft. i!orth, Texas, to tell vhat missions has meant to them. Both have volunteered for foreign mission service. Explaining that he had accepted a call into missions rhile a student at Texas A?:;; University, Davld said that it "was a bslp not to be afraid of 'deepest, darkest' P.frica." Daviri also praised his parents' commitment to family and church as being "an example to ma in my marriage and life," "Bold C;issions ~r,ustbe fanil ies prayinq, fanil ies ~Sving, fami 1ies ?ro!:linv anil families going," the rlissionary father saii. i3y Rex Harmock--S:37 a .n. !;etinesday -" - - u- Lcw,"l,L"--*-*.; - ~o~-iven;~oi"TC&~-i,&?P lvvl I 1 I la I I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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Foreign biission Board/Seminaries Rcpcrt For lm~ediateRe1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 10--A clarion call to stap talking about 9cld Fiissiofi Thrust and stxt doing it was sounded by Southern Baptist Foreign i:iission 3oard executive director R. Keith Parks of Richmond, Va., in his report to nlessenoers of the denomination's 123rb aanual convention here. Following the Foreign l.iission Poard presentatio;l, presidents of tho six Sorlthen~Saptist seminaries citeci the v:orldwida missions impact of their 5G,@00 qrcduat2s and piedyac! to continue providin: the training ne~bedto reach the Ecld i:issici! Thrust ~oalof s:taric~+;1~. $oSpel with every person by the year 2000.

' "These six seminaries rest their case in the vorldwide niission of these craduates, said Russel 1 Oilday, pr~sldentof Southwestern Daptist Theologicai Seminary, Fort '-'ortk, Texas, The other five presidents are Guke K. i~lcCr?11,Southern Zaptist Ttieological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; !!. Randall Lolley, Southeastern Baptist Thec10g:c.l Seninary, Forest, i.!. C. ; Landrum P. Leave11 , liew Grleans Eaptist Thealopical Ser.in-.ry, ile!l 13-1 ems, La. :. and Liilton Ferguson, kiiciwastarn Zaptist Theolo~icalSeminary, !:~;lsrsC;ty, iio. In his first convention report since assunin? the refns ci Sovthern 3aptisis1 foreigr. missions enterprise, Parks issued a call for 1,200 "prsacher ccuple;" to valuntefr for foreign missions by 1585. That nurber k!oulL average one couple for aach asscciation in t!lc convention.

"Ifthese respond, we will have 10 times as many prilzchars ~cjinqgut as we havs today." said Parks. tle praised the increasin~number of evangelistic crcsades vhero 3eptist ministers z;.irl lapen travel to foreign countries to share their faith. Parks reported that more than 5,500 Xoreaas had become Christians cs of Juns 6 throdr;;: tie efforts of 216 Southern Saptists, primarily from Florida, prtisip3iilio in a crusade tSis month with 139 Korean churches. "God trusts us to commit ~urselvestc the task he has civen us ," said P.zr!:s. "It is not just a dfvine trust, it is a denominational trust." Parks warned that Bold Xission Thrust could be endsnperet: by "hcrign nerl ect, borzd indifference, the delusfon that to talk about it is to Go it or beco~fi~gddive;ter' by ot3ei- issues." He predicted that Japtists will continue to "fiqht and feud n~bha~gle amon? oursz:~cz." :;owever, he said, "This cause is too yeat to allow anythfnq tc divert us. l,!'h~nforces from trithout or within threaten our basic purpose, !n can be trusted." In thankin5 the messengers for their concern, confidence a?:! co~tributionsto thc seminaries, Leave11 said, "All of our needs have not heen n5t. Jut the s:x setrinaries would not exist if it were not for the Cooperative Proqrae." Ferguson reaffirmed ths scainaries ' progran; stctement "to pr~riastheolcfical edxatic,: with tho Bible at the center of the curriculcrn." Lolley said the seminaries exist to do sonethi~cabout the av!ful rezlity that ~2ople are dying without Christ. "r!e are mandated by yoc to be life changers," he said. -30- 2y Linda Lawson--lO:34 p.m. Tuesday ' Photo Captions For Your Information

PiiOTO 21--Flashing a Eelcone--The marquis outside the Cervantes Convention Center in St. Louis flasheu a welcome to delegates to the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, June 10-12. At the close of the morning session Tuesday, June 10, nearly 13,000 messengers had registered for the three-day event.

Photo by Hark Sand1 in -no re

PP3T0 22--Conventions Are For Children, Too--Child care for preschoolers, 2-4, is provided during the Southern Captist Convention by area churches through the local arrangement cormi ttee. The child care, designed for chi1dren of out-of-town messensers, is located in the Cervantes Convention Center. Pictur~dare members of Rock Hill Baptist Church, Erentwood, bio., giving preschool ars their mornin? juice.

Photo by David Clanton -more-

PtIOTO 3bPresbyterian Protestor--i;el Perry, left, pastor of Grace Cible Presbyterian Church in iiashvill~,Tenn., is earnin? the name "professio~alprotestor." Perry attracted little attention picketing the 123rd annual Southern Faptist Convention at Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis. Here Perry, who has also picketed previous Southern Baptist meetings, argues about Biblical perspecitve with Ken Freenyer, center, pastor from Kentucky, aiid with a Casper, Ityoming pastor.

Photo by i!oman Jameson News

"That We May Boldly Say" Tuesday Iiight Session 3:' I~iediateRelease

ST. LOUIS--June 12--"!..!;ien we go on a skunk hunt, v% can't do that whick Christ calls us to do to reach a lost world," Landruri Laavell I1 told mesr~ngersat the TuesZay nig>t session of the thrce-day Southern Captist Convention. Leavell, prssic'ent of :ie:: Crleans 3aptist Theological Seminary said that !#!hen the convention spends tine huntin: liberais, it is sorr;eti!:es inpossi>l$ to n~ltback to tha mitir! bcsiness of boldly reaching s, lost world.

'!?!E.must have a praparal people whc ~EG~Ir:!liat t:lc?y belizv~,an(: can use ~001:judcr:!ent that is better than one of my bir; dogs nocld us^,^ L~avallex~iainzZ. In strivin~to reach r lost !mrld, Lcavell stronply stresse.i the role of s~~inaries "to ho1Gly train tiinistcrs, or servailts, and not just r:ars aca

"If WE io, this rrill produce a relevcat an.; practical t:ieolocy and tke resvlt will bi revived cSurc:~esand saved souls," l!e clai!:leC. ":Sastc in tills relevs.!it end ,hracticcl tlleoio?y is the lnescapa!~lefact that Jesus Christ wants Pis ckrch to 5rol.r.':

Leave11 a,lded that "we need trained, carin?, 1ayrrnn'-who ?rill niv;! tkelr pastors 8 pnuir.2 sanse of wort:!. This +!ill eljminak the schtle arr:! sata~icts,ptatlon many pastcrs have to gain rscogni tion by buyizc an unaccredited: unc~nscicnable doctorate. "'!e a1 so ncecl trained laFcr,, es~~ciallycn ~ulpit ccmi ttocs, wko knot.! the liffereece bzt!*een a Southern Zaptist pastor si;J smeoae ~ho'slocklny to ste~la chcrch.

"Th2 coal of some serinaries in other t;cnosinaticns is tc train students to think tlt.ecl0gi~~lly:'he saic!. "In this pattern offt-r thzolo~icaleducation. "In ~ivjud~~ent, v!e Go wall, yaa tetter, to offer ministerial edrrcatiofi and train students to think sinisteriall:/, or In terns of ciilistry. Li!ce otir saster ~2 arc kere tc serve, fiat be szrvec!."

"~oldlyrizac!ii;lg a lost mr1~ii;:plie~ cioin~ vs.stl;l Kore ti;an ~bicfivie are no!! dcian-- not that what !:ic are doins is evil or won<, but inade~rcat~,"lie said. "boldness ream sho!.~iilga c@cri:scus darina spirit and co~ttwptof drn~er,zn? cur b01tiii~ss in Sold :,:ission ffirust aust be tkt exactly," hz rzainde:.' tha messcnrers. Gds5arci: i~dicatestkat 63 perceet cf k:~ricansclai;.! ta 5e horil aaain, Leavell said. "The 417 percent v:to are not born amin are our pros;*cts." Lzavrll gointed out that Fpstors cf nine of the to? 1.) Ssuthzr:: "antist cl-,urc:~,asir: be~tisnsin 1:75. were scs~fnary?ra.iuates, ax! t!~etenth atten?ed sslinary.

"Cgr scrlinariss are not perfact, but !:r? are coinc sone t;lin?s riy;ht," Leave1 1 said. "?ever have t!ii? challen~esheen prea'ter and never hav~Coctherr, 7.aptist.s responden! so well. "de can test i!aplertlent the pals for the :ol~.; lissior! Thrcst by aattina the pastors and ~>issionariesand staff mei,;bars taufht aafi trained in tk aurs of acadmlc excallaace and evangelistic fzrvor ill our sc-s:ir,aries, and t!?an send the5 out under ::irine crders to cinistzr iil a lcst and hell-SouzL 1?;arl2.:' The convention at C~rvznt~sConvention C~ntcrenls Tbcrs2ay ni~iit. -30- Ge,-vG".-.Av~-,~\-.\-,~,,. " , St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager ~eatur&-~ana~er News

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Election of First Vice President For Immediate Release ST, LOUIS, June 10--Jack Taylor, Fort Yorth evangelist and author, defeated C. Wade Freeman of Dallas, retired evangelism director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, in a runoff election for first vice prtsident of the Southern Baptist Convention here Tuesday evening. Taylor received 3,746 votes to Freeman's 1,915 on second ballot, Earlier fn the evening on first ballot, Taylor received 3,031 votes to Freeman's 1,496 to top the slate of seven nominees for first vice presidsnt.

There were 8,175 votes cast, representing about 62 perccnt of the registered messengers.

The other contenders were Ral~hLan9ley, pastor of First Baptist Church, Huntsville, Ala., 1,390 votes; Sam Cathey, Hot Springs, Ark,, evanaelist, 1,145 votes; Nelson Ouke, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, No., 816 votes; Bryan Harbor, pastor of First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Fla., 190 votes; and Dennis L. Ireland of Birmingham, Ala., 189 votes. Taylor is president of Dimensions in Christian Lfving and conducts Chris tian Life seminars and family 1ife conferencas.

By Orville Scott--9:48 p.m. Tuesday News

"That We May Boldly Say" Four-Month Extension Granted on Income Tax For Imnediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 10--Internal Revenue Co!rmls$ioncr Jcrome Kurtz has granted-a :four- month extension for the filing and payina of more than $500.000 in 1979 federal incoma taxes for Southern Aaptist foreion missionaries. Sidney C. Reber, vice president for manaaement services of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, said here that he had received word from t.lashinqton, D.C., of the extension.

The extension had been sought to qive time for Conaress to act upon House Resolu- tSon 1319, the bill uhlch would restore the $20,000 exemption on income earned by qua1 ified employees of pub1 ic charities and re1 iaious organizations 1 ivins overseas.

The bill does not cover missionaries and other such workers livins in the more developed countries, and Reber said income taxes already have been filed for rnissionaifes who live in 11 such countries. But these represent only a small part of the estimated $1 million a year which the Foreign i?ission Board will have to pay for its 3,000 missionaries unless tax re1 ief is granted.

The current law, the Foreign Earned Income Act of 1975, had ejiminated the $20,00Q exclusf on for a1 1 countries. HR1319 has been approved by the Senate Finance Committee, but still must be brouaht to the U.S. Senate for approval. Its Senate soonsor, Sen. Russell Lonq of Louisiana, has delayed bringing the bill up for a vote because of fears that other tax-cuttinq amendments would be tacked onto it that might result in a veto by President Carter.

By Rob Stanley--9:21 p.m. Tuesday beivai ILG~\yu~ I\ UI ILIUI I IL~ --I. .-I" St. Louis, Missouri (314)342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Resolutions/Miscel laneous Business For Immediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--A potentially divisive resolution introduced to Southern Baptist Convention messengers here Tuesday mornin? was ruled out of order by SSC Presfdent Adrian Rogers. Rogsrs said Tuesday night that Resolution #1, introduced earlier in the day by Ed IicAteer, Memphis, Tenn., was di sal lowed because ilicflte~ris not a messenger to the denomi- nation's 123rd annual meeting at C~rvantesConvention Center this week. Rogers said McAteer, ana cf his members at Sellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, is not i~gisteredas a messenger and is thereby inaliaibla either to vote or introduce matters of business. The resolution, which voicad concern over a number of volatile political issues, asked the convention to go on record supporting the election of "men and women who subscribe to and will govern by moral princioles based on biblical authority." McAteer, a political activist and national field director of the nation's largest new right political organization, Conservative Caucus, has over the past year be~norganizing e','.; Cers across the natf on to become involved in conservative politics , Several hundred have thus far been en1 isted in RcAtzer's own organization, Re1 igious Roundtabl~. !4i thdrawal of the resotuti~nremoves what was perhaps the most complicated single dccu- ment presented to the 10-person resolutions cornittee for review and recommendation back to messengers either Hednesday or Thursday. TWO additional resolutioirs were introduced during a brief business session Tuesday night.

Charles Woody, a messenger from Independence, 140. , proposed adoption of a statement condemning pornography and instructing the SBC Christian Life Commission to devalop an anti -pornography campaign.

Another messenper, John F!. Stair, Indiana, Pa., urged the convention to declere itself opposed to the advertisfng of alcoholic bcverages. The two new proposed resolutions brought the total introduced Tuesday to 45. In other action, a motion naminq proqram personnel for next year's convention In Los Angeles was unanfmously adopted by messengers.

James L. Monroe, pastor of First Baptist Church, Fort Malton Eeach, Fla,, nas stlected to deliver tha 1981 convention sermon. Others selected and the roles they will fill in Los Rnpeles include 'Jill iam Cumbce of Alexandria, Va., a1 ternate to dcliver the 1981 sermon, and William J. Reynolds of Fort Morth, director of music.

By Stan HasteylLarry Crisrnan--P:l!l p.m., fussday News . .-

"That We May Boldly Say" Seminary Course Feature For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 10--The vast 17,000-seat meeting hall of the Cervantes Convention Center here may not be an intimate classPoom, but a dozen seminarians are finding it a perfect setting for a course in church polity. The students are enrolled in the course "The Southern Eaptist Convention Annual Meeting" bejng offered for the first time by the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, ICy. As part of the three-week course, the students are attending each ses- sion of the SBC meeting this week.

Attending the convention is a "way to look at how Southern Baptists make decisions; ; how they do their work," explained Oaniel Aleshire, assistant professor of church and denominational ministry. Aleshire and church history professor Ida1 ter Shurden are leading the students in discussions after each of the sessions. The students also attended pre-convention meetings of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference and the SBC Executive Committee.

"I've really enjoyed the class sc far,'' third-year student Rickey Lee !!bite, a messenger from the First Southern Baptist Church, freetcwn, Ind., said durinc: Tuesday afternoon's business session.

Attending his first SBC meeting, k!hit~ said it was especially helpful having a "group to discuss what's goin! on." bhst of the other students are church pastors who are serving as convention messenqers . "The students are slowly learning how the SBC really functions by seeing the nirty gritty of how it is set up," said Aleshire. After the students retyrn to Louisville, they will spend two more weeks in the three-hour credit June-term course. The course was set up to introduce the students to how the denomination works "not only in theory but in practice," Shurden said. As other messengers emptied from the hall after the Tuesday afternoon session dur- ing which Bailey Smith of Del City, Okla., was elected president, the seminary students moved toward floor microphone nine where their class meets. There they took notas as Shurden spoke.

"You could see that it's not only important who Ss nominated but also who does the nomf nating," he said. Shurden explajned that a dynamic nomination speech insurss more votes for a candidate. Smith was nominated by Jimmy Draper, outgoin9 president of the Pastors ' Conference. Shurden also pointed out that the students had seen "something new wf th the nomina- tion speech for Jimy Stroud made by David Lay, both of Knoxville, Tenn. He said the speech was used to surface underlying issues concerning convention politlcs.

"So remember, if you want three minutes before the convention, just find someone who will let you nominate them for president," he joked.

Turning to the resolutions fntrodueed during the session, 5;~~rdentold the students that they had fallen into "four categories: ethical issues, theological issues, Page 2--Seminary Course Feature denominational issues and convention constitutional issues." Nodding their heads, the students directed questions to the professor concerning the resolution process.

"There has been a heightened sense of denominational awareness among seminary stu- dents which came out of (last year's meeting of the SBC in) Houston," Shurden said later. At that meeting the Baptist seminaries came under criticism by a group which campaigned for the election of a president committed to biblical inerrancy,

By Rex Hammock---8:15 p.m. Tuesday St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News -

"That We May Boldly Say" ME!.! SBC PRESIDEIYT'S !.JIFE I$!TERYIEk! For Immediate Re1 ease

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Bailey Smith drew enough support here Tuesday to win a first ballot election as president of the 13.4 million member Southern Baptist Convention but none of the messengers who elected the 41-year-old pastor is a bigger fan than his wife, Sandra.

The new president's wife did not have to be convinced that the pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Dfl City, Ckla., a suburb of Oklahoma City, would make a good president. She was able to cite a number of reasons.

"First, Bailey receiv~shis directions on a dafly basis from the Lord Jesus Christ," Prs. Smith, a trim, attractive blonde, said. "Ialso think he has great lzadership ability because he is a very natural 'people person. ' He's a leader, not a comander." "Bailey's whole life is vang gel ism," sha added. "And reaching people for Jesus is what our convention is all about."

Still, the new SBC first lady expressed excitement about her husband's elkction.

"Iam tremendously grateful and excited by the confidence that a first ballot elec- tion indicates in Bai:ey," she said. "It's very humbling. '

The SRC presidency is a demanding role and Mrs. Smith assessed what effect h~r husband's election will haw on her.

"Ply role does not really change," she said. "Ibelieve that I !#as creatad by God to be the wife of Eailey Snith and to be ths mother of his children and to be supportive of him in whatever position the Lord puts him." Asked how she will seek to support her husband, iirs. Smith replied, "The first thinq is that I want my husband to know that I'm his greatest fan."

"i4y greatest support will comE through rriy prayers for him," she added. "Ibe1 ieva if I am supportive in my prayers, God will honor that and bless Dailey bfcause of it."

A 39-year-old graduate of Ouachita Szptis t Unf versi ty, Arkadel phia, Ark., Xrs. Smith Indicatad that her husband's pr~viouslybusy travel schedule had helped prepare her for the demands placed on his time by the new offlca. "There's not anything the Lord is goin? to ask Bailay to do that he doesil't equip US to do," she added. "What's God's best for Bailey isn't aoing to be second best for Bailey's family."

Though not ruling out taking zn active leadership rolf as wife of the SBC president. Sandra listed higher priorfries for the present.

"hy priorities are my own personal relationship with the Lord, and then my familv and then whatever church 1 e3dership responsibilities 1 may take."

The Smiths have khree sons, 15-year-01 d Scott, 12-year-old Steven and f ive-year-01 d Josh* Page 2--Przsident's Fife Interview "This is a crucial time in thcir lives," she said. "It wouldn't be wise to neglect them for other responsibilities."

blhile claiming that her greatest fulfillment comes as a wife and mother, Mrs. Smith does not insist that this hold true for all women. On the issue of the role of women, she said she did not support the Equal Rights Amendment, saying. "Ibelisve that a goman's role is very different from the role of a man."

Baptist church involvement has been 2 way of life for Hrs. Smith whos2 fathsr, grandfathsr and three brothers are Baptist ministers. She is the deu~hterof J. T. Elliff, executive director of the Capi ta1 Baptist Association, Oklahoma City.

By Larry Chesser---7:22 p.m. Tuesday St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Stewardship Comiission Report/ Execu ti vs Comi ttee For Imnediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Inflation may be rampant but it hasn't k~ptSouthern Saptists from givins more than $2 billion to church-relatzd causes this past yzar. A. R. Fagan of rIashvil If, executive director-treasurer of the Southern naptist Convention's Ste!::ardship Comission, to13 13,622 messenners to tha 123rd meetin? of the danortiination that $154,C00,000 had been shared for locnl efforts aild $64,164,480 had baen received by tha Ex~cctivzCornittee for the Cooperative Procrsr;, Jurinq the last 12 months, The Cooperative Progrzn is the unifisd procram of givinc thst supports tkf C~nomina- tion's evengelistic efforts in the United States 2nd 54 countries. Facan said the $2 billion plus fi~urerepresents a 13.9 per cent increase in Coop~ra- tive Procram glfts over last year. "If we maintain t+is stzr.dard of qivinc, our receipts at th~end of the year should be close to $73,000,002, just over $1 mill ion less than th~basic operatin: budyet the convention just adopted for next year," hc rmiaded.

"If all mentbers of our Southern aaptist churc5es tithed, we coul4 double our budget and mu1 ti ply Cooperative Procrem causes 50 ti~escvsr the present level ," he decl are6. "l!e nlust do this if 3012 i.iissioi! Thrust is to succeed,"

Fagan said En2tists should ~ivabecasrse "~..!.l:~;n God's people have God's noney iil their pockets tkre is no way Goi! can USE: us as he in.teniled." He said his agency plans to encouraye evwy Zaptist to tithe by urgin~each church to givs its Vacatioii 3ibl e 5ci;oot offerin? thr~u$l tSc Coopcrativ~Procram, by vtorkin~r!i th state conventions to make tv~ilablca Cooperative Procram presentation for annual associa- tfonat meetings, ailii' to provide necesser:, promotional ratzrials to states where pionf~r efforts are located. The stewardslllp agency also plails tc sta~especial conferences with state convention leadership to train church and assocfctional leaders f n Cooperatf ve Proyw understanding and pro~tction. In earlier action i:;onday cfternoon, wssengers approved a 15-reconniendatior! report fron~its Exacutive Comi ttee. The committee, which fcnctions soeewhat as the denot~ination's"board of directors" asked nessangers to approva a $1,335,G00 op~ratingbudget, revise the P.nnu~ity3oard and Educatfon Cornittea charters relating to trustce sclection, and amend a by-law that would spell Oct how convention messensers should be accradi ted . Rodney R. Lantles of El Dorado, Ark., vice c;iairman of tho committee, pressnted the resolution call in? for amending Sy-law 8 of the S3C by-layis. The amended by-lsrv calls for the convention's re~istrationsecretary to be at tbe site of the annual meting one day early to anroll nrssenners !.rit:i proper credentials from churcbles cooperatiag with the BC. The by-lsw amendment further calls for each messenger to register in person. Another by-1av chail3e requires each messenger to be present to cast his own vote. Yotin? by proxy :#!ill not be permittzd. Lanics praise^ the lark of Lee Porter, SZC registration secretary. He said thc study by Port~rand tlie cormittee, iil rEsponsE to rmors and an investiqation of re$istratioil and votiii~activities at last year's SZC rzeetii-I? in :iouston, indicated the denoninatioi~'~ confidenc~in the inte~ritycf its leadership 2nd in Sts churches and members was "justified.' "Aild the irregularitias; which did not affect the elections last ysar, cocld be resolved by the suggested by-1 e!~! change ,'I lie added.

Other reconmendations approved by the messenacrs called for a provision in the Home Iiission soarc! program statement to corrzlate cooperative ministries betyeen ~embersof i.lationa1 Zaptist churches and organizations t,;at ~ouldhe1 p Southern gaptists in their ministries with blccks.

In other action involviag tlia I10n:e iiission Eozrd, cessencers approved a reccmendation to enlarge the borrowinc authority of the boars from its present ratio of one to one to a ratio of three to one.

Comi ttee rrember Conrad R. ,.!il lard of iliami, who presented the recomnen:!ation, said it "grew out of a special study and needs for addi ticnal money to urderrird and build churches in pioneer areas. '' The messen ers also approved resolutions calling for inmediate qoals to support ?old ~;issio;:Thrust ?the denomination's plan to confroat everyone in the r;orld rrith the ~ospel by the year 2.300). They lncludeti a call for a 12 per cent increase in Sunday School enrollment, an in- crzased number of churches, better missions understanding, and additional career and short- ttrm nissic?naries. It also callad for a plen to involve 8.5 million people in 2ible study through Suaday School, organize 1,500 nevi churches, and have 30,000 c;iurches increase their percentape of budset givin~throu2h the Cooperative Progran. T.iessengers approved a plan for the formation of a Polk ijission Thrust inter-prooram leadership group to promote and monitor the proSress of Folci F.iissloil Thrust and adopted a resolution of appreciation for Albert FicClellan of iiashvil le. i:kClellan, the committee's rssociata executive secretary and director of program plailning, is retiring Ceccnber 31 after 31 years on the staff. iicclcllan, who has 50 years in the ministry, was called a "convention statesman" and cited for "inspirina pastors, church leaders, and deno~inational!qorkers through his careful scholarship, wisa leadership, consecrated ability, and loyalty to Christ, his church and the Southern baptist Convention."

Zy Eoni ta Sparrow--7 :13 p.m. Tuesday L;;BN~.Y.;~?sLo~:v~:~;.o?~ ~&:j&.'33~~~:5~~ v\-WdSvMiW3;;,-,-;,Uius-,-Gp ;,y7- St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

First Resolutions For Immsdiate Ralease

ST, LOUIS, June 10--?!~ssangers to ths 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention wzre asked to consider 22 resolutions on a widc ranoe of subjects introduced during their opening session here Tuesday morni nn with mor? expect~dTuesday afternoon. Although resolutions adoptcd at the ccnvention's annual meetins do not bind tocat congregations or individual church mzrnbers, they do put thz convention on thz public record. Sub jscts introduced included domestic and intsrnational concerns as we1 1 as mattws relatin? to church and denominational 1if.?. Southern Baptists !wrt callsd to h~comemore involvdd in political issues h!/ Ed iicAtecr, Hcmphis, Tenn. :.ic,Ytser, national ficld director for thc Conservative Caucus, bslongs to Bellevu~Baptist Church, Plemphis, but spends a sizable portion of his tima in I.!ashington, D. C, lohhyinq for ultracrlns?rvative causes. Y? is also head of Reliqious Roundtable, a fa;--right nroup oraanirjng minist~rsacross the nation to be supporters of conszrvativ~causss .

ilcAtserl s r~solutionattacked abortion, homosc.xua1i ty, "s~cularhumanism," and !*hat he called "the ~xpulsionof voluntary prayer and Sibl; readino from our schools."

Ft second resolution on Christian a01 itical involvzmeqt tuas introduced 5,v Richard Groves, a messenger from !.lace, Tex. The 1:lhite Houso Conffrmc~on Familics came undzr attack in a rcsolution prssented by Greg Clzments, Sardis, Ga. Called by Prtsidznt Carter to explorz problems ~laauinamodern American fami 1ies, the confsrencz has come undcr h~avyattack from both conssrvative and liheral int~rssts. Last week's conforzncc in Baltimore, the first of thrze to be held this summer, witnesssd the walkout of some 50 conservatives who c?arged that the del2qates and aqenda undermined traditional visws of the family.

! A resolution apparantly dcsiancd to count~racttk thrust of thc rnti-Yhittl House Conference statement was introduc.sd by a pastor from '.lilton, Conn., ':la1 lace A. C. 1.1ill iams. Anothar called specjfic attention to the difficul tiils endured by families with alcoholic members.

As expcctzd, msssmgzrs will 5e fac~daqain this year with the volatile question of abortion. Two rasolutions , introduced by James ,I. Gunn, 9ess;lmzr, 41a. and Hannibal , :v'o. physician James K. iqann, condemnad abortion osnerally and as performzd in denominationally owned hospi tat s.

A ~ilderstatement condemning "wanton" abortion was presanted by It!i11 iam D, Hi 11is, a physician from Baltimore, bid., who also teaches on the faculty of the medical school at Johns Hopkins UniversJ ty.

Vorld hunaer, a noncontroversial subject for Southern Eaptists, was addressed in two resolutions. Owen Cooper, Yazoo City, Miss., a former S8C president, asked the convention to go on record supporting renew~defforts to rzlicvz hunqer and dlsrase in Camiodia, while ti. Clay 'Jarf, Durham, 4. C., presented a hroadc-r statzment addressing the \!arld!~ide scope of the hunger issu2, Page 2--Fi rst Resolutions Church-state issues surfaced in a number of prooos~drzsolutions. Tom Mi 1 ks, El1 is- ville, Ro., asked the convention as a whola to support lsqislation forbiddin? the Central Intel1 igence Agzncy from using missionari?~as aaents . Two of the denomination's asencies , the Foreign Mission Board and the Saptfst Joint Commi ttea on Public Affalrs, already hava taken such a posftion and worked for passaqf of the Icgislation in Congr~ss.

Jim Stanford, San Antonio, Tex., urgzd passagz of a resolution askins Prasident Carter to declare July 4, 1989 a national day of prayer, while mcssa~gerClaudia Riner, Louisville, Ky., urscd endorsement of a Kzntucky movzment to post copies of thz Ten Commandments in a1 1 public school cl~ssrooms. Three rzsolutions relating to taxation were introduczd, includino one by 0. K. Armstrong, Springfield, No., calling for taxation of church-owned trusinosses which are unrelated to the mission of churchss. Such a ~rovisionwas passed by Conarcss more than a decade ago,

Richard aizlski, Livonia, Ga., askzd ths convention to sndors~leqislation ~hich would overturn what he called th~"inequity" of tax law favoring sinqles living toqethzr over married coup1 es . A resolution expected to be approved by the convention calls for tzgislation to exempt from income taxes ovcrseas missionaries and othsr U. S. Citizcns workins abroad for nonprofit organizations. ilany such citizens arc to pay taxas this year to both the Internal Revenue Service and the foreity govcrnm~ntswhw? they live unless such leais- lation is passed.

The dilemma for Christians favorino both ad~quatenations1 szcurity and world peacE- was addrzssad in a resolution by Dan L. Griffin, a Dallas, Texas .pastor, nbo .asked.mes- sengers to recognize the conflict and 9ork "to naqe peace in ths vlorld." Other resolutions ursed support for tha ,%nerican Qiblr- Society, biblical inerrancy, telecasts of the annual SBC mcetinq to closed circuit audiences, and exhorted convention officars, boards, and agcncy p~rsonnelto ''work in harmony" with local churches.

By Stan Hastay---l:50 p.m. Tuesday 7- -- CZtGiiG ConvenMCenLer bsb r'i&S-l\6WS-I-i00~I~ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News . .

"That We May Boldly Say" Rogers Address For Imnediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 1.0--Can- Southern Baptists reach every person on earth with the gospel In just 20 years?

Adrian Rogers, .president of the .Southemm,EaptistConvention, posed that question ts messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention here, $hen emphatically answered It.

"Unequivocably, unmistakeably ; definitely;, ,yes ," he declared, but warned that God !.ri 11 require several things of Southern Baptists if -the gospel is to be shared with every person on earth by the year 2W. - - - Rogers, pastor of the '10,500-member .bcllvue Baptist Church, ~dernphis, Tenn., said Southern Baptists must first allow themselves to be God's "clean and holy" tools. The "burning question" for Southern Baptists, he said, is not "Shall the kingdon bs preached amng'all nations? 'Jesus skid-ilk s~tl+be' done. That's not bp f~i-de'cf:-:. r " ' 'The burning question'foi us as Southern Baptists is will we be the tool thzt a righteous and holy God can use." ?oners , pastor "of the 1C ,500 riernber Zel lvue 3aptist Church, ~imphfs ,Tenn. , s:'I F Southern Yaptists must first allo:~thenselves to be God's ' clean and holy' tools. Another requirement for the fullfil lment of Sold {lission Thrust, the denozination's effort to share the gospel, must be a dependence on the f*!ord of God. Rogers added.

The SBC president dre~loud applause when he said, "Southern Captists must ever be a people of the 300k. !!e have no need of a creeu because we have the Bible. ?lho can in- prove on that? But without an infallible word from God we have nothinp but a holy hunch."

Rogers went on to affirm his belief in the inerrancy of the '3ible. He ayeed with s statement by fomer Southern Baptist Conventlon President Herschel Hobbs of Oklaholna City who said, "Sauthern Baptists may differ as to God's method of inspiration of those who wrote the Eible, but all are in azrement as to,the product. It is the divinely inspire; word of God."

Southern Baptists inust continue as "people of the Book, ' in order to accomplish dolu :?ission Thrust, Roaers said.

"!.!e wS11 believe it, claim it, love it,.,.pwach it and pour it forth as 4.1ite-hot lava. And when we do, the doors will swing open.'

Bold 'iission Thrust won't succeed unless Southern Baptists remain SeJ5cated. to Jesus, Rogers told the messengers.

.'l!e shoulJ not primarily preach thecilogy,' he said, "We should use theology to preach . . Jesus.

"!!e cannot turn a deaf ear to the stagerin? needs in the area of hunger and massivc starvation," Rogers added, "'ie must respond with ~isdom:compassion and sacrifice. But at the same time we must preach Jesus.

"klhat an eternal tragedy for millions who are -11-fed to die in their sins and riss in the judqement to meet a God tbey do not know.'' Rogers continued.

"Jesus is the only ansner to the worli's real hunger;. He is the bread of life. i(e is

*. (more) Page 2--Rogers Address not a good way to heaven or even the best. He is the only b!ay."

~ccomplishi na Bold #ission Thrust reauires a1 so that Southern Baptists be "saturated with the love of God," Rogers said.

"Don't talk to me about your orthodoxy or denominational loyalty if your heart is headquarters for hate. Whatever problems Southern Ra~tistshave will be settled in a con- text of love or they will not be settled. The Bible is a aood sword, but a poor club." Roaers called on Southern Baptists to have a Christian spirit toward each other.

"There is never an excuse for an unchristian spirit," he said. "Hold to your con- victions but be loving." Rogers pointed out several other obstacles Southern Baptists will face in what he called a "Decade of Decision" that for Southern Baptists will hold "Doors of Destiny.'' Amonq them were cultism, militant paoanism, humanism, and 1 iberal ism, material ism, communism, and moral pollution.

"Yost Americans worship at a shrine vhos~God is aold, whose creed is sreed and whose chief end is pleasura," Rogers said, decryino material ism. "!.Ihile communists opposa the Lord, cults deny the Lord, liberals betray the Lord, many Americans simply ionore him." In the face of those obstacles, though, and in liqht of the thinas God will require of Southern Baptists, Rogers declared that Bold Flission Thrust will succeed. "Yet when God moves, these adversaries will be like a crate of eogs in the face of a red hot cannon ball, It is possible that every person on the alohe can be siven an opportunity to respond to the Gospel by the year 2000. Barriers of lanquaae, law, culture, custom, sin and indifference will be broken down as God opens doors."

By Hike Davis--l:42 p.m. Tuesday Cervante? tn7yention Center SBC press News noom rnoioyrapcly/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

First Report of Exccutivc Cornitti& For Innnediat? Rblenss

ST. LOUIS, Junz 10--Southtrn Enptist Convention ncsscngErs 2pproviid ? $90 million Cooperative Program budgct Tucsday ~ftrra w~rningtkt ms~tingsuch a sum would requira "bold faith and bold giving."

The budaet is thz primary source cf funding for the dc.nomin*.tion's 19C0-El misslon ~ntsrpriseof 18 apencii-s. It pas ndopt=d durinp th; first of s:ver?l rcports from tht d~nominationls Executive Comittsc.

J. Howard Cobble of Atlnntn, who prsscntcd thi: r:?port, s~.idtht. buda;l-t csn bti reach~d "if your church, and minr, will incr,:as;. its gifts to thf Coo~zrctivaProgr?,m."

The budget passild with very littld discussion. Thd Fortipn 'iission Bo~rd,who52 trustgas hzd protested th?t agency's pcrcintago of th: budg~t,hsd dcclincd to ask for chzngds from the convention floor.

Howevzr, Robert LfiFavrc, pastor of Union Kall Pzptist Church, Onsonta, Alc., prestnt~d a motion to ~m~ndthz budget. Hr: ~skedthet th~Exscutivd Cornmittso qnd its budnct corn- mittec bti rhquired to do 811 within its powcr to rcstore ths For~isnZission Bo-rd al- location in th; 1961-82 budact "to &least tht psrcsnt?.?~ raflcctcd in the 1979-80-budget." SPC prcsidtnt Adrian Zoqers ruled L~F~vre'sPacndn~nnt n r~solution,but not bkfcri; Georga Eagley, a messengtir from th~Polm D.tle Eaptist Church, ibntgomery hsd, in cffcct spoken to it.

Raglcy, rxacutiv~sacretery of th~Irl?*t,;l.rn~ Eznkral Corv.-ntion, seid thc Forfign Yission Board n~edsto "bit6 thb bull~t~nd m?k; do with its Incr~~se.' "T~Gprobl~m is not witil th; Exkcutiv; Comitt~e'sbudg;:t r~comm~ndations,"Baglcy declared. "It 11~sv!ith church contributions to the Cooper?tiv~Proaram. l-lhzn churchr:s incrzas? th~percent of thzir coll~ctionplat.: offzrin~sto th~Coop:rative Procrcm, thxc will be mors money."

3191~y cc1 1zd rcwritin9 the budg~ton thc convention f 1oor "dcnqsrous" znd r=mi nd=d, "This is a chzllen!~ budoilt. Th2 statit associations c?n not ~2ndwhrt w; don't hrv~. Th< rnonEy must corn; from the churchas.!!

Yonry for th~.budgct will cone frorr tha vcluntsry gifts cf 13.4. million ns~bkrsof 35,605 church~saffil i tatcd ni th the SZC. Cobble told miissengers th~Executiv~ Commlttc; financt sub-comrnittc~ racommsndations wer6 not determined by i~ fixed finiincs- formulz or s?t pwczntaoe "hut by thc co~mittec m;mbers seekinq the lzadership of Sod's spirit."

He szid the sub-committ

The first phase of the Sold iciission Thrust challenpe budget calls for $713,000 to bring the smaller agencies to an overall scven per cent increase above the 1S79-80 level with the rest to b~ divided among the an~nciesheaviest involved in Told Eiission Thrust. These include the Foreipn and ;lome riission Goards, tlic d~nomination'ssix seminarias, the Radio and Television Cornnission and the ?rotherhood Co~nission. If tile challenge budget is met, th~Forei~n ,-.ission ?oard would rec~iveC!! per csnt, the Hone i.iission board 32 per cent, the seminaries 15 per cent, the Radio and Televisicn Cornission 10 per cent and the Brotherhood Coimission 3 per cent.

Harold C. Zennett, executive secretary-trrasurer of the Executivf Committee, i!ashville, noted that Southern Gaptists have "enthusiastically accepted the challenges and coals of Cold 5ission Thrust."

Baptists were involved in specizl missions offerinqs over an3 above the church's Cooperativ~Proyram gifts. They aeountzd tc $35,109,731 for the Lottie lL'oon Christmas Offering for Foreign fiissians anii ;13,062,520 for thc. Annie Plrrnstrono Easter Offering for llome iiissions. An additional $2,141,957 was received by the Nome and Foreicn iiission 3oards for '.!or1 c! !iun~c-rRe1 i~f.

By Bonita Sparrow--1 :lO p.m. Tuesday Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press New~oom--~~- Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (3141 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" :,loon Descendants Feature For Imediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Far tt;o of Lottic Yoon's descendants, the annual meeting of the Southern aaptist !.!omants ;lissionary Union meant an opportunity to proudly display a myriad of valuable family memorabilia. In a room filled with curious Y?U women and families, Charlotte Churchill and Linda Harmon busily signe! autographs in honor of their qreat great aunt Lottie ;.loon. "I'm proud to be named after her and I'a proud of her heritage," co~nrnented,Irs. Churchill of Crewe, Ya. Lottie;!iooa4s body is buried in Cre!-!e, and for::lrs. Churchill, an Episcopalian, the famous Southerii aaptist missionary to China was a symbol of success- ful womanhood.

"The main thlng we can recognize today is shared with women of other faiths," said 3rs. Churchill, vhile wearing an heirloom gold watch of :'iiss :!loon's. "Her life has great imp1 ications for us today." iiirs. Churchill was greatly impressed with the fact that even though women vere not given a voice in the church at that time, Lottie i'ioon broke do~:m such barriers an3 even had Chinese men walking great distances to hear her teach the i3ible. "The information about her has been kept alive by the Southern Baptists," said ;lrs. Churchill gratefully. Even thouqh some information has been passed down through the families of irs. Churchill and eirs,. Harmon, much of their knowledge of ,If ss iloorl came from various publicatioils. These publications Yiave been especially helpful to ,lrs. Harmon, who spends much of her time speaking about her famous ancestor in the Richmond, Ya., area nhere she lives. Having grown up as a Sout:ierq qaptist, nirs. Harmoil believes she is much more aware and involved !.~iththe memory of Lottie 'icon than other relatives. She called the offering an awesome experience for her.

"The meaory of her life will always endure as lonq as the !+!or!< of missions goes on," related :;irs. Harmon. She ex~lainedthis statment by telli;i? of many c:iildren who are fascinated with Lottie's example of self-sacrifice. -ii ss bioon never a1 lo1:fecf her name to be attached to the saily gifts she offered people. One of these gifts was in the form of money she qave to support a child in a foreign missions school. The tuition called for $45 a year--which came out of diss ::loon's salary of $15) a year. It's facts like these that deeply touch 4rs. Harmon. She has given a lot of thought to Aiss -Iloon4s character, and believes that nost photographs don't do tha famous missionary justice. "I believe she was probably a real jolly person," says 9rs. Harmon. "She was probably more fun-loving than the pictures show." jirs. Harmon coatinues to relate event; C" her great yre3t aunt's extraordinary life. But, as she intrigues audiences with her tru? stories, 'W. Harmon has a tendency to be- lieve bliss I.ioon would be shocked at the "greatness!' of her name. "The legacy that she's left is just unreal," says 4rs. Hamon. "If she were here now, she would probably want to lead a more private life." -35- By Laura Fite--1:56 p.m. Tuesday Cewantes Convention Center YVL rress ~vewsnoorr~ rl~u~uy~ap~~y! St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Roundup for idednesday A&

ST. LOUIS, June 10--landrum P. Leavell 11, presijent of the 1,514-student >le!.r Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, called on Southern Baptists here Tuesday night to improve their training for clergy and laymen. "The goal of some seminaries is to train students to think theologically (by offering) theological education," Leavell said. "In my judgment we do well, yea better, to offer ministerial education and train students to think in terms of ministry.

"Like our ;-laster, we are here to serve, not be served. Our thrust must be to boldly train ministers or servants, not merely academic theologians." The seminary president predicted such an approach would produce "a relevant and prac- tical theology" and the result would be "revived churches and saved souls." Turning to the laity , Leavell contended Southern Baptists need trained, caring laymen who give their pastors a genuine sense of worth.

"This will eliminate the subtle and satanic tmptation many pastors have to gain recognition by buying an unaccredited, unconscionable doctorate.

"He also need trained laymen, especially on pulpit committees, who know the difference betveen the pseudo and the genuine, between a Southern Baptist pastor and someone who's looking to steal a church." Southern Baptists also need to prepare persons to know who they are and what they believe, Leavell added. "It Is not dlfficult for any one of us to determine who the liberals are, for everyone has his own definition. 3ut we aust use better judqment than one of my bird dogs." Reaffirming the contribution of seminaries to the progress of Southern Baptists, the seminary president pointed out that the pastors of the top lr3 churches in baptisms in the denomination took training in Southern Baptist seminarfes and nine were graduated.

"These seminaries are not perfect, but we are doing some things well."

The theology of several seminary professors has been branded as liberal by a strongly conservative wing of Southern Baptists. In other actfon, the messenqers to the 123rd annual meeting of the 13.4 million-member evangelical body received reports from their six seminaries, Seninary Extension Clepartment, Forelgn 14lssSon Board, and Stewardship Commission. Financial progress and enrolment advance under1 ined the reports of the seminaries. The extension department reported 19,505 persons enrolled in its correspondence pro- gram, up more than 6,500 in 10 years. The department is giving special attention to bivocational ministers (those who support themselves through a secular job), black pastors, and language group pastors. The messengers learned they have more than 3,900 missionaries serving in 54 countries throughout the world through their aission board in Richmond, Va. -nore- Page 2--Roundu> for Wednesday 43s Another 3,803 volunteers took part in missions overseas last year, an increase of almost 1,300, the report safd. Southern Baptist missionaries entered one new country, Transkei, last year while pul- ling missionaries out of Iran and Turkey. Almost 100,000 persons were baptized in the 11,033 Sapti st churches overseas affi 1 iated lr~iththe mission board, the report said.

The iilission board operates on a budget of almost $77 million, with 90 per cent coming from Cooperative Program receipts and a special offering at Christmas. The Stewardship Ccmission, which leads in promotion of the Cooperative Program as the Southern Baptist method of supporting its work, said receipts increased by 11 per cent last year, but remained below th2 level needed to fund the objective of the denomination's 301d llission Thrust program, the evangelization of the world by the year 2000. The three-day convention opened Tuesday morning with 19,537 messengers registered.

In the first business session, the msssmgers approved an annual budget for 1380-31 of $90,000,000 with $74,500,000 ticketed for basic operations, $2,500,000 for capital needs, and $13,000,000 for Bold i4ission Thrust advaqce. The 1979-80 budget is $33,300,000.

3y Roy Jennlngs--12:04 p.3. Tuesday Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News morn rnorograpny/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Tl!E,Ta'nY A# WISCELLANEOUS BUS1WESS For Imediate Releass ST. LOUIS, June 10--A proposed constitutional amendment which could c1en.v messenger status to most employzzs of Southern Saptist aaancics, institutions and state conventions was introduced by a Mew Hexico pastor in the opsnino session of the 123rd Southern Baptist Convention here Tuesday.

Kenneth Barnctt, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Alamoaordo, M.M., proposzd the constitutional chanqe--one of t1.90 amendments consid~redby messenpers attendinn a misc=l- 1aneous business s~ssionin Carvantcs Convention C~nt~r. Additional discussion on the Barnett constitutional chanqe and another proposed amendment presented by Wayne Stevsns of Lineville, Ala., was delayed until 11 :39 a.m. !%dnesday.

Barnett recommended that SRC denominational emolo.yees who receive more than 5'7 per- csnt of their salaries from Cooperative Prosram sources be considared fneliqfble to servo as messenQors to the annual Convention.

If Sarnatt's amendment passes, all employees of South~rnBaptlst institutions--ex- cept those vh0 work part-time--could be dnnifd mess;lnaer status.

By d~nyingthe election of denominational personnel as messengers, the amendment also would disallow voting by this group at the annual meetinas. Only messengers--the name Soothzrn Baotists aive their Convention d?leoat*s--are allowed to vote during business sessions.

Stevens' proposed amendmznt called for limiting the convening of the Convention to once every four years, instaad of the current policy of yearly meetings. The anendment also recornends the use of annual resional meetings to be held in years when thz Convention does not convene. Stevens suagcsted the Convention consult with state conventions while dacidino ahout the proposed regional sassions.

Calling for a "minTmum of three" rflsions, Stevens said state conventions should be given the authority to establish as many reaions for yearly meetinos "as may be appropriatc. I'

By Larry Crisman--1: 17 p.m. Tuasday Cervantes Convention Center SBL rress N~WSHOO~ rnumgrapr IY/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager - I News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Lottie bloon Featurz For Imediata Rcle~se ST. LOUIS, June 10--Lottie &ioon is rc-a1 . ?,t l?ast skc's r~~lto her dcscandants, missionary colleagues, historians 'and Cathering Pnltin, who !.lrot? Thi Ne!q Lottic Woon Story. "I beliavs in Lotti= ?-loon," dxlarsd Flrs, Alli-n, assistant to tha WvlU executive dirac- tor, Birmingham. ?err. A1 ten explained that throuoh rcs2arcS into p,liss Yoon's backaround she came to realize that "Lottic :;eon is more than myth or len~nd. She was a roal person who 1ived and died."

Broadm~nPrbss and the l:li5U contracted to produc~a n2? story about tha missionary v~host namf has bccome part of the Southerr: S~ntist vocabulary.

3rs. Allen was thcn asked to "pull torl~thcrth: story of Lottic 'foon," accordinp to Carolyn '.!zathcrford, 'J;lU exccutivc- dircctcr. :'lrs. 71 1.v .ti 11 r~czivi.nonz of the royal ties. But I~lrs.Allen related shz hns r,c.iivfd "rlcrsonal re~~ards"compilina the book. "It has b~ena lifc--chansina commi+m~ntfor me to d~al~qlith o tilaman !.lho has kzcomc a loaznd, but r~allywas a reality." i~lrs. Allen explained that assicnmznt to thu tas!c of ri?s?archincr and vritinq tha hook l~fther "full of cxcitemc-nt and dr~ad. I wondw~dif thi. old story was rsal. I vonderecl if I might find something .that would daman;. our knol~lcrlgeof hcr. I !~onder?d what would happen about findinn tho truth of Lottic boo^." Although she did not find an,ythinp that flawd thc missionary to China, shi: said the book does rcport several things that might be consid~rzdflaws by others. !4rs. ."tlldn citsd the story of "iss :loon's cnoani.m?n.t. In thc orcvious hioaraphy Kiss iloon's fiancee was not namz-ri. 'ks. Sll~~nnames him as Cravford Hol*!~:ll Toy, a pro- fzssor who was fired from Southern Sdminary for b?ing a "harztic." "blost people bellovr! that Miss ivioon broki- her enoaqanent or relationship to :Ir. Toy because she lwas a good consarvativ: Southsrn Baptist and hz was a li$eral ,'I she rzlated. "I think she ditched him becausz he !.lould have cramp~dhzr style." Shc pointzd out that bzcausz of Toy's had standinq in the dsnomination he probably could not have been appoint~d~s a missionary to China. "Lotti:: sl;?s too dcdicat~dto hsr mjssionary task to chance thst ," iirs. rjllen cont2ndcd. Anothilr asflxt of Yiss ?'?on's Iff2 that has hxn "oloss~dovzr," E\lrs. 'Illen explainsd, is that fact that to~ardthe end of hr,r life sh* !?!as "emotionally ill ." "I nas particularly interestcd in finding out if thc circumstances surrounding hcr d~atkwas previously rcportsd !$!!ere true," shc sald. "I found out tclat they worz ~ssentSally truz. Howavcr, I also found out that most of the missionAries in that arza of thz world werc emotionally 111 all of the time. Tho fact that she held out to the cnd, being oppressed by circumstances , and slck, is very sxplainable, understandable and hsroic." Several thinas about Viss ;soon's lifa particul3rly Imgresscd F!rs. Allen. bliss t!oon's feeling that bromcn had a place in mission szrvfci? was one of tkm.

"It never dawned on me that thc beainnina of th~womcn's riohts movfment fn th~South coincided with the idea at the Forcian ;.lission Soard that womzn can servE as missionaries," she said. "iiiss i:oon's fzelings ahout women in missions wcrs vitally important to -. . .

Page 2--Lottie 1.1oon Feature everything about Lottie.'' Another point about :~iiss:loon's life that impressed Yrs. illlen was that ;iiss ioon resained loyal to the Foreign Aissicn Board throughout her life.

"In ;!iss :400nts time ealiy Southern Baptist missionaries were being drawn off by the independent gospel mission," 7rs. A1 len explained. "3ut, she stayed with the board. Even today, there is the lurking idea among Southern aaptists that missions could be done better by the indepenJerlt approach. Lottie didn't believe this. I think history bears out that Lottie was right." qrs. Allen began researchin9 material for tha book in January, 1978. She finished 20 months later. Fol lowing basic research, :vlrs. Allen interviened members of . iiss :*loon's family and two former missionaries who knew 3iss iioon, ;irs. Jewel1 Daniel, 95, and rlrs. Leila ':organ, 102.

"I included sone oral traditions in the book, ' ;4rs. Allen said, "Gut, since every- thin@ is footnoted, readers can decide for themelves the validity of the source." However, 14rs. Allen did not include all of the oral traditiors about iiss isoon. To weed out those she would include, she said she trie? to find stt!~ething written to corres- pond to the oral tra.!ition. I.!hen that failed, she wept or "gut feeling^.^' The book, published by 3roahian Press, has an extensive list of sources incluiins more than 70 people who assisted with the compilation of the material for the book.

By Teresa Shields Parker--l2:19 p.n. Tuesday CORRECTION

PliOTO 11--1381 Pastors' Conference Officers -- New officers of the Southern Saptist Pastors' Conference are, from left, Kenneth !Jayile Fie1 ds, pastor, First Baptist Church, Grand Bay, Ala., secretary-treasurer; Stan Coffey, pastor, First Baptist Church, Albuquerque, fl.4., vice president; and Jim Henry, pastor, Flrst Saptist Church, Orlando, Fla., president. They were elected at the annual pastors' conference which met June 8-9 In Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis. Photo by Tim Fields Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" freebies Fezture For Imadiate Rcl eosc

ST. L[lUIS, Jun~10--l.lhosver cninsd the old adaqs;, "Ycu can't (jet sorn~thinafrom nothing" oun:~tto visit the sxhibit hall i~C~rvantes Ccnvcntinn Cz~tcrdurin~ the Southern Eap- tist Convention.

For no nor2 than tha timc it tekes to stroll throurb thc cavernous room, convfntion gcws can ccllcct mcuntzins of natzriqls 2nd \lic!il rnorr. thm E scorc of media preszntations.

At least one purveygr c.+ pronetion is or: kand 2% c.?ch of tha 45 booths to ~xplain s~rvicus,coax students to c~mpcsor ask for money.

Lib~mturctcps th~1 ist of fr~~tiasthcy're yessin? out, but some boot% brc?.k zkr:y fro3 tP2 nore.

Tte S9C Stawardship Ccmission provides s s?cvr:l/$ir: to kc;ly: rnrssar?yErs take cotes and di~tx the bottcrn of convpntioi7 sq2cchi.s. ARC! tc tl~;:".~501 rrhile they'rs at it:., thc cor?mission ~lsopzssds cut "olttiii:c"church fdns--th: kind cc taii pop sick^^ stick.

If 311 tkat vark an3 f!nnis? makcs a nssssnqsr huz~y.no lzss thar; six colleq~s, unfvcrsitics and seminnri~soffcr a smorgcsbor5 of c?sc!y, rrisirs ?nd p.:riuts.

Aftar snacks, vcss2nCcrs can walk off th? cc'.lori&s by t:.ki?c ir\ acdi?. sko!.ls at r:J@bt toaths a~dtop off their inform3tion i3-gathsrins ty \rr:trhi-,u s ~r~scntztions?onscrcd by the Church Accrcation Gc-psrtment of tb:. 3i.sti st Suntjsy Scboci Ro3rd.

And whilz they're i~tk Sund:y Sc9ool 9o?r~~i~hbor~oo~,spcrts fans can wtch tkir vi ts with the bozrd's tic-tx-tot: ccmputi:r. Thus mcntzlly taxacl, s jr~~trest stop is ~nothcrtrip kck to th;. ccrilzoa ?nd s;.n!inary booths. #any hevc alumni public~tions?.vailrblo fcr tk t>kinc, and so?. rvr:n ??.v.: stickcrs end ribbons dcsigned to ?1lot,e ??u~nitc show tkir tru; cclcrs cn tkir nmztPes.

If childrzn corns up wh2n tzlking with old classrn~tcs, ?lert pzrcnts car! trkz t3c OP- portunity to pick up on mfrnor~bili~~fcr t3c tykas bnck ~lcw!,i.

i;ic.xCczn 3aptist Piblr Institute a;?d ?lisscuri Ewtist Collcsc h.?vz k~yckins an hnd, P?ln Bezch-iltla~ticColle~c hns ~olftt2s for thc ct5lctic youeqSt:rs, t.n? t?iSundng 5chcc1 Eoed offers C.P.T.C (Church Ptopreir, Trai2ing Cc~tcr)Scttons for thosz wk lik? to ,:darn thcmselvc-5 in r~d,!?hi tc end hl ur:. Refor2 Icaving, mssssnqkrs can hrkc ~dvcrce?r~p?r.?.ti~ns fnr n~xtycnr 's cocv;;ticn. Thc SoutPirn Bzptist Gcn2r;l Convation of C?lifcrnis is ?istributinr prcmction picccs which cntltli thc b::rcr to TI frcc cup of coffet; crt my irlin; h&~d to'-'nrd Los Liocl~s 2nd freg adni tt~rrccto tb~.conv;rltioi? th,:r~ Jun: 9-11, l~!. =rvantes Convention Center SBL press News noom rr~u-y/ St.-Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Clrs. Adrian Rogcrs Featuri For Imedi~tcR=lecsc

ST. LOUIS, June 10--"I would hzve bc-;.n d~lightudif he had and I'm d~lightsdhe isn't," comment:d Mrs. Adrian Rogers about hcr husband's dicision not to consid~ra sicond tzrm as presid~ntof thc Southern Saptist Conv~ntion.

ivirs. Rogzrs w~nton to scy shk ms completely surpriskd when h,:r husbnnd rcturncd home from a gzll hlzdder opzr~tionat th~hospitzl 8nd asked her to przy with him about th~ mcltt~r. Although she and h~rhusband do not lik~controv,zrsy, shc cmphasiz~dtha currcnt doctrinal controv~rsyin the SBC had no thin^ to do vi th h::r hushend's decision.

"He naer looks for 2 fi~ht. Ye would probably rur! from controv~rsy," said drs. Rogtrs. "But, he hds nkvtr been a compromiscr or ? coward."

blrs. Roq~rssaid shc, felt th~cnly controvcrsy this ycer h8s been over whether or not the Bible is trus, and the Rogcrs "are $lad to stand for that." Rogfrs allowcd his nomt to bo placed in nomination lest ysar, his wifc said, hkcaus= tlL fslt someone should sp~ctk out for thc intrrancy of the Scriptures. Shc bdl icv~shc has acconplishcd what hc: want~d.

"Yu were taught as childrz~th2.t th? Biblc is tru,z--we: n@vcr hmrd th6. word in- Grrzncy then--and wc qrew up k:li::ving that," i+s. Rogers expleined. "iJt v?rs zaazad when we got older and real ired sorn, Baptists don't br.1 iwi. thct."

Sha says that, a1 though shr. had ;lll?ays bzli.:v~.c! thr? Scriptur5.s to 5~ tru~,sht provzd ft in her own life when on2 of their ba5izs ~'11.2a crih d=ath.

"Ihad always livcd Sn the sunshin~until thkn," sh, cxplcincd. "Tht ~r~atcstthing I learned from that was to przist God in difficult timcs." Tilough thbrc was an inward strugplil, shc szys she clung to th prornisc that the Scripture is truk.

"Now I know God's i.!~rd is trui. !ht do pcopl.: who don't $+?Iisve thnt cl in? to in b3d times?"

Fzelinc thst her rol, fn her husband's nomin,?tion last ytpr hzs baan misrcpr;scnted, ?rs. Roqsrs says she was r~luctantfor hi^ to br. S4C pr-sidcnt bzcauscl. of her own fears. "I had a fwr of the unknown, I gucss. It's 5-d to put your fincer on thk exact re2~0n5," she said thou~htfully. "I felt thes,: were vcluabli yGnrs for our family, tht last years our chlldren would bc hosc. YG's nonc ~nouohalrcarly. I drcad~:! th;! trawl. ivfayb~I felt ther~would bk controvdrsy.

"But, whcn you trust th.? Lord, you can adjust to anything. And spkcjal hl=ssings al~lrsyscome along, Ironicclly, the things I fcarcd most turnc,od out to bc pood thinfs." Eks. Rovers traveled with her husband marc than she had in the nast.

"Our first grandchild was born this yar, and .rc wcre sble to stop off f~uror five tim~sfor visits," she said with h+r quick smile. "And I'vc aott~nto know soma of the leaders within our convzntion and thzt hzs been a dzl iqhtful cxoc:rienc? to me.", A1 though i-irs. 2ogers had no personal goals as wife of the Southern Baptist Convention prezident, it has been a year filled with accomplishment for her. "I finally finished a book which I've been working on for eight or nine years. I tcok it on sose of those trips and worked on it while my husband was in meetings. ' The book, The Yise l.lcman, expresses the profound and practical part cf !ks. Rogers' life. "I believe the C'ristian life is ultimat.1~ about the the01 ogical with practical appli- c:fions,:' she explained. 7113 book will be release in January by Broadmail Press.

Another of this year's satisfactions was the women's conference sponsored by Bellevuc Baptist Church in Aay.

"Hs were planning it before the SBC presidency, but I'm sure that cur role influenced women to ccm?,!' explaired i!rs. Rocers. "They knew us and knerr \r!;iat we sta03 for."

~?Ys. Rsgers, r:ho is involved in a woi~lan's ministry in her church, said she has wanted to spsak out ahout t:?e true 3iblical role of wowen wXch she feels has b~eilmisrepres~n-Led.

"I wanted to bring a group cf .romzn together to discuss eqt!al !vorth 5ut not sa~enest of -:lirction;" shc ex;313ine2. "2ur greatest desire is to teach a balanced Christicn Iff?."

A'ithozqh ;Vrs. Rogers d~esnot plan similar conferences i~th? future, she hzlieves th2 inpact frcm this on? will encourage women to go back to the: r owa ciiurzhes and do sii:lilar things.

"1 d:-:2't havc the enErgy to undertake anything like this ri3ht n~s/,"shz said. Thfn~sms:l not slclv do~nve;-y much for h?r family when thcy r2t.::-n to lie??his a:tciA the ccna:snt icn. '!!?:'r? stili Wiling to fin2 time for a ianily vacation," she s~~ileli."Also, l:!z'i'e taking o!ir son t:, rz:is%er at 3aylor University, which he'll entc: in the fall. ' t:er husband stil' has enaapelnents involv'nrj travel, acd h? -;.~n:s to get more actively invoivecl ii? their church's 4.5 nillicr! dollar builljina progrm. :le alsc wafits tc do SOi.12 wri tiny. "This ycai. kas 2 iven cur fanily scme trzmeadocs prcniszs ," she s:ip?ained. "i;'e've learned not to fi:ht thse vho think c:il of us, bu-i Qo tui-n it ovzr to the Lord and let hir;! take car2 cF it ."

She went on to ssjr s;iz had SEEP,c;rieved "i.2 year bec;use scr!;:e pc~pleheve judge3 the motives of those close to tii~:~~.

"jiy husban? and I hop2 a2 can disaqrce in iove and not jgdge motives, : she said. "Our. bio desire i; ",hat ws right he one. I feel like ve've trfed to solidify our Eiencm:- nation this- y:lrj z;se bridges hzve be~i~built. Ye've felt arezt lov:! and acce7tance. It's been a goad yetr."

On2 of the hi~hmonents for her at the meeting of the S9C hera occurred when she szt the stace for her hus5and8s presidential adkess with a musical solo.

Ey Jennifer Bryan 3wcn--ll:39 a .IF. Tuesday Cervantes Conven~lonCenterS ress St. Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Evannel i sa, Sunday School Secretaries Feeti no fcr Irrmediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 10- stat^ Evanqelism and Sunday School secretari~swera urqed hcr~ Monday to train tha Southern Baptist Convention's ~stimatc-don& mil1 ion Sunday School workers to be personal Christian witnesszs. A nsw plan to train the yorkers was announced at a meetinn of th~two groups sponsored by the Sunday School Division of the Paptist Sunday School Board, F!asnvills, and thf Evangelism Section of the Hone Mission Soard, Atlanta.

C. B. Hogue, evanqelism director at the mission board, and Yarry Pilsnd, director of the Sunday School Dcpartnent for the Sunday School eoard, explained the plan involves joint sponsor;hip b:~ tthir two dspartrnents of traininq for local church leaders in aparopriatc personal evanql.1 ism mcthods.

Piland commented on thz current lack of ovanpelistic visf tation by Sunday School workars across thf SBC. He added:

"The single most difficult visitation proqram (to qet people involved in) is not absantca visitation. Sunday School ~mrkwswill do almost anything to avoid that zvanns- listic visit."

"Ma have set a goal of 8.5 million enrolled in Southern Saatist Sunday Schools by 1955. Thers is no way that.. .WE will qrorr to 8.5 million unllss and until lve p~natratc the lost (151) million person) comnunity of our nation." Honua rernindsd tha .joint stat2 sncrctarizs that "whel;over thc leaders ir! a statc convention havc the sama O~~EC~~VESin mind; crrxit thinas can ha~xn. I pledac- that can work toacther. "

Hooue said that his vision was that 500,000 pcople per year would b~ reachsd soon. He notcd that Southsrn Baptist pastors and paid staff memb~rscould reach ".. .576,000 for Christ each year if they would each only lead one psrson to Christ per month." l~ewar~.~~onven~~or I i;enter DL rress lY tlws I IVUI I I I Iluruylapllyf St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager New

"That We May Boldly Say"

Tuesday Opaning Session--"lorris Chapman For Immedirtti: Ralease

ST. LOUIS, Jun= 10--R 'Jichit3 F$lIs, Texas, psstor tqarn~dTuesday morning that thc 1980 Southgrn Baptist Conv~ntionmust not become ernbroi led in controversy. "The world just !*zits for controversy to cruat amona us," "'orris Chapman, pastor of First Baptist Church, told thc onenin? s;?ssion of thk~tl'rr~.t-day convention at Cervantfis Convention Centcr harc. "3ut what this !~iorldz:-eds to sx is thc lovc of God (~x5lod~ within us."

Res~ondinqto a welcoms. from th; 1 isotr:nant aovemor of l?issouri , Chaoman us;xl his time in an attempt to set a consarvstiv~,yet cooperative ton- for th~conv.:ntion, which hzd registered 10,537 by 9:40 z.m. Tu~sday.

Frsquently interrupt~bby a?nlaus~, Chnpman ssid thn Southdrn Paptist tradition is on on& hznd consr.rvativct thr;oloay and on th= othzr caoo;.mtivb? mcthodol oay . "This heritage is bawd on tb? bclicf thnt thc Pi51: is th~authoritntiv;, iqfalli5le word of God," Ch~pmanssid, his words fadina out !:rith lour! enplaus,=.

"Eithsr the Dibl~is th2 word of God, or It is nct," h? said. "\!a know our enthusiasm for evangalism and missions e!i 11 not exc.:cd our convictions on bib1ice1 euthori ty."

Baptists arE a "people of th? hook, on& in the bond of lova," hc said.

In tht SBC, he continued, "th~rcard som: rlho tmd to 52 cons.?rvativ:l hut not ~00plr2ti~c Therc aro othsrs who tend to b~.coopcrativc but not conswvativz, brhilc thz rznk and fit.: of Southern Baptists is both conservativ~and cooptl-rativa." hain he w?s stoppsd by itprlausd.

?is Southern Baptists, th2 sycakcr said, "vc arc on the threshold of on; of the min+ties: movemtnts of evangelism and missions in our history (a ref,,!r?nc,? to th~convention's Bold ilission Thrust effort to sharc the Gos?~l!dth all thz world dthin the nsxt 2n ysars).

Prfsidcnt Adrian Roq~rr, aftsr .iokinc .?.+out Chapman takina th:; occasion for f3r mor2 than a "r~spons2," than addod: "Ijust bslisvz 1.p; come hzr~today to do business for our Lord in a spirit of lova."

The wclcomt to :lissouri was cxtzndcd by Lt. Cov. '~tillilmPhclps. In a nt!!s conferzncn: later, PSelps announced his opposition to a voluntary husino plan to intenrat2 St. Louis city and county schools. Phelps, an announc~dcsndidate for the R:~ubl ican nomin~tionfor qovsrnor, attapkkd thc $11 million statc-financed plan pr0post.d by his opooncnt, foww qovwnor Kit Rond. "Businq has not accornplishfd any improv:m;nt in thi. qu31ity of r-ducatiol," ?h;-lps said. "Thz stata tax dollars would bc bztter spent for improved curriculum, vocational education and teacher salaries." Registration Szcrztary Lue Portsr said this is th: .iiqhth time the convention has met in St. Louis. Its first meting here in 1971 attracted 39) messGnprrs. If the ragistration ~xc~eds14,794, oorter said, this convention wi 11 bzcorni? thc 10th largest ~nnualmeting. Last yzar's convzntion in Houston renisti.rt?d 15,750 mt.ssansers

By Bob Stanl~y--ll:43 a.m. Tuesday -~ervamsswn-ol QU~r Ibail I"b""UI I"-... - . 'J. St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" ROUNDUP FOR k!EOE!ESDAY Pi%

ST, LOUIS, June 11--Southern Baptist pastors were adviszd here Mednesday morning to get off the sid~streets and start majoring on pr~aching.

H. Edwin Young, pastor of Second Saptist Church, Houston, Taxas, mnde the suggestion as he keynoted the 123rd annual me~tingof the Southorn Baptist Convention in Cervantc-s Convention Center, "The church places major emphasis on mzrginal matt~rsand repeats th~errors of ths Pharisees, with whom Jesus continual 1y battled," Young contended. "Those religious leaders kept the little foms of religion while they neglected the significant matters. They spent time on side streets." Directing his coments to the clergyman, Younq said, "!lo should major on preaching because that Is the particular task to which God has cslled us. Since preaching is our business, it is our first duty to mind our business." However, the pastor-preacher who majors on prezching will likely be criticized," Young predictad, with most of the fault finding coming from his peers in the pulpit. "God has celled us as a denomination priinarily to preech his '.lord," Youn@ szid. "Show me a church with strong preaching, and 1 will show yod a strong church,''

"No church, no denomination will evzr get on c side street as lonq as the Pible is central and Jesus Christ is introduced throun5 pre~chinq," Younc added. Speaking on HBoldn~ssin a Changinp !!or1d,It A1 b2rt 'icCle11sn of F!ashvillc, Tenn., a Southern Baptist program planning special ist, to1d the ressenprs "we must boldly believe that beyond the world's loss of ordar, the world's loss of Sts dr~ams, the world's loss of its true humanity, and the world's loss of spirit, that the hope of tho v!orld is its redemability in Christ.

"That is both the reason and the ground for the boldness of the Christian to make him known to the last person in the last place of the world." In othcr action, the messenaers received progress reports from two of their aaencies, the Brotherhood Commission in Memphis, and Radio and Televisior! Comnission in Fort !!orth.

Executive Director James H. Smith said the Srotherhood aaency will major on helping churches involve men and boys in missions during the next 10 years.

As ~videnceof a good beginning, Smitb pointed to a growth in Srotherhood wrk last year. The agency reported 469,315 men and boys in 16,179 churches enrolled in Brother- hood unlts.

Jimy Allen, president of the communications agency, said he plans to find more ways to cooperate nSth SBC groups to confront more people aith tcle gospel.

"A major shift in national attitudes toward relfrious beliefs indicates now Is the time to emphasize preaching of the Gospel of Jesus Christ in morz candid terms," said Allen, SBC president in 1977-79. Pace 2--Roundup For Wednesday P4S

"iviass communicztion is a key to th~success of Sold E~lissionThrust (the Baptist plan to confront everyone in the world with the gospel by the year 2000) ," Allen added. The commission produces four television programs and seven radio programs for 3,824 stations across the nation. In a business session late Tuesday afternoon, Bailey E. Smith, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla., a suburb of Oklahoma City, was elected presi- dent of the SBC on the first ballot.

Smith, an evangelist whose church has led the 35,OQO church denomination in baptisms five of the last six years, swamped five opponents, receiving almost 52 per cent of the total vote. Losing to the popular Smith were Frank Pollard, Jackson, bliss.: Jimmy Stroud, Knoxville, Tenn., Dr. Hal Boone, Houston, Texas; James Pleitz, Dallas, Texas; and Richard Jackson, Phoenix, Ariz.

Smith will take office Thursday night, succeeding Adrian Rogers, Memphis, Tenn.

By Roy Jennings----6:22 p.m. Tufsday -- -- Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News HOOm pnotogra~n~f St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Dan Martin Appointed For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 9--Daniel B. Martin Jr,, a veteran ,d 23 years in secular and Southern Baptist journal ism, will become news editor for Baptist Press, news service of the Southern Baptist convention, on Aug. 1. idartin, 42, editor of tha news service at the SBC Home Mission Board, was approved for the position Monday by the Adhiriistratfve SubXomiittee of' the 'SBC Exscutive 'Comrhl tte~. He will succeed Robert O'Brien, who will join the SBC Foreign Vission Board in July to pilot a program of overseas news coverage.

Martin will work alongside Norman Jameson, feature editor, who supervises the feature coverage and photography for BP. A native Texan, iiiartin will supervise news coverage of the denominition's news servfce, coordfnating work with six BP bureaus and other news sources and relations with secular and religious media. Each year, beginning with the 1981 SBC in Los Angeles, he will be the newsroom manager at annual SBC meetfngs. 4 "Dan Martin has that rare combinaki dwof extensive experience with daily newspapers and with the dsnomination which the Baptist Press Rol~requires," according to Wilmer C. Fields, director of Baptist Press,

"He is well prepared for this demanding task," Fields observed. Before joining the Home Nfssion Board in Atlanta in 1976, blartin was press director for the Baptist Gsneral Convention of Texas, Dallas, 1973-76. In both Dallas and Atlanta he coordinated news coverage for bureaus of Baptist Press.

Earlier, Martin spent 16 years on staffs of newspapers in Texas and Colorado in variol capacities, including reporter, sports writer;.editor and photographer. Among papers he worked for were the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, the Rocky Mountain News, Fort' Worth Star Telegram, Oaf 1as Norning dews and Dallas Times Herald. His writing has won 12 secular and religious journalism awards. He has authored thrae books.

Besides news experiencs, tiartin has been pastor of churches in Bluegrove, Dundee, and Quanah, Texas. He is a graduate of Midwestern University, Wic_hita- Falls, Texas, and has done work toward a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth. hartin fs married to the former Colleen Taylor. They have four children, Kay Lynn, 24; David, 22; Daniel 111, 17; and Jill, 11.

(BP) Photo to state Baptist newspapers By Bob O'Brien--9:07 p.m. Wonday - - .. - -- -- Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography7------: 3.Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Roundup for Tuesday N4S Sf. LOUIS, June 9--The dean of Southern Ba~tistpastors called on his fe11ow ct~rgyrnan to become ambassadors, not diplomats in leading their congrerlations. In an address at the closing session of the two-day Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, W. A. Criswell, pastor of the 18,000-member First Baptist Church, Dallas, critized shai-ply the modern preacher who has turned from the conversion of the lost to the prcmaticn of in- stitutions and causes.

"!If? must have men of God who care to go forth to preach not socfoloqy but salvation, not economics, but evangel ism, not culture but conversion, rccy reformation but reganaraticrn, not renovation but revival, not revolution but redemption, not progress hut pardcn, r.st 3.2 new social order but the new birth ....," declared the 71-year-old former president of the Southern Baptist Conventf on. Speaking on "Heartfelt Religion," Cris%ell contended historical ,ktericsn churchzs ilnd their leaders have grow less and less interested in the conversion or' the lost and mcre a;,d more concerned with the advancement of causes during the last 5C gears. "The proposal has been to save society in bulk: slum by slum, union by union, lepls- lature by legislature, organization by organization ," Criswell~said. "The young the01 op have been preparing to redeem the world by becoalng proficient in scciology, "The spfritual dearth in most of our churches in America is the high and tragic price we have paid for such preaching," Criswell said. "Not only has the modern pulpit been emptied of its heart and soul, but it has sig- nally fafled to change the tragic course of the world." Criswell shared the podilnn with Bailey Smith, pastor af First Southern Baptist CI:?lrch, Del City, Okla.; Yilliam G. Tanner, president of the Home ilission Board, Atlanta; and RG~ Fish, associate professor of evangell sm at Southwestern Baptist Theological Semi~ary,Fort t.?orth. Smith urged the ministers to stand for "total truth of God's !?ord" whfch he called "the holy, infallible, Inerrant Yord of God." Tanner advised the pastors their mandate from God is to get involved.

"Ifwe are going to be effective in our world in this day, we are going t3 hzve to come down off the gates, from behind our pulpits and from out of our studies," Tcnner szid. Fish told the preachers that effective evangelism will cost them their privileges, prejudices, and luxuries, "but you are going to gain precious people for our Lord. "If enough of you would comnit yourself to the kind of evancjelism that costs, then $$me day they wight say about us what they said of those long ago, 'these that h:.ve turned the wort d upside down have come here a1 so. ' " The pastors were one of seven specialized groups meeting in advance of the 123rd arncal meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, scheduled to start three days of cctivi ty Tlies- day. Page 2--Tuesday AMS Raundup

T~Econvention is expected to averaqe about 18,003 messenqws from throuqhout the United States. They will elect a successor to President ndrian Rooers of liem~his,con- sidar a $90 million budget, hear reports from 23 aqencies, examine proposals to tighten registration and voting procedures, and take action on a wide range of resolutions.

The convention is composed of more than 35,939 cooperating churches with memberships totalling about 13.4 million. -30-

By Roy Jenninqs--1l:Zl a.m. Monday QUb 1-1 e33 1*uvv.3 I \UVIII I I luruyl awl :y/ u':. U G, I .'Z.Y, "I*', 1 V 1;' . Iu1 I berrrm St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" Spzech Hritzr Feature For Immediate Rcl tasz

ST. LOUIS, June S--Thc genera? atrnosphcre of th; Southern Eaptist Convzntion's annual meeting here Tcesciay thro~~hTh:!r;day wili b& convqrcri to Prcsident Jimmy Cartc-r by his reli~iourliaisoil assistart, 5oL iiadiox.

Tlie Southern Bactist minister from Calhoun, Pa., and presidcntirl SPEEC~writer says that becausz re1 ision is "so visibie right nov~," the Cartir admini stration 1 s particularly conc~rnedv!i ti1 !*that is happening in najor denocinations.

Ijvailabli? to minyle !rf th S;C sessmpers for oniy a short time, i'acidox sair! most sccr21 to be in suprort of Carter.

"The election notwithstandiac, thotqt-,: .Ca?ter is really conczrned about the roral condition of the ~~tiiltrya0? hat he CBil do to strc-nythen tll@moral anr! spirituzl fiber of tke country," iiaddox contenckd.

For ti12 KOS~put, i.a;dox be1 iav&s 5out:i~rn'-aptists arc "cons~rvativr:in th2olony Stit miitlz-of-'52-road in p.tl itics." i'~. says Cartc-r Lois not rcject lzoitirratc ~ovcrnmnt invol ve!neilt by rc?ifious lkzrlers. i..adiox sai:i hh sb-arzs the opinioll !:ith Carter that it is Pnerica's ri~htand responsibility to 5~ iavolvcd in politics.

lttadd~:: contendd Soutk~raCaptists' nenc!.:.l opinion, horrever, exclvdes a "few, fa"-right groups ~:rit.;iin t':c 5?3."

i.;~ildoxsay; thesc. sroups ar; "2av:'nc an effect. Thy zre rnakSng people nervous ik11t issues that are -importart, hut not really isse;.s that they oueht to be addressir;g."

!-it: sail thesc factisns tcnd to focus on national aeffnitions such as abortion, th~ Cqual Rights Amenie?nt, and Gay ri~;?ts.but f!on8'c coccentratti cn poor neople in the country ani other rcieted issuas.

Re1 i?icri is especial lit visibl~r?o::l, be1 iaes i,;ac'Ax, because o-I" a fekt television praac3zrs whc "hav~been a51e to buili nations1 te'lcvision ~iaistries!.ti th ~trOn? pol itical aczndas."

There's a ~rcatueal of vitality in all this rot iqious rhsur?ence," says ;'addox, "but this enerrjy hasn't Scez cl~annel~ilan5 !.lon't 5.:: until the el~ctionis over."

r,.addox took his political position in ~iay,1975, aft~rserviiv ss a pastor and in ~~*.'e*-31other churcn 1~aiersh.i~pos+':ioar.. I!2 atterc!ed last year's beetin? of tk~SSC in I-ioustoil and is the first person LC fill suck a position in the Carter administration. ~:ucliof iia

"Some sez tke c~nferenczsa.i a poiitical pioy, oth~rssee it cs detrir-rntal to th~ family," he adied. f!e said tl!e latter vier was g~lnzrateii-.:causa tl.e >a1ti~ore conference upheld the right tc abortion, supportc.d th2 tii?,, and cam^ out with a simple state~~ent (more) Page 2--Speech !:rriter Feature about non-discrimination" which included the subject of homosexual rights. The purpose of the conferences is to let delegates from states decide and recommend what the public thinks government and the private sector can do to strengthen the family. i4addox said a number of the delegates are Southern Baptists. -30- By Laura Fite--8:44 p.m. donday Photo Ca~tions For Your Information PHOTO 5 -- ikw officers were elected at the annual Southern Saptist Conference for Directors of Missions June 8-9 at Fee Fee Baptist Church in St. Louis. Thay are (bottom row, from leFt) J.D. Passmore, Current Gaines fissociation, Arkansas, secretary: and Cline sorders, Kings ?.fountain Association, Aorth Carolina, president-elect, On tha top row, from left, are Stanley !!bite, Los Angzles Saptist Association, California, 1981 host; Harold Blackburn, Baldwin 17ssociation, Alabama, editor; and Larry ROSE, l.!aco Saptist F.ssociation, president. Photo by Steve Aedford

PHOTO 3 -- Combatting I.!orld Hunger -- Alastair ',!a1 ker, pastor of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, S.C., and former president of the South Carolina Earltist Convention, told women at th~annual meeting of Yoman's ilissionary Union of Baptist plans for combatting world hunger. !qlalker holds a plastic rice bowl lik2 tl~osebeicg distributed to Baptists as encouraaement to send offerinqs to re1iwc world hunoer. Photo b,y Van Payne

PHOTO 11 -- 1981 Pastors' Conference Officers -- i*!eva officers of the Southern Ba~tist Pastors' Conference are (from left) Kenneth '.!ayn~ Fields, pastor of First Saotist Church, A1 buqu~rque, b!.:., vice president; and Jim Flenry, pastor of First Sapti st Church, Orlando,

Fla., president. Officers were elected at the annual pastors' conference which met Junz .. . 8-9 in Cervantes Convention Center, St. Louis. Photo bv Tim Fizlds News

"ThatWe May Boldly Say" W;?III i.4onday Afternoon For lmediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 9--Amid memories and memorabilia of Lottie Moon. Southern aa?tistsl most famous missionary, came the announcement here Yonday afternoon that the offering named for her has reached a record-breaking $40.5 mi 1I ion. As more than 1,530 people listened breathlessly at the annual session of Iioornan's 2:lissionary Union in Kiel Auditoriun, a 95-year-old fomer missionary shared her memories of ;.liss loon.

rfrs. Jeslell Daniel of Sallas, who follolved liss noon as missionary in P'ingtu, ~hina,said that 58 years after ::liss :-loan's death, her influence continues to be felt around the world.

14rs. Daniel was interviewed on stage by Yrs. Catherine 8. Allen, assistant to the executive director of '*!!!I,Bihninqhacn, !.rho' s written a biography, The flew Lottie 'loon Story. Lirs. Allen, who was awarded the initial copy of the new hook by a representative of Broadman Press, noted that "Lgttie :4o3n chose to becoae 3 Sout;iern 3aptist even though her denomination didn't for a time encouraqe her to be what God called her to be.

Lottie :loon, a tiny 'Jirginia woman, burned herself out ~ioneeringas a missionary, and died on board ship en route home on Christllas day in 1912. qrs. Allen said she feared that her research of ;liss :doon's life might reveal "that something was not what we thought and would damage our conficienee." But in Lottie i.lOon's case, truth was more inspiring than fiction, said -Irs. Allen.

A missionary couple to Hong Kong, :4r. and ,Irs. Jerry Darrett, said they are using the same missionary methods that Lottie :.loon used 70 yaars.ago. Also the primary needs haven't changed since liss :.loon was writing letters hone aslting for prayers, financial support an3 more missionaries, the couple said. The Barretts said there is a tiny glean of light through the door that the Chinese Cmunists erected and a f+v! churches have been opened in rnainlani China.

The question js, "How can we best share Christ without endangering their nw found free- dom," said I.lrs. Barrett. Several nieces of iviss loon spoke briefly. They included ks. Charlcrtte Churchill 111 of Cre*nle, Ya. ', Ars. Russell Thomas of Roanoke, Ya. ; .llrs. Linda Harmon of Zichmond, Va,; Jarthanne A. Huffines of 2ichmond; and ?ita l:ratkins of Tulsa, Okla.

Jane Chu, student at Ouaclli ta Baptist Univzrsity, Arkadelphia, Ark., and a concert pianist, told how the work begun by ,liss :.loon resulted in her father becornin? a Christian and going on to teach in a 3aptist universf ty.

At the close of the scssion, the audiance was treated to a display of artifacts irlcluding iliss noon's desk built by a Chinese workman, her trunk, cock hook, footstool an4 other rnernorabi 15 a.

;.iissionary Jerry Carrett sized up the proqram honoring Southern iaptists' best known mi ssioilary: "She touched us all. God placed a burden on her for the Chinese people and she responded. -30- By Orville Scott--8:lO p.m. a*londay . IRPORTART!

RE--Pastors Conference Election, second oraph (moved 5:25 p.m. fbnday) Elected vice president was Stan Coffsy, pastor of First Baptist Church, A1 buqucrque, N .ti., not Georoe t!arri s , Sorry! The I?e!qs Room gg- St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" idonday Canpus :tin1 sters For Imcdiate Release ST. LOUIS, June 9--Real ities of nuclear pro1 iferatlon. qedical advances and the shape of the American family confronted Southern Baptist campus ministers here :

"!le think of i501s as statues, ' he sai J, ''but biblically, idolatry is the concept of f~:-:ak';ng Yaweh and puttin? somethin: else in its place. ' Re pointed to the records of prophets who chastised the nation of Israel for dependin! <;I z:l.itary alliances--as oppose? to faith in Gml--for their strength and security. i'k,?:~ he noted tiie sbarp escalation of nuclear weapons in the United States. "!ie place trust in what won't bear that trust, and we risk iiivolving ourselves in wars ~.;h;ct! are none of cur business.'' Faith in nuclear aws leads cea to 'becone harr: like rocks, then sf lly like dogs," Stassen said. ''Ye lose rationality. Tile result is destruction." The key to haltino arms escalation is to encoura:,e Sovjets and ,Imericans to talk about the prohl em, he c1 aimed, "The ams race is not in the best interest of eftner country," he said, explainin9 thst both riies should have ivtare than adequate incen'iivz for cor,iing to the bargaining table. United States politicfans are reluctant to reopea sarious talks because they do not think it is feasible to clo so--because the no02 of tho country saem to disfavor reconciliai tic:, he said. Stassen said the church should adopt Christ's exmple of "surprise initiatlve' and c;:crli':-age goverment leaders to seek to talk about 3ms controls with tiie Soviet Union. But activisiil is not enough, he added. "You cannot stork on peaczrnakinq alone. You . ::!.;t pr.ay. '

The student workers also heard from Paul Si,~wans, professor of Christian ethics at 5olix:lern fmioary, who addressad the problem of reconcilinq medical and ethical issuss IT.the '80s. Simnans listed a plethora of issues which daily face Americans throuqh nevspapcrs ani Ln 2levision: euthanasia, or 'xiercy killing:' sterilization of mental gatients, "genius !'r::j," or sperm banks desisneil to propapate the offspring of Jobel Prize winners, par- thei?oyenesis, or "virgin birth;' which has allaved some species of animals to flourish although only one sex extsts, abortion an; health costs. A11 of us are touched by these issues,' he said. ''They call on us who are comi tteJ to the ministry to bring tile best of our li~oral understanciin:! and reliqious perspective to bear in deal ing with these critfcal proSlm~s.' Paga 2--Lionday Campus Ministzrs He claimod complzx medical/ethical issues will incrsase in the futurz and added that pzrsons involv3d in then dzs~rv~hel~ and attention.

"!!hat is needcd is for us to think throuah thesa problsms.. .and do our home!~~ork," he said. "Scizntists who daily struoglo with th~suprohlems nil1 #elcome dialogue with ministers and persons concerned with moral and rzlioious im~llcations of this issue."

In light of this nesd, Simmons said h* doss not think thi "traditional, religion-baszd consansus on the inviability of human lif;?has bxn breakinq down under thf weight of tbu mu1 tip1ici ty of conflicting moral convictions. "In fact, under thz impact of scienci., rre'r~finding whzrs the cllffercnccs of opinion on the issue zxist.

"It's on the cdges of 1if2, wh.zr6- many of the assumptions of our theology begin to c3ke the differ2nced in hon humans handle the problzms incurrad in massive medical and t2chnoloqica I breakthroughs, ho said. "11s we meet new and fascinatinq circumstancss, what is beinq tast~dis the th2oloaical adequacy of our rcligious psrsp~ctivcs." Harry Hollis, associata i?xecutivc director of thc Southern Raptist Christian Life Commission, Eashvill~,addrzrszd the issus of family liff in this decade.

Hollis said t~oscznarios can be dra1.n: oni vhich raflects days to coqe to b2 the Worst of times and another which claims them to ht thz advent of the "aoldzn aa~"of the family.

"Idon't think ~an'r~enterinq tha !:!orst timc for the family," he sald. Hz quotzd a recent Gallup poll which found that eight out of 1') ?mcricans bclisvc family is the most important thing in life.

"But I don't believe we'ra in the qoldsn aoz. ith her," hc said, notinq that problems of mobi 1ization, fragmentation and confused role qlsyinq sti11 terrorize the traditional family.

Ha said t"l2 3ible tcaches t~owry siqnificant facts about the family. The first is that the familv is "ver,y, very irn?ortantn and that th? Bihlc tak?s thz family and its place seriously. Ths second is that the family is not the ultimatz ualuc--God is.

The key to succ~ssfulfamily living comhincs the supremacy of God and the importance of the family, he said.

I1Th2 secret of building a succ~ssfulfamily is having God's lovc in your hearts," hc said. Family relationships bass4 on graci. and lcvz -:!illbe tho ones 4:1hich l-till flourish.

"Campus ministers have a unique opportunity to claim a ncnuration for Southgrn 3aptists at a time vhen a2 nccd the eaerqy, vioor and enthusiasm af studsnts in Southzrn Baptist life," he said. "You can claiv t$cs; younn cou~l=sat a tisc lalhen tqis country needs strona and healthy familics to bscome involved in solvinn ths proklems of our day ." News

"That We May €xecu&94'~#a;t tr2 For Im~diateRe? 15:

ST. LOUIS, June 9--The Soatkern 3aotist Convention's Ex~zutiveComrni ttee--the denoaina- tion's 65-member figurztive board of directors-- {onday heard a 301d i,lission Thrust report designed not only to confront everycine in the ~10i.1d nith thz rjospei by the year 2003 but to zdd I. 5 mi11 isn bcpti zzd be1 1 evors to church roll c by 1384-35.

Thz kld ,Il;ssion Thrust repcrt 12stcd s:iggested goals for 1332-35. In addition to the 1.5 !a.filicr, ne:\1 baptism, the rt~ortcelled icr thi. cr-ganization of 1,500 new churches by 'l?E? ti^? iiiv:lvenenF. of 3.5 ni?:ron people in 6ibie st!!dy through Sunday School, and ;thing 30,C03 chur;:hes ts ir,ci-xre t:lzjr ;j>t.centage sf 'sctiget giving through the Coope:.:tive Fro2 :-za.

-9i,;rsc suggested goals are designed to retch pzople, dev?lop believers, and strengthen fatnf 1 '; 2s. Thcy ~1so call io;- 2.55; ~le~~ly-c?i;cii~tzd!ni ssioc1t.y p~s~nneland 300,030 short- teiq;: ini ssisn VJ: untfers, inalud.;ng I-ifssioii Szrvice Carp volunteers.

Tkn ?;?n to ~tr:ag'tFzn iit::lilics also calls for 599,300 family unit5 to Sa comitted to f?!zf:.y ?;o;*sh:p zn5 2ible f:!!j? i.7 the horn,?. Every church wili be encouraged to provide Christian fam:ly c:?:ic2!.,:.?nl ac2ivities that vill strzngthdn fa~ifyrelationships an4 floral ualczs.

TIVle plan aft? czi is fcr tiaininj 1 :~till!o,l chuiqth .cca:;ers t; vitncss; training 3.5 mi 11 ion in dizcipl ?ship ail:! doct:'ine throuo:i th? Ck~rckTrainin:! program, and invol~iilg 1.9 millicii in aissions: tltr~uqt~the '.!csants ,~lii;si3na:-:f Unis;l znrl the i3rotfierhoo.i Comfssion. It also cel::: .i:r iniiulvicy 20,003 shui-chzs in an cr.:?kasis to develop Christian standards.

In other aciicil, thn Ccmittae alspiej a reco-mendatfon fram !ts finance ssb-co~mittee that may enrble ;hv O~.;r,n.: 3kptf st f3cofogfcal Smiaary ta a nufre the 11.',000 square foot ,lairor;-31ailc;i:. dea3t"inent C~C~E:fo? renilrlvdtian as a studd;t znter. The buildin: on 6.57 acres zdSciiis tha sm-incy.

i?aw Or;c?ans 5em:'nay is due ta rer,e-i\!e 82,791,235 frm the denomination by 1933-3-. That mone:l I1.s alr-.aiy bczn ! ;igaute.c! .:or a ne!.! studsn: czr.ter and cafeteria.

Thn recornendatfair ~511encble Srnisary leakrs 50 entw negotiations with the 3roperty ovners. Iq thd et!ent a scttleaznt cannot be re~checi, snminary president Lanrfrur;; P. Leave11 IS said tha noncy z'lr.?xI:~da~igil~ted by the denceination !.ri 1i be used to buiId a new 5'- deat centilr bad c~fet~i'ia. In othei- business the Executive Comittae approved a rcqc .-tfro3 Golden Gate 3aptist -~her;ioai~al Seminary to borrow against future cap;tal nzcds al'xatcd for thz completion of colistruc tion cf tke new 1i brary facil i ties.

Sminary president !.!illi~r;l Pinscn said the pi*oposal is d.1: . .?d as a "contiiigency neasurs to halp assure comp??tJon of the building ir~the avent of a shortfall of capital funds :n 1930."

!Jo :':.::-",fall is expected, Pinson indicated, calling the requcst morely a safety pre- caution.

i4emSers 07 the Ex-cutivc Cornpi ttee 1zarn~Jtheir Adnfnistrative Sub-cornmi ttee named Janief B. lartin Jr., of Atlanta. G2., to succ~,JRobert J. O'Jrien as news editor for BE; tist Pyess. 0t9ri,on Is ieaving after seven ye~rsto accept an over-?as news assignment Page 2--Executive Comi ttee i4eeting with the.SBC1s Foreign idission Board. Martin, an experienced journalist with years in secular and Southern Saptist journal- isin, is editor of news services for the Hme irlission Board. He will join the staff August 1,

Four long-time denominational employees clted by the Committee for their contributions to Baptists included Albert 'dcclellan, programing planning secretary, Executive Committee, who is retiring December 1983 after 31 years; Robert S. Denny, general secretary of the Baptist Gdorld Alliance, retiring September 1530 after 11 years in the office; Searcy S. Garrison, executive secretary-treasurer of the Georgia Baptist Convention, retiring Deceii- ber 1980 after 25 years, and C. L. Pair, director of communications and editor of the Baptist Beacon in Arizona, who retired in April 1980 after seven years.

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"That We May Boldly Say" lionday Afternoon Pastors ' Co~fercnc~ For Inmediate R&l~as~ ST. LOCIS, June 9--Grady C. Cothen, presidcilt of thc Southcrn gaptist Sunday School Goard, ilashvillii, concluded ti:e i:or;day afternoon s?ssion of thc Southern raptist Pastors' Conf~rencsh~rc with a stirrina, intens;l.y prrsonal account of his rkc~ntbattlz \*!itk stosach cancsr.

Thc- top rxs?ccltiv& of th: v

CO~~EI?'Smessage fo1low:i s3rmons by psstors Stan Co-ffey of First I3aptist Church, Albuquerque, i.!.;!, , and 3ailey Stone of First Captist Church, Odessa, Texas. both p6stors stressed that the focus of Soutli~rnTaptists, both corpcratzly an4 indivii;ually, should b& to share the gosyl r1it:i svcry other person os th~earth.

Coffaa added that a cornitslent to th:: libla is tl?~k2y to spiritual rsvival in Soutliurn Saptist cl.~urckes. "In a c:iurch !:here thcra is no excitSc;tnt, ~!hfr; no souls are kin? saved, there is not a proper dedication to the I.'ori of Gcc;," Re said. "Tbi- Sam:! tl~ino:>as s:~lle~ithc. door of great danominations of thc past who have dici an2 are ..'yin~not#--those. leno!ni?ations lost their dfdicatior and t3ey last their spiriteal vitality." - Cer~an:zsConvention Center SBC Press News noom rr ~uwyldp~lyi St. Louis, Missouri (314)342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

ROUi%IDUPFOR TUESDAY P;.is

ST, LOUIS, Junc 10--Adrian Rogdrs, prcsid2nt of th? South~rnBaptist Convention, pre- dicted thd 1980s cw becorn2 E dec.:de of dz5tin.y for thi 13.4 million mcrnbtr denornin:?tion if it becomes c tool a riohtzcus 2nd holy God c?n usk.

Spcnkina on "The Dec?dc of Dccision 2nd the Doors of Destiny," Xos~rsslid God n~sds only to swing wide thi! doors of opportunitv for South~rnB?ptists to shm the scsp~lwith the world by th2 y22r 2000.

This !qitncssinq projict knoi-m 2s 3016 :Tission Thrust !(!illnot fail bec~,uszof rc- sources, Prdsidznt Rogws told thz mzss:;ng,rs ,?tths o~(ininasession of thz thr~a-dhy 123rd mestinq of thk SBC in Cerv?ntzs Confzrence Ccntzr. "Soacho!\, uo think th::t th; kconomic sitwtion on e.?rtk cJn close th~doors of i?v?nac- lism," Rogers stid. "Th;'.t is not so. Thc-r,r is no rkcsssion in heaven. "Hc.?ven's \-!ark is nzver 5~mpcrzdfor lack of resourczs, but for lack of fzith, s~crificrand ob2didnc~on tbc plrt of God's p~onld."

Roscrs, pcstor of the 10,590-member E.?llevue R?ptist Church, !Icrnphis , To?nn., wid God opens doors for p~oplswho ar2 domin?tad by thr: word of God, dsdicatcd to the son of God, and s.?tur>tzd vi th his love.

"Southzrn Baptists ever must hz 3 people of the Book," Roqcrs wid. "'!ithout .In inf.211 iblc. word from God, ~e hcvc nothinr but holy ;lunch."

Concarnin? thz pcrfdct nzturz of the Fibl*:, Rogers voiced his supoort of 3 sktament by tisrschel Hobbs of Okl?homz City, formcr pr2sid;nt of the S9C:

"T40!:r Southzrn B.?ptists my differ 3s to God's method of insoir~tionof thosz who #rot* the Biblc. But 811 ,:rc in aqrcr.m!;nt ss to thz aroduct. It is the divin2ly {nspired word of God." President Rogors, who r~c~ntlyannounczd h,? would not sxk a sccond one-ye?r term, s?id Southcrn Bzptists must ddress thi-ms~lv?~to 211 tha nroblzrns of 9urn.n hilrts.

""!E cannot turn 3 dcaf zar to t!~?stlgoerinq nctds in th: cr+? of incra2sinu hunqcr end rn?ssive stzrv~tion. '.Is c?.n ?nd must r~soondwith visdom, cornp>ssion, and sxrific;. But zt the samz tin& we must prxck Jssus."

Emphzsizinq tha import-ncc of brothq?rl.y lovz, ?on?rs said Southzrn !3?ptists must slttle th2ir problems in 2 cont,xt of low or thcv *.rl'?l not be sc-ttlcd.

"Don't t~lkto no .?bout your orthodoxy or dznornin?tion.?l loyllty ifyour hert is hzndquarta-s for hntz . . . Th;. Dible is 2 sword but not a club.

"In all of our discussions v!? must ever remzmbcr th~t(i t+orld is out thew rl?tchinrr. Th~ymmny not be ~bleto understnnd the subtleties of our dsbptos but th~yccln readily raad our spirits," the ministar s.:id, Rogers id~ntifizdsuch obstncl~sas rnilitqnt p?gznisnl, th.2 hurt of humnism 2nd liberzlisn, thc rnznx? of matcri~lisrn, thil c;..ncar of cmunfsm, ndChc problem of morzl pol 1ution, then doc1 wad:

(more) "Yet *hen God moves, these adversaries will be like a crate of eggs in the face of a red hot cannon ball. It is possible that every person on the globe can be given the oppor- tunity to respond to the aospel by the year 2000. Barriers of lanauacie, law, culture, custom, sin, and indifference will be broken down as Cod opens doors."

In a related address, Harold C. Bennett, execstive director of the S9C Executive Corrmi ttee, Kashville, commended pastors ani lay people for their commitment to Bold kiission Thrust.

"Laymen, a tremendous resource, are being utilized of God's spirit to reach this world," Bennett said. During the next two years Southern Captists in more than 25,000 churclres will consicier a wide range of projects designed to add converts, increase membership, develop more mature members, send out missionaries, and raise the level of financial givins; Bennett said. Seven related Baptist cjroups closed meetings ;.ionday, Inany with the election ana installation of officers.

Jim Henry, pastor of First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla., was elacted president of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, replacing Jimy Draper, pastor of First Japtist Church, Eul ess , Texas. i.irs. A. Harrison Gregory of Oanville, Va., was elected to her sixth and final term as president of !!oman's :.lissionary Union, the women's auxiliary.

By Roy Jennings--6:15 p.m. :.ionJay Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News HOOm rnotograpny/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Directors of Missions Roundup For Im.ediate Release

ST. LOUIS, Junc 9-4lor~th?n 335 persons lcarnzl! ?t ths annu?l Southern Baptist Con- fcrence for Dircct?rs af iqissicns her2 how to ssrve2 lxal church~sand ass~ciationsas bzttar and more efficiznt mission leacldrs, adrninistr3tms an? c~unsslcrs.

D~ncmination~llezders, a Wth C'rcl in? 21 1erqi st 2nd missinns dirzctors prcvidfd the direction at Fix Fcc Bcptist Church.

The two-day meeting was 3nc cf sevw which ?r;:cc.dt,! th& thr~c--dayannual me~tingaf the Southern Baptist Ccnvzntion at Cirvzntks Zgnvoztim Cestcr.

Foreign Mission Enard presidsnt 8. Kcitk krks cf i?ich~cmc!, Va., bclivcred the closing nddress, challenging missisns directors to pr,",y ffr at lczst onc missicnary preacher coup12 from kach associzticn by 13%.

"If that happ~ns, it blill just &nut be s 10-fcl! incre~szin the number of preachors gsing jntc misslons ,I' Pzrks said.

"If we sund cnc coup12 frca each asscciation, thsn w; will alsc have to support then f innnci?l ly, by incre?sing givinq thrcugh thc. Coopcrctiv~Prcgrcm," the 2:ncminrticn1s unified qivinc plan, Parks add~S.

M. Randal 1 Lo1 l~.y,president cf Ssuthgastar? Baptist Th~.~l*qic1?1Sarinary, 1Jakz Fwest , N.C., led thrze Bible study s;ssicns, focusing zn Jxhu?, Habakkuk 2nd I Pctfr. "Per squnre inch, South~rnBr,~tists cwc: mcrc sn! rcceivcs morc frm directors of mis- sions than my cthar group i?th.2 dancminatim," Lclley snid.

The birect3rs of missirns ~nl:tkir wives szlactefl frnn sc-virsl special intcr2st ccn- ferencfs, Fcr wives, "Wb~rcDo I Gc Tc Scrsem" idc-ntifieb ccmmn pmklems and frustrations and offered possibl sol uti,?ns. In additiljn tc their rclle as missionary lzader, many of the ?ir~ct?rsaxpressed hopc th?t thdy cculd effcctlvely sorvz 2s "pastcr t~ th~pnstor," particularly in tinzs of special nced, aither perscnal ly cr ~r~fessionall!.

One of the sessions ?salt with heins uzstrr t3 p~st~rs,vrhfl~ ~thcrs rzldttd tr 13- rninistraticn in the associatijn, r.?rkins with bi-vcc?tioncl ~~stsrsand financi5l supp?rt far the css~ciaticn.

Dr. Cl~udsA. Frszier, 31 Ash~vili:, lfl.C., ?ll~rgist,tcl? ah.-ut his pcrsnnzl gr9jcct cf putting Bibles in t?xi cnbs.

Frzzier saij taxi czbs in fitlank, GI., and Bristcl Citv, TEE?,. , zrc currc-ntly carryin9 3ible pgrtions. Skv2ral 2f the missizn~rizsexprzss& intaxst in th~proj~ct ?n! inbic?tzd they woul:! consldsr it in th~ircitics. New officers elected tc lead tk~crnfzr~~c~; ,in 1991 wrr: Lqrry Rnse, !#kc3 3z.ptfst :isscciation, TZXAS, president; Clina Sorders, Kinrs rinuntcin ,?ss?cieti3n, 40-t!? C'.rclins, prtisidznt-elect; J .D. Passmcro, Currcnt-Gaines Assnciaticn, ?%rka?sas, secratary: '.lzyne Eurich, San Diego Association, California, trgasurer; znd H3rcld Slackburn, Bal?r!in fisscci'l- tizn, Alab=ma, c-ditcr. EdwM Gilstmp, ?.tlantn Ezptist Ass?ci3ti?nr G~~raia,is th8 cutgcinc president. Cervantes Convention Center ad^; r ress brrews nwlrl r I~VIOQI ~QIIYI I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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fionday N4i :

K~nnet;~Chafia, pastor of Sxth ' aii\ taptist Cl;v.rcll, :!ccsto:t, Tox's and Thad Roberts Jr., minister of sicsic *';* Soljth iiain, addr~ssdt>i KC;-ninr; and afternoon s,:ssions of the 24th annual Southirn raptist Churck !t!sic Ccilfir;lrcc et T"lrd rtcptist Church,

In his pncsf=~.n",s aidrtlss, R~:;,=rts told tl~r:usicians that th?y hat! r! ~!iliqu

In th, s~coadof t!lr;e d~votfonalressw~~s to th~ccnf~r~nc;, Chtfin strcss~dthe frekinp effect of th.: pospel, s~yinr,"a rasps1 that da~snot r1ak.s pcop1c frc~is no gozp21 at all ."

Tha iiccstcii p~st.,rsc!io Cnrisf.ians n~tdto "C frct from the "s~ot;lcrirlgcff,ct of thk cultur~:th7.t hhtcI~~.sUS*" a1ci;g with ot:w rr;straicts such cs peer 6xpsctaticns and fear.

"it?r~;r o7 ;*h?"l.:.; ~r~Sii2011 'in our dzncmination is not freeing, but rl.nslaving," Chzfi'n mid. "It is &at ~E.SI?S :auld call 'rzlifiior.."'

Otlidr. sp~:.akarsdlrln: ! oilday's first k0os4ssions ecrc C. Sernard luffin, a Lutheran nfnlstctr frorr, Rlexandr*i;i, Ya., rrrho rnc.ri~ r prcs~ntatioaon t:~contrl5ction of Fanny Crosby to Pm~r.:rsr! ' !I~-.ology,aid "csle~Coffinan, chaiman of t:lc ricp~rtncntof avts, Pallas $.ap- tist Collegr;, s.i!~orpilk,: oil \:or%ny t-rit:~th2 bey's changi;lr: voicc-.

Four members of thd music it?^' group !-Itrekoi?crx! by thir pckrs. Till Iclit~r,a music aisslonary to Zr3zif sinzc: 1P55, vtas prkszrtcr? 9:itii the !'iris Sirs Award tlhicli has bean r;ivc-> only t;!icc six2 1571.

&onom-y life ~,:mberc;~fps vent ts :if 11 iz!~J. R2y2016s of tt-e music faculty of South?!,stc;n baptist Tflr;.oloflcnl S~1miilary, fort "ortk, Tzx- .,C-znl: '!artlc-tt, rec::ntfy re- tirfd msic Giructoi- for th~taptist F;-n

Choirs of dl1 qcs pr~scn'iod ciini-concirts ::irir,r tt!: s~ssio~?s.Ths younn:st !!as the Sonshinc Chai-, tha clkr ch:ldr;nls choir cf First taptist Church, Jaffrrsor, City, to. Undsr tha d:rerticq of Ljada GoyC, thc ~5ildr~~'~croi!p prts~nt?S th~ SPCO~? of t5r:c comiss4onr,d piece; for th~tonfcrcnci.--"i.y kart Is ?zar':y, C God," by Rc9srta Yttnooci, president of thz rlmeri ;a~Guild of qr5anists.

Thd oldast group !;as Thi Ilkart Throbs, the sanior adult choir from 1tinna~tli:lZaptist Church, Tulsa, Okla. Cirectc-d hy John C. Sawyer, thc rjrocpls 1 ively perfornzncc las tha first by ii sbnfor adult choir at a S~uthernZaptfst rr!sic co;ifsrancd. Suc!? choirs ark

gaining incrcasinf ~romincncs, Xob~rtssaid. , The i.iissouri ijaptf st Col lcge Choir, dir~eteihy hrjorf c Psal~ands,opznrci tk afternoon stsiion \?..C,ichals~ fatured a t:'capc-t solo by Susan Sla~lnhtcrof the St. Louis Sflphony Crekestra.

In adbltion, the musicia~selectcd a s?atc of officers and council m~~!:~rs. A1 I.lcshburn, chzirman of tho church music divisi-n at G~ldenGate Thzrllrlqle?l S~~inarj,Mill Valley, Calif., wzs named presidcnt-elect a ye?r aaq and will pr~sidz?.t the 1981 meeting.

Vice presidents elected tbnday werr Carl Sheppnr? r.f Springficld, director rf music for the Illinpis Baptist State .qss~ciatinn, dencminirtionnl divisi~n;Gsralr! Brsan, minister 9f music at Rich8rdson H~ightsBaptist Church, Richhrdson, Tcxas, lcc?1 church divisicn; .** and Louis Ball, Carsan-N~wmznCot 1eg~, Jefferscn City, Tenn., music educatqrs 4ivisinn. Csuncil members selkcted wera Harry C~wan, minister nf music, First Baptist Church, New Orlaans, La.; KG~Ragsdele, minister r~fmusic, First Baptist Church, El1isvil la, i4c. ; Hcrald Price of Harrisburg, Pa., church music secretary, B~ptistCcnventign of Pennsyl- vania-buth Jzrssy; and David Keith, Southwestern Baptist Th;ologic?l Semincry.

By Larry Chesser--5:23 p.m. ;.ton:!ay Cerv&ttes Convehtion Center SBC press NBWS HOQ~ rnocugrapnY/ I br. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

"That We May Boldly Say" 'lalsh Response For Imnediats Raleesc- ST. tWIS, Juno 9-4chn T. Mnlsh, qnptist e?~~?usnlinfstcr et Princatw llniversity and cne of 10 Amric*.irs whc cttandcc! 3 ccnfzrcncc; f?r Tchrzr! f~lstwak lzkinr: intn 9.5. PC? fc~ in Iran during tft~rc-inn cf tk dep?ssd shzh, dfd sa 3s a pr1vl.t~citizen end will not 1952 his job, officials of the Hm Xissicn 33rd of t"n S~suthcrnSactist Cnnventirrl s~idhsrc ?!cnday.

'Jalsh, who is cmplsyed by the F,~,ptistC?nvention ?f *!ev Y~rk?nt su7~wtadfimnci*ll.v by tho &me fY srios Bcerd, w2r.t tcr Iran iil rdhat f.?r hin "WEIS nn act cf ministry," szid Y:% EX€CU~~VEdirsctcr-treaSur~r '-1511 159 G. fannkr cf At1 ?nt:.

Tnnpnr, nhn mpnrtcd hc. dn~sntt kngr! 'elalsl: psrs:nallv, said 33 ctnnst judfl; "the rin?t- ncss sr v~ronqn~ss"cf tho 46-y~m-sldI-!iss?uri n?tivc8sdecisivi tn meke the trip in dc~ia.ncc of President Cartsr's b.:n on U.S. citiz,?nsl trnvatina tc Irtn. "6ivcn th~cofistr~ints tkt hc h~d6s a! int!ivilual," T~nnersr-id, "Ibzliavo hr: had tt ds what ha felt w~sright."

Tanncr's vlaw wes bcck~dby thst of Jack P. LcvncZcs, oxscutiv~secratwy rf thz Ye*! York conventisn and cno ~f qalsh's supr?rvis3rs. "l.lh:-~thc.rit \*?IS rioht Or *mnn, Ibcn 't know," Lowndes said, adding, "I'm n;:t ad."

$nth Lnimdos and Gorald Palmar, director nf th~tl::!!'s nissi-ns szctinn, sai S the-v wculd have adviaad Yalsh nct tr, qc to T~hr~nif ?Q had ES~C:! thm but r~fus~dtc au~stisn his right tc dc sc. I tcwn.%t said t!!ot the mly rzouircnent hc mckcs bef3r~trios rrc m??c bv n:rsrnrl?l unGer his suaemrlsicn f s thst hc be nrlrtif.1~4,?..n .sctisr! which '.'a1 sh tvk Ssf?ra 1rl.lvinc the count~v. Lcwdes c~nfinzdthrt ',!nls5's cxpensos wcrhy :!:t mi? by th~!*:3 an.! th

PZ~W,wh3 supervis;?~mr2 thPn 2,910 hmc missicfi?rizs frm tbr: u:1R1s Ctienta h??d- quarters, sEid UIdt the 3n~ncy'scFncarn is thet rJalshls acti?n "net bd st:!? 2s *.n ".ffici81 HmAission Bwrd uisit."

Tanna hnd Lcmdcs m?ksizad that i?~lshcnb fcllsw Scuthfrn Saptist Ch3rlss Ki3hal1, n $r&ate student in Islsmic stubizs ~t H~rvard,dsliv;ra? mil t3 hostwts zt the hericm mbassv in Tehrsn. It was ballav&d to bb the ffirst mil fm rclativ~st* reach thc hr7st- 3gks ~incc?thit ~!mrtO-$Amsricbn r~-scucnissicn in :10ril. Walsh and KirnSal1 wzrz of ssvcn ?mric*ns tc visit Tehran last Christmas in a delepsti3n headd:! by fcmer 5% prssfdant Jimy 2. .R,llsn. Thg ::*ftr wcrs inclu.d~.lan 4 1 ist Of individuets tc nttanj last wazk's cmfcrence ~t th~invitati?n fl 1rani-m cfficicls.

T~nner, Y!IG said hi. has bsc-n i?",iss~:! by s*m: lridividual S~uthernRnptists ~.rreredby Welsh's trfp to fire him, s~fdthtt beszd on his grosant knwl~Ysc?f the fscts 4.2 wul? not follm tha E~V~CQ, 'For Blpti~t~,frsadom cf th~in2iviCuzl ccnscienco undw Gcl is a przcious csncept," Tanner d~clarad. Anetk~rresson for their r~fuselto take cction ~.r?~.in$t"%lsk, thi- three Southr: Z3otist officials saSd, is th& uncert;rinty over tha ramonst of hinh !!.S. officl?ls to tfik herican dalenation's DrEscnca 2t thf conf~rencc.

Secretcry df Stzts Ehnd S. '{uskfe szid Sundzy on P?C tolevisfcn's !woflrm: I'::?et the P~~ss"that whllo tha Justice @cp?rb,2ntwill look into thri qu~stic~of whathzr dc1;- Sates vlolzt2d any lws, the tr?vel ban tvzs i~poszdto protact h?ric?n citlrcns from possible viol&ncc in Iran, not cut of c dzsirz tc r-?strict fr&m cf rrov3mnt.

I.la1sh ruturnad Sunday from tha fcur-dr:y T~hrsncolferznce p.nd ~ozs>r.r?ctcC to r.rriv? in St, Louis late :londay for a visit wit!! r.=.lztlv~s!Jlo live herc. I??- Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say"

Pastcrs ' Canfcrencs El scticn For Imdiete R~l~s?ss ST. LOUIS, June 9--31% Henry, pastw cf First Sactfst Churc?!, Qrl*ndn, Fls., 'bnday nzs elacte3 presidant of thc Scuth~rnE~gtist Pcstrrrs' Cclnferanca. Elected vics president vrs tzqrae Harris, psstcr cf Castla Hills 6a~tistChurch in Ssn Ant~nio. thyne FiflJs, p2st.w of First 3~ptistCSurc$, Craw! In.v, c,ll?., wrrrs ckssan sscrctary-trcasurcr.

blonry, ~vh:! nr.rraw1y d~f~bt~r!Lvry L,?vis, 33sirr 3f TFF'G~Grw+ Cmtist Church, St. Louis, and currv;nt pestcr'r cmfar~ncevics przsi l~nt, in.?ic.,tElr? aft:r tas 51 ectica thqt th; purpcs,? cf next yew's mcctinc will 3s tc "lift us 2nd meonifv C!irist': find t~ ''cnccbur~crc and lift ua cur fs1lc.r pestnrs."

Henry ssi? that h? is awdr: that tZlc p?stcrsl cenfcr~ncs,which rnc~ts~ri?r t? tc.- ~nnuelsersicns cf thc Snuthern qr,l;tist Ccnventi-:, ~ftsn"scts t3a t*nc fnr thc c7nv~nti~;n. "aut we'ro n~ttryiiio tz influtinc~whet h?p?ens cn thr: (c-?vcnti3n) fl-r," Henry cxpl~lncrl.

The thencs for nzxt ysar's prr.qrr,n: in La-s ?nacles will focus hi1 "k.:l?inr: the Dzst?r in the local church," iienry scic',. Cervantes Convention Center SBC Press News Room Photography/ Sj. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May Boldly Say" lkn$ay ;lorain$ W:&J For Imejlate Re1 easa ST. LCUZS, June 9-4 plcstic rico 50!,~1coi? tank fcr !larl< huzfer pivirln Ir'as distributed ;$anday te c-ecl~psrticipant ir tsa Sout!lerq La:i;ist ''xar's 3:issio~nrylifiio~'~ 2n;lual aest- inc kere. ?ct they also ~ots~~ethinr: mra, It !*:zs a bit of advice frm Alzstzi; "z!kar, t?c Soutk Carcli?c gastor 4x1 s~ear?sar!c: the driv~to distribute lG,CM cf thc ricc bc*-l ksnks to ali Paptists i? his state,

Ia hi6 ow, church at S~zrtan:u?l;, S.C., 5c sad *,.st 2 ~tll-?ipri?~ris !.:zs croctsj cn sta~adurinc the 1075 L~ttie:%OP Clrristras qfferincl fer forei?n Wssions. HE !'as Cre-8- tirin? n 3rivc tcr ?rcvip:e 12 bell-trillin7 ri-s at?? 5 truck to carr:t t>ce ts parts cf yer- rava~edUrandzr, \:hre Iil /?in's trccrs kc^;: v?cr:.' ts! i;il i UF tbc vRak.rr;:cll s as thr?.y r?trh&tei.

As s rcsul t, t:iz chcrch triplsd its b~ttii.'+oc:? cifarinf! cf t:?~prcvieus y.r.ar, :*G rzportsd . iklkcr, past presid~rltof t5z ZoutP Ctrclirc Yzytist Sorvtntic-, $55.' 5s k,~li:v~?tyc little brown arid wtiito ricc. kc:.;1 Fmks dl1 help ::ctivatc, zr:cyle i?591:tk I'arcffnz chu;c:;~s t~ give mri! tha? $3 cf7lfon 03 "crli Iltr?cr Zr!n!?:~, Fur. 3. Tlic Sc@tla?i-borr sp~~kc-r~i!:;~.siz?ll. tkt :,. str~wlysuysorts 5atk t:-e s~~ciclcfW- in2s fcr box and for~iqnr?,issior.s 3rd tnc Ccoprrtivf 3rccra~. TI-c 1att;r is a fout'.;rr. Faptist Conv~i~ti.ior.-!?I& plar; thrnct?; v8t.icb itidivi6uzl c:'urcfiss :rofur.t~.ril~lniv; a pcrccntacrc of their iticc~~to $~?f.Crttis S~OF wrk, scri~ari~s,3t.i ttfier cocpamtivr? :v,ic-cts.

Kcre ther, $2 cillier: in ~.crl$F2374:. cor,tri';utio:.s *,w?c5sn~~lei tl:rsr!rk t5c: Fcrtiir:: ?+:issionCoarL to r-c~"l~rl2rs:e;5s last ysar, ,v.?t 5.: sci.I :-3r.y rout';?r? '1~.t';ists ar& ?i\ri;c,r ts otber prouycs tscacs: tfc:: arL cnal:ere of :.-'i:2t t,l.gir ~ltr". :;?~~~ri~.zti~r1s in^,

Oti~~rS?&E~Q~S paint25 ur -t>c nz:;! for ct.;rc"lcs to 5sc~~ivcrs bir-cyy i:voived i2 L.ir lifz-cf~n~~in~cc~iI;rsnts 0.7 thtir ~zirrz. 3s. i.izr.rprit P~rkics,e;pl$yi-d Y:! t.4~i:~rc '..issicr. Psar< tc @rr?ts 3 ':crm's F'issic:! Zczr.', consul tmt to Slack c>urc>c-s, cSs.1 l~?red.:Grxn to >elP YE::: tkir c;:crc!- ccs~it-+:its d;cp ~nauf:! to mst t!?e Ccs~erat~n~e;'.s of p:cplc- Wey. Skt tc1C tks story of a s~allYay, vtrc ba[! ke~nhit by a car, tciw oP.;'?r:: a fltss of =ilk by a aursk in a CZicc;c i?os;ital.

9th savsr; brotkrs an:' sfst~rs,hc !.*as use6 to hzarir? his r~tb~r53~, "YoI! MY ?rink dot~i-?to h~rf(Ii~dicati~~ a I~vtt on tk elass)." "You anti I neeJ tg tietomine OH deep1.y va shall drink crf tk thinns of this *Frt2>'. 'ire, Perkins varned. ''If you r!rink t~odeenly, you will te!;e wF8t helarns to y3ur sistar or brother."

.9n interviav r.anel dirette.? :!,t Evslvn Stot~ntof t7c ',bwnls "issio~ary %inn staff to13 of church-related projects rariciilq frs r~s~ttli~rcf I;I~?cc>~~Isz rr?fu~is to OX. pressinr: Forl's lavs to el erizntary sc5ool students ir. a trwsi tisne? arza.

WS. Paul Saaqar of Vestavia tlills ta:tisl Cb~rctr.,?imIn~:~a~, $.la,, said ~~orkln? with Wo refugsa famili~shad prson~lizi;d ~isslonsfsr 9cr 3?rfi fisr ch?rre3. #naf$inr!Lzng Oicc and his lalfe, To Su Nuyn*, a~dtkir S-yssr-old (kw?tcr $30 Lint, rafwees frcv Vistnm, has made "thc fzczl~ssmillims vhtr nr-24 9-1~"t:?? rxl fom, s3e s:.id.

Gail Linam, childr~r,'~dircctcr at Calvary ?arttist Chu:ch, I.tacq, Texas, szid an ela- mentar! school .had $too:: do~ntk.3 stra~tfro? t>=chu~ch for 5n ysars. T9rou-9 yrcy:.r, sbe and others f n her church Srt,cm avlar? of t?e ne;Cs of t:.e 531 c:?ildren t.L.srcl-smz ?lack, sonc rhite, somG brown. 9nc2 she and thc? churc3 stzff took 531 hilllo~ns,loarJinrl them intc 311 the c.srs tkdy Could find, to say "I love you" to thc lzss fortunate end unc!xrchzd chilrlr~nin thc sc9oel.

r)thor panelists verc 5rm Ft'fin611s of L:ohil t, ~)r?~idcntof thg .11%1)~m3?rlplist St~tc Convantloo, who descrillizd a veristv of njnistrios th*,t had helnad missions con? ?.live far members of Sprinabill l3n?tlst Church; ~nrlrlni tl kcse, hinh school wIher of En ?cts~ns Actlvzltors teen from St. Louis. Anit? s2id tbo ,lctlvztsrs prolrram, which trtkss taan-rtfl? pirls into nissian sfttr:tiocs irr th.? 'Jaitec! Stetzs, h?d "rssffimt! nv k~lli:?ftht Cbci has czlld mr; to spacial servicz."

Six Cctaslns wrz i>traduca.:! 3s nc?+:rs of the %tianal -?.ctt,ePanzl. T!!??! incli:rl?if, Cathy ,\ledingo of Lnurans, S. t. ; Lori Kcel inc , t;austcn, fixas ; CI;.ada $Jv~rf,:'i:ni, 3k1:. ; Tin.?. !!sirs@,~Sashvllla, 111: Linda Crist* tlnlt?s, Tcx?s, znr! r?srv

3y Bob Stttnley--4:3I! p .a. ikandzy C~~~~SConvention Center stl~rress N~WSnwrll rt IULWMI UVI tyl St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager I

"That We May Boldly Say" bknday Religious Edurntfon For Imnedjate Rcl~aso

ST LOUIS, 3un~9-4 Szptist la-mn cad university professor ch~llans~dkutharn gap- tist re14gious educators here knday to knock down the fscades marly people us2 to avoid being bnest with thatelves and othor paoplc, "The saddest peopl~cn th~aarth arc- thos~with personaliti=.s for which they have no vnluas or valuas for which they have EO oxpressfen," szid ~Ji1lip.mH. Hale of Athens, as~r3- ciatc dfrectr3r af th~Unfvorrity of korcip Czntor for Coqtinuino Education.

"I'm ho~oto r~cruitYOU into the most excitins soclnty thcrc 1s--the society of prc- f&ssional prop-knockers ," hti scid. I Hale addressed the 368 participants durinrl the mrninr~session of the 25th mc.tiel.r of the R~ligiousEducatian ilsscciatlcn. fhc s..?sslon wes c1imxc.d ~ithc luncheon whicb In-. cluded rzcognitions af past presideets and E multi-mcdi: prdsent?ti~nblahlightin4 thz organization's history.

Tha metJnn precedes thd 123rd Southern 8aptfsl Cenventi7n which npans Tuesday in Core vnnt~sConvention Ccntor, I In his address Hnb szid Christian gducators havc mi~joradmro on dissminir.tinp ir1fr;r- mtion than on wting noads. I "Too oftan w 1iko to start our ducati ion in thc 5mk sf Exodus end n~twhilrs the quostions are," he said. I Rasponding tt' Hals, Findlzy Edga, prgfessor nf ralinisus educ~tiqnat Southern Saotist Thcaloqical Sainnry, Louisville, Ky., slid tx much taachinr~in churcfrils hes bcen at ." surface level. I "Vzlue fomtion is c far mru szri~us~nd cmplcx undartaki~than wc haw undar- stcad," said Ed$&. "Somtim~spzople usi E study of the Biblc to wcd~tha dozper pers3nnl neds of peopt c. I "The most powarful teac5inq fcrce. ia th? church is nnt thc Sunday School cr th~.pul- pit but the life 119~dby the congregation," I Aftcr children ark expcsad ts Christi.:n vzluas thrgugh Eibl~studv, training end missions rjrgznizaticns, thcy Isok for mcnninq in tk livas of fi~llcwchurch mnbdrs, Edse said. From thair obsawaticns, th2y ccncluC,? thst Christian valuea mzan "Fa nic? and no to church. IJc ar; ~~p~ducinc!a acnfrati~n in "ur Gwn imngs." In an ecrlier address cn the dynmics of r~lirlipus~ducr,ti.?n to;l~,~, Jchn Sisawrc-, minister of edftcatirln ~,tFirst Raptist Church, Shrevep?rt. LC., s*,id it is time f9r ed~vn- tors to te~chvalues and time fcr Christians t~ taka a st~ndf3r the rec~vsryof mr.rzllty. I Sfsmrz urged the educstors tc be fncil itntive in their leaders$i? styla. I "This allows thc leader t2 fccus cn what is hnppminr! or n2e.l~ +,? ha~pilninstczd cf what ha wants to happen," szid Sismre, & mrlier hoeded ttl:, Sunday Scllocl 9ivisian af the Baptist General C?nvanti?n 2f Tex3s. On ltha dynmic of qmlt!~,Sismir~ s=iG rhon n caurch fncusas On rrutw~chIt beccms extrcvertut and qrowf. "Quantitative end qualit.?tivo nr?vth either flsurish tanother or perish soparatelyan h~ said, -33- By Linda L$w%nn--$:I4 p.m. i4cnd.r.y . 7- - .- - . Cenrantes Convention center SBC press News Room Photographfl St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

"That We May 601d1ySay"

Pastors' Conferenca hbnday For Immediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 9--Red-faced and ready, Phoenix pastor Richard Jackson delivered a rinq- ing denunciation of disunity and judgmental i sm wf thin the ranks of the Southern Baptist Con- vention during the second session of the SSC Pastors' Conference herf. Jacksan, last In a procession of four pulpfteers in the morning session, reninded the audience at Cervantos Convention Center that "God's people hold no grudges in thefr hearts toward anybody--especially the annointed of God, our brothers and sisters in Christ." Speaking ona day before the openinn session of tha SBC annual meeting, the pastor of North Phoenix Baptist Church decried recent factionaliw that has grabbed headlines !vjthin the denomintitlonal and secular press. Such in-fighting sidetracks Southern Baptists from their purpose of "proclaiming the gospel" and "seeking the salvation of all who are around us," Jackson claimed. Although he avolded specific references to the current debate aver the inerrancy of tha Bible, Jackson criticlred the divisive spirit that he be1 ieves has pemeated much of the controversy. "I didn't say we shouldn't stand on the issues," he said. "I dirln't say that we shouldn't stand up for what we be1 ieve. But God del iver us from ever judging the heart of another."

"Let's don't give the secular press a heyday by givfna them lakls that don't mean any; ' thing ," he continued. "Who ars Southern Baptist? 1% are Bible-be1 ieving , 51ble-preachlna, Christ-following, evangelistic, missionary, childran of God. That's th~only label we will be proud of," Jackson's sermon, punctuated fr*equently with applause from the audf ence, fol l~wsdmes- sages by pastors Ralph Langley of First Baptist Church, Huntsville, Ata.; Joal C. Gregary of Gambrel1 Street Baptist Churcb, Fort Uorth, Texas; and Georga Harris of Castle Hflls eaptist Church, San Antonio. Although long on sermonic exhortation, the Monday morning ~essfonwas noticeably short on criticism, in keeping with Pastors' Conference president Jimy Draper's promise to provf de "a uni fyf ng and strengthen1ng i nfl uence on Southern Baptists. " San Antonio's Harrls stressed that ''there is a love that binds us and unites us that Is much stronger than tbs things which may dividz us."

"We need to corn to ths place of reconciling the feudinq ," he said, "$0 that we rniqht get on with what Gad has called us to do."

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"That We May Boldly Say"

Re1 igCous Education Roundup For Immediate Release ST. LOUIS, June 9--Southern Saptist religious educators heard a battery of speakers assess current needs and trends in education while c?leDratinq the 25th annlversary of their orqaniration durjn~a two-day nieetin~here. In the conference keynote !nessane Keener Pharr of Jacksonville, Fla., called on the 368 educators to reiedicate themselves to the role of the Sunciay School i n growing churches. !.!hi le great preachinq and attractive ~usicpro~rams" are essential functions in a grow- ing church, they will not alone resalt fn growing churches, said Pharr, director of the Ed- ucation Oivision of the Florida Saptist Convention. \!illlam \\ale, associate director of the University of Georgia Center for Continuins Education, Athens, and Findley Edge, professor of re1 igious education at Southern Yaptist Theoloqical Seminary: Louisvilla, Ky., said Christian rjucators have majored more on dis- seminating inforgation about the Eibl e than in rfieeting personal needs. "Too often we like to start our elucation in the book of Exodus and not where the questions are,' Hale said. doted Edqe: "Value formation is a far more serious and complex undertaking than we have understood. Sometimes people use a study of the Bible to evade the deeper personal needs of peo~le . " Several prograa features includinq a flonday luncheon high1 iqbted the history of the Relirious Education Association which was started in 1956 in Kansas City! $10. Ciscussinq the need for increases efforts in fagily life education, Joe Hinkle, secretary of the fai?ily ministry department of the Sunday School aoard, .dashville, said the focus of concern shoulil be on two basic institutions which in fact determine the nature and quality of life within society-.-namely, the church and the farily. "These two institutions so profoundly affect the quality of life now and in the future that I belizvc it is wrth civins our life's energy to lahar topether with Christ in helping both to becolne all they are meant to be." To cops with the statistical reality that the accomplishment of the denomination's Jold ?lission Thrust wuld require each of the 13.4 million Scutl~ern3aptists to win 447 people to Christ by the year 2033, Avery '.!ill is calle3 on the ejucators to becane disciples of Christ and to disciple others. !fillis, supervisor of the adylt section of the Syzda School Boar 's church training JeparWent, raid a true disciple is one who naker Christ lor4 of his 11 fe. In an address on the dynamics of re1i:ious education today, John Sismre, minister of educatfan at Ftrst Baptist Church, Shreveport, La., urged the educators to adopt a facilitative leadership style. "This allows the leader to focus on what Is happening or needs to happen instead of vhat he wants to happen,:' Siseinore said. Charles r\oselle, secretary of ,iational Student iinistries , Sunday School aoaru, cat led contemporary university campuses "strategic mission fields. Educators should recognize this aVrd plan atcordlngly, he said. . . 'F : . .:! ;;; ' . ,*l - . . ...I" .-.~'f'$e association elected J., Roger.,Skett~n,,p~at~ssgyof church a&infstraCion anJ ra- l+nin~~r~dfi~ratinn a): Gnlrlen Gate aaatist thealorical $em?nary. ill11 Valley, Calif.. as Page 2--Re1 igious Education Roundup

Other offfcers include Charles Gwaltney, first vice president and president-elect; Neta Stewart, second vice president, Charles Polston, and third vice president; ivhrvin iryers , secretary- treasurer, and Jerry Brurbalow, assistant secretary-treasurer. A1 ten Graves, reti ring dean of the school of re1 igious education, Southern Seminary, was named the association's first distinguished leader after a constitutional amendment was passed to institute the annual award.

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"That We May Boldly Say"

' Eiisic Conference Roundup For Imetiate Releaso ST, LOUIS, June 9--Inspirational thmes such as acceptance, frefdoir and success blended with traditional and new music caught the ears of 1,3C,T: Southern Daptist musicians during: a two-day conference at Third 3aptist Church her?. These themes were sound~.jfby Kenneth Chafin, pastor of South i.ain Captist Church, iioustan, Texas, and devotional swaker for the coilference.

hia.ntafcal features includ~othe prer.lieriny: of three Southern ?a~tistIiusic Conference- comissianed pieces and thg first conference perforrrancz of a senior adult chair--the Hezrt Throbs of lmanvet Zaptist Cfiurch, Tulsa, Okla. The 24th annual Southern Zaptist Church ~usicConferewe ras one of seven ,;aptist meetlngs heldyhere in advance of the three-~aySouthern saptist Convention. Chafin warned the musicians not tc Equate r succcssft!l career rlitk a slrccessful life. "It's possfhlc for you to have what is called ty everyone a successful career, but to be a failure in your life," h~ said. "You need to discover what makes a 1ife be for^ you 1ay t'o~m to die and it's a great deal more than makes a carter." The tiouston pastor said to seek and to knob! and to do the \.!ill of Cd leads to a successful 1ife. In earlier sessions, Chafin urged the musicians to accept !:here they are and !qho tiley are as ministers ar,d to laarn to Secome free prrsons. Another chalfsnqo ccae front Thad Roberts Jr., rinister of nusic at South i'ain aild president of the confsrence. In a presidential adoress, Roberts told the participants that they had a unique opportunity to s9are the ~ospelthrounh ',tila sound of mcsic,': and urrec! thm to make the mst of that ~ppartui~ity.

In ac'dition tc the ii?spfrational nsssaqes, t!re nusicians bear:! an enlishtenint account of the corttributlon of Farm: Crosby to A~ericar,hur".nolocy frw: a 1eadinc authority on the prolific 1Pth century h:mn writer, C. Sernard Ruffin, a Lutheran minister frofr: Alexandria, Va. The cosference featured szveral mini-concerts, inclu4ijn a premier perfomance of the cmjssioned anthem, "i:e Is God--The Icing of Clory" by t>e sanctuary ckoir anJ orchestra bf F4rst Sspti st Church, flercphis, Tenn., under the dJrectiol: of Earl !!el lorlay. The pieco was written by 1,'arren ii. Ancell, ~usicdean en'eritus at Oklahona "aptist Unf versi ty , Shawnee. A second corrmissioned anthen? for children's voices was presentet by t?e Sonshine Choir of First 2sptfst Church, Jefferson City, Mo., un:!er the direction of Llnda "ayd. The plece, "i.&kart Is Ready, C CM," war written by Roberta Cityood, presldent of the krican GuSIJ of Organists. Page &-Music Conference Mrapup Don Hustad and Ron Baud of the music faculty at Southern 9aptist Theoloaical Semi- nary, Louisville, Ky., arranged a commissioned duet for piano an$ oroan, "Come, Ye Thank- ful People, Cm."

The conference also featured the final public performance of :he A Cappel la Choir ' from Baylor University under the direction of Euell Porter before his retirement. The musicians honored four of their peers, including Bill Ichter, a music missionary to Brazil since 1955 who was presented the third Hines Sims Award criven since 1971. Honorary 1ife msmbersh~pswent to 1:'ill lam J. Reynolds of the music faculty of Southestern Baptist Theological SemSnar.y, Fort '.lorth, Texas; Gene Bartlett, recently retired music director for the Baptist General Convention of Gkla50ma: and Ira Presser, retired minister of musfc no!v living in Lexinqton, K.Y.

Ncl~couf~cil tnembcrs elected durlnn the conference are Harry Cowan, minister of musle, First Baptist Church, ?!ad Orleans, La.; Ken Raasdale, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Ellisvil le, Wo. ; Harold PrSce of Harrisburq, Pa., church music Secretary, Baptist Conveht4on of Pennsylvania-South Jersey. and David Keith, Southwestern Seminary. -31)-

By Larry Chesser--1r):SP p.m. 6onday

Pcge 2--Keith Parks Speaks to FFlU !Jonday Pight "So;nething miraculous happened," Parks recalled, "and I made the decision to quit trying t3 do it on my own,"

Then, he added: ''Iwish I could say that I've been constant ever since. I can't. Ly 1ifc-changf ng commitment have cme in the heat of desperation wIth a tremendous emotional tum.ci1--that's v~ho I am." Such commitments must be quided by bib1 ical convictions, he said. "It's not enouqh just to decide my life will be different. It must be orounderl in and guided by Gad's Parks said he believes "God will hold us responsfble for the millions who are lost-- dying without a saving knowledge of Chrf st. "'4e sem to act as if the Gospel were painted red, white and blue--and that somehow God doesn't care ahout all the others in the world." Kissionary testimonies earlier in the procram emphasized the individual commitments that had led one family to a resort ministry at the Yinter Olympics in Lake Placfd, I.!.Y., and another to Bophu tha tswana, one of the ne'v tri ha1 home1 ands qranted independence by South Africa.

John David Book, a !!:a2 Hission Board ~issionary,said the year-around work started at Lake Placid before the Olympics now has resulted in a chapel that had 46 for !.lorship services June 8, with 29 in Sunday School, "Tks Ba~tfsts are thr.re to stay," he said. Durin? the peak of the Olympics in February, la.5 volunteers gave three weeks or more to s v-r-kty of ministries rangfn9 from a coffee shop that provided free coffee, sotip and sand- !:!cl:tr tc 3,500 persons to teams that witnessed on the mall. "At icpst SIXindividuals went back home chanped--Jesus Christ ha4 transformed thalr ;<.;:s," Bsak said. Dllc and Ann Defqhle, who served first in Ethiopia and later transferred to Bophuthats- re:?, are a Kent~ckycouple, "I'm just a plain ole country doctor," Reiqhle said, "and tbe Lor:! gave me the ability to daetor sick animals--that's why he's called me to Africa for his glory." Fol.~they'ra in a country with two million animals, and untfl they came there wasn't a single vetenninary doctor in the whole country, At first, the goverment insisted that they follo*~a reclulator,~role, Beiphle said. But as he agonize:! and as Southern Baptists prayed, on September 12, 1978 (his birthday), he said that God opened the way for him not only to doctor sick anirrals but also to train others for thfs work.

By Bob St~tley--10:55 p.m., Yonday Cemntes CoMbntion Ctrlhter St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Pas tors ' Conference Round-up For lmediate Relecse ST. LOUIS, June 9-4 procession of 13 pulpi tsers from seven states paraded to the con- t~mporaryglass pulpit at the Cervantes Convention Cznter here Sunday and Honday to proclaim the gospel before their South~rnRaptist brzthren.

SandrvSchcd between rousing renditions of gosn5l music, th9 ~raachersfilled th2 1980 version of the pastors' confarence with repeated exhortations for unity and a positive spirit ~ithinthe ranks of the naticn's largest non-Catholic dsnomination. Thc conf~rence,which often s..ts th? tons for thz thrcz-day m~otinnof the Southcrn Raptist Convention which follo+s, was noticeably devoid of verbal rhiplashinqs of fe11b~r ministers and z-ttacks on a1 leged 1i bcral ism within the denomination's szminarics and other institutions. Before thc meeting, pastors' confer9ncc. president Jamcs T. Draper of Euless, Tex., Pre- dicted that the sessions would provide "a unifyincr and stmnlrthenin~influenc~ on Sout.hcrn Baptists," and the spcakzrs app~arzr!to rnakt ronccrtcd afforts to live up to that billinn.

Rft4r a clotins sermon by J,v. A. Cri~well dcan of South;rn Eaptist bastors, Draper concluded tho conference by exprassiilg his hope that "tk~spf rf t of this meetins will be the spirit of the Southern Baptfst Convention 1480 in St. Louis." In his ?onday rnornf no messaw. Sichard Jackson, pastor of !forth Phoenix Raptist Church, Phoenix, Ari t,, dsnol.!ncad disunity and judqmental ism in t'le convmtion. "I didn't say we shauldn't stand on thc issues," ha said. "I didn't say that we shouldn' stand up for what HI! hslieve. But Cod delSver us from ever judafnp thr! hcart of another. "God's mill2 hold)no qrudpe in tbeir,,haarts towar an~body--~spi?~fally tha annointcd of God, our grothers and sist~r,fn Chr~rt, Jackson salt. George Harrfs, pastor of Castle Fills Baptist Church, $an ?,ntonio, Tex., sounded a similar them, strassing that "thzrc is a love that 5inds us and unites us that is much s trongar than the thf nus whf ck may dtvide us.

"I% need to come to the place of raconcilinp the fevdinn," hr; added, "so that we minht get on wf th what God has called us to do ." In the conference' s openin@ sossion, Jack Taylor, diractor of Chrf stian Livina, Fort . I1orth, Tex., called for "praycr, not politicklnq," pointinq out that "we can disaqrae and . still love zach other.'' Grady C. Cothen, president of the Southern flaptist Sunday School Board, dashville, r~countadhis racont battle ~i th stomach canctr, decl arinq that "position, prestige and horror are not Important in thr, face of atsrnity. "As you faco the lona corrir!or of etar?ft,y, th~rcis no si*r?ater thauoht than to knot*' you've done your hp~tto livo for God." In the closing messaue, Crlswell also EX~~ESSE~oratitudo for renslvzd health. The 71-year- old pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas, is still recuperatinn from a recEnt heart attack. Criswell dcfendad divarsity of opinion amonq Southnrn Sa~tists,statina that "it is discus$ion and deb at^ and in the tension of our Saptist life" t$at faith is farned. In the conference's bricf businzss session, Jim Hpnry, pastor of First Baptist Church, Orlando, Fla. , was electod prssidant. Stan Coffey, pastor of First Raptist Church, Albucluer- que, r!,M., was elected vice president, and i'ayne Fields, pastor of First Saptist Church, Grand Gay, Ala., secratary-traasurer. - 39- By Davld !!ilkinson--1l:Ol p.m. Monday Cervantes Convention Center SUC; rress N~WSnoom t-I lutqr IYI St. Louis, Missouri (31 4) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Maneger News

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RE, Monday Night For Inmediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 9--The ksy to Bold ;iission Thrust, a Southern Baptist plan to reach the world with the message of Jesus Christ by the century's end, Is !nultiplication, Avery T. Willis Jr. of Nashville said here blonday. "Ifyou start multiplying instcad of adding, you can qzt around tha world," said ~Itllis, supervisor of the Adult Section of the Baptist Sunday School Board's Church Training Department. Nillis, missionary to Indonesia for 14 years, addressed t9: closinq meeting of tho 25th session of the Southern Baptist Religious Education Association in Sheraton St; Louis Hotel. A total of 3G8 registered for the tw-day metinq which preceded thc 123rd session of the Southern Baptist Convention in Czrvantzs Convention Canter. Villis was joined on the proyarn by Charles Roselle, sacretary, National Student r?infstries Department, Baptist Sunday School Boar4, Tha sessfon also included the election of officers for TOBO-01 and the racoqnition of a distf nguished leader. !!illis suggested mu1 tip1 ication as tha solution to 901d Mission Thrust after ci tinq statistics he said underline the maqnitude of the cllobal rnission plan. For exam I;, hc said logistics of Bald Vission Thrust mquirz every Southem Baptist (13.4 nllllon! to win M, WOPI, to mrist the wr 2,. To copc with such statistics, !.!illis call~don reliqious educators to become true disciples of Christ and then to disciple othars. A truo disciple is one who makes Christ Lord of his life, Yillis axplained. In an earlier speech, ksclle said educators need to reaffirm the church's ministr,~ to students. We eal led contemporary univorsi ty campuscs "stratagic mission ficlds ." Educators should recoqnlzs this and plan accordinaly, hc- said. In a business session, tha group elected J. Roger Skeltor., orofcssor of Church 4dminis- tration and Religious Educator at Eoldsn Gatf: Baptist Thcoloclical Seminary, Will Valley, Calif., as president for 1980-81.

Other officars include Charles Cwal tnzy, first vicrs president and president-elect ; Mi ta Stwart, second vf ce president; Charles Polston, third vice presf dent; Yawin Myers, secretary-treasurer, and Jerry Srumbelw, assistant sacretary- treasurer. Allen Braves, dean, School of Re1 igious Education, Southern Baptist Thcologlcal Semin- ary, Louisvl1le, Ky., was named the association's first distinauished lsader after a con- stitutional amendment to fnstitutil the annual award. Graves has been a staff member at the Louisvf lle, Ky, , seminary;*s4nce 1955. -30- By Larry Crismn--lO:45 p.m., :.Ionday WT' Cervantes Convention Center atl~rress mews nm rr tutuyrgpriyt St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Final Session Pastors' Conference For Imediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 9--Ringina calls for makin0 evanqel ism the top priority in preach1 ?g and a defense of Baptist differences hiphlighted the conclu?ing session of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference iiionday night at Cervantes Convention Center here. u. A. ~risnell,pastor of First Baptist Church, Gallas, told the audience that "it is in discussion and debate and In the tension of our Baptist life" that faith is forced. The veteran Dallas pastor brought down the house with a story told by J. 5. Gambrel1 , late executive secretary of the Faptist General Convention of Texas, that fiqhts among tomcats and pussycats in the kck yard "always lneans one thinn--th.rc will be a lot more little cats." Despite discussion which sometimes leads to "confrontation" and "artrument," the 71-year- old Criswell said, "we belong to a family." Criswell otherdi se avoided aention of current controversy ni thf n the 13.4-mi1 1ion-rremker denominatron over biblical inerrancy except when he declared, "If a man doesn't believe the Rible is the word of God, he ought to become a do?-catthc-r cr a 'ditchidigger!" Earlier speakers during the final session included Railey E. Smith, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church, Del City, Okla. ; !!ill iani G. Tanner, executive director of the SEC Home FliissSon Board, Atlanta; a:ld Roy J. Fish, professor of evansel jsm, Soutbestern Saptist Theological Swlfiary, Fort t'orth, Texas, Other than Crisvell's brief remarks on the positive nature of disaareements among Baptists, none Of the other three speakers spoke to the inerrancy debate, -39- 3y Stan Hastey--lO:47 p.m. ;"ionday Cervan:2r.C!??vention l;enter 315~rrm i~ma~VUIII r~~vruyray~~yl St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager News

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N4U Hrapup For Immediate A~laa~d ST. LOUIS, Jun~9--The challungcs of hunscr, missions and troublzd faini 1ies were issued to mora than 1,530 psoplk at tha annual s~ssionof Southern Baptist !domanas blissionary Union in Kiel Auditorium. Th2 '4.lil honored Southern Baptrsts' most famolls ~issionar,y,Lottid Voon, for wkon their foreign mission offerinq is namd and closed ~alitha warnina from thz prasident of their Foraign Mission Board.

"'4s dawdlc and dally as if th~missior opportunity vi11 hs thera for~ver--and God knows it won't," said R. Kzi th Parks, of Richmond, Va., who took ovur in January as haad of the 3,OW-missionary aqancy. Parks said the avkrage Southarn Paptist aave only 11 cmts a ~ekfor foreign missions last yrar and that it's takincr 85,OW Southarn 3aptists to ffnd one who'll qo as a career missionary. "!!ill we cut hack on th~rnissionari,?~ alrzady out than,--or idill !re as Southern Baptists decide that ye wit 1 pay thf prics of v!innincr the world to Jesus Christ," he said. Parks ms one of a series of speakers respondinq t:, thc thema, "Lifit Changing Cmit- ments ." Followins the announcement that this yl;arts Lotti2 Moon offwing for forcfun missions has reached a record-breaking $40.5 million, thc 'TiU was treatod to an "Intarview with a 35-yaar-old former missionary who s~rvoc!with 'Iiss t!oon in China. :4rs. Jowl1 nan5e1 of Dallas reca1lc.d that Lottiz '1oon said cod's Holy Spirit enahlcd her to do lvkat sZt;! did as a pioneer missionary, Yiny Yirqinia ra!man, ktiss fqoon burned h~rsclfout for the cause of Christ and dicd on Christmas hy in 1912. 3ut bliss Yoon's influence cwtinues to bd fa1t around the world, said Danicl . isirs. Daniel was interviswcd by >firs. Catherine 8, 411~n,assistant to thc zx2cuti~3 director of WU, Sirminaham, rho wrotc The ;!w Lottic ?loon Story just published by Rroadrnan Przss of :4srhvi lle. Ars. Allen said she faarcd that h~rrsrzarch of '(liss ;\'eon's lifz minht veveal "that smthinr! wasn't what we thouqht and r*rould damaae our confi??ncz." Eut in Lotti? F4oon's cara, truth was marc insgirinn thar, fiction, sho said. Sovt-ral of ivliss Gjoon's r;lativ~s sooke, and the audinnce vas treatzd to a display of artffacts, including FUSS Yoon's desk bullt by a Chinasr workman, her trunk, caak hook, footstool and other memorahil fa. A missionary couple to Hong Xono, "r, and 1Frs. Jerry Zarrstt, noted that tha Chinm Communfsts have rscentfy permitted a fsw churches to open.

TAc quastion Is, "Hov can WG best share Christ without endanwrinq their nev found freedam," said Mrs. Sarrett. In the closina mssaq2 Parks said that in his first full yrar of mission work he FE~C~E~tho staq~ whcn he couldn't dccid? whrthsr to ~aslgnor ask for a transfer. Jn desperation Parks stretched himself on a rounh bench. A 1 ife-chanqing commitment he'd made before came floodinc! back, he recalled. He quit depending on his own strength, he said, and renewal, Bible study and meaninqful prayer took place in his life, A session on the family was climaxed by assurances of a Southern Sa~tistfamily life specialist that the family is not going to die. Harry N. Hollis, Jr., director of family and special moral concerns for the Southern Baptist Christian Life Comlssion, Nashville, said many families are in serious trouble and that soclety 4s suffering from a "battered family syndrome." But he predicted the family rill continue to survive because it is part of Gad's providence for orderino human life. Hollis said churches should help famfl ies in dealina vith economic problems, vfolence in society, problems at home and abroad and sex miseducation on television.

At one session, each I4:4J participant was qiven a rice I?owl coin bank to emphasize Southern Baptists' goal of raisina $1 million on 'nlorld Hunqer Sunday, Aua. 3.

Alastair !,'a1 ker, past president of South Carolina aaptists who spearheaded a drive to distribute 148,900 of the hanks in hfs state, said oeople are more motivated to oive when a specific project is placed before theq. He had a well-dionino rln erected in his church in Spartanbura, S.C., to empl-iasize a drive for well drillin0 riss in war-tarn Uganda.

As a result, the church trioled its Lottie ""eon offerina of the previous year, '.la1 ker rapor ted . In a business session, ?rs. A. Varrison Greqory of Danville, Va., was electerl to her sixth term as president of l.l:U.

By Orville Scott--10:24 D.m. ??onday - -- - .- . Cervantes GodVention Center SBC;press ~ew~nwm rrluiuyrap~~y~ St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager New

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Latest Comnunica tion (ldvaxes For Inmediata Releast ST. LQYIS, June 9--Southern PaptSsts are takina advzniane of the latast in comunicat!on advances ?it their meatin? her.?.

Paul F. Rrwn, encinserfnn cwarzr cf tl:~Soutr?~rn Dwtists' 9ar'io an9 Television CCF- nission, Fnrt 'dorth, Tax., said tzlavisio? sicnsls nrc +,:inn tmnsmi ttsd 5.y usi~liqht, instead of the conventional methods af ratio ufawe5 or cable.

41. lfrlbt wava televjsinn trans:issior sit carrics thi. talctvfsiar! sirnals frm a mobile studio on the 17,7W seat ccnvectim flocr to 5 noirt i7 th? S.?CCP~ flcor of St. Louis' Ccrvantas Conv5ntian Centzr , "!iftar tha siqnal f~ recciv~din our Conva~ti~noffic? it is converted to an unus~d rcnular tel?visior! channzl and f,;d viz ca8)la ts various cgnvsnticn officzs an.' the nevs room in a mannar sinllar to ca3le tslzvision svstc3," qrov~r! szid. This rnztkod of transnission not only clininat?~a larne amcunt of ca5la strimice, but all0~5p~netration of a fir2 !!a11 viz tbe li+t trans3isrion tbrouph t9~v~inilovs of th2 convantion Off led , tmposs9blc ri t? conv~ntioaelr.t?dds . %own inristcd. This s.ystm uses a tecSnolocy very ssi~ilarto las,:r, accorr1i?a to Qroan. "Vcu wa't have ycyr haad burn& cr sas a hii~4inflre? rsy of liqkt lif:a in a scilncc fiction movie &cause th ssystw is extrer?alv lo?@noh:%r an:! usas invisi5le infrer~dlin!?t.

"Riqht vave comnunications is not qo*#!s::Prov~~! sai2.. "J1cxan:'cr %clap Rall invent?.] a syst+v for tel?nhones in t5c IC~RIS.~'

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Resolution from Editors For Imnediate Release

ST. LOUIS, June 10--Scuthcrn Baptist ~ditors~xpresscd "profound raspoct and pratitutlc" to the Baptist Standard of T3xas for its reporting of the inerrancy dispute. Th& expression, 4n thz form of a r2sclution, was unaoimotlsly adapter! during a krcak- fast meeting of thc Sauthcrn Baptist Pross Associatior, Tuzsday morning as the 123rd meatin9 of the Southern Eaptist Convcntian got cndwvay. Jack Harwsll , editor of the Christian Indt-x (Gcoroia) , introduced thc resolution be- cause hc safd the Standard, its 2di tor, Prssnall \.food, and associatz ~ditor,Toby Ilruin, "have performed a servic~for sl! Southern Baptists in optnly dcalisq with a sfnsitivc ~SSUG, rcsearchino it: thorou$:~lyanci praszntir!~a Pull acceur.t .':

Harwell said fhc Standad took the 1c-ad ir! prcs.:ntiny ncwr accounts of persons znd issucs involvbd In t:e inc-rrancy L'isput~which erupti-d ir! thc 1979 tlouston SBC and has bc-en visible in prclimSnarics to the 7989 msatinq.

Thc ritsolution noted Southern Qaptists "havt algays iilsist~don rcligious 1 iberty, frr-s discussion, open flow of infomatim ax! priesthood of th.: k2l ic-vc-r," and sald "csrtaln groups . . . hay2 eads~gcrsdthese invil?lats principt~swith broad charazs aminst other persons nithin cur dznomination. I' It cmcnc'ed the Standard and its lzaders "for tkc covrm.?, fctt*gri ty, exps?rtSsz and creativf ty the have displayed In researc5inc and printiaa qrticl?s relatad to un.?ocument~d charges of theological liberalism and or~anizadpslitical 2ctivity vf thin the SEC." The press associetion, which is forrled of iditor5 af statti Eaptfst ncwspqjdrs, clso reaffimd "our bl-lizf in thc n~ccssitjrof a frze pras, an open sxchanpc of opfnions and full disclnsuru of infornation within ths Sr?C farily."

Anothzr r~solutionadapted by tth S3PA call.;d on Fri-sidant Jirlvny Carter, me~hzrs. of Congress and thrl- Postal Silrvice Commission to prctvidc? re1i:f fcr th pub1 icetiorls, which havc. an aggregzts circulation of sliahtly rncra thrn two illi ion.

It notkcl thk proposed slirrrSnation of Saturdcy c.11 Cslivcry 3n;l curt?ileient of sub- sidies for o~cond~classnand-profi t mail crs as problems which confront tho papcrs.

Houlever, in a 12 -to 11 vote, the fditors VO~E:! not to particinatc or tc ~rovibtfun:'s for lobbying 'in Cocgrsss for the re1icf 3.+tir tb.r\~~:llpoint?:! out such activities ar? qucstionablo undzr Southfrn Rzptists' bcl idf in ths szpzratior, of church and strtc.

3y Dan iilartin--l@:32 A.I,f. Tucslay - - -.

CUT LINE Photo Ceptlons For Your Information PHOTO 9 -- W Officers Re-Elected -- Yrs. A. Harrison Gregory, rioht, of Danvllle, Va., was re-elected president of the Yoman's Missionary Union at the orsanizbt~an'sannual meetins June 8-9 in St. Louis. Mrs. Yil?iam Ellis, center, of Shelbyville, Q., was re- elected recording secretary. Pictured wlth the two officers 4s Carolyn Heatherford, WHU executive director, Birmingham, Ala. Photo by Mark Sandlin PHOTO 12 -- Under the Eyes of Lottie Moon -- Catherine Allen, author of Tha Yew Lottie 1-loon Stor , presented her baok to members of Lottie %on's family under % port-f ~outhdapt(rtr'most famous missionary during the national annual neetino of tho Woman's ttfss4~ns1-yUnlon at Kiel Auditorium fn St. Louis. From left arc Hrs. R. C. '..*v:' Church411 111, of Crew, Va.; Allen, asststanl: to executive dlrector and director of public and employee relations, W; and Yrs. Barry Harmon of Richmond. 00th wmn are great-qreat nieces of Lottie Hmn. Photo by Hark Sandlin t Cenrantes ConVention Center SBC; rress NBWS nmrn rr tuloyr apr 1y1 St, Louis. Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representative Manager Features Manager

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Campus Ministers Yrap-up For Imediate Re1 ease . ST. LOUIS, June 9--Southern Baptist campus ministers grappled with four major ethical * problems which will face Americans Curinc the eOr during thelr fourth annual tw-yay . itn,ceting . "The sacredness of life is basic," James Dunn, executive di~~~torof the Texas Gaptist Christian Life Cumitission, Dallas, told the campus cinisters in thzir opening session.

Addressing hieself to thr ~roblenof ~aorldhilnyr, Duqn said a1 1 ~ecplP ever.p!here deserve the rfrht to food, because %? ~lzcesvalue on every hu~a:! 1 ifr.

";hare psople are hungry today than ever bafor~," he remrted, notinp t::at half the world's hunqry are children undar five years of ace, that 800 milliar: pcoplc 1 ivz in "absolute pov~rty"and that at feast cne-eighth cf the srld's population suffers "de- bilitating malnutrition." "Starvation of humans clearly is a mcral and tthical issue, because its solution lies well within the capability of naticns working alon:. and toqittcr," Dunn said.

"Thcol.ogica1 immaturity" and "ethical inscnsi tivity" arlcn? Americans are cthcr prim^ causes of tho hunger crisis, Dunn charaed.

"6ecause human socloty cculd, If it would, sw that r,:! child. go~stc bod huncry, our failure ta da so is morally outrageous," hti said. "Our Gzdication to saa that innocant children kat is a basic test of our Christian ethic."

P,ttantlon ~hlftedfrom food to nissiles vk~nth~? studcct wrkcrs hkard from Elaa Stasszn, profiissar of Christian othfcs at South:;rn Baptist Tk,;dlaaical ScnSnary, Louisv~lle, Ky . Stassen claimd man's faith in nucl~ararms is nothin? short of idolatry. "l.le think QP Idols as statues, but biblically, icictairy is tha concept of forsaki~g Yaweh and putting samething else in its ~lacu," ha ssib. Stasscn char?c.C the kzy to ha!tina arms escalation is to PncouracT Sovi::ts and Americans to talk about thc problem an?. addcd that th~c!-turch shoul!aadapt Christ's exarnpls of "sur- prise initiative" and enccuraFe novcrnmcnt l~a.'c;rs to szcic to talk about ams cortrols with th~Sovlet I!nion.

Paul Sinnons, professor of Christian ethics at Southr:.r~ sminary, frcus:d on thi! problm of reconciling modical and ctfeicr.1 dssucs in thr 'POs for thc. caypus rr,ir,istcrs. "A11 of us ara touch;.d by thcsc f ssucs," hc said. "Thcy call on us vkc arq com?ilttici to thc nil nf $try to brf ng the ksst of our mcral undarstandicg atid r?llqjous p~rsp~ctivf.to bGar in dealing with thcs~critical proh1c.m~. "!!hat Is rEzd~dis for us to think through thhst problms . . . and do our homr=.ork," '~5said. "Scfentists who dalf y struggl.? nit'! tksz protl~nswill w~lcomedi81c:ur w? tb ministers and person$ concorned with moral and religious iaplications of this issua. Christians will tast thc "tkolopica? adequacy of our rkliqious pcrspoctiv~s"as m~dicinr-introduces "~Icwand fasclnatf n? circunstancts" into daily 1 if€, hs salrl. Page 2--Campus illinisters Llrap-u~

tlarry Hollis, associate executive director of the Southern Saytist Christian Life Cornissfon, filashville, addressed tbe issue of fariily life in this decade. Hollis said the aible teach~strlo very sigrificatit facts about the family. The first is that the family is "very, very important" and tbat the Eible takes the family and its place seriously. The szcond is that tk~family is not the ultinatc vzlue -- God is.

The key to succassful fa~ilyliving combines the supreracy of Gcd and tha importance of the family, he said. "Campus ministers havc- a unique cpportuni ty to claim a $eneration for Southern baptists . . . at a ti~ewhen this cocntry n~cclsstrong ani healthy familizs tc 5econ~ involved in solvlnc thi pr~tlemsof our day," he said.

The flnal session featured Wlliam ii, Pinscn, president of Eclden G*t+ Raptist Thaological Sfminary, whc wrapped up the ethical ~xmin3tionswith affi matior! of thd campus ministers ' place in the 1ives of ccl l6ge students.

"You are able to stretch minds and spirits. YOU ark abl~t~ brifi~peocfe to con- front truth," he told them.

"If you ever ahdicatc, to th~status quc or tc the dsing of busincss as usual cr to the allowing of peopla tc 1le comfortak,ly in their rut, yo^! will havi? forsaken the sp2ciat ministry to which God has called you.

"Yours prfmarily is a peo~1~-formationni~iistry," he said. "j!~'llb~ praying for YOU, because if you affect th~?enfration of students conin!: through, so will what God has Cut together as a Southern Ea~tistC~nventio? fu~cticn in the 3ext 10: 20 and ?i! years, "

The studeat wrkers ~lcctkdofficzrs for iNC-Ei. They ars Fc,?sva ;.*ctzgkr, Gr~ensborc,l4.C., prcsident; 9uss ,$rcti, Pc~tlo. Cclo., vice prksident Pcr administra- tion: Red Walsh, St. Louis, Ra., vice prisid~ntfor procra~s:JOG Cohb, 3con;villz, i~iiss.,vice presidknt for m~-rcT.i?or~$ip:and ?leal Sc!~oalzy,Stil iketkr, Okla., vicz crzsidznt for pub1 ications. STW.Y: KEITH PARKS SPEAKS TO blMJ YdNDAY NIGHT

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"And yau will be the ones who decide that," be said, speakin? to those attending the final sessron of the i.Jomanls !!issionary Union's annual meetin9 here. "You'll be the key in determining whether we're willing to pay the price or not." (pickup next nreph--Life-changing decisions etc.. .

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"That We May Boldly Say"

Comi ttee on Committee Changes For Immediate Re1 ease ST. LOUIS, June 7--Southern Baptist Convention President Adrfan Rogers has namd nine persons to fftll vacancies of the Southern Baptist Convention's Comi ttee on Comni ttees, Earlier Rogers nam4 52 persons from 26 states qua1 ffying for representation to the committeel chaired by Jerry 6lisson, pastor of Leawood Raptist Church, blemphis, Tenn. It will meet fn St. Louis just before the SSC meeting, June 10-12. to name the SEC Commlttce on Soards. The Cormnittee on Roards, which will be 1isted in the Convention Sulletin at the St. Louis SBC, wiibl convene after the St. touis meetinq to compile a l ist of nominees fdv posi- tions on boards of trustees of SBC aaencies to be voted on at the 1981 meeting in 10s Angeles. Rogers named the following substitutes for persons unable to accept comttree appof ntments: District of Columbia--Firs. Callas Pull iam, lay member, Greenbal t Saptist Church, Green- be1 t, Cd., to rspl'ace D'irs. !Ilorth Grant-, lay member, Temple Baptist Church; Geor fa E.R. To1 es, lay mmher, Second Avenue Baptist Church, Rome, GA., to replace Mrs. +---race Kinser, lay ember, Ff rst Baptist Church, Atlanta, and Lester Ruf ce, pastor, Rehobeth Baptist Church, Tucker, Ga., to replace A.9, Hatfield, pastor. Alpreta Baptist Church, Alpharetta, Ga. : Kansas-Febraska--Mrs. Ernest Stewart, lay member, Harrison Raptist Church, Omaha, Meb., to replac@dames Jeffrey of Overland Park, Kan., lay member, Leamd (Kan.) flaptist Church; Yaryland--James Hubbard, pastor, Be1 Forest Baptist Church, Be1 Air, Nd., to replace IalalCer Agnor, dfrector of mls$lans, Susquehanna Saptist Association, Aberdeen, !Id. ; iqichi~an-- Kenneth Stevens, pastor, Faith Baptist Church, Durand, Niche, to replace ~il t- pastor, Garham Bibptist Chumh, Jackson, Hich.; ?torthrest--John Hatch, pastor, First 3aptist Church, Tacoma, wash., to replace Don Clark, pastor, 9rchrrds Baptist Church, tewlsten, Idaho; and Texas--illorris Cobb, lay member, First Baptist Church, Amaril to, Texas, to replace Hrs. Evelyn merry, lay member, First i5aptist Church, ii'tidland, Texas, and Zob Eklund, pastor, First Baptist Church, Hurst, Texas, to replace Fred Ietolfe, pastor, First Baptist Church, Lubbock.

Gy Robert O'Brien--6:40 p.m. Sunday Fote to editors: The full story on the Committee on Committees is in the "SRC and ?~@-SBC" folder in the advacce S4C ;'errs Kit. ~e~rttmcm~t?~~ tamer 3111, rrw 11-3 nvvl I I i I IW-I WI ry r I St. Louis, Missouri (314) 342-5357 Representativ Manager Features Manager I

"That We May Boldly Say" Sunday night Pastors' conference For Imnediate Rzlease

ST. LOUIS, June 8--The Southern Bapti stllPasto~s I Conference opened hera Sunday night with a call for denoiinational unity and for praysr, not politicking.*' Jack Taylor, dlrector of Dimensions in Christian Living, Fort Vorth, Texas, told a near-capacity crov:d at Cervantas Convention Center here that be4ng disagreeable among Baptists lo "inzxcusable. "Ye can disagree and still love each other," the former Southern Baptist pastor began. He said that otw of his reasons for being a BaptSst is that Saptists can go to canvsn- tions, disagrae, and still love one another. Clearly alludtng to pre-convention speculation that the 123rd annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention may be marked by heated debate over biblical disagraements, Taylor wWW, "These are not days to draw our daggers and run them through," The three-day meeting which starts Tuesday is expected to attract 18,000 messengers. Assigned to speak on "Prayer and Awakenlng ," Taylor declared, "I am absolutely con- vinced . . . that if wc decide to pray, we will see a spiritual awakening." Prayer is needed first in th~lives of ministers, he said, because "we're following our Baals." He declared that pastors who measure their success by the world's standards are "out of bu~lness.~ fay-lor told the asseinbled ministers, many accompanied by their wives, that "preachers are going to have to lay down their egos" and "get over talking about each other." He !$mt on to say that preachers ought to be doing mre than "comforting the troubled." In addition, "you ought to be troubling the comfortable."

Earlier fn Ehb openinp session, John Bfsagno, pastor of First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas, detlarsd that the second coming of Jesus is the event "to which all history is mvfng afid withaut which hlstary makes no sense." Bisagm admitted to having adopted a premillenial vlew of the end of time over the past year &ring an intensive study of the book of Revelation. He said he has been preach- ing through"tk last book of the Sible "verse-by-verse and word-by-word" for nearly a year and has concluded that it ''is not a closed book." Pre~cillenialismis the view that Jesus will come back to rule on earth for a thousand- year perfod sftar the rise of the antichrist, Bisagno explafned. The latter will be "a smooth-talking dude," he prrdicted. "Things (frr ripe for the antichrist," the Houston pastor raid, pointing to what he called a "one-wrld" system of government, language, measures, and mi 11tary force, among others, He also as~afledU. S. foreign policy as contributing to international instability which will hasten the end of time. He clted what he called America's "forsaking" of Taiwan and "aming" of Comnunist China, as well as increasing support for Arab natfons at Israel '3 expense. Blsapna pl7tbictcd that armies from all over the world will eventually converge on Israel to settle "Satan's original proposition, 'Yho's goinq to rule the world? "I But when that cataclysmic event occurs, he concluded, the world !4111 see that "Jesus hasn't given UP on the church.'I - 30- By Stan Hastey--9:SS p.m. Sunday - - - - .- Page 2--Faz:i1;# I;?Life-C;!tfir;iry Ccr.z;ftr:.ents (: ;,I!) Tiair 15-year-0'14 Leu-atar ran fro:? t:.:! roc?! ad slx~@(:t:?e Ledwota Cow, .Camplcs r~called. . .- CI? tcl, of t:,ot, t;.ey had bills tc pa::. ; ut as ti.e:/ cixtiiluci to axr.lors t?€ ~ossi'Jiliticsof ~issJoi;:mrk, tt;t cllilire:: eaFs arorrnj to s:::';~ort t5e ;arer;ts. .'c< oilce tho ccm;%t.-cnt%.as r:a.;c: pultic, bl..ples ssi:!, "q.:it:*ira ratter of :+eks t3e 101%: %bk: ~rovii6Gfor the bills.*

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