Annual The BaptistNewMexico Convention of 2005 Albuquerque,NM87199 POBox 94485 TheBaptist Conventionof NM
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The Baptist Convention of New Mexico
Permit #1603 Permit NM Albuquerque, US Paid Postage Non Acting Executive Director - Profit Org. Profit Dr. James Semple Nancy L. Faucett, Recording Secretary
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ANNUAL
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The Baptist Convention of New Mexico PO Box 94485, Albuquerque 87199 5325 Wyoming NE, Albuquerque 87109
Ninety-Fourth Annual Session Meeting at First Baptist Church Bloomfield, New Mexico
October 25-26, 2005
OFFICERS OF THE CONVENTION
President Jay McCollum, Gallup First Vice President Randy Aly, Jal Recording Secretary Nancy Faucett, Edgewood Assistant Recording Secretary Cricket Pairett, Albuquerque Parliamentarian Francis Wilson, Albuquerque
2006 Meeting to be held October 24-25 at Central Baptist Church of Clovis, New Mexico
Shon Wagner, T or C First Preacher of Annual Sermon Billy Weckel, Deming First Alternate
2007 Meeting
October 23-24 Albuquerque Sandia
2008 Meeting
October 28-29 Las Cruces First DEDICATION
The 2005 Annual for the Baptist Convention of New Mexi- co is dedicated to Dr. James H. Semple, who served as the state convention’s acting executive director from March 1, 2005, to Feb. 1, 2006.
During the time he was leading New Mexico Baptists, he also served as the BCNM’s interim director of evangelism ministries, a post he had held since May of 2004. He com- muted to New Mexico each week from his home in Dallas.
Semple retired in 2001 after serving 12 years as director of the State Missions Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Reared in Miami, Semple is a graduate of John B. Stetson University, Deland, Fla., B.A.; and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, B.D. and Th.D.
From 1952-61 Semple held student pastorates in Florida and Texas, and in 1961 he was called as pastor of First Baptist Church, Plano, Texas. Two years later, First Baptist, Paris, Texas, called him to be pastor, a position he would hold until joining the state convention staff in 1989.
During the 25 years Semple served the East Texas congregation, the church gave 20 percent of its undesignated receipts to the Cooperative Program and Sunday school enrollment increased by 130 percent, to 3,500.
Semple and his wife, Betty, have six children, 20 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. TOP TEN CHURCHES IN TOTAL NUMBER OF BAPTISMS, 2005* Resident Total Church Membership Baptisms 1. Hoffmantown West 700 155 2. Albq. Hoffmantown 2,384 99 3. Bloomfield First 1,148 76 4. Albq. New Hope Full Gospel 550 75 5. Rio Rancho First 1,084 60 6. Artesia First 1,003 47 7. Mesilla Park 698 45 8. Albq. Fellowship Missionary 1,150 40 9. Albq. Sandia 1,030 38 10. Belen First 852 34
TOP TEN CHURCHES IN COOPERATIVE PROGRAM GIFTS, 2005** Resident Total Church Membership CP Gifts 1. Carlsbad First 882 118,305 2. Clovis Central 1,104 117,133 3. Bloomfield First 1,148 113,268 4. Albuquerque Hoffmantown 2,384 112,500 5. Artesia First 1,003 100,750 6. Albuquerque Sandia 1,030 100,712 7. Las Cruces First 1,279 95,333 8. Hobbs Taylor Memorial 1,164 92,800 9. Ruidoso First 579 84,644 10. Farmington Emmanuel 862 84,000 TOP TEN CHURCHES IN PER CAPITA COOPERATIVE PROGRAM GIFTS, 2005** Resident Per Capita Church Membership CP Gifts 1. Carlsbad Garden Street 37 662.48 2. Vaughn First 6 276.11 3. Belen Sierra Vista 43 270.47 4. Animas First 8 214.56 5. Taos First 65 204.98 6. Mayhill 113 202.95 7. Santa Fe First 363 176.11 8. Angel Fire 216 169.75 9. Santa Fe El Dorado 95 161.24 10. Carrizozo First 52 160.46 *Statistics compiled from 2004 Annual Church Profile **Statistics compiled from receipts received at BCNM offices January 13, 2004 through January 12, 2005