Sallateeska Upgrades Under

Coming to Springfield for the Annual Meeting? • City guide and schedule, page 3 Volume 107, No. 18 NOVEMBER 04, 2013 IB Insider Sallateeska upgrades under way Improvements include Lottie Moon larger dining hall prayer calendar By Meredith Flynn pages 7-8 Pinckneyville | Lake Sallateeska is under construction. In a few months, the dining hall expansion will be Q&A: IBSA considers complete, as will a new camp store leadership center page 6 and game room. And camp manager Philip Hall and his staff, assisted by volunteers, will start work on their next project: putting a new front on God’s the chapel. But even during the renovations, mysterious it’s life as usual at the camp. Lake ways page 11 Sallateeska is fully functioning as IBSA’s camp in southern Illinois, going “100 miles an hour,” Hall said. “We’ve got to finish [the projects] and keep everything step-by-step and Sound Off: stage-by-stage, so our ongoing camp Rules to post by page 4 use can keep going and not be hin- dered.” Lake Sallateeska hosted 5,256 people in 2012, an increase over the pre- Fresh Ideas vious year. But some of its facilities for being thankful needed to be updated, repaired or ex- page 10 panded. The camp staff and Hall, who owned a construction business before coming to Sallateeska, have partnered with Campers on Mission and Illinois Changers over the past Follow us several months to paint, frame build- Get IBSA news and updates ings, and put on new roofs. throughout the week: Campers on Mission made their BAPTIST BUILDERS – A group of Illinois Changers lifts what will soon be a wall in Lake Salla- annual fall work trip to Sallateeska, facebook.com/IllinoisBaptist teeska's larger dining hall. The students and their leaders partnered Oct. 18-20 with camp manager Philip Hall and his staff to make progress on the expansion. Photo by Mark Emerson Continued on page 6 twitter.com/IllinoisBaptist vimeo.com/IBSA www.IBSA.org Debaters rally in Lincoln’s shadow IBSA Annual Meeting By Lisa Sergent Sign up for the weekly eConnection Messengers to vote at www.IBSA.org/Communications. Springfield | Voices for and against same-sex marriage in on marriage resolution Illinois gathered for separate Springfield | Cultural issues, including rallies at the Capitol in late the much-debated same-sex marriage October, as legislators re- legislation pending in Illinois, will be turned for their veto session. before messengers to the IBSA An- The rallies shared some nual Meeting in Springfield. The Res- Peoria, Illinois Permit No. 325 similarities. olutions and Christian Life Committee U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE Nonprofit Organization At the “March on Spring- plans to present resolutions on mar- field for Marriage Equality,” riage, human exploitation and gaming advocates for same-sex mar- expansion, as well as a resolution rec- riage gathered Oct. 22 in the SIGN-ING UP – Traditional marriage advocates gather for ognizing the 125th anniversary of shadow of the Abraham Lin- an Oct. 23 rally sponsored by the Illinois Family Institute. Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU). coln statue on the Capitol’s Wes Hahn, chairman of the com- grounds. The following day, advo- support of many elected leaders. U.S. mittee and pastor of Shiloh Baptist in cates for traditional marriage stood in Senator Dick Durbin, Gov. Pat Bridgeport, believes the resolutions the same shadow to participate in the Quinn, Lt. Gov. Shelia Simon, Attor- presented and passed by messengers Illinois Family Institute’s “Defend ney General Lisa Madigan, Comp- give a stronger voice to their beliefs as Marriage Lobby Day.” troller Judy Baar Topinka and Sec. of Baptists. “In general, resolutions, even Speakers on both sides of the issue State Jessie White all spoke in sup- though they are non-binding, they claimed the support of Lincoln for port of SB10, the “Religious Freedom give us as Southern Baptists and Illi- their present-day cause, and their ral- and Marriage Fairness Act.” nois Baptists the important opportu- lies were similar in size with 3,000 to Wednesday’s rally didn’t quite have nity to honor Christ and speak to the 4,000 participants each. But the sim- the political clout of Tuesday’s, but it good and ill in our culture. ilarities ended there. did feature State Sen. Jim Oberweis The March on Springfield had the Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 2 NEWS IBSA.org ILLINOIS BAPTIST The BIG Picture Rallies at the Capitol the BRIEFING News updates every Tuesday at www.ib2news.org. GuideStone sues over mandate GuideStone Financial Resources has joined a long list of organizations suing the federal government over the abortion/contraceptive mandate in President Obama’s healthcare re- form package. The mandate requires em- ployers to cover abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health care plans. “We reluctantly take this step because we are committed to protecting the un- born and preserving the religious freedom that is guar- anteed under the laws of this nation,” said GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins (above). Task force addresses baptism decline A group of leaders assembled by the North American Mission Board will meet over the next few months to discuss the decline in baptisms across the Southern Baptist Conven- tion. “Our baptismal trends are all headed in the wrong direction,” BACK IN SESSION – While Illinois legislators met inside for their fall veto session, advocates of traditional marriage prayed that NAMB’s vice president for evangelism, Al Gilbert, lawmakers won’t vote to legalize same-sex marriage. Photo by Meredith Flynn told Baptist Press. Southern Baptist churches baptized fewer than 315,000 people last year, the first time bap- Continued from page 1 tisms dropped below that number since 1948. (R-Sugar Grove) and two gu- Word we are to love everybody. Another Illinois Baptist, The group of 15 pastors and leaders from Southern bernatorial candidates - Mark You teach us to love even our Larry Trotter, pastor of Sweet Baptist entities hopes to finish their work next May. Dillard and Bill Brady, both Re- enemies if we have any. We Holy Spirit Baptist in Chicago, publican State Senators. Pastors don’t hate folk.” spoke later when the rally from several Christian denomi- He also asked God to bless moved inside the rotunda. Graham wants to leave them with truth nations also were present. and touch the hearts of the state The fall veto session is just More than 25,000 churches have signed up to take part Two Illinois Southern Baptist representatives. two weeks long. While many in Billy Graham’s My Hope America, believed to be the pastors spoke during the morn- Henderson prayed for God’s supporters of SB10 are urging evangelist’s last public ing’s prayer rally – Danny Hol- Word to be upheld. “…Help it, representatives to vote on the sermon. My Hope asks liday from Victory Baptist in Lord, to be hidden deep within bill during the session, it is not Christians to invite non- Alton, and Mike Henderson our hearts and within our souls. expected to be called for a vote believers into their homes from First Baptist, Springfield. Help us to stand for it no matter this year. and churches to watch Holliday prayed for under- what resistance may try to Same-sex marriage is legal in Graham, 95, preach a message that will be broadcast standing. “Lord God, we are come up against us, because we 14 U.S. states and the District Nov. 7-10 on various outlets. A billboard promoting Fox not here because we are against know, Lord, that You’ve al- of Columbia. News’ broadcast of the event went up in Times Square in people. You teach us in Your ready won the battle.” mid-October, featuring Graham’s face and a quote: “With all my heart, I want to leave you with truth.” Meeting resolutions focus on culture issues Mohler bridges divide at BYU Continued from page 1 Christians and Mormons “inhabit separate and irrecon- “We are trying to be the salt trafficking and pornography, Kicklighter will interview Illi- cilable theological worlds,” Al Mohler told an audi- and light in a dying culture and which has been a major focus nois church planters. NAMB ence at Brigham Young University. But the Southern if we don’t raise the light, who of WMU in recent years. It President Kevin Ezell was pre- Seminary president added the two groups should work will?” touches on six areas: bullying, viously advertised to appear but together to address threats to religious liberty, Baptist The issue of same-sex mar- pornography, labor trafficking, had to cancel due to a schedul- Press reports. riage has been debated across sex trafficking, media exploita- ing conflict. “...We are living in the shadow of a the nation and in Illinois, where tion of families and children, The Hilton Springfield is lo- great moral revolution that we commonly the Senate passed a bill legaliz- and the exploitation of natural cated at 700 E. Adams Street. believe will have grave and devas- ing such marriages earlier this resources for personal gain. The meeting begins at 1:30 tating human consequences,” Mohler year and the House is being The resolutions are available p.m. Wednesday and will con- said in his lecture, part of the Mor- urged to follow. In response, the online at www.IBSA.org/ clude at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. mon university’s “Faith, Family and committee will present The meeting2013. Messengers may Online pre-registration closes Society” series. Christians and Mormons must together Resolution on the Preservation submit proposed resolutions to Nov.

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