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Alliance of Baptists NEWSLETTER OF THE ALLIANCE OF BAPTISTS Our Mission is to make the worship of God primary in all our gatherings, foster relationships within and outside the Alliance, create places of refuge and renewal for those wounded or ignored by the church, side with the poor, pursue justice with and for the oppressed, care for the earth, work for peace, honor wisdom and lifelong learning, and hold ourselves accountable September 1999 Volume 2 Issue 9 for equity, collegiality and diversity. our teachers houses are now wired The Alliance has done in three years what no other for electricity thanks to the work of missionary group has done in 45 years... an 11-member team just back from Zimbabwe:Zimbabwe: Fa trip to the Baptist Theological Seminary several concrete tasks. They: in Gweru, Zimbabwe. Renovated the mens dormitory by Through our work, we strengthened plastering the interior, rebuilding bath- the relationships and ties between the rooms, replacing roof beams, repairing tin Baptist Convention of Zimbabwe and the roofing, installing additional electrical Alliance of Baptists, said group leader outlets for student lighting, and replacing Bonnie Dixon of Cary, NC, a staff member existing lighting. at Millbrook Baptist Church in Raleigh. Facilitated a pastors school for 65 Our work affirmed our stance to facilitate pastors and students from the Baptist indigenous ministries with no strings Convention of Zimbabwe by providing attached. We also discussed future strate- funds for transportation, room and board; gies for partnering and future mission and providing texts and materials for Hartman Doctoral student Tracy taught preaching. endeavors, including an on-going effort to participants. Some of the volunteers led completion of the administration building assist the Convention in supporting its sessions on preaching and pastoral care and at Zororo Primary School, including home missionaries. preached in worship sessions each night of shelving for the library, concrete for Said one pastor from Zimbabwes capital the pastors school. flooring, plastering for walls, and bars and of Harare: The Alliance has done in three Left materials and funds for labor for locks for windows and doors. years what no other missionary group has Left many miscellaneous items: Mens done in 45 years helped our convention WHO WENT: PAGE 3 suits for the student pastors; cloth and become self-sustaining. sewing supplies for sewing classes for Beyond these intangible outcomes, new grove of mango trees seminary wives; personal supplies like soap the 11 volunteers also A and possibly a dairy farm may be developed in and shampoo for student families at the accomplished Zimbabwe because of the gifts of 300 youth attending seminary; books and school supplies for Unidiversity camp in Brevard, NC, in July. students at Zororo Primary School; Alliance member Bonnie Dixon talked to the youth communion plates for the seminary and Mango Trees about the needs of the Baptist Theological Seminary three churches; bandages, glasses, in Gweru and they responded by giving $1958 during Neosporin, and 250 pairs of prescription and Milk Cows their week of camp. eyeglasses (individually labeled with The money was designated to buy mango trees for prescriptions) for Baptist Hospital at the new orchard. But it was more than needed for just Sanyati; sheets and towels for the Zimba- trees so seminary officials will use the remainder to bwe Baptist Convention guest house; books buy two cows, the start of what they hope will be a and Bibles for the seminary library; and two productive dairy that would provide milk for babies, suitcases of shoes. jobs for students, and income for the seminary Adam Host churches involved were the from the sale of milk and possibly Dixon under one Monomotapa Baptist Church and Seminary other dairy products. of the mango trees bought Baptist Church in Gweru and Emmanuel with funds from Unidiversity. Baptist Church in Harare. tephen W. Lucas has been called as pastor of Alliance-affiliated High- land Park Baptist Church in Austin, STX. Since 1996 he has been pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Concord, NC. Earlier he was pastor of Longwood Hills Baptist Church, Orlando, FL, during a time that congregation became affiliated with the United Church of Christ. It was Steve who first suggested that the UCC and Alliance enter into dialogue. New Alliance member Joann Juett is now associate pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, DC. The Indiana native, an American Baptist, previously taught English and Helping prepare pastor search committees to conduct effective searches is a part of drama in Social Circle, GA, where the services offered by the Alliance. On Aug. 15, associate director Jeanette Holt she also was minister of perform- met with members of the senior pastor search committee at First Baptist Church ing arts at Social Circle United Greenville, SC. She is shown with committee chair Jim Neal. The Alliance also Methodist Church. maintains a placement file. Mark Stauffer is the new pastor happenings of Alliance-affiliated Luther Rice Memorial Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Charlotte. He is a graduate of Stetson named Coordinator of Survivor Services MD. An American Baptist, Mark is a University, Union Theological Seminary of Family Service Agency. In this graduate of Eastern Baptist Theological in New York and Southern Baptist position, she supervises personnel and Seminary and comes to the national Theological Seminary. Among Steves programming for the Agencys Sexual capital area from the pastoral team of previous pastorates are Broadway Baptist Assault Center, the Rape Prevention First Baptist Church, Norristown, PA. Church, Fort Worth, TX, and Crescent Program, the Domestic Violence Out- Former Alliance board member H. Hill Baptist Church, Louisville, KY. reach Program, and the Victim Services Stephen Shoemaker has accepted the call of Virginia Alliance President Donna Program, all based in the Little Rock Alliance-affiliated Myers Park Baptist Hopkins Britt has been called as interim Police Department. Kathy is also pastor Church, Charlotte, NC, to become its senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, of Providence Baptist Church, a recipient fifth senior minister. The Statesville, NC, Roanoke, VA. She is a graduate of of Alliance mission offering funds. native spent much of his youth in Baptist Theological Seminary at Rich- Alliance member Tommy Bratton is now mond. Minister of Education and Family The Alliance of Baptists Alliance member Kim Buchanan was Ministries at First Baptist Church in 1328 16th Street NW ordained to the gospel ministry July 17 Gastonia, NC. He formerly was at First Washington, DC 20036 by Alliance-affiliated Virginia-Highland Baptist Church in Belton, SC. Executive Director: Stan Hastey Baptist Church in Atlanta. She is a Ph.D. Bread for the World, a Silver Spring, MD- Associate Director: Jeanette Holt candidate in education and preaching at (202) 745-7609 based hunger advocacy organization, is Emory University and earned her M.Div. Fax: (202) 745-0023 seeking a Director of Church Relations to at Southern seminary. Kim is also adjunct [email protected] succeed Joel Underwood. Send nomina- faculty member and teaching assistant in www.AllianceofBaptists.org tions or applications to Human Resources, Christian education and preaching at Send information for newsletter to: Bread for the World Inc., 1100 Wayne Candler School of Theology. Sue Harper Poss Avenue, Suite 1000; Silver Spring MD P.O. Box 25461, Greenville, SC 29616 Alliance board member Kathy Manis 20910. Fax: 301/608-2401. E-mail: Phone: (864)458-7503 Fax: (864) 458-9624 Findley of Little Rock, AR, has been [email protected]. [email protected] The Board of Directors of the Alliance will meet Sept. 16-18 in Washington. 2 uch of the violence that Adolph Hitler. ZIMBABWE: OUR VOLUNTEERS plagues the land we tend to Scarcely a month later, Buford Furrow rationalize as random acts. To walked into a Jewish community center in The Dixons: Bonnie, John and Adam, Mdo so insulates us against the hard Los Angeles and opened fire, felling a 68- 12, of Cary, NC. Bonnie is an Alliance board questions of why. We seem largely year-old receptionist, a second woman member and on the staff of Millbrook inured to the arguments of sociologists and three children aged 5 and 6. A neo- Baptist Church in Raleigh. and psychologists and other analysts of Nazi who has worked for the white The Hartmans: Tracy, Jay, Jana, 12, and our gun-toting society. supremacist group Aryan Nations, Jonathan, 10, of Northminster Baptist Twenty-eight states now permit Furrow turned himself in and confessed. Church in Richmond, VA. Tracy, a Ph. D. virtually anyone to carry a concealed Furrow and the Williams brothers are candidate at Union Theological Seminary, weapon. The National Rifle Associa- but three examples of a rising phenom- taught preaching at the pastors school. She is tion, in its grotesque enon of frightful propor- a graduate of the Baptist Theological misreading of the tions in the United States. Seminary at Richmond and did her mission Second Amendment Because they cloak their immersion in Zimbabwe. Jay is also a BTSR to the Constitution, hatred in false religion, it is graduate, now a general contractor. Jana lobbies state legisla- time for true religion to turned 12 while in Zimbabwe and threw a tures to ensure the respond. That is precisely birthday party for all the seminary kids. right to pack heat. what the Fellowship of Alice Loyd: Member of Pullen Memorial Lest they be caught Reconciliation and The Baptist Church in Raleigh, a retired teacher in the NRA line of Interfaith Alliance are and writer. fire, lawmakers By Stan Hastey doing. Nancy Jones: Member of Pullen, a Executive Director meekly submit to its perspectives Supported by the paralegal. demands. Alliance of Baptists and Furman Hewitt: Director of the Baptist There is another kind of violence, scores of other religious groups, FOR House of Studies at Duke University, who however, and it is not random.
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