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April 22, 1987
Cooprative P rogr am Levels Off Tn March NASHVILLE (Re)--After two months on a financial roller coaster, the Southern Baptist Convention1s Cooperative Program leveled off in March, announced Harold C. Bennett, pesident and treasurer of the SBC Executive Cmittee. March receipts for the SBCts mnvention-wide missions, evangelism and ministry budget were $11,523,003, or 14.84 percent over receipts for March of 1986, Bennett said. The March inme brought Cooperative Program receipts to $65.6 million for the first six months of the fiscal year, 4.52 percent ahead of receipts for the same period a year ago. March follawdi a record-high $13.1 million January total and Fekuary inme of only $10 million, almost $I million behind the Felxuary total for the pevious year.
I I Those fluctuations were caused by modifications in the way several state Southern Baptist conventions write their Cooperative Program checks for mnvention-wide causes, explained Tim A. Hedquist, Ekecutive Ccmmittee vice president: for business and finance. fn January, sme state conventions started writing bi-monthly checks to the national Cooperative Program, rather than the mnthly checks that had been the norm. 1 Consequently, scme of the states1 sand checks in Fekuary did not reach the mecutive Cmittee before the end of the month, Hdquist said. This left the monthly Cooperative Program receipts short of the amount that eventually mld reach the mvention-wide level. I But the Cooprative Progr ;a reached "an even keel" in March, he added. The new check- writing pocedures had been in place long enough for the Executive Ccmittee, which distributes ~ the funds, to receive a full mnthls inme fran each state convention. Bennett and Hedquist applauded the efforts of state conventions to keep Cooperative Program receipts high at the mnvention-wide level. "States are working hard to adjust" to changinq and even faltering regional econanic conditions, primarily based on crises in the agriculture and petroleum industries, Hedquist said.
Nevertheless, the Cmprative Program' s 4.52 percent rate of increase is outpacing inflation, which current1.y is less than 2 percent.
Af rican Presidents Praise Raptist Press I Baptists, Missionaries 4/22/87 RI-, Va. (BP)--The fxesidents of Kenya and Tanzania have paised the work of ~aptists and missionar ies . Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, who was in Washington this swing to confer with President Ronald Reagan, said earlier in Kenya that missionaries are needed and welcxxne in his eastern A£ rican country.
Moi played host to more than I., 000 Kenyan Baptists at his p ivate residence. Many Southern Baptist rnissionar ies also were present .
"As long as I an pesident of the Repblic of Kenya, you will be welamed in Kenya to meach the gospel," Moi said in his address the crcwd. 'We need people who will help in training our people who will lead their awn churches." -more- 4/22/87 Page 2 Baptist Press A Kenyan newspaper quoted mi's explanation that, although Kenya is a sovereign state, it still welmes missionaries and Christian organizations £ran other countries to assist in the spread of the gospel. Noting most people only turn to Cod when they face problens, Moi adviserf people to appreciate all that God does for them. Kenyan Baptists pesented Moi with a check for 155,000 Kenya shillings, or about $10,000, to be used by the president in charitable pojects. Arthur Kinyanjui, chairman of the Baptist Convention of Kenya and a friend of Moi, arranged the meeting and delivered the sermon. He said the main objective of the convention is to spead the word of God in Kenya.
In neighboring Tanzania, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi was on hand recently to lay the cornerstone for a new building at the Baptist-affiliated Ipinda High Schaol in the Kyela District. ". Hundreds of students and family members responded with cheers when Mwinyi pcmised he would personally see the school was given government permission to by as much roofing material as needed for mnststction. Metal. roofing is one of the scarcest items in the aountry. Mwinyi also thanked the Kyela Baptist Association for its part in establishing the school in 1984 and providing support and supervision. Later he personally thanked Southern Baptist missionaries Douglas and Evelyn Knam for their involvement with the school.
The school makes it possible for 1-1 students to receive education beyorad grade seven. It has 360 students and 12 teachers and staff mmhzrs. -30- Baptist Press 4/22/87
SOWHEIW RFSTIST FORUM June 14-15, 1987 Kiel Auditorium Opera House St. Jmis, Missouri
TTDE: Uniting All Things In Christ Ephesians 1: 10
Sunday Evening, June 14, 1987 Gene Garrison, pastor, ~irst~aptist Church, Oklahma City, ~esiding 6: 45--Prelude -- Organist, Ron mud, professor of church muslc, ,Southern Raptist Theoloqical Seminary, Ixxlisville, Ky. 7:OO-
Southern Baptist Forum Baptist Press To Expand To 3 Sessions 4/22/87
ST. LO[TTS (BP)--An expanded format and new speakers will greet participants in the Southern Baptist Forum, to b held June 14-15 in Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis.
The Forum traditionally is held immediately pior to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, which this year is June 16-18 in St. Louis. Previously the Forum has had just one Monday afternoon meeting, but this year's event will be canpised of sessions Sunday evening, June 14, and Monday morning and afternoon, June 15, said Charles Wade, Forum chairman and pastor of First Baptist Church of Arlington, Texas.
The anvention's hreadth and depth of speakers made the expanded format: necessary, Wade said. "Those of us who have been working on the Fourm felt the availability of many Southern Baptist pastors, professors and lay persons wtKxn Southern Baptists need and want to hear required an expanded p cgam, " he explained.
Forum planners follwd though on that idea by =eating a mnp1.etely new line-up of Forum preachers, added Kenneth Chafin, a Form organizer and ~ofessorof peaching at Southern Baptist Theological Sgninary in Louisville, Ky.: "We have all new speakers. This is a great big denanination with a lot of talent. We think this denmination is t.xK, big and rich in talent to go dcwn there and hear the sane people. We can use different people every year for the next 20 years and not exhaust the pssibilities."
Speakers are Roy L. Honeycutt, president of Southern seminary; Don Aderhold, pastor of Columbia Drive Baptist Church, Decatlo:, Ga.; Rosalyn Smith Carter, wife of former U.S. President JhyCarter of Plains, Ga. ; James Slatton, pastor of River Rcad Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. ; Nancy Hastings Sehester7, asmiate pastor of Oakhurst Baptist Church, Decatur , Ga. ;
Also Oswald Ho£f?man, peacher for "The Lutheran Hourn fran St. Louis; ish her Hwnphreys, professor of theology at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; John Hewett, pastor of First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C.; Lamnn Brown, pastor of First Baptist Church, Norman, Okla.; and Winfred Mwre, pastor of First Baptist Church, Amarillo, Texas.
Musicians are Jim Davis, minister of music at First Baptist Church of Tulsa; Ron Boud, professor of church music at Southern seminary; and Cynthia Clawson, concert artist from Louisville.
"Uniting All ~hingsin Christ" will be the theme for the event. "We hope to shthat Southern Baptists have an enormous mount of variety in thann in terms of such factors as gcmgraphy, size of churches, approaches to mrship and gender of leaders, Chafin said. "We are hoping there will be a wholesome awareness that we me all different yet united.
"We want to povide fellmship for people in support of tbeo1qic.l education and heand foreign missions, " he added. "We want to be an island of affirmation and enaouragement to people who have not found that in recent years." -30- 4/22/87 Page 4 Baptist Press W, N Share Awards In BPFA Campetition By Joe Westbury
ATLANFA (BP)--The Southern Baptist Hane ~issionmard and ~oreignMission Board tmk top honors in the 1987 awards competition sponsored by the Baptist Public Relations Assmiation.
A record 640 entries in 46 categories were judged in the -tition which was re-named this year in honor of Wilmer C. Fields, who retired Mach 31 after 28 yems as vice pesident for public relations of the ,SBC mecutive Cmittee in Nashville.
Among agencies, Foreign Mission Board entries captured 30 of the 93 awards. The Hane Mission Board netted 23 and made a clean sweep of the five grand awards. me Brotherhood Commission received five honors while the Wanan's Missionary Union and Sunday School Board captured one each. *ee awards went to writers of the Baptist Joint Cmittee on Public Affairs. Joanna B. Pinneo, EMR staff photographer , captured a reoord nine awards, five for first place. Receiving the second-highest number of awards was Michael Lacgent, EM3 design artist, who captured four first place awards and one second place.
Grand award winners featured HMB employees Martha Linton, senior grafiic designer, the Arthur S . Davenpr t Award for exceptional achievement in pblic ref-ations and developnent : Wolfgang Schumacher , pr cducer/di rector, the M. E. Dodcf Award for exceptional achievement: in audiovisual poductions; Wallace A. Buckner, director of the multi-ethnic ministries department, the Albert McClellan Award for exceptional achievement in plblications and wint media; Mark Sandlin, photojour nalism director, the Fon H. .Scofield Award for exceptional achievement in publication fiotofpaphy: and Sherri Anthony Brown, assistant features editor, the Frank Bur khal ter Award for exceptional achievement in writing .
First-place winners included WlU mmnunications qroup, total pblic relations/developnent pqram; Linton, public relations project; Thanas J. Bram, Raptist General Convention of Texas, developnent ~oject;Van C. Payne, FM3, motion picture film;
D~Kre11 W. Wood, Buckner Baptist Benevolences, multi-image wesentation; David L. Phillips, HMB, television ccaranercial, public service spot or pcmotimal spot; Suzanne Rassett, Georgia Baptist Medical Center, audio poduction; Schumacher , television, video special or limited series; Don L. Dahler , FMB, thee awards for koadcast news reprt, short subject and videogr aphy/cinmatoqr apby;
Ronald J. Lawson, HMB, television or video series; Ben Sherman, HMB, screen writing; Pinneo, five awards for black and white single news photo, color single news t&oto, black and white news photo story, black and white sing1.e feature photo, and color feature photo story;
Warren F. Johnson, FMB, color single feature photo; Sandlin, black and white feature $oto story; Lacgent, £om awards for black and white general pboto, single advertisement, ads with up to four mlors and pblication designs with up to fax mlors;
John McTyre, Southern Baptist Theological seminary, color general -to; Pat Cravens, HMB, annual report; Charlotte M. Legg, William Jwell College, and Eddy G. Oliver, Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seninary, tie for academic catalog; Kitty Rokrson and Carolyn Blunk, HM3, product catalog; Public Relations Off ice, Grand Canyon College, brochure; Buckner , Linton and Janice Trusty, M,poster; Legg, folder; Mzcty Croll, FMR, newsletter for external plblics or constituents; Ellen Libis and Bruce Wright, FMB, wtployee or in-house pblication;
Phyllis Thampson, WMB , tm awards far magazine and interp: etative/investigat:ive reprting ; William Bangham, Janes Bur ton and Mary Mmre, Brotherhood Ccmnission, monthly/bimonthly news publication; Suzanne Clement Vor licek, Baptist Memarial Hospi tal+lrnis, Tenn., two awx ds for special plblications and log3 design up to two mlors;
Dan Beatty, FM3, pint media design up to four mlors; Ronald Beverly, Baylor University, two awards for catalog/book design up to two mlors and illustration up to two colors: Mary Moore, roth her hood Cmission, publication design up to tvm mlors; Jeanie Holmgc en, Brotherhood Cmission, illustration up to four mlors; -more- Page 5 Baptist Press 1. : 4/22/87 Celeste Pennington, HMB, supervision of f relance design; Stan Hastey, Baptist Joint Cmittee on Public Affairs, two awards for news story and editorial/opinion writing; Greg Warner and Don Hepburn, Florida Baptist Witness, news series; Jm Westbury, HMB, magazine feature story; Robrt J. OIBrien, FMR, two awards for news publication feature story and news pblication feature series: and Sherri Anthony Brown, HM0, magazine feature series. Second-place recipients included Gregory L. Hanwck, Kentucky Baptist Convention, total public relations or developnent pqr am; Deborah Little, RadiofleLevision Cmission, public relations poject; Hugh Mathis, Palm Beach Atlantic College, two awards for devel-opnent poject and multi-image presentation: David Phillips, Hb!B, motion picture film;
Bassett, television commercial, public service spt or panotional spt: Mark Wyatt, California Baptist Convention, audio pcduction; Laurie Rathbun Hen, IM3, television, video special or limited series; Michael 0. Britt, HM3, short subject; audiovisual department, FMB, television or vidm series; Schumacher , videoqr aphy/cinematq a@y; Dahler , screen miting: Jim Veneman , Sunday School Ward, black and white single nws @oto; Johnson, tm awards for black and white news photo story and color feature photo story; Stanley Leary, EMR, bl-ack and white single feature @oto;
I Pinneo, four awards story, for mlor single feature photo, black and white feature photo black and white general photo and color general Woto; Timothy Tune, Annuity Board, annual art services in office of ammunications for Baptist Memorial Haspital-Manphis, academic catalog;
John Em1 Seelig and J. Wad Walker, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, poster; The Cmission, EVB, magazine; Cravens, logo design up to two colors; Beatty, two awards for ads up to four mlors and plblication designs up to four alors; Largent, illustration up to two wlors:
Joan N. Yarbrough and David Smith, Behnt College, supervision of freelance design; Warner, news story; Kathy Palen, Raptist Joint Corranittee on Public Affairs, news series; Bangham, two awards for interpetative/investigatiw reporting and editorial/opinim writing; Leland Webb, FMB, magazine feature story: I Michael C. Blackwell, Baptist Children's Hane of North Carolina, news plblication feature story; Martha R. Skelton, EM3, magazine feature series; and Laura Bullock, news prblication feature series . -30-
Baker To Ad& ess Nl~" Baptist Press Ministers' Wives 4/22/87
ST. IDuIS (BP) --Susan Baker, wife of U.S. Treasury Secretary James Baker, will highlight the I 31st annual Conference of Southern Baptist Ministers' Wives luncheon Tuesday, June 16, in St. I Louis.
loca caning Where You me Planted" will be the theme for the luncheon, to be held during the first day of the Southern Raptist Convention annual meeting, also in St. Louis. I Baker "will be sharing how r& has used her on the pli tical and hescene," said Ginny Sisk, conference esident and wife of Ted Sisk, pastor of Imnanuel Baptist Church of Lexington, KY The luncheon will bF! held at 12:15 p.m. in the ballrocan of the Sheraton Hotel, across the street from Cervantes Convention Center, site of the SBC: meeting. Advance tickets will. cost $1-2 and may be ordered fran Karen Hayner , 203 Whitehall Way, Cary, N.C. 27511. Each order should be ammpnied by a check or money order for the amount of the tickets and a stampa, self-addressed envelope. Tickets plrchased at the mnvention will mst $14. i -30- 4/22/87 Page 6 Baptist Press / 6.1~ Scientology Loses Preliminary Round In Battle Over Damages By Stan Hastey Mrnm (BP)--Lawyers repesenting the Church of Scientology have failed to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to review a key prmedural question in their larger legal effort to wermme a California jury's award of $30 million in damages against the church. The high court declind without ccrranent to hear the appeal - krought by the Church of Scientology of California - to review a state court requirement that the church post a cash bnd of $60 million or a surety bond of $45 million while it amals a $30 million 3udgment granted former Scientolqist Larry Wollersheim. Last smer, a Lus Angeles jury awarded Wollersheim $5 million in compensatory damages and another $25 million in pnitive damages for what he called "emotional distress" resulting from his engagement in the Scientology practice of "auditing." Auditing, the central religious pactice of ~cientology,inmlves private counseling of new devotees to the religion. Church ministers - or auditors - assist new adherents in reconstructing their spiritual pilgrimages and ridding them of what Scientology considers unhealthy religious experiences in this or earlier lives. According to legal papers filed in the case, the church considers auditing "the sole route to spiritual salvation."
Wollersheim convinced the jury in his case that auditing amwnted to emotional distress and fraud. Under California law'thechurch was required to pst a cash bond of twice the amount of the judgment - $60 million - or a $45 million bond guaxanteed by an insurance mpany. Church attorneys claimed throughout their unsuccessful challenge the church did not have the funds to meet the bond requirements. The church's total assets munt to $13 million, the lawyers argued, of which only $5.1 million is "unpledged" - or available cash. But attorneys for Wollersheim labeled that claim a "sham," arguing the Church of Scientology has millions of dol.lars in assets allocated to other church units. One of the church's lawyers, Eric Lieberman, told Baptist Press posting of the bond is not a prerequisite to an appeal of the judgment and the church plans an immeaiate challenge. Lieberman of the New York finn of Rabinowitz, mudin, Standard, Krins)rj and Lieberman said full legal briefs have ken written on the merits of the church's case and that the California court that will hear the appeal has been asked to expedite it.
As to the merits of his client's case, Lieberman said in 16 years of First Amenhnt pactice he has never been party to a displte in which the issues were clearer or a jury1s decision was more "clear ly impoper ."
The attorney said the judgment aqainst the church turned almost excl~usivelyon Wollersheim' s "voluntary participation1' in the auditing pocess and Wollersheim "wnmzted this whole theory of mind control" resulting in emotional distress. No widence was yxesented during the trial, Lieberman insisted, that Wollersheim was forced to join the church or participate in auditing. Lieberman described auditing as a "pxely voluntary, peaceful pactice." Lieberman, who has repesented Scientology in legal battles for the last decade, said adherents of the faith "are very sincere about what they believe." He expressed the view that Scientology is a legitimate religion that plays a "transcendent role" in the lives of its memker s . Wollersheim' s attorneys, on the other hand, label Scientology a "cult" that engages in mind control similar to that used on p isoners of war. One expert witness at the trial, clinical psychologist Mar gar et Singer, lakled auditing "aiercive persuasion. " Singer has testif id in numerous similar cases challenging pc actices of the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Both sides consider the Wollersheim case a key test of such groups' legal liability to claims of mind control or hainwashing by former menbers. -30- Page 7 $- Baptist Press
31st ANNUAL, FWlYEW BAFTIST U4URCH WSIC First: Baptist Church, ~llisville,Mo. June 13-15, 1987
- rheme: 'Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing (and playing) with grace in your hearts to the Lord." - Col. 3:16 Saturday Morning, June 13, 1987 - Pre-conference Session 8:30 Registration Opens 9:00 Choral Reading Session - Greg Skipper, marketing manger, Genevox Music Group, Nashville, cmrdinator I 12:OO Lunch Saturday Aftermn, June 13 - Session One presiding: Harry L. Cman, SB3C pesident and minister of music, First Baptist Church, New Orleans Coordinator: Susan Baker, associate pofesmr of music, Southwest Baptist University, Rolivar, Mo. 1:30 Call to Order -- Harry L. Cowan Welcome -- Ken Ragsdale, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Ellisville Bob Wooley , state music seetar y, Missouri Baptist Convention, Jefferson City 1:35 Creative Worship - Lanny Allen, minister of msic, First Baptist Church, Amr illo, Texas 2:05 Simultaneous Interest Sessions 1. "Chorus Techniques - Choral Soundn (Auditorium) Presiding: Harry L. Cman Clinician: Donald Neuen, professor of conducting, Eastman School of Music, Whester , N.Y. 2. "Organ Hymn Playing and Reharmonization" (St. Johnt s Lutheran Church) presiding: Susan Baker Clinician: Boyd Jones, associate pofessor of church music, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. 3. "Ahinistrating the Chilhen' s Choir Prcqram" (Rm 203) presiding: Nancy Jane Blair, music assistant, Briarlake Baptist Church, Decatur , Ga. Clinician: Linda Boyd, childrents choir ministry cmrdinator , First Baptist Church, Atlanta 3:35 Panel Discussion: "Perspectives on Music in the Church Worship Services" 3:35 - William L. Hooper, dean, Casebolt School of Fine Arts, Southwest Baptist University 3:40 - Steve Amerson, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Van Nuys, Calif. 3:52 - Mark Edwards, minister of music, First Baptist Chwcch, Nashville 4:04 -- Rill Pemson, minister of music, Travis Avenue Baptist Ch~ch,Fort Worth, Texas 4:16 - Jean Pilcher, minister of music, First Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark. 4 :28 - Robert Wagoner , minister of music, First Baptist Church, Euless , Texas 4:40 - Questions and Answers 4:55 - William L. Hmper 5:00 Benediction -- C.L. Hul.ing, minister of music, First ~aptistChurch, Shelbyville, Ky. 5:05 Grand opening of exhibits in the fellmship hall with snack supper
Saturday Evening, June 13 - Session lW Pxesidins: Joe Kinq coordinator : ~ames*'~lass 6:30 Minixoncert -- Boyd Jones, organist 6 :50 Mini-Concer t -- Steve Amexson, tenor 7:10 Concert -- Chapel Choir, University Baptist Church, Fort Wrth - Joe Mikell, director I 7 :40 Simultaneous Interest sessions 1. "Choral Techniques - Rhythm Interest and Phrasing" (Auditorium) Presiding: Joe King, ofessor of music, Southwestern Baptist Theological Saninar y , Fort Worth Clinician: Donald Neuen 4/22/87 Page 8 Baptist Press
2. "~spectsof Organ Pedagogy" (Bonhcarme Presmerian Church) Presiding: Mxk Lawson, minister of music, KirM040.) Baptist Church Clinician: Boyd Jones 3. "Kodaly and Orff Adaptations to SBC Children's Music Curriculum" (Roan 203) presiding: James Glass, professor of music, Mississippi College, Clinton Clinician: Talmadge Butler, associate pcofessor of church music education and administration, New Orleans Baptist Thlcgical Seminary 8:40 Concert - Southwest Baptist University Chorale - Gary Ingel, director 9:10 Benediction - Paul Magar, music department associate, Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, Oklahama City
After42onference Fellawship Program Refreshments in Fellawship Hall 9 :30 Af terxonference Fellowship Program in Auditor im University Ringers, Oklahama Baptist University, Shawnee - My.Kay Parish, director Warren M. Angell, emeritus dean of fine acts, Oklahma Baptist University, piano Jack Frost, Monett, Mo., harmonica Sunday Aftermn, June 14 - Session Three Presidinq: Harrv L. Cman ~mrdinaior : b& k Lawson 1:30 Registration Opens Music Exhibits Open 2:00 Concert -- Greg Buchanan, concert ac tist, Fresno, Calif., harpist 2:30 Concert - Older Children's Choir, First Baptist Church, Asheville, N.C. - Charles Crocker , director 3:00 Concert - Adult Choir, First Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark. -- Jean Pilcher, director 4:00 Simultaneous Interest Sessions 1. "Choral Techniques - Score Prewationn (Auditorium) Presiding: Harry L. Cowan Clinician: Donald Nuen 2. "The Future of the Organ and the Organist" (St. John's Lutheran Church) presiding: Mmk Lawson Clinician: Boyd Jones 3. "~uildinga Good Tone in Childr en' s Choirs" (Roan 203) Presiding: Jack Gantt, minister of music, Tabernacle Baptist Church, Carrollton, Ga. Clinician: Jo Ann Butler, adjunct pofessor of music, Midwestern Sesninary, Kansas City 5:00 Benediction - Keith Hibbs, associate director, music department, Mississippi Baptist Convention, Montgcaner y
Sunday Evening, June 14 - Session Four Presiding: Nancy Jane Blair coordinator : ~&kGantt 6:45 Mini-Concert - University Ringers, Oklahama Baptist University 7:15 Cmissioned Anthem: "Sing to the Lord a New Song" - Vicki Hanmck Wright, ar r anger/compser, Nashville 7:20 Concert - Caranunity Girls Chorus, Paris, Tenn. - Wtha Ruth Moore, director 7 :45 Offer tory Hymn - Ken Ragsal.e Offertory Prayer - Bob Waolley Offertory - John Pur ifoy, mpser/ar ranger, Knoxville, Tenn., pianist 7:55 Sermon - Joel Gregory, pastor, Travis Avenue Baptist Church, Fort Worth 8 :25 Cmissioned Anthem: "Words of Peace" - John PIX ifoy 8: 30 Concert - Oklahcina Baptist All-State Youth Choir and Orchestra - James Wcdward, director; Steve Goforth, director 9: 10 ene edict ion - Harry Eskew, professor of music, New Orleans Sminar y 9:15 Reption Monday Morning, June 15 - Session Five Presiding: Don Mdall, associate director, state music department , Baptist General Convention of Texas Coordinator : Paul Hamnond, dean, Warren Angell School -ofFine Arts, Oklahoma Baptist University 8:30 Registration Opens Music Exhibits Open 4/i2/87 Page 9 Baptist Press
9:00 Creative Worship - Ragan Cow tney, professor of church music, Southern Seminary, leader 9:30 "Stress in the Musician as Ministern - G. Wade Matt, associate dean, School of Thealogy, Southern Seminary 10:50 President1s Reprt - Harry L. Cman 11:05 Annual Business Session Rwition of SBW Past Presidents Presentation of Honorary Memberships 1. Charles S. Eatwood, retire3 state music secretary, Baptist State Convention of North Carolina 2. Eugene F. Quinn, state music sexetary, Kentucky Baptist Convention W. Hines Sims Award 1. Thad Roberts Jr., deceased, former minister of music, South Main Baptist Church, Houston 11:35 Concert - Missouri Music Men -- Arnold Epley, director 12:05 Bendiction -- Mary June Tabor, associate director, state music deparbnent, Baptist Ceneral Convention of Oklahama Monday Afternoon, June 15 - Session Six ~residinq: Joe Kinq ~oordina ST. IDUIS (BP)--An array of sounds will greet musicians Eran moss the Southern Baptist Convention when they convene June 13-15. but 1,000 musicians are expcted to participate in the Southern Baptist Church Music Conference, to be held at First Baptist Church of Ellisville, Mo., a St. Louis suburb, im&iately pior to the SBC annual meeting in St. Louis. The conference' s theme will be, "Teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing (and playing) with grace in pur hearts to the Lord," based on Colossians 3:16 in the New Testament. "This has been a constant saiptural philosophy, to do all that we do to honor the Lord," explained Harry L. Cawan, conference pesident and minister of msic at First Baptist Church of New Orleans. "When we (church musicians) are working with our people, we need to be teaching and admonishing through this wonderful thing we call music." -mre Page 10 Baptist Press The organization' s constituency necessitates the length of its three-day con£erence, Cman said: "We try to minister to three groups - those wbwrk in local churches, those who work for the denanination and those who work for educational institutions. We ate trying to meet the needs of all of our musicians through these divisional meetings and through three simultaneous conferences on choral. technique, organ and children' s choirs." + The conference' s var iety of per formanms reflecks the vat iety of musical ministries, f rm handbells to vocal solos to orchestras to graded choirs, he said. A key feature of the conference will be a panel discussion on "Perspectives on Music in the Church Worship Services." It will feature ministers of music f ran five Southern Baptist churches and will be moderated by William L. Hooper, dean of the Caseblt School of Fine Arts at Southwest Baptist University in Balivar, Mo. The panelists have been asked to share their philosrnies of church music, their definitions of wrship and haw they use music in their churches , Cman said. They also have been asked to expl-ain hcrw and why their styles of music in worship have changed during the past 10 to 15 years. The mnference also will include mini-recitals by Cynthia Clawson, vocalist fran Louisville, Ky.; Steve Amerson, wcalist £ran Van Nu~S,Calif.; Greg Buchanan, harpist Eran Fresno, Calif.; Boyd Jones, organist fran Louisville; and Waren Angell, pianist £ran Shawnee, Okla. Other performances will include: - Chi1&en1s choirs. Canmunity Girls' Chorus £ran Paris, Tenn., and the older children's choir £ran First ~aptistChurch of ~sheville,N.C. - Church choirs and orchestras. The adult choirs and orchestras frm First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., and First Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark. -- HandbeJ.1~. Oklahama Baptist University handbell choir, Shawnee. - Youth choirs and orchestra. Oklahana Baptist All-State Youth Cbir and Orchestra, and University Baptist Church chapel choir, Fort Worth, Texas. -- College and seminary choirs. Midwestern singers of Midwestern Baptist Theological+ Seminary, Kansas City, Mo., and Southwest Baptist University chorale. - Men's groups. Centurymen, compised of ministers of music €ran across the SRC, and Missouri Music Men, campised of ministers of music frm Swthern Raptist churches in Missouri. -- Clinicians. Donald Neuen, professor of conducting and director of choral activities at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y., teaching choral techniques; and Boyd Jones, teaching organ performance . -- Children' s choir clinicians. Talmadge Butler, professor of music at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; Linda Boyd, children's choir ministry coordinator at First Baptist Church of Atlanta; and Jo Ann Butler, professor of msic at Midwestern seminary. The oonference will pemiere two caaranissioned anthems, "Sing to the Lord a New Song," by Vicki Hanoxk Wright, arranger and mpser frm Nashville; and "Words of Peace," by John Pur ifoy, compser and arranger £ran Knoxville, Tenn. Participants also will hear four non-musical presentations: tm inspirational messages by Joel Gregory, pastor of Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth; and tw addresses on stress and music ministers hy Wade Rwatt, associate dean of the school of thmlogy at Southern Baptist Theological Sminmy in Louisville. The mnferene will honor three musicians. Charles S. Gatwod, retired music secretary for the Baptist State Convention of North Cxolina, and Eugene F. Quinn, music secretary for the Kentucky Baptist Convention, will receive honorary memberships in the organization. The late Thad Roberts Jr ., former minister of music at South Main ~aptistChurch in Houston, will receive the W. Hines Sbs Awad. -30-