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Bill Wilson to Be Breakfast Speaker Matter of Perspective by David R BaptistsTexas Committed October 2001 Newsletter of Mainstream Baptists of Texas Campbell, McBride, Vernon to be nominated at BGCT DALLAS – Three veteran Texas Baptist pas- the BGCT Black Advisory Board. He was tors will be nominated for president and vice a member of the BGCT Effectiveness/Effi- presidents of the Baptist General Convention of ciency Committee, and has served on vari- Texas during the 2001 annual meeting, Oct. 29- ous state and associational committees. 30, in Dallas. Anderson called McBride “a great leader Bob Campbell, pastor of Westbury Baptist … a man of integrity and honesty. He is Nominee, Church of Houston, will be nominated for presi- familiar with Texas Baptists” and can help president dent by Phil Lineberger, pastor of Williams Trace strengthen the state convention. BGCT Baptist Church in Sugar Land. Vernon has been vice chairman of the Bob Campbell Paul McBride, pastor of Friendship Baptist BGCT Christian Life Commission and Church in The Colony, will be nominated for serves on the commission’s board of con- first vice president by Howard Anderson, pastor sultants. He has been trustee of Wayland of Singing Hills Baptist Church of Dallas. Baptist University and moderator of the Steve Vernon, pastor of First Baptist Church South Plains, Amarillo and Staked Plains in Levelland, will be proposed as second vice Baptist associations. president by Milton Cunningham, chaplain of “Steve Vernon has demonstrated his sup- Nominee, Baylor University athletics. port for the Baptist General Convention of first vice All three of the nominees are active in BGCT Texas and his willingness to be part of the president affairs. goals the convention has established,” BGCT Campbell has been pastor of Westbury Bap- Cunningham said. “His record as a pastor tist Church since 1991. He was chairman of the and his cooperation with other Baptists on Paul McBride BGCT Executive Board in 1996 and 1997. Most the local and state levels make him very recently, he was chairman of the BGCT Semi- knowledgeable of Baptist life in Texas and nary Study Committee in 2000. what we are trying to do.” In announcing his intent to nominate Campbell said he feels honored “to even Campbell, Lineberger, a former president of the be considered for such an office. We’ve BGCT, called the Houston pastor “a statesman had such great leaders – for a long time. To Nominee, and proven leader. At this time in Texas Baptist think you might be included in that group second vice life we need a strong leader – one who is com- is an honor. I would look forward to trying president mitted to the Baptist General Convention of to keep up that track record.” BGCT Texas.” He said he thinks he can “bring some McBride is past president of the BGCT Af- skills and ideas and thinking that would Steve Vernon rican-American Fellowship and is a member of Continued on Page 2… INSIDE Visit us at www.txbc.org Bill Wilson to be Breakfast Speaker Matter of Perspective by David R. Currie ............... 3 Bill Wilson, co-chair of the Network of Mainstream Baptists, United We Stand will be the speaker for the thirteenth annual Texas Baptists by Greg Magruder ................ 7 Committed breakfast. Wilson is pastor of First Baptist Church, Public Relations Terrorism Waynesboro, Virginia. We look forward to having Bill Wilson by Mark Wingfield ................ 9 as our breakfast speaker and anticipate a meaningful message. Ground Zero The breakfast will be at 7:00 a.m., Tuesday, October 30, by David Massengill ........... 11 Lone Star Ballroom B at the Adam’s Mark Hotel, Dallas. Tick- Walking In Faith ets are $20 and reservations are still available. An order form is by Dennis Harris ................ 12 found on page 23 of this newsletter. Missouri in Turmoil Bill Wilson He serves as the national co-chair of the by Mark Wingfield .............. 19 Continued on Page 2… — 1 — Nominations, from page 1… In addition to his BGCT positions, he has been a member of the Oklahoma Bap- Duke McCall Oral help churches in Texas. We need to keep tist Student Union Advisory Board and the focused on missions. The new church starts Southern Baptist Convention committee on History are so very important. Our work with His- boards and national student work commit- panics is vital, since that represents such a tee. He also has served in various associa- ‘Powerful and growing part of our state. tional, community and civic capacities. “I still have a deep interest in theologi- He and his wife, Judith Ann, have two Prophetic’ cal education for our Texas students – not adult children, Michael Andrew Campbell just at the seminaries and Hispanic Baptist and Michelle Andrea Zimmerman. A new book, chronicling Duke Theological School. But the graduate McBride is the founding pastor of McCall’s up-close and personal eye schools at some of our universities certainly Friendship Baptist Church, which was be- view of four turbulent Southern Baptist also need to be held up.” gun as a mission in 1983 and constituted as decades, is available from the Baptist Campbell said his experience as Ex- a church in 1984. It now has 1,350 mem- ecutive Board chairman would be helpful bers. History and Heritage Society. if he were elected president. “It gave me an “If I am elected, I want to be able to Duke K. McCall: An Oral History opportunity to see the wide variety of min- show that there is a unified body of believ- has been called “must reading” by those istries through the BGCT and our institu- ers working together” in the convention, tions. Being able to help facilitate that kind who have seen drafts the volume of he said. “I would like to see our churches McCall’s candid and insightful re- of ministry is exciting.” over Texas be as we were eight to 10 years sponses to penetrating questions from He noted he is interested in Texas Part- ago – how we were so unified, and there nership missions work, and said he believes was no battling between the families of Baptist historian A. Ronald Tonks. “Texas Baptists should not only be inter- believers.” ested in ourselves, but we should have a He has been affiliated with the BGCT Baptist historian strong base to reach out beyond our bor- since 1983, and said he has “seen the con- ders.” vention grow and change.” He cited an un- Charles Deweese says: Westbury Baptist Church has 1,374 resi- precedented “opportunity to reach out to “Powerful and sensitive memories dent members and averaged 504 in Sunday the unchurched, to bring people who don’t drive this volume. In a gracious act of school attendance last year, when it bap- know Jesus Christ into the body of believ- stewardship, Dr. McCall shares his tized 35 new Christians. The church con- ers.” soul. His no-holds-barred responses to tributed $40,452 to the Cooperative Pro- McBride is a graduate of Eastvale Jun- penetrating questions hide nothing. Be gram unified budget, which was 5 percent ior College, Southern Bible Institute of Dal- prepared to laugh, to cry, to admire, of budget receipts. las, Trinity Valley Baptist Seminary and perhaps, at times, to dissent. The sec- Before becoming pastor at Westbury, Andersonville Baptist Seminary. He is re- tion, ‘How to Deal with Controversy,’ Campbell was pastor at Calvary Baptist tired from GTE. sharpened in the line of fire, is worth Church in Garland; Northwest Baptist He and his wife, Ida, have three chil- the price of the book. And McCall’s Church in Ardmore, Okla.; Salt Creek Bap- dren and five grandchildren. tist Church in Brownwood; Plum Grove analysis of recent Southern Baptist con- Vernon has been pastor of the 3,218- troversy reeks of the prophetic. This is Baptist Church in Markley; and Calvary member First Baptist Church of Levelland, Baptist Church in Forest Hill, La. a choice contribution to the literature since 1991. Previously, he was pastor of of free Baptists.” He also was assistant professor of Bible First Baptist Church in Panhandle, First and Greek and director of religious activi- Baptist Church in Kress, and First Baptist McCall, retired president and later ties at Howard Payne Baptist University in Church of Ames, Okla. chancellor of Southern Baptist Theologi- Brownwood. He has been an adjunct pro- Cunningham said Vernon’s character cal Seminary, was a key moderate fessor at Southwestern Baptist Theological and demeanor form the foundation of an Seminary in Fort Worth, and New Orleans exemplary life. “He has been a role model Southern Baptist Convention leader dur- Baptist Theological Seminary. for his family and community. He’s a man ing the decades of SBC controversy. He is a graduate of Louisiana Collage in who has led his church to be supportive of He is also former executive secretary of Pineville, and Southwestern Seminary, the BGCT, and he’s demonstrated his lead- the SBC Executive Committee, former where he earned a doctorate in New Testa- ership ability in the responsibilities given president of New Orleans Baptist Theo- ment. him over the years.” Vernon has served on numerous BGCT logical Seminary and former president Wilson, from page 1… and associational committees, and has par- of the Baptist World Alliance. Religious Liberty Council and as a mem- ticipated in missions projects in Mexico, ber of the Board of Trustees for the Uni- South Africa and Brazil. He has been ac- The book is available for $20 from the versity of Richmond. Bill is a former presi- tive in community causes, and was named Baptist History and Heritage Society, dent of the Baptist General Association of 2000 Man of the Year by the Levelland P.O.
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