Bill Robertson announced earlier this year that he would allow his nomination for Louisiana Baptist Convention president during the upcoming annual meeting at First Baptist Church of West Monroe on Nov. 14-15. Current LBC President Philip Robertson of Deville is completing his second term of service and is ineligible for reelection. Bill Robertson announced earlier this year that he would allow his nomination for Louisiana Baptist Convention president during the upcoming annual meeting at First Baptist Church of West Monroe on Nov. 14-15. Current LBC President Philip Robertson of Deville is completing his second term of service and is ineligible for reelection. MESSAGE: Why have you agreed to allow your nomination for convention president? ROBERTSON: Because I believe it’s time for a change in the philosophy of leadership. We need to be more inclusive and open our arms to all Louisiana Baptists. MESSAGE: If you are elected, what will be your primary focus as convention president? ROBERTSON: To try to bring unity to the convention. To get us back focusing on the Lordship of Christ, evangelism and reaching this state. Our baptisms have been down as a whole across the Southern Baptist Convention, and … [Read more...]
Southern Baptists rush to aid earthquake victims
As an earthquake brutally shook under his feet, Awal Khan left his goats in the mountains and rushed home, only to find his house a mass of rubble. As an earthquake brutally shook under his feet, Awal Khan left his goats in the mountains and rushed home, only to find his house a mass of rubble. His wife and 12-year-old daughter had been inside. “The walls and roof of the house caved in on them,” Khan said. “I took them and buried them. I dragged them out, and now, they are in the cemetery.” A Southern Baptist disaster relief assessment team found Khan standing on the edge of a road situated high above the town where his home once stood. Reaching the town was not easy. Living in it right now is even harder. Shelter, food and medical care are scarce in this town, which had served as a supply hub for area villages. “Southern Baptist workers have assessed many of the affected areas and are responding,” said Philip Monroe (not his real name), a Southern Baptist disaster relief specialist serving in Asia. “The vast majority of the seriously-affected areas are accessible only by helicopter, long walks on foot or long, dangerous drives in vehicles.” Khan’s town is one of several hard-to-reach sites where … [Read more...]
Hurricane relief workers find witness opportunities
Members from Watson Chapel Baptist Church in Madisonville, Tenn., are living up to their state’s nickname, the Volunteer State. Members from Watson Chapel Baptist Church in Madisonville, Tenn., are living up to their state’s nickname, the Volunteer State. Even after a member of their chainsaw crew was pinned by a tree, almost paralyzing him, the church was willing to send a team of youth and adults to return to Louisiana the following week. The team was led by youth pastor Russ Cooper. Members stayed at First Baptist Church of Ponchatoula and drove every morning to New Orleans to distribute food, water, ice and cleaning supplies at Calvary Baptist Church and at a non-church site. By giving out Bibles at both sites, doors for ministry opened, workers report. One woman began to cry after receiving a Bible. Through her tears, she asked for another Bible for her mother because the hurricanes destroyed both of their Bibles left in their homes. Volunteer worker Tina Dalton said she was moved by the love and kindness of the people she helped. “People didn’t take any more than they needed,” she notes. “They didn’t want to be wasteful. I kept saying take more, but they would say, ‘No, No, someone else … [Read more...]
He was worried about traveling with an evangelical – but then …
Peter Perl’s apprehension grew the minute he saw the roommate list for his trip to the Middle East. Peter Perl’s apprehension grew the minute he saw the roommate list for his trip to the Middle East. For three weeks, the newspaper journalist for The Washington Post would be rooming with a Southern Baptist seminary student – and he was uneasy. He admits wondering what it would be like to live for three weeks with someone who might try to save his soul. Still, for 23 nights, he bunked with Matthew Cates, a student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. And looking back, he admits he learned one thing about Southern Baptists he had least suspected – their desire to spread the grace of God is born out of a genuine love for people. Perl and Cates were fellow travelers on an annual summer trip called the Middle East Travel Seminary, a pilgrimage to notable Middle Eastern sites. The group was an eclectic blend of 20 spiritual sojourners, including conservative and liberal Protestant seminary students and practitioners of the Jewish faith. Perl wrote of his experience and his relationship with Cates in a lengthy first-person article that ran in the Aug. 21 edition of The Washington Post under the headline … [Read more...]
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