SBC President Frank Page has named the members of the Resolutions Committee who will serve during the June 12-13 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (BP) – SBC President
Frank Page has named the members of the Resolutions Committee who will serve
during the June 12-13 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in San
Antonio, Texas.
Page, pastor of First
BaptistChurch
in Taylors, S.C.,
appointed Gerald Harris of Georgia
as committee chairman. Harris is editor of The Christian Index,
newsjournal of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and a member of EphesusBaptist
Church in Atlanta.
Page’s other appointees, in alphabetical
order, are:
David George, director of missions of Chugach Baptist
Association in Anchorage, Alaska, and member of First Baptist Church
of Eagle River.
Al Gilbert, senior pastor of Calvary
BaptistChurch
in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Robin Hadaway, associate professor of missions at
Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and member of Pleasant
ValleyBaptist
Church in Kansas City, Mo.
Galen Jones, African American church planting
strategist in Tuscaloosa, Ala., under dual appointment of the North American
Mission Board and the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions. New to the area,
Jones has been attending PilgrimRestBaptist
Church in Tuscaloosa.
Martha Lawley, an author and speaker and member of
First Southern Baptist Church in Worland,
Wyo.
Michael Lewis, pastor of Great
HillsBaptist
Church in Austin, Texas.
Daniel Sanchez, director of Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary’s Scarborough Institute for Church Planting and Growth and
associate dean of the Roy Fish School of Evangelism and Missions and member of
Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
Charles Strickland, executive assistant to the president at
Brewton-Parker College in Mt. Vernon, Ga., and member of First Baptist Church
in Vidalia.
Greg Thornbury, dean of Union
University’s school
of Christian studies and member of EnglewoodBaptist
Church in Jackson, Tenn.
The committee’s composition must include
at least two members who served the previous year, with Harris and Hadaway
meeting this requirement. Bylaw 20 has long required that the committee include
at least three SBC Executive Committee members. This year they are Lewis,
Lawley and Gilbert.
The naming of the Resolutions Committee
in late March is in keeping with an amendment to SBC Bylaw 20 approved during
the 2002 SBC annual meeting in St.
Louis, which also entailed various changes to the
resolution submission procedure. The changes include the following:
n Proposed resolutions may be submitted
as early as April 15 but no later than 15 days prior to the SBC annual meeting,
giving the Resolutions Committee a two-week period in which to consider
submissions. Resolutions may no longer be submitted during the annual meeting.
n Proposed resolutions must be
accompanied by a letter from a church qualified to send a messenger to the SBC
annual meeting certifying that the individual submitting the resolution is a
member in good standing.
n Proposed resolutions preferably should
be submitted by e-mail or mailed to the Resolutions Committee in care of the
SBC Executive Committee. The drafts must be typewritten, titled, dated and
include complete contact information for the person and his or her church.
n No person will be allowed to submit
more than three resolutions per year.
n If a properly submitted resolution is
not forwarded by the Resolutions Committee to the SBC annual meeting, a
two-thirds vote of messengers would be required to bring the proposed
resolution to the convention floor.
All resolutions adopted by the SBC can be
searched and read on the Web at http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/AMResSearch.asp.