Campers give $513,169 for missions
Nashville, Tenn. – Nearly 54,000 teens attending Centrifuge and Ministry-Fuge camps this summer pitched in $513,169.63 for international missions projects being conducted by the Southern Baptist International Mission Board.
“That’s almost $112,000 more than they gave last year,” said Joe Palmer, director of the Centrifuge department at LifeWay Christian Resources.
Palmer said the money will go to four specific IMB projects:
*Street ministry for children in Brazil, which includes providing food, clothing and shelter.
*Sports evangelism in India and China, including clinics that consist of skill training and games coupled with literature distribution and personal evangelism.
*Bible ministry for people groups who do not have the Bible in their own language, including Turks in Germany, North Caucasus nationals and Chinese.
*Worldwide international youth missions, including World Changers and International M-Fuge projects.
Alma Hunt recovering from surgery
Roanoke, Va. – Alma Hunt, retired executive director of Woman’s Missionary Union, had an emergency appendectomy Oct. 1 for a ruptured appendix. Hunt, who turned 91 Oct. 5, is recovering well in a Roanoke, Va., hospital. She was expected to be released from the hospital the week of Oct. 9.
Hunt served as executive director of WMU, SBC, 1948-74. She served with the Foreign Mission Board (now International Mission Board) for three years following her retirement as a consultant for women’s work.
Hunt, known for her eloquent speaking ability and quick wit, still travels and speaks across the nation on behalf of WMU. She participated in the installation of Wanda S. lee as the seventh WMU executive director in Orlando, Fla., June 11.
Cards may be sent to Alma Hunt, 2102 Stephenson Ave. SW #23, Roanoke, VA 24014.
Cooperative Program gifts top budget
Nashville, Tenn. – September receipts of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program were up an impressive 13.7 percent compared to the same month a year ago, according to Morris H. Chapman, president and chief executive officer of the SBC Executive Committee.
In CP gifts, a total of $15,447,337.56 was received in September to support Southern Baptist missions and ministries globally and across North America, compared to $13,586,054.23 in September 1999.
For the fiscal year, October 1999 through September 2000, CP giving is 6.13 percent ahead of the same period a year ago, $178,298,879.52 as compared to $167,996,385.28.
For the SBC Cooperative Program Allocation Budget, the receipts of $178,298,879.52 are $18,715,136.52 above the budgeted $159,583,743.
Online group begun for church leaders
Nashville, Tenn. – Lifeway Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention has launched a free online meeting place for individuals who teach and lead in churches to meet with others to ask advice, discuss topics of interest and share successes.
LifeWay Community can be accessed at http://community.lifeway.com. In Internet-style neighborhoods within the community, pastors, Sunday School teachers, deacons, ministry assistants and others can connect for discussion of ministry-related issues with leaders from across the country and around the world.
Discussion areas are categorized for age-group leadership and for pastors, church staff and volunteer leaders.
Change would redefine N.C. Baptists
Caraway, N.C. – The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina would define a “historical” relationship with Wake Forest University instead of the “fraternal” bond it now shares, under a current proposal.
At odds with the university at Winston-Salem over decisions to sell alcohol on campus and to permit a church meeting in the campus chapel to bless a same-sex union, North Carolina Baptists voted last fall to terminate the fraternal bond with the university. In response, North Carolina Baptists’ General Board approved constitutional changes Sept. 26-27 referencing Wake Forest, which since 1986 has elected its own trustees, as a “historical educational institution.”
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