FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Paul Montacute, director of the Baptist World Alliance’s (BWA) relief-and-recovery arm BWAid since 1994, will retire in July 2012, the BWA executive committee learned in meetings March 7–9. BWA leaders are expected next March to elect a successor to Montacute, former youth director of the Baptist Union of Great Britain who joined the BWA staff in 1990.
In other business the executive committee granted membership to three organizations — the Association of Evangelical Baptist Churches in the Congo, the Baptist Churches Union Community of the Congo and the Free Baptist Churches in Burundi. Their addition brings BWA total membership to 222 organizations.
Baptist leaders also agreed to conduct “bilateral dialogues” with Pentecostals and the Seventh-day Adventist Church, received financial statements that showed the organization finished the year $15,000 in the black and voted to conduct the 2012 BWA annual gathering — a summer meeting of the executive committee, related groups and Baptists from various regions around the globe — in Santiago, Chile. The 2011 annual gathering will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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