Amarillo, Texas — Two-time Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) presidential candidate Winfred Moore died May 8 in Amarillo, Texas. He was 95.
Moore, pastor of First Baptist Church, Amarillo, from 1959 until his retirement in 1989, was nominated as president of the SBC in 1985 and 1986. Though backed by the so-called “moderates” in the era known as the “conservative resurgence,” Moore described himself as a “conservative” and “denominational loyalist” who was opposed to tactics of the resurgence group.
Moore lost the SBC presidential race in 1985 to incumbent SBC President Charles Stanley.
Moore received 19,795 votes — more than the total number of messengers at the 1984 convention in Kansas City — but he still lost by 10 percent at the convention in Dallas, which set a record registration of 45,519.
After his election as first vice president in 1985, Moore was added as an ex-officio member to the SBC Peace Committee, a group formed to determine the causes of controversy dividing Southern Baptists and make recommendations to solve them.
After retiring from the pulpit, Moore joined the faculty of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. In 1997 he was named director of the Center for Ministry Effectiveness. He also was on the founding board of Baylor’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Moore’s wife, Elizabeth, died in 2012.
(BNG)
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