NASHVILLE — Changes are in store for the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting — including two missionary appointment services, fewer business sessions and no night sessions — in hopes that more people will participate, the chairman of the committee planning that meeting announced Jan. 28.
Proposed changes include trimming the program to morning and afternoon business sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 14–15, and scheduling missionary appointment services for both of the convention’s two mission boards, said Will Langford, pastor of Great Bridge Baptist Church, Chesapeake, Va., and the chairman of the Committee on Order of Business.
The annual meeting will be in Phoenix at the Phoenix Convention Center.
“Proposed changes include trimming down the number of program items so as to better emphasize the Great Commission work of the SBC entities and missionaries,” Langford said. “Changes to the program will consolidate the meeting into four sessions that will be morning and afternoon sessions on both Tuesday and Wednesday. The evening sessions will be eliminated.
“Also it is the desire of the committee that the International Mission Board and the North American Mission Board will be able to include missionary commissioning services as part of their reports, thereby enhancing the experience of the missionary, the messenger, the mission entities and lifting up the Great Commission emphasis,” Langford said.
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