By Baptist Message staff
ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) — Louisiana Baptists are invited to recommend candidates to serve on state convention boards and committees and are asked to submit resolutions for possible consideration by messengers during the 2025 Louisiana Baptist Convention.
COMMITTEES
The Louisiana Baptist Committee on Committees is beginning its work to fill 18 openings on five committees: Credentials; Moral and Social Concerns; Nominations; Order of Business; and Resolutions. Nominations should be sent no later than Aug. 11 to Joseph Fowler, pastor, Cook Baptist Church, Ruston, who is the committee chair, via email, joseph@cookbc.org, or the U.S. Mail, Dr. Joseph Fowler, Cook Baptist Church, 2000 Cooktown Road, Ruston, LA 71270.
BOARDS
The Louisiana Baptist Committee on Nominations also is beginning its work to fill 27 vacancies on the LBC Executive Board as well as the trustee bodies of the Louisiana Christian University, Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home and Family Ministries, Baptist Message, and Baptist Foundation.
Nominations should be sent no later than Aug. 11 to Greg Bath, associate pastor, Trinity Baptist Church, Lake Charles, who is the committee chair, via email, gbath@tbclc.org, or the U.S. Mail, Rev. Greg Bath, Trinity Baptist Church, P. O. Box 5090, Lake Charles, LA 70606.
BOTH
Please submit the candidate’s name and identify the committee or board for which you are nominating him or her and include information about the nominee’s church membership and current employment.
No more than the pastor and two members from any church may serve on all boards and committees, combined, at any one time. Likewise, no more than one member of the same church may serve on the same board or committee at any one time.
RESOLUTIONS
The first Committee on Resolutions meeting is scheduled for October 21 and submissions are requested to be sent as early as possible for consideration. Resolutions may be submitted for review and consideration no more than 90 days and no fewer than 15 days prior to the LBC annual meeting, Nov. 11, providing a window of opportunity from Aug. 13 through Oct. 27.
All statements should be typewritten, titled, and dated, and accompanied by a letter – from a church qualified to send a messenger to the annual meeting of the Louisiana Baptist Convention – certifying that the person submitting the resolution is a member in good standing. The letter should include complete contact information for both the person submitting it and his or her church.
No person may submit more than three resolutions per year.
Shawn Ostoj, pastor of First Baptist Church, Greensburg, is the Committee on Resolutions chair. You may send proposed resolutions to the committee via fax, 318.449.4287, email, Hello@LouisianaBaptists.org, or U.S. Mail, ATTN: Resolutions Committee, c/o Communications Team, Louisiana Baptist Convention, P. O. Box 311, Alexandria, LA 71309.
If you desire assistance with wording or formatting, please contact LBC Public Policy Director Will Hall by phone, 318.448.3402, or email, Policy@LouisianaBaptists.org.
