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Louisiana’s Nix honored as minister’s wife with the Willie Turner Dawson Award

INDIANAPOLIS (LBM) - -The Willie Turner Dawson Award recognizes a minister’s wife for making a distinct denominational contribution beyond the local church and for modeling Christian character and service to others. Diane Nix fits the bill to a T. A longtime pastor’s wife, Nix received the Willie Turner Dawson Award at the sold-out luncheon of more than 1,600 women, at the SBC Ministers’ Wives Luncheon, June 11, Indianapolis. She has been a pastor's wife for almost 41 years, serving alongside her husband pastor/professor Preston L. Nix, a professor of evangelism and evangelistic preaching at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The couple married in 1983. They have two biological daughters (ages 26 & 28), two spiritual daughters (41 & 42), two special grands, and two sons-in-law. She and her pastor/professor husband served as lead pastor and wife in Texas and Oklahoma for 21 years. During the last 20 years, she and Preston, who have loved the local church, have served in 15 interim Pastorates. For the past 14 years, she has hosted the SBC Women’s Expo, and for 19 years, Diane has served on the board to help plan the SBC Women’s Monday Morning session held each year at the … [Read more...]

SBC EC declines transparency motions

By Baptist Message staff INDIANAPOLIS (LBM) – Leading up to the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, the Executive Committee declined to act on two motions that called for enhanced transparency in the financial reports provided by Southern Baptist entities. Presented by messengers during the 2023 SBC Annual Meeting in New Orleans, the motions would have required Convention entities to provide Southern Baptists with detailed information about highly compensated individuals -- like other tax-exempt organizations that are mandated to submit the Form 990 to the Internal Revenue Service. The motions would not have required entities to submit Form 990 to the IRS, but only provide the detailed breakout information about executive salaries to Southern Baptists. Instead of requiring such transparency, the EC urged Convention entities to uphold all current reporting standards and promised to review the Business and Financial Plan “to determine ways to enhance transparency and clarity of reporting to the Convention, and will report its findings and recommendations to the messengers at the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting in Dallas.” … [Read more...]